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Pataphysics and Postmodern Ecocriticism

2014· book· en· W2301347233 on OpenAlex
Adam Dickinson

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Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2014
Typebook
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicEcocriticism and Environmental Literature
Canadian institutionsBrock University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPoeticsEcocriticismPostmodernismThe ImaginaryPhilosophyLiteratureAestheticsEpistemologyArtPoetryPsychoanalysisPsychology

Abstract

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This article examines the potential role of pataphysics, the “science of imaginary solutions”, in postmodern ecocriticism. It explains that pataphysics exemplifies an ecocritical approach that owes more to poetics than it does to traditional analytical methodologies and describes a number of recent examples of pataphysical research projects with distinct ecocritical dimensions. It argues that pataphysics has much to offer to postmodern ecocriticism both as an object of study and as a potential methodological approach and discusses the two characteristics of pataphysical poetics: ambient and transgenic poetics.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.966
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.160
Teacher spread0.147 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it