Goethe figured the muse of boredom as a pregnant woman, which to me says a lot about its temporality, its latent generativity..
Were you one of those kids whose parents had you rushing from activity to activity with nary a moment to sit down and discover for yourself what might have been the geography of your own desire and/or creativity?
In what has become the most workaholic culture ever know to humankind, and in an era of increasing speed-up and down-sizing, it is good, I think, and perhaps even important to our collective health, to let ourselves get bored every so often.
So, a brief bibliography of seminal writings on this issue:
- Sigfried Kracauer's essay "Boredom" in The Mass Ornament
- Thomas Dumm's first chapter of A Politics of the Ordinary
- Adam Phillips's "On Being Bored" in his most exquisite book On Kissing Tickling and Being Bored (!!)
Best to all..
.
Were you one of those kids whose parents had you rushing from activity to activity with nary a moment to sit down and discover for yourself what might have been the geography of your own desire and/or creativity?
In what has become the most workaholic culture ever know to humankind, and in an era of increasing speed-up and down-sizing, it is good, I think, and perhaps even important to our collective health, to let ourselves get bored every so often.
So, a brief bibliography of seminal writings on this issue:
- Sigfried Kracauer's essay "Boredom" in The Mass Ornament
- Thomas Dumm's first chapter of A Politics of the Ordinary
- Adam Phillips's "On Being Bored" in his most exquisite book On Kissing Tickling and Being Bored (!!)
Best to all..
.
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