The Art of Consumption: Capitalist Excess and Individual Psychosis in<i>Hoarders</i>
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This article examines the relationship between concepts of the object, patterns of consumption, and the turn to the real in the reality television series Hoarders. Linking proper object consumption to a process of home make-over and self-transformation, psychologists in the series discipline hoarders to produce waste by compelling them to apply an evaluative hierarchy to objects and to confess to their psychopathology. In the wake of the global financial crisis of 2007–8, Hoarders episodes offer implicit allegories of national economic problems as the result of corrupt patterns of consumption and individual psychic aberrations. Once individual behaviour is realigned with normative practices of consumer capitalism, viewers are led to believe, these individuals can be brought back into (and presumably repair) the economic national fold.
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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 |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 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