...Stebelton H. Nulle Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 BOREDOM, ANCIENT AND MODERN Stebelton H. Nulle IS THERE a definite correlation between boredom and civiliza­ tion? Must the portion of mankind that has gained a degree of leisure and abundance pay the piper in the form...

... of anticipation, drawn-out boredom, acceleration, or the feeling that something has ended before something else begins, among other possibilities.” In this instance, I focus on how the stretchy drawn-out and quickening qualities of time in crisis persist. By drawing on the anonymous experiences of loved ones...

... analysis of animals and boredom, Agamben's work implies a different way of thinking this relation. Thinking, for Agamben, is a form-of-life that lies close to animality. © 2007 Duke University Press 2007 Adrian Mackenzie Suspended Animation: Thinking and Animality in Neurocultural Selfhood...

..., with what went on around him. Never, as a child, did he ask, What shall I do? Boredom was unknown to him as he wrote and acted and painted and dabbled in conjuring. These interested him more than people. Thus he distils evocatively the atmosphere of the home of his maiden aunts, his aesthetic appetite...

..., gotten tenure, had episodes, done new research, said what they had to say, heard what there was to hear, looked around the room, gotten bored)? Georg Simmel writes that modern boredom is a way...

... do not really understand why they bow and scrape and thrust, except that they are jerked by a most skilful puppet-master. If history is to portray the atmosphere of a period, let the characters be more rounded and let us have the description of more blood and boredom. If the author considered...

... from ourselves” (21). It is also one in which Swofford keeps writing the sexual, as well as a bittersweet note of male-male seduction, back into the scene he’s unfolding, even as he takes such pains to keep it out: We’re fucking the sand and the loneliness and the boredom...

... and illuminates it from almost every conceivable angle. He is passionately interested in the problem and makes it seem important. He successfully avoids platitudes and an atmosphere of boredom. He bathes the long record of misunder­ standing in the free light of intelligence, deploring the great waste that has...

... as the medium through which the critic s boredom and revulsion are channeled and vented. George Steiner s New Yorker review of Vitoux s book was entitled Cat Man. Steiner probably intended the reader coming into contact with Celine for the first time to think of Bat Man or Cat Woman (or some other cartoon...

... not really understand why they bow and scrape and thrust, except that they are jerked by a most skilful puppet-master. If history is to portray the atmosphere of a period, let the characters be more rounded and let us have the description of more blood and boredom. If the author considered...

... of the daily news. It is, after all, an ‘‘indolent vacuity of thought and indolence in one of its incarnations is boredom—that state often associated with the eighteenth century and described nicely by Adam Phillips as a state of ‘‘sus...

... repre­ sentative of the population at large. They entered the service for adventure or security in hard times; they left because of slow promotion (58 years to colonel before the Civil War), low pay, and boredom. The enlisted men came mostly from the dregs of northern cities and counted a high proportion...

... ried couples, the pictures provoked reactions of increased sexual arousal, boredom, and disgust, while decreasing anxiety, fear, and surprise! curiosity. Other audiences have reported an increase in boredom, once again recalling our old friend the obvious. In another series charting response...

... as quiet as he can make them. Let him practise this stillness (for this is difficult) night and morning, until he has its secret. And all for the sake of adventure, to see what would come of it, with no guarantee that anything would come except boredom. And boredom is all that would come of it in ninety...

... to colonel before the Civil War), low pay, and boredom. The enlisted men came mostly from the dregs of northern cities and counted a high proportion of immigrants. Soldier, as one enlisted man pointed out, was a synonym for all that is degrading and low (329). Life was an endless round of drill, drink...

... attempt dialogue which is deliberately and significantly formal. St. John Ervine, in How to Write a Play, quotes a long passage from This Was a Man as an instance of dialogue which is realistic to the point of boredom. The resolute desire to be witty has disappeared from these plays; it has been...

... clarification of life. As literary editor, she looked to new expressions, thinking there she would find the master­ piece which could provide a revelation. The Little Review emerged out of boredom, or so she indicated in My Thirty Years War-. I had been curiously depressed all day. In the night I wakened...

... Cer- teau’s ‘‘almost invisible pleasures, little extras Jameson’s ‘‘boredom as an 6 aesthetic response hysterical’ sublime video ‘‘panic and so...

..., but this kind of existence comes to grief in time. Kierkegaard s objection to eudaemonism is Schopenhauerian. He does not moralize about pleasure, but asserts that it is not possible to enjoy oneself all the time. The person in the aesthetic stage of life is fluctuating between boredom and anxiety...

..., Radical Transfeminism To name the states of our brokenness: depression, hurt, trauma, fatigue/exhaustion, overwork, sadness, loneliness, stress, mental and physical tension, isolation; anomie and boredom and discontent; unemployment, underemployment, low wages...