Remedios Zafra give A Lecture in the Museo centred on the RISE OF anti-feminism 

The winner of Spain’s National Essay Prize in 2025, the essayist and research professor at CSIC’s Institute of Philosophy addresses the symptoms of the present’s social, political and aesthetic climate, characterised by a growing global rejection of critical thought, and particularly feminism.  This lecture is framed inside the José Luis Brea Chair within the Museo’s Directorship of Studies and follows on from the same series of lectures given by prominent figures such as Judith Butler and Sven Lütticken.   

Remedios Zafra (Zuheros, Córdoba, 1973) is a research professor at the Institute of Philosophy from the Spanish National Research Council (IFS-CSIC), and a lecturer in Art, Anthropology and Politics of the Gaze. Her work approaches the critical study of contemporary culture, identity and gender politics on social media and the current transformations and cultural and creative work in a screen-mediated world. 

She is the author of essays that include: El informe. Trabajo intelectual y tristeza burocrática (2025 National Essay Prize); El bucle invisible (the 2022 Jovellanos International Essay Prize); Frágiles. Cartas sobre la ansiedad y la esperanza en la nueva cultura, El entusiasmo. Precariedad y trabajo creativo en la era digital (the 2017 Anagrama Essay Prize and 2017 Critical State Prize); and Ojos y capital and (h)adas. Mujeres que crean, programan, prosumen, teclean (the 2013 Audience Prize for Literature and V Málaga Essay Prize, respectively).  

The José Luis Brea Chair is devoted to visual culture as a field of study in its own right and reflects on the image and the epistemology of visuality in contemporary times. The Chair’s name is a homage to Spanish art critic and thinker José Luis Brea (1957–2010), one of the earliest voices to give form to visual studies in the Spanish-speaking world. His work opens a pivotal space for thinking with and through images from a transdisciplinary perspective, extending beyond conventions of canonical art history.