Henri Lefebvre e la sociologia della noia

Titolo Rivista SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE
Autori/Curatori Michael E. Gardiner
Anno di pubblicazione 2019 Fascicolo 2019/118
Lingua Italiano Numero pagine 23 P. 63-85 Dimensione file 500 KB
DOI 10.3280/SUR2019-118006
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The French sociologist and philosopher Henri Lefebvre combined a rigorous critique of modernity with the search for utopian potentialities located in the hidden recesses of the every-day. This article will focus on a topic that is arguably central to his ‘critique of everyday life’ but has been entirely overlooked in the literature thus far: that of boredom. Often dismissed as trivial, boredom can be understood as a touchstone through which wider anxieties, socio-cultural changes, and subjective crises intrinsic to the modern world can be grasped. Cu-riously, although Lefebvre was very interested in boredom, he did not analyse it systematical-ly, and used terms like ‘boring’ or ‘boredom’ in loose, elliptical, and seemingly contradictory ways. This reveals his ambivalence about this phenomenon, but also highlights subtle diffe-rentiations he makes between particular modalities of boredom. Some of these manifestations are unambiguously negative, whereas others are judged by Lefebvre more positively, because replete with myriad desires, frustrations, and transformative possibilities. Here, latent connec-tions can be glimpsed between boredom and utopian propensities that caught the attention not only of Lefebvre, but also such thinkers as Ernst Bloch, Siegfried Kracauer, and Walter Ben-jamin.

Parole chiave:Affect, boredom, everyday life, Lefebvre, Marxism, utopia.

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Michael E. Gardiner, Henri Lefebvre e la sociologia della noia in "SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE" 118/2019, pp 63-85, DOI: 10.3280/SUR2019-118006