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Record W7127624054 · doi:10.24275/yqlj7625

The nocturne as cultural form

2025· article· W7127624054 on OpenAlexaff
Will Straw

Bibliographic record

VenueSociológica · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicNight-time city culture
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSensibilityTheme (computing)Movie theaterStyle (visual arts)PaintingKey (lock)Cultural analysis

Abstract

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Virtually all forms of cultural expression, from painting to music, cinema and sculpture, have engaged in multiple ways with the world of the night. Versions of the “nocturne” have emerged at different points to identify artistic practices in which the night functions as a deeply-rooted sensibility rather than merely a theme or setting. This article looks at versions of the cultural and artistic “nocturne” as they have evolved over the last several centuries. Insofar as versions of the “nocturne” presume some form of adequation between experiences of the night and the forms or styles through which it is captured in discourse they return us to many of the fundamental questions in the analysis of cultural artefacts.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.021

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.030
Scholarly communication0.0080.005
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.341
Teacher spread0.328 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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