Bibliographic record
Abstract
It may seem odd to include Guy Debord in a panel about rethinking democratic politics. After all, he was the de facto leader of the Situationist International (SI), a select and highly exclusionary organization, for its entire 15-year existence. Moreover, his crucial concept of the 'spectacle' emerges directly out of the Marxist tradition, a body of theory that historically paid little attention to questions about the nature of 'politics' or 'democracy.' Yet the democratic impulse of Debord's political thought should not be so easily dismissed. Indeed, my paper will draw out the aspects of his work that point toward a radical notion of politics as an inherently conflictual and divisive process. In particular, I will focus on Debord's concept of a 'situation,' which, like all of Debord's films, is premised on confronting its audience, spurring them into action and forcing them ultimately to reconsider or at least reveal their position. While this concept is not democratic in and of itself, I will argue that, when considered in tandem with Debord's notions of 'play,' 'festival,' and his advocacy of workers' councils, the 'situation' helps us to understand the practice associated with a democratic politics of division.
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.024 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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".