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Question

This activity titles a Roland Barthes essay that, unusually, analyzes a passage from the Book of Genesis, showing how its composition “explodes” structural analysis. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this activity which also titles a more famous Roland Barthes essay, collected in Mythologies. Barthes argues this activity is “spectacle” rather than “sport,” and analyzes the conduct of Thauvin, a “bastard-octopus.”

ANSWER: professional wrestling [or la lutte; or “Wrestling with the Angel”; or “The World of Wrestling”]

[10h] Jacques Ranciere, a philosopher who is not a professional wrestler, authored this essay collection. In the first entry in this collection, “Ten Theses on Politics,” Ranciere delivers a “people’s elbow” to the “politics of the police.”

ANSWER: Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics [or Disagreement: On Politics and Aesthetics]

[10e] Diogenes Laertius claims that this philosopher’s common name, meaning “broad-shouldered,” was a wrestling nickname. A wrestling school is the setting for the Theaetetus, a dialogue authored by this philosopher.

ANSWER: Plato [or Platon]

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Summary


2023 BHSU @ Berkeley	03/18/2023	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Maryland	03/11/2023	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern	02/25/2023	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2023 BHSU Online	04/15/2023	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield	04/15/2023	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo	04/15/2023	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	Y	3	10.00	0%	0%	100%
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	Y	3	16.67	33%	33%	100%

Data


Cornell C++	Houston and friends	10	10	20
Dr. Christopher Manners, MD – Samarra, Iraq	Hutto Hippos	0	10	10
The Enrique Trastamara Military Academy B	Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang	0	10	10
Cornell B-	What is BH! And you are asking me? BHSU	0	10	10