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.
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
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...
Jaime Vindel
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...
Jaime Vindel
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...
Alejandro PedregalJaime Vindel
‘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...
Alejandro Pedregal
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
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