Joanna Zylinska contests the apocalyptic views associated with the Anthropocene. The End of Man rethinks the prophecy of the end of humans, questions the rise of populism around the world, and offers an ethical vision of a “feminist counter-apocalypse” that challenges many of the masculinist and techno-optimist solutions to the socio-ecological crisis. The book is accompanied by a short photographic film, Exit Man.
In recent years, we have witnessed a resurgence of interest in ecological utopias within social movements, artistic spaces, intellectual circles, and society in general. This search for ways to integrate the promises of a better world within planetary limits is valuable in itself, and at the same time historically significant: it reveals that environmentalism demands…
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…
