Meaninglessness and monotony in pandemic boredom.
Meaninglessness and monotony in pandemic boredom.
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DOI：
10.1007/s11097-023-09888-0
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发表时间：
2023-01-20
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Hughes, Emily
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作者：
Hughes, Emily
无聊是一种情感体验，可以涉及无意义，空虚，不安，沮丧，厌倦和冷漠的普遍感觉，以及时间的放慢。无聊是许多学科日益关注的研究焦点，最近的新冠肺炎疫情加剧了人们对无聊的兴趣，社交距离措施导致了意义的广泛丧失和时间体验的严重干扰。本文探讨了这种令人厌恶的“流行性无聊”体验的哲学意义。本文以海德格尔的著作为独特Vantage，利用研究人员在一个名为“2019冠状病毒病大流行期间社会距离的体验”的正在进行的项目中收集的调查数据，对大流行无聊的无意义和单调性进行了原创的现象学解释。根据海德格尔的解释，大流行性无聊要么涉及与相对无意义的情景对抗，使我们专注于日常世界，要么涉及与绝对无意义的存在主义对抗，迫使我们接受我们存在的问题。我认为，流行期间的无聊使这种区分难以维持，我认为流行性无聊可能被视为暴露，然后超越海德格尔的无聊的哲学解释的独特的方法论局限性的一些方式。
Boredom is an affective experience that can involve pervasive feelings of meaninglessness, emptiness, restlessness, frustration, weariness and indifference, as well as the slowing down of time. An increasing focus of research in many disciplines, interest in boredom has been intensified by the recent Covid-19 pandemic, where social distancing measures have induced both a widespread loss of meaning and a significant disturbance of temporal experience. This article explores the philosophical significance of this aversive experience of ‘pandemic boredom.’ Using Heidegger’s work as a unique vantage point, this article draws on survey data collected by researchers in an ongoing project titled ‘Experiences of Social Distancing During the Covid-19 Pandemic’ to give an original phenomenological interpretation of the meaninglessness and monotony of pandemic boredom. On a Heideggerian interpretation, pandemic boredom involves either a situative confrontation with relative meaninglessness that upholds our absorption in the everyday world, or an existential confrontation with absolute meaninglessness that forces us to take up the question of our existence. Arguing that boredom during the pandemic makes this distinction difficult to sustain, I consider some of the ways in which pandemic boredom might be seen to expose and then exceed the distinctive methodological limitations of Heidegger’s philosophical interpretation of boredom.