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Record W7131897780 · doi:10.1215/26923874-11928077

Motion Practice (with <i>Portrait of Jason</i> )

2025· article· en· W7131897780 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Jordan S Chrietzberg

Bibliographic record

Venueliquid blackness · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLaw in Society and Culture
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignFordham UniversityDartmouth CollegeYork UniversityUniversity of MinnesotaUniversity of CambridgeYale University
KeywordsPortraitStatutory lawMotion (physics)Reading (process)Work (physics)Dismissal

Abstract

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Abstract Repurposing the forms of legal writing (its motion practice), this essay deploys black studies and Marxism — specifically Theodor Adorno's and Fred Moten's respective writings on art's law of motion — to consider both the statutory fair use test under United States federal law and Shirley Clarke's Portrait of Jason (1967), a film about a screen test. Both tests, the author argues, enact systems of judgment, or interpretation, that ask those who judge thereby — whether as spectators or officers of the court — to make evaluative judgments regarding art, economics, subjectivity, and race. The author then demonstrates that this judging — or reading — is a form of labor, often to the profit of whiteness and capital, but also toward what may end them, provided we work this work as a kind of discovery procedure. Finally, the author shows that this judging labor transforms with the arrival of Post-Fordism and that Portrait of Jason, unlike the fair use test, helps us move with this desired change, its practice.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.017
Threshold uncertainty score0.045

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0060.007
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.002

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 head0.008
GPT teacher head0.295
Teacher spread0.287 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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