Sustainable Urban Foragings in the Canadian Metropolis: Rummaging through Rita Wong’s Forage and Nicholas Dickner’s Nikolski
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Abstract
Foraging and dumpster diving are two activities now associated with a kind of environmentally-conscious social activism engaged in by people wanting to live sustainably through maintaining a close connection with their local environment; the former is generally associated with nature, the latter with the urban. Wong's poetry collection and Dickner's novel, both featuring those who scavenge within their urban environment, enable a connection to be made between these activities; to label dumpster diving 'urban foraging' is to make clear the way the dumpster diver helps us to interrogate the urban/nature binary. This article uses Michel de Certeau's 'Walking in the City', in particular, to think through Wong and Dickner's figurations of the two Canadian metropolises: Vancouver and Montreal. These cities become places of subversive urban foraging; the garbage becomes transformed through renewed visibility, while in turn the urban space is re-made, potentially, as a place of sustainable possibility.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.038 | 0.030 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".