Self – Negotiating Borders, Constructing Identity
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Abstract
Inscribed in a critical agenda which discusses questions of identity, of uniqueness and of difference and questions of knowing who is speaking, from where and to whom, this article tries to find a possible answer to a question put by Michel Foucault in ‘Technologies of the Self’ (1988). When asked: ‘what is the self?’ Foucault answered: “Self is a reflexive pronoun and has two meanings – the same and identity” (p.25). It is precisely this latter meaning that, according to the philosopher, shifts the question of ‘what is the self’ to ‘what is the plateau on which I shall find my identity?’In the fictional autobiography Self, written in 1996 by the Spanish born Canadian author Yann Martel, the reader can find several plateaux on which the protagonist tries to find his identity. In its narrative texture, we find an autobiography of a 30 year old writer who tells about his life, who creates a fictional landscape for a possible life. In this fictionalisation of the self and in the creation of possible contexts of experience we can find two layers of existence: on the one hand the experience of the writer, the anguishes and doubts in finding the best form of writing, and, on the other hand, and to me the most interesting one, the experience of the self, put in several contexts, in several filigrees of ontological and epistemological existence. If we take into consideration that the representation of experience is a form of understanding the self and the world, an experience which helps to the creation of retrospective and prospective meanings (Pickering 1997), we shall have to centre our analysis around the processes of production of a subjectivity, an identity and an agency. The protagonist of Self constructs his identity by negotiating borders of uniqueness and difference with his other self, and that the centrality of the experiences produces an articulation of the text, writer and reader, in a dynamic process of discursive alliances, which as configurations of certain practices define where and how people live specific practical relations within specific social contexts.
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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 | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.086 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.019 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.013 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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".