C Simonetti
Biographic Data
| ID | 21207 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Simonetti |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Simonetti |
| SIGNATURE | SIMONETTI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0755-3332 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Glaciares y Constitución Aproximaciones al Debate Constitucional y Ciudadano Chileno, 1980-2023
The 2019-2023 period in Chile was particularly unusual. A massive protest challenged the political and economic system inherited from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, paving the way to vote for a new Constitution that replaced the one approved prior to the return of democracy. The public debate around the content and spirit of the new Constitution also witnessed the emergence of climate change and glaciers as political agents. Drawing from o…
Is glacier science undone, or just enough for a just transition? Reflections from Andean Mines
Undone science refers to missing areas of scientific knowledge needed for decision-making or public policy. Though the term has become ubiquitous in STS research, it is hard to distinguish undone science from other possibilities like uncertainty, secrecy, or even unknowability. This paper advances a framework for distinguishing undone science from these other scenarios and applies it to the case of glacier management in Chile. Drawing on observat…
Introducing Solid Fluids
This issue opens an inquiry into the tension between solidity and fluidity. This tension is ingrained in the Western intellectual tradition and informs theoretical debates across the sciences and humanities. In physics, solid is one phase of matter, alongside liquid, gas and plasma. This, however, assumes all matter to be particulate. Reversing the relation between statics and dynamics, we argue to the contrary, that matter exists as continuous f…
Viscosity in Matter, Life and Sociality: The Case of Glacial Ice
A tension between solidity and fluidity tends to divide the sciences and the humanities along lines that define what is hard and soft in knowledge. This divide relates to similar dichotomies, between exteriority and interiority, material and spiritual, homogeneity and heterogeneity, matter and form, all of which have been partially mapped in Western thinking onto a traditional separation between earth and sky. Yet particular forms of knowledge si…
A Solid Fluids Lexicon
In our discussions around the theme of solid fluids, we often resort to everyday words, many of them of ancient derivation and rich in association. We have decided to make a list of some of the words that come up most often - barring those that already figure as the principal characters of individual contributions - and to distribute among ourselves the task of writing a sort of mini-biography for each. The resulting lexicon with 19 entries, rang…
Resonancias geológicas: Aprendiendo a ser afectados por las fuerzas de la tierra en el Antropoceno
espanolEl Antropoceno -termino acunado recientemente para designar a la epoca geologica actual- se enmarca en la pregunta por el impacto de lo humano a escala planetaria. Dirigido al mismo tiempo a todos y a nadie, el Antropoceno pareciera interpelar a un humano global, imposible de hallar en ninguna parte. Dicha narrativa coincidiria con la tendencia general de la ciencia moderna en torno a un distanciamiento epistemico de la naturaleza. Esta na…
The Petrified Anthropocene
The Anthropocene is seen by many scholars across the sciences and the humanities as a tool for political action. Yet the validation process for this term appears to be extremely conservative. According to geologists' leading efforts to formalize the term, signals need to petrify in stratigraphic sequences in order to become candidates to mark the start of the Anthropocene. I argue that this emphasis results from a fossilized view of becoming, whe…
Weathering climate: Telescoping Change
As the scientific distinction between climate and weather suggests, knowledge about climate is supposed to be beyond indigenous peoples' everyday experience of the environment in that it requires a long-term record. On the basis of ethnographic work among geoscientists in Scotland and West Greenland, I show that practitioners of this discipline have mastered the craft of turning 'visible' what is 'invisible' to the senses by playing with shorter …
Inorganic Becomings
In this choral essay we, an assorted group of academics interested in inorganic life and matter, explore a mode of thinking and feeling with our objects of inquiry—chemicals, waste, cement, gas, and the “project” as a particular form of circulation and enactment of materials and things. To experiment with alternative modes of knowing, we went to Puchuncaví, the largest, oldest, and most polluting industrial compound in Chile, to encounter the ino…
Ice and Concrete: Solid Fluids of Environmental Change
Recent environmental changes have sparked off unprecedented dialogues between practitioners of the earth sciences and the humanities, which defy some of the basic assumptions underpinning western science. However, a gap still persists between natural scientists and scholars in the humanities in their tendency to concentrate respectively on the solid matter and fluid meaning. This article seeks to close this gap by paying attention to glacial ice …
Entrevivendo em suspensão
Inspirado pelo trabalho etnográfico com mergulhadores profissionais, cujas habi lidades e tecnologia são relevantes para o modo como astronautas treinam na terra e sobrevivem no espaço sideral, este artigo teoriza sobre o que significa para humanos viver em suspensão. Eu argumento que encontros científicos com ambientes extraterrestres são marcados pela coexistência de tropos de superfície e suspensão, que falam de modos contrastantes de corporiz…
Entrevista a Tim Ingold: Jueves 14 de abril de 2016
Social Anthropology at the
Feeling Forward into the Past: Depths and Surfaces in Archaeology
As novice archaeologists learn to project their attention beyond what is immediately visible on the ground, in the company of experts who support them by drawing their attention through gestures, they develop a capacity to feel forward into the absent properties of the landscape. A multisensory exercise, this capacity constitutes a movement not only to the future but also into a deeply buried past. This experience, common to the practice of excav…
Liquid Rock: Gathering, Flattening, Curing
Reducing representation to writing does not bring one closer to the physical world. Writing should generate ideas into matter, and not the other way around.1 Robert Smithson.Over the last
Taming time, timing death’. Social technologies and rituals
This volume includes a remarkable collection of studies from around the globe that explore the relationship between time and death. Powerful ideas such as the reconsideration of the agency of the d
The stratification of time
Scientists that rely on excavation for studying the past tend to conceptualize the passage of time vertically, as a movement from bottom to top. In the history of knowledge, this has not been an exclusive property of sciences that excavate the past. Geological time had an impact on many other disciplines, some of which are far from the original source, with the result that various temporal processes became stratified, such as the evolution and gr…
With the past under your feet: On the Development of Time Concepts in Archaeology
The understanding of the past in archaeology is much influenced by how time is spatialized within the discipline. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among archaeologists, this article examines the use of time expressions and the relationship between speech and gestures. It shows that concepts important for the discipline refer to the experience of facing a past deep underneath the ground and a temporal verticality that runs from bottom to top. The a…
Between the vertical and the horizontal: Time and space in archaeology
Archaeology, like most sciences that rely on stratigraphic excavation for studying the past, tends to conceptualize this past as lying deep underneath the ground. Accordingly, chronologies tend to be depicted as a movement from bottom to top, which contrast with sciences that illustrate the passage of time horizontally. By paying attention to the development of the visual language of disciplines that follow stratigraphy, I show how chronologies g…
Introducing Solid Fluids
This issue opens an inquiry into the tension between solidity and fluidity. This tension is ingrained in the Western intellectual tradition and informs theoretical debates across the sciences and humanities. In physics, solid is one phase of matter, alongside liquid, gas and plasma. This, however, assumes all matter to be particulate. Reversing the relation between statics and dynamics, we argue to the contrary, that matter exists as continuous f…
Between the vertical and the horizontal: Time and space in archaeology
Archaeology, like most sciences that rely on stratigraphic excavation for studying the past, tends to conceptualize this past as lying deep underneath the ground. Accordingly, chronologies tend to be depicted as a movement from bottom to top, which contrast with sciences that illustrate the passage of time horizontally. By paying attention to the development of the visual language of disciplines that follow stratigraphy, I show how chronologies g…
Weathering climate: Telescoping Change
As the scientific distinction between climate and weather suggests, knowledge about climate is supposed to be beyond indigenous peoples' everyday experience of the environment in that it requires a long-term record. On the basis of ethnographic work among geoscientists in Scotland and West Greenland, I show that practitioners of this discipline have mastered the craft of turning 'visible' what is 'invisible' to the senses by playing with shorter …
Liquid Rock: Gathering, Flattening, Curing
Reducing representation to writing does not bring one closer to the physical world. Writing should generate ideas into matter, and not the other way around.1 Robert Smithson.Over the last
Viscosity in Matter, Life and Sociality: The Case of Glacial Ice
A tension between solidity and fluidity tends to divide the sciences and the humanities along lines that define what is hard and soft in knowledge. This divide relates to similar dichotomies, between exteriority and interiority, material and spiritual, homogeneity and heterogeneity, matter and form, all of which have been partially mapped in Western thinking onto a traditional separation between earth and sky. Yet particular forms of knowledge si…
The Petrified Anthropocene
The Anthropocene is seen by many scholars across the sciences and the humanities as a tool for political action. Yet the validation process for this term appears to be extremely conservative. According to geologists' leading efforts to formalize the term, signals need to petrify in stratigraphic sequences in order to become candidates to mark the start of the Anthropocene. I argue that this emphasis results from a fossilized view of becoming, whe…
Ice and Concrete: Solid Fluids of Environmental Change
Recent environmental changes have sparked off unprecedented dialogues between practitioners of the earth sciences and the humanities, which defy some of the basic assumptions underpinning western science. However, a gap still persists between natural scientists and scholars in the humanities in their tendency to concentrate respectively on the solid matter and fluid meaning. This article seeks to close this gap by paying attention to glacial ice …
A Solid Fluids Lexicon
In our discussions around the theme of solid fluids, we often resort to everyday words, many of them of ancient derivation and rich in association. We have decided to make a list of some of the words that come up most often - barring those that already figure as the principal characters of individual contributions - and to distribute among ourselves the task of writing a sort of mini-biography for each. The resulting lexicon with 19 entries, rang…
With the past under your feet: On the Development of Time Concepts in Archaeology
The understanding of the past in archaeology is much influenced by how time is spatialized within the discipline. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among archaeologists, this article examines the use of time expressions and the relationship between speech and gestures. It shows that concepts important for the discipline refer to the experience of facing a past deep underneath the ground and a temporal verticality that runs from bottom to top. The a…
The stratification of time
Scientists that rely on excavation for studying the past tend to conceptualize the passage of time vertically, as a movement from bottom to top. In the history of knowledge, this has not been an exclusive property of sciences that excavate the past. Geological time had an impact on many other disciplines, some of which are far from the original source, with the result that various temporal processes became stratified, such as the evolution and gr…
Resonancias geológicas: Aprendiendo a ser afectados por las fuerzas de la tierra en el Antropoceno
espanolEl Antropoceno -termino acunado recientemente para designar a la epoca geologica actual- se enmarca en la pregunta por el impacto de lo humano a escala planetaria. Dirigido al mismo tiempo a todos y a nadie, el Antropoceno pareciera interpelar a un humano global, imposible de hallar en ninguna parte. Dicha narrativa coincidiria con la tendencia general de la ciencia moderna en torno a un distanciamiento epistemico de la naturaleza. Esta na…
Entrevivendo em suspensão
Inspirado pelo trabalho etnográfico com mergulhadores profissionais, cujas habi lidades e tecnologia são relevantes para o modo como astronautas treinam na terra e sobrevivem no espaço sideral, este artigo teoriza sobre o que significa para humanos viver em suspensão. Eu argumento que encontros científicos com ambientes extraterrestres são marcados pela coexistência de tropos de superfície e suspensão, que falam de modos contrastantes de corporiz…
Taming time, timing death’. Social technologies and rituals
This volume includes a remarkable collection of studies from around the globe that explore the relationship between time and death. Powerful ideas such as the reconsideration of the agency of the d
Between the vertical and the horizontal: Time and space in archaeology
Archaeology, like most sciences that rely on stratigraphic excavation for studying the past, tends to conceptualize this past as lying deep underneath the ground. Accordingly, chronologies tend to be depicted as a movement from bottom to top, which contrast with sciences that illustrate the passage of time horizontally. By paying attention to the development of the visual language of disciplines that follow stratigraphy, I show how chronologies g…
With the past under your feet: On the Development of Time Concepts in Archaeology
The understanding of the past in archaeology is much influenced by how time is spatialized within the discipline. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among archaeologists, this article examines the use of time expressions and the relationship between speech and gestures. It shows that concepts important for the discipline refer to the experience of facing a past deep underneath the ground and a temporal verticality that runs from bottom to top. The a…
Feeling Forward into the Past: Depths and Surfaces in Archaeology
As novice archaeologists learn to project their attention beyond what is immediately visible on the ground, in the company of experts who support them by drawing their attention through gestures, they develop a capacity to feel forward into the absent properties of the landscape. A multisensory exercise, this capacity constitutes a movement not only to the future but also into a deeply buried past. This experience, common to the practice of excav…
Liquid Rock: Gathering, Flattening, Curing
Reducing representation to writing does not bring one closer to the physical world. Writing should generate ideas into matter, and not the other way around.1 Robert Smithson.Over the last
Taming time, timing death’. Social technologies and rituals
This volume includes a remarkable collection of studies from around the globe that explore the relationship between time and death. Powerful ideas such as the reconsideration of the agency of the d
The stratification of time
Scientists that rely on excavation for studying the past tend to conceptualize the passage of time vertically, as a movement from bottom to top. In the history of knowledge, this has not been an exclusive property of sciences that excavate the past. Geological time had an impact on many other disciplines, some of which are far from the original source, with the result that various temporal processes became stratified, such as the evolution and gr…
Entrevista a Tim Ingold: Jueves 14 de abril de 2016
Social Anthropology at the
Inorganic Becomings
In this choral essay we, an assorted group of academics interested in inorganic life and matter, explore a mode of thinking and feeling with our objects of inquiry—chemicals, waste, cement, gas, and the “project” as a particular form of circulation and enactment of materials and things. To experiment with alternative modes of knowing, we went to Puchuncaví, the largest, oldest, and most polluting industrial compound in Chile, to encounter the ino…
Ice and Concrete: Solid Fluids of Environmental Change
Recent environmental changes have sparked off unprecedented dialogues between practitioners of the earth sciences and the humanities, which defy some of the basic assumptions underpinning western science. However, a gap still persists between natural scientists and scholars in the humanities in their tendency to concentrate respectively on the solid matter and fluid meaning. This article seeks to close this gap by paying attention to glacial ice …
Entrevivendo em suspensão
Inspirado pelo trabalho etnográfico com mergulhadores profissionais, cujas habi lidades e tecnologia são relevantes para o modo como astronautas treinam na terra e sobrevivem no espaço sideral, este artigo teoriza sobre o que significa para humanos viver em suspensão. Eu argumento que encontros científicos com ambientes extraterrestres são marcados pela coexistência de tropos de superfície e suspensão, que falam de modos contrastantes de corporiz…
The Petrified Anthropocene
The Anthropocene is seen by many scholars across the sciences and the humanities as a tool for political action. Yet the validation process for this term appears to be extremely conservative. According to geologists' leading efforts to formalize the term, signals need to petrify in stratigraphic sequences in order to become candidates to mark the start of the Anthropocene. I argue that this emphasis results from a fossilized view of becoming, whe…
Weathering climate: Telescoping Change
As the scientific distinction between climate and weather suggests, knowledge about climate is supposed to be beyond indigenous peoples' everyday experience of the environment in that it requires a long-term record. On the basis of ethnographic work among geoscientists in Scotland and West Greenland, I show that practitioners of this discipline have mastered the craft of turning 'visible' what is 'invisible' to the senses by playing with shorter …
Resonancias geológicas: Aprendiendo a ser afectados por las fuerzas de la tierra en el Antropoceno
espanolEl Antropoceno -termino acunado recientemente para designar a la epoca geologica actual- se enmarca en la pregunta por el impacto de lo humano a escala planetaria. Dirigido al mismo tiempo a todos y a nadie, el Antropoceno pareciera interpelar a un humano global, imposible de hallar en ninguna parte. Dicha narrativa coincidiria con la tendencia general de la ciencia moderna en torno a un distanciamiento epistemico de la naturaleza. Esta na…
Introducing Solid Fluids
This issue opens an inquiry into the tension between solidity and fluidity. This tension is ingrained in the Western intellectual tradition and informs theoretical debates across the sciences and humanities. In physics, solid is one phase of matter, alongside liquid, gas and plasma. This, however, assumes all matter to be particulate. Reversing the relation between statics and dynamics, we argue to the contrary, that matter exists as continuous f…
Viscosity in Matter, Life and Sociality: The Case of Glacial Ice
A tension between solidity and fluidity tends to divide the sciences and the humanities along lines that define what is hard and soft in knowledge. This divide relates to similar dichotomies, between exteriority and interiority, material and spiritual, homogeneity and heterogeneity, matter and form, all of which have been partially mapped in Western thinking onto a traditional separation between earth and sky. Yet particular forms of knowledge si…
A Solid Fluids Lexicon
In our discussions around the theme of solid fluids, we often resort to everyday words, many of them of ancient derivation and rich in association. We have decided to make a list of some of the words that come up most often - barring those that already figure as the principal characters of individual contributions - and to distribute among ourselves the task of writing a sort of mini-biography for each. The resulting lexicon with 19 entries, rang…
Is glacier science undone, or just enough for a just transition? Reflections from Andean Mines
Undone science refers to missing areas of scientific knowledge needed for decision-making or public policy. Though the term has become ubiquitous in STS research, it is hard to distinguish undone science from other possibilities like uncertainty, secrecy, or even unknowability. This paper advances a framework for distinguishing undone science from these other scenarios and applies it to the case of glacier management in Chile. Drawing on observat…
Glaciares y Constitución Aproximaciones al Debate Constitucional y Ciudadano Chileno, 1980-2023
The 2019-2023 period in Chile was particularly unusual. A massive protest challenged the political and economic system inherited from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, paving the way to vote for a new Constitution that replaced the one approved prior to the return of democracy. The public debate around the content and spirit of the new Constitution also witnessed the emergence of climate change and glaciers as political agents. Drawing from o…
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