Question
This term was coined to refer to the cultural context of certain objects, essentially their “presence in time and space.” For 10 point each:
[10h] Name this concept that one thinker claims is diminished through the mass production of media which alters the “base” of certain objects, leading them to change their “superstructure.”
ANSWER: aura
[10m] This thinker claimed that the aura of art is devalued through the practice of copying in his essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”
ANSWER: Walter Benjamin (“BEN-ya-meen”) [or Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin]
[10e] Benjamin criticized works in this medium as attempting to replace “aura” with “cults of personality.” Martin Scorsese denounced Marvel franchise works in this medium as lacking art form.
ANSWER: film [accept cinema or movies or equivalents]
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Summary
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| 2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 8 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
Data
| Chicago A | Ohio State C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago C | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Purdue B | Chicago D | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Ohio State A | Michigan B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Ohio State B | Missouri | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Purdue A | WUSTL | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Purdue C | SIUE A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Michigan A | SIUE B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |