Spirou’s transnational travels: historical memory and comics memory in Flix’s<i>Spirou in Berlin</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
While Flix’s Spirou in Berlin can be enjoyed simply for its entertainment value and the novelty of a German-created Spirou story, it is more than just a slapstick spin-off. Flix’s latest Spirou adventure references the intertwined histories of Franco-Belgian and German comics while also reflecting on the mediated memories of divided Germany and the Peaceful Revolution of 1989. Spirou in Berlin thus offers a productive case study for thinking about the many different ways that memory can be conceptualised in comics studies. Referencing not only GDR history, but also comics history, as well as an array of medial representations of the Cold War and divided Berlin, Flix’s comic encourages a medium-specific approach to memory that explores not only how comics act as a medium for the memory of historical events, but as a space to reflect on the memory of the comics medium itself.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 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 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".