Ngai on Repetition and what she calls Stuplimity (a new sublime that is the combination of shock and boredom).
Though repetition. Permutation, and seriality figure prominently as devices in aesthetic uses of tedium, practitioners have achieved the same effect through a strategy of agglutination — the mass adhesion or coagulation of data particles or signifying units... Inducing a series of fatigues or minor exhaustions, rather than a single, major blow to the imagination, stuplimity paradoxically forces the reader to go on in spite of the enticement to readers give up (as many readers of The Making of Americans inevitably do), pushing us to reformulate new tactics for reading.














