Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract: This essay makes a case for the significance of air as a material presence and shaping force for the imaginative adventures of the unnamed telegraphist at the centre of Henry James's In the Cage (1898). While previous critics have thoroughly examined the tale's interest in telegraphy, such scholarship has tended to miss the text's more broadly sensorial interest in the medium through which telegraphic communication travels. By drawing our attention to the air as a substantive medium in which the tale's characters breathe, move, observe, and communicate and as a visible, odorous record of various cultural economies, James's novella invites us to consider the shaping power of environments for the self and society. The novella's representation of smell, breath, and the human need for fresh air locates the telegraphist's imaginings as a complicated, biopolitical product of and escape from her material life. Air floats in the novella as a democratic medium traversing the bars of the cage, a universal element allowing for both respiration and contagion and rendering social divisions somewhat arbitrary. But the telegraphist's imaginative adventures also represent an uneasy critique of the ways in which culture and commerce can shape an individual's access to clean air, and, ultimately, a querying of realism's capacity to adequately capture the living, breathing body.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".