Mirror Reflections: Robert Smithson’s Dialectical Concept of Space
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Cet essai analyse le concept de l’espace dans l’oeuvre de l’artiste américain Robert Smithson (1938–73). La discussion porte principalement sur ses oeuvres avec miroirs. J’avance que Smithson a utilisé des miroirs pour en arriver à une perception « polyperspectiviste » de la réalité, laquelle correspondait à son concept dialectique de l’espace. Pour Smithson, l’espace apparaît dans la dialectique du site et du nonsite, dans l’aller et retour entre centre et périphérie, paysage naturel et industriel, réalité et fiction, histoire et temps présent, ordre et chaos. Son oeuvre avec miroirs lui a permis d’aborder ces aspects irrationnels, mystérieux et ouverts qui appartiennent à tout site et qui, en même temps, lui mérite un non-site. Smithson estimait que le site et le non-site ne sauraient être séparés, se renvoyant l’un à l’autre comme un miroir et sa réflexion.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.029 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".