Self and the city: Teaching sensory perception and integration in City as Classroom
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
Abstract City as Classroom – a text McLuhan co-authored with Eric McLuhan and Kathryn Hutchon in 1977 – takes as its chief goal educating readers to identify ‘[p]atterns and structures [that] “make sense” of things’ (McLuhan et al. 1977: 165), presenting readers with a pedagogical model for exercising and attempting to balance their multiple senses. The text is directed in particular at a youthful audience, those who have inherited a technologized world but no critical tools for understanding or managing it. McLuhan invites readers to explore a process of knowing meant to reactivate human capacities turned off by a succession of takeover technologies. He reveals to readers/practitioners the power of the senses to capture rich perceptual information, engaging them in reshaping both how they know the environment and what they know of it. Offering non-mainstream pedagogical concepts and libratory learning practices and outcomes, this text speaks to the needs of contemporary students and readers.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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