Making Sense of the “Endless Play of Signs” in the Work of Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The shift to financialization has oriented economies towards the immaterial. As Marc C. Taylor explains, “what distinguishes financial capitalism is that wealth is generated by the circulation of signs grounded in a seemingly endless play of signs rather than in the sale or exchange of material objects or physical labour” (2011: 5). This abstraction of economic mechanisms increases the risk that misunderstandings of the system will occur, as demonstrated by the 2007–2009 financial crisis. This article explores how contemporary artists are addressing financial capitalism in Canada and what can be gained from artistic representations that attempt to assess the current economic system. Specifically, the works of Toronto-based artists Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge are examined. Their collaborative method, which combines community expression with political commentary, produces vivid photographic tableau that offer a clear criticism of financialization as a historical and contemporary issue that has implications in the everyday. Significantly, Condé and Beveridge’s representations of financial capitalism illuminate marginalized aspects of this economic system and contribute to a reexamination of the status quo.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.044 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 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".