Bibliographic record
Abstract
There is one scene in Günter Grass’ The Tin Drum (1999, 338–339) that makes a great preamble to this chapter’s discussion of the will-to-not-know, the name under which I condense the mechanisms that allow the bourgeois to remain unmoved by the spectacle of violence. During Bebra theatrical troupe’s wartime tour to the Normandy Atlantic Wall line of German defence, Oskar, Grass’ main hero, and his fiancée compose a little sarcastic poem that sums up the situation of the German soldiers, and more generally of the liberal population in times of war. Despite living in concrete fortifications and among barbed wire, despite extreme violence and death becoming mundane events, the bourgeoisie continues to dream of landscaped gardens, refrigerators, and the happy hours bestowed by an electric plug. Even during the open display of atrocity, the poem concludes, the thought of comfort is like a drug, and the trend is towards the bourgeois-smug. The grotesque placing side by side of a homely list of bourgeois desires with the brutality of war is a classical avant-garde derision of the modern order. However, today’s subjects could easily recognise themselves in a trend towards bourgeois smugness that equates being with fetishistic fantasies of comfort, refrigerators, and electric plugs. At the end of Grass’ vignette, we are shown the Bebra troupe gluttonously devouring an obscenely opulent picnic, while a group of nuns collecting crabs around the fortifications to feed the children in their kindergarten are massacred pre-emptively by the German forces. The troupe plays the gramophone loudly ( The Great Pretender by The Platters) to cover the machine gun noise and, probably, the absurdity of the violence they witness. Their ability to pretend that this typical modern massacre is not happening depends on getting engrossed to the level of autism in the bourgeois comforts of music, food, chat, and play. Conversely, deriving enjoyment from these habits depends on one’s ability to ignore that, in the process of producing bourgeois comfort, the modern dispositifs produce massacres. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.060 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.013 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.008 | 0.013 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 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 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".