Body-Mapping the Affective Politics of Bariatric Surgery
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Bariatric surgery (or weight loss surgery, WLS), an increasingly common intervention into "obesity," remains a contentious topic amongst obesity experts, critics, and fat activists. As part of a larger study employing a neomaterialist framework, we worked with four women who resided in Canada and had WLS a minimum of one year prior to create life-size body-maps representing their pre- and post-surgical experiences. As a method, body-mapping can bring attention to somatic, embodied, and affective elements, uncovering structures of feeling informing/shaping WLS experiences. We used an affective analytic approach to make sense of the body-maps, which we present according to three affective strands: shades of gray, sensorial-cognitive relationalities with food and body, and entanglements of anticipated and unruly sensations and affects. Body-maps highlight the affective politics that are set into motion by, and set into motion, WLS and the hegemonic discourses and unruly affects that emerged.
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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 | 0.038 | 0.045 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 it