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Record W1567593807 · doi:10.1080/1600910x.2006.9672922

SEDUCTION, ALIENATION, RACKETEERING

2006· article· en· W1567593807 on OpenAlex
Volker M. Heins

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueDistinktion Journal of Social Theory · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCritical Theory and Philosophy
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAlienationPoliticsPower (physics)State (computer science)Transformative learningSociologyCriminologySovereigntyLawPolitical science

Abstract

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The purpose of this article is to explicate concepts of politics that were introduced—if somewhat implicitly—by different Frankfurt School theorists. Authors writing within this influential tradition have identified a number of structural threats to the very possibility of genuine, transformative political action in modern capitalist society. The article discusses these threats under three headings: seduction by media and consumerism, the draining away of political power from the state in favor of rackets, and political alienation afflicting individuals and communities excluded from circles of power. These three concepts can be read as transmutations of classical political ideas. Seduction subverts liberal ideas of ‘freedom’, racketeering is a degenerate way of forming ‘associations’, and political alienation is a caricature of die contractualist notion of surrendering power to the sovereign state. In conclusion, an attempt is made to evaluate the extent to which those concepts may or may not help us to better understand the place and function of the political in modern societies.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.662
Threshold uncertainty score0.596

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.312
Teacher spread0.298 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it