Boredom Studies Reader

Boredom Studies Reader: Frameworks and Perspectives (Routledge, 2016)
Edited by Michael E. Gardiner and J. J. Haladyn
Boredom Studies is an increasingly rich and vital area of contemporary research that examines the experience of boredom as an important – even quintessential – condition of modern life. This anthology of newly commissioned essays focuses on the historical and theoretical potential of this modern condition, connecting boredom studies with parallel discourses such as affect theory and highlighting possible avenues of future research. Spanning sociology, history, art, philosophy and cultural studies, the book considers boredom as a mass response to the atrophy of experience characteristic of a highly mechanised and urbanised social life.