Valentine de Saint-Point, Ricciotto Canudo, F. T. Marinetti: Eroticism, Violence and Feminism from Prewar Paris to Colonial Cairo
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Abstract
I. Valentine de Saint-Point, Woman WarriorIn her "Manifeste de la femme futuriste" (1912) and "Manifeste futuriste de la luxure" (1913), Valentine de Saint-Point ostensibly came to the defense of women against the abuses of futurist misogyny, yet her mani- festos have suffered a critical fate similar to that of Marinetti's Mafarka le futuriste, and Valentine has gained a notoriety of her own.^Evenher avant- garde practice of abstract choreography and dance before and during the First World War has come to be regarded with suspicion as fascistic, anti- feminist and unfeminine.2De Saint-Point is without question one of the more baffling among the futurist women; she is also effectively the first "official" woman futurist, and one of the most original.Her association with futurism was actu- ally rather brief, though significant.She was an extraordinarily indepen- dent woman and, as the extended research by the Tunisian feminist critic and historian Fawzia Zouari has revealed, she lived a complex and highly unusual life.3Most critics, however, have identified Valentine de Saint- Point solely with her futurist manifestos, ignoring or dismissing the rest of her life and work.Even more paradoxically, they have made Valentine de Saint-Point herself the principal representative of women's participation in futurism, and of all the negative, anti-feminist and fascistic traits that are supposed to have characterized it as a whole.To be sure the two manifestos are shocking and filled with violent pro- nouncements and images.Yet to view them as "representative" or sympto- matic in this way, and especially as proto-fascist, means to simplify exces- sively and to take them out of their specific historical and cultural context.The powerful language of the manifestos has contributed to its a-historical reading.Indeed, the fact that her texts continue to be so topical and con- troversial is indicative of the way in which Valentine anticipated many of the most contested questions of contemporary feminist theory and criticism while claiming a space for women within the avant-garde.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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".