Disobey the apocalypse 5. Decrease

The fifth session of the Escola de pensament arrives in the combat of the apocalyptic narrative. Moderated by Marina Garcés and Albert Lladó, the time has come to decrease with Emilio Santiago Muíño.

Emilio Santiago Muíño holds a PhD in social anthropology. CSIC Titular Scientist, in a research plaza on the anthropology of the climate crisis. Eco-social activist, founder of the Instituto de Transición Rompe el Círculo in Móstoles and member of Más Madrid/Más País. He has taught at the Autonomous University of Madrid, the University of Zaragoza and the Independent Studies Program of MACBA in Barcelona. Between 2016 and 2019 he held the position of Technical Director of Environment of the City of Móstoles. And in 2020 he worked as a parliamentary technical advisor at the Madrid Assembly. Author, among others, of the books Rutas sin mapa (Premio de ensayo Catarata, 2015), ¿Qué hacer en caso de incendio? Manifiesto por el Green New Deal -along with Héctor Tejero- (Capitán Swing, 2019) and Contra el mito del colapso ecologico (Arpa, 2023).


Kidnapped by the stories that only know how to announce the end of the world, the idea of the future has been collapsed by a present that only knows how to relate to it from despondency, discouragement or, even worse, indifference. Joy, we know, is still a disobedient act and, once the traps of an empty happiness have been detected, the ability to play continues to be an incorruptible tool of creation and criticism, of the scene and of thought. The Escola de pensament invites us, then, to wake up in the links from the gesture and the word, as spaces of commitment and attempt.