Question
Lauren Berlant and Sara Ahmed have applied the study of this concept to feminist and queer theory. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these states, closely related to emotions but also involving bodily responses and the capacity to act, that were the subject of a late-90s flowering of scholarship in literary theory and the social sciences.
ANSWER: affects (“AFF-ects”) [accept affect theory]
[10m] Affect theorists draw on this book’s classification of the affects, which it defines as “modifications to the body” that increase or decrease its active power. This 1677 book uses the method of Euclid to identify God with nature.
ANSWER: Ethics [or Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order]
[10e] Ethics is the magnum opus of this Dutch Jewish thinker of the early modern period.
ANSWER: Baruch Spinoza
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Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 36 | 11.39 | 75% | 36% | 3% |