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Record W4391681946 · doi:10.4324/9780429443091-44

Bathhouse Memories

2024· book-chapter· en· W4391681946 on OpenAlex

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Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSpatial and Cultural Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMaterials science

Abstract

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A camera tracks smoothly over the grid ceiling of a bathhouse in Québec City, following the protagonist of Robert Lepage’s cinematic debut The Confessional (1995) as he looks for his estranged brother in the private cabins of the gay sauna Hippocampe—an echo of the titular church confessional cabins. Set up with scenes inspired by classical paintings and sculptures, each cabin becomes a condensed museum or theater of history and culture. Using the bathhouse and other underground erotic spaces to move viewers between eras and characters, Lepage invites us to explore the semiotic and atmospheric potential of ordinary objects and spaces as gateways to memory and allegory. The mesmerizing overhead cinematography highlights the complexity of bathhouses—the dark labyrinthine spaces to be explored over and over, echoing the urbanism of a tightly built city. Architecturally, bathhouses and steam rooms range from simple structures to much more adorned and complex networks of chambers that both fascinate and intrigue, shaped by spiritual, medical, hygienic, and erotic grounds. This chapter examines the gay bathhouse as a typology of interior urbanism.

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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 categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.727
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.004

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.

Opus teacher head0.040
GPT teacher head0.288
Teacher spread0.248 · 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

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