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	1	+The aff is just another instance on of the sovereign encroaching on life—the state maintains a monopoly on power and dictates who is and is not political.
	2	+Mick Smith 11 (Department of Philosophy and School of Environmental Studies , Queen's University , Kingston, Canada). “Against ecological sovereignty: Agamben, politics and globalization”. 23 Feb 2011. RC
	3	+Schmitt’s Political Theology (2005, p. 5) opens with his famous definition
	4	+AND
	5	+life’, that is, human existence stripped of its ethico-political possibilities
	6	+Second, they assume that politics can control the law. This fiction ignores that the sovereign controls it self with the power to create a state of exception clearing the way for genocide.
	7	+Anthony Downey 02. “Zones of Indistinction: Giorgio Agamben’s ‘Bare Life’ and the Politics of Aesthetics”. 2002. RC
	8	+“The ongoing politicisation of life today demands that a series of decisions be made
	9	+AND
	10	+committed there and whatever its denomination and specific topography. (HS 174)”
	11	+The state of exception opens up space for the worst atrocities imaginable—the state deems the human as non-human, clearing the way for genocide.
	12	+Jenny Edkins 2000 (Department of International Politics, University of Wales). “Sovereign Power, Zones of Indistinction, and the Camp”. 2000. RC
	13	+The camp is exemplary as a location of a zone of indistinction. Although in
	14	+AND
	15	+exception: the ex- clusion of both the sacred and the profane.
	16	+The alt is to prefer not to engage in the law. To “prefer not to” is a means of escaping the dependency of the law. It is not that we try to solve it through the use of another law or right, but rather we exert ourselves as independent of the law all together. This is the inoperativity of the law.
	17	+Jessica Whyte 09 (Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Social Analysis at Western Sydney University, Australia. She has published widely on theories of sovereignty and biopolitics, critical legal theory, critiques of human rights and contemporary continental philosophy. Her current research focuses on the politics of human rights and humanitarianism, and she is working on a book project on human rights and neoliberalism.). “‘I Would Prefer Not To’: Giorgio Agamben, Bartleby and the Potentiality of the Law”. Springer Science and Business, 2009. RC
	18	+What is the power of Bartleby’s phrase—‘I would prefer not to’—that
	19	+AND
	20	+a potentiality that is, most importantly, the potentiality of the law.
	21	+And, to “prefer not to” is a way of opening up space in the law by refusing to give an affirmation or negation of the law. We refuse to re-inscribe the narrative that the law can help us.
	22	+Jessica Whyte 09 (Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Social Analysis at Western Sydney University, Australia. She has published widely on theories of sovereignty and biopolitics, critical legal theory, critiques of human rights and contemporary continental philosophy. Her current research focuses on the politics of human rights and humanitarianism, and she is working on a book project on human rights and neoliberalism.). “‘I Would Prefer Not To’: Giorgio Agamben, Bartleby and the Potentiality of the Law”. Springer Science and Business, 2009. RC
	23	+Two key things are at stake in this attempt to assure the actuality of potentiality
	24	+AND
	25	+restoring it to contingency and enabling the forgotten to act on the present.

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	1	+Braden James

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	1	+Grapevine

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	1	+4

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	1	+Strake Jesuit Cook Neg

Title

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	1	+SEPTOCT - Agamben K

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	1	+Greenhill