This book addresses the absence of orientations to the future in contemporary social life and explores the shift towards anomalous temporal experience as a tool to rouse political imaginations.

Peter Conlin is a writer and researcher based in Birmingham, UK. He is a Teaching Associate at the University of Nottingham, has completed postdoctoral research at the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and is a co-facilitator of the Boredom Network research group. He is currently developing the Time Lapse podcast which is an interview series with theorists, activists and artists on temporal politics of the twenty-first century.

Introduction 1. Into logistic grey zones 2. Obsolete wastes of time: Boredom by way of alien junk consciousness 3. The enigma of Kitsault