This volume explores the connection between two phenomena usually thought to be utterly incongruous, even antithetical: utopia and everyday life . It presents a series of essays, written over the last twenty years, which rethink the nature and prospects of utopianism in a world that has grown increasingly sceptical as to the possibility of systemic socio-political transformation in a positive direction. Through critical interdisciplinary engagements with a wide variety of thinkers ranging from Mikhail Bakhtin to Henri Lefebvre and beyond, many of whom are often read as anti-utopian...
This volume explores the connection between two phenomena usually thought to be utterly incongruous, even antithetical: utopia and everyday life . It ...
Boredom Studies is an increasingly rich and vital area of contemporary research that examines the experience of boredom as an importan 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...
Boredom Studies is an increasingly rich and vital area of contemporary research that examines the experience of boredom as an importan even quintes...
