Dissolving Critiques: Capitalism and Space-time in the American Novel, 1888 - 1996
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Dissolving Critiques examines the late nineteenth- and twentieth-century American \nnovel’s critical engagement with the conditions of life under capitalism. Reading works of \nrealism, naturalism, and utopian fiction through M.M. Bakhtin’s theory of the literary \nchronotope, I argue that the novels under consideration render the capitalist production of \nspace legible as a social injustice antithetical to the ideals of freedom and human flourishing \nand represent capitalism’s transcendence as an imperative of reason. However, I also contend \nthat these critiques risk dissolving, as the texts confront and inevitably fail to manage the \nseemingly irresolvable problems inherent in their own progressive desires. In choosing \n“dissolve” as a key term, I mean to highlight the term’s potential visual, “scenic” qualities, for \nlike a film dissolve, the dissolving critique seems to offer one scene of possible alternative that \nthen dissolves back into the original scene, as though unable to hold. In this sense, the \ndissolving critique exposes the mechanisms of narrative failure. But although such dissolution \ninevitably disappoints any progressive desires of a reader/critic such as myself, I also argue that \neven when the critical image dissolves, a lingering sense of possible alternatives to capitalism \nremains—like afterimages in a scene.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".