It also seems to overlap with Elizabeth Goodstein's work on boredom as a phenomenon of modernity (I'm friends with her brother). Basically, my understanding is, "boredom" as a concept - what you're identifying here as "flatness" - is a product of modernity, which also gave us the concept of "leisure time" or just the concept of time being useful or used at all. https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=1400
Her book title, _Experience Without Qualities_, seems related to what you're getting at here, although she's specifically modern and you seem to be post-post-modern. Roots of the boredom discourse in mechanization of experience.
This seems adjacent to a lot of the "Re-enchantment is resistance" stuff around Hookland: https://twitter.com/spaceweather9/status/1632041694685192193
https://mstdn.social/tags/Hookland
It also seems to overlap with Elizabeth Goodstein's work on boredom as a phenomenon of modernity (I'm friends with her brother). Basically, my understanding is, "boredom" as a concept - what you're identifying here as "flatness" - is a product of modernity, which also gave us the concept of "leisure time" or just the concept of time being useful or used at all. https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=1400
Her book title, _Experience Without Qualities_, seems related to what you're getting at here, although she's specifically modern and you seem to be post-post-modern. Roots of the boredom discourse in mechanization of experience.