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Supernatural, Boredom and History

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https://doi.org/10.18272/posts.v2i1.815

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nature, history, boredom, landscape

Abstract

According to Fredric Jameson, boredom is a "useful instrument to explore the past, and to establish an encounter with the present" (Jameson, 1991, p. 303). That is, in the study of history, what has been forgotten is as significant as what is preserved and made official as memory. By exhausting the famous - satiety with the classics -, space was given to what he did not qualify for posterity because at the time of his estimation it was perceived as irrelevant. 

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  • Wendy Ribadeneira Vargas, Universidad San Francisco de Quito

    Wendy Ribadeneira Vargas, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Colegio de Comunicación y Artes Contemporáneas COCOA, Profesora en la subespecialización en Fotografía, Quito, Ecuador, wribadeneira@usfq.edu.ec

    • M.A. in Photographic Studies, Universidad de Westminster, Londres
  • Christian Parreño, Universidad San Francisco de Quito

    Christian Parreño

    • Candidato doctoral en el Instituto de Forma, Teoría e Historia en la Escuela de Arquitectura y Diseño de Oslo.
    • Maestría por la Architectural Association de Londres.

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Cioran, Emil (1995). Tears and Saints. Traducido por Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1937.

Highmore, Ben (2002). Everyday Life and Cultural Theory: An Introduction. London: Routledge.

Jameson, Fredric (1991). Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. London: Verso.

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Petro, Patrice (2002). Aftershocks of the New: Feminism and Film History. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

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Ribadeneira Vargas, W., & Parreño, C. (2016). Supernatural, Boredom and History . Post(s), 2(1). https://doi.org/10.18272/posts.v2i1.815