Reflecting on the restless volumetric place (re)naming race
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Drawing on the critical toponymic approaches that theorised place naming as an instrument for contested spatial politics of interaction between power, people, and places, and the emerging volumetric geopolitics scholarship which considers the political processes in three dimensions, rather than flat two‐dimensional space, this short commentary analyses the volumetric (geo)political motivations and potential consequences for the symbolic landscapes of the recent notable (re)naming events worldwide. The paper concludes that, in the current volatile geopolitical processes, the powerful actors (state leaders, politicians, or oligarchs) use toponyms as one of the most easily accessible, relatively inexpensive, and comprehensible tools for the general public to transmit ideas of nationalistic domination through volumetric territorialisation and transformation of symbolic landscapes.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 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