Creepy Creepers: Planty Animacy in the Ecogothic Landscape
Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT The animacy of plants stands in the neglected posthuman borderland between the “turn to animals” and the “turn to things.” Situated on an “animacy hierarchy” betwixt and between animals and things, plants are perhaps more involved in human acts of placemaking than animals. But no plants are more “animate” than the creepers, climbers, and twiners whose uncanny animacy so fascinated Darwin that he kept such a vine in his study to study its movements. In ecogothic contexts, plants move from passive markers of setting (the ecogothic uses creepers like ivy to demarcate the hauntable space of the gothic ruin) to becoming active participants in the unfolding drama, serving as antagonists to the intrepid human explorer in the imperial ecogothic, to serving in the conventional role of poltergeists in the haunted house narrative, to finally becoming active agents of murder in botanical horror.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| 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 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 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".