Ngai’s stuplimity
In “Stuplimity: Shock and Boredom in Twentieth-Century Aesthetics,” Sianne Ngai describes stuplimity like this:
Stuplimity is “a syncretism of boredom and astonishment, of what ‘dulls’ with what ‘irritates’ or agitates, of excessive excitation with extreme desensitization or fatigue” (par 16).
What does stuplimity mean? How might we describe this feeling?