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    This paper explores the ramifications of Heidegger's attunement theory, particularly his conception of profound boredom (es ist einem langweile) in relation to the phenomenon of addiction broadly construed. This profound boredom Heidegger posits implicitly suggests a reworking of our relationship to the world at large and thus requires a rethinking of our notion of community. Recent scholarship on the phenomenology of addiction, specifically Adams' fragmented intimacy model (2008) and Hughes' 2007 identity migration model, are considered. Herein also discussed is the problematic profound boredom poses in relation to the recent call in Nature (one of the most prominent journals in the sciences) for “the responsible use of cognition-enhancing drugs by the healthy.” From these discussions it is hoped an analytically provocative account of the drug-use career can be developed and perhaps these lend themselves toward policy recommendations.

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    This paper explores the ramifications of Heidegger's attunement theory, particularly his conception of profound boredom (es ist einem langweile) in relation to the phenomenon of addiction broadly construed. This profound boredom Heidegger posits implicitly suggests a reworking of our relationship to the world at large and thus requires a rethinking of our notion of community. Recent scholarship on the phenomenology of addiction, specifically Adams' fragmented intimacy model (2008) and Hughes' 2007 identity migration model, are considered. Herein also discussed is the problematic profound boredom poses in relation to the recent call in Nature (one of the most prominent journals in the sciences) for “the responsible use of cognition-enhancing drugs by the healthy.” From these discussions it is hoped an analytically provocative account of the drug-use career can be developed and perhaps these lend themselves toward policy recommendations.

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    This paper explores the ramifications of Heidegger's attunement theory, particularly his conception of profound boredom (es ist einem langweile) in relation to the phenomenon of addiction broadly construed. This profound boredom Heidegger posits implicitly suggests a reworking of our relationship to the world at large and thus requires a rethinking of our notion of community. Recent scholarship on the phenomenology of addiction, specifically Adams' fragmented intimacy model (2008) and Hughes' 2007 identity migration model, are considered. Herein also discussed is the problematic profound boredom poses in relation to the recent call in Nature (one of the most prominent journals in the sciences) for “the responsible use of cognition-enhancing drugs by the healthy.” From these discussions it is hoped an analytically provocative account of the drug-use career can be developed and perhaps these lend themselves toward policy recommendations.

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    Heidegger's profound boredom

    and addiction

    Paul Boshears

    the European Graduate School (CH)


    The purpose of this talk

    Heidegger's discussion and development of


    profound boredom helps us to intimate an
    orientation towards ourselves in an
    expanded sense such that who we are is
    mutually implicated and consummated in
    our relationships to the world as itself.
    Befindlichkeit ----> Dasein
     Es st einem lanweilig (lit. “It is boring for one”) -
    a state of profound boredom
     The central problematic in modern society is the
    loss of identity in our intoxication to developing
    technologies
     The central task for humanity is to return to the
    world as not only that mysterious medium
    through which we live but also the only manner
    in which we might express our freedom
    Addiction and Modernity
    A strict medical model of addiction subsumes
    personal agency to a pathological chemical
    interaction – We are alienated from ourselves in
    narcosis.
    AA-style (12-step) interventions demonstrate the
    fundamentally social nature of recovery:
    recovery
    individuals that not only change their behavior
    but also their social context are more likely to
    maintain cessation from substances of abuse.
    The tyranny of efficiency
    Nature. 11 December, 2008 .
    Vol. 456.

    Being in the modern era is concealed by


    the growing purveyance of three attitudes:

    1) Calculation – the principle of organization

    2) Acceleration – “not-being-able-to-bear the stillness of


    hidden growth”

    3) Massiveness – the rapidly stacking-up of the calculable


    Befindlichkeit?
    Wie befinden Sie sich? – “how do you find yourself
    (today)?”

    Our moods reveal to us our how we find ourselves,


    our “findedness”
    findedness

    Two moments in this theory of moods:


    1) understanding (verstehen)
    2) attunement (befindlichkeit)
    Time
    Our attempts to kill time (so as to drive away
    boredom) are actually a driving-on of time.
    Any attempt to kill time obscures our being
    (Dasein), which is always a being-in time.

    Three forms of boredom:


    1) becoming bored by something
    2) being bored with something
    3) profound boredom – an indifference from outside
    World's telling refusal
    Profound boredom,
    “brings the self in all its nakedness to itself as the
    self that is there and has taken over the being
    there of its Da-sein. For what purpose? To be
    that Dasein.”
    This is a calling, then, to consummate the
    emptiness of our being within our relation to all
    of Being (nature, the universe, etc.)
    A call to responsiveness, rather than responsibility.
    Assumptions about Selfhood
    • “Who I am”
    am is fundamentally a social event, it is not a
    substance or kernel that contains my essence.
    • This performative self (Butler, 2005) is based upon and
    adjusted within my social and physical environments.
    • My uniqueness is determined by my performance of my
    roles within these environments; “who I am” develops within
    a context.
    Notions of Selfhood¹

    A B

    ¹ Kasulis, Thomas P. 2002. Intimacy or Integrity: Philosophy and Cultural


    Difference. Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press.
    Notions of Selfhood

    B
    I C
    H A D
    G E
    F This is the essential purpose of the prison –
    to disallow relationships between society
    (Kasulis 2002) and the prisoner
    Notions of Selfhood

    A R B
    Spouse, Parent, Friend, Spouse, Child, Friend,
    etc. etc.

    (Kasulis 2002)
    Notions of Selfhood

    A B

    (Kasulis 2002)
    Notions of Selfhood

    E
    B F
    A
    C G
    D

    (Kasulis 2002)

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