Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper seeks to better understand the structure of feeling in Western liberal democracies following the spectacular terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Numerous commentators have made the case that the post-9/11 era is marked by a new form of political domination—one distinguished by fear. It’s argued that an emerging spectacle of terrorism has displaced older forms of fascist and consumer spectacles. Here, fear is viewed as a key organizing principle in a symbolic universe in which an abundance of the Real displaces simulacrum. Instead of the spectacular organization of the polity through consumerism, social domination is secured through the spectacle of terror and fear. This paper challenges this argument, and with it the suggestion that political communication be understood as post-representative. Following Raymond Williams, the paper investigates the production of global affect by asking what is dominant, what is residual and what is emergent about the spectacle of fear? In doing so it argues that the spectacle of commodity production remains firmly integrated with the state and the regime of capitalist globalization and renewed forms of primitive accumulation. Victims of spectacular forms of accumulation by dispossession in Western societies and the global South are now visible to each other, exposing the fearful terrain of the global affect of the Real.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.026 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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.
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".