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Record W4247509131 · doi:10.3138/jcs.40.2.29

The Archives of Pat (and Roy) Lowther

2006· article· en· W4247509131 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Christine Wiesenthal

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Canadian Studies · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicCaribbean and African Literature and Culture
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsContradictionTRACE (psycholinguistics)Relevance (law)SociologyPoliticsAestheticsLawHistoryPhilosophyEpistemologyPolitical science

Abstract

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The main, private repository of the late West Coast poet, activist, and arts administrator Pat Lowther (1935-1975) raises both significant concerns and questions for biographers, researchers, and theorists of the archive—questions and concerns that are, to some degree, inextricably linked to the history of Roy Armstrong Lowther, the husband who murdered Pat Lowther (and who both “recycled” and introduced as courtroom “evidence” some of her papers during the criminal investigation into her death). After presenting a brief overview of the nature and scope of these archival materials, this essay will trace some of the pragmatic and theoretical implications—ethical, legal, political, and hermeneutic—of working with Pat Lowther’s literary remains. Special attention will be given to outlining how the papers of Pat (and Roy) Lowther re-articulate theoretical accounts of certain “internal contradiction[s]” structuring the archive: how they lay bare tensions between archival “conservation" and “destruction”; and how they quite literally underscore the relevance of the archive as both a site of law and of the law’s “suspension” (Derrida 1995, 19; Grimm 2003, 110).

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.843
Threshold uncertainty score0.675

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.194
Teacher spread0.179 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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