Cathedrals, consumption, prosumption and space: Reading Ritzer with atmosphere theory
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Abstract
In this article I discuss George Ritzer's theory of space and place through the lens of atmosphere theory. Drawing on Peter Sloterdijk, Gernot Böhme and Jahani Pallasmaa, I outline the assumptions of atmosphere theory and their relevance to Ritzer's analysis of the ‘cathedrals of consumption.’ Though Ritzer never explicitly theorizes atmosphere there are many places in Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Continuity and Change in the Cathedrals of Consumption where he describes the cathedrals using atmospheric language and concepts, especially emphasizing that cathedrals use atmosphere, or ambience, to manipulate consumers. I conclude with a discussion of how Ritzer's more recent work on prosumption can contribute to atmosphere theory.
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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 |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 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