THEAS28

Boredom has a long, rich history in literature, drama, philosophy, and science. In this course, participants study how to become bored and how to bore other people using a variety of materials including durational performance, meditation apps, art film, and Gregorian chant. How is the emotion of boredom destructive and/or generative? How might its effects and moral resonance change across lines of gender, race, and class? How is boredom transformed or magnified in spaces like schools, theaters, trench warfare, arctic winter, or solitary confinement? Authors include Samuel Beckett, Bo Burnham, Anton Chekhov, Albert Camus, Ottessa Moshfegh, Jean-Paul Sartre, Andrei Tarkovsky, David Foster Wallace.