Bibliographic record
Abstract
"This Essay Has a Soundtrack" really does have a soundtrack. It is a piece of music composed, performed and recorded by the author that uses a processed version of the essay as its score. The recording of the composition is offered as a possible musical accompaniment to reading the score. While this places such a reading within the field of research-creation, the essay actually engages this field more through speculating about the essay form as a fluid, open, indeterminate and unsubstantiated thing that can, as Adorno puts it: "blow open what cannot be absorbed by concepts.” This engagement with the poetic, aesthetic potentials of the essay serves as an entrance to touching on aesthetic theory more generally, in contact with Montaigne, Adorno, Born, Menke, Seel, Lyotard, Culler, Cazdyn, and Trinh Minh-ha among others. While the essay suggests readers should search for and experiment with alternatives to the translation and interpretation of metaphors when thinking research-creation, the author, does this more as a performance, banging around in-between the thought of others, rather than as a sustained, cogent argument.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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; 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".