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“Boredom isn’t a longing, a lengthening of time. It is a spacey feeling, of being spaced out. What is boring is a space in which either one cannot act, or one’s actions amount to nothing. [...] What displaces boredom is the capacity to act in a way that transforms a situation.” — McKenzie Wark

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Boredom isn’t a longing, a lengthening of time. It is a spacey feeling, of being spaced out. What is boring is a space in which either one cannot act, or one’s actions amount to nothing. [...] What displaces boredom is the capacity to act in a way that transforms a situation.
— McKenzie Wark