Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This essay examines the relationship between identity, emotion and citizenship manifested in Chinese Canadian head tax photographs. I argue that these photographs reveal a diasporic structure of feeling – an intimacy among strangers that is profoundly collective. As I will show, the almost uniform lack of emotion in these photographs illuminates a kind of collectivity which is based on anticipation. This essay theorizes anticipation as a key mode of agency. These images capture subjects who are not yet, and may never be, citizens. And yet, these are images of people who are asking for one of the most foundational rights of citizenship: the right of return. The first part of this essay interrogates the problematic reliance of citizenship upon a form of intimacy that excludes Chinese immigrants to Canada. The second part of the essay takes up the possibility of another kind of intimacy for citizenship. In their identification photographs, Chinese immigrants anticipate the demands of the state for fixity – despite the precariousness of their status as people who could claim a right to readmittance – and in so doing illuminate the possibility of intimacy out of alienation.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
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 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.001 |
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