Vol. 2 (2016): post(s) 2
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Supernatural, Boredom and History

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  • Wendy Ribadeneira Vargas,
  • Christian Parreño
Wendy Ribadeneira Vargas
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
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Christian Parreño
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/posts.v2i1.815

Published 2016-08-01

Keywords

  • nature,
  • history,
  • boredom,
  • landscape

How to Cite

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