Nuclear Normativity, Monstrous Masculinity, and Matter in Burning Vision
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Métis playwright Marie Clements’ 2003 work Burning Vision traverses the complex history of the making, testing, and detonation of the atomic bomb from a trans global perspective that is divorced from linear space-time. Clements unfolds the making of the bomb and the aftermath of its detonation on Hiroshima by tracing the geographic course of radium ore mining begun when the Brothers LaBine “discovered” the ore in the Great Bear Lake region of Canada. The narrative ripples out across the globe, centering, among others, Métis women, Japanese women, and a Dene See-er. Clements also personifies the atomic bomb itself in the characters of Fat Man and Little Boy. This chapter explores Burning Vision’s renderings of hypermasculinity and nuclear normativity as monstrous. As a means of decentering white narratives, Clements creates a vessel/vassal for signification in the character of Fat Man who represents/embodies hypermasculinity and nuclear normativity as a man/dummy/doll and a bomb. Hypermasculinity is projected onto Fat Man as both an identity that is decided for him, and as an oppressive and deeply damaging state of being that is responsible for warfare and mass subjugation in the atomic age. Burning Vision’s various monsters and monstrosities are tools to reframe and rethink who is allowed to/able to materially substantiate themselves. As Fat Man is the predominant container for these concepts, the women of the play are liberated from white-assigned trauma identities, and are able to be actualized on stage without metaphor and without dehumanization.
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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 | 0.000 | 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) | 0.045 | 0.001 |
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".