Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this article, I show how one song, “El Espíritu de Dios,” can be a source of knowledge and an act of epistemic disobedience, even amid the increasingly complex dynamics of the “coloniality of music.” When it is sung in embodied ways from below, it affirms knowledge as something that emerges out of the oral tradition arising from the heart of a community's life and experience. It is understood to belong to the community, in this case multiple local Latin American communities. This embodied, oral, communal singing challenges prevailing Eurocentric norms that emphasize written texts, individual ownership, and rationalist intellectualism, represented in Euro-North-Atlantic epistemologies of the Enlightenment. When it is sung as a fully embodied holistic human expression, it instead actualizes an act of hope, another way of knowing, un saber del sur (knowledge from the South), which defies forces that oppress and the pervasiveness of coloniality. Who we are and who we want to become as active agents of a liberative praxis proclaiming what is and what ought to be, the already and not yet of the Reign of God, emerges. Understanding the dynamics of (de)coloniality in hymns and songs involves affirming songs like “El Espíritu de Dios,” which express an-other way of knowing and singing and a decolonial mode for doing theology.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.023 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.003 |
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".