Stage Freight: Labour and the Representability of Capitalism in Gerhart Hauptmann’s <i>The Weavers</i>
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Abstract
ABSTRACT: This article discusses Gerhart Hauptmann’s The Weavers and the play’s representation – and management – of labour. A dark drama about starvation and labour exploitation, Hauptmann’s play paradoxically involves costly logistics and an excessively large cast. The text of The Weavers creates the challenge of its staging, and the arduous relationship between text and production is central to Hauptmann’s exploration of human labour. The Weavers dramatizes the exploitation of wage labour, the ideology of the work ethic, and the conflict between labour and capital. In doing so, Hauptmann’s labour drama grapples with what Fredric Jameson has called “the representability of capitalism.” Looking closely at the relationship between Hauptmann’s text and its staging, throughout its production history, this article argues that The Weavers explores the problem of representing labour in the theatre and reveals the signs of labour that capitalist culture seeks to conceal.
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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 | 0.001 | 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.
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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