29 novembre 2023
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Nicolas Richard et al., « The penultimate curve of Paposo. Technical, social and historical agency of a road infrastructure », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10.34096/ps.n9.12715
The article studies the penultimate curve of the Paposo slope, which connects the coast with the interior plateau of the Atacama Desert. The curve, designed in 1870, was asphalted in 2010 and has since been a critical point for road accidents in the area. The article examines the curve in historical terms, in the light of the different mining cycles, and from the point of view of its contemporary materialities - oratories, roadside shrines, design - and from the point of view of the litigation and press material accompanying the main tragedies. The main hypothesis of the article is that the curve adopts its own agency, different from that of the road, a point of negotiation between mechanical, budgetary, legal, symbolic, and social forces. Finally, the article draws attention to the avoidability of these tragedies: building a highway is not the same as paving a cart road.