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Record W4408885743 · doi:10.3366/soma.2025.0447

Datafication and Deleuzian Sense

2025· article· en· W4408885743 on OpenAlex

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A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

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Bibliographic record

VenueSomatechnics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicCybernetics and Technology in Society
Canadian institutionsWilfrid Laurier University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSense (electronics)EpistemologyPhilosophyAestheticsEngineeringElectrical engineering

Abstract

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This paper explores our relationship to data as a circle of signification and sense. It leads off by describing the grounding epistemic role played by Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotic in establishing data's circle of sense, then goes on to develop an alternative perspective owed to Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of the sign. Leaning heavily on recent secondary literature, the paper spends time explaining how Deleuze, sometimes in concert with Félix Guattari, took up and responded to Peircean semiotics, mutating the latter's thinking in important ways. This prefatory work organizes the original contribution of the paper, which is to ask: how might Deleuze's view of nonsense as it plays a role in his perspective on the circle of sense come to bear on our future relationship to social information systems? Probing the possibility of integrating Deleuze's perspective on nonsense into existing approaches to data, the paper experiments with his event-focused view of signification and sense through a series of interconnected diagrams.

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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: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.891
Threshold uncertainty score0.211

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 head0.008
GPT teacher head0.217
Teacher spread0.209 · 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