Resistance and complexity : solutions to urban crises of homelessness and psychopathology through psychiatry, architecture and philosophy
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This is an interdisciplinary attempt to analyze the ongoing and progressive urban crises of homelessness and psychopathology. It intersects three disciplines: architecture, psychiatry, and existential-phenomenological philosophy. I have coined the phrase ‘anarcha-existentialist’ to describe a method of questioning political and epistemological authority. It extends work on schizophrenia conducted under the supervision of Roger Burggraeve. Primary philosophical sources include Emmanuel Levinas, Martin Heidegger, and Jacques Derrida. I used descriptive and interpretive phenomenology with thematic analysis in qualitative research on the subjective experience of severe mental illness across dwelling types on Vancouver’s downtown eastside. Emergent themes included a struggle for fundamental human rights, distressed personal time, and a relationships between homemaking and management of mental health. Histories of psychiatry and asylum architecture reveal their inseparability from the state. I carried out architectural case-studies of the Woodsquat, the Woodwards redevelopment project, and the Olympic Tent Village that took place during the 2010 Winter Olympics. The crises in question are intractable and existing interventions cannot succeed comprehensively. The disciplines in question appear as auxiliaries to a capitalist-state apparatus to which they are fettered. In architecture, dialectical narratives of modernity are perpetuated. Psychiatry acts to reify the American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic and statistical manual (DSM5). Together they succeed in re-institutionalizing chronically mentally ill adults and youth while reducing social housing and low-income rental stock. Contemporary architecture theorists and architects have appropriated philosophical concepts to fabricate ethical narratives that justify the gentrification (or class transformation) of urban environments. Vancouverism is an example of the neoliberal economic collusion of civic government, the developer class, and clinical psychiatry. Criminalization of poverty in Vancouver is part of a North American trend. Behavioral genetics and genetic counseling are disciplines bearing direct methodological/ideological lineage to eugenics that inform public policy in Vancouver and elsewhere while aspersions are cast on them by a growing consnsensus of scientists. Complex theoretical models and non-pacifist modes of resistance are recommended to stem the crises. Revolutionary transcendence of nation-state models and establishment of worldwide socio-political relationships based on anarchism portend the diminishment of psychopathology in the world population while providing adequate homes for all.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.063 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.016 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 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".