Cultural Ecology, the Environmental Humanities, and the Ecological Archives of Literature
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The paper discusses the role of literature in relation to the general archives of culture from the perspective of cultural ecology. It places literary studies in the transdisciplinary framework of the Environmental Humanities; looks at how the ecological turn in literary studies has changed the literal and metaphorical archives of our disciplines; outlines some basic ideas of a cultural ecology of literature and the ways in which literature acts as an ecological force in culture; and traces the ecological agency of literary archives, which are reaching back into deep-time memories of culture-nature-coevolution, as sources of imaginative energy in examples from American literature, referencing texts by Whitman, Hawthorne, Melville, and Morrison. In the final part, the article addresses the productive relation between archive and experiment in creative responses to the Anthropocene in contemporary examples ranging from German poetry to the novel The Search for Heinrich Schloegel by Canadian writer Martha Baillie and to the 2017 Guillermo de Toro film The Shape of Water.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".