<b>David Macey</b>. <i>Michel Foucault</i>. London: Reaktion Books, 2005
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Abstract
David Macey'sMichel Foucault provides an interesting and enjoyable introduction to the life of the French philosopher.This very brief book (only 160 pages, half letter-page size) is very suitable reading for those curious about the context in which Foucault's work emerged, while the rich collection of photographs (twenty) puts a face on one of the most popular names in today's social sciences.Macey's work succeeds in constructing a very complex, contradictory and fluid Foucault, escaping our attempts to label or categorize the person, his life and his work.However, for those already familiar with Macey's previous work on Michel Foucault, 1 this book does not add anything new (with the possible exception of the photos): the 2005 book is an abridged copy of The Lives of Michel Foucault, and given the space constraints (some 600 pages had to be cut down to less than 140 pages of text), many significant details and contextual elements have been lost.The book is divided into seven chapters, arranged in chronological order and followed by a list of references, a short bibliography and photo acknowledgements.The first chapter reconstructs Foucault's childhood years in Poitiers, marked by the social etiquette of the bourgeoisie.As Foucault himself put it, it was an "apprenticeship in silence" 2 : the child was trained to follow social rules and roles.But at the same time, it was an apprenticeship in becoming a dedicated and ambitious intellectual, who set high goals for himself and was expected to succeed.Still, Foucault was no stranger to academic failure and his emergence as an intellectual during his years at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS)one of the most prestigious higher-education institutions in France at the time -was equally marked by success and depression, determination and indecision.The second chapter presents a Foucault oscillating between philosophy and psychology, starting his apprenticeship in asylums and prison medical services, and becoming emotionally involved in a passionate relationship with a tempestuous composer.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.076 | 0.029 |
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".