Bibliographic record
Abstract
The line between life and death is blurry. For one organism to live, others must die, turning first into food, then units of energy, and then fodder for new life. Performance itself is a play between liveliness and stabilizations, sensory immediacy and documented pasts. In the culture and practice of food, parallels abound. A notable yet humble example is witnessed in fermentation practice and the use of starter cultures, whether bacterial, yeasty, or both. Even as such cultures are consumed by a production process, they are renewed by it. This autoethnographic account of a cycle of three performances centred on an inherited sourdough starter explores the ways in which performance with food can act as a process of preservation, as well as an exploration of life, death, and states of being that may exist in between. In using a yeast culture that is more than 25 years old, I have attempted not only to perpetuate the tiny bodies within the flour-water paste but also to embody in a larger way the attitude and essence of the culture’s original user. Probing the preservation of humanness through food practice and artistic improvisation, I propose an alternate sense of memory, ecology, and mortality.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.040 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".