Gestures of Remembrance in Paula Vogel and Rebecca Taichman’s <i>Indecent</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Playwright Paula Vogel and director Rebecca Taichman’s Indecent (2015) stages the story of Sholem Asch’s controversial Yiddish play God of Vengeance (1907). With Asch’s play as the central character, Indecent redistributes dramatic and historical agency to the theatrical event, using gestures as the agentive force of remembrance. Gesture in Indecent is used to crystallize a critical moment – what Walter Benjamin termed the dialectical image – in order to ask what it means to the present. Foregrounding the role of theatre in constructing cultural memory, Indecent poses pressing questions to the present about immigration, sexuality, censorship, and self-censorship in the United States and illustrates the way history, like theatre, is an ongoing act of recognition. The indecencies suggested in Vogel’s title turn out to be not in Asch’s play but rather in its reception, in the surrounding social context of anti-Semitism and fear of immigrants, and implicitly, in the present’s failure to remember.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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".