Listening at the Edge: Homage and Ohmage in Don McKay and Ken Babstock
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Don McKay's observant lyric and prose writings combine homage and ohmage, which invite ecological readings, and his editorial engagement with many Canadian poets incites public awareness of a thriving poetry, a sort of verse ecology interested in public listening. In congruence with Bruno Latour's view of the interconnectedness of the two spheres, McKay enacts connections in his poetry between understanding ecosystems and reviving public life. He puts these connections into action by mentoring and editing the work of other writers, and the influence of his poetics is particularly noticeable in Ken Babstock's first collection, Mean (1999). The ecopoetical content of McKay's poems combines with certain linguistic tropes (what Donna Haraway calls metaplasm) to construct a community, if not an ecology, of listening that has the potential to inflect the way readers hear and think about poetry.
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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 | 0.007 | 0.020 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.045 | 0.037 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.016 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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.
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".