“…In this work, bodies (and so subjects) are recast, moving from being the generative sources of meaning and signification or that which is active in the disclosure of worlds and instead are reclined, have suspended their comportment or disposition, or hold no focus or reflexive attention (Harrison, ). Taking up these concerns, a range of work has emerged on bodies which are in pain, sleeping, troubled by alterity or events that befall them, and so on (Bissell, , ; Carter‐White, ; Harrison, , ; Harrison, ). One key feature of this is the challenge of relating these experiences; sleep and death, for example, distinguish themselves through the way they extend beyond the realms of human consciousness and so knowing.…”