Browsing by Author "Tironi M."

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    AN INSIDE SUN: LICKANANTAY VULCANOLOGY IN THE SALAR DE ATACAMAUN SOL INTERIOR: VULCANOLOGÍA LICKANANTAY EN EL SALAR DE ATACAMA
    (Springer, 2023) Chocobar S.R.; Tironi M.; CEDEUS (Chile)
    © 2023, Corporation for the Management and Reduction of Disaster Risk in Chile (GRID-Chile). All rights reserved.Having lived alongside the geological dynamism of the Salar de Atacama (Chile) basin for millennia, the Lickanantay people have accumulated abundant observational and ceremonial data about the volcanic nature that surrounds them and the participation of volcanoes in broader processes of cosmoecological formation. However, Western volcanology has not established a substantive dialogue with this knowledge. Through cross-cultural collaboration, this article exposes what we call ‘Lickanantay volcanology’—or the Lickanantay system of knowledge about volcanoes, volcano-human relationships, and geocosmic interdependence—with the aim of making it available to the general volcanological community. First, we describe the basic features of Lickanantay volcanology. We then turn to the El Tatio geothermal field to provide a situated approach. Finally, we outline some elements for volcanic risk management from a Lickanantay perspective. In our conclusions we suggest that Lickanantay volcanology invites us to think of the ‘indigenous’ not as a finite set of knowledges and practices but as a demand for territorial and epistemological autonomy, and that it is only by recognizing this demand that volcanology will be able to respond to the call for the decolonization of science.
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    Chapter 11 - The circulation of the Smart City imaginary in the Chilean context: A case study of a collaborative platform for governing security
    (Elsevier, 2020) Tironi M.; Albornoz C.
    The proliferation of technologies, devices, and digital platforms and their growing capacity to gather large amounts of data would seem to be delivering on the promise of a more automated, efficient, and Smart City. In this chapter, we examine the Smarty City circuit in Santiago de Chile and the ways in which various stakeholders bring meaning to this concept. We argue that the sociotechnical imaginary of the Smart City in the Chilean circuit has an ambiguous nature and it is interpreted through making and its positioning in various innovation events, urban laboratories, and government entities that articulate a collaborative network between the state, citizens and private enterprises. Furthermore, we analyze the case of the SoSafe platform, a Chilean smartphone application that seeks to reduce emergency response times through geolocalized reports made by citizens, exploring the scope and limits of the emergence of platform urbanism.
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    Disciplinary inflections: Contesting three concepts for the construction of the post-neoliberal cityInflexiones disciplinares: disputando tres conceptos para la construcción de la ciudad posneoliberal
    (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile 1, 2021) Encinas F.; Encinas F.; Truffello R.; Tironi M.; Truffello R.; Aguirre C.; Aguirre C.; Freed C.; Vergara-Perucich F.; Hidalgo R.; Tironi M.; CEDEUS (Chile)
    © 2021, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile 1. All rights reserved.When words become fashionable, their use modifies their meaning. By understanding this performative condition, this text analyzes the current implications of the concepts of sustainability, resilience, and integration. Then, it argues the need to overcome the neoliberal city if we want these meanings to become real.
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    Experimenting with the Social Life of Homes: Sensor Governmentality and Its Frictions
    (Routledge, 2021) Tironi M.; Valderrama M.; CEDEUS (Chile)
    © 2021 Process Press.Smart devices are invading everyday spaces like our bedrooms and living rooms, making it possible to conduct new participatory experimentations in the ‘real world’. An example is the National Housing Monitoring Network (Red Nacional de Monitoreo, ReNaM). By installing networked sensors in homes in different cities in Chile, ReNaM seeks to generate a large public database on the environmental behaviour of homes in real life conditions and throughout their life cycle, in order to make data-driven policies and regulations on sustainable building. In this article, we argue that experiments with digital innovations like ReNaM are moving towards a ‘sensor governmentality’ or a mode of sensitive regulation of household behaviour at a distance, recomposing the relationship that the State establishes with its population. However, we find that this sensor governmentality is multivalent, fragile and friction-loaded. We analyse different scripts present in ReNaM and the frictions that emerge between divergent ways of materialising this sensor network from above and below. Moreover, the real environmental conditions and behaviours that the experiment seeks to capture through sensors are always challenged by the multiple entanglements that sensor devices unfold in domestic spaces, suggesting that affective and collective possibilities in these real-world experiments should be considered.
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    INTRODUCTION Ends in other terms: an introduction
    (Routledge, 2021) Tironi M.; Gonzalez-Galvez M.; de la Cadena M.