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Record W2600479495 · doi:10.3138/md.0781

Performativity and the Persistence of the Golem Legend

2017· article· en· W2600479495 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Alan Sikes

Bibliographic record

VenueModern Drama · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicTheatre and Performance Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPerformativityAestheticsPower (physics)LegendArtSociologyLiteratureGender studies

Abstract

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This article investigates The Golem by H. Leivick and posits the 1921 play as a harbinger of the theory of performativity that has had a significant impact upon theatre and performance studies in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The golem of ancient Jewish legend was a clay figure brought to life through the incantations of learned rabbis. The traditional golem possessed many human qualities but not the uniquely human power of speech – the power that brought it to life. In Leivick’s play, however, the Golem can speak just as eloquently as his creator. This equal access to speech suggests, as do later theorists of performativity, that we are all golems of a sort, created and creating one another through the act of speech itself. This insight has crucial ethical implications for the present day.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.006
Threshold uncertainty score0.017

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0060.021
Scholarly communication0.0060.003
Open science0.0000.004
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.041
GPT teacher head0.224
Teacher spread0.184 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

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

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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