Boredom Society Reading Group with Tina Kendall 9 Oct 1pm

*Boredom Society Reading Group special session: The feminist politics of
boredom with guest facilitator Tina Kendall*

A Centre for Postdigital Cultures event, Coventry University



*Date*: 9 October, 1-3 pm

*Location*: Lanchester Library, DMLL Teaching Room, 3rd floor,

Coventry University


Tina Kendall is Principal Lecturer in Film & Media at Anglia Ruskin
University. She has published on extreme cinema, negative affect, and the
new materialism in cinema. Her current project theorises boredom and
attention in relation to 21stcentury media.


The event is free and open to anyone interested in the subject.

If you would like attend RSVP Peter Conlin for building entry details and
access to the readings
[email protected]



The readings:

Pease, A. (2012) *Modernism, Feminism, and the Culture of Boredom*, chapter
1, ‘Boredom and Bored Women in the Early Twentieth Century’, pp. 1-34.



Kendall, T. (2018). 'BOREDWITHMEG': Gendered Boredom and Networked Media.
New Formations: A Journal of Culture/Theory/Politics 93, pp. 80-100.





*The Boredom Society Reading Group* investigates this elusive, fundamental
and largely unacknowledged emotion which operates as a dark matter of the
media universe, with entire economies organised around the evasion of it.
Boredom appears as a portal to disaster (drug abuse, crime, violence) and
also a source of creativity and wellness. Contemporary boredom is, in part,
distinct from 19th and 20th century versions in the way it is specific to
digital ubiquity, the time of the smartphone and the neoliberal management
of subjects’ attention and sense of value or worthlessness. Boredom today
isn’t over, nor is it the same, so what is it?






*About the CPC *The Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) explores how
innovations in postdigital cultures can help us to rethink our ways of
being and doing in the 21st century. Our research draws on
cross-disciplinary ideas associated with open and disruptive media, the
posthumanities, and the Anthropocene to promote a more just and sustainable
‘post-capitalist’ knowledge economy.

https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures

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