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Record W2165621295 · doi:10.3138/md.44.4.383

Performance and Madness: Modes of Correction and the Theatrical Ruse

2001· article· en· W2165621295 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Chris Flemming

Bibliographic record

VenueModern Drama · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicTheatre and Performance Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPresuppositionWitnessDilemmaDysfunctional familyComedyAestheticsPsychoanalysisPsychologyLiteratureArtPhilosophyEpistemologyPsychotherapistLinguistics

Abstract

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Christopher Durang's absurdist comedy Baby with the Bathwater dramatizes a number of episodes in which the audience is subjected to repeated displays of grossly dysfunctional parenting. In the first act of the play we witness proud new parents, Helen and John, attempting to make their new child act "normally" and be cheerful. In so doing, they resort to various methods of coaxing, coaching, and castigation. The crux of Helen and John's dilemma is also the central focus of this paper and can be introduced by a number of related-questions: Does the child have a mental condition or is it just acting? Is this pathology or strategy? Is it mad or just playing with them? The aim of this essay is to trouble some of the presuppositions on which these questions are most likely predicated: it will seek to problematize the stability of the opposition between "madness" and "acting" on which such decisions are repeatedly founded.

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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)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.693
Threshold uncertainty score0.255

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
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 head0.019
GPT teacher head0.213
Teacher spread0.193 · 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 designSimulation or modeling
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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