INTIMATING ASIAS, POSTCOLONIAL POSSIBILITIES, AND THE ART OF DAVID KHANG
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This essay uses work by Vancouver-based artist David Khang to think about the complex formations of publics, particularly for racialized participants, and how we are able to feel for and within them. I route this discussion of postcolonial intimacies and the problem of ‘Asia’ as a site of alterity through these art projects because they speak to the geopolitics of feeling and the local and global structures that shape memory. Moreover, I see the levels, scales and styles that Mom's Crutch and Wrong Places use to address their publics as underscoring the need to spatialize our discussions of postcolonial intimacies and affect if we are to understand how imperial knowledges continue to shape global politics and possibilities. My goal in this essay is quite simply to begin thinking about what representations of Asia reveal about the likelihood of postcolonial intimacy, despite or perhaps because of comparable the historical and ongoing experiences of imperial practices that colonize public imaginations. Wrong Places and Mom's Crutch draw attention to the relative paucity of Korean War representations and the excess of 9/11 representations within the North American imagination, and ask us to consider how these competing representations of war and suffering shape publics.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 it