Island Studies Journal 7(2), Book Reviews
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The collection of essays in Inseln und Archipele [Islands and Archipelagos] arose out of a scholarly conference on the topic Orders of the Insular at the University of Mannheim's Philosophical Faculty (Germany) in 2008.The book takes an innovative, interdisciplinary perspective on islands and archipelagos as culturally coded and symbolically charged spaces.The volume combines contributions from different fields of research such as literary studies, cultural theory, political and social science, fine arts and musicology.According to the editors' preface, the book is oriented along cultural scientific lines and contributes to island studies as a field of interdisciplinary academic research (p.7).It is remarkable that the editors claim, correctly, to examine the spatial configuration of the insular and islands as rewarding heuristic instruments of knowledge for the first time in the German-speaking scholarly community (p.8).Hence, the volume attempts to promote further scholarly investigation on islands.Inseln und Archipele mainly aims at questioning rigid descriptions and traditional interpretations that European or rather continental thought ascribes to the cultural figure 'island'.Perceived as closed and homogenous systems that are separated from the mainland, for instance, islands are supposed to represent stability, timelessness and inner homogeneity.Thus, dichotomous structures such as continental/insular, centre/periphery or autarchy/interconnectedness became a standard pattern of association.As a recognizable setting that carries specific connotations, the island motif thus serves as a topos in countless literary works.Now it is time to challenge the traditional ways in which islands are used and featured, and develop instead research perspectives on islands which are innovative and dynamic.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".