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  • May 3, 2020 at 11:15 am #114550
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    Just a word i hadn’t heard.
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    Stuplimity

    Feb 10, 2015 • lindsaythomas

    In “Stuplimity: Shock and Boredom in Twentieth-Century Aesthetics,” Sianne Ngai describes stuplimity like this:

    Stuplimity is “a syncretism of boredom and astonishment, of what ‘dulls’ with what ‘irritates’ or agitates, of excessive excitation with extreme desensitization or fatigue” (par 16).

    What does stuplimity mean? How might we describe this feeling?
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    May 3, 2020 at 8:34 pm #114568
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    That is the exact feeling I was getting watching Trump’s daily “Chinese virus” briefings. Bored because I knew I wasn’t going to get any real news, astonished at the new lows he was able to hit. Desensitized by the realization this is the new normal.

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