This thinker’s visit to India included a public debate with Nivedita Menon, who criticized him for ideas influenced by Eurocentrism and Christianity in a later article titled for two versions of this thinker. This thinker credited another’s phrase “the night of the world” with influencing his assertion that subjectivity is only possible through the failure to reduce a subject to a symbol. This thinker has collaborated with Sophie Fiennes on (*) films he scripts, such as one where he calls Coca Cola the perfect commodity. This thinker’s philosophy on concepts such as the symbolic order and the sinthome (“SEHN-tome”) draws from Hegel and Lacanian psychoanalysis, which he discusses in The Sublime Object of Ideology. For 10 points, name this thinker featured in documentaries such as The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, a leftist cultural theorist from Slovenia. ■END■
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| Vincent Du | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 83 | 10 |
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| Jack van Nostrand | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto B | 88 | -5 |
| Ian Tullis | Art of Premature Signaling | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | 93 | -5 |
| Chris Yoo | Mahjonng Masters | Gruh | 95 | 10 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis | MIT | 96 | -5 |
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| Manu Cherukumille | MSJ | mongeese | 97 | -5 |
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| Max Lin | we need new names | Illinois Orange | 102 | -5 |
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| James Ah Yong | Waterloo B | Toronto A | 102 | 10 |
| Sky Li | Toronto C | Simon Fraser | 102 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University of America | Johns Hopkins B | 107 | 10 |
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