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Like other unwholesome aspects of the Anthropocene, we mostly respond to mass extinction with stuplimity: the aesthetic experience in which astonishment is united with boredom, such that we overload on anxiety to the point of outrage-outage.
Generation Anthropocene: How humans have altered the planet for ever Robert Macfarlane 2021
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In “Ugly Feelings” (2005), Ngai published a “bestiary of affects,” including animatedness, envy, irritation, paranoia, and the combination of shock and boredom that she called “stuplimity.”
Affect Theory and the New Age of Anxiety Condé Nast 2019
qms commented on the word stuplimity
noun A feeling of combined shock and boredom.
April 27, 2019
qms commented on the word stuplimity
Indifference in awful proximity
To me seems but simple dimwittery.
This professor Ngai
Would beg to deny,
Perceiving a complex stuplimity.
April 27, 2019