Tournament: Contact Info | Round: 1 | Opponent: Everyone and No one | Judge: Kurt Cobain

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Tournament: Blue Key | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lake Highland MK | Judge: Erica Stickna

Contention 1 is Framing

Starts with the definitions, value, value criterion, and ROB.

Disaster consumerism means there is zero spillover from politics and explicit ignorance of solutions -~--causes political anesthesia

Recuber 11

 Timothy Recuber is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the Graduate Center of the City. University of New York. He has taught at Hunter College in Manhattan "CONSUMING CATASTROPHE: AUTHENTICITY AND EMOTION IN MASS-MEDIATED DISASTER" gradworks.umi.com/3477831.pdf

The emotional component...being taken on one’s behalf.
It’s not a question of whether or not the state can change; it’s a question of whether or not the state will change (it won’t).

Butler 04

 (Judith, Prof of Gender Studies, “Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence”, pg 40-41, SHR)
I condemn on several ethical...thereby making those features "other to" itself. 

Ignore their state good claims because the state shuts down critical thought

Do you want to be this sort of politician, opposed to difference in their very breath, or do you want to be a poet, open to all creative powers of action

Deleuze ’68.

 Difference and Repetition. Book by Gilles Deleuze. 1968. English Edition 1994 (Paul Patton) p. 51-53
This is what the philosophy...conceptions of the affirmation-negation relation.

Contention 2 is Rage

This 1NC has a performance from the following author:

Stryker 94

. Susan Stryker, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies Director of the Institute for LGBT Studies University of Arizona, “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix,” GLQ, 1994, p. 91

The notion of rights is dependent on the fantasy of law providing justice—to recognize antiqueer violence as a result of a larger cultural problem would render the law useless

Stanley 11.

 Eric, fellow in departments of Communication and Critical Gender Studies, “Near Life, Queer Death: Overkill and Ontological Capture,” 2011, pg. 7-8
The problem of privatizing violence is...and rights as the technology, of safety

Our 1NC is a performance of the violent anti-ethics of monstrosity. All theorizations of politics must begin and end with the inaccessibility of Being for trans people. In response, we bask in the self-imposed exclusion from Being, the bodily disjunction of the trans person which ruptures the normative “human” life.

Stryker 94.

 Susan Stryker, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies Director of the Institute for LGBT Studies University of Arizona, “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix,” GLQ, 1994, p. 85-86
I will say this as bluntly as I know how…sutures in yourself.

The 1AC is nothing but a strategic pivot in a global and total war of gender conformity. A re-figuration of gender is necessary before any productive engagement with the law is possible. Violence against trans and queer people is the driving force of law.

Stanley 11

. Eric, fellow in departments of Communication and Critical Gender Studies, “Near Life, Queer Death: Overkill and Ontological Capture,” 2011, pg. 13-15
If for Agamben…what form might redress take, if any at all? 

Ethics are impossible—all attempts to make a better world are premised on the abjection and violence of life for queer, trans, and black people. You should prefer structural violence impacts because only such structural analysis can engage the unethical strings of violence that suture together modernity.

Stanley 11.

 Eric, fellow in departments of Communication and Critical Gender Studies, “Near Life, Queer Death: Overkill and Ontological Capture,” 2011, pg. 1-2
What if it feels…objects can and do resist.”

Thus the alternative is transgender rage. A redirection of violence done to trans people can provide a way to overcome the cultural stigma around non-normative subjects. This monstrous fury allows for an identity free of gender.

Stryker 94.

 Susan, Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage” GLQ, pp. 248-251
A formal disjunction seems…struggle to transform your world.

There is only one debate to be had—that of the cis-normativity of the affirmative vs. Becoming. Normative perceptions of matter classify it as static. Our performance of rage shatters the immutability of Nature. Identity and reality are refigured, regenerating what never was but might yet have been. This move to life affirming monstrosity taps into the flux of the universe. Monstrosity is reformative—the decomposition of the greater cosmic forces allows for endless possibilities.

Barad 15

. Karen Barad, Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, “TRANS*/MATTER/REALITIES AND QUEER POLITICAL IMAGININGS,” GLQ, 2015, p. 410-416
I find no shame . . . in acknowledging…and transmaterialities-to-come.