The fragility of a more-than-human world: Ecological awareness in the poetry of Robert Bringhurst
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Abstract
This article examines the poetry and thinking of Robert Bringhurst, a 21st-century Canadian humanist who denounces the depletion of natural resources and environmental degradation brought about by the practices of postcapitalism and neo-liberalism in highly industrialized societies. More specifically, it examines two poems from a sequence entitled “The Living” included in his Selected Poems (2009), “The Living Must Never Outnumber the Dead” and “At Last”, remarkable lyric specimens that testify to Bringhurst’s profound ecological concerns and commitment to writing poetry that addresses the more-than-human world. When reading his intellectually demanding poems and essays, the reader cannot help noticing how an ontology of humility seems to flourish suddenly. Bringhurst’s biocentric poetics invites humans to rethink their place in the cosmos and to recover an awareness of the deep link pervading all living forms if they are to make the Earth a liveable place.
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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
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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 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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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.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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