Issue 11 of Laocoonte. Revista de Estética y Teoría de las Artes aims to offer a space for reflecting on laziness and the refusal of work in contemporary aesthetics. Reception of manuscripts from January 1 to June 1, 2024. Poetics of inoperosity. Laziness and the Refusal of Work in Contemporary Aesthetics Laocoonte. Journal of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts n. 11 Issue coordinator/ Juan Evaristo Valls Boix (U. Complutense de Madrid) Description/ Since the institution of what Rancière called its aesthetic regime, art has granted a fundamental and complex status to works of art. Although the work of art is a central element in the aesthetic experience –or precisely because of that–, the entire 20eth century can be read as a sustained effort to make art independent of its works, deploying something like a dematerialized art: an art that was not of works, but of ideas, or of gestures, or of bodies. The work of art is an indispensable element to make the art world an art market, and it is productivity that turns culture into a cultural industry. Hence, the operativity of art has always been a limit that must be overcome in order to cultivate the critical and political […]