Bibliographic record
Abstract
By defming communication as "the fonn of awareness that shapes the articulation of thought,"l any communication theot)' inches closer to addressing its philosophical presuppositions.Such is the project of lan Angus's Primal Seenes of Communieation, a book that offers a critical assessment ofthe core categories of the communication field: media and mediations.Angus faces off three major theories of communication to show how each of them presupposes a fonnal neutrality to the mediation process.As we wind our way through his analyses, it becomes increasingly evident that the transfonnative power ofmedia and mediation cannot be said to leave either the fonn or vehicle of what is mediated untouched.To demonstrate what amounts to a non-identity thesis as applied to medium, as it were, Angus investigates the idea of object within comnlunication studies.He demonstrates how even within communication theot)' object properties arise immanently from the relations andfunetions by which they acquire body and form.It turns out that communication theory adheres to the donlinant spatial configurations that organize the mathematized sciences today.In a theot)' of language as act, the motifs of fabric, network, and webs are particularly active types of descriptive configurations.This immediately opens onto the significant tension found within mathematical philosophy regarding the precedence to be designated to relation theories as the capital shaper of arealist ontology.I shall give closer consideration to the epistemological structure of the philosophy of communication as developed in Primal Seenes ofCommunieation.By epistemology, I refer to the economy ofthe conceptual construction of communication as theoretical object.This includes the reference-creations employed and directedness implied by the dynamic methodological body Angus implements as it moves through historical situations, as weIl as the role it plays in the wider scope of the sciences as they shape and are shaped by claims to referential realism.My comments and questions will proceed in accordance with the following themes: I) the process of object-creation within communication theory; 2) the preconditions of reflexive discourse; and 3) fallibilism and style. The Process of Object-Creation within Communication TheoryIn Primal Seenes ofCommunieation, Angus's ambition is to construct a philosophy of the method he coins Comparative Media Theory (CMT).He accepts the assessment of a discursive or linguistic turn as an episternic shift overlapping the one that leads modemity to unfold into postmodernity.This turn comes about as
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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 | 0.006 | 0.026 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.012 |
| Research integrity | 0.020 | 0.026 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.146 | 0.073 |
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".