Spots of Future Time: Tableaux, Masculinity, and the Enactment of Aging
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article proposes the utility of tableau as a terminological and conceptual contribution to age studies. I explore how the transgeneric appeal of this theatrical form enables stillness and fragmentation to be a part of the vocabulary of aging. Referring to the work of two twenty-first-century artists – French photocollagist Gilbert Garcin and American novelist David Markson – I demonstrate the applicability of the aesthetics of tableaux to non-theatrical enactments of aging. Despite their generic and formal differences, reading Garcin and Markson in tandem prepares readers to think of older age, and older masculinities especially, outside the framework of narrative and, instead, in terms of the visual aesthetics of stillness. Drawing new links among aging, play, and the tableau form, the article asserts the potential of the static as a way of imagining the aging subject in the context of age studies more generally. The tableau’s aesthetics of living stillness, I conclude, opens up drama and age studies alike to more playful possibilities for imagining aging and for enactments of self-creation in later life.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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.
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".