Out of My Skull: The Psychology of Boredom, by James Danckert and John D. Eastwood

Randy Malamud admires a distinctly engaging account of an energy-sapping emotion

Published on
June 25, 2020
Last updated
June 25, 2020
Randy Malamud
Ageing, elderly parents sunbathe with a teenage daughter as the father oddly faces a brick wall while sat in his wheelchair. Looking bored with the family holiday, the young lady of about 18 years of age, sits on a concrete block
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Time drags: according to Heidegger, profound boredom ‘has no object or source. It is timeless and represents a kind of emptiness in which we get a terrifying view of reality’

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Print headline: Deadly dull, full of ennui

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