The entire content of this concept is a theoretical link between epistemic and ethical justification, in terms of mind–body ratio, brought into a unified approach of humanity and knowledge. This idea is in relation with the concept of “epistemological ethics”, that we propose to the scientific community for validation. However, this method requires ethical conceptual clarification on which to build the architecture of knowledge. The meaning of ethical values has been extended and gained various linguistic forms and understandings, basically because the value dimension is not founded on an ethical methodology. In relation to ethics, current theories and guidelines are often mentioned, which, in fact, shows the lack of an epistemological founded ethical apparatus, in the absence of which, moral judgment loses its prime reason, namely valuing the ethical man – as a person. In this sense, boredom is a persistent form of social suffering made possible by a crisis-generated shift in the so-called global economy, one that has forced tens of millions of people the world over to come to terms with diminished economic capacities. In an increasingly consumer-driven society, boredom, I argue, is an affective state that registers within the modality of time the newly homeless’ expulsion to the margins of the city. At the center of this study sits not simply the inability to consume, but also the feeling of being cast aside, of being downwardly mobile in an era of supposed neoliberal ascent. Drawing upon nearly three years of ethnographic fieldwork that moves between Bucharest’s homeless shelters and squatter camps, day centers and public parks, this article approaches the homeless’ boredom as an everyday affect structured by the politics of consumption in post-Communist Bucharest, Romania. They describe themselves as bored all of the time. The homeless, in post-Communist Bucharest, Romania, are bored.
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