Future Souths: Aesthetics and Dialogues of the Global Souths
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Abstract
This book brings together essays, visual culture and dialogues from an interdisciplinary group of scholars including leading artists, designers, anthropologists, decolonial theorists and art historians living in/out of the global south. Contributors include: artists Rolando López (Aguascalientes, Mexico), Salote Tawale (Suva, Fiji/Sydney, Australia) and James Nguyen (Saigon, Vietnam/Sydney, Australia); decolonial theorists Walter Mignolo (Corral de Bustos, Argentina/Durham, US) and Dylan AT Miner (Turtle Island, Canada/Michigan, US); curators Zoe Butt (Saigon, Vietnam), Chandra Frank (Cape Town, South Africa/London, UK) and Edgar Alejandro Hernández (Mexico City, Mexico); art historians Verónica Tello (Santiago, Chile; Sydney, Australia), Carla Macchiavello (Santiago, Chile/New York, US) and Ruth Simbao (Grahamstown, South Africa); and designer Srdjan Jovanović Weiss (Belgrade, Serbia/New York, US). As this list of contributors reveals, the global south is not characterised by a specific group of nations economically disadvantaged or situated in the Southern hemisphere, but rather comprises disconnected territories and peoples affected by the inequality of globalisation and geopolitics. If the global south is not fixed to any nation, it is porous and fluid, with subjects of the global south migrating to the global North, and Northern economics harbouring in the South. The North is in the South just as the South is in the North. For the contributors of this book, the global south is not just geopolitical concept it is also a (fluid) point through which to interconnect, and locate affinities and solidarities, among disparate southern peoples, places, disciplines and ideas. As such, the book brings together distinct thinkers and voices from the south through an intrinsically amorphous and plural form of knowledge production and writing: the dialogue, or the chat. These dialogues originally took place in an online chatroom on the open-source, low-bandwidth platform, Freenode, organised at a set time suitable for the invited contributors who were located in multiple time zones. Each chatroom dialogue is framed around an original essay, written specifically for this book and focussed on a particular concept (e.g., decolonised time, networks, archives). The invited contributors/interlocutors respond to the essay, along with questions raised by the essayist during the live chat/dialogue. Each interlocutor introduces artworks, curatorial tactics, visual culture and archives as a means to ground the discussed concepts in varied yet always specific material culture of the global south. The book presents the records of the chats/dialogues and their archive of imagery, offering readers a networked and global comparative approach for thinking and visualising in/out of the global south.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 |
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| 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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".