Over the Event Horizon: Denyse Thomasos, Black Abstraction, and Diasporic Spacetime
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Despite her successful career, the late Trinidadian-Canadian painter Denyse Thomasos remains sorely underdiscussed in academic literature. To rectify this fap, this paper takes a comprehensive close reading of Thomasos' monumental abstractions of the city, the prison, and the slave ship, as well as a mysterious series of untitled final works. Drawing on physics, Black Canadian literature, decolonial poetics, and spatial theory, I posit that Thomasos' abstractions are intensely affective because they wield space and time as aesthetic and conceptual means of articulating an inarticulable experience of being Black in Canada. In doing so, I conceptualize twin theories of "state spacetime" and "diasporic spacetime" as broader analytical frameworks for reading Black diasporic artistic production as a gravity-bending force within the capitalist, white supremacist rhythms of the state.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 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".