‘As deep as it gets’: Clipping’s Black Eco-Gothic
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Over three decades, Justin D. Edwards investigated a diverse range of subjects within the Gothic, from tropes of racial passing in American Gothic to postcolonial Gothic literature to Canadian Gothic literature and beyond. What united Edwards’s array of interests was a consistent concern for justice, both in terms of socioeconomics and in terms of climate change. In keeping with this overall emphasis, and expanding it beyond literary studies, this article will explore the ‘The Deep’ by Clipping, a song which connects the historical dehumanization and consequent horror of the Atlantic Slave trade to contemporary environmental abuses and socioeconomic injustice. The song notably builds upon and revises HP Lovecraft’s Ancient Ones as the return of the monstrous repressed. Instead, the ‘ancient ones’ are the ones deemed excess, cast overboard like so much extra cargo by previous generations. Clipping’s Ancient Ones furthermore rise to enact a much-needed revolution in response to humanity’s environmental crimes. Those that rise from the deep are thus reminders of humanity’s failure to change and a mark of inevitable destruction and horror that awaits if we continue to refuse to change. The song thus merges the Gothic with Afrofuturism in ways difficult to contain within a single category, as the song is not Afropessimist but certainly induces panic in its methods even as it rewrites previous Gothic and weird texts in articulating its vision for an inevitable, post-human future.
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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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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 | 0.001 |
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 it