Hagiographie profane et contemporanéité dans <i>Vies minuscules</i> de Pierre Michon
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Abstract
According to Giorgio Agamben, being contemporary suggests an oblique relation to time, where the author must be both modern and anachronistic. This understanding of contemporaneity implies that a critical distance must be achieved by the individual vis-à-vis his or her own time in order to have a better overview of it. In Vies minuscules, Pierre Michon seems to adopt a reactionary position by going back to a traditional form of storytelling, by using extremely flowery language and by creating a literature devoid of any explicit experimental devices, thereby differentiating himself from the Oulipo and Tel Quel schools, which dominated the literary world in France at the time. However, this article aims to show that Michon’s novel is still very contemporary, in the sense that Agamben gives to this word: by focusing his writing on insignificant or reprehensible characters, by putting his journey as a writer at the center of his story, and by deciding to write in an archaic language, he travesties the medieval genre of the vita and therefore achieves a truly contemporary style. Between hagiography and autofiction, Vies minuscules offers an original conception of modern writing that is, as the author puts it, “always new, always from yesterday.”
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 teacher head, 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".