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Record W4410299269 · doi:10.5206/mf.v10i2.22986

Le simulacre et le paraître dans les sociétés africaines contemporaines entre héritages culturels et illusions modernistes

2025· article· fr· W4410299269 on OpenAlex
Marthe Prisca Letsetsengui

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueMouvances Francophones · 2025
Typearticle
Languagefr
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAfrican history and culture studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHumanitiesArt

Abstract

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Le simulacre, phénomène protéiforme, s’impose comme une trame importante des sociétés africaines, où il innerve les pratiques politiques, les structures sociales et les expressions culturelles. Héritier des fastes symboliques des traditions ancestrales, il s’est transmué au fil du temps, trouvant une nouvelle légitimité dans les modes de gouvernance postcoloniaux, marqués par la prééminence de l’apparence sur l’essence. La démocratie, souvent invoquée, y prend les traits d’une mise en scène savamment orchestrée, où le décor supplante l’engagement sincère. Cette logique de l’illusion est renforcée par les dispositifs médiatiques et la marchandisation de l’exotisme, qui réduisent l’Afrique à un objet de spectacle ou de consommation symbolique. Ainsi s’installe un éloignement progressif du réel, masqué par des artifices répétés. D’où l’impérieuse nécessité d’une restauration de l’authenticité, tant dans la pensée que dans l’action, pour réconcilier les peuples avec leur vérité profonde.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.786
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.003
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.027
GPT teacher head0.328
Teacher spread0.300 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it