Bibliographic record
Abstract
Love for the Disappearing: On Ice, Warming and Self-criticism in two Climate-Change Novels
 This article focuses on the configuration of the love of ice in two novels from the emergent field of climate-change fiction: The Ice Lovers (2009) by the Canadian author Jean McNeil, and Eis Tau (2011) by the Austrian author Ilija Trojanow. Both these works end with the suicide of the main character; a commonality which serves as the point of departure for this article. Additionally, the main characters’ love of ice is explored as a means of being-in-the-world, as opposed to the being-in-the-world of a humanity that is generally depicted as treating nature without love, i.e., unsustainably. In this regard the novels are also read as a site of self-criticism (or anthropocritique). In its pursuit of these two contrasting forms of being-in-the-world, the article draws heavily on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. The ecological aspects of Heidegger’s philosophy have been firmly criticized by eco-critics and philosophers alike. However, as this article makes clear, Heidegger’s line of thought can still be detected in current writing on climate change.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.004 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".