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Critical Ecologies Seminar in “Tejidos Conjuntivos” (MNCARS)

The seminar ‘Critical Ecologies’ is part of the Tejidos Conjuntivos programme of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.

This seminar, conducted by Adrián Almazán (Carlos III University, Madrid), Alberto Berzosa (Autonomous University of Madrid), Julia Ramírez (Complutense University of Madrid) and Jaime Vindel (Spanish National Research Council, CSIC), reflects the Museo Reina Sofía’s collaboration with the Ecological Technics and Humanities research group from the Carlos III University in Madrid and with CSIC’s research project “Energy Humanities: Energy and Sociocultural Imaginaries Between the Industrial Revolution and Eco-social Crisis”. The understanding of our era lies in recognising the central position of environmental issues to foster a debate which allows us to intervene in the present while also taking up a historical perspective. Consequently, from the point of view of ecological and energy humanities, we must ask questions around ties between colonialism, authoritarianism and fossil fuels within the context of the techno-political development of modern states and global capital. What relationships exist between different forms of modern power and energy regimes of industrial modernity? To what degree are energy alternatives to fossil modernity driving forward the transformation we require to tackle the ecological emergency?