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Record W7115168824 · doi:10.5281/zenodo.15023925

Autoethnography of an archive in process

2025· article· en· W7115168824 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueEdinburgh Research Explorer · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicDiverse Musicological Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAutoethnographyFraming (construction)EthnographyNaturalismPower (physics)Process (computing)Posthumanism

Abstract

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The deleterious effects of anthropogenic climate change have prompted scholars across disciplines to critically rethink knowledge production, cultural memory, and shared legacies. TERA—a transnational group of seven scholars and artists affiliated with McGill University (Canada), with members in the Caribbean, the UK, and the US—translates this imperative into experimental archiving. This auto-ethnographic article details our collaborative, digital archive project focused on technology, ecology, and religion in North America, framing archiving as a process perpetually under construction. Archive-making and taxonomic ordering were technologies of European conquest in North America. Acknowledging our enmeshment in coloniality, TERA adopts “serious parody” (Wilcox 2018) of nineteenth-century naturalist clubs: spaces where educated, wealthy, white men curated plundered or “discovered” objects. We subvert these power structures through collective methods, emphasizing taxonomy’s socioecological implications. Formed in 2021, TERA convenes monthly online to curate artifacts (visual/auditory art, poems, infographics, performances) for a 2023 digital archive. Recorded discussions and analyzed transcriptions reveal collaborative knowledge-making processes obscured by univocal taxonomies. Our work confronts questions like “what does it mean to be human in a shared biocultural life- world?”, reimagining human-nonhuman relationships and strategies for ecological crisis.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.403
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.283
GPT teacher head0.389
Teacher spread0.107 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it