The nomad as peace machine : nomadism in J. M. Coetzee's Life & times of Michael K and Waiting for the barbarians
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis looks at the trope of the nomad, specifically the Deleuzian warrior-nomad, in J.M. Coetzee's novels Life & Times of Michael K and Waiti,tg for the Barbarians.The plotagonists of both novels ar.e consideled in ter.ms of their transgressions ofpolitical and ethical boundaries.Ther.e is a discussion of the nomad who transgresses state control while moving from within state subjectivity.The Magistlate from Waiting for tlte Barbarians is discussed in this regard, while Michael K from Life & Times of Michael K is analyzed as a Deleuzian wan'ior-nomad.This thesis also looks at ways in which a totalitalian state controls citizen's abilities to welcome guests, and questions to what extent individuals can challenge these controls.The plotagonists from both novels ar.e compaled and it is concluded that both characters yeam for a kind of intimate encounter that transgresses personal limits, and that it is this kind of ontological nomadism that is the most difficult.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.023 | 0.018 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".