Flying with the bird: A posthuman-a/r/tographic rethinking of decolonization
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Abstract
This article rethinks decolonization through the lens of posthuman-a/r/tography, a theoretical framework that integrates posthumanist philosophy with a/r/tographic methodology. The inquiry was initiated by a chance encounter with a seagull perched atop sʔi:ɬqəý qeqən , a sculpture representing First Nations culture on the University of British Columbia (UBC) campus in Vancouver, Canada. Inspired by contiguity in a/r/tography, and drawing on visual artworks, narrative, avian visual systems and quantum physics, I sought to challenge dominant understandings of decolonization and contribute to a reimagined interpretative pathway. Later, as an educator, I extended this inquiry into my K–12 art classroom, where students engaged in learning with and from non-human entities. Their responses open new possibilities for decolonial pedagogy. I argue that decolonization is not only an act of integration and/or reconciliation between Indigenous people and non-Indigenous people but also an ongoing process of entangled becoming among beings, events, perspectives and relationships.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 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".