The Theatre of Form and the Production of Meaning: Contemporary Canadian Dramaturgies
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Abstract
The Theatre of Form is a welcome addition to the small library of books devoted to historical and critical analysis of contemporary English-Canadian theatre – books such as Diane Bessai’s Playwrights of Collective Creation, Alan Filewod’s Collective Encounters: Documentary Theatre in English Canada and Robert Wallace’s Producing Marginality: Theatre and Criticism in Canada. This book distills – potently – an argument about theatre that Knowles has been developing for a long time. This argument is about the relation of the arts to history and society, an argument that applies with special force to theatre. It goes roughly like this: the arts do not exist in a transcendent realm apart from society; there is always a complex relation between art and the social formation in which it is produced. Art is indeed not created out of the empyrean but produced out of the raw material of ideology and social practice. Art may reproduce and hence reinforce ideology, enhancing its aura of naturalness and inevitability; it may negotiate a place for a broader range of social realities than is normally permissible; it may render visible “the ideology from which it is born, in which it bathes, from which it detaches itself as art, and to which it alludes” (Althusser 204); it may subvert ideology from within its own terms; it may allude to counter-ideologies and thus actively produce certain elements of counter-hegemony with practical consequences in the social formation.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.039 | 0.043 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.015 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 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".