Boredom and Art examines the use of boredom as a strategy in modern
and contemporary art to resist or frustrate the effects of
consumerism and capitalism. This book traces the emergence of what
Haladyn terms the will to boredom in which artists, writers and
philosophers actively attempt to use the lack of interest inherent
in the state of being 'bored' to challenge people. Instead of
accepting the prescribed meanings of life given to us by consumer
or mass culture, boredom represents the possibility of creating
meaning: 'a threshold of great deeds' in Walter Benjamin's
memorable wording. It is this conception of boredom as a positive
experience of modern subjectivity that is the main critical
position of Haladyn's study, in which he proposes that boredom is
used by artists as a form of aesthetic resistance that, at its most
positive, is the will to boredom.
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