Performative Archives: The Visual Poetry of bpNichol and Derek Beaulieu
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
By taking to task the materiality of writing, visual poetry asks what can be remembered and through what channels. Though the archive may function in poetry in the broadest sense as a metaphor for memory, the boundaries of that narrative change along with the shape of the print medium. If visual poetry is an archive of scriptural experiment, its recordings are subject to the flux of a dynamic aesthetic and an environment increasingly grounded in technology. This paper will concentrate upon the dramatization of textuality through the example of two Canadian poets, bpNichol and Derek Beaulieu across the twentieth and the twenty-first century. It shall be considered how their visual poetries engage with archival processes and in doing so, bring into focus the changing temporality and spaces of memory.
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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
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| 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 | 0.000 |
| 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