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Record W2113799524 · doi:10.3138/md.46.3.381

Antigone's Bodies: Performing Torture

2003· article· en· W2113799524 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Marla Carlson

Bibliographic record

VenueModern Drama · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicShakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTorturePleasurePain and pleasureLegendSadistic personality disorderPsychoanalysisArtCharacter (mathematics)LiteraturePsychologyPhilosophyLawPolitical sciencePsychotherapistPersonality

Abstract

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Can torture be represented onstage without repeating and reveling in the violation of the victim? After reviewing some of the negative answers to this question, this article examines the more positive alternative presented by two treatments of the Antigone legend: Griselda Gambaro's Antigona Furiosa, and The Island, by Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona. By focusing spectator attention on the body of the actor (as distinct from the character) and by refusing to give the tyrant a body of his own, these two plays allow spectators to derive pleasure from the actor's performance of pain without rendering that pleasure sadistic.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation 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: none
Teacher disagreement score0.006
Threshold uncertainty score0.012

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0060.027
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.030
GPT teacher head0.228
Teacher spread0.199 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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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Published2003
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