Packet 6: Tossup 18

A “last” version of this figure titles an Afrofuturist film about a time-traveling “Data Thief” by John Akomfrah. A modern-day Hansel describes this figure (15[1])to Gretel, a cocktail waitress, in Laurie Anderson’s song “The Dream Before.” This figure is called “immortal” in a chapter that originally ended (-5[1])Imagined Communities. An essay claims that (-5[1])this (15[1])“fixedly (-5[1])contemplating” figure (15[1])faces a storm (15[1])“blowing (15[1]-5[1])from Paradise.” (15[3])“Where (15[1])we perceive a (*) chain of events,” (10[2]-5[1])this figure (10[2])sees a “single catastrophe… (10[4])piling wreckage (10[1])upon (10[1])wreckage” according to that (10[1])1940 (10[1])essay, (10[2])which (10[1])opens by describing the (-5[1])Mechanical Turk (10[1])and was written shortly before its author’s suicide to avoid the (10[1])Nazis. (-5[2])For 10 points, Walter Benjamin’s “Theses (10[1]-5[1])on the Philosophy of History” (10[1])re-envisions the subject of a Paul Klee monoprint as what winged (10[1])figure? ■END■ (10[5]0[12])

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