Bibliographic record
Abstract
Centrally drawing upon the work of Calvin Warren and Sylvia Wynter, I perform a meta-criticism of critical reviews of Barry Jenkins’ 2016 film Moonlight to explore two related concepts: the myth of being and the darkfaggot. I argue these reviews unwittingly adhere to the myth of being, an ideological structure instituting subjects as sovereign co-identifying beings contra the non-be-longing of the ontologically unsovereign black. These reviews by black critics inherit the myth of being’s differentiating imperative such that their assignment of a queer identity to Moonlight functions to reproduce an intramural structural position of otherness I term the “darkfaggot.” The darkfaggot is an idea of redoubled non-be-longing—that is, non-be-longing and non-existence—whose function is to mystify the black’s starvation of being that conditions the satiation of the human subject’s hunger to be-long. In the end, I decipher Moonlight’s non-answer of the “identity question” as an implicit argument about the impossibility of black be-longing, and thus black queerness as a mode of be-longing, within totalizing conditions of dispossessive violence.
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 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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.001 | 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".