Exilic Aesthetic Practices: An expanded epistemology of displacement
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This essay contextualizes the role of equity, diversity, inclusion (EDI) paradigms in the Canadian cultural realm through a discussion of Gramsci’s concepts of passive revolution and hegemony. We suggest that a Gramscian reading clarifies the political, economic, and social utility of co-opting cultural difference and related aesthetic practice. We think with Kobena Mercer about how to mobilize the contradictions of diasporic experience to produce an “interpretive model” of SWANA (South West Asia and North Africa) diasporic aesthetics from the “exilic gaze”. We argue that contemporary SWANA diasporic experience in the West is constrained by the “semiotic resources” of neoliberal hegemony. We bring these discussions to bear on a recent example of EDI-as-neoliberal-hegemony in the Canadian context. We think with the artistic intervention of “Boycott Koffler,” a 2021 petition that was organized against a Zionist-backed gallery in Toronto, and an associated art installation that was projected across the Koffler’s exterior walls. In the face of hegemonic rhetorics that want to offer continuity of self and story, we affirm a contradictory position of self-determined, historicized knowledges from a site of rupture and terminal loss.
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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 | 0.000 |
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 it