The Culture of Boredom / / edited by Josefa Ros Velasco.

• Superior document: Critical Studies; 40
• TeilnehmendeR: Ros Velasco, Josefa, 1987-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; : Brill :, Boston : : Rodopi,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Critical studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; v. 40.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

The Culture of Boredom is a collection of essays by well-known specialists reflecting from philosophical, literary, and artistic perspectives, in which the reader will learn how different disciplines can throw light on such an appealing, challenging, yet still not fully understood, phenomenon. The goal is to clarify the background of boredom, and to explore its representation through forgotten cross-cutting narratives beyond the typical approaches, i.e. those of psychology or psychiatry. For the first time this experienced group of scholars gathers to promote a cross-border dialogue from a multidisciplinary perspective.

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.