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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.

Jaime Vindel
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.

Alejandro Pedregal
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…

Alejandro Pedregal
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…

Alejandro PedregalJaime Vindel
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…

Jaime Vindel
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…

Emilio Santiago MuíñoJaime Vindel
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…

Alejandro Pedregal
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.

Alejandro Pedregal
A Tale of Two Reservoirs. Cinema, memory and water

The films Os días afogados (2015), by César Souto Vilanova and Luis Avilés Baquero, and Urpean Lurra (2019), by Maddi Barber, propose atypical approaches to little-known episodes in contemporary Spain: the creation of reservoirs between the 1980s and 1990s in valleys that until then had been the lifeblood of entire communities. Both films construct their…

Alberto Berzosa
Santiago Vilanova and the double exception (1)

The militant cinema of Santiago Vilanova, best known for his work as a journalist and anti-nuclear activist, contributes to repairing some of the silences and veils present in the critical visualisations of the transition in Spain. This first post deals specifically with the interest aroused in his generation by the Carnation Revolution in Portugal. Appeared…

Alberto Berzosa
Santiago Vilanova and the double exception (2)

In this second article on Santiago Vilanova’s films, we present his work on the struggles that took place in a large part of Spain to try to stop the construction of nuclear power plants, mainly based on the commentary of his film El combat antinuclear (1977-1978). Appeared in Rinconete, 3 October 2019 ISSN: 1885-500 Click…

Alberto Berzosa