Les images modifiées du corps : nouvelles formes d’identité : Avec une note sur les cadavres de l’anatomiste Gunter Von Hagens
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article addresses the ideological nexus between radical aesthetic and cultural practices featuring the mutilation or symbolic transformation of the body and the evolution of the techno-medical ethos in this era of increasingly powerful electronic techniques. The author argues that the latter enable the medical penetration of the interior of the body at a distance, rendering obsolete the traditional medical interaction with an embodied person. The author links these changes in medical practice to trends in the contemporary art world involving spectacular and transgressive manipulations of the body by the artist—the prime example given is that of Orlan, the doyenne of live theatricalized plastic surgery as a kind of performance art. The author’s more elaborated example is the sensationally popular and long-running touring exhibit of plastinated bodies by the anatomist Gunther von Hagens. The article highlights contradictions in the response of the French legal system (and the Catholic Church) to these fascinating and disturbing cultural developments. The author suggests that we have moved into a trans-human era.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
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".