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El Sísifo ecologista

Jaime Vindel’s contribution to the “Debate on the ecological transition”, promoted by the “Espacio público” Foundation. Access the text here.

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There Will Be No ‘Third Earth’: Colonial Modernity, Fossil Culture & Cosmic Imaginaries

Chapter of the book Climate: Our Right to Breathe, edited by Hiuwai Chu, Meagan Down, Nkule Mabaso, Pablo Martínez and Corina Oprea. In CLIMATE: Our Right to Breathe, more than twenty-five voices from the arts and culture form an internationalist chorus that emphatically responds to a collective need to imagine common strategies for solidarity when many limits…

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A ORILLAS DEL RÍO PASSAIC: UN DIÁLOGO ENTRÓPICO ENTRE ROBERT SMITHSON Y NICHOLAS GEORGESCU-ROEGEN

Chapter of the book edited by Luis Arenas, José Manuel Naredo and Jorge Riechmann, Bioeconomía para el siglo XXI. Actualidad de Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (Madrid: FUHEM ecosocial/ Los Libros de la Catarata, 2022). Access the text here.

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Economía fósil e imaginarios neoliberales

Article published in La maleta de Port Bou, nº 53, July-August 2022, pp. 63-69. Access the text here.

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INTERVIEW WITH JAIME VINDEL ABOUT HIS LATEST BOOK «ESTÉTICA FÓSIL. IMAGINARIOS DE LA ENERGÍA Y CRISIS ECOSOCIAL»

Conversation between Adrián Almazán and Jaime Vindel in relation to the book Estética fósil. Imaginarios de la energía y crisis ecosocial (Barcelona: Arcadia, 2020), published by the journal Papeles de relaciones ecosociales y cambio global, nº 157, Spring 2022. We publish below the full version of the interview. Access the text here.

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Antifascism and Wildness. “Partisan Ecologies” between the Spanish Civil War and the Global Warming Era.

“Antifascism and Wildness. “Partisan Ecologies” between the Spanish Civil War and the Global Warming Era.” Artl@s Bulletin 11, no. 1 (2022): Article 7. This short essay uses the concept of “partisan ecologies” in order to analyse certain past and present chapters on the relationship between anti-fascism and nature. According to the Swedish eco- Marxist Andreas Malm, wilderness…

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Caminar a cuatro patas: ¿un antídoto contra la crisis climática?

Chapter of the book edited by José María Parreño, Manual de primeros auxilios (artísticos) para un planeta herido (Madrid: Ediciones Asimétricas, 2022). Access the text here.

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El viejo capitalismo verde

Jacobin. Latin America, No. 3, Austral Autumn 2021, pp. 114-118. The concatenation of economic and public health crises affecting the world-system at least since 2008 has not activated anti-capitalist political alternatives that summon shared social imaginaries at the global level. The capacity of capitalist realism to neutralize the opening of possible futures is persistent. Even…

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Cultura fósil y keynesianismo: una crítica

Viento Sur, nº 174, 2021, pp, 57-65 Fossil Keynesianism is inseparable from geological and geopolitical mutations such as the substitution of coal for oil as a primary energy source. This decision had a socio-political content that has been described by authors such as Timothy Mitchell. The power accumulated by the workers’ movement up to the…

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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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Estética fósil. Imaginarios de la energía y crisis ecosocial

The exploitation of fossil fuels was fundamental for the development of the Industrial Revolution as well as for the creation of cultural imaginaries that instituted a productivist worldview tending to legitimize ecocidal practices and colonial extractivism. In this exciting essay, Jaime Vindel analyzes the impact of energy imaginaries in scientific disciplines and cultural practices during…

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Imágenes (dialécticas) de la historia: la filosofía política del ecosocialismo

Chapter included in Como si hubiera un mañana. Ensayos para una transición ecosocialista, edited by Juanjo Álvarez and Manuel Garí. Sylone, 2020 ‘Imágenes (dialécticas) de la historia: la filosofía política del ecosocialismo’, pp. 33-54. This text argues that ecosocialist theory – which cannot be identified with a homogeneous corpus – would consist of two decisive…

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La ecología política de las imágenes: culturas de la energía y ecologías des-coloniales. Incluye una entrevista con Yayo Herrero

Jaime Vindel and Belén Romero (eds.), Re-visiones, nº 10, 2020 This issue of Re-visiones explores the relationship between image, ecology and politics from multiple angles. It considers that the modern history of images is also a device that has mediated socio-environmental relations through both the creation of imaginaries of “nature” whose protean, productivist and androcentric…

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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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Convivencialidad e instituciones culturales

CTXT, 1 de junio de 2020 What would a critique of the scale of museums and cultural institutions that settle our geography consist of? How would they fit in with the decrecentist perspectives that various voices are demanding for the post-pandemic future? What would be the convivial bicycle that could inspire another speed threshold for…

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El ecologismo ante la crisis del coronavirus

Instituto de Estudios Culturales y Cambio Social, 23 de abril de 2020 During the last few weeks there have been a series of debates in the social networks and the alternative press as to what the coronavirus pandemic represents in relation to the demands that environmentalism has been making about the crisis of civilization in…

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Entropía, capital y malestar: una historia cultural

Chapter included in Comunismos por venir. Arcadia, 2019. ‘Entropía, capital y malestar: una historia cultural”, pp.157-188. In his book The human motor. Energy, fatigue and the origins of modernity, the cultural historian Anson Rabinbach inquired into the repercussions that advances in thermodynamic physics had had on the sociopolitical worldview of the second half of the…

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Ecología y deseo: hacia una ecología cultural materialista

Chapter included in Imaginar la transición hacia sociedades sostenibles, edited by José Luis Albelda Raga, Chiara Sgaramella and José María Parreño Velasco. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 2019. ‘Ecología y deseo: hacia una ecología cultural materialista’, pp.20-23. The text explores the theoretical and historical bases for the constitution of a materialist knowledge that synthesizes the contributions…

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Estética y energética

La maleta de Port Bou, no. 36, 2019, pp. 59-65. If Walter Benjamin has proved highly relevant to the cultural practices that, inspired by the project of Soviet productivism, have in recent decades rearticulated the links between political communication and artistic activism, a critique of the techno-energetic productivism that runs through the Benjaminian worldview is…

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Raymond Williams: presente y pasado del materialismo cultural

Ecología política. Cuadernos de debate internacional, 2019, no. 57, pp. 104-108. The article reviews the intellectual trajectory of Raymond Williams focusing on the relations between culture and ecology. To this end, it considers the originality of his work in the context of the new materialist approaches that emerged from the 1950s onwards in fields such…