Memory magic: cosmopolitanism and <i>The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam</i>
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam is a two-part project created by Canadian-based filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming. The project traces the history of Fleming's Chinese ancestor, Long Tack Sam, and presents it in a documentary (2003) and an accompanying graphic novel (2007). In the concluding moments of the documentary, Fleming comments ‘memory is a type of magic’. This point provides a useful hook to summarize Fleming's aesthetic practice, which can be translated into a productive model of cosmopolitanism. Her ‘memory-magic’ involves four ‘tricks’, or techniques: the revealing of history and modernity as smoke and mirrors; the acceptance and engagement with the unknown or yet-to-be-experienced, and the deconstruction of common notions of time and place. This paper thus argues that Fleming's project aligns itself with what can be described as a critical, vernacular cosmopolitanism.
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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