E-Book, Englisch, 266 Seiten
Gardiner / Haladyn Boredom Studies Reader
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-40360-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Frameworks and Perspectives
E-Book, Englisch, 266 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-317-40360-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Boredom Studies is an increasingly rich and vital area of contemporary research that examines the experience of boredom as an importan – even quintessential – condition of modern life. This anthology of newly commissioned essays focuses on the historical and theoretical potential of this modern condition, connecting boredom studies with parallel discourses such as affect theory and highlighting possible avenues of future research. Spanning sociology, history, art, philosophy and cultural studies, the book considers boredom as a mass response to the atrophy of experience characteristic of a highly mechanised and urbanised social life.
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1. Introduction to Boredom Studies, Michael E. Gardiner and Julian Jason Haladyn Part I: Boredom and Subjectivity 2. The Life That is Not Purely One’s Own: Michel Henry and boredom, Antonio Calcagno 3. From Boredom to Weariness, Eran Dorfman 4. Between Affect and History: The rhetoric of modern boredom, Elizabeth S. Goodstein 5. The Dialectic of Lassitude: A reflexive investigation, Barry Sandywell Part II: Boredom and Visual Culture 6. Entertainment Trumps Aesthetic Interest: The critique of boredom in contemporary art, Frances Colpitt 7. Boring Cool People, Elizabeth Legge 8. The Universal Foreground: Ordinary landscapes and visual boredom, Eugénie Shinkle Part III: Boredom in/and the Social World 9. #Boredom: Technology, acceleration, and connected presence in the social media age, Martin Hand 10. Bored Adolescence, Laurie Langbauer 11. From "Boring" to "Bored"?: Economic inactivity, marginalization and transformations of self in Aboriginal Australia, Yasmine Musharbash 12. The State of Boredom: Bounty for thought and anthropological explorations in the public understandings of science, Maria Alejandra Sanchez Vazquez Part IV: Boredom and its Discontents 13. Authenticity in the Time of Boredom, Kevin H. Aho 14. Boredom and the Origin of Philosophy, Mark Kingwell 15. Boredom and Violence, Jorg Kustermans 16. War as Cure: Boredom, neurasthenia and the sick society, Erik Ringmar 17. Boredom and Meaning in Life, Lars Fr. H. Svendsen
