Defusing the Bomb: Ruth Ozeki’s All Over Creation and the Death of the Nuclear Family
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In Ruth Ozeki’s novel All Over Creation, complex, nontraditional familial structures are depicted and explored in conjunction with the human impact on the natural world. The paper examines Ozeki’s novel through an ecocritical, anti-capitalist lens, in order to interrogate how the novel deals with, conforms to, and subverts notions of the heteropatriarchal nuclear family. While many narrative threads in the text seem to naturalize the nuclear family as an ecological norm and a biological imperative, as opposed to a capitalist construction, I argue that the novel’s underlying themes and motifs assert a need for broader, non-biological familial networks as a means of countering the individualism and isolation fostered by capitalism. By linking family to the ecological world, and positioning capitalism and its tenets as a direct threat to both, the novel calls for a redefining and restructuring of family and community as a necessary tactic for disrupting environmental and social devastation, and healing both people and the natural world.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".