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The Aesthetic Rift. An Eco-Marxist Approach to the Capitalist Spatiality of Art

The development of industrial capitalism led to a reconfiguration of the social function of culture. A commodification of Western culture and fetishisation of art emerged that was inseparable from the expansion of this world system. This historical process consolidated insofar as it produced a series of material and imaginary rifts between interconnected spheres. In this…

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Cinematic Time and the Accumulation of Ecosocial Crises

Moving People and Images Journal (MPIJ), No. 1, September 2021. Cinema emerged in an era in which accurately recording, standarizing and reproducing time was essential to the development of industrial capitalism, which radically altered our very perception of time. How can cinema today challenge the hegemonic worldview of time produced by the capitalist society and…

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Lucha de clases y transición ecosocial. Entrevista a Andreas Malm

Viento Sur, no. 174, 2021, pp. 109-116 In the following interview, academic and ecomarxist activist Andreas Malm discusses some of the main theses of his recent publications on fossil capitalism, the ecological crisis and the global pandemic. With Fossil Capital. The Rise of Steam and the Roots of Global Warming, published in Spanish in 2020…

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‘The Return of Nature’ and ‘Marx’s Ecology’. John Bellamy Foster interviewed by Alejandro Pedregal

Monthly Review, Vol. 72, No. 7, Diciembre de 2020, pp. 1-16 DOI: 10.14452/MR-072-07-2020-11_1 John Bellamy Foster writes me before leaving Eugene, Oregon: “We had to evacuate. And we have to travel a long ways. But I will try to send the interview by the morning.” The massive fires on the West Coast of the United…

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Lecturas ecosocialistas para ganar un planeta

El Salto, January 5, 2021 A review of recently published books that you cannot miss to follow the ecosocialist debate. Access the text here.

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For Forest, or when you can’t see the trees for the wood

Re-visiones, 2020, Nº. 10 On 8th September 2019, the “international freelance mediator of contemporary art” Klaus Littmann opened For Forest-The Unending Attraction of Nature in Klagenfurt (Austria), a monumental art installation of almost three hundred trees in the city’s main stadium, the Wörthersee-Stadion, accompanied by a series of cultural events. This project, which took as…

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Future Experiments from the Past: Third Cinema and Artistic Research from Below

Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 17, pp. 38-63. DOI: 10.33178/alpha.17.03 This article examines possible articulations of artistic praxis and research in relation to social conflict and political struggle. Taking some of the guiding principles of Third Cinema, which we will consider here both a film strategy and an epistemic project “from below”, our…

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El mundo después del covid19: ¿debemos volver a preocuparnos por las armas nucleares?

El Salto, April 9, 2020 At the end of last January, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – which since 1945 has been an unavoidable reference on those scientific and security issues that technological advances have on humanity – published its Doomsday Clock 2020 Statement. In this report, the Bulletin warned that “the international security…

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Covid-19 y la superación imaginaria del neoliberalismo

El Salto/Viento Sur, April 12, 2020 Faced with the exceptional situation we have been living during these weeks due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some sectors of the political left have brought out a certain “optimism of the will” according to which we would find ourselves at the gates of the end of neoliberalism. It is…

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Evelia: Testimonio de Guerrero

Against the illegal actions of the mining companies, the Army and the institutions; against intimidation and sexism in her own society, Evelia Bahena García has maintained an intense struggle to protect the natural heritage of her community. This is the moment to tell her story, in which her defense remains warm and still latent. She…

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El golpe de Bolivia huele a litio

CTXT, November 20, 2019 Bolivia has 21 million metric tons of lithium, strategic for the energy transition, which is almost 70% of the world’s reserves. Mining is the third productive sector of the Latin American country and, therefore, essential in the economic sphere, but also of great pressure in the political sphere. The government of…

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AMLO ante el capitalismo depredador

CTXT, October 30, 2019 Reflections and inquiries about the Mexican government’s policies regarding infrastructure megaprojects and mining. Access the text here.