Henri Lefebvre, Boredom, and Everyday Life

Henri Lefebvre, Boredom, and Everyday Life culls together the scattered fragments of Henri Lefebvres (19011991) unrealized sociology of boredom. In assembling these fragments, sprinkled through Lefebvres vast oeuvre, Patrick Gamsby constructs the core elements of Lefebvres latent theory of boredom. Themes of time (modernity, everyday), space (urban, suburban), and mass culture (culture industry, industry culture) are explored throughout the book, unveiling a concealed dialectical movement at work with the experience of boredom. In analyzing at the dialectic of boredom, Gamsby argues that Lefebvres project of a critique of everyday life is key for making sense of the linkages between boredom and everyday life in the modern world.