Boring texts can be good while exciting texts can be degraded

Evidence

It is a paradox one can get used to: if a boring text can also be good (or interesting, as we now put it), exciting texts, which incorporate diversion, distraction, temporal commodification, can also perhaps sometimes be “bad” (or “degraded,” to use Frankfurt School language). — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 213

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the inversion of aesthetic value that grounds the boredom-as-diagnostic approach.
• XREF: connects to: Only enjoyable or exciting content can genuinely command attention. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 482; Exhaustion makes tabloid culture’s degraded content irresistible despite boredom — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2489; Professional skill in text reproduction requires suppressing intellectual interest in content (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Only enjoyable or exciting content can genuinely command attention. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 482; Exhaustion makes tabloid culture’s degraded content irresistible despite boredom — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2489; Professional skill in text reproduction requires suppressing intellectual interest in content (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Professional skill in text reproduction requires suppressing intellectual interest in content #complicates (0.75)
• Mildly counterintuitive content boosts cultural transmission of ideas #complicates (0.72) — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 362