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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| Ethan Furman | Haverford A | Johns Hopkins A | 54 | -5 |
| Marcus Smith | George Mason B | Georgetown | 61 | -5 |
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| S. A. Shenoy | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | Free Agents 1 | 77 | 10 |
| Elie Aoun | CWRU | George Mason A | 83 | 10 |
| Vincent Du | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 83 | 10 |
| Kethan Raman | UCLA A | Claremont A | 84 | 10 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | 85 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | Arizona State University B | 86 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Luis D'Olhaberriague | George Washington | Maryland A | 96 | 10 |
| Manu Cherukumille | MSJ | mongeese | 97 | -5 |
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| Sam Matson | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | Master and Margaritaville | 101 | 10 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn 2026 | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | 102 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Chris Wang | Toronto D | Toronto E | 102 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University of America | Johns Hopkins B | 107 | 10 |
| Henry Keating | Too much from you lately | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 109 | 10 |
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Truman State | 109 | 10 |
| Hayden Prather | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Billy's Bastion | 110 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | evil women enjoyers | Egypt Airlines Haters | 111 | 10 |
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| Terrence Han | UCLA B | Caltech | 111 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Birmingham | 111 | 10 |
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| Asha Basu | McGill A | Waterloo A | 114 | 10 |
| Euan McCubbin | UW A | UW B | 117 | 10 |
| William Bao | Illinois Orange | we need new names | 120 | 10 |
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| Karthik Jayaram | Quatumvirate | Goober Gang | 127 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown | George Mason B | 127 | 10 |
| Alan Kappler | Claremont B | UCSD | 127 | 10 |
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| June Yin | WashU Squirtle | Chicago B | 127 | 10 |
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| Corwin Davidson | UBC | Ottawa A | 130 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Brandeis | 133 | 10 |
| Jason Cheng | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | Art of Premature Signaling | 133 | 10 |
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