Boredom Society Reading Group special session:
The feminist politics of boredom with guest facilitator Tina Kendall
A Centre for Postdigital Cultures event, Coventry University
Date: 9 October, 1-3 pm
Location: Lanchester Library, DMLL Teaching Room, 3rd floor, Coventry University
Tina Kendall is Principal Lecturer in Film & Media at Anglia Ruskin University. She has published on extreme cinema, negative affect, and the new materialism in cinema. Her current project theorises boredom and attention in relation to 21stcentury media.
The event is free and open to anyone interested in the subject.
If you would like attend RSVP Peter Conlin for building entry details and access to the readings
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The readings:
Pease, A. (2012) Modernism, Feminism, and the Culture of Boredom, chapter 1, ‘Boredom and Bored Women in the Early Twentieth Century’, pp. 1-34.
Kendall, T. (2018). 'BOREDWITHMEG': Gendered Boredom and Networked Media. New Formations: A Journal of Culture/Theory/Politics 93, pp. 80-100.
The Boredom Society Reading Group investigates this elusive, fundamental and largely unacknowledged emotion which operates as a dark matter of the media universe, with entire economies organised around the evasion of it. Boredom appears as a portal to disaster (drug abuse, crime, violence) and also a source of creativity and wellness. Contemporary boredom is, in part, distinct from 19th and 20th century versions in the way it is specific to digital ubiquity, the time of the smartphone and the neoliberal management of subjects’ attention and sense of value or worthlessness. Boredom today isn’t over, nor is it the same, so what is it?
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