Introduction: Ruinas modernas: untimely spaces and multiple temporalities in modern and contemporary Spanish culture

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1 In this particular sense, and regarding an existential reflection in Zambrano that does not posit the subject of modernity as a narrative towards sacrifice and progress nor anymore towards emancipation, the Andalusian thinker paves the way for the- more-than-urgent, now- abyssal impending threat of the Anthropocene. See Aguilera-Mellado (2018) and also the special issue on the Anthropocene and Infrapolitics co-edited by Aguilera-Mellado, Méndez Cota y Baker in December, 2023. For an infrapolitical reflection on the Anthropocene in the field of Iberian Studies, see the contribution by Aguilera-Mellado on that aforementioned special issue apropos the Basque contemporary author Aixa de la Cruz. For the limits of decoloniality see Williams (2016).

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Pedro Aguilera-Mellado

Pedro A. Aguilera-Mellado is an Assistant Professor of Spanish (Iberian Studies) in the Department of Romances Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame. His areas of interest are modern and contemporary literature and cultures of Spain and critical theory. He has published a number of articles in the intersections of political and continental thought, literature, and the cultural and political history of modern and contemporary Spain, dealing with questions such as: sacrifice, human finitude, capital accumulation, subjectivity, writing and existence, reason and Enlightenment, postfeminism, postmarxism, or visual representation. He is the author of Fines Infrapolíticos: de la razón, la representación y la narrativa española moderna (Tirant lo Blanch, 2024).

Antonio Córdoba

Antonio Córdoba is currently an Associate Professor of Spanish at Manhattan College. His research focuses on Spanish-language speculative fiction and the relationship between modernity and the concept of the sacred. He is the co-editor of The Sacred and Modernity in Urban Spain: Beyond the Secular City (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), Rite, Flesh, and Stone: The Matter of Death in Contemporary Spanish Culture (Vanderbilt University Press, 2021), and a special journal issue titled Heads and Tails of the Monarch: Representations of Kings and Queens in Post-Francoist Spain (Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 2024). He is also the coeditor of Posthumanism and Latin(x) American Science Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), and the author of Extranjero en tierra extraña: El género de la ciencia ficción en América Latina (Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Sevilla, 2011) and more than a dozen of essays on Spanish and Latin American literature, film, and music.

Jacqueline Sheean

Jacqueline Sheean is an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Utah. Her research focuses on the intersection of media theory and Spanish cultural studies and engages issues of memory, authoritarianism, exile, and national identity in 20th and 21st century Spain. Her essays on Iberian cinema and media have appeared in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, and the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, and Hispania, among other venues.