Bibliographic record
Abstract
Slam poetry is a form of performance poetry created by Marc Kelly Smith in Chicago during the 1980s. Since then, slam has spread throughout many locations in the world. According to its precursor, this type of poetry is based on five main elements: poetry, performance, competition, interaction and community. In their speeches, there seems to be a special affection of poets for themes regarding the social and the political. Nevertheless, political theory has ignored slam poetry in its corpus of studies. Slam has been most studied in the education field, since its utilization in schools has been observed in many countries. Based on this, the current study had two main aims. First, slam poetry was inserted in the political theory field. In this sense, slam was considered a manifestation of an emotional community fighting for a radical and plural democracy. Secondly, the research analyzed the expansion of slams from open spaces of public access to the institutional environments of formal education. Two distinct situations of institutionalization were observed: the slam brought to schools by teachers, students and slammasters; and the slam used by the State Government’s Education Secretariat as a mean to promote a specific educational policy. This study tried to comprehend the transformations of the political potential of slam poetry when transposed to these different environments. The research was based on documental analysis, participant observation in 14 slam events, and interviews with 25 people who are differently involved in the slam movement in the Espírito Santo State (Brazil) and in the Province of Québec (Canada). The results indicate that when slam poetry is taken to schools in the Espírito Santo State, it is done with an expectation that it will be able to replicate its critical performances and its democratizing potential. However, in the events of the State Government’s Education Secrateriat, slam poetry was used with the specific intent of advertising an educational policy. Consequently, in this last case some fundamental liberties of slam poetry were harmed and its status of critical art was jeopardized.
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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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.717 | 0.456 |
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; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.
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".