Tournament: Havard | Round: 8 | Opponent: idk | Judge: yeet
The ideology of capital and symbolic economy predetermine legitimate speech through powerful actor’s ability to project hegemonic speech without possibility of response. This is the death of communication; free speech is never real within a system of capital. Baudrillard 81:
Jean Baudrillard (Grande pute pour la sémiotique, Grumpy old French sociologist, The Matrix exists because of him – what a swagster), “For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign” Telos Press. Pgs. 169-170. https://monoskop.org/images/0/08/Baudrillard_Jean_For_a_critique_of_the_political_economy_of_the_sign_1981.pdf SF
The mass media... the social process. 

Their critique and reformation of the aesthetic politics of dress are only symptomatic of capital’s commodification of beauty through arbitrary social norms that demand consumption and destroy autonomy. Even if the 1AC changes our norms, the opportunity to dress with dignity is a privileged ideal defined by capital – this kills free speech and turns their ballot claims. Baudrillard 81:
Jean Baudrillard (Grande pute pour la sémiotique, Grumpy old French sociologist, The Matrix exists because of him – what a swagster), “For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign” Telos Press. Pgs. 31-32. https://monoskop.org/images/0/08/Baudrillard_Jean_For_a_critique_of_the_political_economy_of_the_sign_1981.pdf SF

The echo of... of their possessor. 

The alternative is the radical nihilistic challenge of my speech act. Our blind adherence to fiat and poor political representation as a community has drained debate of meaning. There is no connection between what we do here and the political; only the refusal to participate in the fiat game can bring us closer to meaning.
Baudrillard in 81:
Jean Baudrillard, “Simulacra and Simulation.” Published 1984, in English in 1994.
I am a nihilist... where seduction begins.

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The images of suffering they present are like a drug, used by the media and politicians to advance their ends. They present these images to you in exchange for the ballot for their own moralistic satisfaction, but this constant search for new catastrophes to “solve” can only end in domination and violence.
Baudrillard in 94
Jean Baudrillard (philosopher of symbolic swag), “The Illusion of the End” p. 66-71. 1994.

We have long ... as a species.

Tournament:  | Round: Finals | Opponent:  | Judge: 0
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The Constitution serves a social role by shaping the way we conceive of proper life through written law. Their legal approach limits the political imaginary, putting precedence over the struggle of the commons. Ollman 04:
Bertell Ollman (professor of politics at NYU; received his D.Phil. at Oxford University in 1967; has taught at the University of the West Indies and been a Visiting Professor at Oxford and Columbia Universities; Since 1970, he has given about 250 lectures on different aspects of Marxist theory in a dozen countries)
What still needs …never be understood.

The Constitution’s writing was undemocratic and made for economic elites – its emphasis on self-ownership as the basis of rights inscribes neoliberalism. Beard 13:
Charles Beard (Associate professor of politics at Columbia University), “An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States”. 1913. http://thenewschoolhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Beard_An_Economic_Interpretation_of_the_Consti.pdf SF
The movement for ..in their scope.

The alternative is the use of the commons as the social source of value. Carroll 10:
William Carroll (Founding director of the Social Justice Studies Program at the University of Victoria). “Crisis, movements, counter-hegemony: in search of the new.” Published November 2010. Accessed 12/25/14. http://interfacejournal.nuim.ie/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Interface-2-2-pp.168-198-Carroll.pdf SF
MST exemplifies a ..to decommodify labour.

Neoliberalism’s logic is reified in educational spaces; we must reclaim education so students can imagine radical solutions. Thus, the role of the ballot, as an academic pedestal, is to vote for whoever best interrogates neoliberalism. Giroux 15:
Henry A. Giroux (American and Canadian scholar and cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy)
If neoliberal others… locally and globally.