Neurasthenic Subjects and the Bourgeois Interior
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article examines neurasthenia (or “nervous exhaustion”) as a signifier for cultural practices and formations embedded in, and shaping, late 19th-century discursive and material spaces. Neurasthenia and its putative “cure”—in the production of a domestic interior protecting its inhabitants from the shocks of modernity—were linked to late 19th-century concerns and fears over the impact of economic and social transformations on the new subjects of urban life. The bourgeois interior relied on the construction of a (male) subject, privatized and turned inward; reading the domestic discourse of neurasthenia through Walter Benjamin’s analyses of the bourgeois interior, this article explores the ways in which this space served to construct its subjects at the same moment that it represented them to themselves, producing and affirming a myth of home at the very moment of its disappearance from the stage of history.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 |
| 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