Bibliographic record
Abstract
David Cronenberg is recognized globally as an iconic Canadian filmmaker and sometimes actor, and his self-reflexive attitude toward the film and media industries comes across and is portrayed in such foundational cyberpunk films as Videodrome (1983) and eXistenZ (1999) where he demonstrates an awareness of the conditions of power and control in production. These are themes evoked generally in cyberpunk culture, of which Cronenberg is deemed to be an early pioneer thanks to Videodrome, a film that (along with the later eXistenZ) portrays the materiality of the body immersed in new media spaces, and planes of corporate control. Specifically, Cronenberg portrays the business models of media systems and cultural industries embedded in the urban and commercial landscapes of late-twentieth-century capitalism. In essence, while cyberpunk often relies upon the metaphor of fluid and mutable bodies surfing virtual realities and fulfilling cyberspatial fantasies, Cronenberg’s films show technologies mediating our reflections about embodiment. Thus, the themes of bodily invasion and loss of control that permeate his visual worlds address the mutual evolution and the hybridity of the human-machine, which mark his distinct appeal for cyberpunk culture.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.022 | 0.006 |
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".