“An Afternoon with afternoon: A Live Group Traversal & Conversation Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Michael Joyce’s afternoon: a story”
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This event is a live group Traversal celebrating the 30th anniversary of Michael Joyce’s hypertext novel, afternoon: a story.\nDemonstrated in 1987 at the ACM Hypertext conference and published by Eastgate Systems, Inc. in 1990, this seminal work is considered by critic Robert Coover to be the “granddaddy of full-length hypertext fictions” and, so, helped to lay the foundation of electronic literature for years to come. It has been published in five languages and is one of two original Eastgate works, along with Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl, made available for contemporary computers. It is also one of two works, along with J Yellowlees Douglas’ “I Have Said Nothing” (1994), that was published in a print literary anthology––W. W. Norton & Co.’s Postmodern American Fiction (1997). Archives of the work and Joyce’s papers have been collected by the Harry Ransom Center.\nPerforming afternoon: a story will be scholars and artists who have impacted the work through reviews, translations, archival activities, and scholarly writing. They include:\nN. Katherine HaylesJane Yellowlees DouglasStuart MoulthropJohn McDaidWalter VanniniMariusz PisarskiArnaud RegnauldMaria EngbergMatt Kirschenbaum Heather Malin\nDene Grigar will moderate and Astrid Ensslin will serve as Chat Archivist.\nThe event will take place over Zoom and will be managed by researchers and technical specialists at the Electronic Literature Lab at Washington State University Vancouver. Following the performance, Joyce will participate in a conversation with Dene Grigar, Director of ELL, about the work, its development, and its place in literary history.\nAn archive of the event will be made available to the public as both video documentation on Vimeo and a podcast on Soundcloud.\nWe request that the event be scheduled on Wednesday, July 15, between the ELO and Hypertext conferences in order to reach audiences from both organizations.\nTo register for and attend this event, go to: https://wsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gl6ObUKfSBebqeyiFYewnA
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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 | 0.002 | 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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".