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+The 1AC’s orientation towards futurity is a political stance in structural and ontological opposition to the queer – attempts at political assimilation merely displace queerness onto others. Only oppositional resistance to the enslavement of the future can contest infinite anti-queer violence |
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+Edelman 4 Lee Edelman, Professor of English Tufts University, “NO FUTURE: Queer Theory and the Death Drive” Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2004 |
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+By denying our … future stop here. |
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+Futurism maintains itself by constantly creating new threats that risk destroying it in order to uphold the system itself – this creates real violence against the queer body in the name of saving humanity |
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+Edelman 04 |
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+On October 12…that sinthomosexuality names. |
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+The alternative is to embrace queer negativity in opposition to futurity and of the Child as the emblem of politics – only this act can contest infinite anti-queer violence which exceeds the calculability of the political |
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+To make such …lived as history. |