Round 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 this “fixedly contemplating” figure faces a storm “blowing from Paradise.” (15[1])“Where we perceive a (*) chain of events,” this figure sees a “single catastrophe… piling wreckage upon wreckage” according to that 1940 essay, which opens by describing the Mechanical Turk and was written shortly before its author’s suicide to avoid the Nazis. For 10 points, Walter Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History” (10[1])re-envisions the subject of a Paul Klee monoprint as what winged figure? ■END■ (0[3])

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