Hatoum, Said and Foucault: Intellectual Resistance through Revealing the Power-Knowledge Nexus
Bibliographic record
Abstract
I have discussed Mona Hatoum's art works in the light of Edward Said and Michel Foucault's ideologies. Hatoum's revelation of the power network through her suggestive art works is compared with that of Foucalut through his disclosure of the nexus. To me, both Foucault and Hatoum illustrate an oppositional critcal stance which Said terms as the 'exile'. Said and Hatoum were practically exiled in foreign lands. What I argue is that through their experiences they delineate an ideology the core of which is skepticism about the ideas of culture and identity. As Foucault's critical stance echoes this ideological core, I conclude that he also is one of the resisting 'exilic intellectuals'. In effect, the intellectuals' reistance asks for a re-examination of our cultural, political, historical, humanistic or artistic assumptions and affiliations.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.065 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 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".