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Record W2531309353

Ken Saro-Wiwa, the Ogoni Struggle and the Aesthetics of Spectacle

2010· article· en· W2531309353 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Austin Tam-George

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian review of comparative literature · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAfrican history and culture studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSpectacleOppressionDissenting opinionSovereigntyNarrativeState (computer science)SociologyLawAestheticsPolitical scienceGender studiesLiteratureArt
DOInot available

Abstract

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In this paper, I examine how the Ogoni use demonstrations, boycotts, petitions, etc, as counter-narrative forms possessing “a formative energy in the dynamic of history” (Sfez: 1999, Colin Caret: 2003). Since demonstrations and protest marches help to collectivize the people and serve to canalize diverse oppositional sentiments, I will interpret these forms as elemental sites of popular sovereignty. Further, since the law is frequently used by the Nigerian state to legitimize and naturalize its repression of minority communities, I examine how dissenting groups transgress and de-legalize the law in their pursuit of a more egalitarian modernity. Throughout this paper, I use what I shall term the aesthetics of spectacle - a cardinal tenet of the theatre, as the main interpretive idiom to examine how Ogoni communal refusal is mobilized against a national and transnational technology of oppression.

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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 categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.939
Threshold uncertainty score0.896

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.014
GPT teacher head0.286
Teacher spread0.273 · 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.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
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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Published2010
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