Publicaciones de Jaime Vindel

Jaime Vindel: ‘Paisaje-petróleo: una historia (anti)fascista del progreso y el crimen’ in the framework of the ‘Miradas divergentes’ space of the César Manrique Foundation.

On Thursday 10 April 2025, the César Manrique Foundation (FCM) hosted the conference entitled ‘Paisaje-petróleo: una historia (anti)fascista del progreso y el crimen’, given by Jaime Vindel, historian, philosopher and researcher at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). The event took place in the Sala José Saramago (La Plazuela, Arrecife) and was broadcast live…

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Atlas cultural de la energía

In a context marked by the climate emergency, this cultural atlas of energy offers a revealing look at the complex links between energy, culture and politics. The different concepts addressed explore how fossil energy, the fundamental engine of industrial societies, has not only conditioned their material development, but also the imaginaries and discourses that have…

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Permanent Seminar “Images (of Art) and Political Ecology”. IX Session: “Water, energy and dispossession in the imaginaries of the Francoist hydromodernity”, with Carmen Martín-Luquero.

Source: Fernando López Heptener, La presa de Aldeadávila, 1963, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X_yduTT1EQ. Spain is one of the countries with the largest number of dams, about 1,200. Many were built during Franco’s dictatorship as part of his emblematic hydraulic policy, aimed at addressing post-war social, economic, and energy crises. Aside from the failed autarkic economic project, this…

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Permanent Seminar “Images (of Art) and Political Ecology”. VIII Session: “Energy Aesthetics. Alternatives to the Fossil and Social Footprint of Cement”, with Elena Lavellés

Photograph: Elena Lavellés. Cranes at the Valdemingómez landfill. Documentation visit 2024. The limits of nature are dissolved under layers of cement, CO2 emitted into the atmosphere and waste produced from the activity of human beings. This overview leads us to a new vision that exceeds our capacity of comprehension and places us on the edge…

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Presentation of the book ‘Archivo ecologista. Memoria y cultura visual del ecologismo en Valencia desde los años setenta’.

On the occasion of the exhibition ‘Archivo ecologista. Memoria y cultura visual del ecologismo en Valencia durante los años setenta’, held at the Centro La Nau of the University of Valencia between March and June of this year, a book-catalogue has been published which presents both the materials of the exhibition and, more broadly, a…

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MATERIALS FOR AN ECOLOGICAL UTOPIA. MAPPING ARCHIVES OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT IN SPAIN.

This book arose within the framework of the project ‘Fossil Aesthetics’, with the aim of mapping out the archives in Spain that contain documents for the recovery of the environmentalist memory, fundamentally materials from the visual culture produced by the environmentalist movement itself. During the production of the volume, general reflections emerged on the political…

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(Post)fossil culture

In an era marked by the consequences of global warming on the evolution of industrialised societies and on critical variables of the ecological crisis such as the massive loss of biodiversity, it is essential to implement an energy transition that replaces dependence on fossil fuels with a matrix based on renewables. The starting hypothesis of…

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Seminar “Energy Humanities. Towards a Conceptual Map”

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Oppening of the exhibition “ARCHIVO ECOLOGISTA. MEMORIA Y CULTURA VISUAL DEL ECOLOGISMO EN VALENCIA DESDE LOS AÑOS 70”

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CCHS-CSIC OBSERVATORY FOR ECO-SOCIAL TRANSITION

The ecological transition is a challenge that will be the backbone of collective efforts and will shape the strategic decisions of all societies on the planet over the next three decades. This has been recognised by all governance bodies at all levels, from the international (Agenda 2030, Paris Agreement) to the European level (European Green…

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CONFERENCE “LOST IN TRANSITION. POPULAR MUSIC AND THE NEW ENERGY ENVIRONMENT”.

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “MODERNITY, ENERGY AND POWER. AN ECO-ENERGETIC CULTURAL HISTORY OF SOUTHERN EUROPE”

A transdisciplinary and genealogical analysis of the experiences of European dictatorships and political regimes in the 20th century has become an urgent task in a context characterised by the rise of the extreme right, the return of war to European territory in Ukraine and the dependence of our societies on fossil fuels, which are responsible…

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Ecology unbound: rethinking finitude

Rethinking ecologically our time is often associated with the economic concept of “sustainability,” with the idea of a limited exploitation of dwindling resources. And this idea is linked to a contextual process of continuous accumulation that is supposed to ensure a “sustainable”, economically defined future. The confinement of ecology to the limited economy of a…

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“BEYOND CRITIQUE: POSTMODERNISM, NATURE AND CLIMATE CRISIS”. VI SESSION OF THE PERMANENT SEMINAR “IMAGES (OF ART) AND ECOLOGY POLITICS”

In this session of the seminar, the visiting researcher Matteo Savoldelli, invites us to a collective reflection on the cultural climate that affects and surrounds us today. Starting from an analysis of some of the main contemporary critical theories, from queer feminism to the ontological turn in anthropology, to animal and anti-speciesist philosophies, it will…

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Fossil Culture. Art, Culture and Politics between the Industrial Revolution and the Global Warming.

This incisive book invites us to rethink culture during the development of fossil modernity. Between the creation of the steam engine during the 18th century and the global warming that haunts and conditions us today, Jaime Vindel analyses, from a new critical paradigm, the relationship between the energy transformations driven by the Industrial Revolution, the…

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“Class, culture and climate: cultural imaginaries and fossil modernity”. Fifth session of the permanent seminar “Images (of art) and political ecology”.

On the occasion of the publication of the book Cultura fósil. Arte, cultura y política entre la Revolución industrial y el calentamiento global (Akal: Madrid, 2023), this seminar look at culture (understood in its multiple senses: as a cultural sphere, as a cultural industry, as popular culture, as a way of life, etc.) during fossil…

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The 1st Conference on “Artistic Practices and Contemporary Forms of Knowledge” will analyse the shaping, distribution and consolidation of imaginaries through art and artistic research, from an intersectional, transdisciplinary and situated reflection. It is based on the understanding and sharing of critical elements that, derived from the analysis from different perspectives, is being carried out…

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The illusions of the neo-technical age. Energy Imaginaries between the New Deal and the Green New Deal

Lecture by Jaime Vindel in the course organised by the Institute of Cultural Studies and Social Change (IECCS) “Ecosocial challenges for a world in flames”. The electrification of modern societies has been presented as an alternative to fossil fuels in contexts ranging from the interwar period to the present day. This conference analyse how this…

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TEL+50/ Transdisciplinary readings 2021: 50th anniversary of The Entropy Law and the Economic Process, the landmark work by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen

2021 marks exactly half a century since the publication of a book whose importance and depth in diagnosing the problems of late modernity has only increased since its publication. In the field of social science, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen’s seminal work, The Law of Entropy and the Economic Process, made a decisive contribution to a new perspective…

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La Tierra Arde podcast on ‘Fossil Culture’.

This episode of the Earth is Burning podcast explores the concept of fossil modernity. It analyses the connections between capitalism, energy and modern ways of life, revealing how these dynamics are intrinsically linked to the climate emergency. Throughout the episode, Jaime Vindel offers a profound critique of contemporary societies’ dependence on fossil energy, questioning technological…

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