The Report
Original title: El informe
NATIONAL ESSAY AWARD 2025
A proposition to rethink our relationship with work and the role of intellectual labour in contemporary society.
In the past, thinkers sold us the idea of a future where leisure would be the centre of our lives while machines worked for us and created wealth. That utopian future never arrived. Remedios Zafra rebels against and accepts this notion. She rejects bureau- cratic violence, administrative sadness, and tech- nological dehumanisation; that spreads disaffection among workers when their time is occupied with tasks unrelated to their purpose: researching, tea- ching, creating... She advocates freeing up our own time, which leads to better ideas and more significant commitment to what we do, to society, to care, and to the planet paying attention to justice, science, or enjoyment. This book argues against technologies that contribute nothing to emanci- pation and for feeding our souls (and our stomachs).
NATIONAL ESSAY AWARD 2025
A proposition to rethink our relationship with work and the role of intellectual labour in contemporary society.
In the past, thinkers sold us the idea of a future where leisure would be the centre of our lives while machines worked for us and created wealth. That utopian future never arrived. Remedios Zafra rebels against and accepts this notion. She rejects bureau- cratic violence, administrative sadness, and tech- nological dehumanisation; that spreads disaffection among workers when their time is occupied with tasks unrelated to their purpose: researching, tea- ching, creating... She advocates freeing up our own time, which leads to better ideas and more significant commitment to what we do, to society, to care, and to the planet paying attention to justice, science, or enjoyment. This book argues against technologies that contribute nothing to emanci- pation and for feeding our souls (and our stomachs).
