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Packet J: Bonus 19

At the CCRU, Nick Land pioneered the left-wing form of this ideology before suffering a drug-fueled mental breakdown and retiring from public life. For 10 points each:
[10m] A left-wing form of what ideology seeks to bring about the end of capitalism by intensifying its progress and underlying contradictions?
ANSWER: accelerationism [or word forms like accelerationist]
[10e] Accelerationism is heavily influenced by the analysis of capitalism in Capitalism and Schizophrenia, a dense work written by this thinker and Félix Guattari.
ANSWER: Gilles Deleuze (“zheel duh-LOOZ”)
[10h] Land also coined a term that replaces the super- in superstition with this prefix for ideas that “bring about their own reality.” A 1981 book compares the area of Beaubourg in Paris to markets described with this prefix.
ANSWER: hyper- [accept hyperstition; accept hypermarket] (The book in the second clue is Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard.)
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