Bibliographic record
Abstract
This volume looks at the roles various world views have played in generating cultural policies at various times in Western history.Evan Alderson begins by situating the work within its social, political and historical framework.Robin Blaser questions how we can begin now to locate a responsible cultural position.Subsequent essays examine the relation of art and the state in Imperial Rome and of language and culture in the medieval world, and the emergence of the individually framed picture in the Renaissance.Other topics include the artistic autonomy of English Romanticism and a conception of cultural policy through William Blake.A discussion of communications policy in Canada introduces the contemporary context, as does the essay comparing cultural policies in revolutionary and pre-revolutionary Iran.In the two final essays Barry Cooper and Robert Kroetsch take up, from opposing poles, the challenge of positing the hope of the post-modern.This volume speaks in a single voice both to those interested in the pragmatics of current cultural policy and to those whose primary allegiance is to the life of the imagination.More than a scholarly exercise, it is a call for action-to a more comprehensive and informed engagement with our present cultural condition.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.909 | 0.866 |
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; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier 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".