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Record W2028238395 · doi:10.1163/156851508x288977

Eden for Cyborgs: Ecocriticism and Genesis 2–3

2008· article· en· W2028238395 on OpenAlexaff
Arthur Walker‐Jones

Bibliographic record

VenueBiblical Interpretation · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicReligion, Ecology, and Ethics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Winnipeg
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHumanityAnthropocentrismAestheticsOppressionEcofeminismPhilosophyFeminismSociologyLiteratureEnvironmental ethicsArtGender studiesPoliticsLaw

Abstract

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Abstract This article begins by introducing the work of a leading feminist theorist, Donna Haraway, especially her classic article, "A Manifesto for Cyborgs," and its relevance for ecocriticism of the Hebrew Bible. Building on the work of Hilary Klein, Haraway argues that Marxism, feminism and technoscience often work out of origin stories that reinscribe the dualisms that feminists seek to overcome. She refers to all contemporary origin stories as Eden stories. Her analysis of Jane Goodall's work at Gombe is an example. Haraway seeks myths or figures that blur the boundaries between the dualisms that structure oppression, and that may help imagine a more livable future. Much of her work is with "monsters" because they often define the limits of community in Western culture. For instance, although the cyborg has its origin in a horrible myth of patriarchal capitalism about destruction of Earth and escape into space, she suggests the cyborg has the potential to subvert its origin because it blurs the boundaries between humanity and nature and redefines both. The serpent in the Garden of Eden story is such a boundary transgressing monster. It blurs the boundaries between God and nature, and humanity and nature. With the help of the snake, the humans acquire the discernment to fulfill their preordained vocation to serve and protect Earth and choose reality and full humanity with all its ambiguities. An interpretation of the story that focuses on the serpent could decenter heterosexist and anthropocentric readings and serve as a subversive figure for the future of the Earth community.

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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)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.389
Threshold uncertainty score0.324

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.063
GPT teacher head0.376
Teacher spread0.314 · 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.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
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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