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Quilpatay's roundtable on "constellations and a constitution: The 'Red Scare' that helped shape the Chilean constitution under Pinochet" is about to start! #LCTtheory

Quilpatay: PhD is on the 1980s Chilean constitution and the process of how it was put together and for this roundtable the focus is on the role of the 'red scare' and anti-Marxism

Quilpatay: constellation analysis is applied to the process of constitution-making to see how the frammers of the consitution tried to remake the axiology of Chile

Quilpatay: starts off by providing a historical overview of September 11, 1973 and the start of the dictatorship #LCTheory

Quilpatay: the dictatorship is often now called the 'civilian-military dictatorship to emphasise how role of civilians and particularly academics in the dictatorship and the constitution-making process #LCTheory

Quilpatay: the dictatorship engaged in framing the coup as a “pronouncement” with the instantiation of particular values and the creation of a new reality #LCTheory

Quilpatay: Introduces LCT specialization codes – analytical distinction between relation between the claim and who said it and the claim and what it’s about #LCTheory

Quilpatay: the unique feature of #LCTheory is that theorising is conducted by principles rather than types and this allows us to see the emphasise on who makes the claim or what the claim is about. #LCTheory

Quilpatay: working through a constellation analysis of the "declaration of principles of government" (1974) and Marxism and Anti-Marxism as central signifiers in the worldview of the dictatorship #LCTheory

Quilpatay: his PhD data is drawn from the transcripts of the Ortúzar Commission which is the body that help form the constitution #LCTheory

Quilpatay: giving a breakdown of cosmologies: 1) historical and contextual, 2) relative to a group of actors, 3) 'logic of the belief system or vision of the world embodied by activities in a social field'

Quilpatay: 4) these logics produce constellations of stances and the arrangement and valuation of these stances #LCtheory

Quilpatay: you can think of constellation as (SG+) and cosmologies (SG-) - constellations as the concrete realization of practices and cosmologies as the underlying principles of practices #LCtheory

Quilpatay: constellation analysis reveals that the “permanent values of nationality” is a central signifier and positively evaluated relative to “anti-Marxism” which is negatively evaluated #LCTheory

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