Members Research Group Co-ordinators Adrián Almazán Adrián Almazán (Madrid, 1990) holds a PhD in Philosophy (2018) and a degree in Physics (2014). He has a Master’s in Philosophical Critique and Argumentation (UAM, 2015) and another in Condensed Matter Physics and Nanotechnology (UAM, 2014). He is a philosophy lecturer in the Department of Humanities: Philosophy, Language and Literature at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where he coordinates the research group in Technology and Ecological Humanities (THECO). He is a member of the Research Group in Ecological Humanities (GHECO) at UAM. Among his publications are Técnica y tecnología. Cómo conversar con un tecnolófilo (Taugenit, 2020) and Decrecimiento. Del qué al cómo, co-authored with Luis González Reyes (Icaria, 2023). His areas of expertise include: Political Ecology, Ecological Humanities, Degrowth, Philosophy of Technology, Theories of the Commons, and Studies of New Ruralities. Andoni Alonso Andoni Alonso holds a PhD in Philosophy (1996) and specialises in the thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein and the philosophy of technology (with a focus on Science, Technology, and Society). He has worked with thinkers such as Ivan Illich and Carl Mitcham, and since 2000, he has regularly organised courses and conferences on computing and cyberculture, focusing on the social impact of these technologies. He is a founding member of the Free Knowledge Foundation, affiliated with the Free Software Foundation, and has researched free software and open knowledge, as reflected in La quinta columna digital (VII Epson Award for Technoethics). Since 2021, he has been a professor in the Faculty of Humanities at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. His notable works include La nueva ciudad de Dios (Siruela, 2002), Carta al homo ciberneticus (Edaf, 2003), and El desencanto del progreso. Para una crítica luddita de la tecnología (Dykinson, 2021). His areas of expertise include ethics of technology, cyberculture, and philosophy of telecommunications. Research Assistants Blanca Moret Blanca Moret (Madrid, 2000) holds a degree in Philosophy from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and is currently studying for a Master’s in Theory and Critique of Culture at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). She has completed an internship in the humanities department at the Círculo de Bellas Artes, contributing to the organisation of events such as the Lectura Continuada del Quijote and the Festival Eñecon. She also collaborates with the Philosophical Laboratory of the Anthropocene and Degrowth. She is a member of the research project Speak for Nature: Interdisciplinary Approaches on Ecological Justice (UC3M), funded by the European Union. Her research interests focus on ecological humanities, eco-design, and convivial tools. Sofía Pérez Sofía Pérez Baeza (Málaga, 1998) is a predoctoral researcher in the Humanities at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where her thesis, from an ecofeminist perspective, addresses issues related to the body in the Digital Age. She holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication (URJC, 2021) and a Master’s in Theory and Critique of Culture (UC3M, 2022). She is a member of the research groups THECO (UC3M) and GHECO (UAM) and is co-author of the report Una guía para la alfabetización ecosocial: Paz, decrecimiento y sustentabilidad para un mundo posfosilista. She is also a member of the research project Speak for Nature: Interdisciplinary Approaches on Ecological Justice (UC3M), funded by the European Union, where she participates as a researcher and coordinates the communication team. Her research interests include ecofeminism, ecological humanities, degrowth, ethics of care, convivial tools, and digital technologies. UC3M Team Estefanía Berengan Mendaña Estefanía (Pepa) Berengan Mendaña. Predoctoral researcher in Humanities at the Carlos III University of Madrid. Her doctoral thesis addresses the role of urban logistics in the ecosocial transformation, based on the study of urban agroecological commons in the city of Madrid. She has a degree in Sociology from the National University of La Plata (Argentina), a Master in Organizational Studies (UNGS) and a Master in Community Participation and Development (UPV/EHU). She has also been a professor at the National University of La Plata, in the Chair of Sociology of Organizations, and has participated in the publication of the book La mirada organizacional: enfoques y metodología para el análisis (EDULP). She is currently part of the European project «Speak for Nature: Interdisciplinary Approaches on Ecological Justice» (UC3M). Her main interests of research are ecological humanities, decrease, urban geography, urban commons, urban sociology, participatory democracy and criticism of contemporary logistics regimes. Zana Daouda Zana Daouda Koné (BOUAKÉ, 1994) is a predoctoral researcher at the Carlos III University in Madrid in Humanities. His doctoral research theme focuses on Ecocritical in relation to Hispanic -American and XXI Hispanic literature. He also has a graduate in Teaching Letters Spanish Option at University Félix Houptouët-Boigny (Ivory Coast) (2019) and has a Master of Spanish Literature and Civilization at Spanish-American Civilization at Université Félix Houphouet-Boigny and the University of Cádiz (2022). Alberto Fernández Alberto Fernández García (Valladolid, 1995) is a predoctoral researcher, currently working on his doctoral thesis, which addresses the concept of the Anthropocene, questioning its temporality and history from the thought of Karl Marx and Theodor Adorno. He holds a degree in Political Science (UCM, 2019) and a Master’s in Theory and Critique of Culture (UC3M, 2020). He participates in the project Speak4Nature: Interdisciplinary Approaches on Ecological Justice. His research areas include political theory, cultural studies, sociology of time and work in the neoliberal context, anti-industrial thought, and the critique of technology. Noelia Fragoso Noelia Fragoso Téllez (Getafe, 1992) is a predoctoral researcher at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, graduated in Law (UCM, 2014) and Humanities (UC3M, 2020). She has a master’s degree in Literary Studies (UCM, 2022) and has published “Who fears death: Afrofuturism and the phenomenon of hybridity” in Ecofictions: the myths of the end of the world (Sial Pygmalion, 2023). His main areas of research are the Theory of Literature, Critical and Ecocritical Theory, Comparative Literature, the relationship between Literature and Philosophy, Ecological Humanities, Contemporary Philosophy and new models for the study of subjectivity. Virginia Fusco Virginia Fusco is a Professor of Philosophy and Anthropology at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). She is the author of The Symbolic Potential of the Hybrid: Anita Blake and Horror (Peter Lang) and co-editor of the volumes Lo otro y sus fronteras (Dykinson) and Democracia Radical (Lengua de Trapo). Her work has been published in journals such as Isegoria, Daimon Revista Internacional de Filosofía, Bajo Palabra, and Las Torres de Lucca, among others. She has held research positions at the Institute for North American Studies in Berlin, the Centre for the Humanities (UU), and, more recently, the Department of Arts (UniBo), where she is currently conducting a postdoctoral stay in collaboration with Sandro Mezzadra and the research group Into the Black Box. Her research addresses coloniality/postcoloniality/decoloniality, with her more recent interests focusing on political philosophy, particularly issues of gender, contemporary social movements, politics of difference, and Italian Thought. Alicia García Alicia García holds a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Johns Hopkins University and in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Granada. She also holds a DEA in Comparative Literature (UAB), as well as degrees in Philosophy (UB) and Political Science and Sociology (UGR). She is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where she teaches both undergraduate courses and the Master’s in Theory and Critique of Culture. She has taught Contemporary Philosophy (UB) and in the Master’s in Contemporary Thought and Classical Tradition (UB). She’s a member of the Universities Commission of the Spanish Network of Philosophy, and was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Society of Philosophy (SAF) until 2023 and of various international philosophical societies. Her research interests include Contemporary Philosophy, metahistorical research, and Political and Social Theory, with a particular focus on the conditions for contemporary democratic practice. Manuel García Manuel García (Madrid, 2001) graduated in the degree in Philosophy (UAM, 2023) and Master in Applied Ethics (UCM, 2024). Currently studying the degree in Mathematics (UNED) and conducts a predoctoral research at the Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). His areas of expertise include dedigitalization and digital degrowth, where he coordinates his academic studies with active participation in social movements such as Ecologistas en Acción. Íñigo García-Moncó Íñigo García-Moncó is a predoctoral researcher in Humanities at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He holds a degree in Humanities and Journalism (USP CEU) and a Master’s in Contemporary Culture (IUIOG-UCM). He has published works such as Praxis digital: apuntes para una síntesis fenomenológica (Argumentos de Razón Técnica, 2022) and Cuerpo sin carne: una mirada fenomenológica a la extensión corporal en medios digitales (2024). He is a collaborating researcher at the Institut de Recherches Philosophiques (IRePh) at the University of Paris Nanterre and attended the masterclass Digitalisation and Disruption in the World of Life by Byung-Chul Han (UIMP, 2022). His main research areas are phenomenology and the philosophy of digital technologies, specialising in the digital user experience. Antonio Gómez Antonio Gómez Ramos is a Full Professor of Philosophy and the Director of the Master’s in Critical Theory of Culture at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). He holds a PhD in Philosophy (UAM), with a thesis on Hermeneutics and the Problem of Translation. He studied Philosophy at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and German Philology at Humboldt University. He has been a visiting researcher and lecturer at universities across Europe and South America. He has translated works by Hegel and Gadamer into Spanish and is the author of numerous texts on political philosophy, memory studies, and theory of subjectivity, focusing on the works of Hannah Arendt, Reinhart Koselleck, Walter Benjamin, and critical theory. His recent work addresses the philosophy of historical time and the crisis of self-understanding in late modernity. His current research focuses on the Anthropocene and radically new conceptions of nature, time, politics, subjectivity, and the philosophy of agency. Carmen González Carmen González holds a PhD in Philosophy (UAB) and a degree in Romance Philology. She is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Gender Studies and the Director of the Department of Philosophy, Language and Literature at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). She is also the Director of the Department of Equality and Women’s Studies at EMUI University. A member of the Gender Studies Institute at UC3M, she is a co-founder of the Kóre Gender Studies Group and co-director of the journal Cuadernos Kóre. She has conducted research at Harvard University, the Institute of Advanced Studies/Princeton, the University of Geneva, and the Institute of Philosophy at the CSIC. She has teaching experience at the Universities of Zaragoza, Salamanca, Boston University, the University of Massachusetts, University of Saint Louis/Madrid, and Universidad Carlos III since 1998. She has also done translations and published poetry books. Her research focuses on Language and Morality, Philosophy and Literature, Political Thought, and Gender Studies. Andrea Greppi Full Professor in the Department of International, Ecclesiastical Law and Philosophy of Law (UC3M). Doctor of Law from the same University on the political thought of Norberto Bobbio. His research career begins in the Philosophy of Law and extends to neighboring territories of Political Philosophy and the History of Ideas, revolving around different aspects of the theory of democracy, and especially, deliberative theories. His work maintains an analytical methodological approach, aimed at the reconstruction of some central elements of the political lexicon. He has worked on the notion of transparency and the transformations of the idea of the public sphere in the digital age. Currently, the focus of his research has been focusing on the analysis of the growing representative deficit of our democratic systems. A first result in this line of study was published in the Trotta publishing house (2016). He has assiduously dedicated himself to the translation of some of the most prominent contemporary Italian jurists and philosophers, including Norberto Bobbio, Luigi Ferrajoli, Riccardo Guastini, Paolo Flores d’Arcais, Stefano Rodotà, and Franco Volpi. Simone Madonna Simone Madonna is a Doctor of Astrophysics at the University of La Laguna (ULL) and has started a second doctorate at the Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M) on the study of the connection between subjectivity and technique in industrial-technological society. His research is based on the philosophical and sociological studies of Günther Anders and Jacques Ellul, with the aim of understanding how people become in an ultra-design world and propose pedagogical awareness activities on the technological problem in secondary education institutes where he exercises as a math teacher. Jorge Martínez Jorge Martínez Crespo holds a PhD in Industrial Technologies (UC3M, 2004) and a degree in Industrial Engineering (UPM, 1995). He joined as an Assistant Professor in 1998 and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M, 2011), where he coordinates the Bachelor’s in Energy Engineering. He is a member of the research groups REDES, GTADS, and THECO. He is co-author of more than 30 scientific publications and has participated in numerous R&D projects, serving as Principal Investigator (PI) in two EU projects and in 11 significant R&D contracts with companies and/or public administrations, three of which he led. He has been Deputy Director and Secretary of the Department, a member of the faculty for 12 years across different terms, and more recently, a member of the School Board. He is currently the director of the Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering and Energy Engineering. Additionally, he directs the Cooperation Group in Engineering for Human Development (IDH) at UC3M. His research focuses on electricity markets, integration of renewable energy, optimisation, energy education, energy poverty, and appropriate technologies. David Mora David Mora Ruano (Madrid, 1985) is an Associate Professor at the Carlos III University of Madrid, in the Department of Humanities: Philosophy, Language and Literature where he teaches the subject “Expression Strategies”. He is a career official of the Teachers Corps and has also served as Education Inspector. His academic training includes studies in Teaching (UCM), Pedagogy (UNED), Humanities (UC3M), Law (UNED) and Legal Sciences of Public Administrations (UNED). He is currently completing his doctorate in Specific Didactics at the University of Burgos. His lines of research focus on the impact of AI on learning, the right to education, environmental education and the teaching of Social Sciences. Teresa Moreno Teresa Moreno Olmeda is a predoctoral researcher (FPU) at the Institute of Philosophy of the CSIC and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. She graduated in Journalism and Humanities (UC3M, 2019) and holds a Master’s in Theory and Critique of Culture (UC3M, 2020). Her doctoral thesis addresses the production of knowledge and ignorance about climate change and climate obstructionism on the Internet. She was a JAE-Intro researcher at the IFS-CSIC (2020-2021) and was employed by the RESPONTRUST project (“Uncertainty, trust and responsibility. Keys to counteracting disinformation, infodemic and conspiranoia during the COVID-19 pandemic”). She participates in research on ecological justice, digital dynamics, and political representation. She is a member of the Transversal Network of Gender Studies (GENET) and has coordinated the International Seminar for Young Researchers (SIJI, CSIC). Her research interests lie at the intersections of the humanities, the ecological crisis, and technological change. Arantxa Romero Researcher, teacher, and writer specialized in the relationships between body, writing, and image in the international context of the 20th century, she is currently investigating the intersections between body and animality in contemporary artistic practices. She is a professor of art history in the Department of Humanities: History, Geography, and Art at the Carlos III University of Madrid. Previously, she was a Margarita Salas postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Art History at the UCLM Fine Arts Faculty. She has received grants and contracts from the UCM-Banco Santander, the Madrid City Council at the Residencia de Estudiantes, the Avenir Excellence Grant from the Institut Français, and the INHA. She has also completed stays at the Paris Diderot University, the Sorbonne-Nouvelle, and the CNRS. She is co-editor with Henar Rivière of the volume Materia de escritura. Entre el signo y la abstación en la época del Intermedia (1950-1980) (CSIC, 2022) and has recently written “Escritura, imagen y animalidad. Interspecies bodies in Unica Zürn» (Art Notebooks, University of Granada, 2024) and Le corps et la graphie. L’oeuvre de Christian Dotremont à travers quelques débats de son temps (Archives et musée de la littérature Bruxelles, 2024). She is the author of the books Plétora (Amargord, 2017) and Poetic Images in Spanish Photography: the Visions of Chema Madoz and Manuel Vilariño (CENDEAC, 2015) Ulpiano Ruíz-Rivas Ulpiano Ruíz-Rivas holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering (UC3M, 2000) and a degree in Industrial Engineering (UPM). He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Thermal and Fluid Engineering at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M, 2004), a member of the ISE, GTADS (which he leads), and THECO research groups, and collaborates with the Engineering for Human Development (IDH) cooperation group. He has participated in over 40 research and university cooperation projects, published 26 scientific papers (21 in Q1 journals), supervised three doctoral theses, and holds an active Spanish invention patent. He has taught 450 credits and supervised approximately 50 final-year projects. He served as Director of the Department of Thermal and Fluid Engineering (2013-2015) and Director of the Master’s in Thermal and Fluid Engineering (2006-2010). His work has focused on appropriate technologies for energy supply, energy vulnerability in Spain and Latin America, and adapting energy engineering education to a sustainable model and vulnerable communities. His research interests centre on the energy vulnerability of households and communities. Gonzalo Velasco Gonzalo Velasco holds a PhD in Philosophy from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2013). He is a Philosophy lecturer in the Department of Humanities: Philosophy, Language and Literature at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Previously, he worked as a lecturer at Universidad Camilo José Cela, the SUR School of the Círculo de Bellas Artes, and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. A specialist in social philosophy and contemporary cultural theory, his research and interests focus on the relationship between insecurity and solidarity, the link between biology and social models, the culture of neoliberalism, and political passions. External Team Juanma Agulles UA Juan M. Agulles Martos holds a PhD in Sociology (UA) and specialises in urban sociology, social exclusion, and inequalities. He is currently a professor in the Department of Sociology II at Universidad de Alicante (UA). He has also taught at the University of La Rioja and the University of Murcia. His articles have been published in journals such as Heliyon, Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, Política y Sociedad, Argumentos de Razón Técnica, Cuadernos de Trabajo Social, and Equidad. He has published several books, including La destrucción de la ciudad (Catarata Essay Award, 2017), La negación de la virtud. Una historia sobre la pobreza y el progreso (Virus, 2023), and Vagabundias. Criminales, vagos, putas y locos (Pepitas, 2024). His research focuses on urban development, socio-spatial segregation, and homelessness, as well as the social implications of technological change. David Alonso UCM David Alonso González is a Professor at the Faculty of Social Work (Complutense University-Madrid). Diploma in Social Work, Graduate in Social and Cultural Anthropology and Doctor in Social Work (Extraordinary Award). Member of the research group “Psychosocial Factors and Social Intervention” (rated excellent in Transfer) and member of the University Institute of Knowledge Technology (www.ucm.es/ITC). Experience in University Management as Vice Dean at the Faculty of Social Work and Coordinator of Innovation and Digitalization at the General UCM Foundation for 11 years. IP of the R&D Research Project-Knowledge Generation-): Adoption of technology, informal experts and digital education in older adults (PID2023-150587OB-I00). Coordinator at the UCM of European Projects: LEAD2CHANGE Project (2024-1-PT01-KA220-ADU-000249703) CO4TRAN Project (2021-1-ES01-KA220-VET-000028035) PAGES Project (2017-1-ES01-KA204-038393) (KA204) and T@SK Project (585626-EPP-1-2017-1-IT-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP). His main research interests focus on: Social Innovation and Social Work, Technology and Social Work, International Social Work, Social Work with Groups, Online Pedagogy, Active Aging, Social and Educational Gerontology. Pedro A. Coiro UNED Pedro A. Coiro Rodríguez (1984) has a degree in Humanities from the University of Alicante, has completed a master’s degree in Philosophy from the UNED and is currently in the final stretch of the Interuniversity Doctorate Program in Philosophy, with the presentation of a thesis regarding the concept of fetishism in contemporary French philosophy. He has published articles linked to the question of technique in modernity, to certain interpretations of the work of Karl Marx in French philosophy and, in another area, he has written about graphic novels and literature. On the other hand, he has been in charge of translations such as World for Sale, Critique of Tourist Unreason (Rodolphe Christin, El Salmón) or The Energy Wall of Capital (Sandrine Aumercier, Milvus). Íñigo Antepara EHU-UPV Íñigo Antepara is a professor in the Master’s programme Instrumentos del Análisis Económico at Sarriko (EHU/UPV). He has taught Microeconomics and Macroeconomics at the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences (EUNEIZ). He has completed two postdoctoral research stays, one at the CTU in Prague (Czech Republic) and another at the Catholic University of Lille (France). He has worked in the Energy Department at Ikerlan (Mondragón Group), the City Council of Vitoria-Gasteiz, and Alokabide, a public company for social rental housing from the Basque Government. He has also participated in research projects in the energy sector, acting as Principal Investigator in several of them. He worked as a consultant for the European project LIFE BioSOFC. In 2016, he joined the COST Action 16232 European Energy Poverty: Co-Creation Agenda and Knowledge Innovation. His research interests focus on energy poverty Marco Armiero UAB Marco Armiero (Naples, 1966) is an ICREA Research Professor at the Institute for the History of Science, Autonomous University of Barcelona. Prof. Armiero was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University and Stanford, a visiting scholar at Berkeley and Coimbra in Portugal, and a recipient of the prestigious Barron Visiting Professorship at Princeton. He directed the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory. In 2021, Cambridge University Press published his book “Wasteocene: Stories from the Global Dump”, which made a significant contribution to the current debate on the so-called Anthropocene. In 2022, Renmin University in China hosted a symposium dedicated to this book, while Italian Public Television dedicated a 30-minute show to it. In the same year, he published with two former students the first environmental history of Italian fascism, translated into English by MIT Press. Prof. Armiero is, above all, a pioneer. He is among the founders of environmental history in Europe; he is acknowledged to have started a research line on the environmental history of migrations, and his contribution to the establishment of the environmental humanities is well recognized, as evidenced by the number of invited talks he receives. Concepts such as Wasteocene, toxic narrative infrastructure, and fascist political ecologies have become building blocks of new scholarship. Asier Arias UCM Asier Arias Domínguez (Ponferrada, 1984) holds a PhD in Philosophy (UCM, 2015). He graduated in Philosophy (USAL, 2010) and in Psychology (UNED, 2015), and holds two Master’s degrees: one in Advanced Studies in Philosophy with a specialisation in Logic, Language, and Science (UCM, 2010), and another in Pedagogy (USAL, 2015). He works as a lecturer in the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), where he is a member of the Coordination Committee for the Master’s in Epistemology of Natural and Social Sciences and part of the research group on the Philosophy of Language, Nature, and Science. He is also a member of the editorial and advisory boards of the journal Mientras Tanto. His primary research focuses on the intersection between philosophy, psychobiology, and cognitive neuroscience, and he has also published two books and numerous articles on the political dimensions of the ongoing ecosocial crisis. Aurélien Berlan UT2J Aurélien Berlan (Paris, 1976) holds a PhD in Philosophy from Goethe University Frankfurt, where he defended a thesis on the sociological reactions to German industrialisation in the late 19th century, supervised by Axel Honneth. He is a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès and a member of the Atelier d’Écologie Politique de Toulouse (Atecopol). He has published La Fabrique des derniers hommes. Retour sur le présent avec Weber, Simmel et Tönnies (La Découverte, 2012) and Terre et liberté. La quête d’autonomie contre le fantasme de délivrance (La Lenteur, 2021), a work in which he rethinks emancipation in the context of the socioecological crisis. He has also contributed to collective works such as De la misère humaine en milieu publicitaire (La Découverte, 2004) and La Liberté dans le coma (La Lenteur, 2013). His areas of expertise include critical theory, political ecology, and studies on freedom and emancipation. Mireille Bruyere UT2J Mireille Bruyère holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Toulouse Capitole (1998). She was a researcher at the French Observatory of Economic Conditions (OFCE) and at the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory on Employment and Economics (LIRHE) at the University of Toulouse (1999-2003). She is currently a professor at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, where she co-directs the interdisciplinary Master’s programme in Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Political Economy, and coordinates the Master’s in Nouvelle Économie Sociale, focusing on productive autonomy and cooperatives. She is the author of L’insoutenable productivité du travail (Éditions Bord de l’eau, 2018) and regularly writes for the journal Politis. She is a member of the CERTOP-CNRS laboratory and, since 2020, of the Atelier d’Écologie Politique de Toulouse (Atécopol). Her research focuses on labour relations, productivity, and the socio-economic analysis of production. . María del Buey Cañas UAM María del Buey Cañas (Madrid, 1996) is an artist and researcher. She is currently developing her doctoral thesis at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid as a Predoctoral Researcher (PIPF-2022/PH-HUM-25975). In 2020, she completed her Master’s studies at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. She regularly works with the Spanish Association of Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art (AMEE), with Ensemble BallArte, and with BallArte Festival. She has collaborated as co-director of the platform and gallery Catalyst Arts, based in Belfast (2021); with Medialab-Prado (2019); and with the Instituto Cervantes in Dublin (2021), where she exhibited the project The Zone (Dublin, 2020). She has also curated AMEE’s participation in the first edition of The Listening Biennial (2021) alongside Alberto García Aznar, and in the second edition of The Listening Biennial (2023) with Víctor Aguado Machuca. Ramón del Buey Cañas UAM Ramón del Buey Cañas (Madrid, 1993). Doctor in Philosophy from the Autonomous University of Madrid. He has a Master’s Degree in Ecological Humanities, Sustainability and Ecosocial Transition (UPV/UAM, 2022) and another in Criticism and Philosophical Argumentation (UAM, 2018). He collaborates in research projects such as «SPEAK4Nature», «Energy humanities: Energy and sociocultural imaginaries between the industrial revolution and the ecosocial crisis» or «The link and its opposite. Disaffection, mediations and political representation. He is a member of the Ecological Humanities research group (GHECO) and the team of the Philosophical Laboratory on the Pandemic and the Anthropocene of the Spanish Philosophy Network. Helios Escalante UGR Helios Escalante Moreno (Granada, 1981) holds a degree in Geography and Territorial Management (UGR), a Master’s in Agroecology (UNIA), and a Higher Technician qualification in Natural Resources and Landscape Management. He is currently completing his doctoral thesis on the political economy and social metabolism of global agricultural trade (UGR). He is a member of the research group Spatial Dynamics and Inequalities in Andalusia (DEYOTA – HUM35), a collaborator with the STAND UGR group, the Extractivism Research Group at the University of Lund, and part of the working team for the research project MOVxPAIMED – Landscapes Saved and to be Saved. He teaches in the Master’s programme in Ecological Humanities, Sustainability, and Ecosocial Transition (MHESTE) and the Diploma of Specialisation in Ethical Ecological Sustainability and Environmental Education (DESEEEA). His areas of interest include critical geography, extractivism, and political ecology. Jaume Franquesa SUNY at Buffalo Jaume Franquesa obtuvo su doctorado en antropología por la Universitat de Barcelona en 2006, y fue becario posdoctoral en la University of Toronto entre 2007 y 2011. Actualmente es Professor of Anthropology en la University at Buffalo – The State University of New York. Su investigación se centra en el estudio de los efectos que las contradicciones de los procesos de transición energética tienen sobre el entorno rural, prestando especial atención al surgimiento de nuevas desigualdades y subjetividades políticas. Su último libro es Molinos y gigantes. La lucha por la dignidad, la soberanía energética y la transición ecológica (Errata naturae, 2023). Desde 2022 es también editor jefe de la revista Dialectical Anthropology. . Elvira García GSAS Elvira García García is a PhD researcher in Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University, holds a BA in Culture, Criticism, and Curation from the University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins, and a Research MA in Exhibition Studies with the research journal Afterall at Central Saint Martins, London. She has taught in this program and published in journals such as Afterall and Worms Magazine. Her research explores, among other interests, the common genealogies between the modern exhibition device and extraction. Loreto García Saiz RAKONTO Loreto García Saiz. Doctor in Communication from the Carlos III University of Madrid. Her doctoral thesis, developed from an ecocritical perspective, analyzes the material and symbolic dimensions of a territory crossed by agroindustrial extractivism such as the Sea of Plastic. She participates in the research projects “Speak4Nature: Interdisciplinary Approaches on Ecological Justice” and “Institutional Documentary in the Colonial Era”, and has carried out research stays at the University of Granada, the University of Concordia (Canada) and the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil). She is the founder and currently works at Rakonto, an artistic-ecological association that promotes the construction of imaginaries of desirable futures through art and non-formal education. Her academic and activist work seeks to build bridges between the university and other non-hegemonic learning spaces, and is articulated around critical pedagogies, ecocriticism and decolonial perspectives, using film and audiovisual media as tools to question hegemonic discourses, promote collective reflection and accompany other ways of inhabiting the world. Violeta Garrido UGR Violeta Garrido (Andalusia, 1996). Graduated in Humanities by the University Pompeu Fabra and Master in Sciences Humaines et Social by the École des Hautes Études in Social Sciences of Paris (Ehes) and in theory of literature and literature compared to the University of Barcelona. She is a researcher in the Department of Philosophy I of the University of Granada and a member of the research group “Social Philosophy: Critical Analysis of Society and Culture” (HUM-1036) and the extraordinary subject of social philosophy of body discrimination (immujeres-yourgr). She has conducted research stays at Duke University and at the National University of La Plata. Her research explores the intersections between Marxism, aesthetics and culture, and has coordinated in the UGR the research project «Tecnooptimismo and preservation of the future: science and deliberation in the horizon of the ecological crisis” (PPJIB2023.055). Pasi Heikkurinen LUT Pasi Heikkurinen is a Professor of Sustainable Business at LUT University (2023) and the President of the Finnish Society for Environmental Social Sciences (2022). He is also an adjunct professor in Sustainable Economics at the University of Helsinki and in Sustainability and Organizations at Aalto University. He is a co-founder of the Sustainable Change Research Network (SUCH) and the Process Studies on Sustainable Economy (PROSE) group. His notable publications include Degrowth: An Experience of Being Finite (MayFly, 2024), Strongly Sustainable Societies: Organizing Human Activities on a Hot and Full Earth (Routledge, 2019), and Sustainability and Peaceful Coexistence for the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2017). His areas of expertise include economics, technology, and culture in relation to sustainability, employing approaches based on the philosophy of experience, process thinking, and systems theory. Rosa Lago EHU-UPV Rosa Lago holds a PhD in Physical Sciences (UPM, 2002) and a degree in Solid-State Physics (UPV/EHU). She is an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering in Bilbao. She continued her research on photovoltaic solar cells as a research member at the Microelectronics Technology Institute (TiM, UPV/EHU). From 2013 to 2018, she was a member of Parte Hartuz (UPV/EHU). She has co-supervised a doctoral thesis, been the principal investigator (IP) of several R&D projects, and co-authored five scientific papers. She has been an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering in Bilbao (UPV/EHU, 2002) and a member of research groups such as the Madrid Solar Energy Institute, the Microelectronics Technology Institute (TiM), and Parte Hartuz (UPV/EHU). She is currently a founding member of the consolidated research group ekopol (UPV/EHU). Her research focuses on the social and ecological implications of energy. Omar Masera UNAM Omar Masera holds a PhD and Master’s in Energy and Natural Resources (UC, Berkeley), and a degree in Physics (UNAM). He is a tenured researcher at the Institute for Ecosystem and Sustainability Research (UNAM), where he leads the Ecotechnological Innovation and Bioenergy Group and the National Laboratory of Solid Biofuels (BIOENER). He is also co-coordinator of the National Strategic Program on Energy and Climate Change at CONACYT. He served as an international expert for Mexico at the IPCC (1998-2014). With a total of 345 publications and 23,800 citations to his work, he is a Level III member of the National System of Researchers and a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. His recognitions include the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize as part of the IPCC, the 2023 National Research Award from the Mexican Carbon Program, the 2015 National University Award in the field of Technological Innovation, the 2010 State Research Award in Technology from the State of Michoacán, and the 2006 Ashden International Award for Sustainable Energy. He is a founding member and the first president of the Mexican Bioenergy Network and of the Mexican Thematic Network on Bioenergy. His interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research interests focus on bioenergy and ecotechnological innovation, climate change mitigation, energy transition, and sustainability. Mario Pansera UVIGO Mario Pansera is the director of the Postgrowth Innovation Lab of the University of Vigo and currently employed as OPORTUNIUS Research Professor of the Xunta of Galicia. He’s also affiliated Researcher at the Autonoma University of Barcelona. He is the PI of ERC Starting Grant for the project PROSPERA (Grant Agreement: 947713) and coordinator of the H2020 project JUST2CE (Grant Agreement: 101003491). He gained a PhD in Management at the University of Exeter Business School in 2014. After his Marie-Curie post-doctoral fellowship in Brussels, he worked as a research fellow at the University of Bristol from 2017 to 2020. Mario is international faculty at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Cape Town in South Africa where he teaches Responsible Innovation in the ExeMBA. His work focuses on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and Innovation for degrowth/postgrowth. Paula Pérez-Rodríguez CSIC Paula Pérez-Rodríguez is a postdoctoral researcher “Juan de la Cierva” at the Institute of Language, Literature and Anthropology of the CSIC, Department of Literary and Cultural Studies. Doctor in Cultural and Literary Studies from Princeton University (2023), has been a postdoctoral researcher “Marcel Batailon” at Madrid Institute for Advances Studies (2024-2025), a graduate in Hispanic Philology (UAM) and Master in Cultural Studies (UAH) and Literary and Cultural Studies (Princeton University). She was a researcher at the Banco Sabadell-Hangar Foundation (IX Artistic Research Scholarship, 2024). She has taught classes and conferences in different international environments, such as the University of California in San Diego, Trinity College (Hartford, CT) or Arts University of Karlsruhe. She has published scientific articles in magazines such as Culture and Dialogue (in Press), Insula (2024), The Magazine of Humanities (2025), Sansueña (2025) or Kamchatka (2020). Her research areas include historical relationships between literature and technology, critical studies of voice and writing, literary theory, the history of book and Hispanic cultural studies. Quentin Mur-Rodriguez UOttawa – UT2J Quentin Mur-Rodriguez is a predoctoral researcher in sociology at the University of Ottawa (Canada) and at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès (Toulouse) under the supervision of Stéphane Vibert and Aurélien Berlan. He is also a research associate at the Centre de recherche risques et vulnerabilités (CERREV) at the University of Caen-Normandy. His doctoral work focuses on the evolution of the concept of “alienation” and the gradual adoption of the terminology of heteronomy in the thought of Cornelius Castoriadis. This research is essentially based on the archives of the Greek-French author kept at the Institut mémoires de l’édition contemporaine (IMEC), in Normandy. More specifically, he is interested in the “symbolic turn” in French political philosophy, starting with the socio-anthropological work of the late 1970s. In addition to being co-editor of Nouveaux cahiers Castoriadis, he is a member of the editorial board of La revue du MAUSS. Julia Ramírez-Blanco UCM Julia Ramírez-Blanco is a Ramón y Cajal researcher (UCM). Her work connects art history, utopian studies, and activist movements. She has conducted research on the political iconography of social movements, focusing on British direct action environmentalism of the 1990s and the 15M movement. She has published several monographs: The City of the Sun, The 15M Movement between Forms and Performances (Éditions Lorelei, 2023), Friends, Costumes, and Communes: The Brotherhoods of 19th-Century Artists (Cátedra, 2022), 15M: The Time of the Squares (Alianza, 2021), and Artistic Utopias of Revolt (Palgrave, 2018). She was co-director of the research and exhibition project Grande Révolution Domèstique-Guise (Familistère, Guise, 2018). She has been a member of the Utopian Studies Committee and is part of the research group at the Center for Artistic Activism (C4AA). She has collaborated extensively with MACBA and, at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, curated the 15M materials for the 2021 reorganization of the permanent collection. She also participated in the Critical Ecologies seminar in the institution’s Special Studies Program (2024). Andreas Roos LUND Andreas Roos, Ph.D., is a Researcher and Senior Lecturer in Human Ecology at Lund University, Sweden. He is the author of Solar Technology and Global Environmental Justice: The Vision and the Reality (Routledge, 2023). As an interdisciplinary scholar, Roos draws on insights from fields such as ecological economics, political ecology, environmental history, environmental humanities, and philosophy of technology to illuminate and challenge ecocide, environmental injustices, and global relations of power. Toni Ruuska HY Toni Ruuska, D.Sc., is a Professor of Food Economics and an Adjunct Professor of Sustainable Economics at the University of Helsinki. He is co-editor of Sustainability beyond Technology (Oxford University Press, 2021) and the author of Reproduction Revisited: Capitalism, Higher Education, and Ecological Crisis (Mayfly Books, 2019). His research focuses on exploring alternative pathways for agrarian political economy. Theoretically, Ruuska is engaged in critical theory, ecological Marxism, and (eco)phenomenology. His research interests include Environmental Social Sciences, Sustainable Economics, Political Ecology, Self-sufficiency, Degrowth, Subsistence, and alternatives to capitalism. Álvaro San Román UNED Alvaro San Román Gómez (1986) is a predoctoral researcher (FPI) in the department of Philosophy and Moral and Political Philosophy of the Faculty of Philosophy of the UNED, graduated in Philosophy from the UNED, Master’s Degree in Theoretical and Practical Philosophy in the specialty of History of Philosophy and Contemporary Thought from UNED, and University Expert Diploma in History and Philosophy of Religions. He is the author of several articles and book chapters, among which “Anthropocene, Capitalocene or Westernocene? On the Ideological Foundations of the Current Climate Crisis” in Capitalism, Nature & Socialism Magazine, translated into Chinese and Spanish. His lines of research are the Philosophy of Technology and the Philosophy of Religion in the context of climate stories. er. Jaume Sastre UAB Jaume Sastre-Juan is a Serra Húnter Professor in the Department of Philosophy and a researcher at the Institut d’Història de la Ciència (UAB). He coordinates the Interuniversity Master’s in History of Science: Science, History, and Society. Currently, he is preparing, together with Jaume Valentines-Álvarez, the collective book La cultura científica de la Transición: Museos, ciencia y política en la Barcelona preolímpica (Bellaterra Edicions), which presents the results of the MUSAUPOL project, where he served as co-Principal Investigator. Additionally, he is co-editing, along with Andrée Bergeron and Agustí Nieto-Galan, the collective volume Science Popularization as Cultural Diplomacy: UNESCO, 1946-1958 (Amsterdam University Press). Sastre-Juan has also recently translated Carlo Milani’s book La actitud hacker: Una apuesta por las tecnologías conviviales (NED Ediciones) and is researching the “porta a porta” recycling system in Sant Andreu del Palomar, Barcelona. His research interests include the political history of science popularization, as well as the history and philosophy of technology. Paulina Silva UNAM Paulina Isabel Silva Rubio holds a PhD in Law and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Ecosystem and Sustainability Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her work focuses on environmental law, human rights and public policy, with a special focus on just energy transition and the integration of critical socio-environmental approaches in Global South contexts. Her lines of research address the relationship between law, territory and alternative models of development, with an emphasis on good living, socio-environmental justice and the tensions between regulatory frameworks, technologies and local communities. She has participated in projects and academic publications related to climate change and environmental governance. Jaume Valentines UAB Jaume Valentines-Álvarez. PhD in the History of Science (UAB, 2012). He has undertaken research stays in Mexico, London, Granada, Berlin, Geneva, and Lisbon. He currently works at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona as an Associate Professor, where his research explores how resistance to technology can act as a catalyst for innovation and the future. Since 2012, he has organised the meetings between academics, activists, and local communities “Ciencia, tecnología y medicina en las plazas”. He is a member of the informal research group Allaqqat (etymologically, “pliers”: like the botijo from the project THECO, a simple and shared technology that allows for cutting barbed wire). His areas of expertise include the intimate relationships between technocracy and nationalism in times of crisis, artefacts designed to survive violence, the role of emotions in nuclear debates, and the community-based construction of alternative technologies. Belisario Zalazar UNC Belisario Zalazar (1989), Doctor of Letters from the National University of Córdoba (Argentina), is a member of the Consolidar Project “Theoretical Fictions. Imagination and materialisms in contemporary literature and arts” based at the Research Center of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities (UNC) and the PICT/Raíces “Bio/Geo/Cosmopolitics: planetary imaginaries from Latin America (1990-2020)”. He has compiled, together with Dr. Julia Jorge, the book Material Drives (Teseo, 2022); He has published works such as “An ecology for Artificial Intelligence: jungle thoughts and Latin American f(r)iction science” (USACH, in press) and “Extraterrestrial dreams: the colonization of Mars and the ends of the world” (2021). His main areas of research are Literature, Philosophy of Technology and Ecological Humanities. In this framework, he studies the imaginaries and future narratives in science fiction literature, and the new strange fiction, Latin American from posthumanist debates.