Ecological Gothic: Spirit and Power in a Public Garden
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Elizabethan Gardens was designed in the mid-twentieth century as a living memorial for sixteenth-century English settlers who died on Roanoke Island, North Carolina. Today, it is a site where layers of mourning converge; for long-lost colonists and recently deceased relatives, absent Indigenous and Black people, and erosion-related land loss. Combining religious studies, multispecies studies, and literary studies of the Gothic, this article proposes the “ecological gothic” as a rubric for analyzing complex emotions and material relations in places, like the Gardens, that are defined by memory and ecological change. Its characteristics include an aesthetic of haunting, the melancholic romanticization of nature, and ruins or decayed infrastructure that seem to foreshadow collapse. In the Gardens, the ecological gothic shapes my discussion of human-plant relations, “unruly” infrastructure, mourning and spirit relations, set within a historical narrative that promoted American progress and White supremacy. Beyond the Gardens per se, I make the case for the ecological gothic as a framework through which scholars of religion might contribute to an emerging cross-disciplinary focus on how climate and ecological change is experienced, including in deeply emotional ways.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it