[Commlist] New open access book: On Boredom

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access 
book that may be of interest to list subscribers: On Boredom: Essays in 
art and writing, edited by Rye Dag Holmboe and Susan Morris.  Download 
it free: https://bit.ly/2PepNIw

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On Boredom
Essays in art and writing
Edited by Rye Dag Holmboe and Susan Morris
Free Download: https://bit.ly/2PepNIw

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What do we mean when we say that we are bored? Or when we find a subject 
boring? Contributors to On Boredom: Essays in art and writing, which 
include artists, art historians, psychoanalysts and a novelist, examine 
boredom in its manifold and uncertain reality. Each part of the book 
takes up a crucial moment in the history of boredom and presents it in a 
new light, taking the reader from the trials of the consulting room to 
the experience of hysteria in the nineteenth century. The book pays 
particular attention to boredom’s relationship with the sudden and rapid 
advances in technology that have occurred in recent decades, 
specifically technologies of communication, surveillance and automation.

On Boredom is idiosyncratic for its combination of image and text, and 
the artworks included in its pages – by Mathew Hale, Martin Creed and 
Susan Morris – help turn this volume into a material expression of 
boredom itself. With other contributions from Josh Cohen, Briony Fer, 
Anouchka Grose, Rye Dag Holmboe, Margaret Iversen, Tom McCarthy and 
Michael Newman, the book will appeal to readers in the fields of art 
history, literature, cultural studies and visual culture, from 
undergraduate students to professional artists working in new media.

Free Download: https://bit.ly/2PepNIw


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