Manifestations of Spinoza’s Potentia: “Un violador en tu camino” at Santa Martha Acatitla Women’s Prison
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Abstract
“Un violador en tu camino” is a protest-performance that combines language and movement to indict the state and expose its role in the perpetuation of violence against women. Created by the Chilean feminist collective Las Tesis, it was first performed in Santiago in November 2019. In the months following, it quickly spread beyond the borders of Chile, having been performed in cities from London to Istanbul to New Delhi to Mexico City to Montreal, and beyond the Spanish-speaking world, translated into over a dozen languages. This paper considers an attempt by incarcerated women at Santa Martha Acatitla Women’s Penitentiary in Mexico City to perform their own version of the protest within the prison walls. Through “Un violador en tu camino” the women at Santa Martha resist carceral discipline and produce an affectual connection with the outside that unsettles carceral space. This power of the protest lies in the coordination of voices and bodies in a combined affect, rendering it, as this paper argues, a manifestation of Spinozan potentia. Through the lens of Latin American feminist theory and drawing on recent work in performance, embodiment, and new materialisms, this paper aims to celebrate the power (potentia) of the women at Santa Marta by considering the theoretical stakes of their collective reclamation of body and voice. The reticence, fear, and ultimate refusal by prison authorities to authorize the performance of “Un violador en tu camino” within the prison walls speak to the power of their combined affect.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| 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".