This thinker asked what we should do now that everything “has been liberated” and the “orgy is over.” This thinker cited Mauss’s gift-exchange and Freud’s death drive as examples of “symbolic exchange” that allow us to escape dominant ideologies. In The Transparency of Evil, this thinker called the saturation of art in the world “transaesthetics.” This philosopher invented a quote by Ecclesiastes to begin a chapter that considers (*) Borges’s (“BOR-hess’s”) map. Ideas multiplied and reflected by the media have structured our lives by supplanting the real, according to this philosopher’s idea of hyperreality. An essay by this philosopher argues that the asymmetrical power of the two sides in the Gulf War meant that it “did not take place.” For 10 points, name this author of Simulacra and Simulation. ■END■
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford | 10/25/25 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 71.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern | 10/25/25 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 94.25 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn) | 11/01/25 | Y | 6 | 100% | 33% | 17% | 74.83 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - BU | 11/01/25 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 106.25 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU | 11/01/25 | Y | 3 | 0% | 0% | 67% | 0.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - UNC | 11/01/25 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 84.50 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - WashU | 11/01/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 94.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa | 11/01/25 | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 57% | 109.43 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - UK | 11/01/25 | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 22% | 97.38 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Online | 11/08/25 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 118.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State | 11/08/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 101.50 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Wu | Coughing Baby | Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance | 69 | -5 |
| Eve Fleisig | To buzz is to be perceived | Hail to the Sheaf | 69 | -5 |
| Adil Soubki | Galactic Ombudsmen | Washed Scrubs | 73 | 10 |
| Ben Russell Jones | Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli | 1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail | 75 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Knorr Stock Clue | Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament | 91 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | The Bit and the Penndulum | Bristold | 91 | 10 |
| Oliver Hargrave | Hail to the Sheaf | To buzz is to be perceived | 91 | 10 |
| Imran Rahman | Chimp Brisket | Of Mice and Penn | 115 | 10 |
| Jacob Price | why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it | Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh | 116 | 10 |
| Delia Cropper | Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance | Coughing Baby | 127 | 10 |
| Rachel Bentham | question mark | Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins | 127 | 0 |