‘When the whirlwind is moving over the sand’: poetic surrealism of Atacama’s archaeological landscapes
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Abstract
Since the nineteenth century, the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile has been a space of geopolitical tension, asymmetrical socioeconomic power, and a territory for mining extractivism. The knowledge of its natural and cultural resources was assembled by scientific expeditions defining and configuring what we understand as a ‘desert,’ a peripheral empty and arid space ready to be occupied and exploited. The irruption and expansion of capitalist extractivism created a particular idea of landscape and reconfigured its socio-political contours. Archaeological, scientific, and artistic expeditions actively participated in this ‘becoming desert’ process. This article examines some trajectories constituting the Atacama Desert as an extractive and sacrificial territory. We propose the notion of ‘surrealistic landscapes,’ and we use the poetry of the Chilean Canadian poet Ludwig Zeller to highlight the surreal condition of contemporary materialities, constantly feeding the archaeological imagination of Atacama.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it