Counter-Algorithmic Relation Exercise #1: Learning with and from BoredomI’d argue that befriending boredom would make many of us better friends and/or kin. I’d also argue that boredom helps us retain and recover some of our own memories.
When was the last time you were bored, and comfortable with it? What does boredom actually look/feel like for you? Is boredom something you associate with needing to avoid? What is the last under-stimulating thing you took pleasure in? Do you remember what boredom felt like when you were a child? How do you know when your brain has taken in too much information? What do you usually do when that feeling comes? What is the longest stretch of time in your recent memory that you did not see a screen? Was it by choice?
Intro to the Kinternet: Counter-Algorithmic Relation Exercises (CARE) is the product of me reckoning with the ways that my body/mind have embraced moving at hyperspeed as a condition of the cybernetic times I came of age in ... and attempting to recover from that. As a guerrilla theorist, I learn and teach through questions - many of which I myself am still in the process of answering. Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about boredom. Craving it and realizing how distant it has come to feel over the course of my 2020s adulthood. I remember a time where boredom was not a synonym for screen fatigue. That kind of wander-around-the-house-aimlessly-but-in-a-blissfully-mundane-finding-old-mementos-way is one I desire to repair my relationship with. I’d argue that befriending boredom would make many of us better friends and/or kin. I’d also argue that boredom helps us retain and recover some of our own memories. I haven’t been (screen-free) bored enough for long enough to prove that theory true, but that’s the speculation that these boredom CARE protocols are being born from. I look forward to experimenting with different iterations of turning questions into CARE protocols (& re-inviting boredom as a teacher along the way) with those of you who join the Kinternet Cohort this summer <3 Forever Yours in Radical Love, Neema 💚 
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