O feminino como excesso obsceno em o conto da Aia, de Margeret Atwood
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Abstract
This article seeks to understand how the narrative of The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), female dystopia by Canadian Margaret Atwood, can dialogue with Slavoj Žižek's (2003) concept of "obscene supplement" to understand the formation of the dystopian universe of the Republic of Gilead. More than a scapegoat, the sexualized and emancipated female figure of the old United States, whose revolutionary character was co-opted by capitalism to make it one of the pieces for the functioning of economic liberalism, becomes devoid of all of their civil rights in the transformation of the USA in the Republic of Gilead. In this nation, women are respected only as an instrument of reproduction, deprived from fundamental rights, including that of being protagonists of their own stories. In this way, the concept of obscene supplement seems to aid in the understanding of how an ideology is capable of creating its own surplus, and then wishes to rid itself of it and persuade the population to exterminate it. The Handmaid’s Tale, by revealing the processes involved in this strategy, critically reflects on how even a nation with apparently consolidated democratic foundations carries within itself the phantasmatic dimension of radicalism and fundamentalism in its own fissures, subject to rise and to restrain individual freedoms as much as in totalitarian societies. Or, in the words of Žižek (2003: 71), it portrays fascism as a latent obscene excess of capitalism, maintaining, in the words of Walter Benjamin (1987), a real barbaric situation, parting from the closing of history and the silencing of the voice of the oppressed.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".