Édouard Glissant - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

This thinker argued that people have a right to “opaqueness”, to not be fully understood, while also championing a concept metissage, or mixture. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this Martinican thinker who distinguished between archipelagic and continental thinking in his philosophy of relation, which built off of his earlier poetics in Le Discours Antillais ("luh dees-KOOR ahn-tee-YAY").

ANSWER: Édouard Glissant

[10m] Glissant argued that a right to opacity is needed because a right to this concept is insufficient protection from transparent continental western universalism. Gilles Deleuze wrote a work titled for this concept and repetition.

ANSWER: difference [accept Difference and Repetition]

[10e] Glissant’s distinction between archipelagic and continental thinking was influenced by Deleuze and Guattari’s distinction between the rhizome and models based on this type of plant, often used to model hierarchical relationships.

ANSWER: trees

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2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	16.67	100%	50%	17%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	15.71	100%	29%	29%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	12.22	89%	33%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

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Harvard	Brown	0	0	10	10
MIT A	I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene	0	0	10	10
MIT B	Brandeis	0	0	10	10
Yale	RIT	0	0	10	10
Michigan A	Michigan B	0	0	10	10
CWRU	Michigan C	0	0	10	10
Ohio State A	Pittsburgh	0	0	10	10
Maryland B	John Jay	0	10	10	20
Maryland A	NYU B	0	0	10	10
NYU A	Swarthmore	10	10	10	30
Maryland C	Columbia A	0	0	10	10
Columbia B	JHU A	0	10	10	20
Indiana	Illinois	0	10	10	20
Northwestern B	UChicago C	0	0	10	10
Northwestern A	UChicago B	0	10	10	20
rusty shackleford	abg academy	0	10	10	20
Toronto Sunshine Bubbles	McGill Fartlets	0	0	10	10
Ottawa 67s	Carleton A	0	0	10	10
Queen's is monitoring the situation	#OpenToBuzz	0	10	10	20
Toronto G	Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça	10	10	10	30
Toronto Murder on the Rider Express	Toronto E	0	0	10	10
Toronto Operation PBSuccess	McGill B	10	0	10	20
Waterloo you are crooked	Guelph perfomative male competition	0	0	10	10
Mount Sinai	JHU B	0	0	10	10
The best time to buzz was twenty clues ago. The second best time to buzz is now	Free Win	0	0	10	10
Berkeley B	In Search of Lost Clues	0	10	10	20
Stanford A	Berkeley A	0	0	10	10
Berkeley C	Stanford B	0	0	10	10
Coughing Baby	Galactic Ombudsmen	0	0	10	10
Of Mice and Penn	Bristold	0	0	10	10
Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament	The Bit and the Penndulum	0	0	10	10
question mark	Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins	0	0	10	10
Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance	Washed Scrubs	0	10	10	20
why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it	Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh	0	0	10	10
Planck Sinatra	UNC B	0	0	10	10
UNC A	VT B	0	0	10	10
VT A	Wise Duke	0	0	10	10
Hail to the Sheaf	1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail	0	10	10	20
Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli	To buzz is to be perceived	0	10	0	10
Knorr Stock Clue	Chimp Brisket	0	0	10	10