The long and the short of it: boredom after the end of the great boredom

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Newman, Michael. 2021. The long and the short of it: boredom after the end of the great boredom. In: Rye Dag Holmboe and Susan Morris, eds. On Boredom: Essays in art and writing. London: UCL Press, pp. 109-139. ISBN 9781787359482 [Book Section]

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The chapter explores the moden history of the idea and experience of boredom, in relation to philosophy, artworks and novels. The argument is that boredom as an experience that results in insights and creativity is a thing of the past, replaced by another kind of boredom associated with social media.

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Book Section

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787359468

Keywords:

boredom, philosophy, Martin Heidegger, Soren Kierkegaard, Andy Warhol, John Cage, Erik Satie, Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, David Foster Wallace, Georg Simmel, Siegfried Kracauer, psychoanalysis

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Art

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