Tournament: Greenhill Round Robin | Round: 2 | Opponent: Jason Yang | Judge: Harwood
Reza Negarestani 1 (SOLAR INFERNO AND THE EARTHBOUND ABYSS) ~Iranian philosopher, author, and artist~ A History of Solar Bondage According to the energetic models of psychology (Freud,
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already a corpse, has been overridden by cosmic climates qua irruptive contingencie.
====Exorbitant energy is the host body of capitalism – globalization is only possible because of trade contingent upon the consumption and use of exorbitant energy. In turn, capitalism is in a perpetual state of meltdown, ripping apart political groupings, hijacking state apparatuses, and reaping chaos upon planetary resources for sustenance.====
Negarestani 2 11 (Reza "Drafting the Inhuman: Conjectures on Capitalism and Organic Necrocracy" The Speculative Turn, 2011) As Nick Land has elaborated in The Thirst for Annihilation as well as his essays
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, as everything stable is progressively liquidat- ed in the storm.7
Negarestani 3 Reza, Iranian Philosopher and Writer, 13 "Death as a Perversion: Openness and Germinal Death", Dark Trajectories: Politics of the Outside
The word 'death' has the same mix of referential richness and conceptual poverty as the
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is the Mother of Abominations, of all contaminations (base-participations).
Necrophilia obviously engenders negativity – we seek rational, dialectical, reasons to not embrace the alternative because it is, simply put, just too scary. The alternative ethic, which the judge should adorn, is one of non-dialectical negativity – this is an approach that views the world through the lens of the irrational in an attempt to not fall prey to the inclusive ethics of capitalism. —- Without such an approach, all other methods will fail and be re-appropriated by the system we kritik.
Negarestani 4 Reza, Iranian philosopher, author, and artist, "Drafting the Inhuman: Conjectures on Capitalism and Organic Necrocracy", The Speculative Turn11
The equivocal conception of the void not only brings about the possibility of negativity but
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vulnerable to the manipulations of capitalism but also are seriously impeded.