Mundane and mutant devices of power: Business improvement districts and sanctuaries
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
From the inception in the early 1980s of the Foucauldian-influenced corpus of work known as ‘governmentality studies’, theorists sought to encourage the empirical study of rationalities and technologies of government as elements that are mutually dependent but not related in a one-to-one fashion. Yet in the years since then, rationalities have received attention from analysts to the relative neglect of technologies. This article undertakes an analysis of the business improvement district and church sanctuary: two disparate, mundane and mutant devices which suggest that technologies cannot be permanently assigned to one kind of power; can shift back and forth between civil society and the state; and can resemble heretofore disassociated technologies. Reinvigorating the quest to understand technologies of government such as these necessitates a greater openness to their possible links to a plurality of powers and recognition of their historical character and capacity for mutations.
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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 | 0.001 |
| 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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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