Geo-themed and geo-centric thought: reflections on the onto-epistemological basis of critical thought’s geologic turn
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Critical social and environmental thought is undergoing a ‘geological turn’ whereby the science of Geology and the notions of the ‘geos’ and ‘the geologic’ are repeatedly conjured to think through current historical and socio-ecological challenges. In this article, I examine the conceptual, methodological, and empirical basis of this geologic turn, identifying five strands of research that currently constitute it but fail to take seriously its supposed object of study, thus qualifying as ‘geo-themed’ rather than ‘geocentric’ strands of research. I argue that the geologic turn remains relatively underdeveloped, overlooking how the onto-epistemological foundations of capitalist and colonial modernity are being destabilized by ongoing research at the intersections of the human sciences and the geosciences – research whose geo-historical significance critical thought’s geologic turn is uniquely positioned to develop into new modalities of matter and visions of modernity for life in the transition moment we occupy between planetary states.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| 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