Literary, Cultural, and Disability Studies: A Tripartite Approach to Poststructuralism
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Abstract
second of two events hosted by Lancaster University's Centre for Disability Research (CeDR) in June 2009, A Tripartite Approach to offered a chance to reconsider what poststructuralist theory (in all its varied forms) can offer Literary, Cultural, and Disability Studies. Organised by Hannah Morgan and David Bolt, with help in chair from their CeDR colleagues Carol Thomas and Donna Reeve, event attracted participants from America, Canada, and mainland Europe, as well as scholars from UK, representing a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. event opened with first of two keynote presentations, Theorising Psyche in Disability Studies: Poststructuralist Contributions of Deleuze and Lacan. In this paper Dan Goodley (Manchester Metropolitan University) explored what psychoanalytic theory can offer Disability Studies, suggesting that Lacanian theory, in particular, offers insight into way disabled people are subject to misrecognition, and can help expose particular ideologies about disability. However, he identified a more productive way forward in work of Deleuze and in particular concept of body-without-organs. His argument is developed further in article Bringing Psyche back into Disability Studies: Case of Body with/out Organs, which is included in this special issue. first panel began by heralding another article in issue, Against Interpretosis: Deleuze, Disability, and Difference by Phil Bayliss (University of Exeter). Focusing on Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of interpretosis and facialization, this complex presentation moved from Mitchell and Snyder's narrative prosthesis to importance of counter-cultural narratives via Kristeva's signifiance. Next in panel, John Marris (Trent University) focused on particular representations of disability in Cripping 'Gift': Exploring Representations of Autistic Spectrum and Autistic Savant in Cinema. Using work of Robert McRuer and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson to examine films Rain Man, Mercury Rising, and more recent Snow Cake, he argued that, despite its attempts to offer a representation of autism not defined by savantism, Snow Cake still suffers from the Rain Man effect. In an engaging presentation, he argued that ultimately a more constructive critique of autistic representation may be found in films that do not seek to define their characters as autistic. afternoon session began with another keynote presentation, from Robert McRuer (George Washington University). The Pleasure of Disabled Text: Crip Theory and Poststructuralism was a fascinating exploration of different ideologies and perspectives at work in Disability Studies today. Taking his own book, Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability, and Tobin Siebers' Disability Theory as emblematic, Professor McRuer analysed similarities and differences between poststructuralist approaches to disability (or those sympathetic to poststructuralism), and post-positivist realism favoured by Future of Minority Studies Group in US. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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".