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Record W2065048176 · doi:10.3828/extr.2009.50.2.8

Possible Fictions: Blochian Hope in <i>The Scar</i>

2009· article· en· W2065048176 on OpenAlexaff
Sherryl Vint

Bibliographic record

VenueExtrapolation · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicUtopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
Canadian institutionsBrock University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsUtopiaAestheticsSWORDMateriality (auditing)ArtDystopiaEmblemFantasyTRACE (psycholinguistics)NegotiationLiteraturePhilosophyArt historySociologyComputer science

Abstract

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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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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.035

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0110.020
Scholarly communication0.0090.004
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0020.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.001

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 head0.026
GPT teacher head0.241
Teacher spread0.215 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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