Henri Lefebvre, Boredom, and Everyday Life

This book assembles the fragments of Henri Lefebvre’s unrealized sociology of boredom and explores the sociohistorical and spatial conditions and contradictions of boredom and everyday life in the modern world.

Patrick Gamsby is scholarly communications librarian at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Chapter 1: The Birth of Boredom in Modernity Chapter 2: The Absence of Style in Everyday Life Chapter 3: The Incredible Dullness of Urbanism Chapter 4: The Endless Yawn of the Suburbs Chapter 5: The Emptiness of Consumption Chapter 6: The Numbness of Work