The Pluriverse, Beyond the Concept of Practice: On the Reality of Occurrence, Utopianism, and Prison Abolition
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Abstract
The concept of practice frequently occupies a central explanatory role in pluriversal theorists’ accounts of what constitutes a world or reality. Often, the many worlds that populate the pluriverse are described as immanent creations of practice, the pluriverse’s multiple realities as products of interrelated social and material practices. Although liberating in many ways, pluralizing reality through the concept of practice also risks perpetuating certain limitations on reality’s expansibility. As a result, the theme of practice in pluriversal theory risks obscuring the potential and the urgency of the pluriverse’s inclusion of worlds that would benefit greatly from its redistribution of the real and yet are not best understood strictly in terms of practice. This article considers the world of prison abolition in this light, connecting not only the importance of, but also the reality and ontological weight attributed to, imagination in prison abolitionist work with the ontological expansiveness of pluriversal theory.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 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.
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 teacher head, 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".