Question
This philosopher wrote that Bartleby’s formula “I would prefer not to” creates a “zone of indiscernibility” where “all reference is abolished.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this neo-Spinozist author of Difference and Repetition and The Logic of Sense.
ANSWER: Gilles Deleuze (“zheel duh-LOOZ”) [or Gilles Louis René Deleuze]
[10e] This philosopher wrote about the indeterminacy of the formula “I would prefer not to” in The Gift of Death. He also wrote Of Grammatology.
ANSWER: Jacques Derrida (“zhahk day-ree-DAH”) [or Jackie Élie Derrida]
[10h] This 2006 book ends by imagining Bartleby smiling like Norman Bates when he delivers the formula “I would prefer not to.” It borrows from Kojin Karatani (“koh-jeen kah-rah-tah-nee”) to theorize a “gap,” which it uses to rework the Hegelian dialectic.
ANSWER: The Parallax View (by Slavoj Žižek)
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago A | Florida A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago C | Toronto A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Vanderbilt A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell A | Yale A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech B | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Harvard A | Indiana A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois A | Virginia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Michigan A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| MIT A | North Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland A | Stanford A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| McGill A | Iowa State A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU A | Houston A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern A | Minnesota A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Ohio State A | Brown A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn A | Claremont A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue A | Florida B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers B | Imperial A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| South Carolina A | Rutgers A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas A | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley B | Minnesota B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Duke A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yale B | Penn State A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |