This thinker connects the “joys of watching” to Baudelaire’s conception of the flâneur in the essay “Melancholy Objects.” This thinker claimed that collecting certain objects allows us to “collect the world” in an essay opening “Humankind lingers unregenerately in Plato’s cave.” The “pure” and “deliberate” types of the title concept are contrasted in an essay by this thinker with epigrams from Oscar Wilde. The framing of “freaks” is discussed by this thinker in a collection contrasting the Farm Security Administration with Diane Arbus. A list including Scopitone films and Tiffany lamps appears in an essay by this thinker that outlines conditions for the title sensibility, described as “good because it’s awful.” For 10 points, name this American author of On Photography and “Notes on ‘Camp.’” ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 4 | 25% | 0% | 0% | 94.00 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 6 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 106.00 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 12 | 75% | 0% | 17% | 106.33 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 5 | 40% | 0% | 0% | 106.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 121.29 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 8 | 63% | 0% | 13% | 119.00 |
| North | Main | Y | 10 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 108.88 |
| California | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.25 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 100.33 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 96.20 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 107.63 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 105.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 107.17 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 0% | 104.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | George Mason C | 24 | -5 |
| Chris Wang | Toronto H | McGill C | 30 | -5 |
| John Chen | British Columbia B | Washington A | 37 | -5 |
| George Matsumura | Washington B | British Columbia C | 40 | -5 |
| Arun Waran | Macalester B | Wisconsin | 43 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | CWRU A | 60 | -5 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCLA B | 62 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | WashU A | Missouri B | 70 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Penn A | 71 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU A | Maryland A | 76 | -5 |
| Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern A | UTD B | 77 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | Toronto Metropolitan | 82 | 10 |
| Sky Li | Toronto A | Toronto G | 84 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Maryland C | 84 | 10 |
| Ezra Schulman | Macalester A | Minnesota B | 84 | 10 |
| AJ Wu | Brown C | MIT B | 85 | 10 |
| Eve Maramba | UF A | UCF A | 87 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Stanford B | 90 | 10 |
| Alexandra Duan | Columbia B | Columbia C | 90 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | MIT A | 91 | 10 |
| Ben Wismath | Toronto B | Guelph B | 92 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | Alberta | 93 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Berkeley E | 94 | 10 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | Waterloo | 94 | -5 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Texas B | 94 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Binghamton A | 94 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Vassar A | 97 | 10 |
| Ethan Young | Williams | Harvard | 97 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis Wilson | Brandeis Lloyd George | 97 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | British Columbia A | 97 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Alberta B | 97 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | George Mason B | 99 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | Berkeley B | 104 | 10 |
| Olin Bose | Columbia A | Rutgers C | 104 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Nebraska | 107 | 10 |
| Yash Modi | Western Ontario | Toronto I | 108 | 10 |
| Elise Economou | Pitt B | Kenyon B | 110 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | North Carolina B | 110 | 10 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | McMaster A | 113 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Liberty A | 113 | 10 |
| Henry Lytle | WashU C | Missouri A | 113 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCSB | 114 | 10 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Toronto D | 114 | 10 |
| Dylan Steptoe | Guelph A | Carleton | 116 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Stanford C | 117 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | OSU C | 117 | 10 |
| Tosca Zhang | NYU B | George Washington A | 117 | 10 |
| Sophie Lyman | WashU D | SIUE | 118 | 10 |
| Anthony Xu | Amherst A | Dartmouth | 118 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Clemson A | 121 | -5 |
| Henry Nonnemaker | CWRU C | CWRU D | 122 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Roanoke | 122 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 123 | 10 |
| Zaire Gibbons | Toronto J | Toronto C | 123 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | St. Thomas | 123 | 10 |
| Atharv Chowdhary | Brown A | Cornell-UG | 123 | 10 |
| Foster Hughes | Minnesota A | Minnesota C | 124 | 10 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont Scripps | UCLA D | 125 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCI | 125 | 0 |
| Advai Srinivasan | UCI | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 125 | 0 |
| Aarav Kakad | UCLA C | Claremont Pitzer | 125 | 0 |
| Larry Sun | McGill C | Toronto H | 125 | 0 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | McMaster B | 125 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | McMaster C | 125 | 0 |
| Christophe Savoie | UF C | FSU | 125 | 0 |
| Addison Wiggins | USF | UF D | 125 | 0 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UF E | 125 | 10 |
| Alex Olson | UF D | USF | 125 | 0 |
| Gavin Littrell | ERAU A | Melbourne B | 125 | 0 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | UF C | 125 | 0 |
| Andrew Harms | MSU A | OSU D | 125 | 10 |
| Andrew Amygdalos | CWRU A | Pitt A | 125 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | CWRU B | 125 | 10 |
| Kara Braun | MSU B | Pitt C | 125 | 10 |
| Nova Sink | Virginia Tech B | Virginia B | 125 | 0 |
| Erin Williams | James Madison | Clemson B | 125 | 0 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson B | James Madison | 125 | 0 |
| Halah Cates | North Carolina C | South Carolina B | 125 | 10 |
| Ben Lanahan | Clemson A | Tennessee A | 125 | 0 |
| Walter Carson | NC State | Tennessee B | 125 | 10 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | George Mason A | 125 | 0 |
| James Meek | George Mason A | UMBC A | 125 | 0 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | George Washington B | 125 | 10 |
| Meggy Mani | Georgetown B | Maryland D | 125 | 10 |
| Zachary Leblang | Penn B | Johns Hopkins B | 125 | 0 |
| Marianthe Dresios | Johns Hopkins B | Penn B | 125 | 0 |
| Brayden Whitlow | George Mason C | Johns Hopkins C | 125 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | VCU A | 125 | 10 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers B | Rowan A | 125 | 0 |
| William Groger | Princeton A | Lehigh A | 125 | 10 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Rutgers B | 125 | 0 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | WashU B | 125 | 0 |
| Roy Yang | WashU B | William Woods | 125 | 0 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Bowdoin A | 125 | 10 |
| Aaron Velez | Yale B | BC B | 125 | 10 |
| Luc Vulliez | Amherst B | Bowdoin B | 125 | 0 |
| Nicholas Enbar-Salo | Bowdoin B | Amherst B | 125 | 0 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Brandeis Clemenceau | 125 | 0 |
| Jack Granahan | Brandeis Orlando | Tufts A | 125 | 0 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | BC A | 125 | 0 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Brandeis Orlando | 125 | 0 |
| Ian Chow | Washington A | British Columbia B | 125 | 10 |
| Sriram Susarla | British Columbia C | Washington B | 125 | 0 |
| Randy Guo | Texas A | Arizona State B | 125 | 10 |
| Mohammad Khan | UTD A | Tulsa | 125 | 10 |
| Halia Tran-Adams | McGill D | Iowa | 125 | 10 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern C | Northwestern B | 125 | 0 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | Rose State | 125 | 0 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Northwestern C | 125 | 0 |
| Caitlyn Begosa | Syracuse | ESF | 125 | 0 |
| Aidan Keenan | Rochester | Binghamton B | 125 | 0 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | RIT A | 125 | 0 |
| Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Rochester | 125 | 0 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF | Syracuse | 125 | 0 |