Glossary of Insomnia

with Aleksandar Kecman

This glossary stands on its own. It does not ensure legibility and it does not visually nor discursively taxonomize knowledge. Inspired by Eve Tuck and C. Ree and their Glossary of Haunting (2013) it functions as a roadmap to wade through the world of insomnia. This is not a list of definitions. The glossary of insomnia is not about words explained. These are not even words. They are images. “Sometimes the images also point to the way the everyday is best communicated not through the piling up of examples, but through the condensation of experience in an image that cannot be approached as a fact to be tested.” (Stevenson, 2014) I have encountered the everyday of the insomniacs through snapshots, bursts of experience, coherent stories, pictures, sounds, laughter and anxieties, holding hands, sitting together in the wake and in silence, speedily moving, discombobulated virtual back and forth, ghosting, tension, understanding and ambiguity… Never in facts. Here I am expressing without formulating, the way image does.

Book published by Huner Francis, Braddok PA

February, 2026