Le volcan, la mine et la tombe: alchimie et transmutations d’auteur dans l’œuvre de Sade
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Marquis de Sade’s writing is often associated with the explosive force of the volcano. The violence and destruction of the natural phenomenon inspires the libertinage of his most ‘sadian’ of works. But there are other subterranean motifs that warrant comparison, especially since they connect Sade’s pornography with his avowed writing. The mine and the tomb, appearing in texts he signs, seem to reject and corroborate, respectively, the volcanic imagery and ethos. Brought together, these images create a dialectic in which Sade’s authorial persona morphs from one idiosyncratic space to the next. Starting with his enigmatic will, which condemns the posterity of the author to nothingness – a disappearance from ‘the memory of men’ –, this study will treat his will as an intermediary text in a process of circular retractions. I argue that the absence of a tombstone is part of a larger metaphorical alchemy that the marquis uses to contemplate the totality of his ‘Great Work’.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 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".