Capitalism neutralised boredom by demanding audience participation, not pacification

Evidence

Yet boredom was ambivalent; it wasn’t simply a negative feeling that one simply wanted rid of. For punk, the vacancy of boredom was a challenge, an injunction and an opportunity: if we are bored, then it is for us to produce something that will fill up the space. Yet, it is through this demand for participation that capitalism has neutralised boredom. Now, rather than imposing a pacifying spectacle on us, capitalist corporations go out of their way to invite us to interact, to generate our own content, to join the debate. There is now neither an excuse nor an opportunity to be bored. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1763

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with the ADDENDUM trees article metaphor of grafting: participation as a graft that the host capitalist system absorbs and repurposes. — connects to: Boredom results from compelled labour, not from human nature — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 277; Viewing mass-culture audiences as passive dupes is unsocialist. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1004; Digital capitalism profits from unpaid pleasurable user activity. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 197 (+6 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The reversal — that the cure for boredom (participation) became a new mode of capture — is a strong dialectical observation about regime shifts.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1763

Broader Connections

• Commercial culture shapes perceptions without simply duping an audience #corroborates (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1006
• Viewing mass-culture audiences as passive dupes is unsocialist. #corroborates (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1004
• Boredom results from compelled labour, not from human nature #complicates (0.72) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 277
• Digital capitalism profits from unpaid pleasurable user activity. #expands (0.72) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 197