Bibliographic record
Abstract
Among fellow writers, Robert Desnos was often described with the same word: voyant, as in clairvoyant, a seer. Within the first group of surrealists who gathered for dream-induced, automatic writing sessions, Desnos stood out for his uncanny productivity. He somehow saw more than anyone else. This article examines his prophetic eye in Desnos’ final novel, Le Vin est tiré (Citation1943), which follows a group of opium addicts in interwar Paris. Read through the lens of what Laurent de Sutter calls “narcocapitalism,” an order in which modern political subjectivity is constructed through the production, sale, and consumption of drugs, this paper argues that Le Vin est tiré (Desnos Citation1943) is not simply a sympathetic portrayal of drug addiction, but rather an urgent call for political freedom. By analyzing the novel in light of de Sutter’s theoretical intervention, this paper aims to elucidate the relationship between literary fiction and political subjectivity, revealing new avenues for making and unmaking a given social order. This political dimension is studied through a comparison with two key influences on Robert Desnos’s novel, Gérard de Nerval and Jean-Paul Sartre.
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| 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".