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Record W1769985422

The Monster's Hope: The After-Affect of Pre-Emption?

2009· article· en· W1769985422 on OpenAlexaff
Geoffrey Whitehall

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicSpace Science and Extraterrestrial Life
Canadian institutionsAcadia University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAnxietyAffect (linguistics)Argument (complex analysis)PsychologySocial psychologyPolitical sciencePositive economicsEpistemologyLaw and economicsSociologyMedicineEconomicsPhilosophyPsychiatry
DOInot available

Abstract

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Much has been made recently about the use of fear and anxiety in emergencies to justify extraordinary pre-emptive actions. In this paper I explore how pre-emption feels as an after-affect. To this end, I argue that pre-emption has become a generalized grammar that rivals sovereignty. On the backs of fear and anxiety, pre-emption, the precautionary principle, the responsibility to protect etc… have become effective ways of managing a proliferating range of political problems. However, once pre-emption is realized, I argue the after-affect changes. Instead of fear, anxiety or even docility becoming the affective experience in the after-glow of pre-emption, I conclude the paper by arguing that hope sets in and rules the day. I explore this argument through the case of the Avian Flu Emergency.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.422
Threshold uncertainty score0.307

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
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 integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.005
GPT teacher head0.253
Teacher spread0.249 · 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.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
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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