At an addiction shelter called La Casita, in Puerto Rico, male residents espouse an ethic of busyness. Initially, La Casita's ideology of moralized work patterns and time discipline seems like a throwback to the 19th-century factory floor: a tool of market discipline. But a closer look at residents’ experiences reveals that busyness has less to do with capitalist subject formation than with finding an alternative way of living when one is excluded from the labor market. If the capitalist project turns on the productive commodification of time, La Casita's work ethic—despite official avowals to the contrary—aims to convert unproductive time into an ascetic practice of ceaseless self-work. Though not always successful, keeping busy becomes a way for residents to carve out a meaningful way of living from an overabundance of time. [labor, work ethic, boredom, time, addiction treatment, Puerto Rico]

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无事可做时保持忙碌

在波多黎各一家名为 La Casita 的戒毒所，男性居民信奉忙碌的伦理。最初，La Casita 道德化的工作模式和时间纪律的意识形态似乎是对 19 世纪工厂车间的回归：市场纪律的工具。但仔细观察居民的经历会发现，忙碌与资本主义主体形成的关系不大，而与在一个人被排除在劳动力市场之外时寻找另一种生活方式有关。如果资本主义项目开启了时间的生产性商品化，La Casita 的职业道德——尽管官方声明相反——旨在将非生产性时间转化为不断自我工作的苦行实践。虽然并不总是成功，但保持忙碌成为居民从过剩的时间中开辟出有意义的生活方式的一种方式。[劳动，职业道德，无聊，时间，戒毒，波多黎各]