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The Spiritual Significance of Overload Boredom

  • Hardback
  • 277 pages
  • Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
  • 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

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For those feeling overwhelmed by digital life

Guides you to create meaning in a loud world

Helps you find peace amidst digital distraction

Discover how to find genuine meaning in an age of digital distraction and constant information overload.

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The spiritual crisis of the twenty-first century is overload boredom. There is more information, content, and stimulation than ever before, and none of it is waiting passively to be consumed. The demands exceed our capacities. The Spiritual Significance of Overload Boredom makes the case that withdrawal and resistance are not our only options: we can choose kedia, an ethic of care. Rather than conceiving the world of information as external, Sharday Mosurinjohn turns to the sensational and emotional, focusing on the ways the digital age has radically reconfigured our interior lives. Using an innovative method of affective aesthetic speculation, Mosurinjohn engages the world of art, literature, and comedy for a series of unexpected case studies that make strange otherwise familiar scenes of overload boredom: texting, browsing social media, and performing information work. Ultimately, she shows that the opposite of boredom is not interest but meaning, and that we can only make it by curating the overload. The Spiritual Significance of Overload Boredom is a bold and original intervention for the present condition, unsettling the framing of existing work around technological modernity and its discontents.
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  • Title

    The Spiritual Significance of Overload Boredom

  • Author

    Sharday C. Mosurinjohn

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    McGill-Queen's University Press

  • Published

    August 2022

  • Weight

    409g

  • Page Count

    277

  • Dimensions

    15.2 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780228011521

  • ISBN-10

    0228011523

  • Eden Code

    5642998