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How to Create Inhumanity: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go

2014· article· en· W2279880029 on OpenAlexaff
Andrea Kowalski

Bibliographic record

VenueVerso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicContemporary Literature and Criticism
Canadian institutionsDalhousie University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIndictmentBiopowerReading (process)RacismSociologyAestheticsPsychoanalysisArt historyArtPhilosophyLiteratureLawPoliticsPsychologyGender studiesPolitical science
DOInot available

Abstract

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It is easy to read Kazuo Ishiguro’s chilling novel Never Let Me Go as an indictment of human cloning, but thankfully Andrea Kowalski does not do the easy reading. In “How To Create Inhumanity,” she argues inventively that Ishiguro’s celebrated novel, set in 1990s England, explores what Michel Foucault called “biopower,” namely the politicization of all life. Ishiguro’s clones are created to donate their organs until they die, and they don’t rebel against this fate despite the fact that they are intelligent and well-educated. Why? This is the central question asked by Never Let Me Go . Kowalski answers it by arguing that the workings of biopolitical racism – the stratification of people into masters and servants – are as subtle and inescapable in Ishiguro’s novel as they are in real life. Dr. Alice Brittan

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Scholarly communication
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.819
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0030.006
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.024
GPT teacher head0.235
Teacher spread0.211 · 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.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
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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Published2014
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