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| GBX | Octas | Opponent: Millard North GB | Judge: Lonnam, Maddie, Zhou 1AC- psychoanalytic jurisprudence |
| Minneapple | 4 | Opponent: Bettendorf RN | Judge: Pandacham 1nc-dng |
| Voices | 1 | Opponent: Loyola AB | Judge: Kumar 1nc wilderson |
| Voices | 6 | Opponent: Harker RS | Judge: kaya 1nc-warming desal cp |
| Voices | 6 | Opponent: Harker RS | Judge: Kaya 1nc- warming desal space col cp |
| Voices | 6 | Opponent: Harker RS | Judge: Kaya 1nc- warming desal space col cp |
| Voices | 6 | Opponent: Harker RS | Judge: Kaya 1nc- warming space col desal cp |
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1nc- WildersonTournament: Voices | Round: 1 | Opponent: Loyola AB | Judge: Kumar Settler, slave, savage. Our demand: return Turtle Island to the savage. Repair the demolished subjectivity of the slave.Frank B. Wilderson 2010 ~Frank B., killed apartheid officials in South Africa, nuff said, Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, pages 1-5~ All antagonisms derive from Western notions of humanity – slavery set the stage for other all forms of contingent violence like patriarchy, capitalism and heteronormativityWilderson 10 ~2010, Frank B. Wilderson is an Associate Professor of African-American Studies at UC Irvine and has a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, "Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms,"~ Demands made to the government can be granted as a shield to the rest of their atrocities. What happens when their demands are met? This type of plastic memory hurts their end-goal—cx proves, their evidence is about social movements pressuring the governmentDylan Rodriguez, 2010 (Professor at UCR of Latin American Studies, "The Terms of Engagement: Warfare, White Locality, and Abolition", http://crs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/36/1/151 Black positionality renders their strategy of legal reformism incoherent—blackness is the site of absolute dereliction and blackness can only be the total disconfiguration of civil societyWilderson 2007 ~Frank B., "The Prison Slave as Hegemony's Silent Scandal" in Warfare in the American Homeland ed. Joy James, p. 31-2~ ====Anti blackness outweighs and turns the case – it is the interection of objective and subjective vertigo==== Weigh the K first opposing racism is the precondition to moral coherenceAlbert Memmi, 2000, Racism, p. 159-161 | 12/4/16 |
1nc-- DnG shermans songTournament: Minneapple | Round: 4 | Opponent: Bettendorf RN | Judge: Pandacham 1ncThere are 4 dangers inherent in the 1ac-Fear, Clarity, Power, and Abolition, their revolutionary lines of flight become reordered in the logic of microfascismDeleuze and Guattari 80 The 1ac is a capitulation to the logic of the control society, institutions may change, but in name alone. There is no need for fear or hope however, but simply a need to look for new weaponsDeleuze 90 ~Gilles Deleuze, "Postscript on Control Societies," L'autre Journal 1, May 1990~
That independently results in the formulation of hierarchical structures, microfascism constructs vertical relationships between individualsDeleuze and Guattari 80 We're key to politicsNewman '9 (Saul Newman, Professor of Political Theory@ ULondon, "Politics in the Age of Control", Deleuze and New Technology, ed. Mark Poster, pg 115-120,) There is no impact to social deathLand 92 In response to a control society, we call for minoritarian war machines against the control assemblage through becomingNewman '9 (Saul Newman, Professor of Political Theory@ ULondon, "Politics in the Age of Control", Deleuze and New Technology, ed. Mark Poster, pg 115-120,) This becomes a D-rule- The ROB is to vote for the debater that best recognizes the world as an assemblage of desires.Hegarty and Ericson 00 Vote neg: the 1ac was the latest iteration in the soporific story of debate: reactionary confrontation with difference—reactive forces and negation abound. The aff proposes a curriculum of dialectical laboring against difference. We say revel in difference; instead of laboring at the walls of a 1ac house, put down floorboards and dance with us.Deleuze 62. Gilles, Nietzsche and Philosophy. p. 8-10 mkultra | 12/4/16 |
1nc-- armament CPTournament: Voices | Round: 6 | Opponent: Harker RS | Judge: Kaya Next is the CPText: The United States Federal Government should-ratify the draft Treaty on Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space and of the Threat or Use of Force against Outer Space Objects,-fully fund its unilateral efforts to colonize Mars,-propose to cooperate with Japan and Russia.Last two planks solve colonization – NRC is in the context of general cooperationFirst plank solves space militarizationJaramillo 9 (Cesar Jaramillo, graduated with a BA and an MA in political science and global governance, 12/1/09, "In Defence of the PPWT Treaty: Toward a Space Weapons Ban" Space Security, Volume 30, Issue 4, http://ploughshares.ca/pl_publications/in-defence-of-the-ppwt-treaty-toward-a-space-weapons-ban/, JSO) | 12/4/16 |
1nc-- psychoanalytic violenceTournament: GBX | Round: Octas | Opponent: Millard North GB | Judge: Lonnam, Maddie, Zhou The 1AC conceives of power in a purely negative, legalistic form that misunderstands the operation of powerFink 13 ~(Bruce, practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst, member of the psychoanalytic institute Jacques Lacan created, the École de la Cause freudienne in Paris, obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII, Professor of Psychology from 1993 to 2013 at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, affiliated member of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center) "Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key" google books~ AT This retrogressive vision of power allows biopolitics and disciplinary power to operate beneath the level of the law, unseen and impervious to criticismFoucault 78 ~(Michel, philosopher) A History of Sexuality, Volume 1: The Deployment of Sexuality. Translated 1978 by Robert Hurley~ AT The impact is fascismO'Farrell 10 ~(Clare, senior lecturer in the School of Cultural and Language Studies in Education, Queensland Univ of Technology) "Foucault and the disciplinary society 2" Refracted Inputs blog, Sep 1~ AT The alternative is a reinterpretation of psychoanalytic theory through the lense of soverign violence- this corrects for the paradoxes of their ethicKornbluh 12 ~(Anna, Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago) "ENJOYING LAW: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND SOVEREIGN BODIES" JCRT 12.1 Spring 2012 17~ AT | 11/21/16 |
1nc-- warming DATournament: Voices | Round: 6 | Opponent: Harker RS | Judge: kaya 1NC – Warming DANuclear power is critical to stop catastrophic warmingWaldman 15 - Susanne, PhD in Risk Communication at Carleton University ("Why we Need Nuclear Power to Save the Environment" http://energyforhumanity.org/climate-energy/need-nuclear-power-save-environment/) RMT There's an unquestionable scientific consensus about warming.Nuccitelli 16 — Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Writer for the Guardian, Environmental Scientist at Tetra Tech—a private environmental consulting firm, holds an M.A. in Physics from the University of California-Davis and a B.A. in Astrophysics from the University of California-Berkeley, 2016 ("It's settled: 90–100 of climate experts agree on human-caused global warming," Climate Consensus – The 97—a Guardian blog about climate change, April 13th, Available Online at https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/apr/13/its-settled-90100-of-climate-experts-agree-on-human-caused-global-warming, Accessed 07-15-2016) Global warming definitively causes extinctionSharp and Kennedy 14 – (Associate Professor Robert (Bob) A. Sharp is the UAE National Defense College Associate Dean for Academic Programs and College Quality Assurance Advisor. He previously served as Assistant Professor of Strategic Security Studies at the College of International Security Affairs (CISA) in the U.S. National Defense University (NDU), Washington D.C. and then as Associate Professor at the Near East South Asia (NESA) Center for Strategic Studies, collocated with NDU. Most recently at NESA, he focused on security sector reform in Yemen and Lebanon, and also supported regional security engagement events into Afghanistan, Turkey, Egypt, Palestine and Qatar; Edward Kennedy is a renewable energy and climate change specialist who has worked for the World Bank and the Spanish Electric Utility ENDESA on carbon policy and markets; 8/22/14, "Climate Change and Implications for National Security," International Policy Digest, http://intpolicydigest.org/2014/08/22/climate-change-implications-national-security/, Accessed 7/11/16, HWilson) Our planet is 4.5 billion years old. | 12/4/16 |
1nc--Black MatrixTournament: Mineapple | Round: 5 | Opponent: Millard North TQ | Judge: Rebecca Kuang The presence of the slave makes ethics impossible. All actions within the matrix of anti-blackness are parasitic on the existence of blackness as the over-determination of incoherence, which precipitates anti-black freedom as a means of policing and disavowing black suffering.Wilderson 10 /Frank Wilderson, Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of US Antagonisms/ Emancipatory discourses are white flights of fancy on the vehicle of black fungibility; blackness prefigures modernity which means blackness is a prior question.Wilderson 10 /Frank B., Red, White, and Black 20-21/ It's a question of intellectual frameworks − is your investment in the state productive or not- impossible demands centered around spaces outside of civil society is our refusal to sustain the framework of the neo-carceral state.It's unethical to think of the state as a site of productive demands − even if the affirmative is a good in the abstract you paper over the other historical injuries that ought to make us question − why do we keep investing in the state??Our alternative is the ONLY productive form of intellectual engagement that serves as an analytical tool to dismantle the prison regime- every other approach makes it inevitableRodriguez 2010 ~Dylan (professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies @ University of California Riverside), "The Disorientation of the Teaching Act: Abolition as Pedagogical Position", RADICAL TEACHER NUMBER 88, pg. 12-15, AX~ Impossible pedagogical demands precede any "radical politics"- the alternative is to begin from the black matrix.The black matrix describes the position of the black female's body as dispossessed of gender identity to civil society − our position begins understanding anti-blackness through racial rape and the intimate violence and forced re-productivity against black femalesJames 2013 ~Joy (professor of humanities @ Williams College), "Afrarealism and the Black Matrix: Maroon Philosophy at Democracy's Border", The Black Scholar, Vol. 43, No. 4, Special Issue: Role of Black Philosophy (Winter 2013), pp. 124-131, this card is all of those pages, AX~ | 12/4/16 |
1nc--PsychoanalysisTournament: Mineapple | Round: 2 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit CP VL | Judge: You The affs resistance to qualified immunity represents a violent endorsement of positivism and a resistance to indeterminacy- the coherentist demand on modernity papers over the disparate temporality inherent to qualified immunity—politicizing a fundamental anxiety to the unknownMeyer 15 ~Linda ross, Associate Professor of Law, Quinnipiac College. B.A., 1984, University of Kansas; J.D., 1987, Ph.D., 1991, University of California, Berkeley., published in NYU law review~ CS State sovereignty serves as a universal lens through which to view the world and conduct political life – it constitutes a fantasy attempting to avoid confronting uncertainty, even to the point of violent imposition.Edkins, professor at Aberystwyth 2002 ~Jenny "The Subject of the Political" Sovereignty and Subjectivity~ Conceiving of Law as a Form of Ethics Fails—It Maintains Metaphysics At the Cost of a Higher Goal, Making the True Ethical Act Less PossibleSteven D. Smith, Professor, Notre Dame Law School, ARTICLE: Believing Like a Lawyer, Boston College Law Review, September, 1999, p.lexis The aff's political project is impossible—the plan stands in for a future world, but there is always some obstacle to our political visions which will met with violence and ultimately risks extinction—examining the structure of desire and enjoyment rather than projecting better political worlds is the only means of channeling the death drive away from catastropheMcGowan 2013 —- Associate Professor at the University of Vermont (Todd, Enjoying What We Don't Have, Project Muse)trepka The alternative is an ethic of desire—The act of demanding government change is doomed to failure because situating our demands with the state creates an addiction to refusal that maintains the worst elements of our political structure—their framework arguments are only coherent within this perverse commitment to the status quo, and all of the purported benefits to their model of debate require the intervention of our alternative firstLundberg 12 —- Professor and Communication Strategies Consultant (Christian, Lacan in Public, Published by The University of Alabama Press, Project Muse) CS The impact is endless war —- the refusal to use psychoanalysis means we ignore the collective unconscious of the public and the leaders which allows manipulation of values to justify irrational invasions —- our internal anxieties about failing to solve the aff are projected onto the other, creating them as an enemy to be exterminated and legitimating nuclear conflictJacobsen 2013 —- University of Chicago (Kurt, "Why Freud matters: Psychoanalysis and international relations revisited", International Relations, SagePub)CS | 12/4/16 |
1nc--Space Col DATournament: Voices | Round: 6 | Opponent: Harker RS | Judge: Kaya 1Nuclear power k2 space col- only feasible source of generating thrustZolfagharifard 16 , Ellie, writer for the daily mail(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3499441/Nasa-wants-use-nuclear-rockets-Mars-Space-agency-claims-technique-effective-way-reaching-red-planet.html) Nuclear's key – cuts down travel times and ensures the missions succeedsRichard Gray 15 ~(Richard Gray For Mailonline, ) Nasa is developing new NUCLEAR rockets to send astronauts into space, Mail Online 2-3-2015~ AT Every second we don't colonize ends 1029 future human lives – outweighs literally any other impactBostrom3— Nick Bostrom, Nick Bostrom is a Swedish philosopher at the University of Oxford known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, superintelligence risks, the reversal test, and consequentialism. ("Astronomical Waste: The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development", Utilitas, 2003, Available Online at http://www.nickbostrom.com/astronomical/waste.html, accessed 7-15-2016, JSO) The impact is extinctionFox News 10 (Fox News, "Abandon Earth or Face Extinction, Stephen Hawking Warns – Again", http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/08/09/abandon-earth-face-extinction-warns-stephen-hawking/, 6/9/10) SV Intermittency and launch costs means no solarHsu 09 ( Jeremy, writer for astrobiology magazine http://www.space.com/7617-controversy-flares-space-based-solar-power-plans.html) | 12/4/16 |
1nc--desal DATournament: Voices | Round: 6 | Opponent: Harker RS | Judge: Kaya Nuclear power is key to stable desalinization – demand is high and risingIAEA 15 ~— widely known as the world's "Atoms for Peace" organization within the United Nations family. Set up in 1957 as the world's centre for cooperation in the nuclear field, the Agency works with its Member States and multiple partners worldwide to promote the safe, secure and peaceful use of nuclear technologies, "New Technologies for Seawater Desalination Using Nuclear Energy," IEAE TecDoc Series, 2015~ Only solution to water shortagesIAEA 15 ~— widely known as the world's "Atoms for Peace" organization within the United Nations family. Set up in 1957 as the world's centre for cooperation in the nuclear field, the Agency works with its Member States and multiple partners worldwide to promote the safe, secure and peaceful use of nuclear technologies, "New Technologies for Seawater Desalination Using Nuclear Energy," IEAE TecDoc Series, 2015~ Water crises cause escalating global conflictRasmussen 11 ~(Erik, CEO, Monday Morning; Founder, Green Growth Leaders) "Prepare for the Next Conflict: Water Wars" HuffPo 4/12~ AT | 12/4/16 |
1nc--hegTournament: CPS | Round: 2 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart | Judge: JJ Their fear of "aggression" causes us to fight defensive wars, which causes more casualties and failureRobert Tracinski, Received his undergraduate degree in Philosophy from the University of Chicago and studied with the Objectivist Graduate Center and Editorial Director of the Ayn Rand Institute, "The Prophets of Defeatism," Ayn Rand Institute, March 16, 2002, http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=1491, UK: Fisher AND the war will end in failure. On their terms, it would. Resolve is the THE determiner of American hegemony – it’s key to deterrence and conflict effectiveness – anything else just prolongs violenceEyago ‘5 7 / 8 / 05 Political Commentary – Sound Politics Reporter ~http://www.soundpolitics.com/archives/004721.html, Sound Commentary on Current Events in Seattle, Puget Sound and Washington State~ AND our public leaders. What they do for political gain is completely unconscionable. That’s key to solve great power war and existential governance crisesBrooks, Ikenberry, and Wohlforth ’13 (Stephen, Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, William C. Wohlforth is the Daniel Webster Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College "Don’t Come Home America: The Case Against Retrenchment," International Security, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Winter 2012/13), pp. 7–51) AND that of potential rivals is by many measures growing rather than shrinking. 85 TURN: War engenders worse forms of oppression and suppression of rightsGoldstein 1—Prof PoliSci @ American University, Joshua, War and Gender , P. 412 | 12/17/16 |
1nc--performativityTournament: Mineapple | Round: Doubles | Opponent: WDM SC | Judge: Pandacham, Theis, McNeil There exists a spectre haunting the 1AC: the ghosts of the black body have come to roost. The message of the 1AC is fantastic but it's a question of how do we best address issues of inequityThinking queerness as an identity, performance or set of practices obscures the prior ontological queerness of blackness, which exists as the absolute index of otherness over and against which humanity and modernity vouchsafe their value and coherence. This failure to theorize gender and sexuality from the underside of the human is a failure to interrogate the very template of deviance that haunts queerness, ensuring anti-black homonormative identification.Jackson 2011 /Zakiyyah, "Waking Nightmares," GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2-3~ It is unethical to be free in the presence of the slave. All actions within the matrix of anti-blackness are parasitic on the existence of blackness as the overdetermination of incoherence, which precipitates anti-black freedom as a means of policing and disavowing black suffering.Wilderson 10 /Frank Wilderson, Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of US Antagonisms/ Emancipatory discourses are white flights of fancy on the vehicle of black fungibility; blackness prefigures modernity which means blackness is a prior question.Wilderson 10 /Frank B., Red, White, and Black 20-21/ The black body is the map of gratuitous violence which disarticulates their notions of resistance and freedom ¬– the black is always already marked with criminality – contingent interactions do not alter black ontology.Wilderson 10 /Frank B., The Prison Slave as Hegemony's (Silent) Scandal, April 13th, 2002/ Slavery does not die because it has never lived. The anti-black grammar of suffering of the slave trade continues the crisis of language in which all actions and thoughts are contextualized within the slave trade. Their race-neutral intellectual project ignores the singularity of the black experience, appropriating black suffering as the template for non-black greivances, misrecognizing the afterlife of slavery.Sexton 10 /Jared Sexton 'The Curtain of the Sky': An Introduction 2010 Critical Sociology/ There is no progress from the slave; freedom is an illusion created by the shackles of civil society – we must burn the 1ac to the ground—start from the 1NC's callout, it's a more productive strategyFarley 5 /Anthony, "Perfecting Slavery", http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1028andcontext=lsfp/ | 12/4/16 |
1nc--semiotics pikTournament: GBX | Round: Octas | Opponent: Millard North GB | Judge: Lonnam, Maddie, Zhou Expressing the unconscious through the use of decipherable semiotics is the pitfall of expression – language and communication seeks to codify the uncodifiable, to know the unknowable, removing fantasy and mystery from the equationBaudrillard and Hildreth, 81 ~Jean and Lee, "Beyond The Unconscious: The Symbolic," Discourse journal, vol. 3, spring edition, pg. 79-81, MW~ The Impact is a bastaridzation of language and eternal violence—the discursive framing of the unconscious dooms us to become spectators and participants in the reality show of violenceBaudrillard 96 ~Jean, March 4, "Disneyworld Company"~ The alternative is the disjunction of language – language will never be a reference to the real. Instead, it should be used to further distance from the real, and return it more disjointed and confused than it is now.Baudrillard 95 ~Jean, April 19, "Radical Thought"~ | 11/21/16 |
JanFeb-1nc-kaepplerTournament: CPS | Round: 2 | Opponent: immaculate heart | Judge: JJ Focusing on the underpinings and societal norms of violence like isolating militarism ignores the real subjective violence. It creates a tradeoff with interpersonal violent thoughts and decisions that make violence permissible in the first place- Their Wingenbach evidence is damningSusanne Kappeler, Freelance Writer, A History of Violence, 1995, pg 1-2 CSViolence is recognized beings or things. Their idea of ethical social policy as a foundation for stopping violence ignores the interpersonal element of violent behavior.Kappeler, 1995Susanne Kappeler, Freelance Writer, A History of Violence, 1995, pg 8 CS AND the range of competence of persons which are the topic of this book. We control the root cause and turn the case-To ignore the agency of those who decide to engage in violence only allows that violence to go on unabetted. Collective blaming and victimizing hijacks any effective political resistance to violence.Kappeler, 1995Susanne Kappeler, Freelance Writer, A History of Violence, 1995, pg 3 CSTo overlook this decision, however, is itself a political decision, serving particular interests. In the first instance it serves to exonerate the perpetrators, ...which we are to assume to be a zone of non-violence. The alternative is to use the personal decision to engage in violence as a starting point for political conversations about violence.We must move away from the use of state power and social control to fix the circumstances that cause violent behavior. Liberation from mass political violence requires placing the decision to engage in violence first. | 1/12/17 |
JanFeb--1nc--baudrillardTournament: CPS | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Sunset AB | Judge: Sur, damerdiji, leigh Every protest and revolutionary project in the 1ac has already been trapped, enmeshed in the code, confined in the social fabric that conscribes it. The aff’s naïve belief that we just need more speech to challenge "the system" is a dangerous illusion, one that results in false hope, futility, and ultimately nihilism as it repeatedly fails to break free of the repression it targets.Andrew Robinson 13 ~(Andrew Robinson, political theorist and activist based in the UK. His bookandnbsp;Power, Resistance and Conflict in the Contemporary World: Social Movements, Networks and Hierarchies (co-authored with Athina Karatzogianni) was published in Sep 2009 by Routledge, ) Jean Baudrillard and Activism: A critique, Ceasefire Magazine 2-7-2013~ AT AND for an Event has become such a popular theme in contemporary radical theory. Lets pull some specific lines from the affTheir Maloney Ev: "We should be able to participate in the free market of ideas."Their Khan Evidence also indicates the desirability of open dialogue as a means to challenge imperialismTheir Hudson evidence indicates that free speech is key to coalition building and social movements that challenge imperialismIn the age of simulation, the system is so saturated with meaning, that even the social becomes meaningless. The mass comes to represent nothing, unable to speak or be spoken for. Thousands act while millions are sequestered by their profound indifference. This fission of the social produces harmonic violence. Politics becomes an empty simulacrum, a form of powerless power capable of ruling us only while we buy into its insidious illusion that it can still speak for the faceless mass. The aff's project of free speech is based on the precisely this illusion - they are obsessed with producing more meaning, mobilizing the masses with information, activism, and protest. This project is frustrated by the fundamental antagonism between the meaningless mass and the system's desperate drive to synthesize meaning. Reject the aff's call for protest and action; instead of injecting the mass with more meaning, more information you should let the system's inability to produce meaning overtake the system itself in a beautiful implosion. The aff sustains the system's power; vote neg to watch it burn.Baudrillard 83 ~Jean, IN THE SHADOW OF THE SILENT MAJORITIES ••• OR THE END OF THE SOCIAL. 1983~ AT AND every chance that our passage towards implosion may also be violent and catastrophic. Consumer capitalism simulates liberation to enforce social control – even radical politics does nothing to challenge the symbolic underpinnings of the system, which means zero aff solvencyPawlett 10 ~(William Pawlett, senior lecturer in media, communications and cultural studies at University of Wolverhampton) "The Baudrillard Dictionary" under "Code" Edinburgh University Press, 2010~ AT AND reality’: the complete and final replacement for the world as symbolic form. In an attempt to rid society of the otherness, society has reduced the duality of the world to binary oppositions that fail to capture the unknown of the radically dual other. Good and Evil have been distilled by modern morality to reduce Evil to the accidental, that which can be controlled and eradicated. This allows for the violence of the axis of good. The diversion of Good and Evil has given Evil the autonomy to change the rules of the game. Strategies of sudden, ironic reversions through symbolic exchange have the potential to bring back Evil and radical otherness and disrupt the ‘hell of the same’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, LD) AND , and in events or exchanges between people caught up in the cycle. This means zero aff solvency – exploitation is inevitable even if the aff liberates speech since they make people’s lives net worseValue to life also outweighs the aff – the lives the aff saves are meaningless because the aff erases the value in themSecond, necronomy – as the foundations of capitalism erode, war and violence are used to respondBifo 11 ~(Franco Berardi, Italian Marxist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism) "After the Future" 09/20/11~ AND and the hope. Death is the best future that capitalism may secure. Third, a consumption-driven system causes every impactSmith 10 ~(Richard G. Smith, Associate Professor of Geography at Swansea university) "The Baudrillard Dictionary" under "Code" Edinburgh University Press, 2010~ AT AND (SC, 98) – in the name of science and progress. We do not have an alternative, because to ask for an alternative would be to play into the system’s hands, playing in the language of empty political signs without referents. Instead, we offer a singularity: symbolically challenge the system by rejecting the gift of free speech. The system’s power requires the unilateral giving of these gifts, which the alternative reverses.Pawlette 7 ~(William Pawlett,senior lecturer in media, communications and cultural studies at University of Wolverhampton) "The 'Break' with Marxism"~ AT AND to accept, the 'gifts' of self, career, status and information. | 1/12/17 |
JanFeb--1nc--bifoTournament: CPS | Round: 2 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart | Judge: JJ The affs grounding in the desirability of free speech is a paranoiac take all mindset that is grounded endless violence and the expansion of democracyMurphy 05 ~Dr. Paula Murphy (Mater Dei Institute of Education, Dublin City University, Ireland) The Simulacra of Global Conflict Volume 5, Number 2 (July, 2008).~ AT AND postmodern modes of representation, belying the ostensible divide between the two groups. As democracy spreads and repression is removed, the forces that created the oppression do not go away, rather they infect the whole of democracy. The more democracy spreads, the less value it has—the specific link is the Giroux card at the end, they say the absence of the aff compromises democracyBaudrillard in 94 ~Jean, "The Illusion of the End" p. 39-44~ AND might be the case with financial speculation, these same values may crash. That project of liberal subject building is a nihilistic violent enterprise that destroys value to life and causes endless warfareEvans and Reid 13 ~Brad, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Bristole, and Julian, "Dangerously exposed: the life and death of the resilient subject," Resilience, 2013, Vol. 1 (2), pp. 83-98~ AND that contemporarily permeate our ways of living devoid of any meaning as such. The alternative is exhaustion- by refusing the gifts the technocracy grants us we obligate the system to suicideBifo 11 – Whit Whitmore’s pen name (Franco "Bifo" Berardi, After the Future pg 106-108) AND new concatenation, where collective intelligence is only subjected to the common good. | 1/12/17 |
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