History Sticks to your Feet
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis addresses current concerns around climate change and geological time through Decolonial literature, seeking responses for change through the position of a critical settler. I use a process of observation and breakdown of the non-native and highly invasive Phragmites australis found on a site located in Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve to think through the complexities of colonialism in the land I inhabit. The incessant remodeling of Phragmites australis paper pulp allowed me to actively think through making. \nThroughout autoethnographic research, I realized that if I want change, I need to radically accept the reality I live in and address the feeling of shame that arises within me, to move beyond this paralyzing feeling. To help me through my thinking, I have supported my research with Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Donna Haraway, Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times by Alexis Shotwell, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada by Paulette Regan, and Decolonization is not a Metaphor by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang. I also learned that Decolonization requires more than theories: it demands concrete material change. As the journey towards Decolonial ways of being and making is far from over and as I aim to work towards concrete change beyond the studio, I use site-specific engagement and lyrical performative approaches to unsettle my work and participate in the cultural side of the process.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.129 | 0.041 |
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".