Researcher and lecturer Lara García Díaz has published her latest article, El derecho (de una hija) a la pereza. Una tentativa a la posibilidad de la inoperancia en la esfera de la reproducción social (The Right (of a Daughter) to Laziness: An Attempt at the Possibility of Inoperativity in the Sphere of Social Reproduction), in issue 11 of Laocoonte. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Theory.
In this text, García Díaz questions the mother-daughter disciplinary device from an anti-social feminism perspective, following the ideas of Jack Halberstam (2017). Her proposal explores artistic mechanisms that may foster a consciousness of insubordination, opening new spaces for reflection on the rejection of work and laziness within the sphere of social reproduction.
Doctor of Philosophy and editor of the monograph, Juan Evaristo Valls, highlights the relevance of the article, noting that García Díaz engages in a beautiful exercise of autotheory to analyze how the rejection of work has historically been conceived from a male perspective, overlooking the feminized and racialized bodies that sustain, through care work, the very possibility of unproductivity. Her work explores thinkers such as Hester, Federici, and Halberstam, and proposes a re-reading of the mother-daughter bond as a space of resistance against the patriarchal imperatives of femininity.
Additionally, García Díaz will participate in the International Conference on New Materialisms, taking place from February 24 to 28 at the Complutense University of Madrid. At this event, she will present the paper "Exercises in Objectual Coexistence Through Design", with the full program to be published soon.