Cross-body lead, counterbody motion: political and poetic notes towards a sociology of globalization, nation-building and transcultural performativity in Toronto salsa
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis takes up some of the kinds of identifications and articulations (re/made) possible in the context of latinidad given a certain visibility in the overdeterminations/and openings of contemporary globalization of 'popular culture'. The terrain I have articulated for the purpose of entering the social relations is the discursive field of 'salsa' in terms of a suggested transcoding of deferred, signifying and refiguring transcultural performativities involving 'latinidad' as emergent transborder reassemblage grafting new roots onto old, and nurturing ancient deeply rooted traditions like wildfire in glocalized expressions of Salsatropolis as seen especially in Toronto, Canada. In terms of refiguring latinidad as a signifying history, the thesis takes up the metaphor of mobilization and mobility suggested by salsa as a beginning point to address: (1) the continuing erasure and suppression of latinidad despite selective incorporation of latin(o) music and language into anglo-majoritarian everyday commercial life; (2) the ongoing vitality of latinidad alongside coloniality in late capitalism, and of latinidad as commercialized embodiment of the asymmetrical relations of cultural reassemblage; (3) the need for histories of complexity capable of minorizing the terms of majoritarian erasures, distortions, misreadings, obsessive-compulsive overdeterminations; the ability to suggest the importance of a displaced authorization of the historical text, and of reading practices sympathetic to dynamic histories of resistance with both/neither concrete and/nor uncoded effects; (4) the articulation of majoritarian histories with the contingencies of subsuming privilege; (5) the significance of majoritarian subjects occupying minoritarian discursive spaces. The thesis arises from a commitment to calling into question the majoritarian discourse granting legitimacy to a Future-seeking filiation invested with logics of entitlement surrendering latino peoples in an exaggerated myth of undignified presence or absence from a history of significance. Following Guattari (1995), the thesis meanwhile conjugates signifying assemblages with other discursive strategies or lignes errantes (de Certeau, 1984, p. xviii) from the decentred centres made historical margins, including asignifying, presignifying, countersignifying and postsignifying modalities.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.028 | 0.043 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.001 |
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".