The Red Queen's revolution: the revolutionary representation of the post-Soviet period in Little brother and The sympathizer
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Abstract
After the end of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the West entered a period known as the end of history (Fukuyama, 1992). This period is characterized by the hegemony of liberal democracy, the institutionalization of the left and the discrediting of revolutionary politics. Despite this ideological stagnation, revolutions continued to be a theme explored in fiction. Taking into account the lack of prospects for overcoming capitalism and liberal democracy, how do these works of fiction represent the revolution? This dissertation analyzes and questions revolutionary representation in two novels from the post-Soviet period, Little Brother (2008), by Canadian writer and journalist Cory Doctorow, and The Sympathizer (2015), by Vietnamese writer Viet Thanh Nguyen. The first deals with hacktivism as a form of resistance to the PATRIOT Act of 2001, and the second deals with the revolution and the Vietnam War in the 20th century. Given that these works are products of the culture industry, it is to be expected that the representation will be ideologically conformist or reactionary for the reader. We investigated the relationship between the narrator and the narrative point of view on the political and social events described, based on the reflections of Benjamin (1992), Iser (1996), Adorno and Horkheimer (2006), Arantes (2015), Fisher (2009) and Žižek (2015). Thus, we note that Little Brotheris a conformist representation when it explicitly proposes a revolution for a liberal democracy, because the reader is not challenged politically in any way beyond the parameters that are already hegemonic in his daily life. It is to be expected that representations of this kind would portray the transition from an authoritarian government – such as a monarchy, back to a period in which the bourgeoisie was revolutionary, or a generic dictatorship – to liberal democracy, thus exposed as a product of a revolution. The Sympathizer, on the other hand, is a reactionary representation that must create a narrative that opposes the revolution, showing its results as undesirable
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.023 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".