{
  "id": 3020,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.02459v1",
  "title": "Language Models as Measurement Apparatus for Culture",
  "summary": "Language models are increasingly used to quantify cultural phenomena, but what makes such measurement distinctively cultural? This paper argues that NLP work on culture is a material-discursive practice: the apparatus -- model, data, annotation, evaluation -- participates in constituting the cultural reality it measures, rather than passively recording it. Drawing on Karen Barad's concept of the agential cut -- the contingent boundary between phenomenon and instrument -- I show that the apparatu",
  "authors": "Kent K. Chang",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-02T17:25:55.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:11:46.979Z",
  "source_slug": "x-arxiv-cs-cl-ethics-relevant-nlp",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.CL (ethics-relevant NLP)",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/3020",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.02459v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}