http://www.metafilter.com/tags/horrorloci Posts tagged with 'horrorloci' at MetaFilter. Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:02:43 -0800 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:02:43 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/124941/Bored%2DBored%2DBored%2DBored%2DBored The <a href="http://uwf.edu/svodanov/boredom/bps.htm" title="Farmer &amp; Sundberg&rsquo;s Boredom Proneness Scale.">Boredom Proneness Scale</a>&dagger; is the best-known of the various <a href="http://www.theboredomsite.com/measures.htm" title="The BPS and some other, similar scales.">metrics</a> for quantifying one&rsquo;s propensity to <em>ennui</em>. High-scorers who are &lsquo;understretched, unmotivated and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VH-tJSpkjA" title="Vyvyan is bored.">bored</a> in the world of work in the 21<super>st</super> century&rsquo; may in danger of &lsquo;<a href="http://www.boreout.com/images/documents/Boreout_Introduction.pdf" title="An introduction to the notion of &lsquo;boreout,&rsquo; as dreamt up by the Swiss business consultants Peter Werder and Philippe Rothlin.">boreout</a>&rsquo; <small>[PDF]</small>. While <a href="http://www.theboredomsite.com/boredom-quotes.htm" title="Some quotes about boredom.">boredom</a> needn&rsquo;t be perceived in an exclusively negative light (one might imagine a <a href="http://philosophynow.org/issues/77/La_Vie_DEnnui" title="&lsquo;La Vie D&rsquo;Ennui,&rsquo; by Colin Bisset.">perfect boredom</a> akin to the notion of <em>dolce far niente</em>), &lsquo;<a href="http://www.todmanpsychology.org/resources/Todman%20(2009)%20Boredom%20and%20Boredom%20Proneness%20in%20Children%20-%20Implications%20for%20Academic%20and%20Social%20Adjustment.pdf" title="&lsquo;Boredom and Boredom Proneness in Children: Implications for Academic and Social Adjustment,&rsquo; by Evangeline Lehr and McWelling Todman - the source for this quote.">boredom</a> <small>[PDF]</small> and <a href="http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/Berryman.14.html" title="John Berryman's &lsquo;Dream Song #14&rsquo;">boredom proneness</a> [&hellip;] have been linked to a long list of negative outcomes in adults, including, depression, anxiety, hopelessness, and loneliness [&hellip;], impulsiveness [&hellip;], elevated rates of alcohol dependence [&hellip;], negative affect [&hellip;], pathological gambling [&hellip;] and higher rates of psychopathology in general.&rsquo; Historians of <a href="http://www.theboredomsite.com/defs.htm" title="Some definitions of boredom.">boredom</a> have noted the relatively recent <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/books/review/Schuessler-t.html?_r=0&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1360764914-VAQrURNH2VJ9b3X+VVpkQQ" title="&lsquo;Our Boredom, Ourselves,&rsquo; by Jennifer Schuessler.">advent</a> <small>[NY TIMES]</small> of the term, coinciding with the onset of the Industrial Revolution, but our more distant ancestors were not free of the related <a href="https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/12336/illinoisclassica131988TOOHEY2.pdf?sequence=2" title="&lsquo;Some Ancient Notions of Boredom,&rsquo; by Peter Toohey">afflictions</a> <small>[PDF]</small> of <em>horror loci, t&aelig;dium vit&aelig;,</em> <a href="http://www.nhinet.org/humsub/irvine12-1.pdf" title="&lsquo;Acedia, Tristitia and Sloth: Early Christian Forerunners to Chronic Ennui,&rsquo; by Ian Irvine [PDF].">a</a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/books/review/their-noonday-demons-and-ours.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" title="&lsquo;Their Noonday Demons, and Ours,&rsquo; by John Plotz [NY TIMES].">c</a><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/personal/04/06/got.acedia.spiritual.morphine/index.html?hpt=Sbin" title="&lsquo;Struggling with 'a bad thought',&rsquo; by Kathleen Norris.">e</a><a href="http://mindyourmaker.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/aldous-huxley-on-accidie-aka-melancholy-boredom-ennui-despair/" title="Aldous Huxley on accidie, from &lsquo;On The Margin.&rsquo;">d</a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-sloth.html" title="&lsquo;The Deadly Sins / Sloth; Nearer, My Couch, to Thee&rsquo; by Thomas Pynchon [NY TIMES].">i</a><a href="http://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=2861758&fileOId=2861759" title="&lsquo;Pale King or Noonday Demon? Acedia, The Pale King, and David Foster Wallace&rsquo;s Moral Vision,&rsquo; by David J. Michael [PDF].">a</a>, <em>mal du si&egrave;cle,</em> etc. <small>&dagger; &lsquo;The statements in the test can be answered using a 7-point scale — from &lsquo;1&rsquo; (highly disagree), to &lsquo;4&rsquo; (neutral), to &lsquo;7&rsquo; (highly agree). To find out your own proneness to <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/06/18/boredom-a-lively-history/" title="&lsquo;Anatomy of Boredom,&rsquo; by Maria Popova, which includes a section on how to score the BPS.">boredom</a>, add up the total of the scores you gave each question. The average score is 99, and the average range 81-117. If you scored above 117, you become <a href="http://www.roflcat.com/bored-cat-is-bored" title="Bored cat is bored.">bored</a> easily, and if you scored below 81, your boredom threshold is very high.&rsquo;</small> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.124941 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:02:43 -0800 acedia bored boredom boredompronenessscale boreout boring dreamsong ennui farniente horrorloci johnberryman maldusiecle mindnumbing noondaydemon taediumvitae tldr yawn misteraitch