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+The 1AC is built on a fantasy of legal incorporation that aims to include people into the legal system. This creates a notion of personhood as property that ensures a necessary outside, a category of not-quite-humans. This produces the terms and conditions under which the prison industrial complex realizes itself now – who is a person enough to exist within the confines of the law, and who is criminal enough to lock away. Qualified immunity only does anything once the court recognizes you. |
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+What is needed is a disarticulation of the notion of the human through a desubjectifiying mode of abolition taking its lead from slave revolts and pirate colonies that reconstruct humanity through an affirmation of the liminal spaces of not-quite-humans. |
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+Weheliye 14 Alexander Weheliye, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University, 2014, “Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human,” |
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+We are in …subjugation are administered. |
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+This figures into the production of “Man” as racializing assemblage – blackness is positioned simultaneously inside and outside Man which creates the conditions for the emergence of the sociogenetic demarcation between human and not-quite-human – instead, we should foreground the deconstruction of Man as a category |
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+Weheliye 2 |
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+Wynter’s large-scale intellectual … than specific groups. |
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+The prison system reproduces itself through educational spaces like debate. Thus, the role of the ballot is to deconstruct the prison industrial complex. |
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+A compulsory deferral …of pedagogical audacity. |
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+We affirm Habeas Viscus, a relational assemblage which transforms the hieroglyphics of the flesh into a line of flight, a new type of sumptuous freedom which can interrupt racializing assemblages – whereas dialectically opposing the world of Man only naturalizes it, our affirmation instantiates new genres of humanity through modes like maroon abolitionism |
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+Weheliye 3 |
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+Because black cultures … apocatastasis of human genres. |
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+And, Carceral reform produces an affective investment in penalty – this preclude them from accessing “reformism good” offense because this affective attachment makes us come to desire the violent protection of the state |
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+Lamble 14 Sarah Lamble, “Queer Investments in Punishment” in Queer Necropolitics, pg. 163 |
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+Examining these queer … punitive sexual politics. |