Boredom Society Reading Group, Coventry, 25 Nov, 1pm

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If you are in the West Midlands area in the UK and find boredom
interesting...

Boredom Society Reading Group: Boredom as Possibility?
A Centre for Postdigital Cultures event
Date: 25 November, 1-3 pm
Location: Ikea in Coventry, restaurant on level 5, 2 Croft Rd, Coventry CV1
3AZ

The reading an excerpt from:
Peter Osborne. *Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art*.
London: Verso, 2013



The Boredom Society Reading Group investigates this elusive, fundamental
and largely unacknowledged emotion. Is boredom a dark matter of the media
universe, is it a portal to misfortune (an undoing of the self), or a
source of creativity and wellness? A threshold to the future? Contemporary
boredom is, in part, distinct from 19th and 20th century versions in the
way it is specific to digital ubiquity and the neoliberal management of
subjects=E2=80=99 attention and sense of value or worthlessness. Boredom to=
day
isn=E2=80=99t over, nor is it the same, so what is it?

The event is free and open to anyone interested in the subject. If you
would like attend or would further information, please contact
Peter Conlin
[email protected]



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 =E2=80=98post-capitalist=E2=80=99 knowl=
edge economy.



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

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<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-si=
ze:11pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif">If you are in the West =
Midlands area in the UK and find
boredom interesting...<span></span></p>



<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-si=
ze:11pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif">Boredom Society Reading=
 Group: Boredom as Possibility? <br>
A Centre for Postdigital Cultures event <br>
Date: 25 November, 1-3 pm <br>
Location: Ikea in Coventry, restaurant on level 5, 2 Croft Rd, Coventry CV1=
 3AZ
<span></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-si=
ze:11pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif">The reading an excerpt =
from: <br>
Peter Osborne. <i>Anywhere or Not at All:
Philosophy of Contemporary Art</i>. London: Verso, 2013<span></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-si=
ze:11pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif"><span>=C2=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-si=
ze:11pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif">The Boredom Society Rea=
ding Group investigates this elusive,
fundamental and largely unacknowledged emotion. Is boredom a dark matter of=
 the
media universe, is it a portal to misfortune (an undoing of the self), or a
source of creativity and wellness? A threshold to the future? Contemporary
boredom is, in part, distinct from 19th and 20th century versions in the wa=
y it
is specific to digital ubiquity and the neoliberal management of subjects=
=E2=80=99
attention and sense of value or worthlessness. Boredom today isn=E2=80=99t =
over, nor is
it the same, so what is it? <span></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-si=
ze:11pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif">The event is free and o=
pen to anyone interested in the
subject. If you would like attend or would further information, please cont=
act<br>
Peter Conlin<br>
<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]<=
/a><span></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-si=
ze:11pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif"><span>=C2=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-si=
ze:11pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif">About the CPC<br>
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 wit=
h
open and disruptive media, the posthumanities, and the Anthropocene to prom=
ote
a more just and sustainable =E2=80=98post-capitalist=E2=80=99 knowledge eco=
nomy.<span></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-si=
ze:11pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif"><span>=C2=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-si=
ze:11pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif"><a href=3D"https://www.=
coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures">https://www=
.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures</a><span></=
span></p>





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