Just revolutionary violence: on the possibility of novelty in political life
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis addresses two interrelated issues. The first is how we come to think and enact the possibility of overturning the political order in which we find ourselves. This is of particular issue when we consider that our situations always over-determine our possibilities for thinking and acting. The second issue involves the question of how revolutionary violence can be said to be just, or in other words how the act of violence can avoid reinscribing a state of affairs only superficially different from the violent one it sought to overturn. I address these issues using the works of Frantz Fanon and Alain Badiou, two figures in the existential-phenomenological tradition. Fanon’s phenomenological account of oppression gives us a concrete context for thinking the conditions of revolutionary action as presented by Badiou’s ontology. I argue that Badiou’s ontology can account for the lived experience of political oppression as well as the possibility revolutionary violence, despite its “Platonic” idealism.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.084 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.015 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".