Moving Subjects, Feeling Bodies: Emotion and the Materialization of Fat Feminine Subjectivities in<i>Village on a Diet</i>
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Abstract
Abstract In this paper, we conduct a critical feminist-informed poststructural analysis of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's reality weight loss series, Village on a Diet (VOD). We argue that the "problem of obesity" is felt into reality through the cultural work of emotions as represented in VOD. We further situate VOD as one node in a more expansive, interwoven network of discourses, sites, and technologies. In so doing, we argue that the felt force of "obesity" discourse is magnified as it circulates relationally throughout this network, materializing the felt "truth" about fatness (e.g., that it is unhealthy) and fat subjects (e.g., that they are unhappy, unsexy, bad parents). In this way, VOD serves a (bio)pedagogical function as it instructs—indeed, necessitates—that villagers and viewing Canadians alike work on and transform their bodies into leaner, supposedly more healthy forms as a means of striving towards the promise of a better life. Keywords: affectfatfemininityobesityreality tv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors would like to thank the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and Concordia University for funding their collective research programme.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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.
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