Vers un nouveau théâtre politique: William Kentridge et les discours transculturels
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Abstract
This paper is an exploration of what seems to affirm itself as a new form of political theatre in William Kentridge’s work at the Handspring Puppet Company, based in Cape Town (South Africa). Within this framework, I will focus on those aspects of production through which theatricality finds a more silent, yet more effective way to expose the social, cultural and political landscapes of South Africa. There seems to be a link between Kentridge’s multi- and even transdisciplinary artistic approach and the south-african transculturality, which may explain some of the aesthetical, as well as the political sides of theatrical performances, such as Woyzeck on the Highveld (1992), Faustus in Africa (1994), and Ubu and the Truth Commission. These pieces will be analyzed here in order to better understand the moods, as well as the dynamics of the south-african shifting identities and their implications as a dramatic theme on the audience’s reception of what I call a silent politics. In these productions, the political discourse emerges out of the self-referential theme of identity and of its alterations, both at the formal and symbolical levels, as a subtle and effective performative act.
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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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.023 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".