Transforming The Outer Harbour: Hogan’s Alley and the Dislocations of Vancouver’s Political Culture
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Abstract
The protagonist in the first story in Vancouver poet Wayde Compton's 2014 short story collection The Outer Harbour is, like Compton himself, what in his 1996 poem "Declaration of the Halfrican Nation" he termed a "Halfrican," 1 with an African-American stepfather and a European-Canadian mother.Irreverently named Riel after the famed Métis leader, the protagonist has channelled his intelligence into a university scholarship to escape the fictional lumber town in which he grew up.However, life in the big city quickly ensnares Riel.The middle-class white girlfriend he meets and moves in with likes to live on the wild side, and by the end of the summer of his first year at university, when the story opens in August of 2001, Riel, the girlfriend, and her BFF are strung out on drugs and undertaking a five-mile trek at sunrise across the city to soak their feet in the ocean.The deus ex machina lifeline that Compton throws Riel comes in the form of a mystery migrant stowaway, who is discovered onboard a freighter in Vancouver's outer harbour and who does not speak any language known to the authorities.Riel reads about her in a newspaper story, which the reader also gets to read, and he is intrigued because two summers earlier, hundreds of Chinese nationals arrived on the coast illegally from Fujian Province, packed onto rickety fishing vessels, and then too Riel watched a media circus develop around their incarceration and deportation.That was the same year Riel had first read The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Soul on Ice, books that had stirred and changed him.2
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.044 | 0.020 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.021 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 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".