Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Brentwood RY | Judge: Carlos Taylor
I affirm the revolutionary politics of the 1AC as part of a larger political strategy but reject their inclusion of a specific government-based plan of action. The AC simultaneously defends two interpretations of political strategy. There is a plan-oriented pragmatic strategy which surrounds the one sentence traditional plan text. There is also a bottom-up movement which takes the form of rhizomatic politics. We defend the micropolitical process as described and reject the goals-oriented form of politics which constructs the plan – micropolitics is sufficient to solve
Conley in 2006 (Verena Andermatt, professor of literature at Harvard, "Borderlines; Deleuze and the Contemporary World, 95-100)
Over the last few decades, decolonisation, transportation, and electronic revolutions have
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utopian scenario, all identity is undone.
Disconnect yourself from the state, from collectives, from everything bigger than our agency. It is only when desire is confined and controlled, added to some larger pool, that we lose sight of our ability to form unique judgments and come to unique conclusions. Recognizing this individualism is necessary to challenge fascism
Deleuze and Guattari, 1987 ~A Thousand Plateaus pg 158-159~
We come to the gradual realization that the BwO is not at all the opposite of the organs. The
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sensations and perceptions and I have believed in them."
Power is dead and the aff has failed, however paying deference towards those structures reinforces simulated power, granting the systems of domination greater legitimacy. The aff specifically does this because they choose to
Baudrillard, 77 (Jean Baudrillard. Forget Foucault. Translated by Nicole Dufresne. 1977. Page 50-54)
With Foucault, we always brush against political determination in its last instance. One form
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words: now that’s real, that’s substantial, that’s prospective stock. That’s power.