La poésie, l’absurde, le réel et le Nord Le Collège de ‘Pataphysique et les poètes de la revue Liberté
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Abstract
In this article, the author compares, from the point of view of the imaginated North—conceived as a system of signs,—two issues of poetry journals which both propose to think, in the North, a place where the relationships between reality, fiction, power, politics, history and poetry, blur. The first, published in Paris in 1961 in the Cahiers du Collège de ‘Pataphysique, deals with “the North Pole”; the second, published in Montreal in 1964 in the journal Liberté, deals with the “Manicouagan”, a river in northern Québec. Both place poetry at the highest of literary expressions; both relate to the North; both finally blur the lines between the real and the imaginary. Despite the difference in their context of enunciation, they testify to the importance of literature in the construction and constitution of the North as an idea and as an imagined space in the Euro-American world and in Francophone literature. The author notes, from the point of view of the study of cultural images, that the North seems, for all authors, impossible to grasp outside of discourse, here that of literature and poetry. The imagined North as the sum of discourse in continuous movement is here the experimental site of the confluence of knowledge and forms of expression. RésuméDans le présent article,1 l’auteur compare, du point de vue de l’imaginaire du Nord conçu comme un système de signes, deux numéros de revue de poésie qui proposent tous deux de penser, au Nord, un lieu où peuvent se brouiller les rapports entre réalité, fiction, pouvoir, politique, histoire et poésie. Le premier, publié à Paris en 1961 dans les Cahiers du Collège de ‘Pataphysique, a pour thème le « Pôle Nord »; le second, publié à Montréal en 1964 dans la revue Liberté, porte sur la « Manicouagan », une rivière du Nord du Québec. Tous deux placent la poésie au plus haut des expressions littéraires, traitent du Nord et proposent un brouillage des frontières entre le réel et l’imaginaire. Malgré la différence de leur contexte d’énonciation, ils témoignent de l’importance de la littérature dans la construction et la constitution du Nord comme idée et comme imaginaire dans le monde occidental et en langue française. L’auteur constate, du point de vue de l’imaginaire, que le Nord semble, pour tous ces écrivains, impossible à saisir hors du discours, ici celui de la littérature et de la poésie. L’imaginaire du Nord en tant que somme de discours en mouvement continuel devient le lieu expérimental de la confluence des savoirs et des formes d’expression. Mots-clés: Imaginaire; Nord; Pataphysique; France; Québec; Poésie
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.015 | 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".