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Translating Ecocriticism: Dialoguing with Michel Serres

2007· article· W7119447543 on OpenAlex
Stephanie Posthumus

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Bibliographic record

VenueODU Digital Commons (Old Dominion University) · 2007
Typearticle
Language
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicEcocriticism and Environmental Literature
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEcocriticismBannerRealismModernityEurocentrismGlobalization
DOInot available

Abstract

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Since its humble beginnings in the Western United States, ecocriticism has grown under the banner of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment into an organization of over 1000 members with international affiliates in Australia-New Zealand, Canada, Europe, India, Japan, Koria and the UK. At first sight, it would seem that ecocriticism has achieved global status. But as Ursula Heise remarks in her assessment of ecocriticism, this process of globalisation has been mainly a process of becoming known internationally. In truth, ecocriticism has remained strongly rooted in Anglophone literary studies even as it has been exported to other countries. As Heise explains, "ecocritical work on languages other than English is still scarce" ("Hitchiker's Guide" 513). The present article will attempt to address this problem. Although written in English, it will draw mainly on French texts, those of Michel Serres in particular, to demonstrate how éco-pensée directly speaks to some of ecocriticism's shortcomings and difficulties. In other words, a North American ecological perspective will not be applied to French texts (another example of Anglophone monoculturalism but of a more subtle form than the one to which Heise refers); rather, French éco-pensée will be used to answer some of the questions about ecology, ethics, language, modernity and realism that ecocriticism has been asking since it first emerged. In this way, the article will bring into a cross-cultural dialogue two ways of thinking about nature and our place in it. N.B. I will be referencing Michel Serres's most recent and as yet untranslated texts in this article: Hominescence (2001), Incandescent (2003), Rameaux (2004), and Récits d'humanisme (2005). The English translations will therefore be my own.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Scholarly communication
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.944
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.003
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.183
Teacher spread0.171 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it