Not a museum but a cultural journey: Skwxwú7mesh political affect
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Abstract
The S k w x wú7mesh or Squamish, a Coast Salish people, are one of the Four Host First Nations who constituted themselves into a supra‐national corporate entity for the purpose of promoting, and protecting, their cultures during the 2010 Winter Olympics. The Sea to Sky Highway, carrying Olympic traffic between the sports venues of Vancouver and Whistler, runs through their un‐ceded territory. The S k w x wú7mesh have merged the natural spectacle of the coastal highway with the high‐speed affect of their own cultural spectacle. The intricate spatialized and affective dimensions of the modes and materials of cultural disclosure, and retention, along what the S k w x wú7mesh are calling a ‘cultural highway’ establish links between topography, flora, and fauna that reinforce incontrovertible rights. The strategy flouts anxieties about the exploitative spectacularization of the Native while raising new ones about national display, the embedded Olympics, neoliberal ‘economic uncertainty’, and the ethnic essentialism inseparable from British Columbia's high‐stakes contemporary Treaty Process. Résumé Les S k w x wú7mesh ou Squamish, un peuple salish de la côte, font partie des Four Host First Nations, quatre tribus des Premières nations qui se sont constituées en personnalité juridique supranationale afin de promouvoir et de protéger leur culture pendant les Jeux Olympiques d’Hiver 2010. L’autoroute « Sea to Sky Highway », reliant les sites olympiques de Vancouver et de Whistler, traverse leur territoire non aliéné. Les S k w x wú7mesh ont combiné le spectacle naturel de cette autoroute côtière avec l’affect pour la grande vitesse de leur propre spectacle culturel. Les dimensions spatialisées et affectives complexes des modes et des matériaux de la révélation et de la rétention culturelle, associées à ce que les S k w x wú7mesh appellent une « autoroute culturelle », créent des liens entre topographie, flore et faune et renforcent ainsi leurs droits incontestables. Cette stratégie atténue l’anxiété liée à l’exploitation spectaculaire des Peuples natifs, tout en suscitant de nouvelles inquiétudes sur la visibilité nationale, l’empiètement des Jeux Olympiques, « l’incertitude économique » du néolibéralisme et l’essentialisme ethnique indissociable du processus, chargé d’enjeux, de négociation de traités en cours en Colombie‐Britannique.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.031 | 0.002 |
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".