“Busy idleness”: The active and moral dimension of boredom
主张将无聊作为社会和组织现象来研究，批判了流行心理学中利用无聊进行自我发展的观点，并探讨无聊作为异化劳动核心体验的产物。
In this essay, I argue for the value of studying boredom as a social and organizational phenomenon. Recently, an interest in the more active side of boredom has led to the publication of a number of popular psychology books on boredom’s motivational capacities. A key point in this literature is the focus on the individual ability to distinguish between activity and productivity, and to exploit boredom for self-development purposes. I argue that this trend in boredom studies should prompt us to look closer, not only at the moral history of boredom, and at how social reality has organized around it, but also on what boredom, and the countermeasures it represents, “produce” as a central experiential component of alienated labor.