This thinker states “I have but one language – yet that language is not mine” and describes his schooling as an immigrant in Monolingualism of the Other. This thinker first coined a “neographism” analogized to an Egyptian pyramid in an essay about the “hyperbolic moment” of the Enlightenment. In the 1990s, this thinker used the similarity of his language’s word for “ontology” to his coined term “hauntology” in the book Spectres of Marx. To describe paths left behind by iterable writing, this thinker used his native language’s word for “trace” to name a concept borrowed by Gayatri Spivak. This thinker intentionally misspelled the French word for “difference” with the letter A to explain the meaning of signs. For 10 points, name this post-structuralist thinker who wrote about deconstruction in Of Grammatology. ■END■
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 98.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 0% | 106.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 131.00 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 9 | 78% | 0% | 33% | 116.14 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 94.50 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 0% | 111.80 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 8% | 88.64 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 0% | 85.80 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adil Soubki | Cambridge C | Cardiff | 44 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Chicago A | 61 | -5 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Southampton A | 64 | 10 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | Ohio State A | 66 | 10 |
| Yixi Yang | Yale | Brandeis B | 66 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Mississipi State | 66 | 10 |
| Tosca Zhang | NYU B | Maryland A | 66 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | NYU A | 66 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William and Mary | Virginia | 67 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | CWRU A | 68 | 10 |
| Omer Keskin | Edinburgh A | Oxford A | 69 | 10 |
| Orion Keller | Virginia Tech A | Virginia Tech B | 70 | 10 |
| Jakob Meyers | Indiana A | Illinois B | 70 | -5 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Chicago C | 71 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Harvard B | 72 | 10 |
| Tom Morris-Jones | Birmingham | UCL | 72 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Imperial A | 72 | 10 |
| Evan Schleck | Georgetown | Rutgers A | 72 | 10 |
| Zach Foster | City St. George's | Oxford C | 74 | 10 |
| William Henley | Illinois C | Notre Dame A | 80 | -5 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | Ohio State C | 96 | -5 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue B | Chicago B | 96 | 10 |
| Alex Jiang | Brown | Dartmouth A | 100 | -5 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge A | Cambridge B | 105 | 10 |
| Beckett Gillmore | Louisville B | Tennessee A | 106 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Bristol | 106 | 10 |
| Anthony Yin | CWRU B | Michigan State | 107 | -5 |
| Christopher Bradley | Southern Connecticut State | Bowdoin A | 109 | 10 |
| Kevin Liu | Maryland B | Johns Hopkins B | 109 | 10 |
| Arthur Bellamy | Oxford B | Warwick B | 112 | 10 |
| Aisling Skeet | Durham | Montpellier | 116 | -5 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | Vassar | 116 | 10 |
| Samuel Lipsutz | Chicago E | Indiana C | 123 | 10 |
| Daniel Huang | Michigan C | Ohio State B | 127 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Alabama B | 127 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Imperial B | 127 | 10 |
| John Marvin | Chicago A | Illinois A | 130 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Tennessee B | 130 | 10 |
| Mary Kate Vance | Louisville A | Alabama A | 130 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | Durham | 130 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson | Ohio State C | Michigan A | 131 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | CWRU B | 131 | 0 |
| Gabriel Dodds | Liberty C | James Madison B | 131 | 0 |
| Laila Peterson | James Madison B | Liberty C | 131 | 0 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | VCU | 131 | 10 |
| Johanna Bryant | Liberty B | James Madison A | 131 | 10 |
| Fionn O'Connor | South Carolina B | Wake Forest | 131 | 10 |
| Faraz Foroughi | NC State A | North Carolina B | 131 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago D | Northwestern B | 131 | 10 |
| Faith Magiera | Northwestern D | Northwestern C | 131 | 0 |
| Alana Dickey | Indiana B | Notre Dame B | 131 | 10 |
| Jisoo Park | Illinois B | Indiana A | 131 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Illinois C | 131 | 0 |
| Matthew Forster | Dartmouth A | Brown | 131 | 10 |
| Joseph Xu | Bowdoin B | Dartmouth B | 131 | 0 |
| Jake Markus | Dartmouth B | Bowdoin B | 131 | 0 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Sewanee | 131 | 0 |
| Hiten Umarnani | Imperial C | Southampton B | 131 | 0 |
| Roselyn Daffin | Southampton B | Imperial C | 131 | 0 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU C | Catholic | 131 | 0 |