Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: MP | Judge: Adego Fakorede
The “Nuclear” ideal serves only as a tool to lock populations into social control.
Baudrillard 82
The impact representations are positions of power using life to lock populations into social control through unwavering affirmation of life for industrial reproduction – it allows life to be forced into a place destined for infinite violence and disposability.
Baudrillard '93
Our alternative is Symbolic Suicide – set death against its illusion built to rupture the systemic exchange – a counter gift to the system
Baudrillard '93
we are willing to die, a disposition which refuses the common standards of cause and effect of the debate space
Fernando 2010
The role of the ballot is a resistance that disrupts the normalization of sovereign control –– our criticism is essential to any development of a counter-fascist strategy
Murray 06
their mode of simulating images of death and violence anesthetizes us to real death and produces a culture of structural violence that makes infinite destruction appear desirable.
Giroux ‘12
their representations are not ethical- we must view the round through my interpretation to change the debate space.
Doty, 1996
Rhetorical analysis is a necessary precursor to policy making
Dauber, 2001
Their dependence on State logic results in violent foreclosure of other modes of thought and Otherizes encounters with our own beings –
Dillon 96
Disavowal of finitude is the foundational condition for all American violence – the impact is ever-escalating cycles of destruction.
Peterson ‘7
Representations of death uphold sovereign power, creating a system of control which makes racism and otherization possible on a huge scale
Mbembe 2003
