The Aesthetics of Menace: Stan Brakhage, Tom Thomson, and the Group of Seven
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Dans son essai « Space as Menace in Canadian Aesthetics : Film and Painting », publié en 1998, Stan Brakhage postule une esthétique de la menace qu’il partage avec Tom Thomson et le Groupe des Sept. Selon lui, une aversion profonde contre l’énormité terrifiante de leur pays poussa ces artistes canadiens à représenter le vide menaçant du paysage immense en utilisant des modes d’expression qui mettent l’emphase sur la surface du canevas par l’intermédiaire d’un style de peinture graphique ou en filet. On retrouve des équivalents cinématographiques de ces techniques dans certains films de Brakhage comme The Wold Shadow, Rage Net et Visions in Meditation #2: Mesa Verde. L’intention centrale de cette esthétique de la menace est de permettre aux individus de réaffirmer leur humanité face au mouvement totalisant de l’idéologie du progrès technologique.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 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".