Critique of Bored Reason Social & cultural history Barbara Murck is a geologist

Barbara Murck is a geologist and senior lecturer in environmental science at the University of Toronto Mississauga

But Mom and Dad immediately say no—the Pinkertons always get real trees for the holidays

We meet on a train

who knows a thing or two

Sculpting a Life is the first biography of sculptor Chana Orloff

Critique of Bored Reason Social & cultural history Barbara Murck is a geologistMost of the core concepts of the Western philosophical tradition originate in antiquity. Yet boredom is strikingly absent from classical thought. In this philosophical study, Dmitri Nikulin explores the concept's genealogy to argue that boredom is the mark of modernity. Nikulin contends that boredom is a specifically modern phenomenon. He provides a critical reconstruction of the concept of the modern subject as universal, rational, autonomous, and