Boredom Studies Reader Frameworks and Perspectives [Hardcover]

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.

0. Introduction

0.0. Monotonous Splendour: An Introduction to Boredom Studies, Julian Jason Haladyn and Michael E. Gardiner  p. 1

Part 1:Boredom and Subjectivity

1.1. Between Affect and History: The Rhetoric of Modern Boredom, (Elizabeth S. Goodstein)

1.2. The Dialectic of Lassitude: A Reflexive Investigation, (Barry Sandywell)

1.3. The Life That is Not Purely Ones Own: Michel Henry and Boredom as an Affect, (Antonio Calcagno)

Part 2: Boredom and Visual Culture

2.1. Entertainment: Contemporary Arts Cure for Boredom, (Frances Colpitt)

2.2. Boring Cool People: Some Cases of British Boredom, (Elizabeth Legge)

2.3. The Universal Foreground: Ordinary Landscapes and Boring Photographs, (Eugenie Shinkle)

3.1. #Boredom: Technology, Acceleration, and Connected Presence in the Social Media Age, (Martin Hand)l³"