Bibliographic record
Abstract
Ruins are often perceived as something of the past, as something of historical value, ignoring the present-day environment of these ruins. This article provides a glimpse into the livelihood surrounding ruins in post-Soviet Russia by examining the quality of ‘tlen.’ Tlen is a Russian word that translated as “ashes” and refers to processes of decay, corrosion, and corruption, both in physical and metaphorical sense – of abandonment, of lacking care and attention. Thus, the quality of tlen refers to complex feelings of profound sadness or to something bittersweet – something one would want to get rid of, but that is simultaneously “above” the mundanity of consumerlife. In this article, I further explore contemporary uses of the quality of tlen in post-Soviet Russia, to understand the historical and social context in which it acquired its meaning and its contemporary cultural and artistic expressions. I argue that, while generally perceived as an undesirable state, tlen is also often imbued with positive moral and aesthetic values. I draw on publicly available art and content, as well as on my personal experiences and those of people I know.
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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 | 0.000 | 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) | 0.002 | 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".