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Schweizer, H. Waiting as Resistance: Lingering, Loafing, and Whiling Away. Sociologia Internationalis, 54(1-2), 79-95. https://doi.org/10.3790/sint.54.1-2.79
Schweizer, Harold "Waiting as Resistance: Lingering, Loafing, and Whiling Away" Sociologia Internationalis 54.1-2, , 79-95. https://doi.org/10.3790/sint.54.1-2.79
Schweizer, Harold: Waiting as Resistance: Lingering, Loafing, and Whiling Away, in: Sociologia Internationalis, vol. 54, iss. 1-2, 79-95, [online] https://doi.org/10.3790/sint.54.1-2.79

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Waiting as Resistance: Lingering, Loafing, and Whiling Away

Schweizer, Harold

Sociologia Internationalis, Vol. 54 (2016), Iss. 1-2 : pp. 79–95

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Harold Schweizer, Ph.D., Professor of English, 215 Vaughan Literature Bldg., Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837

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Abstract

“Waiting as Resistance: Lingering, Loafing, and Whiling Away” ist eine Kritik der Ökonomie des Konsums. Die Unterbewertung des Wartens als verlorene Zeit und deren ökonomische und psychologische Verdrängung im Konsum von kaufbaren Dingen, enthüllt sich als Unterbewertung des Lebens selbst. Im Verweilen und ähnlichen nicht objekt-oder zielorientierten Zeitlichkeiten erleben wir eine fundamentale Temporalität, die allgemein ist. Das Essay knüpft konzeptionell an ein kurzes Zitat von Theodor Adorno an und argumentiert mit Hinweisen auf das dichterische Werk von Walt Whitman und anderen Dichtern, immer mit dem Ziel, gegen die Reifikation der Zeit als Geld und die soziale und ökonomische Reduktion aller Lebenswerte zu opponieren.

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“Waiting as Resistance: Lingering, Loafing, and Whiling Away” is a critique of the economics of consumption, suggesting that the widespread denigration of waiting as lost time and its economic and psychological displacements in consumer goods amount to a denigration of human life itself. In the practice of lingering and its related temporalities, the author proposes, we regain an appreciation of the fundamental temporality of all things, that everything, we humans included, is constituted by time. Conceptually indebted to Theodor Adorno and substantiated with reference, chiefly to Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” and other poetic works, this argument throughout opposes the reification of time as money and the attendant social and economic demotion of all value to exchange value.