Bibliographic record
Abstract
With climate change and species endangerment a news regularity, it is essential to examine how the dominant postmodern social activity, consumerism, impacts nature. Importantly, it is necessary to inquire about the human relation to nature in postmodernity. This paper examines Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise to understand how consumerism reconfigures the human relationship with nature and importantly transforms this relationship along consumer parameters. Using Jean Baudrillard’s philosophy of the consumer society and hyperreality, this paper elaborates how the characters of White Noise perceive and interact with nature through images and signs of entertainment and advertising. Shifting from literary predecessors, these consumer aspects remove the affiliation and critical aspect to inquire about the environment. Ultimately, while the environment once offered tranquility, harmony, and reflection, the images and signs of nature are merely recirculated and postmodern sites of consumption are instead accepted as society’s ‘natural’ environment. While highlighting these aspects in White Noise the paper relates these insights to the postmodern condition and concludes with strategies to reclaim the former empathic relationship with nature.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".