The Space Of Boredom

Author : Bruce O'Neill
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822373278

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The Space of Boredom by Bruce O'Neill Pdf

In The Space of Boredom Bruce O'Neill explores how people cast aside by globalism deal with an intractable symptom of downward mobility: an unshakeable and immense boredom. Focusing on Bucharest, Romania, where the 2008 financial crisis compounded the failures of the postsocialist state to deliver on the promises of liberalism, O'Neill shows how the city's homeless are unable to fully participate in a society that is increasingly organized around practices of consumption. Without a job to work, a home to make, or money to spend, the homeless—who include pensioners abandoned by their families and the state—struggle daily with the slow deterioration of their lives. O'Neill moves between homeless shelters and squatter camps, black labor markets and transit stations, detailing the lives of men and women who manage boredom by seeking stimulation, from conversation and coffee to sex in public restrooms or going to the mall or IKEA. Showing how boredom correlates with the downward mobility of Bucharest's homeless, O'Neill theorizes boredom as an enduring affect of globalization in order to provide a foundation from which to rethink the politics of alienation and displacement.

Author : Kyle Steed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Boredom
ISBN : 1953955053

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A Kids Book about Boredom by Kyle Steed Pdf

We all know what it's like to feel bored-it's the worst! But did you know that being bored is actually one of the most wonderful and powerful things in life? Some of the best things ever created or discovered happened when someone was bored. It's true! With this book, kids can learn to embrace and discover the benefits of boredom and realize their full potential.

Author : Rye Dag Holmboe ,Susan Morris
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787359468

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On Boredom by Rye Dag Holmboe ,Susan Morris Pdf

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.

Author : Pamela Paul
Publisher : Crown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780593136775

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100 Things We've Lost to the Internet by Pamela Paul Pdf

The acclaimed editor of The New York Times Book Review takes readers on a nostalgic tour of the pre-Internet age, offering powerful insights into both the profound and the seemingly trivial things we've lost. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE AND THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS • “A deft blend of nostalgia, humor and devastating insights.”—People Remember all those ingrained habits, cherished ideas, beloved objects, and stubborn preferences from the pre-Internet age? They’re gone. To some of those things we can say good riddance. But many we miss terribly. Whatever our emotional response to this departed realm, we are faced with the fact that nearly every aspect of modern life now takes place in filtered, isolated corners of cyberspace—a space that has slowly subsumed our physical habitats, replacing or transforming the office, our local library, a favorite bar, the movie theater, and the coffee shop where people met one another’s gaze from across the room. Even as we’ve gained the ability to gather without leaving our house, many of the fundamentally human experiences that have sustained us have disappeared. In one hundred glimpses of that pre-Internet world, Pamela Paul, editor of The New York Times Book Review, presents a captivating record, enlivened with illustrations, of the world before cyberspace—from voicemails to blind dates to punctuation to civility. There are the small losses: postcards, the blessings of an adolescence largely spared of documentation, the Rolodex, and the genuine surprises at high school reunions. But there are larger repercussions, too: weaker memories, the inability to entertain oneself, and the utter demolition of privacy. 100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet is at once an evocative swan song for a disappearing era and, perhaps, a guide to reclaiming just a little bit more of the world IRL.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004427495

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The Culture of Boredom by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : James Danckert,John D. Eastwood
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674984677

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Out of My Skull by James Danckert,John D. Eastwood Pdf

No one likes to be bored. Two leading psychologists explain what causes boredom and how to listen to what it is telling you, so you can live a more engaged life. We avoid boredom at all costs. It makes us feel restless and agitated. Desperate for something to do, we play games on our phones, retie our shoes, or even count ceiling tiles. And if we escape it this time, eventually it will strike again. But what if we listened to boredom instead of banishing it? Psychologists James Danckert and John Eastwood contend that boredom isn’t bad for us. It’s just that we do a bad job of heeding its guidance. When we’re bored, our minds are telling us that whatever we are doing isn’t working—we’re failing to satisfy our basic psychological need to be engaged and effective. Too many of us respond poorly. We become prone to accidents, risky activities, loneliness, and ennui, and we waste ever more time on technological distractions. But, Danckert and Eastwood argue, we can let boredom have the opposite effect, motivating the change we need. The latest research suggests that an adaptive approach to boredom will help us avoid its troubling effects and, through its reminder to become aware and involved, might lead us to live fuller lives. Out of My Skull combines scientific findings with everyday observations to explain an experience we’d like to ignore, but from which we have a lot to learn. Boredom evolved to help us. It’s time we gave it a chance.

Author : Agnė Narušytė
Publisher : VDA leidykla
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 9789955854968

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The Aesthetics of Boredom by Agnė Narušytė Pdf

Author : Patricia Meyer Spacks
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226768538

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Boredom by Patricia Meyer Spacks Pdf

This book offers a witty explanation of why boredom both haunts and motivates the literary imagination. Moving from Samuel Johnson to Donald Barthelme, from Jane Austen to Anita Brookner, Spacks shows us at last how we arrived in a postmodern world where boredom is the all-encompassing name we give our discontent. Her book, anything but boring, gives us new insight into the cultural usefulness—and deep interest—of boredom as a state of mind.

Author : Mark Kingwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780773557123

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Wish I Were Here by Mark Kingwell Pdf

An urgent, timely, and political analysis of the boredom that dominates our everyday immersion in distracting technologies.

Author : Eva Hoffman,The School of Life
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781447293262

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How to Be Bored by Eva Hoffman,The School of Life Pdf

Lethargic inactivity can be debilitating and depressing; but for those living in the modern world, the pendulum has swung far in the other direction. We live in a hectic, hyperactive, over-stimulated age. Excessive busyness and overfilled schedules are the norm, as are their effects on our mental and emotional lives. How might we address and counter such problems, for the sake of experiencing our lives more fully? In How to Be Bored, Eva Hoffman explores the importance we place on success, high level function, effectiveness and alertness in today's competitive society. In a world where it is almost impossible to be idle, she draws upon lessons from history, literature and psychotherapy to help us embrace boredom and find meaning in doing nothing - to appreciate real reflection and enjoy the richness of our inner and external lives.

Author : Lars Svendsen
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1861892179

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A Philosophy of Boredom by Lars Svendsen Pdf

Am account of boredom, something that we have all suffered from, yet actually know very little about.

Author : Mary Mann
Publisher : FSG Originals
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780374714420

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Yawn by Mary Mann Pdf

The incisive and often hilarious story of one of our most interesting cultural phenomena: boredom It’s the feeling your grandma told you was only experienced by boring people. Some people say they’re dying of it; others claim to have killed because of it. It’s a key component of depression, creativity, and sex-toy advertisements. It’s boredom, the subject of Yawn, a delightful and at times moving take on the oft-derided emotion and how we deal with it. Deftly wrought from interviews, research, and personal experience, Yawn follows Mary Mann’s search through history for the truth about boredom, spanning the globe, introducing a varied cast of characters. The Desert Fathers—fourth-century Christian monks who made their homes far from civilization—offer the first recorded accounts of lethargy; Thomas Cook, grandfather of the tourism industry, provided escape from the mundane for England’s working class; and contemporarily, we meet couples who are disenchanted by monogamous sex, deployed soldiers who seek entertainment and connection in porn, and prisoners held in solitary confinement, for whom boredom is a punishment for crimes they may or may not have committed. With sharp wit and impressive historical acumen, Mann tells the unexpected story of the hunt for a deeper understanding of boredom, in all its absurd, irritating, and inspiring splendor.

Author : Adeline Masquelier
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226624341

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Fada by Adeline Masquelier Pdf

Niger most often comes into the public eye as an example of deprivation and insecurity. Urban centers have become concentrated areas of unemployment filled with young men trying, against all odds, to find jobs and fill their time with meaningful occupations. At the heart of Adeline Masquelier’s groundbreaking book is the fada—a space where men gather to escape boredom by talking, playing cards, listening to music, and drinking tea. As a place in which new forms of sociability and belonging are forged outside the unattainable arena of work, the fada has become an integral part of Niger’s urban landscape. By considering the fada as a site of experimentation, Masquelier offers a nuanced depiction of how young men in urban Niger engage in the quest for recognition and reinvent their own masculinity in the absence of conventional avenues to self-realization. In an era when fledgling and advanced economies alike are struggling to support meaningful forms of employment, this book offers a timely glimpse into how to create spaces of stability, respect, and creativity in the face of diminished opportunities and precarity.

Author : Izumi Suzuki
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781788739887

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Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki Pdf

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Thrillist, The Millions, Frieze, and Metropolis Japan The first English language publication of the work of Izumi Suzuki, a legend of Japanese science fiction and a countercultural icon At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi Murakami, to Black Mirror and Ex Machina. In these darkly playful and punky stories, the fantastical elements are always earthed by the universal pettiness of strife between the sexes, and the gritty reality of life on the lower rungs, whatever planet that ladder might be on. Translated by Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph, Aiko Masubuchi, and Helen O'Horan.

Author : Stephanie Drimmer,Gareth Moore
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Games
ISBN : 9781426330179

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Brain Games by Stephanie Drimmer,Gareth Moore Pdf

An activity book that acts as a companion to the TV series Brain games.