The mind is all the animals it has attended: limitrophy and porous borders in the poetry of Robert Bringhurst
Bibliographic record
Abstract
As an ecopoet intellectually alert to the conundrums posed by the Anthropocene, Canadian poet-philosopher Robert Bringhurst explores in his work the entanglements of the perceiving subject and the perceived world as mutually constitutive and coevolving entities in a vast material-semiotic continuum. Drawing on David Abram’s ecophilosophy, on the insights of the new materialisms about the vitality of matter, on posthumanist thought, and on Bringhurst’s meditations on ecology, polyphony and meaning, this article offers an ecocritical reading of “Sunday Morning,” a poem central to the poet’s oeuvre. At the heart of “Sunday Morning” is the firm conviction that poems are primarily born out of a sensuous immersion of an embodied self within a polyphonic Earth that is communicative and speaks languages other than human. Countering human exceptionalism, Bringhurst ends up by dispelling the hierarchy of being established by anthropocentrism in our Western mindset and blurring any clear-cut borders between the human and the nonhuman. His ecopoetics embraces ontological humility, as well as a biocentric view of nature where homo sapiens is just one more species amongst a myriad of other species on Earth.
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.027 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 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".