Multiple Subjectivities and the Spectrum of Self: A Metamodern analysis of Orphan Black
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study explores human subjectivity and its manifestation from a metamodern perspective in the Canadian TV series Orphan Black and its graphic novel adaptation. To analyze the selected text, two metamodern concepts of Simultaneity and Paradox are used in this article. In addition to metamodernism, transmedia storytelling is used as a theoretical foundation to help understand the manifestation of subjectivity in the form of human cloning in the selected texts. The study is qualitative in nature and uses Catherine Belsey’s method of textual analysis to read the selected texts. The analysis sheds light on the manifestation of subjectivity in Orphan Black. The said subjectivity manifests in constant oscillation on the spectrum of self. The clones in the selected series simultaneously occupy multiple positions on the spectrum of self and in doing so, the notion of Paradox helps explain how the said positioning is self-contradictory. This eventually creates a trajectory for the subject to move beyond the either-or and neither-nor boundary of self.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 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".