A photographic essay on socio-economic organisation – temporary shelters in Kelowna, British Columbia (Canada)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The essay considers socio-economic organisation from the perspective of monopoly capitalism analysis, a strand of heterodox economics.The centre-piece of the essay is a photographic study of two temporary overnight shelters in Kelowna, one of the principal cities in British Columbia, Canada.Monopoly capitalism analysis has not previously drawn on photographic practices as an approach to inquiry.A characteristic of monopoly capitalist economies is that market-oriented, large corporations influence socio-economic organisation more generally.The essential practices of those corporations thereby penetrate the nooks and crannies of market economies.The essay is especially concerned with practices such as control, constraints on freedom, exercise of voice, and dehumanisation.The photographs and accompanying textcontextual discussions of monopoly capitalism and temporary shelters, and a caption for each image in the sequencework together to show that traits of temporary overnight shelters in Kelowna are consistent with monopoly capitalist practices.It is suggested that such traits will be fossilised in the forever future of socio-economic systems, unless people's awareness and challenge lead to choice of a different development path.The case-study demonstrates how photographs may enrich analysis of socio-economic organisation more widely, beyond the particular circumstances that it addresses.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.017 | 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".