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+The plan is inseparable from the police state – you should view the 1AC with extreme skepticism because the plan is merely a benevolent move to make the police state seem a little bit more benign, which only creates the conditions for surveillance to become much more insidious as individuals internalize policing mechanisms themselves. |
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+Johnson 14 (Andrew PhD student in Political Science at the Uni- versity of California at Santa Barbara “Foucault: Critical Theory of the Police in a Neoliberal Age” Theoria, Issue 141, Vol. 61, No. 4 (December 2014): 5-29 doi:10.3167/th.2014.6114102) |
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+Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon |
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+are at work everywhere. |
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+The affirmative’s defense of ‘civil litigation’ as a basis for resolving conflicts is problematic – declaration and protection of civil rights establish the sovereignty of a citizen over others, reinforcing juridical, sovereign and biopolitical power, while accepting the jurisdiction of the court to confine one’s level of autonomy. |
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+Agamben 95 Giorgio, an Italian continental philosopher best known for his work investigating the concepts of the state of exception, form-of-life and homo sacer. The concept of biopolitics informs many of his writings, Homer Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, pg 76-78 |
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+Declarations of rights must therefore |
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+man, a new sacred man. |
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+That biopolitical project of the liberal subject building is a nihilistic, violent enterprise that destroys value to life and allows endless, violent warfare in the name of protecting the population — turns case. |
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+Kelly 3 Mark, Clinical Senior Lecturer, Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Neonatology, Westmead Clinical School, “Racism, Nationalism and Biopolitics: Foucault’s Society Must Be Defended” Sydney.edu, http://sydney.edu.au/contretemps/4september2004/Kelly.pdf |
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+The United States seems |
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+‘those who threaten usʼ. |
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+The alternative is to reject the affirmative in favor of raising a radical consciousness – such politics of dissent channels progressive politics towards massive collective struggle – that flips try or die for challenging corporate technocracy. |
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+Giroux 14 Henry A., Global TV Network Chair Professor at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University, “Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State,” Truthout, 10 February 2014, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21656-totalitarian-paranoia-in-the-post-orwellian-surveillance-state |
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+Under the rubric of battling |
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+heaped on Manning and Snowden. |
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+No permutations – they prefigured the debate to occur on liberal terms – if we can’t contest ideological framing then alternative orientations are impossible – debate spaces are key to actualize pure critiques into a truly revolutionary intervention to their continuation of liberal legalism. |
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+Knox 12 Robert, PhD Candidate, London School of Economics and Political Science, paper presented at the Fourth Annual Conference of the Toronto Group for the Study of International, Transnational and Comparative Law and the Towards a Radical International Law workshop, “Strategy and Tactics” |
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+This warning is of great |
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+old liberal legalism.53 |
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+The role of the ballot is to vote for the advocacy that best challenges negative disciplinary practices – criticism is the ultimate responsibility of intellectuals, necessary to ensure that reforms and revolutions don’t replicate the problems they seek to address. |
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+Foucault 71 Michel Foucault, Professor, College de France, “Human Nature: Justice Versus Power,” Noam Chomsky Debates with Michel Foucault, International Philosophers Project, 1971. Available from the World Wide Web at: http://www.chomsky.info/debates/1971xxxx.htm. |
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+"It seems to me that the real political task |
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+an apparent revolutionary process." |