Après le Déluge: Periodizing Canada’s Episode of Light
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Abstract
In the opening chapter of this book, I represented the period from the mid-1960s to early 1990s with the stylized image of a pair of overlapping arcsone rising, one falling.The first of these arcs tracks the origins and early deployment of new media and the digital arts in Canada, propelled by the singular surge of national élan following Expo 67 and ascending to the mass diffusion phase of the "digital revolution" in the 1990s.The second, descending arc follows the evolving national politics in Canada, likewise passing through the heady enthusiasms of Expo 67, but this time tracking a declining figure of disillusionment and existential crisis that reaches its nadir in the 1990s, when Canada faced severe doubts about its continued survival.While the rising arc is global in scope, the declining arc is unique to Canada.The divergence captured in this image defines the end of the period covered in this book-when the digital revolution explodes into the mainstream, just as Canadian identity appears diminished, fractured, and uncertain-and prefigures the opportunities and challenges that would face Canada's creative and research community in the following decades.I have characterized what was most distinctive about the Canadian transition into the era of digital media in terms of an "alternative technological ethos," a concept developed across this book in two complementary ways.First, as a characteristic spirit of experimental discovery-in-use, it designates a method for approaching new technological means that favors sensorial immediacy and improvisatory expressiveness, prior to the closure and standardization that comes with commodification and mass adoption.In this sense, it contrasts with the kind of normative, instrumental consideration of the potential of a new technology, which seeks solutions to predetermined problems and where a technology's value is judged on the basis of optimization metrics.Second, this alternative technological ethos has 8 Après le Déluge: Periodizing Canada's Episode of Light
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How this classification was reachedexpand
The three-model screen
all 5,600 screened works →All three models called this out of scope.
No abstract; title indicates a Canadian cultural/historical periodization essay, with nothing suggesting research as its object.
This book chapter concerns Canadian intellectual history, not the Canadian research system.
Canadian cultural/historical periodization chapter; missing abstract but title is not about research practice.
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 | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.062 | 0.028 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.021 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.027 | 0.002 |
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.
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