ABSTRACT
Building on ethnographic field research conducted at a secondary school in Berlin, I reconstruct the social production of different dimensions of boredom and link them to discussions on atmospheres. Seeing the present-day affective atmosphere of boredom inside the school connected to processes of ruination enables me to take both its spatial and temporal dimension as well as its historical and social production into account. With an interpretation of atmospheres of boredom as results of ruination, I am offering a political reading that brings critical theory to the affective spaces of Berlin schools for the poor.
