Jon Lebkowsky wrote: > > Boredom is, inherently, boring. I beg to differ. As, I suppose, do the authors of the following works:
Goodstein, _Experience Without Qualities: Boredom and Modernity_ (http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=1400) Spacks, _Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind_ (http://www.amazon.com/Boredom-Literary-History-State-Mind/dp/0226768546) Svendsen, _A Philosophy of Boredom_ (http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?isbn=9781861892171) Pezze et al, eds, _Essays on Boredom and Modernity_ (http://www.amazon.com/Essays-Boredom-Modernity-Critical-Studies/dp/9042025662/ref=sr_1_1) I recently picked up this last from the library; it looks quite promising. It caught my eye because I'm presenting on the boring uses of information technology (ie, nearly all of them) at Computers & Writing this year. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
