Encounters of Care In and Outside of the Bodies-without-Organs
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article develops a critical fat phenomenology rooted in the lived, fleshy, and affective experiences of being fat, racialized, and femme within uncaring structures of worldmaking. Drawing from fat studies, critical disability studies, and intersectionality theory as praxis, it interrogates how fatness is socially, politically, and medically constructed alongside race, gender, and coloniality. Fat racialized bodies are positioned within a continuum of “life-in-death,” subjected to biopolitical regulation through the medical-industrial complex, aesthetic norms, and the personal registry’s spatial-temporal logics. These interlocking systems uphold the thin, white, nondisabled, cisgender body as the artifact of full personhood, while framing fatness as pathology, spectacle, and failure. In response, this paper turns to Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the “Body-without-Organs” (BwO) to reconceptualize fat materiality as non-prescriptive, relational, and generative. Through this lens, fat embodiment becomes a site of resistance and worldmaking, leaking beyond the confines of sizeism, shapeism, and whiteness, and affirming the potentialities of fat life beyond the coercive demands of thinness, health, and normativity.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.053 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.011 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.015 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".