Sıkıntı mekanları: Hayalgücü ve sınırların muğlaklığı

This study aims to contribute readings of arguments pertaining to andconceptualizations of the experience of boredom to discussions of art, philosophyand culture. Relevant histories and readings of philosophical accounts ofboredom are considered in order to enable an understanding of boredom asgenerative of distinctive understandings of space. This is further developed as anaccount of boredom as problematic in the reception and creation of literary andvisual art. Beginning from critical discussions of boredom in recent cultural andcritical commentary, in particular discussions of the everyday, this thesisconsiders the phenomenological analysis of the everyday that is at work inMartin Heidegger?s account of boredom and in rewritings of this analysis, as theexperience of the impersonal, in texts by Maurice Blanchot and EmmanuelLevinas. Boredom is shown to provoke an ambivalence that can neverthelessunfold, or produce, spaces of thought, art and the everyday through theexperience of the impersonal. The limits of these spaces of boredom invite us tocertain passages through experiences of ambivalence where thought, art and theeveryday are opened up, by means of an imagination of boredom, to newpossibilities.Keywords: Boredom, space, ambivalence, limit, imagination.