Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

The Loss of Boredom and the End of the Human

The Loss of Boredom and the End of the Human <jats:p>This paper looks at the role of boredom as central to the emergence of the human, and at its disappearance in our hypermediated culture. It does so through the works of Giorgio Agamben, in particular his discussions of the apparatus and of Stimmung, mood; his engagement with Heidegger's notion of boredom as Stimmung; and Agamben's radical reading of Aristotle's understanding of potentiality. Finally through a consideration of the relation between Agamben and John Cage and other avant-garde artists working with the idea of boredom, this paper examines the role of art in allowing boredom to reveal the fundamental inoperativity of the human, something that the culture of contemporary distraction and hypermediation disavows.</jats:p> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png CounterText Edinburgh University Press

The Loss of Boredom and the End of the Human

CounterText , Volume 1 (3): 289 – Dec 1, 2015

Loading next page...
 
/lp/edinburgh-university-press/the-loss-of-boredom-and-the-end-of-the-human-DfagY0QPG3

References (5)

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Copyright
© Edinburgh University Press 2015
Subject
Literary Studies
ISSN
2056-4406
eISSN
2056-4414
DOI
10.3366/count.2015.0024
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

<jats:p>This paper looks at the role of boredom as central to the emergence of the human, and at its disappearance in our hypermediated culture. It does so through the works of Giorgio Agamben, in particular his discussions of the apparatus and of Stimmung, mood; his engagement with Heidegger's notion of boredom as Stimmung; and Agamben's radical reading of Aristotle's understanding of potentiality. Finally through a consideration of the relation between Agamben and John Cage and other avant-garde artists working with the idea of boredom, this paper examines the role of art in allowing boredom to reveal the fundamental inoperativity of the human, something that the culture of contemporary distraction and hypermediation disavows.</jats:p>

Journal

CounterTextEdinburgh University Press

Published: Dec 1, 2015

There are no references for this article.