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.
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