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Record W4408191997 · doi:10.1080/14688417.2025.2471277

The Poetics of Deep Time

2024· article· en· W4408191997 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Hugh Dunkerley

Bibliographic record

VenueGreen Letters · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCaribbean history, culture, and politics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPoeticsDeep timeLiteratureAstrobiologyHistoryPhilosophyArtEnvironmental ethicsPoetryGeologyPaleontologyBiology

Abstract

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The idea of deep time or geological time has been troubling conceptions of human importance since it was first mooted by Scottish geologist James Hutton in the late eighteenth century. In this article, I offer a reading of the work of Canadian poet Don McKay who has written a number of poetry collections which address deep time. McKay calls what he is writing ‘geopoetry’. In his poetry, and a series of related essays, McKay examines how poetry can provide a ‘bridge over the infamous gulf separating scientific from poetic frames of mind’. On the one hand he is keen to avoid the ‘tendency of facts to close the imagination’ and on the other the tendency of what he calls ‘romantic poets’ to turn any object of perception into an ‘emotional condition’.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.758
Threshold uncertainty score0.244

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.254
Teacher spread0.244 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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