Waste is Not a Metaphor for Racist Dispossession: The Black Feminist Marxism of Marisa Solomon
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Abstract
There is a particular kind of treasure our fellow thinkers sometimes give us, a little gem of brilliance so well cut that it refracts the world for us in a way that snaps everything into place, a gem both dense with the materialities of history and also so lightly worn it you could put it on a t-shirt (though more often it appears as a book title).Marisa Solomon's work on urban trash is full of such treasures.Drawing on black feminism and black geographies with a Marxist attention to materiality and the production of value, Solomon's ethnographic descriptions of the material practices of salvage are themselves incisive critiques of the way place is made within racial capitalism.Her work attends not only to value and place, but to flows and displacements and the temporal logics that justify them.The clarity of her thinking is matched by the clarity of the gems she offers us in her writing: "If redlining is a socio-material process that distributes risk and reward with durable consequences, gentrification is a process that effaces black material histories by rewriting what matter matters" (Solomon 2019); "Producing materiality productive for capital requires policing to maintain" (#); "Racism has to be material for it to be structural" (#).Coming soon to a t-shirt (or book title) near you. Zoë Wool (ZW):Given the clarity and originality of your analysis of the dynamics of race, waste, and gentrification in the US, I wonder, what do you think is the Roundtable
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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 | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 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.
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