Left to Be Desired Episode 4: Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu on Ecological Socialism of the Future

We are pleased to announce that episode 4 of Left to be Desired is now live. Maja and Reuben Fowkes converse with Romanian theorist Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu on the Ecological Socialism of the Future. 

Left to be Desired is available to listen to on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music/Audible and Audacy. 

Left to be Desired podcast explores the distinctiveness of the socialist path through the Anthropocene by bringing together artistic and scholarly insights into the ecologies of global Socialism. Maja & Reuben Fowkes will invite artists and researchers to talk about their practice and exchange ideas at the intersection of ecology, climate change, art and the Socialist Anthropocene. 

Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu on the Ecological Socialism of the Future 

For episode 4 of Left to be Desired we followed up on Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu’s presentation at the SAVA Research Week, exploring in more depth his proposal for an Ecological Socialism of the Future. The conversation with Maja and Reuben Fowkes addressed the west-leftist disregard for the lived experience of actually existing or real socialism, here in the case of Romania, touched on his autoethnographic recovery of the eco-socialist potentialities of life in Cluj during the 1970 and 1980s, and meandered through the specific case of a river-based ecozonal economy experimented with during the period. Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu is a Romanian philosopher, translator and culture theorist, writing on critical social theory, decolonial thought, alternative epistemologies, histories of senses and cultural history. He is editor of the journal of contemporary art and critical theory IDEA arts + society and co-founder of the fluid curatorial collective Committee for Resurrection.