Bibliographic record
Abstract
Writing from Rapallo in 1924, Ezra Pound waxed nostalgic to his comrade the painter and writer Wyndham Lewis, reminiscing about a moment a decade earlier when he and Lewis had converged in London's avant-guerre artistic milieu. In 1914, Pound and Lewis had both been members of the newly emergent avant-garde movement of vorticism, known chiefly for its paintings – which featured a bold, angular, dynamic version of the geometric abstract idiom prevalent in the visual arts of the early twentieth century – but also involving sculpture, literature, and photography. Lewis had spearheaded the movement; Pound had joined it in mid 1914. In his retrospective letter, Pound recalled Blast , the short-lived periodical (1914–15) that had served as vorticism's official organ and housed its manifestoes. A foot in height, with a bright puce cover stamped with aggressive black sans-serif lettering, Blast sported an outlandish visual code that signaled avant-garde defiance and mischief – and, as Paige Reynolds notes, that resonated with the visual signatures of advertising of the climate. Lewis would later fondly remember Blast as “that hugest and pinkest of magazines.” The magazine's contents – including hyperbolic manifestoes “blasting” Victorianism in gigantic type; geometric paintings; a phantasmagoric avant-garde play by Wyndham Lewis entitled Enemy of the Stars , ventured as an example of literary vorticism – sustained the audacity signaled by the magazine's bibliographic code.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.038 | 0.010 |
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".