Floral Borders: Physical and Semiotic Uprooting in Taryn Simon’s Paperwork and the Will of Capital (2015)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
An exposé of the “stagecraft” and performance of politics, the multimedia series Paperwork and the Will of Capital (2015) sees American artist Taryn Simon recreate the floral arrangements displayed at thirty-six political treatise signings involving countries present at the 1944 United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, which responded to economic globalization, establishing the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. In citing the Dutch Golden Age 'impossible bouquet' as Paperwork’s historical precursor, Simon sets the cash-led movement of flowers in relation to the contents of the featured political treatises: the forced, cash-led movement of people, the reclassification of humans as goods, and the prioritization of economic benefit over the imbricated concerns of human lives and environmental sustainability. This paper examines Simon's articulation of the implications of 'fake nature,' of an anthropocentric era of capitalism and global environmental crisis wherein human and nonhuman beings are divorced of their ontological meanings and reassigned artificial values.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.031 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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".