Publications
In this section you can find the publications of the members of Fossil Aesthetics made as part of the project or that have thematic affinity with it.
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
What is art capable of? Notes on politicized art between institutional critique and constituent social practices
Jaime Vindel published “What is art capable of? Notes on politicized art between institutional critique and constituent social practices”, in the book NO Retórica(s) Versions and subversions of resistance in contemporary global art, coordinated by Sara Alonso Gómez, Isabel J. Piniella, Grillet, Nadia Radwan and Elena Rosauro, Diaphanes, Berlin, pp.47-66. Access the text here.
Jaime Vindel
Anthropocene as Energy Imaginaries: Fossil Culture between Industrial Revolution and Ecological Crisis
Jaime Vindel published “Anthropocene as Energy Imaginaries: Fossil Culture between Industrial Revolution and Ecological Crisis”, European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes, 5(2), 43–60. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2612-0496/14657 Access the text here.
Jaime Vindel
Intellectuals and Marxist aesthetics Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and the transatlantic networks of the Cold War
Jaime Vindel published “Intellectuals and Marxist aesthetics. Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and the transatlantic networks of the Cold War” in the book Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez: filosofía estética y política para lectura marxista de nuestro tiempo, coordinated by José Sarrión Andaluz, Francisco Sierra Caballero Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, pp. 139-184. For further information click here.
Jaime Vindel
Super 8 Against the Grain // Secuencias. Revista de Historia del Cine Nº 55
In the heart of the Cold War, the sixties were one of the moments of greatest colonial expansion, including in cultural terms, of the U.S.A. In 1965 the American company Eastman Kodak launched its “revolutionary super 8 film system” on the market. It was a technological package consisting of, among other devices, three camera models,...
Alberto BerzosaMiguel Errazu
Super 8 and Third Cinema: Scenes of a Foreign Correspondence
This paper explores the ways in which Super 8 entered the discussion on Third Cinema at a global level, whether through individual or collective experiences of production, theoretical interventions in print media, training workshops or transnational federative organizations. Based on diverse documentary and hemerographic sources, as well as archives and personal interviews, I argue that,...
Miguel Errazu
We Do the Rest. Super 8 in the Web of the Fossil Economy
This text provides a materialistic approach to the technology of Super 8 in the context of fossil modernity, developed in two parts. First, it focuses on the Super 8 as a tool that operates at three different levels of cultural and economic significance: the uneven relationship that arises between its production and distribution processes and...
Alberto Berzosa
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...
Jaime Vindel
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.
Jaime Vindel
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.
Adrián AlmazánJaime Vindel
EXILES AND COLONISTS IN THE FIRST PERSON: THE FAMILY ARCHIVE AND ITS RECENT (RE) WRITINGS IN SPAIN
“Exiles and Colonists in the First Person: The Family Archive and its Recent (re) Writings in Spain”, L’Atalante. Revista de estudios cinematográficos, nº 34, pp. 21-39. Filmoteca Española has among its amateur film collections some very special collections in terms of mobility: films shot during the central decades of the 20th century in Republican exile...
Alberto BerzosaJosetxo CerdánJosetxo Cerdán
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...
Jaime Vindel
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...
Alejandro Pedregal
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