Negative ethics: The missed event in the French films of Michael Haneke
Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACTIn their engagement with guilt, complicity and the multiple forms of violence, Michael Haneke's films interrogate the ethical implications of violent action. I argue that this cinematic interrogation of violence articulates an ethics of radicality that can be paralleled with Alain Badiou's concept of the event. As opposed to the more conventional definition of ethics as an investigation of moral problems, norms or criteria for the way in which we live, ethics in Badiou suggests a revolutionary radicality, one that posits an alteration in the structure of the symbolic, and in the subject that breaks new territory and shatters past frameworks. Similarly engaged with the interrogation of the ethics of violence, Badiou's concept of the event highlights the way in which Haneke's films articulate an ethical space for interjection. Focusing on the missed events, those ethical encounters with radicality that do not occur, this article argues that Haneke's films suggest a negative utopia by pointing to wha...
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, not a consensus.
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