Contemporary French Drama and the Stupidity of/in the Capitalist Labour Pool: The Case of Joël Pommerat
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Informed by recent French theories on capitalism and labour, this essay builds on the premise that French intellectuals – artists and dramatists as well as economists – are concerned about the sociocultural and intellectual effects of the culture of “economism,” which interprets the sum of human life in terms of economic relations and consequence. With a sustained if cautious respect for socialism and egalitarianism, the French pursue a measure of ideological resistance to economism, or the “System,” and most especially to its distribution of labour and its assignment of work identity. Since the post-1960 dramatic oeuvre of Michel Vinaver and others, this theme and this perspective have been prominent in French drama. A survey of four plays by Joël Pommerat from the past decade reveals a variety of modes, presentations, and levels of economism’s de-intellectualization or dumbing down of society. Each of the plays emphasizes the experience and mind-set of a different level of “worker,” from those at the bottom of the economy to the CEOs we presume to be at the top.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.027 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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".