Bibliographic record
Abstract
Beyond Failure: New Essays on the Cultural History of Failure in Theatre and Performance, edited by Tony Fisher and Eve Katsouraki, offers a contribution to the growing literature in performance studies and performance philosophy on the aesthetic potential of failure in performance practice. Fisher and Katsouraki frame failure as both painful and generative, nihilistic and utopian. Defining failure as “the pedagogy of futility,” the overarching question that the editors posit is, “What does thinking beyond failure mean, and how might that ‘beyond’ suggest a different kind of aesthetics, and perhaps a different politics of the aesthetic?” They respond to this question with the notion of “ hopefulness as that which lies ‘beyond failure’ … however attenuated it may be by tormented experience.” The collection features chapters by Simon Bayly, Mischa Twitchin, Shanna Ketcham-Heap of Birds, Joe Parslow, Macelle Mahala, Kélina Gotman, Cormac Power, and the editors themselves.
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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 | 0.001 | 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) | 0.012 | 0.001 |
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".