Bored Again: Acceleration, Anxiety, and Boredom in Late Modernity
The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. (Mailer 164)[We are] bored not only when there is nothing to do, but also when there is too much. (Clive qtd. in Jarski 67) These days . . . you never step in the same...
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| Materyal Türü: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Dil: | Anglais |
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European journal of American studies
2023
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| Online Erişim: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Özet: | The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. (Mailer 164)[We are] bored not only when there is nothing to do, but also when there is too much. (Clive qtd. in Jarski 67) These days . . . you never step in the same live stream twice. And yet the digital river is tediously familiar. (Pettman xiii)As the above list of quotations—which could be continued for many more pages and could bore you straight away—illu... |
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