Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article explores politically oriented artistic production in Kuala Lumpur (KL), the capital city of Malaysia. Over the last several years, KL has become home to an expanding network of individuals who employ art as a vehicle to directly and indirectly challenge the country’s socio-political status quo and its ruling regime. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with a range of political artists living and working in the city, we find an aggregation of individuals generating similar but differentiated products with the overarching goal of advancing a more equitable, tolerant, and democratic society. We thus consider if this urban-based network represents an alternative way to mobilize the concept of a ‘cluster’ beyond mainstream academic and political narratives that emphasize the economic benefits accruing from developing a ‘creative’ class and workforce. We find that the process is not entirely different from what one might expect from traditional deployments of the concept of a cluster, but the objectives are different – rather than being principally geared towards financial gain, these individuals are primarily concerned with political objectives. We question, however, if this political arts urbanization can indeed be described as a ‘cluster’ given that, for a number of logistical and political reasons, the artists and their work are spread out over a sprawling capital city.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".