Apocalyptic disability: mass disability and fear in apocalyptic narratives
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Depictions of a mass onset of sensory disability have become a recent trend in popular apocalyptic narratives. Bird Box (2018), directed by Susanne Bier, Blindness (2008), directed by Fernando Meirelles, and Perfect Sense (2011), directed by David Mackenzie, all portray an apocalypse of disability. Likewise, H.G. Wells’ story “The Country of the Blind” and the television show See (2019), directed by Francis Lawrence, depict post-apocalyptic societies of disability. These narratives amplify fears of the body: bodily vulnerability and bodily inadequacy, as well as fears of disability: of gaining a disability and of proximity to disability. Narratives that depict the onset of disability as a catastrophic, apocalyptic event rely on, and generate, fears of becoming disabled. A critical lens of disability theory offers a way to study fears of disability and to recognize the social repercussions of these narratives.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| 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".