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-Humans are grounded in material conditions that create all thought – trying to abstract from material reality (i.e, not defending consequentialist turns) is another link to the K. |
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-Eagleton, Terry (Is a prominent British literary theorist, critic and public intellectual. He is currently Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University). Why Marx was right. Yale University Press, 2011 |
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-In this sense, Marx was more of an antiphilosopher than a philosopher. In |
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-can fall victim to the illusion that it is thought which creates reality. |
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-The affirmative’s legalistic approach to police violence brings us further away from recognizing the economic forces at work that makes police violence inevitable. Lane 7/21. |
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-Alycee Lane (Alycee J. Lane is a former professor who taught African American literature and culture at UC Santa Barbara.), 7-21-16 “Violence, Death and Our Neoliberal Police,” CounterPunch, http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/21/violence-death-and-our-neoliberal-police/ |
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-If what we are witnessing in these violent encounters with police is neoliberalism in action |
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-and training of police – that we absolutely have the power to change. |
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-Civil suits put an asking price on people’s suffering. |
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-Richard L. Abel, Prof of Law @ UCLA, ’81 (British Journal of Law and Society 8:1, “A Critique of American Tort Law,” jstor) |
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-Finally, tort law responds to intangible injury by extending that fundamental concept of capitalism |
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-the compensation system is working well if anything, too well. 116 |
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-Tort law commodifies suffering as loss of earning power – kills value to life. |
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-Richard L. Abel, Prof of Law @ UCLA, ’81 (British Journal of Law and Society 8:1, “A Critique of American Tort Law,” jstor) |
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-Capitalism also shapes the experience of injury. First (and this enumeration is not |
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-Commodification is the worst impact under Levinas – we treat the other as equivilant to currency, which denies its value and opens it to infinite violence. |
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-This turns the aff – police violence is a direct result of neoliberalism. A failure to recognize that makes violence inevitable. |
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-Lane 7/21 |
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-Alycee Lane (Alycee J. Lane is a former professor who taught African American literature and culture at UC Santa Barbara.), 7-21-16 “Violence, Death and Our Neoliberal Police,” CounterPunch, http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/21/violence-death-and-our-neoliberal-police/ |
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-If we examine through the prism of neoliberalism the killing of Philando Castile – that |
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-this was true as well for Officer Darren Wilson of Ferguson, Missouri. |
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-Lane outweighs the aff – we allow the other to be violently subjugated. |
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-Tort law and neolib’s commodification of life anonymizes suffering, which kills our ability to recognize the other. |
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-Slavoj Zizek and Glyn Daly, Conversations with Zizek, 2004 page 14-16. |
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-For Zizek it is imperative that we cut through this Gordian knot of postmodern protocol |
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-) social antagonisms and to absorb them within a culture of differential affirmation. |
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-The alternative is an embrace of class-consciousness as a method of critiquing neoliberalism’s grip on policing. |
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-Peter A. LaVenia PhD in Political Science from the University at Albany, SUNY. He is the Secretary of the NY State Green Party and manages Matt Funiciello’s campaign for Congress. JANUARY 16, 2015 “Police Behavior and Neoliberalism” http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/16/police-behavior-and-neoliberalism/ |
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-The cause of impotence on the part of elected officials even in the face of |
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-likely to see nothing but equivocation by local officials and big city mayors. |
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-The role of the judge is to be a critical analyst testing whether the underlying assumptions of the AFF are valid. This is a question of the whether the AFF scholarship is good – not the passage of the plan. |
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-Neoliberalism sustains itself by operating by propagating a narrow lens of what it means to be ‘political.’ We situate the judge as a critical educator who steps back to evaluate the frames through which we view policy first. Reps prior. |
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-(Corinne (Graduate Student. Studies Critical Theory, Legal Theory, and Law, has a JD), “NEOLIBERALISM AND THE CRISIS OF LEGAL THEORY”, Duke University, LAW AND CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS Vol. 77:71) |
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-RECOVERING LEGAL THEORY’S RELEVANCE? The lens of neoliberalism not only allows one to see |
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-they are in a world that constantly insists that there is no alternative. |