Machines à dormir (Sleeping Machines) is a book compiled by Wiame Haddad, Léa Morin, and Montasser Drissi.
The book departs from Wiame Haddad's photograph About an inhabited room (vision of an evening in October 1961) and stills of rooms taken from political films of the 1960s and 1970s. It presents archives and documents from rent strikes and anti-racist mobilizations of the 1970s (Sonacotra, Arab Workers' Movement), combined with the engaged perspectives of Jean-Louis Boissier, Monique Hervo, and Élie Kagan on low-income, neglected housing (mal-logement).
Composed in five movements, Machines à dormir concerns socio-historical, artistic, sound, filmic, and literary representations of housing struggles for displaced foreign workers in France.
Featuring manifestos and testimonies from Madeleine Beauséjour, Michèle Acquaviva-Pache, François Maspero, and Med Hondo, the book also includes contributions from Samia Henni, Victorine Grataloup, Hajer Ben Boubaker, Léa Morin, and Philippe Artières.
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