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Bored Again

Acceleration, Anxiety, and Boredom in Late Modernity

Bibliographic Data

ID6187811
AuthorsAnna Pochmara (0000-0002-8860-687X, De Gruyter Brill (Germany), corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume17
Issue4
Publication date2022-12-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of American Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1991-9336 • E-ISSN: 1991-9336
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/ejas.18973
OpenAlexW4315781892
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited21

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

Acceleration · Aesthetics · Anxiety · Art · Boredom · Epistemology · Literature · Modernity · Physics · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Gambling Behavior and Treatments · History · Mind wandering and attention · Philosophy · Psychology

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Unique citing works1
Citations per year0,33
Citation span2023 - 2023 (1)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 1

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