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.)
<Southampton A, Philosophy> | Packet J - Southampton A, Indiana A, Illinois B, Edinburgh A
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
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| 17 | 21.18 | 88% | 77% | 47% |
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| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
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| California (North) | Main Site | ✓ | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| Canada | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | ✓ | 1 | 0.00 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| Midwest | Main Site | ✓ | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Northeast | Main Site | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 0% | 100% |
| South Central | Main Site | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 0% | 100% | 0% |
| Southeast | Main Site | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 26.67 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |