Visibility graphs and blindspots: Wajdi Mouawad’s <i>Incendies</i> and its mathematical poetics
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Abstract
This article examines the use of mathematics in the 2003 play Incendies by the Lebanese–Québécois playwright Wajdi Mouawad. Mathematics functions not only as a theme in the play, but also as a mechanism that enables the main characters to decipher the mysteries surrounding their identity which are revealed in their deceased mother’s will. In their reluctant quest to find a father and a brother that are unknown to them, the twins Jeanne and Simon discover the unsettling truth that the two are actually one person, in part by turning to number theory and visibility graphs. This article argues that the mathematical dimensions of the play serve as a mise en abyme of its narrative structure and its Oedipian conclusion.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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