Packet L: Tossup 5

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” (10[1])of the Enlightenment. In the 1990s, this thinker used the similarity of his language’s word for “ontology” (-5[1])to his coined (10[1])term “hauntology” (10[5])in (10[1])the (10[1])book (10[1])Spectres (10[1]-5[1])of (10[1])Marx. (10[4])To describe (10[1])paths left behind by iterable writing, (-5[1])this thinker used his native language’s word for “trace” to name a concept borrowed by Gayatri (10[1]-5[1])Spivak. This thinker intentionally (-5[1])misspelled the French word for (10[1])“difference” (10[2])with (-5[1])the letter (10[2])A to explain (10[1])the meaning of signs. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, name this post-structuralist thinker (10[1])who wrote about deconstruction (10[3])in Of Grammatology. (10[4])■END■ (10[9]0[11])

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