The “Valuable Deformity”: Calipers and the Failed Trope of Postcolonial Debt in Deepa Mehta's <i>Earth</i>
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Abstract
Dès le début de Earth, la cinéaste Deepa Mehta établit un parallèle entre une assiette fracassée, un pays morcelé et le corps endommagée de la jeune Lenny. Par un décodage idéologique de ce physique infirme, la réalité corporelle vécue de ce corps échappe au regard critique. Ôn ne remet pas en question la gestion et le positionnement du corps perclus, qui n'est qu'une métaphore de la gestion et du positionnement postcoloniaux. Le corps de Lenny est empreint de dystrophie. On la réprimande et la tourmente. Les personnages non-handicapés la bousculent. Ce qui illustre le champ social qui démarque Lenny. Pour ces personnages, comme pour le spectateur, le corps de Lenny est une surface qui évoque le « schéma » aristotélicien or le « réceptacle » platonicien, et il est ainsi hors de lui-même. Quand Judith Butler explique que le corps importe, elle note que « ce qui constitue la fixité du corps … sera repensé sous l'action du pouvoir. » Earth nous permet d'explorer l'inscription du pouvoir sur le corps.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".