By Esfandiar Rouhani In thinking about boredom, one of the things that stands out to me is the seeming paradox involved in trying to embrace boredom. In other words, the problem I am interested in is that it seems contradictory to desire boredom. There is something inherently negative (for lack of a better word) in […]
Read More Boredom And Its EmbraceBy Esther Kim Have you been bored lately? A quick Google search shows that the word “bored” peaked between March 22 and April 4 in this past year, right when the world began to enter a global quarantine. Thanks to the current pandemic, people from all walks of life have had to forgo most of […]
Read More Classical Notions of BoredomBy Joseph Diller In boredom, we don’t kill time, but time kills us. It’s a passivity, not an activity. As the clock ticks and boredom seizes us, we feel empty desire – a desire for desire. We reason, objectively, a lack of meaning in our life-activity and, subjectively, our own disengagement with our life-activity – […]
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