Aesthetic Systems Theory: Doing Hip Hop Kulture Research Together at Cipher5
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Aesthetic Systems is an original theory to explain how aesthetic resources are made, shared and used in the formation of art works and of collective and individual subjectivities. Aesthetic systems theory has ontological, epistemological and methodological implications for the study of aesthetics, aesthetics education and the cultural studies of music, and argues for community-engaged aesthetics research. The most striking implication of aesthetic systems is the methodological requirement to undertake community-engaged critical dialogical research informed by critical pedagogy, ethnomusicology and the cultural studies traditions. This article is both the story of the intellectual partnership that built Cipher5, an Edmonton-based hip hop research/study group and an argument for the necessity of community-engaged cartographies of mediation to shed light on the relationship between the formation of subjectivities and aesthetic education. If aesthetic systems form subjectivities, how might music education programs use this knowledge to inquire after the formation of student subjectivities?
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.002 |
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