Essays On Boredom And Modernity
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Essays On Boredom And Modernity
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Author : Barbara Dalle Pezze
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2009
Essays On Boredom And Modernity written by Barbara Dalle Pezze and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
The past thirty years saw a growing academic interest in the phenomenon of boredom. If initially the analyses were mostly a-historical, now the historicity of boredom is widely recognised, though often it is taken as evidence of its permanence as a constant "quality" of the human condition, expression of a metaphysical malady inherent to the fact of being human. New trends in the literature focus on the peculiar relationship between boredom and modernity and attempt to embrace the new social, cultural and political factors which provoked the epochal change of modernity and relate them to a change in the parameters of human experience and the crisis of subjectivity. The very changes that characterise modernity are the same that led to the "democratisation" of boredom: modernity and boredom are shown to be inextricably connected and inseparable. This volume aims at contributing to the growing body of literature on boredom with a number of essays which reflect on the connection of boredom and modernity and focus on particular texts, authors, or aspects of the phenomenon. The approach is multidisciplinary, in keeping with the pervasiveness of the phenomenon in our culture and societies, with essays reflecting on philosophy, literature, film, media and psychology.
Overload And Boredom
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Author : Orrin Klapp
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1986-02-21
Overload And Boredom written by Orrin Klapp and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-02-21 with Computers categories.
This series of essays explores the impact of information on the quality of life in modern society. Addressing the significance of boredom as an indicator of overloads of information, Klapp argues that the information society has become boring in spite of itself. He contends that constant inundation with information has led to nothing less than the attrition of meaning. Redundancy and noise, Klapp asserts, have replaced resonance and variety in the modern world. The information society has become entropic rather than progressive and a deficit in the quality of life has resulted. The author expands upon these problems of the information society; identifying their origins, addressing their implications, and examining the social placebos and temporary remedies currently employed in dealing with them. Finally, he offers his conclusions and suggests ways in which modern man might address the loss in human potential and perhaps find a remedy for culturally symptomatic boredom.
Boredom Studies Reader
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Author : Michael E. Gardiner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-10-04
Boredom Studies Reader written by Michael E. Gardiner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-04 with Social Science categories.
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.
On Boredom
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Author : Rye Dag Holmboe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
On Boredom written by Rye Dag Holmboe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Art categories.
On Boredom explores the concept of boredom in the modern age through a range of artwork and essays.
On Boredom
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Author : Rye Dag Holmboe
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2021-04-22
On Boredom written by Rye Dag Holmboe and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-22 with Social Science categories.
What do we mean when we say that we are bored? Or when we find a subject boring? Contributors to On Boredom: Essays in art and writing, which include artists, art historians, psychoanalysts and a novelist, examine boredom in its manifold and uncertain reality. Each part of the book takes up a crucial moment in the history of boredom and presents it in a new light, taking the reader from the trials of the consulting room to the experience of hysteria in the nineteenth century. The book pays particular attention to boredom’s relationship with the sudden and rapid advances in technology that have occurred in recent decades, specifically technologies of communication, surveillance and automation. On Boredom is idiosyncratic for its combination of image and text, and the artworks included in its pages – by Mathew Hale, Martin Creed and Susan Morris – help turn this volume into a material expression of boredom itself. With other contributions from Josh Cohen, Briony Fer, Anouchka Grose, Rye Dag Holmboe, Margaret Iversen, Tom McCarthy and Michael Newman, the book will appeal to readers in the fields of art history, literature, cultural studies and visual culture, from undergraduate students to professional artists working in new media.
Experience Without Qualities
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Author : Elizabeth S. Goodstein
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Experience Without Qualities written by Elizabeth S. Goodstein and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Literary Criticism categories.
Tracing the emergence and evolution of the modern discourse on boredom in French and German literary, philosophical, and sociological texts, this book fills a gap in the intellectual and cultural history of European modernity.
Modernism Feminism And The Culture Of Boredom
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Author : Allison Pease
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-08-27
Modernism Feminism And The Culture Of Boredom written by Allison Pease and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Illustrates how boredom formed an important category of critique against the constraints of women's lives in British modernist literature.
Henri Lefebvre Boredom And Everyday Life
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Author : Patrick Gamsby
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2022-09-23
Henri Lefebvre Boredom And Everyday Life written by Patrick Gamsby and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-23 with Social Science categories.
Henri Lefebvre, Boredom, and Everyday Life culls together the scattered fragments of Henri Lefebvre’s (1901–1991) unrealized sociology of boredom. In assembling these fragments, sprinkled through Lefebvre’s vast oeuvre, Patrick Gamsby constructs the core elements of Lefebvre’s latent theory of boredom. Themes of time (modernity, everyday), space (urban, suburban), and mass culture (culture industry, industry culture) are explored throughout the book, unveiling a concealed dialectical movement at work with the experience of boredom. In analyzing the dialectic of boredom, Gamsby argues that Lefebvre’s project of a critique of everyday life is key for making sense of the linkages between boredom and everyday life in the modern world.
The Culture Of Boredom
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-04-28
The Culture Of Boredom written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Culture of Boredom is a collection of essays by well-known specialists reflecting from philosophical, literary, and artistic perspectives. The goal is to clarify the background of boredom, and to explore its representation through forgotten cross-cutting narratives.
Bored Lonely Angry Stupid
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Author : Luke Fernandez
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2020-07-07
Bored Lonely Angry Stupid written by Luke Fernandez and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-07 with Computers categories.
“Technologies have been shaping [our] emotional culture for more than a century, argue computer scientist Luke Fernandez and historian Susan Matt in this original study. Marshalling archival sources and interviews, they trace how norms (say, around loneliness) have shifted with technological change.” —Nature “A powerful story of how new forms of technology are continually integrated into the human experience...Anyone interested in seeing the digital age through a new perspective should be pleased with this rich account.” —Publishers Weekly Facebook makes us lonely. Selfies breed narcissism. On Twitter, hostility reigns. Pundits and psychologists warn that digital technologies substantially alter our emotional states, but in this lively look at our evolving feelings about technology since the advent of the telegraph, we learn that the gadgets we use don’t just affect how we feel—they can profoundly change our sense of self. When we say we’re bored, we don’t mean the same thing as a Victorian dandy. Could it be that political punditry has helped shape a new kind of anger? Luke Fernandez and Susan J. Matt take us back in time to consider how our feelings of loneliness, vanity, and anger have evolved in tandem with new technologies.