Loïe Fuller’s Serpentines and Poetics of Self-Abnegation in the Era of Electrotechnics
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Abstract
This chapter argues that artists’ self-abnegation was central to the compositional core of Loïe Fuller’s Serpentine Dance performances, and that it also extended to her life. Fuller’s performances belong to the tradition of artists at the turn of last century, who began to challenge the authority of artist/author over the artwork and its intended meaning, giving over this process to the audience/readers. Fuller’s dances in part recapitulated Arthur Rimbaud’s statement “J’est un autre”, embodying a transformation through electrotechnics shared by her viewers. This chapter contends that the emphasis on participation is inherent in electric technology, as is the repudiation of individual perspective and the loss of individualism. It concludes with the claim that Fuller’s hybrid-media approach in her performances, part of the excitement about then futuristic electric technology at the 1900 Expo in Paris, also anticipated twenty-first-century new media performances and new media installations, and share with these works an aesthetic originating in artistic self-abnegation.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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".