Resonating Bodies and the Poetics of Aurality; Or, Gertrude Stein’s Theatre
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This essay considers theories of performance, modernism, and theatricality, as well as Gertrude Stein’s critical writing, creative work, and correspondence on the topics of portraits, drama, staging, and theatre. By focusing on aurality and assuming Stein’s plays anticipate the physical and temporal registers of theatre, we might understand the shift from her portraits to her plays as an exploration of how knowledge evolves from sensory perception to establish a relationship between producers and receivers of sounds. Her plays deploy voice as a means to accomplish what her portraits could not: the performance of embodiment. Performance becomes a mode of encounter, an aesthetic experience that involves perceptual engagement and transaction. Even as actors’ bodies may stand in for voices, appearing to “embody” the voices conventionally, we gain access to entities only through the word-sounds they utter as a mosaic of fragments that elide referential signification. The implication of this mode, in terms of how we understand and conceive of embodiment, suggests that embodiment is a sensory experience defined by both absence and presence.
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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
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 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 | 0.001 |
| 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 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".