Bibliographic record
Abstract
This essay uses my play Psycho Wracks as a point of departure from which to explore exilic dimensions of postcolonial experience and discourse. It also investigates the possibilities of feminist performance practices as countercanonical approaches that are both critical and recuperative. In creating the play Psycho Wracks, based on the figure of Sycorax, I was not so much interested in rethinking The Tempest or extending understanding of Shakespeare (though, as discussed later, certain postcolonial and feminist interrogations of his work were relevant to my aims) as I was concerned with abstracting and meditating upon her character as a trope and a springboard for allusive, parodic, and ironic creation.2 Rewriting Sycorax, I was primarily focused on resurrecting the exiled feminine or the exilic consciousness of the banished subaltern female, an endeavor built on a meditation upon absence, literal and symbolic. Mulling over the implications of her "difference" and her history (or lack thereof), I began imagining the possibility of speaking through and for her in performance. Numerous issues and questions concerning her genealogy, subjectivity, characterization, iconicity, and significance coalesced for me around one central question: what would she say, were she to stage a return?
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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 | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.032 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.012 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
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".