Juan Evaristo Valls Boix

Juan Evaristo Valls Boix is an emerging voice in contemporary thought, a writer and professor of Philosophy of Culture at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has taught Aesthetics and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Barcelona and at BAU, University Centre of Arts and Design, and has been a Margarita Salas postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Riverside.

His work focuses on the poetics of inoperativity, the rejection of work, and the politics of desire within a critique of neoliberal subjectivity, with particular attention to affect theory and contemporary French philosophy.

He has published essays and academic monographs on philosophy, culture, and politics, including Giorgio Agamben: Politics Without Work (2020), Metaphysics of Laziness (2022), and Suely Rolnik: Decolonizing the Unconscious (2024). He has also translated key works such as Conflictual Aesthetics by Oliver Marchart, Anarchafeminist Manifesto by Chiara Bottici, and Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography by Joakim Garff. He is currently working on the translation of Against World Literature by Emily Apter.