“Reading, Writing, Cutting, Pasting, <i>Urning</i> : The Queer Textual Practices of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs”
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Karl Heinrich Ulrichs’s 19th-century creation of the term “Urning” (Uranian), which he saw as a kind of gender inversion, to describe same-sex desire was a product of his position within media cultures. Ulrichs’s extensive relationship with text, including his letter correspondence, poetry, and scientific books on sexuality, shows how his relationship with media was crucial for his own self-understanding as well as the articulation of the non-pathologizing and non-criminalizing Uranian personality. The article uses the linguistic and rhetorical technique of parenthesis to show how Ulrichs’s textual practices evince queer self-articulation and agency. Taking a rhetorical position becomes a way of assuming authorial and cultural significance or at least presence. Parenthesis is a way of understanding Ulrichs’s media interventions, within both his own reading practices and those of others. Through the use of objects like newspapers, paper, pens, pencils, books, and letters, Ulrichs embedded examples of cut-and-paste and lists, among others, to participate in both the communication networks of his time and the contentious development of popular and scientific conceptions of gender and sexuality. Most fundamentally, by analyzing Ulrichs’s annotated poetry collection, letters, and published texts, the article shows how underlying cultural techniques of reading and writing were tools in support of the visibility of non-normative sexuality and gender.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".