If you are in the West Midlands area in the UK and find boredom interesting...
Boredom Society Reading Group: Boredom as Possibility?
A Centre for Postdigital Cultures event
Date: 25 November, 1-3 pm
Location: Ikea in Coventry, restaurant on level 5, 2 Croft Rd, Coventry CV1 3AZ
The reading an excerpt from:
Peter Osborne. Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art. London: Verso, 2013
The Boredom Society Reading Group investigates this elusive, fundamental and largely unacknowledged emotion. Is boredom a dark matter of the media universe, is it a portal to misfortune (an undoing of the self), or a source of creativity and wellness? A threshold to the future? Contemporary boredom is, in part, distinct from 19th and 20th century versions in the way it is specific to digital ubiquity 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?
The event is free and open to anyone interested in the subject. If you would like attend or would like further information, please contact
Peter Conlin
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About the CPC
The Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) explores how innovations in postdigital cultures can help us to rethink our ways of being and doing in the 21st century. Our research draws on cross-disciplinary ideas associated with open and disruptive media, the posthumanities, and the Anthropocene to promote a more just and sustainable ‘post-capitalist’ knowledge economy.
https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures
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