Tournament: - | Round: 1 | Opponent: - | Judge: - Interpretation: Debaters may only read positions that are disclosed before the debate on their NDCA wiki page under their own name with full citations, tags, and first three/last three words.
Interpretation: Debaters must disclose previously run constructive positions – all cases, off cases and theory arguments – at least 30 minutes before the round on the NDCA wiki or when asked. This means providing proper citations for all evidence including first three and last three words and tags as well as advocacy, standard, and interpretation texts.
9/18/16
1 - K - Abbas
Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Greenhill SK | Judge: Devane Murphy, Demarcus Powell, Nigel Ward The aff is a sentimental politics which promises that empathetic identification with survivors of police violence will reshape the world and actualize reoriented politics. The aff imagines that bringing the suffering prisoner’s body into the debate space becomes a prophylactic from our violence toward others and state violence toward those. You’re not in the movement, a ballot won’t help it, and they don’t want you involved. Their politicization of this violence relies on a racist survivor economy in which black, brown and red bodies are vampirically drained of life, made to dance for a infinitely deferred freedom, all while academics extract jouissance and advancement from their objectified identities. Abbas 10 (Asma, Professor and Division Head in Social Studies, Political Science, Philosophy at the Liebowitz Center for International Studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Liberalism and Human Suffering: Materialist Reflections on Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pg. Pg. 183 - 187) What distinguishes these critical texts are the startling ways they struggle to encounter the Uncle AND in some way, fully expressed by the overpresnece of the stereotypical image.
The aff’s presentation of suffering creates a marketplace of trauma, transforming wounds into a commodity for western consumption. Their politics of mourning exists by turning the other into a dead object through which we can construct a sentimental economy of pleasure and pacification. The aff is empathetic identification as deathmaking which ensures the smooth functioning of imperialism. Their fantasy of change through investment in the law shields criticism and guises violence. Abbas 10 (Asma, Professor and Division Head in Social Studies, Political Science, Philosophy at the Liebowitz Center for International Studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Liberalism and Human Suffering: Materialist Reflections on Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pg. Pg. 183 - 187) Ravaged wages and ravaged bodies saturate the global marketplace in which the United States seeks AND proleptic shields, as ethically uncontestable legitimating devices for sustaining the hegemonic field.
The alternative is to reject the liberal politics of suffering forwarded by the 1AC and question the 1AC’s motivation for trying to solve these instances of suffering. Abbas 10 (Asma, Professor and Division Head in Social Studies, Political Science, Philosophy at the Liebowitz Center for International Studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Liberalism and Human Suffering: Materialist Reflections on Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pg. Pg. 183 - 187) What would it mean, as Louis puts it to the Rabbi, to “ AND locating but also shamelessly arbitrate how the wounded can make their suffering matter.
12/17/16
1 - K - Black Quiet
Tournament: Bronx | Round: 3 | Opponent: Stuyvesant KF | Judge: Bob Overing Academia is a pollution of the affirmative project—an inoculation and re-scripting of the very terms of contestation such that nothing is left but the continued propagation of social death OUCB ‘9 (Occupied “The Necrosocial – Civic Life, Social Death, and the University of California,” November 2009, Craccum Magazine – University of Auckland Student Magazine. Iss. 4, 2012. http://craccum.ausa.auckland.ac.nz/?p=286) m leap Yes, very much a cemetery. Only here there are no dirges, no AND . We need, we desire occupations. We are an antagonistic dead.
The aff is curriculum – the 1AC’s strategy is premised upon utilizing knowledge as a telos which runs parallel to settler colonialism – they mystify the structuring foundation for the modern university: the walling off of indigenous bodies from civil society Tuck and Gaztambide-Fernandez ’13. (Eve Tuck – professor of educational foundations and coordinator of Native American Studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz, and RUBÉN A. GAZTAMBIDE-FERNÁNDEZ, “Curriculum, Replacement, and Settler Futurity,” Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2013, p. 72-89) Natty Bumppo, not savage, and no longer European, is positioned to claim AND been sidelined and reappropriated in ways that reinscribe settler colonialism and settler futurity.
The alternative is to reject the affirmative’s performance of resistance and embrace the black quiet. QUASHIE 12 asst. Prof of Afro-American studies @ Smith College 2k12Kevin Everod-co editor of New Bones: “The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance of Black Culture” pp. 3-9 This book explores what a concept of quiet could mean to how we think about AND . It is already there, if one is looking to understand it.
Their public call of resistance is a performative double turn warranting rejection QUASHIE 09 asst. Prof of Afro-American studies @ Smith College 2k9 Kevin Everod- co-editor of New Bones: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Writers in America; The Trouble With Publicness: Toward a Theory of Black Quiet; AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW, Vol. 43 No. 2/3 (Summer/Fall 2009); http://www.jstor.org/stable/41328610?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents As a consequence of this historical significance of public expressiveness, resistance becomes the dominant AND a metaphor capable of noticing the beauty and intimacy of Smith and Carlos.
The affirmative’s speech act forecloses the possibility of black quiet QUASHIE 9 asst. Prof of Afro-American studies @ Smith College 2k9 Kevin Everod- co-editor of New Bones: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Writers in America; The Trouble With Publicness: Toward a Theory of Black Quiet; AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW, Vol. 43 No. 2/3 (Summer/Fall 2009); http://www.jstor.org/stable/41328610?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents To explore fully the relationship between black culture and publicness requires a brief consideration of AND fall outside the aesthetic that publicness has either made, or made possible.
12/17/16
1 - K - Blackness
Tournament: Princeton | Round: Octas | Opponent: Bronx ZP | Judge: Christian Quiroz, Jorman Antigua, Kathy Wang The 1AC’s understanding of what it means to be black is overly simplistic and fails to include certain experiences within its discussion. This means your narrative only counts in you fit into the 1AC’s model of blackness. This otherizes bodies that don’t fit into their definition and replicates the harms of antiblackness. Basu 12, Moni (CNN Digital reporter) December 9 “Black in America: It's not just about the color of your skin” CNN http://inamerica.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/09/black-in-america-its-not-just-about-the-color-of-your-skin/ SHSAM What is black? Race. Culture. Consciousness. History. Heritage. A AND says. Ultimately, she believes environment plays a big role in identity.
This outweighs turns the case – a flawed understanding of oppression prevents successful anti-racism movements and severely limits acknowledgement of other forms of exclusion. Perea 97, University of Florida law professor, 1997 Juan, California Law Review, "The Black/White Binary Paradigm of Race," 85 Calif. L. Rev. 1213, l/n, accessed 2-21-10, mss One might object that I am distorting history by suggesting that slavery and the experience AND is so frequently missing from the texts that structure our thinking about race.
Reject the 1AC – representations shape our social and political structures and rejection is key to resolving unequal power relations between social groups. Jackson ‘5 (Richard Jackson is Lecturer in International Politics at The University of Manchester, “Language Power and Politics: Critical Discourse Analysis and the War on Terrorism”, 49th Parallel Journal of North American Studies, Spring 2005) http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk/back/issue15/jackson1.htm The methodological approach I have employed to examine the official language of the ‘war AND president to senior ambassadors, as well as texts from the entire period.
12/17/16
1 - K - Colonialism
Tournament: Apple Valley RR | Round: 1 | Opponent: WDM Valley TG | Judge: Mitali Mathur, Kathy Want Speaking from an abstract, “zero-point” perspective is one rooted in Western philosophies that attempt to conceal and hide ethnic, racial, gendered, and sexual epistemic locations through a universalizing knowledge that leads to domination and hierarchy Grosfoguel 11 (Ramon, Associate Professor Ethnic Studies Department, Chicano/Latino Studies) "Decolonizing Post-Colonial Studies and Paradigms of Political Economy: Transmodernity, Decolonial Thinking, and Global Coloniality." TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World 1, no. 1, 4-6 SHSAM The first point achieving a universal consciousness, and to dismiss non-Western knowledge AND the European “ego conquistus” (“I conquer, therefore I am”). All aspects of life infected by the colonial virus—coloniality generates a permanent state of exception that is the root cause of the death ethics of war and underwrites a hellish existence where death, murder, war, rape, and racism are normalized Maldonado-Torres Nelson, associate professor of comparative literature at Rutgers, ‘8 Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity, p. 237-8 DDI13 In this work I have attempted to make explicit the subtle complicities between dominant epistemological AND and the source of many of its pathologies, crises, and evils. Internal moral standards differ from culture to culture—the aff is a Western attempt to dictate a view of human rights on other countries Gerhold K. Becker 95, Professor, Centre for APplied Ethics Hong Kong Baptist University, "Asian and Western Ethics: Some Remarks on a Productive TEnsion," Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 1995, http://eubios.info/EJ52/EJ52C.htm. It is, of course, here neither possible nor necessary to recall all the AND , it might be doubtful whether such a defensive strategy can indeed succeed. The alternative is to unlearn colonization—this requires a profound recentering of our worldview. Methodologies are key—unless indigenous rights are the foundation of our movement, colonial violence will continue to be replicated. Walia 12 (Harsha, South Asian activist and writer based in Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories. “Moving Beyond a Politics of Solidarity Towards a Practice of Decolonization”, 2012)Miro Decolonization is as much a process as a goal. It requires a profound re AND be accommodated within other struggles; it demands solidarity on its own terms. The role of the judge is to act as a critical educator combating oppression—while obviously signing the ballot won’t make coloniality disappear, voting for strategies to combat oppression in this round makes us better activists in the future. Giroux 13 (Henry, American 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, “Public Intellectuals Against the Neoliberal University,” 29 October 2013, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/19654-public-intellectuals-against-the-neoliberal-university) Increasingly, as universities are shaped by an audit culture, the call to be AND with others, and transform, when necessary, the world around them. And discussions of an ‘other’ thought system independently challenges colonial epistemologies. Walsh 07 (Catherine, “Shifting the Geopolitic of Critical Knowledge,” Cultural Studies, volume: 21, pg. 232, MCJC) SHSAM To speak of an ‘other’ critical thought then is to give credence to ongoing AND , a thinking typically associated with the Left and white-mestizo intellectuals.
12/17/16
1 - K - Philosophy
Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: 4 | Opponent: Oakwood AW | Judge: Chetan Hertzig Arrogantly tying responsibility to some external purpose is playing god and creates violence Zupancic 2k (Alenka, Alenka Zupančič, Ph.D., is a Lacanian philosopher and social theorist, based as a full-time researcher in the philosophy department of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. “Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan”, p. 96-7) SHSAM “Another problem still remains, however: the question of the possibility of ( AND as something that is `essentially a by-product' of our actions.
A phantasmic framing leaves us trapped in a tragic quest to reclaim our happiness that necessitates the denial of pleasure and true freedom. The utopian vision of the fantasy will always be unobtainable. Zizek 08, Slavoj (white shirt wearing mouth breather), "THE PLAGUE OF FANTASIES", Verso, 2008 cnqzu.com/library/Economics/marxian20economics/Zizek,20Slavoj-The20Plague20of20Fantasies.pdf, p. 43-47 SHSAM Desire emerges when drive gets caught in the cobweb of Law/prohibition, in AND in the very agency of the law which prohibits the access to enjoyment.
My alternative - traverse the fantasy in the context of the resolution by embracing the empty gesture that explicit law represents when it conflicts with the spirit of the law. The perm is impossible as the phantasmic framing underpinning the AC fundamentally disavows any notion of responsibility for subjects. Zizek 08, Slavoj (white shirt wearing mouth breather), "THE PLAGUE OF FANTASIES", Verso, 2008 cnqzu.com/library/Economics/marxian20economics/Zizek,20Slavoj-The20Plague20of20Fantasies.pdf, p. 38-40 SHSAM Or - to put it another way - the paradoxical role of unwritten rules is AND closed circular palpitation which finds satisfaction in endlessly repeating the same failed gesture.
This allows us to question the ways in which the unconscious structures our manifestations of desire through our analytic approach allows the formulation of true political praxis. Instead of seeking enjoyment through the other, we must start with internal evaluations
The first ethical imperative is uniquely the domain of psychoanalysis – the K then controls the internal link to the AC’s framing as without the analysis, knowledge is impossible. The ROTJ is to vote for the debater that has the best psychoanalytic methodology that can properly understand the nature of human-constructed reality. Kesel 09, Marc de (Associate professor in philosophy at Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada. His fields of research are Public Ethics, Continental Philosophy, Political Theory, Holocaust Studies, Religion Studies and Freudo-Lacanian Theory), "Eros and Ethics Reading Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VII", UNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature, 2009 State University of New York, p. 49 SHSAM In the fi rst lesson of the seminar, Lacan says that the moral dimension AND at the base of all of this lies an ethical imperative for Lacan.
Any moral stance that doesn’t take into account desire will inevitably fail due to its fantasmic framing of the real. Porttikivi 7/31/2011 Janne Porttikivi is a translator and independent researcher, based in Helsinki. He has published articles on psychoanalysis, literature and philosophy; “What’s so funny about Infinite Justice?,” Law and Evil: Philosophy, Politics, Psychoanalysis, pgs 212-214 SHSAM The idea of ethics is simple and revolutionary, it means a clear- cut AND empirical domain, everything which gives pleasure or makes the subject happy.77
12/17/16
1 - Theory - Advocate Accuracy
Tournament: Apple Valley RR | Round: 4 | Opponent: Apple Valley JB | Judge: Nicole Nave, Paul Zhou A Interpretation: The affirmative must defend the actor the solvency advocate specifies. B Violation: Their solvency advocate specifies all circuits and nowhere mentions the Supreme Court. Auner 16 their advocate, Thomas. “For The Protection of Society’s Most Vulnerable, The ADA Should Apply To Arrests.” Los Angeles Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review. 2016. http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/llr/vol49/iss1/10 SHSAM Excessive force claims stemming from the Fourth Amendment and section 1983 of the Civil Rights AND incentivize proper police training and provide uniform federal protections for the mentally ill. C Vote Neg: 1 – Predictability 2 – Academic dishonesty
Evidence distortion violates intellectual integrity which is a voter that comes first. Torson 13 Adam Torson (debate coach) “Debate and the Virtue of Intellectual Integrity” Vbriefly March 25th 2013 http://vbriefly.com/2013/03/25/20133debate-and-the-virtue-of-intellectual-integrity-by-adam-torson/ JW Intellectual integrity denotes a commitment to the honest pursuit of truth through openness to evidence AND as a very strange outcome in any debate event worthy of the name. 2. Kills scholarship D Framing: Competing interps
Actor specificity-key to the text of the resolution which is the basis for all burdens-the resolution is a question of government action for which there is no act/omission distinction. Sunstein Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermuele, “Is Capital Punishment Morally Required? The Relevance of Life‐Life Tradeoffs,” Chicago Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper No. 85 (March 2005), p. 17. The most fundamental point is that unlike individuals, governments always and necessarily face a AND policy instruments that does not adequately or fully discourage it.
If there’s no act/omission-life comes first since its instrumental in pursuing all other values so means based frameworks collapse to the aff. Impacts: A. Morality by very nature is a guide to action, it has to provide a normative structure that generates prohibitions or obligations on action for individual agents or else it would be meaningless. Generic deflationary arguments have no impact, since the government always has to act, so on a substantive level, skepticism and permissibility are excluded. B. No links indicts of the standard- policymakers act in cases of uncertainty without full knowledge of every consequence or implication in the universe but are always obligated to act. Desirability and pain and pleasure are irrelevant since life comes first.
2. Moral uncertainty means we should preserve life to find ethical truth in the future. Bostrom Nick Bostrom, 2001 prof of Philosophy, Oxford University Journal of Evolution and Technology, Vol. 9, March 2002. First version: 2001 March, JStor These reflections on moral uncertainty suggests an alternative, complementary way of AND to increase the probability that the future will contain a lot of value.
12/17/16
ND - DA - Court Backfire
Tournament: Princeton | Round: 4 | Opponent: Lexington NG | Judge: Davis-Marks, Isis Limiting immunity backfires; courts will constrict constitutional rights to equilibrate. Fallon 11, Richard H. (Ralph S. Tyler, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School), “Asking the Right Questions About Officer Immunity”, 80 Fordham L. Rev. 479 (2011). https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/11222828/Fordham.pdf?sequence=1 My first goal in this Essay will be to refute the assumption that official immunity AND best overall bundle of rights and correspondingly calibrated remedies within our constitutional system.
12/17/16
ND - K - Zizek
Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Hawken AS | Judge: Chad Infante The aff misses the forest for tress by assuming that police violence can be addressed by bringing it under the control of law – in fact, the law is the apparatus legitimizing police violence. Simon Behrman 11 (Simon Behrman, ) Police killings and the law – International Socialism, 1-4-2011 LADI Ever since the late 1970s some on the left have declared that Britain is either AND , judges would be sent into the affected areas to dispense summary justice.
A phantasmic framing leaves us trapped in a tragic quest to reclaim our happiness that necessitates the denial of pleasure and true freedom. The utopian vision of the fantasy will always be unobtainable. Zizek 08, Slavoj (white shirt wearing mouth breather), "THE PLAGUE OF FANTASIES", Verso, 2008 cnqzu.com/library/Economics/marxian20economics/Zizek,20Slavoj-The20Plague20of20Fantasies.pdf, p. 43-47 SHSAM Desire emerges when drive gets caught in the cobweb of Law/prohibition, in AND in the very agency of the law which prohibits the access to enjoyment.
My alternative - traverse the fantasy in the context of the resolution by embracing the empty gejjfjjfjfjfjsture that explicit law represents when it conflicts with the spirit of the law. The perm is impossible as the phantasmic framing underpinning the AC fundamentally disavows any notion of responsibility for subjects. Zizek 08, Slavoj (white shirt wearing mouth breather), "THE PLAGUE OF FANTASIES", Verso, 2008 cnqzu.com/library/Economics/marxian20economics/Zizek,20Slavoj-The20Plague20of20Fantasies.pdf, p. 38-40 SHSAM Or - to put it another way - the paradoxical role of unwritten rules is AND closed circular palpitation which finds satisfaction in endlessly repeating the same failed gesture.
This allows us to question the ways in which the unconscious structures our manifestations of desire through our analytic approach allows the formulation of true political praxis. Instead of seeking enjoyment through the other, we must start with internal evaluations
The first ethical imperative is uniquely the domain of psychoanalysis – the K then controls the internal link to the AC’s framing as without the analysis, knowledge is impossible. The ROTJ is to vote for the debater that has the best psychoanalytic methodology that can properly understand the nature of human-constructed reality. Kesel 09, Marc de (Associate professor in philosophy at Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada. His fields of research are Public Ethics, Continental Philosophy, Political Theory, Holocaust Studies, Religion Studies and Freudo-Lacanian Theory), "Eros and Ethics Reading Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VII", UNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature, 2009 State University of New York, p. 49 SHSAM In the fi rst lesson of the seminar, Lacan says that the moral dimension AND at the base of all of this lies an ethical imperative for Lacan.
12/17/16
ND - K - Zizek v2
Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: 6 | Opponent: Collegiate DM | Judge: Christian Quiroz Radical shifts away from the institution on inscribe their movement into the institution they critique in the first place. Dolar ‘6 (Mladen, Advising Researcher in theory at the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, A Voice and Nothing More, pp. 176-179) SHSAM But at the same time she wants her status as exception to be legally sanctioned AND power of the gap turned out to accommodate the continuity all too well.
Particularized demands for change, no matter how radical, are performed against the backdrop of the neoliberal-democratic order and are tolerated as long as they fail to fundamentally change hegemonic ideology. Zizek Slavoj, professor of philosophy at the university of Ljubljana, 2001, “Repeating Lenin,” http://lacan.com/replenin.htm, accessed January 28, 2004 SHSAM What are we to say to this? Again, the problem resides in the AND all the time so that, globally, things will remain the same!"
My alternative - traverse the fantasy in the context of the resolution by embracing the empty gesture that explicit law represents when it conflicts with the spirit of the law. The perm is impossible as the phantasmic framing underpinning the AC fundamentally disavows any notion of responsibility for subjects. Zizek 08, Slavoj (white shirt wearing mouth breather), "THE PLAGUE OF FANTASIES", Verso, 2008 cnqzu.com/library/Economics/marxian20economics/Zizek,20Slavoj-The20Plague20of20Fantasies.pdf, p. 38-40 SHSAM Or - to put it another way - the paradoxical role of unwritten rules is AND closed circular palpitation which finds satisfaction in endlessly repeating the same failed gesture.
This allows us to question the ways in which the unconscious structures our manifestations of desire through our analytic approach allows the formulation of true political praxis. Instead of seeking enjoyment through the other, we must start with internal evaluations
The first ethical imperative is uniquely the domain of psychoanalysis – the K then controls the internal link to the AC’s framing as without the analysis, knowledge is impossible. The ROTJ is to vote for the debater that has the best psychoanalytic methodology that can properly understand the nature of human-constructed reality. Kesel 09, Marc de (Associate professor in philosophy at Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada. His fields of research are Public Ethics, Continental Philosophy, Political Theory, Holocaust Studies, Religion Studies and Freudo-Lacanian Theory), "Eros and Ethics Reading Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VII", UNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature, 2009 State University of New York, p. 49 SHSAM In the fi rst lesson of the seminar, Lacan says that the moral dimension AND at the base of all of this lies an ethical imperative for Lacan.
12/17/16
ND - K - Zizek v3
Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: Octas | Opponent: Dougherty Valley CS | Judge: Nicole Nave, Devane Murphy, Christian Quiroz The locating of the object of ones desire as external to the current letter of the law maintains a framework of fantasy that imposes a forced choice and forecloses actual freedom. Zizek 08, Slavoj (white shirt wearing mouth breather), "THE PLAGUE OF FANTASIES", Verso, 2008 cnqzu.com/library/Economics/marxian20economics/Zizek,20Slavoj-The20Plague20of20Fantasies.pdf, p. 38-40 SHSAM Let us imagine a more down-to-earth situation: when, after AND to choose freely - no wonder the consequences of this act are so catastrophic
A phantasmic framing leaves us trapped in a tragic quest to reclaim our happiness that necessitates the denial of pleasure and true freedom. The utopian vision of the fantasy will always be unobtainable. Zizek 08, Slavoj (white shirt wearing mouth breather), "THE PLAGUE OF FANTASIES", Verso, 2008 cnqzu.com/library/Economics/marxian20economics/Zizek,20Slavoj-The20Plague20of20Fantasies.pdf, p. 43-47 SHSAM Desire emerges when drive gets caught in the cobweb of Law/prohibition, in AND in the very agency of the law which prohibits the access to enjoyment.
Radical shifts away from the institution on inscribe their movement into the institution they critique in the first place. Dolar ‘6 (Mladen, Advising Researcher in theory at the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, A Voice and Nothing More, pp. 176-179) SHSAM But at the same time she wants her status as exception to be legally sanctioned AND power of the gap turned out to accommodate the continuity all too well.
Particularized demands for change, no matter how radical, are performed against the backdrop of the neoliberal-democratic order and are tolerated as long as they fail to fundamentally change hegemonic ideology. Zizek Slavoj, professor of philosophy at the university of Ljubljana, 2001, “Repeating Lenin,” http://lacan.com/replenin.htm, accessed January 28, 2004 SHSAM What are we to say to this? Again, the problem resides in the AND all the time so that, globally, things will remain the same!"
My alternative - traverse the fantasy in the context of the resolution by embracing the empty gesture that explicit law represents when it conflicts with the spirit of the law. The perm is impossible as the phantasmic framing underpinning the AC fundamentally disavows any notion of responsibility for subjects. Zizek 08, Slavoj (white shirt wearing mouth breather), "THE PLAGUE OF FANTASIES", Verso, 2008 cnqzu.com/library/Economics/marxian20economics/Zizek,20Slavoj-The20Plague20of20Fantasies.pdf, p. 38-40 SHSAM Or - to put it another way - the paradoxical role of unwritten rules is AND closed circular palpitation which finds satisfaction in endlessly repeating the same failed gesture.
This allows us to question the ways in which the unconscious structures our manifestations of desire through our analytic approach allows the formulation of true political praxis. Instead of seeking enjoyment through the other, we must start with internal evaluations
The first ethical imperative is uniquely the domain of psychoanalysis – the K then controls the internal link to the AC’s framing as without the analysis, knowledge is impossible. The ROTJ is to vote for the debater that has the best psychoanalytic methodology that can properly understand the nature of human-constructed reality. Kesel 09, Marc de (Associate professor in philosophy at Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada. His fields of research are Public Ethics, Continental Philosophy, Political Theory, Holocaust Studies, Religion Studies and Freudo-Lacanian Theory), "Eros and Ethics Reading Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VII", UNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature, 2009 State University of New York, p. 49 SHSAM In the fi rst lesson of the seminar, Lacan says that the moral dimension AND at the base of all of this lies an ethical imperative for Lacan.
12/17/16
ND - K - Zizek v4
Tournament: Princeton | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Walt Whitman XR | Judge: Jake Nebel, Dani Reyes, Paul Zhou Arrogantly tying responsibility to some external purpose is playing god and creates violence Zupancic 2k (Alenka, Alenka Zupančič, Ph.D., is a Lacanian philosopher and social theorist, based as a full-time researcher in the philosophy department of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. “Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan”, p. 96-7) SHSAM “Another problem still remains, however: the question of the possibility of ( AND as something that is `essentially a by-product' of our actions.
The locating of the object of ones desire as external to the current letter of the law maintains a framework of fantasy that imposes a forced choice and forecloses actual freedom. Zizek 08, Slavoj (white shirt wearing mouth breather), "THE PLAGUE OF FANTASIES", Verso, 2008 cnqzu.com/library/Economics/marxian20economics/Zizek,20Slavoj-The20Plague20of20Fantasies.pdf, p. 38-40 SHSAM Let us imagine a more down-to-earth situation: when, after AND to choose freely - no wonder the consequences of this act are so catastrophic
A phantasmic framing leaves us trapped in a tragic quest to reclaim our happiness that necessitates the denial of pleasure and true freedom. The utopian vision of the fantasy will always be unobtainable. Zizek 08, Slavoj (white shirt wearing mouth breather), "THE PLAGUE OF FANTASIES", Verso, 2008 cnqzu.com/library/Economics/marxian20economics/Zizek,20Slavoj-The20Plague20of20Fantasies.pdf, p. 43-47 SHSAM Desire emerges when drive gets caught in the cobweb of Law/prohibition, in AND in the very agency of the law which prohibits the access to enjoyment.
My alternative - traverse the fantasy in the context of the resolution by embracing the empty gesture that explicit law represents when it conflicts with the spirit of the law. The perm is impossible as the phantasmic framing underpinning the AC fundamentally disavows any notion of responsibility for subjects. Zizek 08, Slavoj (white shirt wearing mouth breather), "THE PLAGUE OF FANTASIES", Verso, 2008 cnqzu.com/library/Economics/marxian20economics/Zizek,20Slavoj-The20Plague20of20Fantasies.pdf, p. 38-40 SHSAM Or - to put it another way - the paradoxical role of unwritten rules is AND closed circular palpitation which finds satisfaction in endlessly repeating the same failed gesture.
This allows us to question the ways in which the unconscious structures our manifestations of desire through our analytic approach allows the formulation of true political praxis. Instead of seeking enjoyment through the other, we must start with internal evaluations
The first ethical imperative is uniquely the domain of psychoanalysis – the K then controls the internal link to the AC’s framing as without the analysis, knowledge is impossible. The ROTJ is to vote for the debater that has the best psychoanalytic methodology that can properly understand the nature of human-constructed reality. Kesel 09, Marc de (Associate professor in philosophy at Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada. His fields of research are Public Ethics, Continental Philosophy, Political Theory, Holocaust Studies, Religion Studies and Freudo-Lacanian Theory), "Eros and Ethics Reading Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VII", UNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature, 2009 State University of New York, p. 49 SHSAM In the fi rst lesson of the seminar, Lacan says that the moral dimension AND at the base of all of this lies an ethical imperative for Lacan.
Any moral stance that doesn’t take into account desire will inevitably fail due to its fantasmic framing of the real. Porttikivi 7/31/2011 Janne Porttikivi is a translator and independent researcher, based in Helsinki. He has published articles on psychoanalysis, literature and philosophy; “What’s so funny about Infinite Justice?,” Law and Evil: Philosophy, Politics, Psychoanalysis, pgs 212-214 SHSAM The idea of ethics is simple and revolutionary, it means a clear- cut AND empirical domain, everything which gives pleasure or makes the subject happy.77
We must use the basis of understanding the universe in terms of the real and the symbolic because they are the driving force behind human experience Slavoj Zizek, professor of philosophy at university of Ljubljana, The Indivisible Remainder: An Essay on Schelling and Related Matters, 1996, pg. 227-228 Is not this virtual state of an electron which, upon admitting its mistake and AND any external boundary that would enable us to conceive it as ‘actual’.
Language has a dialectic relationship which mediates social relations of domination Slavoj Zizek, researcher at the institute for sociology at Ljubljana, The Sublime Object of Ideology, 1989, pg. 212 Ernesto Laclau was quite right to remark that it is language which is, in AND of domination, its objective counter¬part is of course wealth as the embodiment,
12/17/16
ND - NC - Structural Violence
Tournament: Apple Valley RR | Round: 1 | Opponent: WDM Valley TG | Judge: Mitali Mathur, Kathy Want The standard is minimizing structural violence.
Structural violence causes oppression against particular groups to be invisible. Revealing it forces us to reevaluate our perceptions. This means minimizing structural violence precludes all ethical evaluation. Winter and Leighton ‘07 (Deborah Du Nann Winter and Dana C. Leighton, professors of psychology, STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE, Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology for the 21st Century, Ohio State University, 2007 (http://academic.marion.ohio-state.edu/dchristie/Peace20Psychology20Book_files/Section20II20-20Structural20Violence20(Winter202620Leighton).pdf Direct violence is horrific, but its brutality usually gets our attention: we notice AND thinking can be fostered by relationships, communication, and appreciation of diversity. 2. Debate should deal with real-world consequences—ideal theories ignore the concrete nature of the world and legitimize oppression Curry ’14, (Dr. Tommy J. Curry, “The Cost of a Thing: A Kingian Reformulation of a Living Wage Argument in the 21st Century”, Victory Briefs, 2014) Despite the pronouncement of debate as an activity and intellectual exercise pointing to the real AND used to currently justify the living wages in under our contemporary moral parameters. Contention The aff’s use of civil suits focuses on punishing individual perpretators of violence – this obscures the endemic violence of police forces Feldman 15 (Leonard Feldman, Hunter College, CUNY) “Police Violence and the Legal Temporalities of Immunity” LADI On the same day the Department of Justice declined to prosecute Ferguson Missouri Officer Darren AND practice” investigation through consent agreements that relied on “experimentalist regulation.”61 Alternatives to QI wouldn’t solve. The state would create new legal checks to avoid being a lightning rod for lawsuits King 16 Andrew (Assistant Prosecuting Attorney). “Keep Qualified Immunity... For Now.” Mimesis Law. 1 July 2016. http://mimesislaw.com/fault- lines/keep-qualified-immunity-for-now/11010 Premier Finally, that brings us back to qualified immunity. If you get rid of AND Mostly, but for qualified immunity, it’s a bonanza for plaintiff’s lawyers.
12/17/16
ND - T - The Wall
Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: 6 | Opponent: Collegiate DM | Judge: Christian Quiroz Interp: The affirmative should defend the desirability of a topical government action. This does not require any particular style or method, just that countries will implement a topical action.
“Resolved” is legislative Jeff Parcher 1, former debate coach at Georgetown, Feb 2001 http://www.ndtceda.com/archives/200102/0790.html Pardon me if I turn to a source besides Bill. American Heritage Dictionary: AND or 'no' - which, of course, are answers to a question.
Violation: They don’t
Vote Neg:
Policy-maker debate is key for reclaiming the political. Kulynych ’93, (Professor of Political Science at Winthrop University), Polity, “Performing Politics: Foucault, Habermas, and Postmodern Participation”, 30(2) Winter, p. 344-345, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3235221?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents When we look at the success of citizen initiatives from a performative perspective, we AND continues to defy technical bureaucracy even while their decisions are non-binding.
12/17/16
SEPTOCT - DA - Coal Shift
Tournament: Yale | Round: Triples | Opponent: Harrison CS | Judge: Sunhee Simon, Amit Kukreja, Alyaa Chace Prohibiting nuclear power only leads to a reliance on coal – Australia proves. Heard 12, Ben (Masters of Corporate Environmental Sustainability Management, Monash University, 2007, environmental activist, Director of ThinkClimate Consulting) December 12th “That day in December: the story of nuclear prohibition in Australia” Decarbonise SA https://decarbonisesa.com/2012/09/12/that-day-in-december-the-story-of-nuclear-prohibition-in-australia/ SHSAM Since the prohibition of nuclear power, while nuclear build has taken off around the AND electricity production 18 higher since 1998 (Australian Greenhouse Emissions Information System).
Nuclear power is key to climate stabilization – its an important part of achieving stable renewable energy. Waldman 15, Susanne (Suzanne Waldman is doing a PhD in Risk Communication at Carleton University.) February 9 “Why we Need Nuclear Power to Save the Environment” Energy for Humanity http://energyforhumanity.org/climate-energy/need-nuclear-power-save-environment/ SHSAM The idea we might need nuclear power to save the environment may have seen farfetched AND in France, where nuclear energy supplies around three quarters of power needs.
10/15/16
SEPTOCT - T - Nebel
Tournament: Yale | Round: 6 | Opponent: Gilmour SW | Judge: Sarah Ryan A Interpretation: “Countries” is a generic bare plural noun phrase that refers to countries in general. The aff may not defend 1 specific country, but must defend all countries as a general principle.
B Violation: You specify natives
C Net benefits:
1 - Grammar
Nebel 14, Jake (Lets be real you know who he is) December 12th “Jake Nebel on Specifying ‘Just Governments’” Victory Briefs http://vbriefly.com/2014/12/19/jake-nebel-on-specifying-just-governments SHSAM I believe that debaters shouldn’t specify a government on the living wage topic. The AND the noun to tell you how many or which governments are being discussed.
2 - Pragmatics
D Framing
9/17/16
SO - DA - Desalination
Tournament: Yale | Round: 4 | Opponent: Hunter TF | Judge: Becca Traber Nuclear power only option for desalination plant development, tipping point almost reached IAEA 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 Currently, it is estimated that one-fifth of the world population, or AND delivering the copious quantities of energy required for large-scale desalination projects.
Nuclear powered desalination is the only way to maintain water supplies, conservation and renewables insufficient Gary Sandquist, 08 May 2008, (Gary M Sandquist is a professor emeritus at the University of Utah) http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700229065/N-technology-could-quench-water-woes.html If there is an essential resource that surpasses energy and is requisite to sustain life AND and lead the effort to ensure adequate supplies of life's elixir — water.
Water scarcities causes international wars Rasmussen 11 April, 2012 (Erik, CEO, Monday Morning; Founder, Green Growth Leaders) “Prepare for the Next Conflict: Water Wars” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erik-rasmussen/water-wars_b_844101.html The worst water-effects of the climate change have yet to emerge. As AND goes far beyond regional and national initiatives — we need a global water plan
Water wars go nuclear Musharaf Zahoor, 11 August, 2011 (The writer is a researcher at Department of Nuclear Politics, National Defence University, Islamabad) http://www.siasat.pk/forum/showthread.php?77008-Water-Crisis-can-Trigger-Nuclear-War-in-South-Asia Water is an ambient source, which unlike human beings does not respect boundaries. AND being faced by Pakistan, which can only be resolved through political will.
Pure faith in their philosophy undermines their movement – elevates it to religion status. Dibben 04 Mark R. ,Professor at Lincoln University, “Process, Enterprise And Demonstrable Applicability Towards The Liberation Of Managed Human Life” PDF Concrescence: The Australasian Journal of Process Thought (an open source, peer reviewed online journal), pp 7-17; p. 7-8 RS As Whitehead points out (1929 1978:3), philosophy is about application AND disciplines dismiss the writings of the converted for their single-minded fanaticism.
Understanding ecology and social movements in relation to an economic system devalue life. Gare 2K Arran, Australian philosopher known mainly for his work in environmental philosophy, philosophy of science, philosophy of culture and the metaphysics of process philosophy, “Human Ecology, Process Philosophy And The Global Ecological Crisis” http://concrescence.org/index.php/ajpt/article/view/147/101 p.1-2 RS For economists, what really exists are producers and consumers, markets, means of AND environment unless it can be shown to be more profitable to do otherwise.
The alternative is to engage a method of human ecology where society is conceived not through an economic model, but as a grouping of communities that allows us to better understand the nature of power relations. Gare 2K Arran, Australian philosopher known mainly for his work in environmental philosophy, philosophy of science, philosophy of culture and the metaphysics of process philosophy), “Human Ecology, Process Philosophy And The Global Ecological Crisis” 5-9 RS Hierarchical ordering also needs to be taken into account in human ecology. Most human AND and develop their communities, including the ecosystems of which they are part.
Tournament: Yale | Round: 1 | Opponent: Stuyvesant KF | Judge: Christian Quiroz The affirmative transforms ecological protection into an ideology that serves as the ultimate agency of control and functions as the new opium for the masses. Trying to give meaning to ecological crisis is our way of transforming nature into the object of our desire and thus establishes a framework of fantasy. By mystifying the very nature of the ecological problem we paralyze action which turns case. Zizek 09, Slavoj (High theory ninja) June 01, 2009 “Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers” The New Press http://phiorg.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Zizek-on-ecology.pdf SHSAM The same thing goes for ecology. Of course ecology is the question today, AND -balance, of self-reproduction, to which we should return.
Radical shifts away from the institution on inscribe their movement into the institution they critique in the first place. Dolar ‘6 (Mladen, Advising Researcher in theory at the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, A Voice and Nothing More, pp. 176-179) SHSAM But at the same time she wants her status as exception to be legally sanctioned AND power of the gap turned out to accommodate the continuity all too well.
Particularized demands for change, no matter how radical, are performed against the backdrop of the neoliberal-democratic order and are tolerated as long as they fail to fundamentally change hegemonic ideology. Zizek Slavoj, professor of philosophy at the university of Ljubljana, 2001, “Repeating Lenin,” http://lacan.com/replenin.htm, accessed January 28, 2004 SHSAM What are we to say to this? Again, the problem resides in the AND all the time so that, globally, things will remain the same!"
My alternative - traverse the fantasy in the context of the resolution by embracing the empty gesture that explicit law represents when it conflicts with the spirit of the law. The perm is impossible as the phantasmic framing underpinning the AC fundamentally disavows any notion of responsibility for subjects. Zizek 08, Slavoj (white shirt wearing mouth breather), "THE PLAGUE OF FANTASIES", Verso, 2008 cnqzu.com/library/Economics/marxian20economics/Zizek,20Slavoj-The20Plague20of20Fantasies.pdf, p. 38-40 SHSAM Or - to put it another way - the paradoxical role of unwritten rules is AND closed circular palpitation which finds satisfaction in endlessly repeating the same failed gesture.
This allows us to question the ways in which the unconscious structures our manifestations of desire through our analytic approach allows the formulation of true political praxis. Instead of seeking enjoyment through the other, we must start with internal evaluations
The first ethical imperative is uniquely the domain of psychoanalysis – the K then controls the internal link to the AC’s framing as without the analysis, knowledge is impossible. The ROTJ is to vote for the debater that has the best psychoanalytic methodology that can properly understand the nature of human-constructed reality. Kesel 09, Marc de (Associate professor in philosophy at Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada. His fields of research are Public Ethics, Continental Philosophy, Political Theory, Holocaust Studies, Religion Studies and Freudo-Lacanian Theory), "Eros and Ethics Reading Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VII", UNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature, 2009 State University of New York, p. 49 SHSAM In the fi rst lesson of the seminar, Lacan says that the moral dimension AND at the base of all of this lies an ethical imperative for Lacan.
12/17/16
SO - K - Zizek v2
Tournament: Yale | Round: 4 | Opponent: Hunter TF | Judge: Becca Traber The affirmative transforms ecological protection into an ideology that serves as the ultimate agency of control and functions as the new opium for the masses. Trying to give meaning to ecological crisis is our way of transforming nature into the object of our desire and thus establishes a framework of fantasy. By mystifying the very nature of the ecological problem we paralyze action which turns case. Zizek 09, Slavoj (High theory ninja) June 01, 2009 “Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers” The New Press http://phiorg.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Zizek-on-ecology.pdf SHSAM The same thing goes for ecology. Of course ecology is the question today, AND -balance, of self-reproduction, to which we should return.
The locating of the object of ones desire as external to the current letter of the law maintains a framework of fantasy that imposes a forced choice and forecloses actual freedom. Zizek 08, Slavoj (white shirt wearing mouth breather), "THE PLAGUE OF FANTASIES", Verso, 2008 cnqzu.com/library/Economics/marxian20economics/Zizek,20Slavoj-The20Plague20of20Fantasies.pdf, p. 38-40 SHSAM Let us imagine a more down-to-earth situation: when, after AND to choose freely - no wonder the consequences of this act are so catastrophic
A phantasmic framing leaves us trapped in a tragic quest to reclaim our happiness that necessitates the denial of pleasure and true freedom. The utopian vision of the fantasy will always be unobtainable. Zizek 08, Slavoj (white shirt wearing mouth breather), "THE PLAGUE OF FANTASIES", Verso, 2008 cnqzu.com/library/Economics/marxian20economics/Zizek,20Slavoj-The20Plague20of20Fantasies.pdf, p. 43-47 SHSAM Desire emerges when drive gets caught in the cobweb of Law/prohibition, in AND in the very agency of the law which prohibits the access to enjoyment.
My alternative - traverse the fantasy in the context of the resolution by embracing the empty gesture that explicit law represents when it conflicts with the spirit of the law. The perm is impossible as the phantasmic framing underpinning the AC fundamentally disavows any notion of responsibility for subjects. Zizek 08, Slavoj (white shirt wearing mouth breather), "THE PLAGUE OF FANTASIES", Verso, 2008 cnqzu.com/library/Economics/marxian20economics/Zizek,20Slavoj-The20Plague20of20Fantasies.pdf, p. 38-40 SHSAM Or - to put it another way - the paradoxical role of unwritten rules is AND closed circular palpitation which finds satisfaction in endlessly repeating the same failed gesture.
This allows us to question the ways in which the unconscious structures our manifestations of desire through our analytic approach allows the formulation of true political praxis. Instead of seeking enjoyment through the other, we must start with internal evaluations
The first ethical imperative is uniquely the domain of psychoanalysis – the K then controls the internal link to the AC’s framing as without the analysis, knowledge is impossible. The ROTJ is to vote for the debater that has the best psychoanalytic methodology that can properly understand the nature of human-constructed reality. Kesel 09, Marc de (Associate professor in philosophy at Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada. His fields of research are Public Ethics, Continental Philosophy, Political Theory, Holocaust Studies, Religion Studies and Freudo-Lacanian Theory), "Eros and Ethics Reading Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VII", UNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature, 2009 State University of New York, p. 49 SHSAM In the fi rst lesson of the seminar, Lacan says that the moral dimension AND at the base of all of this lies an ethical imperative for Lacan.
12/17/16
SO - T - Production
Tournament: Bronx | Round: 2 | Opponent: Holy Cross RS | Judge: Varad Agarwala A Interpretation: The aff must defend that a country or countries will prohibit the production of nuclear power.
B Violation: They say Russia will end its nuclear energy.
