Post-postdramatic Reincarnations of Classic Tragedies: Jelinek, Hertmans, Möderndorfer
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The post-postdramatic period is characterised by a flirtation with key forms of world drama, such as ancient and Elizabethan tragedies, and their themes, which are applied to thoroughly contemporary problems. In this regard, three of the many texts can be selected: E. Jelinek’s Die Schutzbefohlenen, S. Hertmans’s Antigone in Molenbeek and V. Möderndorfer’s Romeo and Juliet Were Refugees. In addition to their relationship to antiquity, all three plays are linked by a thematic thread: migration and the unfortunate fate of refugees. It turns out that the only optimistic version of this theme came from Aeschylus, and all three contemporary plays could easily be classified as tragedies. Jelinek’s play is based on an actual event from 2012 when a group of migrants stormed the Votive Church in Vienna in protest and demanded decent asylum treatment for themselves and others like them. Jelinek exposes the whole ethical decay of Europe, which hides behind high-flying ideals of humanitarianism but does the exact opposite. In this case, it is the relationship between migrants – the real foreigners – and Europeans. Hertmans introduces a foreigner, who is already a fully-fledged citizen of Europe, only to complicate his Antigone with the classic story of the burial of a dead brother, who in this case is a terrorist. Möderndorfer takes the final step in this direction by treating economically deprived European citizens as migrants, i.e., as foreigners. None of the three plays has a way out, and the fate of the everyman ends tragically.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".