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+====Global capital has entered into the era of cognitive labor – an affective process of subjectivization that transforms their intellectual production into the fuel for neoliberal economics. Even if the content of their interrogation is radical it ignores the form of debate as a semiotic economy which precludes its potential==== |
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+**Bifo '7** (Franco Berardi, Professor of Social History of Communication at the Academia di belle Arti in Milan, and Founder of A/traverse, Technology and Knowledge in a Universe of Indetermination, SubStance ~~#112, Vol. 36 no. 1, trans. Giuseppina Mecchia, pp. 68-72) |
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+When we talk about the mental nature of the productive process we mean that the |
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+and causing a truly maddening paralysis ~~destruction~~ of cognition and affectivity. |
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+====Their activism participates in the circulation of semiotics, global capital is not threatened by their pleas for change but instead vampyrically siphon it as a way of shifting to more insidious forms of subjecitvization—only a strategy of withdrawal and collapse can change the form and content and capital==== |
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+**Bifo '11** (Franco Berardi, Professor of Social History and Communication at the Academia di belle Arti in Milan and Founder of A/Traverse, After the Future, ed. Genesko26Thoburn, AKPress, p. 141-47) |
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+Activism has generally conceived the process of subjectivation in terms of resistance. In his |
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+Like psychoanalytic therapy it is rather to be considered as an unending process. |
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+====The affirmative’s radical knowledge will only be funneled into the increasing legitimacy of the contemporary university – that makes regimes of social death inevitable==== |
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+**Occupied UC Berkeley 10** (anonymous graduate student in philosophy, "The University, Social Death and the Inside Joke," http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20100220181610620) |
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+Universities may serve as progressive sites of inquiry in some cases, yet this does |
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+interpretation and every connotation, no longer denoting anyone or anything."~~56~~ |
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+====This means the affirmative is complicit with the productive regime of capitalism – the accumulation of knowledges to stave off the collapse of effective economics. This life bringing project forms the foundation for all forms of exclusion and ensures endless warfare.==== |
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+Robinson 12 (Andrew, Political Theorist, Activist Based in the UK and research fellow affiliated to the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ), University of Nottingham, "Jean Baudrillard: The Rise of Capitalism and the Exclusion of Death", March 30, http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk(in-theory-baudrillard-2) |
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+Symbolic exchange – or rather, its suppression – plays a central role in the |
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+as long as ‘his’ life or death serves the reproduction of domination. |
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+====The alternative is exhaustion — ¬¬the neural reframing of existence away from accelerationist evolution and political will in favor of rhythmic engagement – this is necessary to overcome the automatization of social life and to reconstruct empathetic understanding and is a prerequisite to any understanding of engagement policy. ==== |
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+**Bifo 15 **~~Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Professor of Social History of Communication at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Milan, "Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide", Verso 2015, pg. 216-222~~ |
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+While info-technologies are provoking an acceleration of the rhythm of information and experience |
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+new dimension for human evolution, beyond the limited horizon of economic growth. |
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+====The knowledge production of the 1ac has already been cycled through and processed by the Academy so their aff is non unique. The debate then becomes a question of why present the aff in a space of debate. So if we prove there is any chance of offense to their presentation you vote neg. Means you can vote neg to vote aff in order to reject the affs placement within academia, but still endorse its content. ==== |
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+====Vote negative as a strategy to uncover the banal nature of the university — the insurrection is here and we refuse to believe that debate will make the university a better place. Of course our role as debaters necessarily implicates us, but that is precisely the point—we must occupy spaces like debate to expose the futility of reform. ==== |
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+**COC 10**, Communiqués from Occupied California. "Introduction." Anti-Capital Projects. 2-15-2010. http://anticapitalprojects.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/communiques-from-occupied-california-introduction/ |
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+The radical or anti-reformist position within the movement has often insisted upon a |
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+of political determination, through the police lines meant to enforce this barrier. |