Decolonizing IR’s Environmental Racial and Colonial Temporality: Frantz Fanon, John Akomfrah, and the Politics of Invention
Bibliographic record
Abstract
International Relations (IR) bends the time of global warming into a linear event, an abstract and cumulative representation, missing something more singular. First, I begin with a critique of IR and its disciplinary history and aesthetic, arguing both are informed and shaped by global racial capital’s tendency to sequence heterogeneous entities under its abstract temporality and accumulation imperatives reinforced by Anthropocene narratives. Second, I reckon with Fanon’s politics of invention and his refusal of a segregated ‘history’ and ‘aesthetics’ as an invitation for IR to leap, that is to decolonize the world marked by climate change, itself a colonial aesthetic paradigm defined by a linear and colonial temporality. Finally, I read Vertigo Sea , an art installation by John Akomfrah, as an aesthetics of invention, a creation of forces both refusing capital’s demands and unshackling existence from the temporality of environmental racial coloniality.
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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 | 0.000 |
| 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 | 0.001 |
| 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".