Revolutionary Violence and the Encounter with the Other in Hubert Aquin’s Prochain épisode
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article establishes that Hubert Aquin produces in Prochain episode , by way of an ambivalent narrative voice, at once philosopher of revolutions and reluctant humanist, a distinctive portrayal of the Quebecois pursuit of cultural, political and individual independence, one that also explores the nature of ethical agency. As this essay argues, Prochain episode , interpreted as a pseudo-treatise on both the beguiling Cuban Revolution and on the nascent Quiet Revolution, creates a space where the humanism of Emmanuel Levinas interrupts, at intervals, the brutality of murderous acts and proto-nationalist rhetoric. This essay proposes an intersubjective reading of the Quebecois patriot’s unsuccessful revolutionary project. The protagonist demonstrates that he possesses a sense of the ethical when, in the instances of facing the Other, he understands the exigency of the Face, and responds to its call by refusing murderous acts.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
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 | 0.005 | 0.008 |
| 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 it