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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…

Jaime Vindel
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…

Emilio Santiago MuíñoJaime VindelPablo Martínez
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…

Alberto Berzosa
Cine y Sexopolítica

This book is a hybrid device between essay, exhibition catalogue and archive. Through formulas typical of these three narrative registers, it deals with the study of Spanish cinematic sexopolitics. This marginal creative scene was characterised by a constant vital, political, sexual and audiovisual experimentation and was active in several cities in Spain during the political…

Alberto Berzosa
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…

Jaime Vindel
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…

Alejandro Pedregal
Visualidades críticas y ecologías culturales

This book comes from a political urgency and an academic space. The urgency is related to the critical juncture that the course of capitalist modernity is going through, immersed in an apparently irreversible dynamic of economic, political, social, cultural and ecological crises that require new analytical and intervention instruments in the intellectual field. As for…

Jaime Vindel