Bibliographic record
Abstract
The border is an inherently transnational nexus of cultures and identities yet, when approached and articulated from within the discipline of American Studies, often results in a re-entrenchment of singular national histories, cultures, and identities. This essay seeks to address the propensity of the discipline to remain sited within and focused upon the nation-state of the United States of America and its hegemonic ideology at the expense of more wide-ranging hemispheric analyses that account for the fluid, transnational, and borderless identities that America—in its continental configuration—has always been home to. Invoking Deleuze and Guattari’s critical metaphor—the rhizome—the paper develops and deploys analytical techniques which seek out and highlight connections and alternative configurations of existing material, often obfuscated by the supposed territorial integrity of nation and its inhabitant’s identities. Two key texts (Laurie Ricou’s The Arbutus/Madrone Files (2002) and Guillermo Verdecchia’s Fronteras Americanas (1993)) are offered as examples of the ways in which positioning the border itself as a possible rhizomatic line of flight can ensure that borderlands cultural productions retain the multiplicity of the identities that they enact as both spatially and temporally (in)distinct and as challenges to the perpetuation of the border as a static and dichotomous entity.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.048 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.019 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
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".