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	1	+====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.====
	2	+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
	3	+Baudrillard also seems to have a sharp sense of the strategic issues facing resistance today
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	5	+AND
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	7	+for an Event has become such a popular theme in contemporary radical theory.
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	11	+====Lets pull some specific lines from the aff====
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	15	+====Their Maloney Ev: "We should be able to participate in the free market of ideas."====
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	19	+====Their Khan Evidence also indicates the desirability of open dialogue as a means to challenge imperialism====
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	23	+====Their Hudson evidence indicates that free speech is key to coalition building and social movements that challenge imperialism====
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	27	+====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 harmonic 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. ====
	28	+**Baudrillard 83** ~~Jean, IN THE SHADOW OF THE SILENT MAJORITIES ••• OR THE END OF THE SOCIAL. 1983~~ AT
	29	+There is no longer any polarity between the one and the other in the mass
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	31	+AND
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	33	+every chance that our passage towards implosion may also be violent and catastrophic.
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	37	+====Consumer capitalism simulates liberation to enforce social control – even radical politics does nothing to challenge the symbolic underpinnings of the system, which means zero aff solvency====
	38	+**Pawlett 10** ~~(William Pawlett, senior lecturer in media, communications and cultural studies at University of Wolverhampton) "The Baudrillard Dictionary" under "Code" Edinburgh University Press, 2010~~ AT
	39	+The concept of the code (le code, la grille) is an important
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	41	+AND
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	43	+reality’: the complete and final replacement for the world as symbolic form.
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	47	+====In an attempt to rid society of the otherness, society has reduced the duality of the world to binary oppositions that fail to capture the unknown of the radically dual other. Good and Evil have been distilled by modern morality to reduce Evil to the accidental, that which can be controlled and eradicated. This allows for the violence of the axis of good. The diversion of Good and Evil has given Evil the autonomy to change the rules of the game. Strategies of sudden, ironic reversions through symbolic exchange have the potential to bring back Evil and radical otherness and disrupt the ‘hell of the same’====
	48	+Pawlett 14 (William Pawlett, a professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wolverhampton, International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Baudrillard and War, "Society at War With Itself," Volume 11, Number 2, May 2014, http://www2.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol-11'2/v11-2-pawlett.html, LD)
	49	+**III. Duality **There is a kind of progressive break with the world, the
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	51	+AND
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	53	+, and in events or exchanges between people caught up in the cycle.
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	57	+====This means zero aff solvency – exploitation is inevitable even if the aff liberates speech since they make people’s lives net worse====
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	61	+====Value to life also outweighs the aff – the lives the aff saves are meaningless because the aff erases the value in them====
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	65	+====Second, necronomy – as the foundations of capitalism erode, war and violence are used to respond====
	66	+**Bifo 11** ~~(Franco Berardi, Italian Marxist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism) "After the Future" 09/20/11~~
	67	+Thanks to digitalization and immaterialization of the production process, the economic nomos of private
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	69	+AND
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	71	+and the hope. Death is the best future that capitalism may secure.
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	75	+====Third, a consumption-driven system causes every impact====
	76	+**Smith 10 **~~(Richard G. Smith, Associate Professor of Geography at Swansea university) "The Baudrillard Dictionary" under "Code" Edinburgh University Press, 2010~~ AT
	77	+According to Baudrillard, a ‘perverse’ logic (SC, 97) drives consumer
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	79	+AND
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	81	+(SC, 98) – in the name of science and progress.
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	85	+====We do not have an alternative, because to ask for an alternative would be to play into the system’s hands, playing in the language of empty political signs without referents. Instead, we offer a singularity: symbolically challenge the system by rejecting the gift of free speech. The system’s power requires the unilateral giving of these gifts, which the alternative reverses.====
	86	+**Pawlette 7** ~~(William Pawlett,senior lecturer in media, communications and cultural studies at University of Wolverhampton) "The 'Break' with Marxism"~~ AT
	87	+For Baudrillard, the system is so 'indifferent' it is scarcely meaningful to call it
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	89	+AND
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	91	+to accept, the 'gifts' of self, career, status and information.

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Judge

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	1	+Sur, damerdiji, leigh

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	1	+Sunset AB

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	1	+17

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	1	+Doubles

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	1	+Dougherty Valley Sayani Neg

Title

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	1	+1nc~-~-baudrillard

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	1	+CPS