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+God is dead but the hyperreal is alive and kicking. Our forms of information and communication are composed only of signifiers that have forgotten what they signify, creating a hyperreality that implodes the social and neutralizes any meaning in messages and medium. The explosive idealism of the 1AC prevents the coming implosion of hyperreality by giving meaning to the meaningless – only embracing the implosion can collapse the simulation. |
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+Baudrillard 95 (Jean, “Simulacra and Simulation: The Implosion of Meaning in the Media”, pp. 80-83) |
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+Information devours its own content AND lies in wait for us. |
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+This desaturated and unintelligible flow of information creates the hypermarket, a postmodern capitalism that replaces the assembly line with the montage factory where all functions are disintegrated and subjects are trapped in an absolutely totalizing discipline hidden under a façade of inclusion and objectivity. The university is specifically a site of this homogenization of bodies |
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+Baudrillard 95 (Jean, “Simulacra and Simulation: Hypermarket and Hypercommodity”, pp. 76-78) |
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+The hypermarket cannot be separated AND , culture) whose referential is lost. |
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+Thus memes are good but only because they're meaningless. The aff’s claim of how they give rise to subjugated voices subverts their meaninglessness and acts on a radical explosive takedown as opposed to an implosive one which turns the aff performance. Links specifically to Melchior and Steele and all of part 2. The alternative is to embrace the 1NC’s radical indifference via our speech act – I no longer claim my subjecthood but embrace hyperconformism to the demands of the system |
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+Baudrillard 95 (Jean, “Simulacra and Simulation: The Implosion of Meaning in the Media”, pp. 84-86) |
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+What is essential today is AND of meaning and of speech. |