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Henri Lefebvre, Boredom, and Everyday Life

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Henri Lefebvre, Boredom, and Everyday Life culls together the scattered fragments of Henri Lefebvre's (1901-1991) unrealized sociology of boredom. In assembling these fragments, sprinkled through Lefebvre's vast oeuvre, Patrick Gamsby constructs the core elements of Lefebvre's latent theory of boredom. Themes of time (modernity, everyday), space (urban, suburban), and mass culture (culture industry, industry culture) are explored throughout the book, unveiling a concealed dialectical movement at work with the experience of boredom. In analyzing at the dialectic of boredom, Gamsby argues that Lefebvre's project of a critique of everyday life is key for making sense of the linkages between boredom and everyday life in the modern world.
Patrick Gamsby is scholarly communications librarian at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Chapter 1: The Birth of Boredom in Modernity Chapter 2: The Absence of Style in Everyday Life Chapter 3: The Incredible Dullness of Urbanism Chapter 4: The Endless Yawn of the Suburbs Chapter 5: The Emptiness of Consumption Chapter 6: The Numbness of Work
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