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Record W1518624966

Edward Said's Untidiness

2004· article· en· W1518624966 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Victor C. Li

Bibliographic record

VenuePostcolonial text · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGlobal Maritime and Colonial Histories
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOrientalismContradictionCertaintyPerformative utteranceCoherence (philosophical gambling strategy)Consistency (knowledge bases)Statement (logic)IdeologyPhilosophyEpistemologyOddsSociologyLawComputer scienceTheologyPolitical scienceMathematicsPolitics
DOInot available

Abstract

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Criticizing ideological certainty promoted by such formulations as Samuel Huntington's the clash of civilizations, Edward Said has stated his preference for irresolution of over satisfactions of totalization. But isn't such a view at odds with Said's best known book, Orientalism? How can Said be sensitive to the untidiness of moment yet produce a work that provides a powerful description of consistency and coherence of Orientalist discourse? This essay argues that what critics see as Said's performative contradiction is in fact an enabling paradox anticipated in Friedrich Schlegel's pithy statement: is equally fatal to mind to have system and to have none. It will simply have to combine two.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.014
Threshold uncertainty score0.029

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.010
Scholarly communication0.0060.003
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0030.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.002

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.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.280
Teacher spread0.268 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2004
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