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In her in her essay Sleeping Beauty, Claire Rüffer @clairerfr interrogates the changing visual narratives of sleep, tracing how it has shifted from a space outside visibility and discipline into a capitalist site of self-optimisation, echoing Rosalind Gill’s concept of postfeminist media culture. Rüffer draws a comparison between the motifs of Renaissance sleeping Venuses — where beauty resides in passivity and visual availability — Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, in which sleep functions as a means of preserving beauty, and the so-called “morning shed” routine on social media, where beauty can only be achieved through discipline and the consumption of products during the hours meant for rest.
Claire Rüffer @clairerfr is a Master’s student in Art and Museum Studies at TU Berlin, having worked in publication practices at Haus der Kulturen der Welt and formerly as an art guide at Haus am Waldsee. Rooted in art history and cultural studies, her research and writing navigate historical image culture, digital aesthetics, and pop academia through a feminist and anti-capitalist lens. For her, Erwin Panofsky, Walter Benjamin, and the Kardashian-Jenners are part of the same cultural conversation.
Read her full essay via our link in bio!
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Image 1: Drawing by author inspired by videos by TikTok-creators @.m.egan, July 6, 2025, 372k views as of February 13, 2026; @manelparletrop, September 26, 2025, 50.8 million views as of February 13, 2026; @011wu, February 23, 2025, 150.7k views as of February 13, 2026; @eringetty7, September 12, 2024, 185.6k views as of February 13, 2026
Image 2: Claire Rüffer
In her in her essay Sleeping Beauty, Claire Rüffer @clairerfr interrogates the changing visual narratives of sleep, tracing how it has shifted from a space outside visibility and discipline into a capitalist site of self-optimisation, echoing Rosalind Gill’s concept of postfeminist media culture. Rüffer draws a comparison between the motifs of Renaissance sleeping Venuses — where beauty resides in passivity and visual availability — Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, in which sleep functions as a means of preserving beauty, and the so-called “morning shed” routine on social media, where beauty can only be achieved through discipline and the consumption of products during the hours meant for rest.
Claire Rüffer @clairerfr is a Master’s student in Art and Museum Studies at TU Berlin, having worked in publication practices at Haus der Kulturen der Welt and formerly as an art guide at Haus am Waldsee. Rooted in art history and cultural studies, her research and writing navigate historical image culture, digital aesthetics, and pop academia through a feminist and anti-capitalist lens. For her, Erwin Panofsky, Walter Benjamin, and the Kardashian-Jenners are part of the same cultural conversation.
Read her full essay via our link in bio!
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Image 1: Drawing by author inspired by videos by TikTok-creators @.m.egan, July 6, 2025, 372k views as of February 13, 2026; @manelparletrop, September 26, 2025, 50.8 million views as of February 13, 2026; @011wu, February 23, 2025, 150.7k views as of February 13, 2026; @eringetty7, September 12, 2024, 185.6k views as of February 13, 2026
Image 2: Claire Rüffer
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