Browsing by Author "Tironi, Martin"

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    Artificial intelligence in the new forms of environmental governance in the Chilean State: Towards an eco-algorithmic governance
    (Wiley, 2023) Tironi, Martin; Lisboa, Diego Ignacio Rivera; CEDEUS (Chile)
    One of the most popular fields of experimentation with technological solutions based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and algorithmic systems is environmental studies, particularly as it relates to climate change. The promise of mitigating the impact of human activity on the environment through the introduction of sensor technologies has given way to a series of narratives around their role and capabilities. Focusing on the case of Environmental Intelligence, an initiative developed by the Chilean government's Superintendency for the Environment that incorporates AI into the monitoring process, we offer arguments regarding the articulation of an eco-algorithmic governmentality in which the environment is desingularized and reduced to a series of metrics associated with regulatory compliance. The operations that serve to prototype and give shape to the initiative created a series of tensions around the possibility of arriving at other forms of involvement in and understanding of the environment. This article shows how this eco-algorithmic governmentality conceptualizes the environment as an entity that can be optimized and rationalized, generating epistemic frictions with other logics of relationality and situated and terrestrial sensibility.
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    DISCIPLINARY INFLECTIONS: Contesting Three Concepts for the Construction of the Post-Neoliberal City
    (PONTIFICIA UNIV CATOLICA CHILE, ESCUELA ARQUITECTURA, 2021) Encinas, Felipe; Aguirre, Carlos; Vergara Perucich, Francisco; Tironi, Martin; Truffello, Ricardo; Freed, Carmen; Hidalgo, Rodrigo; CEDEUS (Chile)
    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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    The militarization of the urban sky in Santiago de Chile: the vision multiple of a video-surveillance system of aerostatic balloons
    (2021) Tironi, Martin; Valderrama Barragán, Matías
    Under a climate of insecurity, two of the wealthiest municipalities in Chile implemented a controversial system of aerostatic balloons equipped with next-generation cameras for urban surveillance. The municipalities sought to use this technology, which was originally designed for war and border control, to manage public space more efficiently in the so-called "war against crime". The balloons immediately met with opposition from those concerned about the invasion of privacy and hyper-surveillance that might involve in the city. This paper addresses the discourses of public officials and the critics involved in the controversy, but also explore in the maintenance operations of this surveillance system and the ways in which people live with the system on a daily basis. Through the analysis of the dynamics about, under and behind the balloons, the article shows how this foreign technology presents a vision multiple of the city that depends on entities and frictions that are not always considered in public debate.