Bibliographic record
Abstract
Drawing on the burgeoning field of Global Libidinal Economy, this article argues that informality (i.e., the informal economy) is global capitalism's unconscious, both hiding and revealing the latter's instability and shadowy, indeed “dirty” if not “dangerous,” underside. On the basis of a fieldwork-based case study in Recife, Brazil, we bring out informality's exploitative dimensions—unspoken yet crucial to the functioning of capitalist markets; as well as its spontaneous and creative sides, which like the “return of the repressed,” act as disturbance and potential threat to these markets. Conceptualizing informality in this (psychoanalytic) way helps foreground the antagonisms upon which capitalism is founded, forebodingly betraying themselves despite attempts to suppress and gentrify them. • The informal sector is global capitalism's unconscious, both hiding and revealing the latter's shadowy underside. • Field work on Recife's favelas brings our exploitative as well as creative dimensions of informality. • Favela stilt houses as “return of the repressed”.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 | 0.001 |
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 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".