ABSTRACT
Boredom is the entrancement of the temporal horizon, an entrancement which lets the moment of vision belonging to temporality vanish. In thus letting it vanish, boredom impels entranced Dasein into the moment of vision as the properly authentic possibility of its existence, and existence only possible in the midst of beings as a whole, and within the horizon of entrancement, their telling refusal of themselves as a whole. This chapter examines Heidegger's concept of boredom is to bring to fruition analyses of Heideggerian death and anxiety. Heidegger's concept of boredom, and fundamental attunements generally, can enact the violence of the jemmied splintering, as it were, on the executive's stolid acceptance of, and collusion in, the seemingly unassailable forces of contemporary capitalism. The reader may have been wondering, or indeed reeling, at why this particular angle on Heidegger's work was chosen: it does not seem common among the vast Heideggerian literature.
