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Sounding John Thompson’s White Noise

2011· article· en· W1552560587 on OpenAlexaffvenueabout
George Elliott Clarke

Bibliographic record

VenueStudies in Canadian Literature · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPoetry Analysis and Criticism
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPoetryPoliticsPound (networking)White (mutation)LiteraturePostmodernismArt historyArtPhilosophyHistoryLaw
DOInot available

Abstract

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John Thompson and Malcolm X may have more in common than coincidences in their respective biographical histories. Although generally overlooked as a political poet, Thompson, superb writer of the Tantramar, employs images of black and white, dark and light in his writings to engage with specific conceptions of race and imperialism – developed more explicitly in the theoretical work of Toni Morrison and Frantz Fanon – that informed the tumultuous political climate of his and X’s era. As a former student of psychology, the English-born, U.S.-educated Thompson would have been aware of the fundamental significance of blackness and whiteness in Western society, and many of his poems develop an idea of whiteness as a facade that works to obscure a primal or fundamental blackness. This exploration of the darker recesses of Thompson’s poetry draws him more clearly into the company of his primary influences, themselves all highly political writers: English-language poets Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats, and Dylan Thomas; French poets Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, and Rene Char; and Quebecois poets Roland Giguere and Paul-Marie Lapointe.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.947
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.077
GPT teacher head0.278
Teacher spread0.201 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

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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