Altered States: Global Currents, the Spectral Nation,and the Production of "Asian Canadian"
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This essay offers speculative reflections on a Canadian nation currently renegotiating a crisis of time — a crisis manifest in a collapsed language of "presence" and the emergence of ''altered states" which are making the once familiar nation strange to itself. The infiltration of unpredictable global flows and temporalities in the post-cold war era has exacerbated the unravelling of a national identity formation that had been constituted through the colonial trajectory of its white settler origins. This movement, in turn, has given rise to conditions of cultural destabilization in which forces of reaction and resistance contend for the terms of a "beyond" that beckons. What remains of concern at this moment, then, are the critical ramifications of global capital and its cult of commodification, specifically in relation to the changing cultural reception of "minority" works that have been contained — and identified — through processes of racialization historically bound into "Canada" as a national identity. The question of "Asian Canadian" is thus situated at the intersection of history, the nationstate, and cultural ambiguities. Incorporating the example of Roy Kiyooka's poetry in Pacific Windows, this essay also addresses the critical limits of "Asian Canadian" and suggests the potential for the emergence of new cultural performances — and by implication new "localisms" - that account for the "spectral" effects of global uncertainties.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it