Re-visiones — Issue 15
Journal of the Complutense University of Madrid
The Complutense University of Madrid announces the publication of Issue 15 of Re-visiones, entitled:
FOSSILTOPIA. Critical Explorations of Infrastructures and Their Aberrations
Inspired by Paul B. Preciado’s concept of Pornotopia, this issue introduces Fossiltopia as the ensemble of heterotopias—material and immaterial—that crystallize fossil logics and enable the circulation, proliferation, and consumption of hydrocarbons.
The issue articulates a macro- and micropolitical reading of the fossil energy paradigm, connecting economies, spaces, and contemporary sensibilities. Heterotopia is approached not merely as material organization, but as a moral, epistemic, and worldview-shaping dispositif that produces subjectivities. Fossiltopia is also framed as a fertile site for a form of infrastructural terror intrinsic to the planetary hypertrophy of fossil modernity.
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Table of Contents
1. Editorial
Editorial
Gemma Barricarte
2. Interview
Cars, Highways, and Skin. A Multiple Interview with Sara Ahmed, Cara Daggett, Layla Martínez, and Joanna Żylińska
Gemma Barricarte
3. Dossier
The Fossil Disappearance of Fireflies: Energy Modernity, Cultural Genocide, and Industrial Toxicity between Neocapitalist Italy and Ecosocial Emergence
Jaime Vindel Gamonal
Landscapes of Water and Concrete: Images, Infrastructures, and Ghosts of the Francoist Hydraulic Paradigm
Carmen Martín-Luquero Rodríguez
New Men and Synthetic Prairies: The Infrastructural Urbanization of A Terra Chá through the National Institute of Colonization
Antonio Giráldez López
Fossil Affects: A Dialogue between Petromasculinities and Affect Theory
Lionel Delgado Ontivero
Altitude Sickness: Notes on Petromasculinity and the Fascist Sublime in Vox
Miriam Valero Cordero
Predatory Infrastructures: Mining Extractivism and Indigenous Resistance in the Work of Ignacio Acosta
Christian Alonso
4. Invited Researchers
Architecture and the Death of Carbon Modernity
Elisa Iturbe
The Conspiracy of Architecture: Notes on Modern Anxiety
China Miéville
Infrastructural Brutalism
Michael Truscello
Energy Aesthetics: From Fossil Concrete to Transition Prototypes. Urban Waste, Architectures of the Future, and Shared Landscapes
Elena Lavellés
New Babylon Now: Urban Utopias for a Post-Fossil Future
Irene Landa Gonzalez
5. Focus
Hometown to Come, or how to Perform Waste
Jiwon Yu
Have a Nice Day: A Case for Sunbathing
Igor Bragado, Miles Gerter
6. Reviews
City Body
Julia Colleti