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 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 | 0.005 | 0.013 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.021 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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 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".