The Right to Pass Freely: Circulation, Begging, and The Bounded Self
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Scholars of public space criticize regulation governing the behaviour of the public poor for both its illiberal effects and motivations. The arguments used to justify such regulation are frequently characterized as a smokescreen that conceal more sinister agendas, and are thus often overlooked by critics. But to fail to take such arguments seriously, I argue, is to miss their political traction. This, I suggest, has less to do with their inherent truthfulness than with their basis in a prevailing social imaginary that can be characterized as broadly liberal. As such, they reflect and help constitute a powerfully hegemonic view. At their core is a particular conception of the atomistic self-governing individual, engaged in dyadic relations, structured according to a logic of negative rights and autonomy. Begging, in particular, threatens the boundaries that lie at the core of this account: in particular, those that surround and protect the mobile subject. Rather than just damning the illiberalism of this law-talk, in other words, critics would do better to also recognize and critique its liberal nature.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".