![Still from Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger than Paradise (1984).
Giorgio Agamben writes:
The diversions with which we try to occupy ourselves bear witness to being-left-empty as the essential experience of boredom. While we are usually constantly occupied with and in things (indeed, Heidegger states this more precisely in terms that anticipate those which will define the animal’s relationship to its environment: “we are taken [hingenommen] by things, if not altogether lost in them, and often even captivated [benommen] by them”), in boredom we suddenly find ourselves abandoned in emptiness. But in this emptiness, things are not simply “carried away from us or annihilated”; they are there, but “they have nothing to offer us”; they leave us completely indifferent, yet in such a way that we cannot free ourselves from them, because we are riveted and delivered over to what bores us…](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx7tq0bxKv1qb9yj1o1_1280.png)
Still from Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger than Paradise (1984).
Giorgio Agamben writes:
The diversions with which we try to occupy ourselves bear witness to being-left-empty as the essential experience of boredom. While we are usually constantly occupied with and in things (indeed, Heidegger states this more precisely in terms that anticipate those which will define the animal’s relationship to its environment: “we are taken [hingenommen] by things, if not altogether lost in them, and often even captivated [benommen] by them”), in boredom we suddenly find ourselves abandoned in emptiness. But in this emptiness, things are not simply “carried away from us or annihilated”; they are there, but “they have nothing to offer us”; they leave us completely indifferent, yet in such a way that we cannot free ourselves from them, because we are riveted and delivered over to what bores us…
