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Record W2119934667

Organic Shrapnel and the Possibility of Violence

2013· article· en· W2119934667 on OpenAlexaff
Lindsay Anne Balfour

Bibliographic record

VenuePure (Coventry University) · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHannah Arendt's Political Philosophy
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSubversionRhetoricPoliticsImpulse (physics)SociologyPolitical violenceCriminologyPolitical scienceSocial psychologyLawPsychologyPhilosophy
DOInot available

Abstract

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In his book, 9/11: The Culture of Commemoration, David Simpson recognizes the political work of violence, suggesting “[w]ar cannot easily survive the capacity to imagine oneself in the body of the other.”2 As Simpson infers, the notion of being embedded in the life of another poses significant challenges to the perpetuation of violent acts. In this paper, I offer a re-theorization of violence that takes up the metaphor of “organic shrapnel”, a phenomenon in which human flesh from a suicide bomber or victim is driven under the skin of a survivor. What organic shrapnel suggests is not only that the body is simultaneously permeable and weaponized; the image also constructs trauma as a relational and possibly ethical experience. Using the figure of organic shrapnel, I argue for a broader understanding of the term violence itself – one that addresses its unfolding in both space and time rather than as an absolute and single act. Working through several ways of re-theorizing violence with regard to hospitality, the body, its spatial and temporal threshold and the significance of the other, the paper asks: what might it mean to reconsider violence as a site of potential ethical formation and address rather than the foreclosure of relational bonds?

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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)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
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 score0.010
Threshold uncertainty score0.035

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0100.066
Scholarly communication0.0100.010
Open science0.0020.010
Research integrity0.0040.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.001

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 head0.010
GPT teacher head0.216
Teacher spread0.206 · 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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