Late into another sticky summer night, as I hunched over my coffee table to chisel a few words into my dissertation, I heard a high mechanical buzz from the shade of my one-room apartment’s lone torchière lamp. In keeping with my usual luck concerning all things grad school, I figured…

Negative aesthetics, as currently conceived, addresses unpleasant or unsatisfactory aesthetic experiences that diminish one’s quality of life or provoke moral censure. To this formulation, I propose adding a temporal dimension. The discourse stands to benefit from interrogating lost time as a form as negative aesthetics — and furthermore confronting how…