Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article tries to disrupt conventional views about New France’s card money and about money in general. Treated as a quirky footnote to Canadian history, card money is usually seen as a monetary expedient for solving a problem of coin shortage. Money itself is often seen as a transparent category occupying an autonomous sphere of horizontal exchange, disconnected from politics and social relations. Money is also one of the last bastions of Eurocentric narratives of progress with universal pretensions. Envisaged through thick description, with attention to language, materiality, plural exchange practices, and the violent setting in which it was deployed, card money acquires new meanings. As a semi-permanent exception to official understandings of money, and as part of a transatlantic network of debt, periodically defaulted upon from metropolitan centres of calculation, monnoye de carte looks less like a picturesque local substitute for absent coin, and more like a useful global technology of imperial formation. Throughout, the article muses on the nature of surprise: colonialist versions can confine places, things, and people into alterity; more open-ended versions can productively unsettle us.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".