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Record W4412526201 · doi:10.3366/gothic.2025.0227

‘As deep as it gets’: Clipping’s Black Eco-Gothic

2025· article· en· W4412526201 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Maisha Wester

Bibliographic record

VenueGothic Studies · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGothic Literature and Media Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsClipping (morphology)ArtVisual artsComputer graphics (images)Computer sciencePhilosophyLinguistics

Abstract

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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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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.018
Threshold uncertainty score0.035

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0140.007
Scholarly communication0.0040.002
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.029
GPT teacher head0.374
Teacher spread0.346 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
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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