Nick Land - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

Along with Sadie Plant, this philosopher established a unit at the University of Warwick called the CCRU that extensively studied dance music, particularly the jungle subtype. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this philosopher, whose work was collected in Fanged Noumena. He pioneered the idea of accelerationism, before joining up with the right-wing neoreactionary movement.

ANSWER: Nick Land

[10e] The first C in the CCRU stands for this prefix attached to “-netics,” a term from Norbert Wiener. The CCRU was also influenced by Neuromancer, part of a genre named for this prefix and “-punk.”

ANSWER: cyber- [accept cyberpunk or cybernetics]

[10h] A major component of the CCRU’s theory-fictions was this idea, referring to an idea that makes itself real.

ANSWER: hyperstitions

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	14.44	89%	56%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


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