The End of Rhetoric and the Residuum of Pain: Bodying Language in the Theatre of Howard Barker
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Language is the setting, the referent, and the subjection of Barker's theatre, an attempt to read experience, to map out – or struggle through – a scaffolding of tropes that can hint at a structure of Being. In the exhaustion of language's moves and counter-moves, what remains is the ravaged body, the death mask of a différed humanism – pain. This article essays a close reading of Howard Barker's epic work The Ecstatic Bible, utilizing a strategy of rhetorical mapping following the work of Paul de Man, confronting language with its limit (or perhaps its apotheosis) in the pain-wracked body, whose terrible vulnerability has been explored at length in the work of Elaine Scarry. The Ecstatic Bible stands revealed as a fable of deconstruction worked through, live, before the audience.
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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 |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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.
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