Felt Knowledge in Michael Kusugak’s Picture Books
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The article considers the relationship between lived experience, emotion, and knowledge production embedded in Inuk author and storyteller Michael Kusugak’s picturebooks. Informed by the communities, cultures and landscape of Canada’s Arctic, Kusugak’s picturebooks are an interfusion of personal and collective memories, traditional Inuit stories, fiction, and contemporary narratives, rupturing the colonial tendency to appropriate and present aboriginality as static and removed from present time, whilst reinstating felt experience as foundational in an Indigenous-centred worldview. Drawing on the Indigenous feminist approach of Dian Million to knowledge as felt, we argue that Kusugak’s picturebooks perform political acts as they strategically engage with and challenge Canadian settler “truths,” reinscribing history in terms specific to the emotionality of lived experience, and reaffirming Inuit cultural identity as living and vital.
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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 | 0.002 |
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 it