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.
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
Entropía, capital y malestar: una historia cultural
Chapter included in Comunismos por venir. Arcadia, 2019. ‘Entropía, capital y malestar: una historia cultural”, pp.157-188. In his book The human motor. Energy, fatigue and the origins of modernity, the cultural historian Anson Rabinbach inquired into the repercussions that advances in thermodynamic physics had had on the sociopolitical worldview of the second half of the...
Jaime Vindel
Ecología y deseo: hacia una ecología cultural materialista
Chapter included in Imaginar la transición hacia sociedades sostenibles, edited by José Luis Albelda Raga, Chiara Sgaramella and José María Parreño Velasco. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 2019. ‘Ecología y deseo: hacia una ecología cultural materialista’, pp.20-23. The text explores the theoretical and historical bases for the constitution of a materialist knowledge that synthesizes the contributions...
JaimJaime Vindel
Estética y energética
La maleta de Port Bou, no. 36, 2019, pp. 59-65. If Walter Benjamin has proved highly relevant to the cultural practices that, inspired by the project of Soviet productivism, have in recent decades rearticulated the links between political communication and artistic activism, a critique of the techno-energetic productivism that runs through the Benjaminian worldview is...
Jaime Vindel
Raymond Williams: presente y pasado del materialismo cultural
Ecología política. Cuadernos de debate internacional, 2019, no. 57, pp. 104-108. The article reviews the intellectual trajectory of Raymond Williams focusing on the relations between culture and ecology. To this end, it considers the originality of his work in the context of the new materialist approaches that emerged from the 1950s onwards in fields such...
Jaime Vindel
El marxismo ecológico ante la crisis ecosocial
Viento Sur, no. 165, 2019, pp. 52-59. The element common to the most ambitious contributions of recent ecosocialist theory is its desire to get rid of the guilt complex that would have crossed previous generations of that tradition of critical thought. In the interpretation proposed by authors such as John Bellamy Foster or Paul Burkett,...
Jaime 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
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
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
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