“Partially Color”– Rethinking Exterior and Interior Spaces in Communist Romania
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This essay explores the complementarities between the exterior of Bucharest and the comforting interiors of Romanians’ apartments during the last two decades of communism. My analysis is building upon Henri Lefebvre’s concept of code and his three-tier dialectic of space: spatial practice , representation of space and spaces of representation, highlighting the role of communist architecture in reinforcing the coercive power of Nicolae Ceausescu and the Romanian Communist Party, and in dissuading any act of rebellion against the communist regime. I will attempt to demonstrate that a Manichean perspective, positioning the personal apartment as a safe haven against the hostile communist exterior does not accurately render Romanians’ relation with the communist apparatus, and I will insist upon several instances of (forced) complicity between them and the political regime. The last section of my essay is dedicated to the role of television in mediating between exterior and interior spaces in the communist regime. Keywords: Romania, communism, Lefebvre, architecture, surveillance, exteriors, interiors, apartments, television
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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 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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.
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