<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>"We
seems to live in a Big Brothers house where our acts are monitored by
thousand devices, drones, taped phones, hidden mics, candy cams...<br>I want to have boredom as a choice not as a punishment." Ana<br><br>"I think this was what I was trying to suggest when I wrote of boredom as a form of excess value." Simon<br><br>Ana, Simon, there is social prison (a Panopticon) and there is literal one (the one Ana experienced). Are they the same thing?<br><br></div>I was thinking of an inmate, whose fate already determined, who will spend the rest of his life in solitary confinement with basically no human contact. Now obviously he has an excess, but it is a negative value. His boredom would be near (though in extreme form) to what we mean by the word.<br><br></div>Then, there is someone in jail waiting for interrogation. That person also will experience excess, but it is not boredom. It may be fear or anxiety. So, Simon, I do not quite understand what you mean by "excess of value"?<br><br></div>Then, in the prison depicted by Ana, a panocticon --a condition quite close to our condition in the United States-- its effect, it seems to me, is the opposite of excess. It is a flattening of feeling. Panocticons of that kind function best when feelings are flattened (Simon, I think that's what you mean by "excess of value"). Emotional "excesses" are channeled--to sports events (circuses), new applications, watches, gizmos ("<u>disruptive</u> economic acts" whose main function is efficiency). <br><br></div>In modern capitalist societies, I think, efficiency both creates boredom, and channels it as "disruptions," in a vicious desperate cycle. In its extreme form, in such a society that Ana describes, efficiency is what boredom is. It creates the "excess" (as negative value) that Simon is suggesting.<br><br></div>Capitalist efficiency is also a destroyer of labor (as economists are beginning to acknowledge). It increases poverty, a condition which has its own very different concept of boredom: an surplus of time due to a loss of job, countered by anxieties about rent or the next meal.<br><br></div>Ciao,<br></div>Murat<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 7:43 PM, Simon Biggs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simon@littlepig.org.uk" target="_blank">simon@littlepig.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>boredom as a choice not as a punishment</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I think this was what I was trying to suggest when I wrote of boredom as a form of excess value. Of course that is boredom for the privileged. But there is also the boredom that is imposed - the boredom of deprivation or oppression.<div><br></div><div>But are these the same? We might use the same word for these conditions but this could be just lazy semantics.</div><div><br></div><div>best</div><div><br></div><div>Simon</div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 19 May 2015, at 03:56, Ana Valdés <<a href="mailto:agora158@gmail.com" target="_blank">agora158@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div>----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<div dir="ltr">Subject: boredom as a feeling of emtpiness...<br><div><div><div><div>To
continue adding new nuances to the discussion about boredom I wonder if
boredom is not as well a feeling of emptiness. We try to fill the
vaccum of our lives adding things to entertain us. Literature is now
based on entertainment, once in a time literature used to be
challenging, to provoke reaction in the reader, to inspire new thoughts
to confront the reader with feelings and experiences from other people
like himself or herself.<br></div>We have all those reality shows making
us to believe reality is twelve ppl in a house being filmed when they
take showers when they eat when they sleep when they argue.<br></div>We
seems to live in a Big Brothers house where our acts are monitored by
thousand devices, drones, taped phones, hidden mics, candy cams...<br></div>I want to have boredom as a choice not as a punishment.<br></div>Ana<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="https://anavaldes.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://anavaldes.wordpress.com/</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.twitter.com/caravia158" target="_blank">www.twitter.com/caravia158</a><br><a href="http://www.scoop.it/t/art-and-activism/" target="_blank">http://www.scoop.it/t/art-and-activism/</a><br><a href="http://www.scoop.it/t/food-history-and-trivia" target="_blank">http://www.scoop.it/t/food-history-and-trivia</a><br><a href="http://www.scoop.it/t/urbanism-3-0" target="_blank">http://www.scoop.it/t/urbanism-3-0</a><br><br><br><br></div><br><div><a href="http://www.scoop.it/t/postcolonial-mind/" target="_blank"></a><br><br>cell Sweden <a href="tel:%2B4670-3213370" value="+46703213370" target="_blank">+4670-3213370</a><br>cell Uruguay <a href="tel:%2B598-99470758" value="+59899470758" target="_blank">+598-99470758</a><br><br><br>"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return. <br>— Leonardo da Vinci<div></div><div></div><div></div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div></div></div></div></div>
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