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 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Mississipi State | 66 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | NYU A | 66 | 10 |
| Yixi Yang | Yale | Brandeis B | 66 | 10 |
| Tosca Zhang | NYU B | Maryland 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 |
| Tom Morris-Jones | Birmingham | UCL | 72 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Harvard B | 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 |
| Kevin Liu | Maryland B | Johns Hopkins B | 109 | 10 |
| Christopher Bradley | Southern Connecticut State | Bowdoin A | 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 |
| Mary Kate Vance | Louisville A | Alabama A | 130 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Tennessee B | 130 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | Durham | 130 | 10 |
| John Marvin | Chicago A | Illinois A | 130 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson | Ohio State C | Michigan A | 131 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Sewanee | 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 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Illinois C | 131 | 0 |
| Alana Dickey | Indiana B | Notre Dame B | 131 | 10 |
| Faith Magiera | Northwestern D | Northwestern C | 131 | 0 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU C | Catholic | 131 | 0 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | CWRU B | 131 | 0 |
| 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 |
| Jisoo Park | Illinois B | Indiana A | 131 | 10 |
| Matthew Forster | Dartmouth A | Brown | 131 | 10 |
| Joseph Xu | Bowdoin B | Dartmouth B | 131 | 0 |
| Jake Markus | Dartmouth B | Bowdoin B | 131 | 0 |
| Hiten Umarnani | Imperial C | Southampton B | 131 | 0 |
| Roselyn Daffin | Southampton B | Imperial C | 131 | 0 |