What is ‘Postmodern’ — A Quarter of a Century after?
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
At the time of my arrival in Australia in January 1978 I still stood — together with my late husband Ferenc Feher — under the spell of "cultural criticism". Cultural critics as diverse in their philosophical perspectives as our teachers Georg Lukács, Adorno or Heidegger unanimously agreed that contemporary art was decadent, fraudulent, apologetic, over-rationalized or irrational, to sum up, "bad art". Since I have no talent for speaking or writing about what I do not cherish, I did not join the chorus which at the time abused certain tendencies termed — among other things — "postmodern". In accordance with my taste, I simply neglected works created after the times of high modernism, avoiding them in exhibitions, concert halls and the theater.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| 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 it