The Other Side of Utopia: The Opacity of Perception in the Poetry of the First Run of Tish , 1961-63
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The editorials included in the first run of Tish magazine (1961-63) show editors George Bowering, Frank Davey, and Fred Wah at their most optimistic about the role of poetry, the possibility of community, and the project of recovering a non-appropriative relationship to the world. Key to Tish 's nascent aesthetic was the notion of embodied poetics, of denying the mind/body divide instituted by the ancients, a stance that owes much to the influence of Black Mountain poets such as Charles Olson. Moreover, the Tish editors' poetry aims to track, map, and relate intimately to place, or what Olson calls locus. Yet, oddly, Tish poetry seems less optimistic than its prose. This is because, unlike the Black Mountain poets, the Tish poets found that the self is an effect of social organization not escaped by fiat, and that their particular urban social world demanded an atomized anti-communal self, in keeping with J.P. Sartre's concept of seriality .
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.047 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".