Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lynbrook AP | Judge: Arjun Tambe

The role of the ballot is to accelerate reality to the point of its own disappearance

Free speech is now an empty signifier, no longer denoting anything of substance. The affirmative's attempts at knowability and meaning through speech within the cemetery walls of the Western university pave over very real 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
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interpretation and every connotation, no longer denoting anyone or anything."~56~

The affirmative's strategies of so-called resistance against neoliberalism are doomed to fail. 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
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(Baudrillard 2009a: 33-56; 2010: 35-40).

The affirmative's will to represent falls into the cycle of a self-defeating transparency. All attempts at transparency fundamentally act in congruence with the representational violence of geopolitics that attempts to render the whole world transparent.  This is the violence of geopolitics, 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)
Such an expectation about the ontological "location" of the objects, subjects,
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immune systems and our capacities to resist" (2003; our italics).

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 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
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imperative today is precisely the overproduction and regeneration of meaning and of speech. 

Why defend meaning, when one can embrace mysterious non-meaning? Reality is too obvious to be real. Meaning is always unhappy, but we can evacuate meaning from language. Just accelerate. Go quicker than reality. Trap reality in the trap of its own making to make it finally disappear. The alternative is to vote negative to 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 (
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, corrosive of meaning, generative of an erotic perception of reality's turmoil.