Question
This project, whose text was only saved as a photocopy kept by Georges Bataille (“bah-TYE”), notes that “the concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this massive collage-like project about city life which was left unfinished after its author unsuccessfully tried to flee the Nazis following the fall of France. It is divided into many “convolutes.”
ANSWER: Arcades Project [or Passagenwerk]
[10e] One of the convolutes in Walter Benjamin’s (“VAL-tur BEN-yah-MIN’Z”) Arcades Project concerns this thinker, who co-wrote the Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels.
ANSWER: Karl (Heinrich) Marx
[10m] The Arcades Project drew on this archetype that was popularised by Charles Baudelaire’s essay “The Painter of Modern Life.” This type of person mills around cities while observing modern society.
ANSWER: flâneur [or flâneuse]
Summary
| 2023 UMN COOT | 08/19/2023 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
Data
| BHSU | Our Job is Buzz | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| doubleplusnegfive | Jeff Weiner Fan Club | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Palestrina Sawayama | Weird Klaus Barbie | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |