Bibliographic record
Abstract
Sartre’s existential philosophy of freedom was founded on the ‘nothingness’ of consciousness. In several of her novels, Spark adopts ideas from Sartre’s philosophy in order to reveal their contradictory and inhuman consequences. Thus in The Hothouse by the East River Spark poses an ontological paradox: Paul and Elsa died in England in the Second World War, in spite of which they live on as all-too-material ghosts in post-war New York and have conceived children who grow up as wealthy New Yorkers. Spark gives their son the name Pierre, which is the name of a friend regularly invoked by Sartre in illustrating aspects of his philosophy in Being and Nothingness. Spark’s Pierre, both a being and a nothingness, is the producer of a new version of J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, in which Barrie’s vision of an eternal childhood is performed by aged actors. The ‘Neverland’ of Barrie’s play thus becomes a mockery of a world that has lost its belief in eternity and has made art a compensation for that loss, a theme also played out in Lise’s efforts to become the producer of the drama of her own death in The Driver’s Seat.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.032 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.011 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.002 |
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".