Coches, autopistas y piel. Entrevista múltiple a Sara Ahmed, Cara Daggett, Layla Martínez y Joanna Żylińska

Abstract

This four-voiced interview seeks to articulate sensitive and theoretical perspectives on a terrain that has been scarcely explored from an ecosocial standpoint: the symbolic infrastructures of the Anthropocene in relation to masculinities, urbanization, and politics. The dialogue brings together Sara Ahmed, feminist writer and independent scholar, author of The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2004), Queer Phenomenology (2006), and Living a Feminist Life (2017); Cara Daggett, Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech, author of The Birth of Energy (2019) and Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire (2018); Layla Martínez, editor and writer of Utopía no es una isla (2020) and Carcoma (2021); and Joanna Żylińska, writer and Professor of Digital Humanities at King’s College London, author of Nonhuman Photography (2017) and The End of Man (2018). In this multifaceted dialogue, they explore the latent petromasculinity embedded in contemporary infrastructures.