‘Sauvé du déluge des jours’ : Taxidermy, photography and literature in Adrien Goetz and Karen Knorr’s <i>Le Soliloque de l’empailleur</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper examines the intersection of photography and literature in Le Soliloque de l’empailleur, a short story by Adrien Goetz which reproduces 12 images from photographer Karen Knorr’s Fables. After discussing the profoundly intertextual nature of Knorr’s photos, which are inspired by Aesop, La Fontaine and Ovid, I undertake a close reading of Goetz’s story, examining the shared themes concerning the art of taxidermy and the disjunction between nature and culture present in both works. I also examine the ways in which the text evokes Knorr’s Fables, as the narrator sometimes describes a specific photo and at other times encourages the reader to imagine a photo that is not reproduced. The shared thematic content between Goetz’s story and Knorr’s photos, and the intermedial interaction between text and image allow the reader to concretise the fictional universe of the museum of taxidermied animals envisaged by both partners in this photo-literary collaboration.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.021 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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 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".