The route of Orion: Towards a deconstructive history of alien contact in Chile

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dc.contributor.authorEspirito Santo, Diana
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T17:12:27Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T17:12:27Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, I analyze a Chilean mining geoanalyst's narrative about large unrecognized geoglyphs he has charted in the Atacama Desert. The turns of this narrative take us through the Ancient Aliens hypothesis, but also an alterative pre-Inca migration route between the Atlantic and the Pacific thousands of years old, and in contravention to normative Andean archaeology. I argue that we need to look at alternative forms of history making that are not based on ontologically realist premises. Using Kleinbergs notion of 'past possibles', based on Derrida's theory of historical deconstruction, I defend that in the mining expert ' s narrative coexist a multiplicity of possible pasts, in oscillation between latent and manifest. I also look at the Desert itself, and its extractive industries, as well as a notion of 'extreme' in relation to temporal thinking, arguing that it is not enough to see the narrative on aliens as a result of neoliberal capitalist exploitation.
dc.description.funderAgencia Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo (ANID), Programa de Investigacion Asociativa (PIA)
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/02757206.2022.2034623
dc.identifier.eissn1477-2612
dc.identifier.issn0275-7206
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2022.2034623
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/91253
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000753843600001
dc.issue.numero2
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final214
dc.pagina.inicio189
dc.revistaHistory and anthropology
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectAliens
dc.subjectAtacama Desert
dc.subjectgeoglyphs
dc.subjectpast possibles
dc.subjecttechnologies
dc.titleThe route of Orion: Towards a deconstructive history of alien contact in Chile
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen35
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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