Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Canyon Crest KL | Judge: Michael Harris

Framework: This debate is about whether or not the disappearance of the world per the AC is good. This is a prior question to all other arguments and frameworks because it determines the structure of meaning and signification.

The modern university has become a site of absolute knowability in which "progressive" speech acts only serve to legitimize very real conditions of pain and death. The only ethical act left is pure semiotic insurrection that makes claims neither towards coherency nor objectivity.

AnarchistNews 10 ("The University, Social Death, and the Inside Joke," 2-18-10, http://anarchistnews.org/content/university-social-death-and-inside-joke)  
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~

In the face of this cemetery university, I advocate for Public colleges and universities in the United States to not restrict any constitutionally protected speech as an incoherent scrambling of the coded university.

Allow free speech and push the world further into its own disappearance, forcing the violence of representation to attack itself. The violence of the new world order is that of the radical elimination of the other. Is there hope left, who knows?

Artrip and Debrix 14. Ryan E. Artrip, Doctoral Student, ASPECT, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and Francois Debrix, professor of political science at Virginia Polytechnical Institute, "The Digital Fog of War: Baudrillard and the Violence of Representation," Volume 11, Number 2 (May, 2014)
Such an expectation about the ontological "location" of the objects, subjects,
AND
immune systems and our capacities to resist" (2003; our italics).

The attempt to make language politically correct is the prophylactic laundering of bodies like dirty money – this creates socially destructive cognitive AIDS

Baudrillard 96 (Jean, 1996, The Perfect Crime, p. 131-141)
Atonement, expiation, laundering, prophylaxis, promotion and rehabilitation — it is difficult
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Behind the condescending interest there always lurks the voracious countenance of the vampire. 

More information is self-defeating and fails to change reality. Trying to use facts doesn't work. Attempts at subjectivity-based change are complicit with the overproduction of meaning. Instead I take the form of a pure object, realizing that the subject has already been defeated.

Baudrillard 81 (Jean, "Simulacra and Simulations," pg. 79-81)
 We live in a world where there is more and more information, and
AND
imperative today is precisely the overproduction and regeneration of meaning and of speech. 

Let us not have debate become mummified. There is no stable order that exists without us portraying one onto a world filled with chaos. Instead engage in a strong-willed interpretation of the world that doesn't turn it into facts and statistics.

Grimm 77 (Ruediger Hermann, art historian and Goethe scholar, 1977, Nietzsche's Theory of Knowledge, ed. M. Montinari, W. Miiller-Lauter and H. Wenzel, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, pg. 30-33)
Western logic and metaphysics have been traditionally founded upon a handful of principles which were
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alles Werden als ein Feststellen von Gradund Kraftverhältnissen, als ein Kampf … 50 

This is not a revolutionary act. This is not a resistance movement. The system already criticizes itself, making academic critique a redundant action that only helps give a sense of reality to the system. The critique of neoliberalism is integral to 21^st century society, which renders any means of traditional revolution a reproduction of the simulacra.

Pawlett 14 (William Pawlett, a professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wolverhampton, International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Baudrillard and War, "Society at War With Itself," Volume 11, Number 2, May 2014, http://www2.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol-11_2/v11-2-pawlett.html)
Complicity is a particularly slippery term. In the 1980s Baudrillard's thought, mistakenly assumed
AND
(Baudrillard 2009a: 33-56; 2010: 35-40).

Tournament: USC | Round: 3 | Opponent: North Hollywood JS | Judge: John Scoggin
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Welcome to USC! Here you can partake in whatever radical project you want to. But all attempts at knowability and meaning through speech within the cemetery walls of the Western university pave over material conditions of pain and death required to make this space possible. The only ethical option is pure semiotic insurrection that makes claims neither towards coherency nor objectivity, scrambling the syntactic code of the cemetery university.

AnarchistNews 10 ("The University, Social Death, and the Inside Joke," 2-18-10, http://anarchistnews.org/content/university-social-death-and-inside-joke)  
Universities may serve as progressive sites of inquiry in some cases, yet this does
AND
, no longer denoting anyone or anything."~56~

 

In the face of this, Public colleges and universities in the United States should not restrict any constitutionally protected speech to provide a medium for an incoherent semiotic insurrection that scrambles coded modes of information exchange.

Allow free speech and push the world further into its own disappearance, forcing the violence of representation to attack itself. The violence of the new world order is that of the radical elimination of the other.

Artrip and Debrix 14. Ryan E. Artrip, Doctoral Student, ASPECT, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and Francois Debrix, professor of political science at Virginia Polytechnical Institute, "The Digital Fog of War: Baudrillard and the Violence of Representation," Volume 11, Number 2 (May, 2014)
The story that needs to be told is thus not about the undoubtedly deplorable "
AND
immune systems and our capacities to resist" (2003; our italics).

The role of the ballot in this space is to decide the ethicality of debate's mode of information exchange and will to meaning.

More information is self-defeating and fails to change reality. Trying to use facts doesn't work. Attempts at subjectivity-based change are complicit with the overproduction of meaning. Instead I take the form of a pure object, realizing that the subject has already been defeated.

Baudrillard 81 (Jean, "Simulacra and Simulations," pg. 79-81)
 We live in a world where there is more and more information, and
AND
imperative today is precisely the overproduction and regeneration of meaning and of speech. 

Let us not have debate become mummified. There is no stable order that exists without us portraying one onto a world filled with chaos. Instead engage in a strong-willed interpretation of the world that doesn't turn it into facts and statistics.

Grimm 77 (Ruediger Hermann, art historian and Goethe scholar, 1977, Nietzsche's Theory of Knowledge, ed. M. Montinari, W. Miiller-Lauter and H. Wenzel, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, pg. 30-33)
Western logic and metaphysics have been traditionally founded upon a handful of principles which were
AND
alles Werden als ein Feststellen von Gradund Kraftverhältnissen, als ein Kampf … 50 

'And what then would you do . . . if you were

the ruler of the world for one day?'

'I suppose I would have no choice

but to abolish reality!'

'I would like to know

how you would set about it!’

Vote affirmative – and bet on… radical illusion!

Baudrillard 96 (Jean, 1996, The Perfect Crime, pg. 95-105)
Say: This is real, the world is real, the real exists (I have met it) -- no one laughs. Say: This is a simulacrum
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, corrosive of meaning, generative of an erotic perception of reality's turmoil. 

Resistance is bad and reproduces the simulacra.

Pawlett 14 (William Pawlett, a professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wolverhampton, International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Baudrillard and War, "Society at War With Itself," Volume 11, Number 2, May 2014, http://www2.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol-11_2/v11-2-pawlett.html)
Complicity is a particularly slippery term. In the 1980s Baudrillard's thought, mistakenly assumed
AND
(Baudrillard 2009a: 33-56; 2010: 35-40).