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Boris Berenzon Gorn0009-0000-2303-0526 Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (México) Abstract This essay explores football as one of the most powerful symbolic and emotional structures of contemporary society through an interdisciplinary dialogue between anthropology, psychoanalysis, critical theory, and cultural history. Drawing on the thought of… Leer más »Eleven Plus Eleven and the Collective Unconscious: Football Against the Boredom of the World

Boris Berenzon Gorn0009-0000-2303-0526Programa de Computo AcadémicoInstituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (México) “At what point did what ought to unsettle us cease to call us into question? Boredom is not the absence of politics; it is its diminished form. When the common no longer moves… Leer más »Boredom as a Condition: Politics Without Intensity and the Weariness of the Common

David Lester (Stockton University, USA) & Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek (University of Alexandria, Egypt) George Sanders (1906-1972) became a famous film actor in the United States. Sanders predicted back in 1937 that he would die by suicide using an overdose. In 1970, his third wife died… Leer más »BOREDOM AND DEPRESSION

By Sergio Sanz Navarro Eres la indigestión de mis sueños no cumplidos, la nostalgia de cuando fundido en Dios deseo y satisfacción eran Uno. Eres una angustia sorda de impotencia y frustración, el azote de mis días y mis noches en vela cuando miro con… Leer más »ABURRIMIENTO

By João Ferreira Vivemos numa era de transformações radicais, onde a tecnologia, a automação e a digitalização estão a redefinir, não apenas a economia, mas também a estrutura social e a própria perceção de valor humano. Harari coloca uma questão desconfortável: o que faremos com… Leer más »A urgência, para ontem, de um novo contrato social

By João Ferreira Vivemos numa era de transformações radicais, onde a tecnologia, a automação e a digitalização estão a redefinir não apenas a economia, mas também a estrutura social e a própria perceção de valor humano. Yuval Noah Harari, um dos pensadores contemporâneos mais provocadores,… Leer más »Além do amanhã, o futuro imediato: a inadiável necessidade que exige um novo contrato social agora

Boris Berenzon Gorn, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (México), https://orcid.org/0009-0000-2303-0526 Introduction The digital age has radically transformed modern life, offering unprecedented access to information, entertainment, and social connections. Through digital devices and platforms, people can now access a constant stream of data and content,… Leer más »Boredom in the Digital Age: Social Media, the Digital Rift, and the Feeling of Emptiness in a Globalized World?

Boris Berenzon Gorn (0009-0000-2303-0526)Programa de Cómputo AcadémicoInstituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (México) Abstract: This essay examines the entanglement of digital culture, boredom, social media, and depression as constitutive elements of contemporary subjectivity. Moving beyond clinical interpretations, it conceptualizes depression as a cultural and philosophical… Leer más »Screens, Boredom, and Depression: Digital Forms of Contemporary Malaise

Boris Berenzon Gorn (0009-0000-2303-0526)Programa de Cómputo AcadémicoInstituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (México) Abstract: In a historical moment saturated with stimuli yet increasingly marked by existential fatigue, football persists as one of the few collective practices capable of suspending ordinary time. This article approaches the… Leer más »Football in the Age of Fatigue.The 2026 FIFA World Cup, Boredom, and the Political Economy of Contemporary Experience