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This writer contrasted the unambiguous nature of “classical” art with the aleatoric music of Stockhausen and Boulez, which he called “open work.” According to this author, texts are devices to produce “model readers.” This author used Wittgenstein’s (-5[1])family resemblance to describe “fourteen ways” in the essay (-5[1])“Ur-Fascism.” (15[22])This (15[3])writer (15[3])called (15[3])for (15[1])a (15[1])“communications (15[1])guerilla warfare” (15[1])in an essay collected in (*) Travels in Hyperreality. (10[4])Three (10[1])men in a book by this author (10[1])form “The Plan” (10[1])using a computer named for a Kabbalah philosopher, Abulafia. (10[1])Medieval philosophers like Thomas Aquinas and Roger Bacon, along (10[1])with Sherlock Holmes, inspired this author’s character William of Baskerville, who solves (10[1])a murder in a Benedictine abbey. (10[2])For 10 points, name this Italian semiotician who wrote The Name of the Rose. ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: Umberto Eco (The second sentence refers to the essay “The Role of the Reader.” The fifth sentence refers to Foucault’s Pendulum.)
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