Making Sense of Sensation: Enlightenment, Embodiment, and the End(s) of Modern Drama
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Abstract
The end of the twentieth century may have postponed millennial fever, but it gives us a good opportunity to revisit prophecies for the end of drama, which, like those for the end of humanism or the end of modernity, have yet to be completely dispatched by any post-al delivery. We may be witnessing a post-dramatic theatre, as Hans-Thies Lehmann argues in a recent magisterial study entitled Postdramatisches Theater, but, as he concedes, the post-dramatic, like the postmodern and the post-structuralist, performs a double act, hedging its bets, as it were, in an ongoing engagement with the dramatic, the modern, the structure and form of the aesthetic object it deconstructs (II). I am not going to imitate the Hegelian gesture of Aufhebung (summary, but also supersession) borrowed by Lehmann, a gesture that is modern as well as magisterial in its claim to master its subject, but, rather, will press a little on the genealogy as well as the current and future implications of this double-talk. Before we declare drama dead and modernity passe, we ought to conduct a genealogical investigation of "drama," to track its modernity. and perhaps its obsolescence. If, as Raymond Williams suggested more than twenty years ago, "modern drama" has migrated to "fiction" and "non-fiction" television, is performance still dramatic? Or is the order of the day a "post-dramatic theatre" or a polymorphously metaphorizing performance, in which both "modern" and "drama" can expect only supernumerary appearances in antiquarian costume?
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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 |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 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) | 0.001 | 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.
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".