Crisis and Social Order in the Post 9/11 Era: Sovereignty, Rule of Law and the Case of Maher Arar
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Canada’s political and juridical spheres have transformed post 9/11. Borrowing from the analytic framework of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben and Jacques Derrida, I will examine these transformations philosophically and sociologically. One of the aims of this essay is to dispel liberal views that maintain that emergency rule is aberrational; on the contrary, I argue that emergency rule is part of the ‘normal juridical order’. Another aim of this essay is to analyze how a perceived crisis shapes the modus operandi of the state and law. The third aim of this essay is to show how state power works under emergency rule. In terms of the former and latter, I will focus on the power the state has to produce ‘bare life’ and rogue states. Finally, this essay will examine the case of Mr. Maher Arar to illustrate the intellectual and material significance of these transformations in Canada.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| 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 | 0.009 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".