Power & Reason
Psychoanalysis & the Self
Philosophies
Miscellaneous Social Theory Q's
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Authorial
100
Before modern disciplinary systems, Foucault says rulers mainly exercised this form of power, centered on the right to take life or let live - think public executions, royal decrees, and Hobbesian monarchs.
What is sovereign power?
100
Freud’s name for the process by which unacceptable drives and memories are pushed out of conscious awareness, yet still influence dreams, slips, and symptoms.
What is repression?
100
BONUS QUESTION! +100 points to all teams!
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100
According to Marx, this is a commodity's utility or usefulness in satisfying a human need or want, based on its physical properties.
What is use value?
100
This is the number by which the previous Korean government proposed to expand the medical school admissions seats.
What is 2,000?
100
Author of Slaughterhouse-Five
Who is Kurt Vonnegut?
200
In contrast, this richer kind of reason asks about justice, the good life, and universal principles, not just about effective means. Horkheimer thinks it has largely been “eclipsed.”
What is objective reason?
200
Freud’s term for the process by which raw drives are redirected into socially acceptable, often creative or intellectual activities.
What is sublimation?
200
Horkheimer is considered the founder of this school of social thought.
What is the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory?
200
What is the Dunning-Kruger Effect?
200
This is Tayo the Little Bus' number.
What is 120?
200
Author of The Bluest Eye
Who is Toni Morrison?
300
This theorist argues that freedom is a performance that was been understood and "acted out" by the Athenians.
Who is Hannah Arendt?
300
"A grade is a key." This is an example of what Lacan called the ________ and the _________.
What is the signifier and the signified?
300
Tafjel's social study that demonstrates how people favor their own group, or in-group, even when group distinctions are arbitrary and trivial. Recall, they affiliated with either the artwork of Kandinsky or Klee.
What is the minimal group paradigm?
300
This is a concept elaborated by Foucault to describe certain cultural, institutional and discursive spaces that are somehow "other" such as Disney's "Main Street."
What is a heterotopia?
300
After the 2025 UN population estimates were released, this global city replaced Tokyo as the most populous city proper in the world.
What is Jakarta, Indonesia? (Population: ~42,000,000)
300
Author of The Shadow of Arms
Who is Hwang Sok-yong?
400
Credit scores, risk scores, or behavior rankings are increasingly metrics that describe this term coined by Marion Fourcade.
What is ordinal citizenship?
400
For Nietzsche, when cruelty and punishment get turned inward, people begin to torture themselves with self-hatred and inner accusation. He calls this internalized cruelty this.
What is bad conscience?
400
This philosophical approach associated with Graham Harman, which treats objects - whether physical, digital, or conceptual - as having their own reality, not reducible to human access.
What is object-oriented ontology?
400
In this theory, ICS students, faculty, Moodle, the classrooms, the books, and so on, all form a collectif.
What is actor-network theory (ANT)?
400
Name the artist:
Who is Nam June Paik?
400
Author of The War with Gaul (or, sometimes published as The Gallic Wars).
Who is Julius Caesar?
500
In her work on Eichmann and modern bureaucracy, Arendt argues that great evil can be committed by ordinary individuals who unthinkingly follow rules and routines, without sadistic intent or deep hatred. She famously calls this _______________.
What is the banality of evil?
500
In contrast, Freud proposes a darker, aggressive drive toward destruction, repetition, and a return to inanimate state, sometimes called the death drive or this.
What is thanatos?
500
This term describes the destruction or killing of authentic learning and knowledge. In our context, we applied it to describe the function of AI in mass mediocrity.
What is epistemicide?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!! (Worth 1000 points)
This is the father of "scientific management," the same principles of social organization found in Huxley's Brave New World, Ford's manufacturing lines, and the regimented ecosystem of education.
Who is Frederick W. Taylor?
500
An intentional understatement, often used to be ironic. An example is saying, "That's not bad," to mean something is very good.
What is a litote?
500
Author of The Luzhin Defense
Who is Vladimir Nabokov?