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.
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
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...
Jaime Vindel
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...
Belén RomeroJaime Vindel
For Forest, or when you can’t see the trees for the wood
Re-visiones, 2020, Nº. 10 On 8th September 2019, the “international freelance mediator of contemporary art” Klaus Littmann opened For Forest-The Unending Attraction of Nature in Klagenfurt (Austria), a monumental art installation of almost three hundred trees in the city’s main stadium, the Wörthersee-Stadion, accompanied by a series of cultural events. This project, which took as...
Alejandro PedregalMiguel Errazu
Future Experiments from the Past: Third Cinema and Artistic Research from Below
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 17, pp. 38-63. DOI: 10.33178/alpha.17.03 This article examines possible articulations of artistic praxis and research in relation to social conflict and political struggle. Taking some of the guiding principles of Third Cinema, which we will consider here both a film strategy and an epistemic project “from below”, our...
Alejandro PedregalMiguel Errazu
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
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