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.

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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 Pedregal Miguel Errazu

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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 Pedregal Miguel Errazu

interventions

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

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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 Pedregal Jaime Vindel

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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

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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 Muíño Jaime Vindel

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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

book chapters

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

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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...

Jaim Jaime Vindel

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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

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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

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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

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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

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AMLO ante el capitalismo depredador

CTXT, October 30, 2019 Reflections and inquiries about the Mexican government’s policies regarding infrastructure megaprojects and mining. Access the text here.

Alejandro Pedregal

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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

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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

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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

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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