Synchronous Foreignicity: Fred Wah's Poetry and the Recuperation of Experimental Texts
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Fred Wah challenges the binary opposition implicit in the postmodern idea that, as experimental texts expose explode the artificiality of accepted norms, they are soon recuperated into the mainstream. Wah's theory of synchronous foreignicity privileges neither the reified/modern nor the vital/postmodern; by inclusively pairing the conventional the radical, it places both author reader in the and or the hyphen between binaries. Wah does not identify with any one ethnic group, enabling him to draw from multiple perspectives. His sequence Music at the Heart of Thinking exemplifies his notion of synchronous foreignicity. The formal changes defamiliarize the familiar in order to break down reified thoughts perception without obliterating them. The text itself is both old new, modern postmodern, conventional radical, provoking the reader to an evolution, rather than revolution, in thought.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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