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Record W4412052637 · doi:10.70064/mt.v9i1.1167

Visceral, Abstract

2025· article· en· W4412052637 on OpenAlexaff
Mark Simpson

Bibliographic record

VenueMedia theory. · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPosthumanist Ethics and Activism
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineComputer science

Abstract

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In what ways, to what ends, and with what violent consequences does the offshore mediate the onshore in late capitalism? This question is the (silent) spur for the essay that follows. In it I consider the interimplicated violences of labor and mediation in two contemporary maritime films: Leviathan (2012), about commercial fishing off the New England coast, and The Forgotten Space (2010), about the global shipping industry. My analysis juxtaposes the immersive aesthetic on view in Leviathan with the dialectical dilation offered in The Forgotten Space — two perspectives that, likewise modulating the visceral and the abstract, nonetheless constitute importantly distinct forms of materialist commitment. Despite such differences, both films connect or indeed mediate ocean-work and camera-work as practices in order to foreground, provocatively, labors of looking — the work involved in what Jonathan Beller terms “value-producing human attention” (2006: 4) — and thus manage to capture the arduous interchange of material processes (manufacture and circulation) with supposedly immaterial ones (attention and affect) in late capitalist life.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.910
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.341
Teacher spread0.316 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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