Boredom: An Anti-Capital-ist Tool

Boredom: An Anti-Capitalist Tool is a new essay and publication by GenderFail founder Be Oakley. This essay is broken into fragments of thoughts broadly centered around boredom as a revolutionary and anti-capitalist tool. These are divided into the following topics: 

1. Shame Shame Shame Shame Shame

2. Boredom as a source of misplaced pride

3. Boredom and laziness: siblings

4. Bullshit Jobs and the power of boredom

5. The powerful connection between boredom and dreaming

6. Boredom as a state of play

7. Forced boredom: Stillness through Invisible Illness you

This essay asks the following questions, including but not limited to:

Boredom as a tool for the working class?

Do working-class people have time to be bored?

What does working-class Boredom look like? 

Boredom: An Anti-Capital-ist Tool

Essay and design by Be Oakley

Copy edited by Yvonne LeBien

Published by GenderFail August 2024

Risograph printed Black Flat Gold and Blue

2nd Edition of 400

100 pages