Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article aims to show the many ways in which the affective tone of the short story ‘Sólo vine a hablar por teléfono’ (1992) [‘I only came to use the phone’] ([1992] 2006) by Gabriel García Márquez is produced, while also reflecting on the significance of adopting such a critical approach. To do so, I draw on contemporary affect theory, particularly on Sianne Ngai’s view of ‘affective tone’ as an expansion of affects as effects, and on Jane Bennett’s concept of ‘vital materialism’. The story tells the journey of a Mexican woman who is institutionalized and subjected to unimaginable abuses during Franco’s dictatorship in Spain. By focusing on the author’s use of literary effects and considering the aesthetics and the political together, this analysis reveals how negative or strange feelings are multiply generated, contributing to create a pervasive sense of uncanniness both within the text and in the reader. I conclude by arguing that an approach that considers how e ffects mobilize a ffects ultimately exposes how great fiction, through the mechanics of the text, can efficiently deploy transhistorical and trans-spacial structures in the operation of affects related with processes of dehumanization and loss of agency.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 | 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) | 0.000 | 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".