Nuria Labari takes X-rays and denounces inequalities in the world of work and denounces the “new forms of slavery”
“The world of work destroys the feminine and masculine identities.” Says it with a serene smile Nuria Labari (Santander, age 43), writer, journalist with a long career, today director of an audiovisual production house and author of ‘The Last White Man’ (Random House Literature). It is a satirical X-ray, as crude as it is funny, of the oppressive and demanding world of work and a condemnation “of its inequalities and of work perceived as a new form of slavery.”
“Work is the last God. We get rid of the myth of romantic love, but we don’t talk about what happens at work, it’s a toxic space full of ideology that destroys our desire,” Labari adventures. After each blunt statement, he assures that this is his third novel, starring a successful woman in her forties, “work doesn’t mean that.” He admits that work is ‘a cage’, but believes that ‘we can change it and demand that it be an accomplice to our desires’.
Written from a gender perspective – “there is no other way” – and narrated by a winner in the competitive masculine world of work, the author states that “work is designed for a masculine biology.” He celebrates that, according to the statistics, “there are 35% of the guidelines”, but criticizes “that none of them impose their rules”. “What these women are doing is adapting to a masculine world, even when they come to power,” she denounces.
She criticizes women in command for “imitating patriarchal structures” and laments that “equality eventually becomes a form of obedience that makes women think they should be the same as an uncle, which is another form of submission.”
It recognizes the “tremendous advantages” of men in power “because they have been trained for millennia in docility and the craft of obedience.” “They come naturally in an environment where you have to turn everyone into a bloody white man,” he says, justifying the title. “They are all ready to jump into the fire and yell, ‘I’m finally one of them! I’ve passed! I’m a success story!’” the novel reads. But it is immediately stated that “success was invented by them and they are the ones spreading it.” “The success of the white man is to make us believe that we can all be part of his club and that we want to. Equality has long gone out to prey on new prey and women are the most coveted.
Labari believes that “the culture of effort has no reward in the world of work” and that deep down it is based on a lie “because the best don’t always win, far from it, and the social elevator doesn’t work.” The writer believes that “modern work has reinvented slavery” and that the demands “separate the body from the mind.” “Yeah, it’s diplomatic slavery, so there are a lot more slaves who work long hours, like ‘riders’ or assistants,” he says.
The job insecurity crushing young people “has a point of rebellion” for Labari. “There’s a ‘millennial’ generation that isn’t ready for anything anymore. His sentimental revolution shattered the myth of romantic love and young people today think of other forms of employment,” says Labari, who debuted in the novel with “Things that shine when they are broken” and surprised with “The best mother in the world.” .
I never thought of quitting Labari’s job. “We’ll see what happens when this book is released, which has a bombshell and is nothing but the claim that work has to do with our desire,” he ironically repeats that his novel “is not an accusation against work. nor calls for its abolition.” “I intend to keep doing my job, if they allow me, in order to be able to change things,” he emphasizes.
For the writer, technology is the penultimate threat in the world of work “where there is an unbridled loss of prestige from man, and as it happens in other areas, the algorithm will eventually prevail.” So much so that he doesn’t rule out that in terms of creation, “it’s an algorithm that ends up making songs, poems, and novels.” To prevent this, Labari pleads for ‘for the imagination and its destructive power’.
Source: La Verdad
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