This thinker defined “hedonic depression” as the “inability to do anything else except pursue pleasure.” This thinker claimed that mental illnesses are “neurologically instantiated” but still have social causes to argue for “repoliticizing mental illness.” This thinker’s experience teaching in a Further Education college inspired his theory that a decentralized bureaucracy enforces “market Stalinism” and his description of the (*) “reflexive impotence” of British students who think that protesting is futile. Derrida’s hauntology inspired this thinker’s book Ghosts of My Life, which details the depression that led to his 2017 suicide. This thinker’s magnum opus describes the attitude that “it is easier to imagine the end of the world… than the end of capitalism.” For 10 points, name this author of Capitalist Realism. ■END■
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aseem Keyal | Broken Socal Scene | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 55 | 15 |
| Matt Bollinger | BHSU B | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 56 | 15 |
| Isaac Kirk-Davidoff | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 58 | 15 |
| Will Alston | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | Do re mi fa serving negs | 74 | 10 |
| William Golden | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 79 | 10 |
| Charles Young | Halifax Shipping Services | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | 79 | 10 |
| Matt Lafer | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | It's not X, but... defenders | 79 | 10 |
| Rahul Keyal | The RAND Coöperation | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 80 | 10 |
| Andrew Hart | BHSU X | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | 81 | 10 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Floridovician | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 85 | 10 |