Desiring Lines: The Pedagogical Responsibility of Art & Design at the End of the World
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This chapter attempts to juxtapose desire as lack, which pervades designer capitalism, against more affirmative notions of desire as developed by Deleuze and Guattari. The framing of this tension is placed against the separate spheres of art & design, which historically have been at odds. Given the urgency of the global ecological crisis surrounding the Anthropocene, the argument is presented that pedagogical responsibility rests on decentering our humanist anthropocentric orientation, especially the way aesthetics has traditionally been taken up by art & design education. The suggestion is made that speculative design and postconceptual developments in art provide a line of flight away from designer capitalism that remains unsustainable. Both speculative design and postconceptual art position the spectator/participant/consumer in the interstice of what is here called “self‐refleXivity,” which opens up future worlds for the transvaluation of the current art & designer imaginary.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.029 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.020 | 0.012 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 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".