Bibliographic record
Abstract
Tout bouge autour de moi, by Dany Laferriere. Collection chronique, Montreal: Memoire d'encrier, 2010. ISBN 978-2-923713-30-4. 160 pp. CND 19.00; EUR 17.00. Dany Laferriere was in Haiti the day the earthquake of 2010 hit the island, destroying Port-au-Prince, the capital city. By some strange coincidence, Laferriere was also scheduled to submit a final manuscript to his publishers some two weeks later. Instead, Laferriere submitted a book about the earthquake, which is the only reason why we have this book so quickly after the events. Wbile traveling in those few short weeks following the earthquake, Laferriere wrote the book about the subject that had overtaken him: Ce n'est pas Ie moment de me laisser distraire par autre chose. Sauf qu'un bon sujet declenche chez nous une energie proche de la passion physique. Je ne pense plus qu'a ca. What Laferriere produces instead is a 160-page book that is part report, part therapy, part advice guide. For a writer whose entire oeuvre is basically autobiographical, Tout bouge autour de moi is by far his most personal work yet. Laferriere lets us into a very personal and immediate world of destruction, loss, and, ultimately, hope. This book was clearly written quickly, and it is this immediacy and straightforward realism that is its greatest strength. Laferriere, who always has a small notepad and pencil in his pocket, was taking notes the entire time. Death and destruction reside alongside life and hope. We move from the hotel where he was staying to the streets, to a place where he had been less than an hour before, now destroyed, probably taking a friend with it. We visit with a very much alive Franketienne and his wife, whose house was home to a large number of Haitian paintings, a house that was destroyed, taking several generations worth of Haitian art with it. We find his family (mother, sister, brother-in-law, and nephew) all alive and well. His nephew, however, has a unique request for Laferriere: not to write about the earthquake, at least not a novel. Laferriere observes: C'est l'evenement de son epoque et non la mienne. La mienne, c'etait la dictature. Lui, c'est le seisme. Et il entend bien que ce soit sa sensibilite qui l'evoque. One of the most powerful and important aspects of this book is the richness of the detail, describing stories and scenes that we never saw in thirty-second news clips, depicting the intensity of emotions and the resourcefulness of a people in a world where chaos and bad news sells and where riots sell even more. …
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.465 | 0.318 |
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".