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1		-2017-01-21 19:57:36.533
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	1	+==1nc—Beautiful Implosions==
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	5	+====Every protest and revolutionary project in the 1ac has already been trapped, enmeshed in the code, confined in the social fabric that conscribes it. The aff’s naïve belief that we just need more speech to challenge "the system" is a dangerous illusion, one that results in false hope, futility, and ultimately nihilism as it repeatedly fails to break free of the repression it targets.====
	6	+Andrew Robinson 13 ~~(Andrew Robinson, political theorist and activist based in the UK. His bookandnbsp;Power, Resistance and Conflict in the Contemporary World: Social Movements, Networks and Hierarchies (co-authored with Athina Karatzogianni) was published in Sep 2009 by Routledge, ) Jean Baudrillard and Activism: A critique, Ceasefire Magazine 2-7-2013~~ AT
	7	+Baudrillard also seems to have a sharp sense of the strategic issues facing resistance today
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	11	+for an Event has become such a popular theme in contemporary radical theory.
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	15	+====The University is a site of social death – they are the ultimate space to facilitate semiotic consumption and simulated reality====
	16	+**Anarchist News 10** ~~(Anarchistnews, ) The University, Social Death And The Inside Joke, 2-18-2010~~ AT
	17	+In Baudrillard, the city is a semiotic factory; it constitutes "the ghetto
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	19	+AND
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	21	+Yudoff so proudly calls a cemetery, a necropolis to rival no other.
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	25	+====In the age of simulation, the system is so saturated with meaning, that even the social becomes meaningless. The mass comes to represent nothing, unable to speak or be spoken for. Thousands act while millions are sequestered by their profound indifference. This fission of the social produces violence. Politics becomes an empty simulacrum, a form of powerless power capable of ruling us only while we buy into its insidious illusion that it can still speak for the faceless mass. The aff's project of free speech is based on the precisely this illusion - they are obsessed with producing more meaning, mobilizing the masses with information, activism, and protest. This project is frustrated by the fundamental antagonism between the meaningless mass and the system's desperate drive to synthesize meaning. Reject the aff's call for protest and action; instead of injecting the mass with more meaning, more information you should let the system's inability to produce meaning overtake the system itself in a beautiful implosion. The aff sustains the system's power; vote neg to watch it burn. ====
	26	+**Baudrillard 83** ~~Jean, IN THE SHADOW OF THE SILENT MAJORITIES ••• OR THE END OF THE SOCIAL. 1983~~ AT
	27	+There is no longer any polarity between the one and the other in the mass
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	31	+every chance that our passage towards implosion may also be violent and catastrophic.
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	35	+====The affirmative’s will to represent falls into the cycle of a self-defeating transparency. All attempts at transparency fundamentally act in congruence with the representational violence of geopolitics that attempts to render the whole world transparent. This is the violence of geopolitics, the radical elimination of the other.====
	36	+Artrip and Debrix 14. Ryan E. Artrip, Doctoral Student, ASPECT, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and Francois Debrix, professor of political science at Virginia Polytechnical Institute, "The Digital Fog of War: Baudrillard and the Violence of Representation," Volume 11, Number 2 (May, 2014)
	37	+Such an expectation about the ontological "location" of the objects, subjects,
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	41	+immune systems and our capacities to resist" (2003; our italics).
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	45	+====The alternative’s act of silent refusal disrupts and outpaces the system’s demand for meaning, causing the system to implode from within – our alternative is radically incompatible with the affirmative’s call for speech—THIS TURNS EVERY SINGLE FRAMING CARD IN THE AFF====
	46	+**Baudrillard 83** ~~Jean, IN THE SHADOW OF THE SILENT MAJORITIES ••• OR THE END OF THE SOCIAL. 1983~~ AT
	47	+From Resistance to Hyperconformity The emergence of silent majorities must be located within the entire
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	49	+AND
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	51	+chance that our passage towards implosion may also be violent and catastrophic.

EntryDate

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	1	+2017-01-21 19:57:38.202

Judge

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	1	+Eckert, Walton, Koh

Opponent

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	1	+Brentwood RY

ParentRound

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	1	+43

Round

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	1	+Doubles

Team

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	1	+Dougherty Valley Sayani Neg

Title

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	1	+JanFeb~-~-1nc~-~-Beautiful Implosions

Tournament

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	1	+HW