Life as synecdoche: Ansel Adams and the expanding liberal democratic tradition
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In The rights of nature: A history of environmental ethics (1989), Roderick Nash paints a portrait of the United States' expanding liberal democratic tradition – the extension of ethics outward from self to other people to other living things and, ultimately, to the earth in its entirety. In this article, we examine the expanding liberal democratic tradition through the life of one individual, Ansel Adams, the renowned black-and-white landscape photographer. Adams captured the beauty of his country's landscapes and imbued them with meaning that evoked a strong sense of place (Tuan, Y. (1977 Tuan, Y. 1977. Space and place: The perspective of experience, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. [Google Scholar]). Space and place: The perspective of appearance. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press) thereby influencing both the environmental movement and the politics of place. Adams' story is a synecdoche, a representation of the larger story of twentieth-century environmentalism.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
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 | 0.003 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.012 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
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".