The ethics of imagination: Levinas, Aesthetics and Poiesis in uTOpia
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Abstract
Before Al Gore's 2005 documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" ignited general public concern for the worsening environmental crisis, artists played a crucial role in both exemplifying ecological concerns and in building alternative living and social arrangements.They did so with a sense of "creative responsibility" that formal political and legal institutions seemed incapable of harnessing or acting upon.This thesis looks at how such activist aesthetic movements occurring simultaneously in Toronto and Windsor, Ontario, unleashed a form of "constituent imagination" at once critical, constructive and apparently more responsible than our traditionally "official" systems of responsibility.As these movements crystallized into a contemporary form of utopian thinking characterized by anti-foundationalism, aestheticism, and a deep sense of interconnected responsibility to "invisible others," it is argued that these movements are best understood and analyzed through the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas.By concretely situating and assessing long-standing limitations within Levinas' philosophy in terms of these activist movements, including the relationship between Levinas' aesthetic and ethical theory, his applicability to globalized scales of political responsibility, and the boundaries of his legal proximity and aesthetics of judgment, the thesis uncovers an "ethics of imagination" that brings Levinas into 21 st century law and politics as an an-archic means of conceptualizing the world "otherwise" within the everyday.Avant d'Al Gore en 2005 documentaire "Une vérité qui dérange" enflammé intérêt général du public pour l'aggravation de la crise de l'environnement, les artistes ont joué un rôle crucial dans les deux illustrant les préoccupations écologiques et dans la construction de logement de rechange et des dispositions sociales.Ils l'ont fait avec un sentiment de "responsabilité créatrice" que les institutions politiques officielles et juridiques semblait incapable d'exploiter ou de s'en servir.Cette thèse examine comment les militants de ces mouvements esthétiques qui se produisent simultanément à Toronto et à Windsor, en Ontario, a déclenché une forme de «l'imagination constituante» à la fois critique, constructive et apparemment plus responsable que notre tradition "officielle" des systèmes de responsabilité.Comme ces mouvements cristallisé en une forme contemporaine de la pensée utopique caractérisée par antifondationalisme, esthétisme, et un profond sens des responsabilités reliées aux "autres invisibles», il est soutenu que ces mouvements sont mieux comprises et analysées par la philosophie éthique d'Emmanuel Levinas .Par concrètement situer et d'évaluer les limitations de longue date dans la philosophie de Levinas en fonction de ces mouvements activistes, y compris la relation entre la théorie esthétique et éthique de Levinas, son applicabilité à des échelles mondialisé de la responsabilité politique, et les limites de sa proximité juridique et l'esthétique de arrêt, la thèse révèle une «éthique de l'imagination» qui apporte Levinas en 21e siècle, le droit et la politique comme un moyen an-archique de conceptualiser le monde «autrement» dans le quotidien.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.080 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".