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Record W3217476440

Blood in the Sink: : A Redesign of Foe's Dustjacket

2021· article· en· W3217476440 on OpenAlexaff
Dana Kozak

Bibliographic record

VenueStudent Research Proceedings · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicContemporary Literature and Criticism
Canadian institutionsMacEwan University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFeelingSink (geography)MythologyAestheticsPsychologyHistoryArtLiteratureSocial psychologyGeographyCartography
DOInot available

Abstract

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Foe is a novel that subverts expectations and builds on a continuous feeling of tension that is never resolved, even at the end of the book. When redesigning the dustjacket, it was essential to take the tension and translate it visually. A particular scene stands out in the novel. Junior flosses his teeth and forcefully brings down the floss on his gums to make himself bleed, and he spits the blood out into the sink. While it may not be the most crucial scene in the novel, it felt personally the most jarring. Junior reveals that he feels alive seeing his blood in the sink. He is living and breathing like a human being. The twist is that he is not a human at all, but this scene disputes that. What makes us human? What makes us alive? Arguably, our lifeblood makes us alive. Visually, the red stands out and is striking. It brings up questions for the viewer: who is bleeding? Why is this the cover? The title, Foe, is slightly faded and blends in with the background of the sink. The enemy could be anywhere or anyone. The floss turns red in the blood, representing the red string of fate from Greek mythology. Junior does not have a choice throughout the events of the novel. He is fated to be replaced and eventually is the replacement. Terrance and Outermore act as the Fates and decide when the string is cut, signifying his death and end. Department: Design Studies  Faculty Mentor: Constanza Pacher

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.751
Threshold uncertainty score0.622

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.211
GPT teacher head0.397
Teacher spread0.186 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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