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Članak je podijeljen na dvije cjeline: prva će se dotaknuti kontekstualnih i konceptualnih okvira te psihološko-iskustvene domene dosade; druga će se dotaknuti pitanja suvre-menih potrošačkih praksi koje se sagledavaju kao prakse koje... more
Утверждение, что философы в своей трактовке различных философских категорий осознанно или неосознанно опираются на возможности, предоставляемые им языком, звучит как трюизм, но часто игнорируется в конкретных исследованиях. В статье... more
“Sıkıntının temelde bir anlam krizine işaret ettiğinden yola çıkarak, sıkıntı mekânlarına ve zamanla ilişkisine, bir estetik kategori olarak kullanımına, siyasette uç verdiği anlara, edebiyat ve sinemadaki temsillerine ve ona karşı... more
Soren Kierkegaard Lucinda-kritikájának elemzéséből kiindulva azt vizsgálom meg, hogy miben különbözött Schlegel és Kierkegaard iróniával kapcsolatos trópus-használata, milyen metaforák mentén határolódott el a dán filozófus német... more
O artigo discute os conceitos de narratividade e suspense (Baroni, 2007) próprios da experiência de leitura dos quadrinhos (Fresnault-Deruelle, 1976) a partir de um ponto de vista negativo: pretende-se contemplar a suspensão do suspense... more
In this paper, the issue of boredom in slow film - a recent trend in art-cinema that increasingly has gotten critical and scholarly attention – is conceptualised as a paradoxical form of negative affect that can be a possible source of... more
Training manual and technical report on the BROMP method for field observations of student engagement.
This project explored students' perceptions of academic boredom in under-and over-challenging situations with the hypothesis that boredom is a multidimensional and situation-dependent construct. In Study 1, college students were... more
An argumentative essay:
- While a number of people consider that being bored does not refer to getting in trouble, the others believe that boredom could direct to involvement in problems for certain reasons.
- While a number of people consider that being bored does not refer to getting in trouble, the others believe that boredom could direct to involvement in problems for certain reasons.
16.02.2018 Vortrag auf dem X. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ästhetik, 14. - 17.02.2018, im Panel "Diagnosen zur Zeit", am Freitag, 16.02.2018
Søren Kierkegaard is well-known as an original philosophical thinker, but less known is his reliance upon and development of the Christian tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins, in particular the vice of acedia, or sloth. As acedia has... more
This paper focuses on the concept of boredom, which is often described as the product of modern times. However, the writings of Lucretius and Seneca warn of taedium vitae and horror loci, early Christian monks suffered under the demon of... more
Introducing the notion of boredom into the academic context, Boredom and Academic Work proposes a fresh sociological perspective on boredom and academic work alike. It invites a reader to reflect on the essence of boredom and the nature... more
“The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.” Thomas Wolfe A psychoanalytic look... more
Objective: Boredom has been defined as " the aversive experience of wanting, but being unable to engage in satisfying activity ". It is associated with a number of psychosocial and psychopathological problems. The aim of this paper is to... more
While bearing all the formal stamps of the realist avant-garde, Harmony Korine's Gummo (1997) is animated not by the powerful, oppositional emotions of ‘shock’ or ‘anger’, but by a morally and politically devalued ‘boredom' – a vacuous,... more
Congolese logging camps are places where mud, rain, fuel smugglers, and village roadblocks slow down multinational timber firms; where workers wage wars against trees while evading company surveillance deep in the forest; where labor... more
This paper discusses the temporal experience of film viewing by analysing the peculiar case of watching slow cinema, a strand of films that foreground temporality through its radical attenuation of narrativity as well as its austere,... more
A first contribution to a renewed "materialistic" interpretation of the work of the great Giacomo Leopardi, between anthropology and philosophy
The authors examined the relationships among students’ levels of boredom, boredom coping strategies, epistemic curiosity, and graded performance regarding mathematics lessons, with the intention to explore the mediating roles of boredom... more
Kierkegaard diagnoses modern boredom as both a social phenomenon and as an individual malaise. He focuses on a distinctive second-order form of boredom, “demonic boredom,” in which the reflective aesthete affects boredom in order to... more
In reading E.M. Cioran’s œuvre, one is faced with an immediate and unremitting abrasiveness that has its roots with our being born into time. Indeed, the author of The Fall into Time and The Trouble with Being Born thought that it is... more