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Boris Berenzon Gorn0009-0000-2303-0526 Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (México) Those who repeat critique without thinking it do not challenge power: they entertain it Abstract This essay examines the contemporary condition of Critical Theory as an intellectual practice increasingly shaped by institutional repetition, conceptual fatigue,… Leer más »Living from Suspicion: Critical Theory, Institutional Boredom, and the Exhaustion of Thought

Boris Berenzon Gorn0009-0000-2303-0526Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (México) Abstract This essay explores boredom as one of the central cultural symptoms of twenty-first-century capitalism through the philosophical lens of Slavoj Žižek and his dialogue with psychoanalysis, ideology critique, and digital culture. Drawing from works such… Leer más »Boredom: The Last Happy Ideology

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

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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