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.