(Re)imagining Asian Rulers in Athanasius Kircher’s China Illustrata: The Agency of Interiors
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Cet article porte sur les portraits gravés de l’empereur moghol Jahangir (reg. 1605–1627) et de l’empereur Kangxi de Chine (reg. 1661–1722), qui figurent dans China Illustrata de Athanasius Kircher, publié en 1677. Par le biais d’une lecture attentive de ces deux images, l’auteur examine comment, plutôt que de représenter précisément ces souverains inconnus, lointains et exotiques, elles réinventent les espaces intérieurs habités par Jahangir et Kangxi en palais royaux fidèles aux normes européennes. Dans ces images, les intérieurs, leur matérialité et leur représentation deviennent des agents de traduction visuelle — des espaces où les figures peuvent s’acquitter de leurs fonctions selon une série de conventions avant tout comprises par le public cible de Kircher : les Européens.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 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".