The Culture of Boredom.

• Superior document: Critical Studies ; v.40
• Author: Ros Velasco, Josefa.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Humanities Still Have a Say in Boredom Studies -- Bibliography -- Part 1 Boredom and Society -- Chapter 1 Boredom and the Disciplinary Imaginary -- 1 Disciplinarity, Interdisciplinarity, and the Disciplinary Imaginary -- 2 Attending to Attention -- 3 Representing Boredom -- 4 Defining Boredom -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 The Multitude Strikes Back? Boredom in an Age of Semiocapitalism -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Capital and Affective Labor -- 3 Boredom and Semiocapitalism -- 4 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 Boredom: a Political Issue -- 1 Introduction -- 2 German Idealism: Poetry and Abstraction -- 3 Class and Boredom -- 4 Democratizing Boredom -- 5 Boredom and the Culture Industry -- 6 A Reassertion of Boredom for the 21st Century? -- 7 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 About Boredom: Hermeneutic Looks and Existential Analysis in Modernity -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Brief Historic-Conceptual Explanation of Boredom -- 3 Boredom by. Hermeneutical Perspectives -- 4 Boredom in or the Inhabiting Silence of Boredom [Langweiligkeit] -- 5 'Es ist einem langeweilig,' or the Depth of Boredom -- 6 Occupation of the Own and the Technological Relationships: Boredom in Modern Society -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 Too Much Time: Changing Conceptions of Boredom, Progress, and the Future among Young Men in Urban Ethiopia, 2003-2015 -- 1 Education and Expectations of Work -- 2 Progress and the Problem of Time -- 3 The Overaccumulation of Time -- 4 "Africa Rising," a Developmental State, and the End of Boredom -- 5 Growth without Change: Boredom and the Changing Urban Landscape -- 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part 2 Boredom and Literature.

Chapter 6 Immersed in Boredom: the Architecture of Brisbane in Johnno -- 1 A Dual Movement -- 1.1 Inside Brisbane -- 1.2 Out of Brisbane -- 1.3 Changed Brisbane -- 2 Moving Boredom -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7 The Presence of Literature: Georg Büchner's Comedy Leonce und Lena -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 Upper-Class Female Boredom in Marriage in 19th-Century Western Literature as a Manifestation of Socio-Cultural Pressures -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Boredom: a Reaction to a Context -- 3 Some Literary Examples of Female Boredom in Marriage -- 4 Female Pressures Translated into Boredom -- 5 Boredom as a Driving Force towards Emancipation -- 6 Final Considerations -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9 Men Walking into Woods. Boredom, Nihilism, and the Characters of Erlend Loe -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Doppler -- 3 Fakta Om Finland -- 4 Boredom and the Doing of Nothing -- 5 The Inability to Be Bored -- Bibliography -- Part 3 Boredom and Creativity -- Chapter 10 The Art of Boring (Oneself) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Hermeneutic-Phenomenological Method to Consider Attunement Moods [Stimmungen] -- 3 Formal Characterization of Fundamental Attunements [Grundstimmungen] -- 3.1 Ascertainment of Fundamental Attunements -- 3.2 The Awaking the Attunements and Its Relationship with the Being Out [Weg-sein] of the Dasein -- 3.3 Provisional Characterization of the Attunements from Everyday Life -- 4 The Fundamental Mood of Boredom and Its First Modalities: Becoming Bored by Something -- 4.1 Becoming Bored by Something -- 5 Boredom and Its Correlative Temporariness, with Its Open Comprehension of the World and a Possible (re) Creative Attunement -- 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11 Perfect Boredom: From Disillusion to Creativity -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Continuity of Boredom -- 3 Instantaneous Creativity® Method and the Cases of Boredom.

3.1 Application of Instantaneous Creativity® Method -- 3.1.1 Creation Phase -- 3.1.2 Creator Phase -- 3.1.3 Creativity Phase -- 4 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 12 A Cartography of Boredom: Reading for Affectivity in Contemporary Poetry -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Two Accounts of Boredom with a Hint of Posthumanist Theory -- 3 The Affirmative Reading of 'Bored' -- 3.1 The Sonorous Traces and Irrationality -- 4 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Annex i -- Chapter 13 Boredom and Institutional Critique -- Bibliography -- Postface: Rhymed Reflections on Boredom -- 1 Introduction: Why Rhymed Reflections? -- 2 An Epigraph on Boredom -- 3 Rhymed Reflections on Boredom and Psychology -- On Boredom Prevention in Old Age -- Scoring in Life for Boring-Prevention -- Children's Immunity to Boredom? -- Children's Boredom at School? -- On a Boring Speech -- On Understanding Boredom: a Realistic Reflection for Researchers -- 4 Rhymed Reflections on Boredom and Sociology -- Boredom: a Positive Role for Society? -- Boredom: an Optimistic View -- Overcoming Bits of Boredom -- On Imprisoned Persons' Right to Mitigate Mental Monotony -- On Boredom-Induced Mistreatment of Animals -- Boredom in Professional Interaction -- 5 Rhymed Reflections on Boredom and Creativity -- On Boredom: a CREATIview -- On Boredom: a CreatiVIEW -- Boredom: a Playful View -- Index.