Contemporary African mediations of affect and access
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Across Africa, new affective collectivities are shifting the terms within which access to economic opportunity, social belonging, and political agency have historically been understood. Recent years have seen powerful waves of civic mobilization sweep across the continent. Other, less prominent articulations of contemporary political desire have also found expression through the diffuse experiences of the African everyday and its cultural registers. As differential access to global capitalism and its promises folds into modes of subjection – and escape – that are hard to predict, those who exercise power find ever more elastic and resourceful ways of guarding the borders and memberships of privileged groups. This special issue turns to the critically entangled terms of affect and access as a basis for exploring emergent orientations in the field of African cultural theory. It especially highlights scholarly engagement with the shifting coordinates of political and social participation on and beyond the African continent, where complex assemblages of affective attachment, exchange, and realignment are inextricable from demands for socio-political and economic forms of access.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 |
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