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Record W1977345531 · doi:10.3138/md.52.1.99

Middlebrowing the Avant-Garde: <i>Equus</i> on the West End

2009· article· en· W1977345531 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Ryan Claycomb

Bibliographic record

VenueModern Drama · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicTheatre and Performance Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNarrativeSpectacleCommodificationAvant gardeAfterlifeContext (archaeology)HistoryAestheticsLiteratureMiddlebrowArtArt historyPolitical scienceLawArchaeologyEconomy

Abstract

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As text, performance, and pop-culture signifier, we can trace Peter Shaffer's play Equus – from its avant-garde influences through its middle-class anxieties to the middlebrow spectacle of the recent high-profile production in London – as a local example of a familiar (but not inevitable) narrative of the dilution and recuperation of avant-garde aesthetics by a late-capitalist economic system of transnational media integration and commodification. The play itself, from its original production onward, pathologizes and contains the avant-garde as both mad and queer, recuperating it into a framework of liberal, middle-class ethics and economics, an effort that is redoubled by this most recent production in text, in performance, and in the material context of the performance. But even as this play, in performance, seems to help mark out the trajectory of the death of the avant-garde, it also troubles the waters of this death-narrative with traces of the residuum of a resistant, even queered, avant-garde that lingers beyond narrative containment and cultural co-opting.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.876
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.221
Teacher spread0.188 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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