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Record W4414833243 · doi:10.1386/jcs_00117_7

Spectres in the Museum: A Curatorial Case for Hauntology

2025· article· en· W4414833243 on OpenAlexaffabout
Anne Koval

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Curatorial Studies · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicMuseums and Cultural Heritage
Canadian institutionsMount Allison University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsExhibitionIdeologyFraming (construction)Natural (archaeology)NarrativeNatural heritage

Abstract

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This article reflects on MUSE (2014), my curatorial intervention into the Banff Park Museum. In particular, I discuss how the exhibition attempted to disrupt the colonialist stasis of a site that the Historic Sites and Monument Board of Canada has termed a ‘museum within a museum’. As a now-anachronistic example of a natural history museum, the Banff Park Museum problematically sustains its colonialist origins in the Canadian West. Working with Jacques Derrida’s theory of hauntology from Spectres of Marx (1994), I explore how the curatorial framing of MUSE’s interventions dismantled specific ideologies of colonialization and heritage culture.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.008
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.131
Threshold uncertainty score0.260

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0080.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0690.087
Scholarly communication0.0140.007
Open science0.0030.018
Research integrity0.0070.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.000

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 head0.092
GPT teacher head0.363
Teacher spread0.271 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

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

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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