1AC- THA 1NC- Oil DA T- QPQ CIR DA Conditions CP 2NC- Oil DA 1NR- Conditions CP 2NR- Conditions CP
Silver and Black
6
Opponent: Notre Dame AB | Judge: Clara Purk
1AC-Sacrifice 1NC-Framework Case 2NC-Case 1NR-Framework 2NR-Case
Stanford Invitational
5
Opponent: Oakwood BG | Judge: Bruce Miller
1AC- Open Licensing 1NC- CIR Referendum (Biopower T-QPQ 2NR- All of the Above
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1AC- Open Licensing
Tournament: Stanford Invitational | Round: 5 | Opponent: Oakwood BG | Judge: Bruce Miller
Hegemony
Two internal links: First is Drones, Drones are necessary for United States power projection. Ekmektsioglou ’11 (Eleni "New Operational Concepts, the Future of Power Projection and Drones" 7/02/2011 Institute for Defense and Government Advancement http://www.idga.org/unmanned-systems/articles/new-operational-concepts-the-future-of-power-proje/ Investments in anti-satellite warfare, anti-air and anti-ship weaponry AND the prospect of using a drone for collection of targeting data is promising. Second, The aerospace defense industry is declining now- lack of revenue and war on cost Fitzpatrick ’13 (David Fitzpatrick, managing director at AlixPartners global business-advisory firm, leader firm’s Aerospace and Defense Practice, 29 year vet of the aerospace industry, The Military Aerospace Market: Sky’s No Longer the Limit, 6-19-13, http://nation.time.com/2013/06/19/the-military-aerospace-market-skys-no-longer-the-limit/) aln As the industry’s all-important Paris Air Show gets underway, the outlook for AND -contracting skills will be most able to take advantage of this opportunity.
Aerospace competitiveness is most important internal link to overall U.S. leadership Walker et al ’02 - Chair of the Commission on the Future of the US Aerospace Industry Commissioners (Robert, Final Report of the Commission on the Future of the United States Aerospace Industry Commissioners, November, http://www.trade.gov/td/aerospace/aerospacecommission/AeroCommissionFinalReport.pdf) Defending our nation against its enemies is the first and fundamental commitment of the federal AND armed forces, thus maintaining our position as the world’s preeminent military power. Heg solves global conflicts—impact is nuclear war Brooks et al ’13 Stephen G. Brooks, Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth AND Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb 2013, Vol. 92, Issue 1 Of course, even if it is true that the costs of deep engagement fall AND to Asia. Yet that is exactly what the Obama administration is doing. Any transition will be violent absent credible leadership now Barnett ’11 Thomas P. M. Barnett, Former Senior Strategic Researcher and Professor in the Warfare Analysis and Research Department, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War College American military geostrategist and Chief Analyst at Wikistrat., worked as the Assistant for Strategic Futures in the Office of Force Transformation in the Department of Defense, "The New Rules: Leadership Fatigue Puts U.S., and Globalization, at Crossroads," World Politics Review, 3/7/2011, http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/8099/the-new-rules-leadership-fatigue-puts-u-s-and-globalization-at-crossroads It is worth first examining the larger picture: We live in a time of AND . And if you know your history, that should make you nervous.
Multipolarity will fail – rising powers will have no influence Xuetong 11 Yan, writer for the Global Times, Published by the Carnegie Endowment, "From a Unipolar to a Bipolar Superpower System: The Future of the Global Power Dynamic" 12/20/11. http://carnegieendowment.org/2011/12/30/from-unipolar-to-bipolar-superpower-system-future-of-global-power-dynamic/a6vl Empty Talk from International Organizations Is Becoming a Trend The ability of international organizations to AND International organizations are thus progressing toward divergent views rather than solving practical problems. Withdrawal causes global instability and risks escalation—dominance solves sustainability and prevents counterbalancing Brooks et al. 12 Stephen G. Brooks, Associate Professor of Government at AND Security, vol. 37, no. 3, Winter 2012, muse A core premise of deep engagement is that it prevents the emergence of a far AND in turn makes it easier to sustain the policy over the long term. *Independently, Heg prevents China from Taiwan aggression Brzezinski 12 (Zbigniew, US National Security Advisor to Jimmy Carter, Professor of American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, scholar at CSIS, Jan/Feb 2012, "8 Geopolitically Endangered Species," www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/03/8_geopolitically_endangered_species?page=0,7 SL) 2. TAIWAN Since 1972, the United States has formally accepted the mainland’s " AND the mainland. At stake: Risk of a serious collision with China. *Perception of rationality ensures unchecked nuclear escalation Glaser’11 (Charles, Political Science Professor at George Washington, March/April, "Will China’s Rise Lead to War?" Foreign Affairs, Vol. 90 Issue 2, Ebsco Host) ACCOMMODATION ON TAIWAN? THE PROSPECTS for avoiding intense military competition and war may be AND military efforts and a general poisoning of U.S.-Chinese relations.
Terrorism
AQAP will gain the material to initiate a nuclear terrorist attack Williams ’11 (Sarah, Coordinator of the Fissile Materials Working Group and Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow at the Center for Science, Technology and sEcurity Policy, "After bin Laden: Nuclear terrorism still a top threat," Bulletin of Atomic Scientists - Fissile MAterials Working Group, May 13, www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/fissile-materials-working-group/after-bin-laden-nuclear-terrorism-still-top-t) More than a decade ago, Osama bin Laden professed that "acquiring ~chemical AND Al Qaeda, a US priority must be securing this potential source material. Drones are the only way to prevent insurgent action- no better alternatives Meservey 2012(Josh, MALD candidate focusing on International Security, November 16, "Drones: The Best Option We’ve Got", http://www.fletcherforum.org/2012/11/16/meservey/) Despite these challenging realities, however, the U.S. must continue its AND this level of success against high-level terrorist targets in the FATA. *Drones have a massive deterrent effect Bergen and Rowland ’12(Peter, director at the New America Foundation, and Jennifer, program associate at the New America Foundation, July 4, "Drones decimating Taliban in Pakistan", http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/03/opinion/bergen-drones-taliban-pakistan/index.html) Even so, the strikes may have contributed to a relative decrease in violence across AND , U.S. spies in disguise assisting the CIA drone program. Decrease in drone strikes causes spike in terrorism- empirics prove Schmitt ’12(Eric, New York Times Staff, January 7, "Lull in Strikes by U.S. Drones Aids Militants in Pakistan", http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/world/asia/lull-in-us-drone-strikes-aids-pakistan-militants.html?scp=1andsq=Lull20in20US20strikes20andst=cse) WASHINGTON — A nearly two-month lull in American drone strikes in Pakistan has AND with and probably has accelerated a flurry of insurgent activity and new strategies.
Terrorist retaliation causes nuclear war – draws in Russia and China Ayson ’10 (Robert, Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington, "After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects," Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Volume 33, Issue 7, July, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via InformaWorld) A terrorist nuclear attack, and even the use of nuclear weapons in response by AND be admitted that any preemption would probably still meet with a devastating response.
Yemen is the training ground for terrorism against Saudi Arabia – AQAP will attack oil facilities in Saudi Arabia Ulrichsen 11 (Kristian, Kuwait Research Fellow in the Kuwait Programme for Development, Governance and Globalisation in the Gulf States Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London SChool of Economics and Political SCience, "The Geopolitics of Insecurity in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula," Middle East Policy Council, http://www.mepc.org/journal/middle-east-policy-archives/geopolitics-insecurity-horn-africa-and-arabian-peninsula?print) The reconstitution of AQAP in January 2009, following the merger of al-Qaeda’s AND to internal security in Yemen and regional stability in the Arabian Peninsula.9
Attacks on Saudi oil facilities collapse the global economy Gartenstein-Ross 11 (Daveed, Directs the Center for the Study of Terrorist Radicalization at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, "Osama’s Oil Obsession," Foreign Policy, May 23, www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/05/23/osamas_oil_obsession) Bin Laden long believed that undermining the U.S. economy was central to AND there isn’t a place that they could reach that they didn’t think about."
Economic collapse causes nuclear war, terrorism, and proliferation Harris and Burrows ’9 (Mathew, PhD European History at Cambridge, counselor in the National Intelligence Council (NIC) and Jennifer, member of the NIC’s Long Range Analysis Unit "Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis" http://www.ciaonet.org/journals/twq/v32i2/f_0016178_13952.pdf)//TWR Of course, the report encompasses more than economics and indeed believes the future is AND within and between states in a more dog-eat-dog world. Drones solve Pakistani militancy and stability—decimate militant group’s effectiveness Nadim 12 (Hussain Nadim, visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, August 8, 2012, "How Drones Changed the Game in Pakistan," National Interest, nationalinterest.org/how-drones-changed-the-game-pakistan-7290) Regardless of what the news agencies in Pakistan claim about the negative effects of drone AND at all as long as they get to burn a few American flags. That leads to Pakistani instability and Indian intervention that goes nuclear O’Hanlon ’5 Michael O’Hanlon 5, senior fellow with the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence and director of research for the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, visiting lecturer at Princeton University, an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University, and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies PhD in public and international affairs from Princeton, Apr 27 2005, "Dealing with the Collapse of a Nuclear-Armed State: The Cases of North Korea and Pakistan," http://www.princeton.edu/~~ppns/papers/ohanlon.pdf Were Pakistan to collapse, it is unclear what the United States and like- AND Indian Army, nuclear dangers have long been considered to run very high. That causes extinction- nuclear winter, food shortages, and drought Chaffin ’11 Greg Chaffin 11, Research Assistant at Foreign Policy in Focus, July 8, 2011, "Reorienting U.S. Security Strategy in South Asia," online: http://www.fpif.org/articles/reorienting_us_security_strategy_in_south_asia A nuclear conflict in the subcontinent would have disastrous effects on the world as a AND lead to more drought, worldwide food shortages, and widespread political upheaval.
Plan
The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement towards Mexico by offering open licensing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle technology to the assembly-for-exports industry.
Solvency
Mexico’s manufacturing and aerospace industry are key to US aerospace Johnson 12 (Tim, political reporter and writer for McClatchyDC, published 7/18/12, "Mexico takes flight as hub for aerospace industry", http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/07/18/156657/mexico-takes-flight-as-hub-for.html aks) In one part of this central Mexico city, technicians overhaul commercial aircraft engines and AND compares with some 335,000 jobs in auto manufacturing and auto parts. Cooperation in the aerospace sector with open licensing is key to drone production and innovation Godoy ’13 (Emilio Godoy, Mexico-based correspondent who covers the environment, human rights and sustainable development, Mexicans Develop Drones for Peace, 4-11-13, http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/04/mexicans-develop-drones-for-peace/) aln Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), better known as drones, have earned a bad AND around the world work together to improve codes and develop more advanced products.
Mexico’s manufacturing key to aerospace Guidi 11 (Ruxandra, Writer for Fronteras, September 28th, 2011, Border Business: Aerospace As A Binational Industry, http://www.fronterasdesk.org/news/2011/sep/28/business-mexico-aerospace-industry-maquiladora aks) Hundreds of buyers and suppliers from the United States, Mexico and Europe gathered in AND on products and services on the U.S. side of border.
2/9/14
1AC- THA
Tournament: Notre Dame | Round: 1 | Opponent: Leland VV | Judge: Andre Washington
Inherency
The THA was passed in the Senate- but disagreements between the Senate and House bill have prevented implementation Boman 10-14 (Karen Boman, writer for RigZone, Senate Passes US-Mexico Drilling Pact, http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/129582/Senate_Passes_USMexico_Drilling_Pact-http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/129582/Senate_Passes_USMexico_Drilling_Pact, 10-14-13, anuss) The U.S. Senate passed a bill Saturday that would implement the U AND 87 percent of the Outer Continental Shelf areas off limits," Milito commented. Thus the plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase economic engagement with Mexico by implementing the Transboundary Hydrocarbons Agreement in accordance with Senate bill S.812.
Iran prolif causes global nuclear war Kroenig ’12 Matthew Kroenig, Council on Foreign Relations Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow and Georgetown University assistant professor of government, "The History of Proliferation Optimism: Does It Have A Future?" Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, 5/26/2012, http://www.npolicy.org/article.php?aid=118226tid=30 Currently, Iran restrains its foreign policy because it fears a major military retaliation from AND , any one of those crises could result in a catastrophic nuclear exchange. Largest risk for both horizontal and vertical escalation Wimbush 7, Hudson Institute Senior Fellow, Center for Future Security Strategies Director, 2007 S. Enders "The End of Deterrence: A nuclear Iran will change everything." The Weekley Standard. 1/11/2007, Accessed 7/17/2010, http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=1315426R=162562FD5A~~ Iran is fast building its position as the Middle East’s political and military hegemon, AND will grow, and where deterrence, once broken, cannot be restored. Scenario 2: Oil Shocks United States still vulnerable to oil shocks- energy independence solves Koch 10-19 (Wendy Koch, covers energy, climate and the environment for USAT, U.S. oil supply looks vulnerable 40 years after embargo, 10-19-13, http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/19/us-oil-imports-opec-embargo/2997499/-http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/19/us-oil-imports-opec-embargo/2997499/, anuss) How different are we? While the nation’s social and economic fiber has changed dramatically AND after Japan (No. 1), United Kingdom, Canada and Germany.
Oil shocks cause global wars- Middle East conflict and US-China resource war Meacher 8 (Michael Meacher, Labour MP for Oldham West and Royton, was environment minister 1997-2003, The era of oil wars, 6-29-08, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/jun/29/oil.oilandgascompanies-http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/jun/29/oil.oilandgascompanies, anuss) But is there the oil to go round? The authoritative International Energy Agency foresees AND Africa, is aimed at the growing conflict with China over oil supplies. Middle East conflict goes global and nuclear Primakov ’10 Yevgeny Primakov, President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and member of the editorial board of Russia in Global Affairs, "The Fundamental Conflict," New Eastern Outlook, 1/2/2010, http://www.journal-neo.com/?q=node/102 The Middle East conflict is unparalleled in terms of its potential for spreading globally. AND seems that President Obama’s position does not completely rule out such a possibility.
Economy
US econ down- job loss, business confidence, and rising interest rates Davidson 11-2 (Paul Davidson, reporter at USAT, Financial firms cutting thousands of jobs, 11-2-13, http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/11/02/financial-services-firms-job-cuts/3283105/-http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/11/02/financial-services-firms-job-cuts/3283105/, anuss) Financial firms are cutting tens of thousands of jobs because of a slowdown in the AND mergers have slowed, says Jeff Harte, an analyst at Sandler O’Neill. There are two internal links – First is trade cooperation – opening up the Gulf to increased development spurs bi-lateral economic cooperation and stimulates the U.S. economy Simmons 13 ~Daniel, 4-30-13, Master Resource, "U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbons Agreement: A Rare Victory for Oil and Gas in the Obama Era", http://www.masterresource.org/2013/04/u-s-mexico-transboundary-hydrocarbons-agreement/, accessed 6-30-13, HG~ The energy and economic welfare of the United States and Mexico are intertwined by our AND with the highest degree of safety and environmental standards. Elements of the Agreement
Second is domestic development – energy development in the Gulf is key to the economy by creating jobs, lowering energy prices, increasing domestic supply, generating federal revenue, and expanding exploration Hastings 13 ~Doc, 5-15-13, Committee on Natural Resources, "House Committee Approves Legislation to Approve Transboundary Hydrocarbon Agreement with Mexico", http://naturalresources.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=334042, accessed 6-30-13, HG~ WASHINGTON, D.C., May 15, 2013 - Today, the House AND their support of the "Outer Continental Shelf Transboundary Hydrocarbon Agreements Authorization Act." Scenario 1: Economic Decline Economic downturn causes war Mead 2009 Sr fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, ~Henry, The New Republic, 2/4/09, http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=571cbbb9-2887-4d81-8542-92e83915f5f826p=2-http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=571cbbb9-2887-4d81-8542-92e83915f5f826p=2~~ So far, such half-hearted experiments not only have failed to work; AND the world economy back on track, we may still have to fight. Best statistical studies prove Royal ’10 director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense(Jedediah, Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives, pg 213-215) Less intuitive is how periods of economic decline may increase the likelihood of external conflict AND not featured prominently in the economic-security debate and deserves more attention.
Conflict goes global and nuclear Merlini ’11 Cesare Merlini, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Italian Institute of International Affairs, of which he had been the president for many years, and a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, "A Post-Secular World?" Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, Volume 53, Issue 2, 2011, DOI:10.1080/00396338.2011.571015 Two neatly opposed scenarios for the future of the world order illustrate the range of AND theocratic absolutes, competing or converging with secular absolutes such as unbridled nationalism.
Scenario 2: Terrorism No disads – Trade creates structural disincentives for state war and deters terrorism Griswold 11 Daniel Griswold is director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute and author of Mad about Trade: Why Main Street America Should Embrace Globalization. "Free Trade and the Global Middle Class," Hayek Society Journal Vol. 9 http://www.cato.org/pubs/articles/Hayek-Society-Journal-Griswold.pdf Accessed 6/30/12-http://www.cato.org/pubs/articles/Hayek-Society-Journal-Griswold.pdf Accessed 6/30/12 Our more globalized world has also yielded a "peace dividend." It may not AND and less likely those gains will be destroyed by civil conflict and war. Governmental study proves- terrorist attack will happen before the end of 2013 Graham 8 (Senator Bob Graham, Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, The World At Risk: The Report of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, 12/2/2008, http://clipsandcomment.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/world-at-risk-study.pdf-http://clipsandcomment.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/world-at-risk-study.pdf, AN) The Commission believes that unless the world community acts decisively and with great urgency, AND undercut the terrorists in danger spots around the world—especially in Pakistan. We’ll isolate two extinction level impacts: First, Bioterrorism causes extinction Matheny 7 (Jason Matheny, Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Former Oxford associate, MPJ at Johns Hopkins University, Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction, published in Risk Analysis in 2007, http://jgmatheny.org/matheny_extinction_risk.htm-http://jgmatheny.org/matheny_extinction_risk.htm, anuss) Of current extinction risks, the most severe may be bioterrorism. The knowledge needed AND such experiments because the benefits do not seem to be worth the risks. Second, Nuclear terrorism causes extinction Ayson ’10 - Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington (Robert, July. "After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects." Studies in Conflict 26 Terrorism, Vol. 33, Issue 7. InformaWorld.) But these two nuclear worlds—a non-state actor nuclear attack and a AND be admitted that any preemption would probably still meet with a devastating response.
No disads- Obama and Nieto committed to engagement now Knowland 13 (Don Knowland, writer and news reporter for the WSWS, Obama visits Mexico and Central America to push for economic integration, 5-6-13, http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/06/mexi-m06.html-http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/06/mexi-m06.html, anuss) US President Barack Obama visited Mexico on Thursday and Friday, and then went on AND structures and how it engages with other nations, including the United States."
11/3/13
ASU Doubles 1AC
Tournament: ASU | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Juan Deigo LZ | Judge: Roger Copenhaver, Cade Cottrell, Leah Clark
1ac
We begin with the story of the Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde: (Oscar Wilde, Irish writer and poet, studied at Oxford College and Trinity College, The Selfish Giant, 1888, anuss) Every afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go AND playing with the children in the most beautiful garden they had ever seen. Status quo economic engagement is constrained by the conception of a restricted economy, the resolution itself defends an economic rationality that presupposes a utilitarian calculus. Economic engagement shouldn’t be a question of whether there is a benefit to lifting the embargo with Cuba, or trading with Mexico, or investing in Venezuela’s oil industry; economic engagement shouldn’t be conditioned on the necessity of a utility behind each and every action that precedes it. Thus the ballot is a choice- between the restricted and rational economics ensured by a normative affirmation of the resolution, or an embrace of general economics through our affirmation. Human and Cilliers ’13 (Oliver Human, Professor of Philosophy at University of Stellenbosch, Paul Cilliers, Professor of Complexity and Philoshophy at the University of Stellenbosch and PhD in philosophy at Cambridge, Towards an Economy of Complexity: Derrida, Morin and Bataille, pgs 34-35, 8-1-13, aln) Bataille (1989) argues that traditional political economy restricts its analysis of a system AND this possible? The notion of ’play’ is crucial to this understanding.
Rational and restricted economics subordinates the self and stockpiles reserves of human energy, the docility of current expenditure forces the subject to be docile. An embrace of inefficiency, of uselessness, and of intimate expenditure is necessary to transform life from a standing reserve by reminding us of the madness that is the general economy. Igrek 9 (Apple Zefelius Igrek, Professor in Philosophy at the University of Seattle, Modes of Luxurious Walking, September 2009, muse, aln) The multi-layered, complex, book-length answer elaborated in Bataille’s Peak AND the general finitude, exertion, madness, and jouissance of bodily economies.
Restricted economics entails the reduction of individual’s to a wax-museum of dead objects to be catastrophically expended- the reduction of human life to a standing reserve enables the catastrophic devastation of life Stoekl ’7 (Allan Stoekl, Professor at Penn State, Bataille’s Peak: Energy, Religion, Postsustainability, p. 57-58, 2007, Indiana University Press) aln War, too, reflects this nonintimacy of the thing: fossil fuel and nuclear AND but the movement of bodies in transport, in ecstasy, in despair? We believe the topic should be shared and that our speech, as our own personal expenditure, is a performance of equality that transcends hierarchy- our affirmation is not "theft" of the resolution, it escapes the normativity of a fixed economic system that is continued through the violence of limitation and reservation. Sutzl ’13 (Wolfgang Sutzl, transdisciplinary researcher, writer and educator chiefly concerned with a critique of violence , Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Universitat Jaume I de Castellón, Subjectivities of Sharing The Emergence of an Anti-economy, http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit8/papers/SUTZL_paper_mit8_v1201.pdf-http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit8/papers/SUTZL_paper_mit8_v1 1.pdf, pg 16-17, we do not defend the ableist word "disables", aln) The point of this essay was to put forward several propositions about the nature of AND and certainly use ’sharing’ as a euphemism for exploiting a hitherto unexploited area.
Gifting without return cuts the head off of humanist arrogance in favor of an a-teleological economy of generosity Stoekl ’90 (Allan Stoekl, Professor at Penn State, Truman’s Apotheosis: Bataille, "Planisme", and Headlessness, p. 180-250, Yale University Press, 1990, Yale French Studies 78, jstor) aln This last point is an important one: the decision, the plan, to AND that opens onto the extinction of society, the individual, and the state
Thus Alex and I affirm an intimate expenditure of sharing within the resolution. Our intimate expenditure is a utility of non-utility that ruptures and destroys the restricted economy that lashes out in exclusionary and violent ways to establish a true moment of communal unity Biles ’11 (Jeremy Biles, teaches philosophy at the Illionois Institute of Art, super cool guy, 3’s Bataille, The Remains of God: Bataille/Sacrifice/ Community, 11-24-11, 132-144, Culture Theory and Critique, Taylor and Francis) aln In this sense, then, a sacrifice is always a sacrifice of God, AND of the closed, individual self as formed through social prohibitions and work. Economic systems operate not according to efficiency, but wasteful expenditure—linear progress is a lie, development is truly frenzied and sacred, not rational and restricted Rehn and Lindahl ’11 Alf Rehn, and Marcus Lindahl, "George Bataille—On His Shoulders (And Other Parts of the Body of Knowledge," in On the Shoulders of Giants, ed. Jensen, T. 26 Wilson, T., Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2011, p. 32-34 The key argument of this first volume is that all dynamic, developing systems have AND ecstatic love. From 21e Sacred (1985, p. 179)
Normative debate has chosen a profane sacrifice- we read our politics disadvantages, our economic collapse impacts, all in the name of stopping war. This restricted economic concern is founded upon an alignment with war over festival- refuse this curriculum to embrace a general economic composition. Sirc ’95 (Geoffrey Sirc, PhD Composition Theory at the University of Minnesota, Professor in the Department of English at the University of Minnesota, Godless Composition, Tormented Writing, http://jaconlinejournal.com/archives/vol15.3/sirc-godless.pdf, JAC Vol. 15 No. 3- 1995) aln The sacrifice composition has chosen (for there must be sacrifice; there is always AND , having to cover so many instances, be but always unwriting itself?
Plan has congressional support-no one dislikes it Cyber Caucus 8-30 (Cyber Caucus is a government caucus about cyber security, "Cyber Caucus News Round-up 8-30-13",http://cybercaucus.langevin.house.gov/)Nuck** Congressman Jim Langevin (RI-D) and Congressman Mike McCaul (R- AND Members representing different committees of jurisdiction to discuss the challenges in securing cyberspace.
DA is not intrinsic: a logical policy maker could do both Winners win – pushing legislation builds up capital, even through opposition Singer ’09 (Jonathan Singer, JD candidate at Berkeley and editor of MyDD, 3-3-09, http://www.mydd.com/story/2009/3/3/191825/0428-http://www.mydd.com/story/2009/3/3/191825/0428) Peter Hart gets at a key point. Some believe that political capital is finite, that it can be used up. To an extent that’s true. But it’s important to note, too, that political capital can be regenerated — and, specifically, that when a President expends a great deal of capital on a measure that was difficult to enact and then succeeds, he can build up more capital. Indeed, that appears to be what is happening with Barack Obama, who went to the mat to pass the stimulus package out of the gate, got it passed despite near-unanimous opposition of the Republicans on Capitol Hill, and is being rewarded by the American public as a result. Take a look at the numbers. President Obama now has a 68 percent favorable rating in the NBC-WSJ poll, his highest ever showing in the survey. Nearly half of those surveyed (47 percent) view him very positively. Obama’s Democratic Party earns a respectable 49 percent favorable rating. The Republican Party, however, is in the toilet, with its worst ever showing in the history of the NBC-WSJ poll, 26 percent favorable. On the question of blame for the partisanship in Washington, 56 percent place the onus on the Bush administration and another 41 percent place it on Congressional Republicans. Yet just 24 percent blame Congressional Democrats, and a mere 11 percent blame the Obama administration. So at this point, with President Obama seemingly benefiting from his ambitious actions and the Republicans sinking further and further as a result of their knee-jerked opposition to that agenda, there appears to be no reason not to push forward on anything from universal healthcare to energy reform to ending the war in Iraq.
Pol Cap low-Gov shutdown doesn’t matter, Obamacare is still unpopular and still on the floor for debate Pilon 10-17 (Roger, Roger Pilon is Vice President for Legal Affairs for the Cato Institute, and an American libertarian legal theorist. We’re Not ’All In This Together’ Mr. Obama, And We Don’t Want Obamacare 10-17-13) The plain truth, of course, is that millions of Americans are not " AND powers, none of which authorizes the massive redistributive programs we have today.
FW- The role of the ballot is to evaluate the desirability of the plan being enacted based on hypothetical consideration of the plan being enacted
a. Pre-requisite – looking to public policy first is important to be able to solve the ideologies of the kritik – learning if a ideologies is good or bad or how to solve those is only possible with public policy decision making skills b. Even if they win FW we should still be able to weigh the aff against the alternative c. Debate is a process for learning how to make better decisions – our decisions effect our own lives and the lives of these around us –Rejecting the assumptions or the ideology of the aff doesn’t increase our decision making skills - it eliminates our ability to evaluate the desirability of public policy
2. PDB: Statism is inevitable—innovative engagement can redirect power for emancipation Martin and Pierce ’13 Deborah G. Martin, Joseph Pierce, "Reconceptualizing Resistance: Residuals of the State and Democratic Radical Pluralism," Antipode, Vol. 45, Issue 1, pp. 61-79, January 2013, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.00980.x The state offers a complex set of power structures against and with which resistance struggles AND for resistance, one we explore further in the rest of this paper.
Normative advocacy outweighs methodological coherence Wetzstein ’12 Steffen Wetzstein, "Grasping a Historical Moment: Western Societal Challenges, Self-referential Academic Knowledge Production, and Renewed Political Commitment," Antipode, Volume 44, Issue 3, pages 560–563, June 2012, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.00993.x One way out of academia’s current societal leadership dilemma might be to actively seek cross AND and negotiating trade-offs come from? Will academics be amongst them?
Alt fails – ignores oppression, lacks political strategy, and no one cares O’Callaghan ’2 Terry O’Callaghan, lecturer in the school of International Relations at the University of South Australia, International Relations and the third debate, ed: Jarvis, 2002, p. 80-82 There are also a host of technological and logistical questions that plague George’s scheme and AND creativity, and openness, George’s postmodern musings have understandably attracted few disciples. 2. Epistemic critique replicates fascistic knowledge production—only substantive debate breaks down dogma without collapsing into irrelevance Houghton ’8 David Patrick Houghton, "Positivism ’vs’ Postmodernism: Does Epistemology Make a Difference?" International Politics (2008), 45 As long ago as 1981, Yale Ferguson and Richard Mansbach effectively laid the influence AND epistemological ones, ought to be what divides the international relations scene today.
10/29/13
AT T- EE
Tournament: Meadows | Round: 2 | Opponent: Green Valley BH | Judge: Thach- University
T- EE
WM: Cyber security is economic engagement- necessary to protect trade and enhance ties on data trading between countries CI: Only trade promotion is economic engagement- inducements and diplomacy are not Celik, 11 – master’s student at Uppsala University (Department of Peace and Conflict Research) (Arda, Economic Sanctions and Engagement Policies http://www.grin.com/en/e-book/175204/economic-sanctions-and-engagement-policies-http://www.grin.com/en/e-book/175204/economic-sanctions-and-engagement-policies) Economic engagement policies are strategic integration behaviour which involves with the target state. Engagement AND position of one state affects the position of others in the same direction."
WM the CI: Cooperative security of cyberspace is necessary to facilitate trade Friedman 13 (Allan Friedman, Fellow, Governance Studies Research Director, Center for Technology Innovation, at the Brookings Institution, Security Trade-Off Implications of Cybersecurity Regulations and International Trade, 9-19-13, http://www.brookings.edu/events/2013/09/19-security-tradeoff-cybersecurity-regulations-international-trade?rssid=LatestFromBrookings-http://www.brookings.edu/events/2013/09/19-security-tradeoff-cybersecurity-regulations-international-trade?rssid=LatestFromBrookings, anuss) As cybersecurity dominates headlines, governments around the world are exploring their role in securing AND over trade or limit the benefits of IT to promote development and growth. Counter standards: a. Limits: only the affirmatives definition limits the topic, the negative interpretation still allows for the possibility of military and diplomacy affs b. Education: Focus on trade allows for the most topic specific and in depth education- ensures education on embargo affs which are heart of the topic c. Ground: only a risk the aff gives them more ground- they definitely get their politics links, process CP’s, and all other DA links as long as we foster EE T is not a voter, don’t vote on potential abuse, its about what we do not what we justify
10/29/13
AT Wilderson
Tournament: Meadows | Round: 2 | Opponent: Green Valley BH | Judge: Thach- University
FW- The role of the ballot is to evaluate the desirability of the plan being enacted based on hypothetical consideration of the plan being enacted
a. Pre-requisite – looking to public policy first is important to be able to solve the ideologies of the kritik – learning if a ideologies is good or bad or how to solve those is only possible with public policy decision making skills b. Even if they win FW we should still be able to weigh the aff against the alternative c. Debate is a process for learning how to make better decisions – our decisions effect our own lives and the lives of these around us –Rejecting the assumptions or the ideology of the aff doesn’t increase our decision making skills - it eliminates our ability to evaluate the desirability of public policy
2. Their depiction of western evils makes the world an everyday battlefield – the West against the Rest. No one is exempt from the war – those who fail to choose sides are considered complicit with evil – they guarantee endless warfare. Bruckner 1986 (Pascal, maître de conférences at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris, and collaborator at the Nouvel Observateur, "Tears of the White Man – Compassion as Contempt", Ch.1 Page 20) MattG ln commitment to the Third World, what must be takes over from reality. AND the choice of the stronger, and is tantamount to complicity with evil. 3. Perm do both - Institutional hierarchies are inevitable—innovative engagement can redirect power for emancipation Martin and Pierce 13 (Deborah G. Martin, Joseph Pierce, "Reconceptualizing Resistance: Residuals of the State and Democratic Radical Pluralism," Antipode, Vol. 45, Issue 1, pp. 61-79, January 2013, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.00980.x) The state offers a complex set of power structures against and with which resistance struggles AND for resistance, one we explore further in the rest of this paper.
What we have undertaken should be confused with nothing else, cannot be limited to AND in which I find myself being it, that is, a monster. (Georges Bataille, Philosopher, The Sacred Conspiracy, Acephale 1st year June 26, 1936, edited for gendered language) aln
Sacrifice affirms our essential condition as excessive waste, revolving infinitely across a meaningless universe. Relinquish the restricted economy’s will to order in favor of a celebration of unproductivity. Land ’92 Nick Land, really weird guy, The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism, Routledge: New York, 1992, p. 17-18 Where accumulative reason has instituted ’truth’ and ’appearance’ as unsurpassable finalities or pure AND unconscious, desires for/as feminizing spasms of remigration are without limit.
Normative debate acts as the profane sacrifice, the defense of a God within our composition makes the resolution become torment- only an acceptance of the world of death and anguish within debate can act the death of God- our sacrifice rejects the slave morality endemic to debate Sirc ’95 (Geoffrey Sirc, PhD Composition Theory at the University of Minnesota, Professor in the Department of English at the University of Minnesota, Godless Composition, Tormented Writing, http://jaconlinejournal.com/archives/vol15.3/sirc-godless.pdf, JAC Vol. 15 No. 3- 1995) aln A Summa Athioiogica for composition means a writing without the God of Meaning, without AND " (Comay 67-68). Where is the lavishness of composition?
2/1/14
Cyber-security 1AC
Tournament: Meadows | Round: 2 | Opponent: Green Valley BH | Judge: Thach- University
1AC
Plan
The United States federal government should substantially increase economic engagement towards Mexico by establishing a cooperative cyber-security framework that develops an early warning system capable of distinguishing attacks, a rapid response team, and cryptographic protection of assets.
Deterrence by denial is key—credible cyberdefense is the only way to prevent perceived ’windows of opportunity’ Saydjari ’8 O. Sami Saydjari, Cyber Defense Agency, LLC, "Structuring for Strategic Cyber Defense: A Cyber Manhattan Project Blueprint," 2008 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, http://www.acsac.org/2008/program /keynotes/saydjari.pdf As a step toward a security research plan that includes such capabilities, we should AND infrastructures. Currently, adversaries can attack critical systems without investing substantial resources. Scenario 1: China Unchecked rise of Chinese modernization in cyber-warfare areas like A2/AD ensure Taiwan war Haffa 12(Robert P Haffa Jr, PhD, nonresident Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington, DC, Full-Spectrum Air Power: Building the Air Force America Needs, 10-12-12, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/10/full-spectrum-air-power-building-the-air-force-america-needs-http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/10/full-spectrum-air-power-building-the-air-force-america-needs, anuss) Leading the list, China’s military buildup and advanced technological developments threaten America’s ability to AND coercive moves against U.S. and allied interests in the region.
Iran prolif causes global nuclear war Kroenig ’12 Matthew Kroenig, Council on Foreign Relations Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow and Georgetown University assistant professor of government, "The History of Proliferation Optimism: Does It Have A Future?" Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, 5/26/2012, http://www.npolicy.org/article.php?aid=118226tid=30 Currently, Iran restrains its foreign policy because it fears a major military retaliation from AND , any one of those crises could result in a catastrophic nuclear exchange. Largest risk for both horizontal and vertical escalation Wimbush 7, Hudson Institute Senior Fellow, Center for Future Security Strategies Director, 2007 S. Enders "The End of Deterrence: A nuclear Iran will change everything." The Weekley Standard. 1/11/2007, Accessed 7/17/2010, http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=1315426R=162562FD5A~~ Iran is fast building its position as the Middle East’s political and military hegemon, AND will grow, and where deterrence, once broken, cannot be restored.
Protection against theft of competitive data key to the economy Friedman 9-25 (Allan Friedman, Fellow, Governance Studies Research Director, Center for Technology Innovation, at the Brookings Institution, Cyber Theft of Competitive Data: Asking the Right Questions, 9-25-13, http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2013/09/25-cyber-theft-competitive-data-friedman?rssid=LatestFromBrookings, anuss) Measuring these problems in an absolute fashion across the entire still requires more data than AND of the most talked about and potentially critical threats of the digital age. Cyber-attacks are killing the global economy Ackerman 13 (Gwen Ackerman, Chief of reporting in Global issues at Bloomberg News, G-20 Urged to Treat Cyber-Attacks as Threat to Global Economy, 6-13-13, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-13/g-20-urged-to-treat-cyber-attacks-as-threat-to-economy.html-http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-13/g-20-urged-to-treat-cyber-attacks-as-threat-to-economy.html, anuss) Cyber-attacks are eroding world economic growth, and the G-20 needs AND political signal of the recognition of the need to go down this path." Scenario 1: Economic Decline Economic downturn causes war Mead 2009 Sr fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, ~Henry, The New Republic, 2/4/09, http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=571cbbb9-2887-4d81-8542-92e83915f5f826p=2-http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=571cbbb9-2887-4d81-8542-92e83915f5f826p=2~~ So far, such half-hearted experiments not only have failed to work; AND the world economy back on track, we may still have to fight. Best statistical studies prove Royal 10 director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense(Jedediah, Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives, pg 213-215) Less intuitive is how periods of economic decline may increase the likelihood of external conflict AND not featured prominently in the economic-security debate and deserves more attention.
Conflict goes global and nuclear Merlini 11 Cesare Merlini, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Italian Institute of International Affairs, of which he had been the president for many years, and a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, "A Post-Secular World?" Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, Volume 53, Issue 2, 2011, DOI:10.1080/00396338.2011.571015 Two neatly opposed scenarios for the future of the world order illustrate the range of AND theocratic absolutes, competing or converging with secular absolutes such as unbridled nationalism. Scenario 2: Terrorism No disads – Trade creates structural disincentives for state war and deters terrorism Griswold 11 Daniel Griswold is director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute and author of Mad about Trade: Why Main Street America Should Embrace Globalization. "Free Trade and the Global Middle Class," Hayek Society Journal Vol. 9 http://www.cato.org/pubs/articles/Hayek-Society-Journal-Griswold.pdf Accessed 6/30/12-http://www.cato.org/pubs/articles/Hayek-Society-Journal-Griswold.pdf Accessed 6/30/12 Our more globalized world has also yielded a "peace dividend." It may not AND and less likely those gains will be destroyed by civil conflict and war. Governmental study proves- terrorist attack will happen before the end of 2013 Graham 8 (Senator Bob Graham, Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, The World At Risk: The Report of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, 12/2/2008, http://clipsandcomment.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/world-at-risk-study.pdf-http://clipsandcomment.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/world-at-risk-study.pdf, AN) The Commission believes that unless the world community acts decisively and with great urgency, AND undercut the terrorists in danger spots around the world—especially in Pakistan. We’ll isolate two extinction level impacts: First, Bioterrorism causes extinction Matheny 7 (Jason Matheny, Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Former Oxford associate, MPJ at Johns Hopkins University, Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction, published in Risk Analysis in 2007, http://jgmatheny.org/matheny_extinction_risk.htm-http://jgmatheny.org/matheny_extinction_risk.htm, anuss) Of current extinction risks, the most severe may be bioterrorism. The knowledge needed AND such experiments because the benefits do not seem to be worth the risks. Second, Nuclear terrorism causes extinction Ayson ’10 - Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington (Robert, July. "After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects." Studies in Conflict 26 Terrorism, Vol. 33, Issue 7. InformaWorld.) But these two nuclear worlds—a non-state actor nuclear attack and a AND be admitted that any preemption would probably still meet with a devastating response.
10/29/13
Death of God 1AC-NDCA
Tournament: NDCA | Round: 1 | Opponent: Jesuit TX | Judge: Andres Gannon Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly: ‘I seek God! I seek God!’—As many of those who did not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter. Has he got lost? asked one. Did he lose his way like a child? asked another. Or is he hiding? Is he afraid of us? Has he gone on a voyage? emigrated?—Thus they yelled and laughed. The madman jumped into their midst and pierced them with his eyes. ‘Whither is God?’ he cried; ‘I will tell you. We have killed him—you and I. All of us are his murderers. But how did we do this? How could we drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What were we doing when we unchained this earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving? Away from all suns? Are we plunging continuously? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there still any up or down? Are we not straying as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is not night continuously closing in on us? Do we not need to light lanterns in the morning? Do we hear nothing as yet of the noise of the gravediggers who are burying God? Do we smell nothing as yet of the divine decomposition? Gods, too, decompose. God remains dead. And we have killed him. ‘How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we not ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whoever is born after us—for the sake of this deed he will belong to a higher history than all history hitherto.’ Here the madman fell silent and looked again at his listeners; and they, too, were silent and stared at him in astonishment. At last he threw his lantern on the ground, and it broke into pieces and went out. ‘I have come too early,’ he said then; ‘my time is not yet. This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light of the stars requires time; deeds, though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars—and yet they have done it themselves.’ It has been related that on the same day the madman forced his way into several churches and there struck up his requiem aeternam deo. Led out and called to account, he is said to have replied nothing but: ‘What after all are these churches now if they are not tombs and sepulchers of God?’. God is nowhere to be found, yet there is still so much light! Light that dazzles and maddens; crisp, ruthless light. Space echoes like an immense tomb, yet the stars still burn. Why does the sun take so long to die? Or the moon retain such fidelity to the Earth? Where is the new darkness? The greatest of all unknowings? Is death itself shy of us? The brilliance of God’s non-being provokes a wave of cynical laughter. How strange that God’s last act should be so entertaining! A good joke, but rather an old one now. It spawned innumerable witticisms that circulated in the market-place; a final testament dissipated amongst the buzz of commodity exchange, but they faded fast. What was the death of God anyway? A slight fizz of exuberance in the stock-market? A moderate lightening of the spirit? A relaxation? The end of a badly-scripted play, greeted by the languid effervescence of cheap champagne? For a long time there have been more important things to talk about in market-places. The things they save the expensive champagne for. Perhaps they laugh a little at God’s demise occasionally, but they are bored by it. Even his taxidermists have deserted him, the best of them at any rate. Those that remain are mostly the otherwise unemployable; the second rate, the incompetent or unenthusiastic. So he deteriorates still, becoming more moth-eaten and absurd. If they laugh at all it is because Jahweh has come to seem so much like a neglected teddy-bear; balding, one arm hanging loose, an eye coming away. When they were children stories about bears had frightened them. Not any more. There was always something shoddy about this God. Lost on the way to being, and to us. Even lost, for a little while, on the way to death. A stumbler, an unwitting clown, everything he does is botched, improvised, ostentatious; his past a mix of gaucherie and tantrum. His diminishing flock rarely ask him about scientific matters any more, few of them dare ask themselves. He long ago dropped out of such classes, to the secret relief of his family. For a while they insisted that he had other gifts—ineffable ones—and (with the blindness of mothers) praised the ageing infant’s good nature, which they said had calmed down a lot. One can only smile. Maybe it is that we brought out the worst in him. For who could doubt God’s fear of us? Was he not omniscient? Did he not always see the rusty dagger in our hands? And we were created in his image! (The corporealization of his hatred for himself.) What tatters of self-love remained to him came apart at this sight. To reign over all things, as the archetype of man. A piteous enough truth to exhibit. Few things approximate so closely to infinity as the humorous incommensurability between man and the sum of the universe. To span such a gulf within oneself is to live an idiocy. To be not only an animal, but a depraved one: an aborted animal, a sick animal, a delirious animal. Upon first seeing a rabid dog one thinks it is becoming human. This is not a promising basis for divinity. If he hid from us it was only in attempting to hide his eyes; to block us out. Yet amongst the accidents of his omniscience—or of his inexistence—was included the absence of eyelids. We burnt on his sleep-starved retina like harsh stars. Our deicide crawled like a rash upon his skin. He could only stare at us, and our history ensued; a convulsion of lethal horror. Of course, he made innumerable attempts at emigration, but who would have him? Who wants a second-hand God? Philosophy provided only a temporary refuge; rebelling eventually against his bad manners. How nostalgic he was of his days as a carpenter, once he had become a tramp. It is tempting to dredge into our lassitude, seeking another end for God. Might he not have been allowed to retire? The state would surely have granted him a modest pension After all, few would dispute that senile tyrants make wretched victims. It seems scarcely more dignified to kill God than to slaughter a dog when it becomes too old to work. It is rare to find one who takes much pride in slaughtering God these days. More common is a vague feeling of impurity; one has soiled oneself by bothering with something so vile and corrupt. That God was ever permitted residence amongst us is a source of embarrassment, or, at best, of uneasy humour. It is understandable that many should feel vaguely bad about God, was he not a little too vulnerable, old, and pitiful to kill? Should we not greet his inexistence with an impatient ‘of course’, and turn to more serious things? Do we really lack the delicacy to let God die quietly, on his own, like a dog? It is true that we probably merited a better God to sacrifice. It is not unreasonable to imagine that a cosmos that spawned a Herakleitus deserved a more dignified ruler than the grumpy old ape of Occidental monotheism. Nevertheless, it is pointless nursing such regrets. They belong to the mournful ‘might have beens’ of our history; decided long before we had a chance to shop around for a God.
Rather than normatively affirm the resolution Alex and I affirm a sacrifice of the resolution.
Even in debate we worship a God- a God we call the resolution. Round 1 Greenhill- Cuban embargo aff with an econ advantage and heg, answer with T, politics, XO, Cap K. Round 1 Golden Desert- K aff, answer with framework and go for Shively. Round 1 Berkeley- you’re aff, go for hege solves every impact in the world and boom goes the dynamite. All these arguments reduce us to slaves to our resolution, a resolution with a God complex that demands infinite servitude to be rewarded with “education, decision making skills”. Geoffrey Sirc writes, Geoffrey Sirc, likes circles, PhD Composition Theory at the University of Minnesota, Professor in the Department of English at the University of Minnesota, Godless Composition, Tormented Writing, http://jaconlinejournal.com/archives/vol15.3/sirc-godless.pdf, JAC Vol. 15 No. 3- 1995, aln A Summa Athioiogica for composition means a writing without the God of Meaning, without AND " (Comay 67-68). Where is the lavishness of composition?
3. Winners win – pushing legislation builds up capital, even through opposition Singer ‘09 (Jonathan Singer, JD candidate at Berkeley and editor of MyDD, 3-3-09, http://www.mydd.com/story/2009/3/3/191825/0428) Peter Hart gets... the war in Iraq.
5. No vote switch; the plan has zero effect and it’s not real world. Votes are based off of internal dynamics and issues are compartmentalized. Dickinson 9 professor of political science at Middlebury College and taught previously at Harvard University where he worked under the supervision of presidential scholar Richard Neustadt (5/26/09, Matthew, Presidential Power: A NonPartisan Analysis of Presidential Politics, “Sotomayor, Obama and Presidential Power,” http://blogs.middlebury.edu/presidentialpower/2009/05/26/sotamayor-obama-and-presidential-power/, JMP) What is of ... as his nominee.
6. Syria drained Obama’s pc- the left and right hate him Shapiro 9-15 (Jeremy Shapiro, MIT, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins graduate, director of research at the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings, The U.S.’s ‘Yadda, Yadda, Yadda’ Doctrine for Syria, 9-15-13, http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2013/09/15-syria-us-yadda-yadda-yadda-shapiro?rssid=foreign+policy, anuss) Why doesn’t President .... much greater escalation.
9/22/13
Drones 2AC Add-on OOO
Tournament: NDCA | Round: 4 | Opponent: Bronx Science LM | Judge: Alyssa Lucas-Bolin Drone technology acts as a melding of the corporeal and incorporeal, oscillating indefinitely between human action and the autonomous agency of the drone- this ontological interrogation becomes the base point for any form of ethics Holmqvist ’13 Caroline Holmqvist, Senior Lecturer, War Studies at the National Defence College, London School of Economics, Centre of International Studies, “Undoing War: War Ontologies and the Materiality of Drone Warfare”, May 2013, Millenium- Journal of International Studies 41:535, sagepub, aln What we need to do then, it seems, is to integrate accounts of AND any ethics is an ontological assumption about what it means to be human.
The humanist denial of nonhuman ontologies provides the grounds for all forms of violence Bryant ’12 Levi Bryant, Professor at Collins College, also is the OOO guy, “The Stakes of SR/NFM/OOO/Onticology: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolves?”, 6-5-12, http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/the-stakes-of-srnfmoooonticology-whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-wolves/, aln No, I think the point has always been to show that humans are not AND and what they contribute to us in terms of our formation and agency.
4/13/14
Open Licensing NDCA
Tournament: NDCA | Round: 4 | Opponent: Bronx Science LM | Judge: Alyssa Lucas-Bolin plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement towards Mexico by offering open licensing of Remotely Piloted Aerial Vehicle technology to the assembly-for-exports industry. Terrorism Drones bolster intelligence gathering on the border—efficiency is key Rozemberg ‘12 (Hernan, served as a Bureau Chief and senior correspondent for NPR's "Fronteras: The Changing America Desk," where he covered issues of immigration and border security, "Mixed Feelings On Border Drones: Boon To National Security, Threat To Privacy", July 5 2012, www.fronterasdesk.org/content/mixed-feelings-border-drones-boon-national-security-threat-privacy) ¶ The Department of Homeland Security just launched its tenth Predator B Unmanned Aerial System AND Policy, a foreign policy think tank in Washington, D.C. High risk of cross-border WMD terror McCaul ’12 REPRESENTATIVE MICHAEL T. McCAUL, CHAIRMAN, UNITED STATES HOUSE COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT, INVESTIGATIONS, AND MANAGEMENT, “Line in the Sand: Countering Crime, Violence and Terror at the Southwest Border,” ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION, November 2012, http://www.hsdl.org/?abstractanddid=725796andadvanced=advanced Terrorism remains a serious threat to the security of the United States. The Congressional AND assembled on U.S. soil into a weapon of mass destruction. The plan facilitates the perception of a strong border and bolsters intelligence networks- that augments counterterror operations and has a deterrent effect on terror groups Willis et al ’10 (Henry H. Willis, Director of the RAND Homeland Security and Defense Center, and professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, Ph.D. in engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon Unviersity, Joel B. Predd, engineer at the RAND Corporation, Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Princeton University, Paul K. Davis, senior principal researcher at the RAND Corporation and a professor of policy analysis in the Pardee Rand Graduate School, Ph.D. in chemical physics at MIT, Measuring the Effectiveness of Border Security Between Ports-ofEntry, Sponsored by the DHS, Technical Report, RAND Homeland Security and Defense Center, http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/technical_reports/2010/RAND_TR837.pdf, 2010) aln The complexity of the counterterrorism mission is well recognized, as is the range of AND some of these dependencies and factors that moderate the effectiveness of border security. Drones better than all alternative methods of targeted killing Zenko ’13 Micah Zenko, Fellow in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations, “Reforming U.S. Drone Strike Policies,” Council on Foreign Relations Special Report No. 65, January 2013 jss The U.S. use of armed drones has two unique advantages over manned AND diverted at the last moment if noncombatants enter the likely blast radius.7 High probability of terrorism- Major international consensus, materials and motivation exist now, rigorous global studies agree Bunn et al. ‘13 ("Steps to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism," Paper, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, October 2, 2013, Matthew Bunn. Professor of the Practice of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and Co-Principal Investigator of Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. • Vice Admiral Valentin Kuznetsov (retired Russian Navy). Senior research fellow at the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Senior Military Representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense to NATO from 2002 to 2008. • Martin Malin. Executive Director of the Project on Managing the Atom at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. • Colonel Yuri Morozov (retired Russian Armed Forces). Professor of the Russian Academy of Military Sciences and senior research fellow at the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, chief of department at the Center for Military-Strategic Studies at the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces from 1995 to 2000. • Simon Saradzhyan. Fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Moscow-based defense and security expert and writer from 1993 to 2008. • William Tobey. Senior fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and director of the U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism, deputy administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation at the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration from 2006 to 2009. • Colonel General Viktor Yesin (retired Russian Armed Forces). Leading research fellow at the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and advisor to commander of the Strategic Missile Forces of Russia, chief of staff of the Strategic Missile Forces from 1994 to 1996. • Major General Pavel Zolotarev (retired Russian Armed Forces). Deputy director of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, head of the Information and Analysis Center of the Russian Ministry of Defense from1993 to 1997, section head - deputy chief of staff of the Defense Council of Russia from 1997 to 1998,http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/23430/steps_to_prevent_nuclear_terrorism.html) I. Introduction In 2011, Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and AND the intention to acquire and use nuclear weapons is as strong as ever.
A terrorist attack goes nuclear- highest risk of escalation Ayson ‘10 (Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington (Robert, July. “After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects.” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Vol. 33, Issue 7. InformaWorld.) But these two nuclear worlds—a non-state actor nuclear attack and a AND be admitted that any preemption would probably still meet with a devastating response. Independently, nuclear terrorism causes US-Russia miscalc- largest existential risk Barrett et al 6-24 (Anthony Barrett, Seth Baum, Kelly Hostetler, Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, Analyzing and Reducing the Risks of Inadvertent Nuclear War Between the United States and Russia, 6/24/13, pgs 1-2, anuss) War involving significant fractions of the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals, AND making one or both nations more likely to misinterpret events as attacks. 16 Drones solve Pakistani militancy and stability—decimate militant group’s effectiveness Nadim ‘12 (Hussain Nadim, visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, August 8, 2012, "How Drones Changed the Game in Pakistan," National Interest, nationalinterest.org/how-drones-changed-the-game-pakistan-7290) Regardless of what the news agencies in Pakistan claim about the negative effects of drone AND at all as long as they get to burn a few American flags. Pakistani instability causes a coup and goes nuclear Pitt ‘9 - a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of two books: "War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know" and "The Greatest Sedition Is Silence." (5/8/09, William, “Unstable Pakistan Threatens the World,” http://www.arabamericannews.com/news/index.php?mod=articleandcat=commentaryandarticle=2183) But a suicide bomber in Pakistan rammed a car packed with explosives into a jeep AND to be gravely serious about addressing the situation. So should we all.
Hegemony Currently restrictions and red tape are driving away investors and decimating drone production AP ’13 (Associated Press, Looking to break into private market, drone industry worries about backlash, 3-29-13, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/drone-industry-worries-privacy-backlash-article-1.1302461#ixzz2i8PsIV8C) aln It's a good bet that in the not-so-distant future aerial drones AND a sudden these things will be flying everywhere else and competing with us."
Drones are key to United States power projection. Ekmektsioglou ’11 (Eleni “New Operational Concepts, the Future of Power Projection and Drones” 7/02/2011 Institute for Defense and Government Advancement http://www.idga.org/unmanned-systems/articles/new-operational-concepts-the-future-of-power-proje/ Investments in anti-satellite warfare, anti-air and anti-ship weaponry AND the prospect of using a drone for collection of targeting data is promising. Drones also ensure steady and efficient forward deployed forces Rushforth ’12 Elinor June Rushforth 12, J.D. candidate, University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law, Class of 2013, Fall 2012, “NOTE: THERE'S AN APP FOR THAT: IMPLICATIONS OF ARMED DRONE ATTACKS AND PERSONALITY STRIKES BY THE UNITED STATES AGAINST NON-CITIZENS, 2004-2012,” Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law, 29 Ariz. J. Int'l and Comp. Law 623, p. lexis The drone program is a fixture in the Obama administration's fight against terror n163 and AND that its full focus is on protecting and growing our nation at home. Steady and recycled forward deployed forces key to global stability and deterrence – ensures heg Flourney and Davidson ’12 , Co-Founder Center for a New American Security, and Davidson, Professor Public Policy George Mason, ’12 (Michele- Former US Undersecretary of Defense for Policy and Janine- Former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Plans, July/August, “Obama’s New Global Posture” Foreign Affairs, Vol 91 Issue 4, EbscoHost) THE LOGIC OF SUSTAINED FORWARD ENGAGEMENT DURING THE Pentagon's last global posture review, in AND the military is positioned and ready to respond to emerging threats and crises.
Second, the aerospace defense industry is declining now- lack of revenue and war on cost Fitzpatrick ’13 (David Fitzpatrick, managing director at AlixPartners global business-advisory firm, leader firm’s Aerospace and Defense Practice, 29 year vet of the aerospace industry, The Military Aerospace Market: Sky’s No Longer the Limit, 6-19-13, http://nation.time.com/2013/06/19/the-military-aerospace-market-skys-no-longer-the-limit/) aln As the industry’s all-important Paris Air Show gets underway, the outlook for AND -contracting skills will be most able to take advantage of this opportunity.
Mexico’s manufacturing and aerospace industry are key to US aerospace Johnson 12 (Tim, political reporter and writer for McClatchyDC, published 7/18/12, “Mexico takes flight as hub for aerospace industry”, http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/07/18/156657/mexico-takes-flight-as-hub-for.html aks) In one part of this central Mexico city, technicians overhaul commercial aircraft engines and AND compares with some 335,000 jobs in auto manufacturing and auto parts. Aerospace competitiveness is most important internal link to overall U.S. leadership Walker et al ‘02 - Chair of the Commission on the Future of the US Aerospace Industry Commissioners (Robert, Final Report of the Commission on the Future of the United States Aerospace Industry Commissioners, November, http://www.trade.gov/td/aerospace/aerospacecommission/AeroCommissionFinalReport.pdf) Defending our nation against its enemies is the first and fundamental commitment of the federal AND armed forces, thus maintaining our position as the world’s preeminent military power. Heg solves global conflicts—impact is nuclear war Brooks et al ’13 Stephen G. Brooks, Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth AND Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb 2013, Vol. 92, Issue 1 Of course, even if it is true that the costs of deep engagement fall AND to Asia. Yet that is exactly what the Obama administration is doing. Pursuit of heg inevitable—only a question of effectiveness Tellis ‘9 Ashley J. Tellis, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace specializing in international security, defense, and Asian strategic issues, Research Director of the Strategic Asia program at the National Bureau of Asian Research, “Preserving Hegemony: The Strategic Tasks Facing the United States,” Global Asia, Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring 2009, http://globalasia.org/pdf/issue9/Ashley_J._Tellis.pdf This hegemony is by no means fated to end any time soon, however, AND material foundations of its power, and securing international support for its policies.
Any transition will be violent absent credible leadership now Barnett ’11 Thomas P. M. Barnett, Former Senior Strategic Researcher and Professor in the Warfare Analysis and Research Department, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War College American military geostrategist and Chief Analyst at Wikistrat., worked as the Assistant for Strategic Futures in the Office of Force Transformation in the Department of Defense, “The New Rules: Leadership Fatigue Puts U.S., and Globalization, at Crossroads,” World Politics Review, 3/7/2011, http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/8099/the-new-rules-leadership-fatigue-puts-u-s-and-globalization-at-crossroads It is worth first examining the larger picture: We live in a time of AND . And if you know your history, that should make you nervous. Multipolarity will fail – rising powers will have no influence Xuetong ‘11 Yan, writer for the Global Times, Published by the Carnegie Endowment, “From a Unipolar to a Bipolar Superpower System: The Future of the Global Power Dynamic” 12/20/11. http://carnegieendowment.org/2011/12/30/from-unipolar-to-bipolar-superpower-system-future-of-global-power-dynamic/a6vl Empty Talk from International Organizations Is Becoming a Trend The ability of international organizations to AND International organizations are thus progressing toward divergent views rather than solving practical problems. Heg solves blowback Brooks et al. 12 Stephen G. Brooks, Associate Professor of Government at AND Security, vol. 37, no. 3, Winter 2012, muse It is now generally understood that the current grand strategy of deep engagement runs no AND analyses find no evidence of external or internal balancing by major powers.38
*Independently, Heg prevents China from Taiwan aggression Brzezinski 12 (Zbigniew, US National Security Advisor to Jimmy Carter, Professor of American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, scholar at CSIS, Jan/Feb 2012, "8 Geopolitically Endangered Species," www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/03/8_geopolitically_endangered_species?page=0,7 SL) 2. TAIWAN Since 1972, the United States has formally accepted the mainland's " AND the mainland. At stake: Risk of a serious collision with China. *Perception of rationality ensures unchecked nuclear escalation Glaser ’11 (Charles, Political Science Professor at George Washington, March/April, “Will China’s Rise Lead to War?” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 90 Issue 2, Ebsco Host) ACCOMMODATION ON TAIWAN? THE PROSPECTS for avoiding intense military competition and war may be AND military efforts and a general poisoning of U.S.-Chinese relations.
Solvency Mexico’s manufacturing key to aerospace Guidi 11 (Ruxandra, Writer for Fronteras, September 28th, 2011, Border Business: Aerospace As A Binational Industry, http://www.fronterasdesk.org/news/2011/sep/28/business-mexico-aerospace-industry-maquiladora aks) Hundreds of buyers and suppliers from the United States, Mexico and Europe gathered in AND on products and services on the U.S. side of border. Cooperation in the aerospace sector with open licensing is key to drone production and innovation Godoy ’13 (Emilio Godoy, Mexico-based correspondent who covers the environment, human rights and sustainable development, Mexicans Develop Drones for Peace, 4-11-13, http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/04/mexicans-develop-drones-for-peace/) aln Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), better known as drones, have earned a bad AND around the world work together to improve codes and develop more advanced products.
Tournament: Silver and Black | Round: 6 | Opponent: Notre Dame AB | Judge: Clara Purk Contention 1 is Restricted Economics The topic of economic engagement is constrained by the conception of a restricted economy, the resolution itself defends an economic rationality that presupposes a utilitarian calculus. Economic engagement shouldn’t be a question of whether there is a benefit to lifting the embargo with Cuba, or trading with Mexico, or investing in Venezuela’s oil industry; economic engagement shouldn’t be conditioned on the necessity of a utility behind each and every action that precedes it. Thus the ballot is a choice- between the restricted and rational economics ensured by a normative affirmation of the resolution, or an embrace of general economics through our affirmation. Human and Cilliers 13 (Oliver Human, Professor of Philosophy at University of Stellenbosch, Paul Cilliers, Professor of Complexity and Philoshophy at the University of Stellenbosch and PhD in philosophy at Cambridge, Towards an Economy of Complexity: Derrida, Morin and Bataille, pgs 34-35, 8-1-13) aln Bataille (1989) argues that traditional political economy restricts its analysis of a system AND this possible? The notion of ‘play’ is crucial to this understanding.
This economic system necessitates a limiting and vouchsafing of life that makes life a denial of itself. Our anti-utilitarian affirmation of general economics is a necessary opposition to the tenets of utility that destroy sovereignty and put it in the hands of the profane. Biles 11 (Jeremy Biles, teaches philosophy at the Illionois Institute of Art, super cool guy, 3’s Bataille, The Remains of God: Bataille/Sacrifice/ Community, 11-24-11, p 130-133, Culture Theory and Critique, Taylor and Francis) aln This energetic surplus, according to Bataille, must be eliminated. Once the growth AND when it lives in immanence’, or continuity (Hollier 1998: 65).
That culminates in an ascetic resentment and hatred of life- we must embrace a chaotic relationship to existence Turanli 03 (The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 26 (2003) 55-63, Nietzsche and the Later Wittgenstein: An Offense to the Quest for Another World, Aydan Turanli, Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Istanbul Technical University). The craving for absolutely general specifications results in doing metaphysics. Unlike Wittgenstein, Nietzsche AND "to show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle"
A restrictive economy has forced humans to become economically servile- we are slaves to the future of our economy. Unless we make the choice to transition to a general economy we will forever be servile to scarcity and necessity. Sauer-Thompson ‘3 (Gary Sauer-Thompson, Lecturer in Philosophy at Flinders University of South Australia, Sovereignty and the Economy, 11-11-03, http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/001084.html, aln) Bataille’s restrictive economy is the contemporary marketplace as we know and live it. In AND it with a massive movement of non-production as in Tibetan monasticism.
and restricted economics subordinates the self and stockpiles reserves of human energy, the docility of current expenditure forces the subject to be docile. An embrace of inefficiency, of uselessness, and of intimate expenditure is necessary to transform life from a standing reserve by reminding us of the madness that is the general economy. Igrek 9 (Apple Zefelius Igrek, Professor in Philosophy at the University of Seattle, Modes of Luxurious Walking, September 2009, muse, aln) The multi-layered, complex, book-length answer elaborated in Bataille's Peak AND the general finitude, exertion, madness, and jouissance of bodily economies.
There isn’t an impact to death because humans are just energy- yet we are all ethically responsible to gloriously expend our own energy. Stoekl 7 (Allan Stoekl is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. “Bataille’s Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability,” pg. 189-191) Henge “Expenditure without return” is a floating concept, defined in opposition to the AND will guarantee the status of a certain act or of a certain politics.
Contention 2 is Debate
Alex and I affirm a sacrifice of the resolution
Sacrifice of the objects closest to us is necessary to draw them out of the world of utility- our sacrifice of the resolution restores it to the realm of the sacred and stops it from being subjected to the domination of labor and debate that renders it a mere thing. Biles 11 (Jeremy Biles, teaches philosophy at the Illionois Institute of Art, super cool guy, 3’s Bataille, The Remains of God: Bataille/Sacrifice/ Community, 11-24-11, 132-144, Culture Theory and Critique, Taylor and Francis) aln ‘God (the wound)’: inner experience and eroticism as sacrificial AND experience of continuity with the other (Bataille 1986: 17–8)
Like the restricted economics of the status quo, the politics of the resolution operates as a fear of death, as a securing of our future, and a protection of reason. Utility necessitates the blocking off of the flow of energy and ensures that we cannot intimately expend. Biles 11 (Jeremy Biles, teaches philosophy at the Illionois Institute of Art, super cool guy, 3’s Bataille, The Remains of God: Bataille/Sacrifice/ Community, 11-24-11, 132-144, Culture Theory and Critique, Taylor and Francis) aln The anxious desire for durability corresponds to a demeaning substantialisation of the sacred. According AND he undergoes a fleeting experience of dissolution in the realm of the sacred.
The 1ac uses the tools of reason and utility to work against themselves- our sacrifice destroys the telically governed project of normative economic engagement, and of normative policy debate Biles 11 (Jeremy Biles, teaches philosophy at the Illionois Institute of Art, super cool guy, 3’s Bataille, The Remains of God: Bataille/Sacrifice/ Community, 11-24-11, 132-144, Culture Theory and Critique, Taylor and Francis) aln This communication, this ecstatic and often tormenting loss of self in continuity with others AND God of utility, stability, and eternity – in a single stroke.
Normative debate has chosen a profane sacrifice- we read our politics disadvantages, our economic collapse impacts, all in the name of stopping war. This restricted economic concern is founded upon an alignment with war over festival- refuse this curriculum to embrace a general economic composition. Sirc ’95 (Geoffrey Sirc, PhD Composition Theory at the University of Minnesota, Professor in the Department of English at the University of Minnesota, Godless Composition, Tormented Writing, http://jaconlinejournal.com/archives/vol15.3/sirc-godless.pdf, JAC Vol. 15 No. 3- 1995) aln The sacrifice composition has chosen (for there must be sacrifice; there is always AND , having to cover so many instances, be but always unwriting itself?
Scholarship is a waste of time. Education is a waste of time. The 1ac was a waste of time- all that matters is that we accept this waste of time, that we accept that not everything can be utopic- only then can we truly achieve value, or ethics. Mellors 13 (Anthony Mellors, Professor in English departments of Oxford and Durham Universities, and at The Manchester Metropolitan University, Refusing Impact: Aesthetic Economy and Given Time, pgs 40-61 of SubStance Volume 42, Number 1 published in 2013, anuss) Perhaps this further indeterminacy is dissemination "itself"? If so, it highlights the AND conservative determination of positivity as utility (qtd. in Connor, 74).
12/7/13
Selfish Giant 1AC
Tournament: Notre Dame | Round: 5 | Opponent: St Marks KP | Judge: Nate Wong We begin with the story of the Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde: (Oscar Wilde, Irish writer and poet, studied at Oxford College and Trinity College, The Selfish Giant, 1888, anuss)
Every afternoon, as they were coming from school AND children in the most beautiful garden they had ever seen.
The topic of economic engagement is constrained by the conception of a restricted economy, the resolution itself defends an economic rationality that presupposes a utilitarian calculus. Economic engagement shouldn’t be a question of whether there is a benefit to lifting the embargo with Cuba, or trading with Mexico, or investing in Venezuela’s oil industry; economic engagement shouldn’t be conditioned on the necessity of a utility behind each and every action that precedes it. General economics should be an affirmation of a glorious expenditure of excess, a needless and meaningless economy that is open to all possibilities. Human and Cilliers 13 (Oliver Human, Professor of Philosophy at University of Stellenbosch, Paul Cilliers, Professor of Complexity and Philoshophy at the University of Stellenbosch and PhD in philosophy at Cambridge, Towards an Economy of Complexity: Derrida, Morin and Bataille, pgs 34-35, 8-1-13, anuss)
Bataille (1989) argues that traditional political economy restricts AND The notion of ‘play’ is crucial to this understanding.
Rational and restricted economics subordinates the self and stockpiles reserves of human energy, the docility of current expenditure forces the subject to be docile. An embrace of inefficiency, of uselessness, and of intimate expenditure is necessary to transform life from a standing reserve by reminding us of the madness that is the general economy. Igrek 9 (Apple Zefelius Igrek, Professor in Philosophy at the University of Seattle, Modes of Luxurious Walking, September 2009, muse, anuss)
The multi-layered, complex, book-length answer elaborated in Bataille's AND finitude, exertion, madness, and jouissance of bodily economies.
We believe the topic should be shared and that our speech, as our own personal expenditure, is a performance of equality that transcends hierarchy- our affirmation is not “theft” of the resolution, it escapes the normativity of a fixed economic system that is continued through the violence of limitation and reservation. Sutzl 13 (Wolfgang Sutzl, transdisciplinary researcher, writer and educator chiefly concerned with a critique of violence , Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Universitat Jaume I de Castellón, Subjectivities of Sharing The Emergence of an Anti-economy, http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit8/papers/SUTZL_paper_mit8_v1201.pdf, pg 16-17, anuss)
The point of this essay was to put forward several propositions AND 'sharing' as a euphemism for exploiting a hitherto unexploited area.
Our affirmation is a radical departure from the dichotomies of the economic and the symbolic, though our exchange might be impossible we still believe it is worthwhile. The 1ac will be ridiculed, but the only reason is because it transcends hierarchies and does so for more than just itself, but for our peers as well. Sutzl 13 (Wolfgang Sutzl, transdisciplinary researcher, writer and educator chiefly concerned with a critique of violence , Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Universitat Jaume I de Castellón, Subjectivities of Sharing The Emergence of an Anti-economy, http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit8/papers/SUTZL_paper_mit8_v1201.pdf, pgs 9-10, anuss)
Given this relation between gift, exchange, time, and social relations AND now have to accept the beggar as one of theirs.
Thus we affirm an intimate expenditure of sharing.
The Selfish Giant is a tool used to teach about sharing- yet there is no concrete theory of sharing as a form of expenditure. Thus we must stop focusing on institutions, structures, and the objects of sharing but rather interrogate sharing in the context of academia. Sutzl 13 (Wolfgang Sutzl, transdisciplinary researcher, writer and educator chiefly concerned with a critique of violence , Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Universitat Jaume I de Castellón, Subjectivities of Sharing The Emergence of an Anti-economy, http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit8/papers/SUTZL_paper_mit8_v1201.pdf, pg 2, anuss)
To most of us, the idea of sharing has a nice ring it AND in cultural economics: the gift, and exchange.
Even if the entirety of the 1ac is useless it is something that should be affirmed. Our defense of a utility of non-utility is necessary to understand that emancipation, ethics, and value are not capable of being simply created. Utopian accounts of the world are constructed, no matter how altruistic they are they are guided by preconceptions of what values they have already chosen to identify with. Mellors 13 (Anthony Mellors, Professor in English departments of Oxford and Durham Universities, and at The Manchester Metropolitan University, Refusing Impact: Aesthetic Economy and Given Time, pgs 40-61 of SubStance Volume 42, Number 1 published in 2013, anuss)
Perhaps this further indeterminacy is dissemination "itself"? AND determination of positivity as utility (qtd. in Connor, 74).
11/3/13
Selfish Giant ASU
Tournament: ASU | Round: 2 | Opponent: South Anchorage AS | Judge: Gulati, Sukhi We begin with the story of the Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde: (Oscar Wilde, Irish writer and poet, studied at Oxford College and Trinity College, The Selfish Giant, 1888, anuss) Every afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go AND playing with the children in the most beautiful garden they had ever seen.
The topic of economic engagement is constrained by the conception of a restricted economy, the resolution itself defends an economic rationality that presupposes a utilitarian calculus. Economic engagement shouldn’t be a question of whether there is a benefit to lifting the embargo with Cuba, or trading with Mexico, or investing in Venezuela’s oil industry; economic engagement shouldn’t be conditioned on the necessity of a utility behind each and every action that precedes it. Thus the ballot is a choice- between the restricted and rational economics ensured by a normative affirmation of the resolution, or an embrace of general economics through our affirmation. Human and Cilliers ‘13 (Oliver Human, Professor of Philosophy at University of Stellenbosch, Paul Cilliers, Professor of Complexity and Philoshophy at the University of Stellenbosch and PhD in philosophy at Cambridge, Towards an Economy of Complexity: Derrida, Morin and Bataille, pgs 34-35, 8-1-13, aln) Bataille (1989) argues that traditional political economy restricts its analysis of a system AND this possible? The notion of ‘play’ is crucial to this understanding.
Survival under restricted economy is reduced to a tautological circle of violence in which we defend our lives through military adventurism and arms buildup, only for the sake of sustaining this circle as long as we can Stoekl ‘7 (Allan Stoekl, Professor at Penn State, Bataille’s Peak: Energy, Religion, Postsustainability, p. 43-46, 2007, Indiana University Press) aln And yet, if we think a bit more deeply about these two approaches to AND and hence, perhaps, the world’s (but not modernity’s) survival.
The military adventurism of a restricted economy entails the reduction of individual’s to a wax-museum of dead objects to be catastrophically expended- the reduction of human life to a standing reserve enables nuclear devastation and destruction of the ecosystem Stoekl ‘7 (Allan Stoekl, Professor at Penn State, Bataille’s Peak: Energy, Religion, Postsustainability, p. 57-58, 2007, Indiana University Press) aln War, too, reflects this nonintimacy of the thing: fossil fuel and nuclear AND but the movement of bodies in transport, in ecstasy, in despair?
We believe the topic should be shared and that our speech, as our own personal expenditure, is a performance of equality that transcends hierarchy- our affirmation is not “theft” of the resolution, it escapes the normativity of a fixed economic system that is continued through the violence of limitation and reservation. Sutzl ‘13 (Wolfgang Sutzl, transdisciplinary researcher, writer and educator chiefly concerned with a critique of violence , Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Universitat Jaume I de Castellón, Subjectivities of Sharing The Emergence of an Anti-economy, http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit8/papers/SUTZL_paper_mit8_v1201.pdf, pg 16-17, we do not defend the ableist word “disables”, aln) The point of this essay was to put forward several propositions about the nature of AND and certainly use 'sharing' as a euphemism for exploiting a hitherto unexploited area.
Gifting without return cuts the head off of humanist arrogance in favor of an a-teleological economy of generosity Stoekl ’90 (Allan Stoekl, Professor at Penn State, Truman’s Apotheosis: Bataille, “Planisme”, and Headlessness, p. 180-250, Yale University Press, 1990, Yale French Studies 78, jstor) aln This last point is an important one: the decision, the plan, to AND that opens onto the extinction of society, the individual, and the state
Thus Alex and I affirm an intimate expenditure of sharing within the resolution.
Our intimate expenditure is a utility of non-utility that ruptures and destroys the restricted economy that lashes out in exclusionary and violent ways to establish a true moment of communal unity Biles ‘11 (Jeremy Biles, teaches philosophy at the Illionois Institute of Art, super cool guy, 3’s Bataille, The Remains of God: Bataille/Sacrifice/ Community, 11-24-11, 132-144, Culture Theory and Critique, Taylor and Francis) aln In this sense, then, a sacrifice is always a sacrifice of God, AND of the closed, individual self as formed through social prohibitions and work.
Economic systems operate not according to efficiency, but wasteful expenditure—linear progress is a lie, development is truly frenzied and sacred, not rational and restricted Rehn and Lindahl ’11 Alf Rehn, and Marcus Lindahl, “George Bataille—On His Shoulders (And Other Parts of the Body of Knowledge,” in On the Shoulders of Giants, ed. Jensen, T. and Wilson, T., Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2011, p. 32-34 The key argument of this first volume is that all dynamic, developing systems have AND ecstatic love. From !e Sacred (1985, p. 179)
Scholarship is a waste of time. Education is a waste of time. The 1ac was a waste of time- all that matters is that we accept this waste of time, that we accept that not everything can be utopic- only then can we truly achieve value, or ethics. Mellors ‘13 (Anthony Mellors, Professor in English departments of Oxford and Durham Universities, and at The Manchester Metropolitan University, Refusing Impact: Aesthetic Economy and Given Time, pgs 40-61 of SubStance Volume 42, Number 1 published in 2013, aln) Perhaps this further indeterminacy is dissemination "itself"? If so, it highlights the AND conservative determination of positivity as utility (qtd. in Connor, 74).
1/10/14
T- Military
Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Alpharetta HM | Judge: Samantha Varney Instruments of governance like the plan foster economic engagement Hatch 13 (Peter J. Hatch, Captain Peter J. Hatch is currently stationed at Coast Guard Headquarters, Washington, DC. A 1989 graduate of the Coast Guard Academy, he has served on a number of different cutters and ashore units, performing a wide variety of maritime governance functions in U.S. territory and overseas, Maritime Governance as an Instrument of National Security: A New Perspective for DHS and the U.S. Coast Guard, 3-26-13, www.cga.edu/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=4795?, pg 84,anuss) Therefore, working with .... ensure national security
Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Alpharetta HM | Judge: Samantha Varney Engagement is only unconditional- protection of private sector Haass, 2000 (Richard N. Haass, formerly a senior aide to President George Bush, is Director of Foreign Policy at Brookings, “Terms of Engagement: Alternatives to Punitive Policies,” Survival, vol. 42, no. 2, Summer, The International Institute for Strategic Studies)-mikee The provision of ... engagement with non-state actors.
9/22/13
THA 1AC
Tournament: Notre Dame | Round: 3 | Opponent: Rowland Hall LN | Judge: Ideen Saiedian Same as before
