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+The 1AC assumes a causal link between the emancipation of the black body and the Aff’s Performance. This is a problematic understanding of the semantics of death. The Violence is structural and can’t be articulated through performance. Trying to do so only reifies black death. |
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+Wilderson 09 Frank B III; Professor at UC-Irvine; GRAMMAR and GHOSTS: THE PERFORMATIVE LIMITS OF AFRICAN FREEDOM |
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+When a group …performance and emancipation. |
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+Politics that focus on exploitation (i.e. – the satiable demands of civil society’s junior partners) produce a narrative of loss followed by restoration. These are the contingent freedoms that replace the Black void with a positive Human value; within the world and not against it. What is needed is freedom from the human race, the world, Gratuitous Freedom that demand not that the Black be made living again, but to bring the living to death. |
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+Wilderson 10 Frank B., Prof of African American studies and drama @ UC Irvine, Red White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms |
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+As sites of political … of the picture. |
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+As debaters, we aren’t policymakers or political activists but simply pedagogues in intellectual discussion—the role of the ballot is to vote for the debater that offers the best liberation strategy for black bodies. The act of an unflinching paradigmatic analysis allows us to deny intellectual legitimacy to the compromises that radical elements have made because of an unwillingness to hold moderates feet to the fire predicated on an unflinching paradigmatic analysis. |
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+Wilderson 10 2010, Frank B. Wilderson is an Associate Professor of African-American Studies at UC Irvine and has a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, “Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms,” |
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+STRANGE AS it …, John Shai, and S'bu Zulu. |
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+The only ethical demand is one that calls for the end of the world itself—the affirmative represents a conflict within the paradigm of America but refuses to challenge the foundational antagonism that produces the violence that undergirds the that same paradigm |
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+Wilderson 10 2010, Frank B. Wilderson is an Associate Professor of African-American Studies at UC Irvine and has a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, “Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms,” |
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+Leaving aside for …and political theory that follows |