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Art As Community Builder – Interview with Dr. Scott Contreras-Koterbay

By Theresa Markiw | October 7, 2014

Dr. Scott Contreras-Koterbay is an Associate Professor of Art History at East Tennessee State University (ETSU) in Johnson City, TN. He is guest editor of the November 2014 issue of Number: Inc. magazine. I sat down with him at his home in the historic “tree streets” area near the university to learn more about him…

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Issue No: 94

Topic: BOREDOM

Guest Editor: Atlanta-based critic, Logan Lockner.

By its very conditions, modernity is boring; boredom may be, at least from a psychological view, modernity itself.

The material plentitude and sheer crowdedness of modern life noted by Susan Sontag in her 1964 essay “Against Interpretation” have in the intervening decades only been compounded by further globalized consumerism and the inundating excess of contemporary visual culture, both online and IRL.

Issue NO. 94 invites contributions from artists, writers, historians and others documenting and investigating a range of affective states related to boredom and attention: tedium, distraction, ennui, decision fatigue, languor, daydreaming, FOMO. In addressing these feelings—each of which defy the paradigmatic binaries of thought and emotion, subject and object—boredom is examined not only as a mood but as a psychic symptom of late capitalism, a tool for meditation, and an ethical challenge in a time of visual and informational oversaturation.

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