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Abstract
Caryn NarveyCalagary, AlbertaThe aim of this paper is to explore the photographic work of Hannah Wilke in her exhibition entitled The importance of the body as a site of will become paramount in this discussion of Wilke's work; including the constructed stigmas attached to the visibility of illness, specifically to what I refer to as the oncologic body. However blatant the play of the visible within the medical sphere, Wilke's work acts to counter-balance and perhaps subvert contemporary theses concerning the sick body. Wilke forcefully urges the viewer to question elements of physiological awareness and the boundaries between self and non-self.I desire to write on an unspeakable event, to present the unpresentable, to contain the leaky, to attempt an understanding of the impossible...to comment on death. I stare at Hannah Wilke's autobiographical photographs, one after the other; photographs that seem to deny a desperate need for comfort, and I speak with the same furious tongue and licentious action that I read in Hannah Wilke's work.I speak of Intra-Venus, her exhibition of images, sculpture, and mixed media components, that amalgamates issues pertaining to the body, medicine, and the subversive nature of contemporary art practice. Wilke, diagnosed with lymphoma in 1987, documented her struggle in the years leading up to her death in January 1993. During this time, she underwent various clinical modalities of treatment, ranging from surgical procedures, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. Her physiological identity no longer seemed her own (if it ever was). It succumbed to the what I will call the oncologic body. I create this conceptual hybrid in order to fuse the various elements brought into the discussion by these theory-laden, fuzzy trajectories.This body will envelop a multitude of clinical and theoretical markers that will aid in increasing the literacy of Wilke's images. Furthermore, the oncologic body will act as a conceptual sounding board for dealing with images of and in their new presence within the exhibitionary canon. Where disease refers to the biological reality of pathology, and illness to sociological categorization, I will refer to Wilke's body as being within an amalgamation of these two terms, that is, in a state of sickness.(1) In what follows, I will attempt to utilize Intra-Venus as a challenging and destabilizing tool to critique contemporary ontological and epistemological notions and to formulate a theory concerning the visual practices demanded by the photographs in Intra-Venus. These efforts will hopefully evolve into an emancipatory treatise regarding the documented presence of a cancer-ridden, female patient within the panopticon of present-day medical practice.Medicine is by no means a reductionist practice. This intricate, multi-layered practice of working from without and within the human body is in fact a site for the production of subjectivity. This body is a uniquely intimate sphere of interactive communication between doctors and patients, patients and patients, and patients and their selves. However, it becomes necessary to ask whether the doctor, as an implement of the overall medical discipline, is addressing the patient as a sentient being, or if he/she is merely able to approach the pathophysiological specimen? Indeed, the very existence of a whole patient must also come under scrutiny. A heightened need for discussion becomes even more evident when dealing with the chronically ill, and in Wilke's case, in an understanding of the cancer patient.The disciplines of both medicine and science are intrinsically social enterprises that are created and dictated through the needs of the body. However, this very same body may also act as a site of resistance. The oncologic body simultaneously encapsulates both sides of this debate. On one hand, by being the site of pathology, the medical sphere attempts to formulate a calculated line of call and response that has the possibility of evolving into a treatment. …
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".