Bibliographic record
Abstract
In her 2024 book Disavowal, philosopher Alenka Zupančič argues that (perverse) disavowal has become a commonplace of contemporary social and political life.Zupančič opens her exposition of disavowal by recounting a dream discussed by Sigmund Freud, in which a child who has just died appears at his father's bedside and utters the words, "Vater, siehst du denn nicht, daß ich verbrenne?"["Father, can't you see that I am burning?"] (501).Awakening with a start, the father finds that a lighted candle has fallen on his son's corpse, which has in fact caught on fire.While Freud chiefly discusses the case as an example of how dreams prolong sleep, even in the face of danger, as a function of wish fulfillment (a glimpse of the living child), Jacques Lacan's reading draws attention to the peculiar reversal that this nightmare enacts: the incorporation of fire into the father's dream does not actually allow the father to keep on sleeping, but rather the other real-the burning reality of his son's untimely death-jolts the father awake, enabling him to escape the traumatic fact of his inability to prevent his son's death, which has appeared to him unvarnished in the oneiric form of the burning child.Thus, what happens in the dream actually wakes the father up so that, in a sense, he may keep on dreaming.For Zupančič, the polycrises of the present echo the structure of this dream: "They confront us with something more than just the immediate crisis (the fire we need to put out), with something profoundly disturbing and disturbed in our social, ecological, political way of being.In other words, they point to another fire within the fire" (10).Even as we extinguish the numerous fires raging around the globe, whether in Canada, Hawaii, France (or near the Baltic coast of Germany), another fire-climate change itself-continues to burn: "What we tend to do in this double-or cross-fire is precisely that we readily wake up-so as to be able to go on dreaming, to forget about the fire that bears on the real" (11).It is not that we repress or deny climate change (though
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.029 | 0.007 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".