Possible Fictions: Blochian Hope in <i>The Scar</i>
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Miéville's The Scar is best understood as a novel that is utopian in form rather than in content. Through its portrayal of the community on Armada as the struggle to negotiate an always-shifting utopia, the novel keeps alive utopia-as-impulse and avoids the limitations of a rigid utopia-as-program, making it an idea example of the sort of fiction Jameson discusses in Archaeologies of the Future. Drawing on Ernst Bloch's ideas of the utopian trace, this paper argues that the images of the Possibility Sword and the Possible Letter in this novel are emblems of the need to keep the materiality of other possible worlds alive in this one, something also achieved by Radical Fantasy
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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 | 0.000 |
| 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