Machine-Age Discourse, Mechanical Ballet, and Popular Song as Alternative Document in Dorothy Livesay’s "Day and Night"
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Dorothy Livesay's Day and Night has often been cited as the proof text for her 1969 essay on the Canadian documentary poem, but its documents are not those conventionally incorporated in the documentary film and literary traditions. Livesay creates a documentary effect in the poem through dialogic popular culture citation and recontextualization. Documentary poem theory, such as that of Michael Thurston and Tyrus Miller, offers a point of departure for understanding the musical and film intertexts in Day and Night within the tradition of documentary modernism practiced by the socialist left. The poem participates in a horizon of Machine Age discourse prominent in a variety of art forms, in race politics in the labour movement, and in what Candida Rifkind sees as the disavowal of a bourgeois life of leisure by the socialist intelligentsia, who came to see their intellectual/artistic work as a form of labour positioned alongside the common worker.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".