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Record W4256153990 · doi:10.1353/crv.2011.0024

Running Out of Gas: The Energy Crisis in 1970s Suburban Narratives

2011· article· en· W4256153990 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Christian J. Long

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Review of American Studies · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLiterature, Film, and Journalism Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNarrativeEnergy (signal processing)HistoryPolitical scienceLiteraturePhysicsArtQuantum mechanics

Abstract

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In Back to the Future 1 and Part II, The Ice Storm, and The Virgin Suicides the negative effects of suburbanization are written onto the nature it purports to provide its residents. The cultural and economic logic of sprawl generates a built environment that accelerates the energy-crisis apocalypse tasted during the 1973 energy crisis. The paradoxes of suburban ideology generate unsustainable—even fatal—built environments, figuring two apocalypses as competing for space in suburban narratives: the concrete-grey and the green. In the grey, all hell breaks loose when the built environment can no longer deliver on suburban ideology's promises. But suburban ideology so drives American culture that hell must be displaced onto terrorists, weather, and parenting to make the future safe by keeping it recognizably suburban, literally concrete. The potential green apocalypse—what a return to nature would actually entail—critically engages the concrete-grey apocalypse, but at the cost of (suburban) life as we know its obsolescence.

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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)0.000
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: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.831
Threshold uncertainty score0.860

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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

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 head0.052
GPT teacher head0.268
Teacher spread0.216 · 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 designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreReview

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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