Tournament: Greenhill Round Robin | Round: 1 | Opponent: Glenbrook North DK | Judge: Dave Arnett, Tim Baruch A diferentes países los Certifican los gringos No quieren que exista droga Pues dicen que es un peligro ¿Díganme quien certifica A los Estados Unidos?
Para agarrar a los narcos México a sido derecho. Los gringos compran la coca La pagan a cualquier precio. No quieren que exista droga Pero se dan privilegios
Different countries are Certified by the gringos They do not want drugs there For they say that is a danger Tell me who certifies The United States?
To catch the narcos Mexico has been straight. The Americans buy coke They pay it at any price. They do not want drugs to exist But give themselves privileges.
(from “El General” by Los Tigres del Norte, translation in “Criminals and enemies? The Mexican drug trafficker in official discourse and in narcocorridos” by Alejandro Lajous) The duplicitous US attitude toward drugs is adeptly captured here by Los Tigres del Norte. Foreign supply is a threat, but domestic demand is a lost cause; while little is done to curtail consumption, the centerpiece of US engagement toward Mexico is characterized by militarized surveillance and violent suppression to combat drug trafficking. Any deviance from the status quo is perceived as a threat – the only option is the perpetuation of Calderon’s “war” Freidersdorf, 13 staff writer at The Atlantic, where he focuses on politics and national affairs (Conor, “Mexico Is Ready to End Failed Drug-War Policies—Why Isnand#39;t the U.S.?,” The Atlantic, 30 April 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/mexico-is-ready-to-end-failed-drug-war-policies-why-isnt-the-us/275410/)//bghs-BI Did you know that the U.S. …So the carnage continues. Since its origination in 1970s US domestic policy, the “war on drugs” has proven a failed initiative, yet it endures; the US-Mexico border has developed into an Agambenian space of exception where law is suspended by the sovereign Parker, 11 – master’s degree in cultural and political studies from Royal Holloway, University of London, written extensively in the academic arena on geopolitics, ‘radical’ politics and protest, and mass media (Lindsay, “The Making of a Space of Exception: the War on Drugs, Agamben, and Ciudad Juarez,” Cultural Geography, August 2011, http://lindsayparkerdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/the-making-of-a-space-of-exception.pdf)//bghs-BI The “war on drugs” was introduced ...losing power to drug cartels. The war metaphor remains dominant in official discourse surrounding drugs, collapsing the distinction between criminal and enemy – peace is impossible until the enemy is annihilated Lajous, 12 – doctor of Law at Yale, professor and researcher at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica, a Mexican center of research and higher education specialized in social sciences (Alejandro Madrazo, “Criminals and enemies? The Mexican drug trafficker in official discourse and in narcocorridos,” translated by Fernanda Alonso)bghs-BI III. The criminal and the enemy in the official discourse … (and not only shares his label).11 Politicizing the criminal as the enemy subjects them not to law but unlimited sovereignty, enabling the state to justify sacrifice of the political community and making civil war inevitable Lajous, 12 – doctor of Law at Yale, professor and researcher at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica, a Mexican center of research and higher education specialized in social sciences (Alejandro Madrazo, “Criminals and enemies? The Mexican drug trafficker in official discourse and in narcocorridos,” translated by Fernanda Alonso)bghs-BI II. The criminal and the enemy in the political imaginary … no longer a normative system. The biopolitical determination of the threshold beyond which life ceases to have juridical value creates the category of a “life devoid of value” which spills over to the biological body of every living being and nullifies value to death Agamben, 98 – professor of philosophy at university of Verona (Giorgio, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, pg. 139-140) It is not our intention here … the biological body of every living being. When the legitimacy and existence of a population is in question, politics become murderous – the entirety of the world is reduced to bare life in an attempt to rid the public sphere of all risk. The only option becomes the extermination of all life Duarte, 5 – professor of Philosophy at Universidade Federal do Paraná (André, “Biopolitics and the dissemination of violence: the Arendtian critique of the present,” April 2005, http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017andcontext=andre_duarte)//bghs-BI These historic transformations have … of extending hospitality and solidarity towards others.
Thus,
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement toward Mexico. “Resolved” means to reduce through mental analysis Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 6 (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/resolved) Resolve: 1.To come to a …to reduce by mental analysis (often fol. by into). In the face of the hegemonic “war” discourse, an alternative has arisen in the public imaginary: the narcocorrido. Ambivalent but credible, epic but ordinary, it constitutes rebellion against a political system sustained on exceptionalism Lajous, 12 – doctor of Law at Yale, professor and researcher at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica, a Mexican center of research and higher education specialized in social sciences (Alejandro Madrazo, “Criminals and enemies? The Mexican drug trafficker in official discourse and in narcocorridos,” translated by Fernanda Alonso)bghs-BI IV. The criminal and the enemy in the saga of the narcocorrido … politicization in official discourse of the war on drugs? Representations and exposition are the organizing principles behind the debate which we can challenge to alter power Agamben, 2000 – professor of philosophy at the College International de Philosophie in Paris (Giorgio, Means Without End: Notes on Politics, p. 93-95) Exposition is the location of politics … jealously watches over its management. Our affirmation is a form of play that liberates debate from rigid rules and detaches humanity from the sacred Dragona, 8 – PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Communication and Mass Media at University Of Athens, Freelance media arts curator (Daphne, “WhoDaresToDe-sacraliseTodaySPlay,” Personal Cinema, Page Last Modified 24 April 2008, http://www.personalcinema.org/warport/index.php?n=Main.WhoDaresToDe-sacraliseTodaySPlay?) Giorgio Agamben considers play … Let’s hope so and wait and see…
9/19/13
1AC Greenhill RR Round 4
Tournament: Greenhill Round Robin | Round: 4 | Opponent: Greenhill DJ | Judge: Val McIntosh, Stephen Weil Same as round 1
9/20/13
1AC Greenhill RR Round 6
Tournament: Greenhill Round Robin | Round: 6 | Opponent: Wayzata GN | Judge: Andres Gannon, Louis Petit Same as Wake Forest round 1
9/21/13
1AC Greenhill Round 2
Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Heritage Hall NC | Judge: Max Anderson Same as Greenhill RR round 1
9/22/13
1AC Greenhill Round 4
Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 4 | Opponent: Alpharetta MH | Judge: Paul Johnson Same as Greenhill RR round 1
9/22/13
1AC Greenhill Round 6
Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 6 | Opponent: Caddo Magnet CC | Judge: Corey Turoff Same as Greenhill RR Round 1, minus resolved statement and definition of resolved
9/22/13
1AC Wake Forest Octas
Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: Octas | Opponent: Highland Park HS | Judge: Greg Achten, Joel Diamond, Jacob Hurwitz Added one 1AC card
USAID technical assistance now AA 8/23 (AllAfrica, press release by USAID, “Africa: UNFPA, USAID Strengthen Collaboration to Boost Access to Voluntary Family Planning for Women Across Globe,” http://allafrica.com/stories/201308260814.html) gz USAID, the United States Agency … said USAID Administrator, Rajiv Shah.
9/11/13
1AC Wake Forest Round 1
Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 1 | Opponent: Chattahoochee MK | Judge: Ryan Nierman Advantage One: Oil
Newest and most conclusive evidence proves Venezuela’s economic model is terminally unsustainable – investment is key Caselli 9/5 (Irene Caselli, BBC reporter on the ground in Venezuela, citing Jose Manuel Puente, professor and advisor to the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración in macroeconomics, 9-5-13, “Venezuela's economic woes: Sabotage or mismanagement?,” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23970027) BI Theories abound in Venezuela regarding … support his predecessor enjoyed.
Specifically, oil income will drop nearly 4 Tovar, 7/26 – won the Citi Journalism Award for Excellence 2012, head of the microeconomics desk at El Universal, a major Venezuelan newspaper headquartered in Caracas, translated by Conchita Delgado (Ernesto J., “Plunge of 3.8 expected in Venezuela's oil bill” El Universal, 26 July 2013, http://english.eluniversal.com/economia/130726/plunge-of-38-expected-in-venezuelas-oil-bill)//BI The performance of Venezuelan oil … USD 103.42 in 2012.
Negative trends are a result of growing state control of oil resources – that limits investment, restricts democracy and increases risk of oil shocks – U.S. action is key to reverse them Goldwyn, 13 – President, Goldwyn Global Strategies, LLC (4/11/2013, David L., “The Impact of the Tight Oil and Gas Boom on Latin America and the Caribbean: Opportunities for Cooperation,” House Committee on Foreign Affairs; Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere; “Energy Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean” http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA07/20130411/100622/HHRG-113-FA07-Wstate-GoldwynD-20130411.pdf) The unconventional revolution will also … and are ultimately unsustainable.
Growing economic crises and ties with Iran are fueling narco terror networks targeting the U.S. Shinkman, 13 – national security reporter at U.S. News and World Report (4/24/2013, Paul D., “Iranian-Sponsored Narco-Terrorism in Venezuela: How Will Maduro Respond? New Venezuelan president at a crossroads for major threat to U.S.,” http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/04/24/iranian-sponsored-narco-terrorism-in-venezuela-how-will-maduro-respond) At a conference earlier this month, … enjoyed with the ever-charismatic Chavez.
Results in WMD terrorism on the U.S. Anderson, 8 – AP writer, citing Charles Allen, former chief of intelligence analysis at the Department of Homeland Security (Curt, “US officials fear terrorist links with drug lords,” USA Today, 8 October 2013, http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-10-08-805146709_x.htm) MIAMI — There is real danger … potpourri of scum to come together."
Retaliation risks extinction Wright 7 – New America Foundation senior fellow (Robert, 4/28, Planet Of The Apes, http://select.nytimes.com/2007/04/28/opinion/28wright.html) (3) Terrorism. Alas, the negative-feedback loop -- bad outcomes lead to smart policies -- may not apply here. We reacted to 9/11 by freaking out and invading one too many countries, creating more terrorists. … along with our mishandling of it.
Expanding market based investment is essential to Venezuelan stability and Maduro’s grip on power Campbell, 13 – editor of Alberta Oil (Darren, “A new leader could signal change for Venezuela’s troubled oil and gas sector; If Nicolas Maduro can reverse the industry's decline, it could siphon off investment in Alberta's oil sands,” 16 April 2013, http://www.albertaoilmagazine.com/2013/04/a-new-leader-could-signal-change-for-venenzuelas-oil-and-gas-sector/) That’s because … Mr. Maduro’s administration performs.
Instability spills over to rest of the region Shifter, 3 – vice president for policy at the Inter-American Dialogue (Michael, “Why Venezuela Matters,” 16 July 2003, http://nationalinterest.org/article/why-venezuela-matters-2388?page=1) For the United States, … are combustible, and the risks are growing.
The impact is global hegemonic war Rochlin 94 – Prof. Pol. Sci. @ Okanagan University College (James Francis, “Discovering the Americas: the evolution of Canadian foreign policy towards Latin America”, p. 130-131) While there were economic motivations … in the next chapter.
Investment in Venezuela trades off with Canadian oil sands Campbell, 13 – editor of Alberta Oil (Darren, “A new leader could signal change for Venezuela’s troubled oil and gas sector; If Nicolas Maduro can reverse the industry's decline, it could siphon off investment in Alberta's oil sands,” Alberta Oil, 16 April 2013, http://www.albertaoilmagazine.com/2013/04/a-new-leader-could-signal-change-for-venenzuelas-oil-and-gas-sector/) Oil-rich Venezuela has a new president … will flow to the oil sands.
Impact is extinction from runaway climate change Hansen, 12 – directs the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (James, “Game Over for the Climate,” New York Times, 9 May 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/opinion/game-over-for-the-climate.html?_r=0) GLOBAL warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening. That is why I was so troubled to read a recent interview with President Obama in Rolling Stone in which he said that Canada would exploit the oil in its vast tar sands reserves … dirty fuels in the ground.
U.S. energy engagement solves – political and economic changes make Maduro’s acceptance likely Shifter, 13 – Adjunct Professor of Latin American Studies at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service (Michael, “The Empire Makes Nice: Is it time for a Venezuela reset?,” Foreign Policy 11 March 2013, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/03/11/the_empire_makes_nice_venezuela_hugo_chavez) Four years ago, when the first Obama … reason -- because he could.
U.S. resources and expertise are key Farnsworth, 13 – vice president of the Council of the Americas and Americas Society (Eric, “Energy Security Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean, Hearing Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, 11 April 2013, http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA07/20130411/100622/HHRG-113-FA07-Wstate-FarnsworthE-20130411.pdf) More broadly, the United States … climate and the rule of law.
Thus, the United States federal government should substantially increase its investment and technical aid for Venezuela’s liberalization of its energy sector.
Large-scale rapprochement is possible but not occurring now – oil investment could catalyze stronger relations Metzker, 13 – IPS News writer, citing Shifter and Diana Villiers Negroponte, senior fellow at the Brookings Institute (Jared, “Analysts Say Oil Could Help Mend U.S.-Venezuela Relations,” 17 June 2013, http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/06/analysts-say-oil-could-help-mend-u-s-venezuela-relations/,) A shift in U.S. foreign policy towards … and see where it is going.”
Oil nationalization has undermined diplomatic relations Daly, 13 – non-resident Fellow at The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies’ Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and one of the leading specialists on the post-Soviet space, particularly the Caucasus and Central Asia energy issues, having provided professional audiences with in-depth analysis of energy issues there for more than a decade (John, “Venezuelan President Maduro Offers Olive Branch to Washington,” 28 May 2013, http://www.economonitor.com/blog/2013/05/venezuelan-president-maduro-offers-olive-branch-to-washington) To say that U.S. relations with … have continued unabated.
This is critical to boost U.S. influence and mold the regional economic framework Goldwyn, 13 – President, Goldwyn Global Strategies, LLC (4/11/2013, David L., “The Impact of the Tight Oil and Gas Boom on Latin America and the Caribbean: Opportunities for Cooperation,” House Committee on Foreign Affairs; Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere; “Energy Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean” http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA07/20130411/100622/HHRG-113-FA07-Wstate-GoldwynD-20130411.pdf) III. The Impact of Hemispheric Energy … for its leadership on this critical issue.
Latin American relations check all conflict. Only engagement solves. Zedillo, et al., 8 – Commission Co-Chair for the Brookings Institute Report on the Partnership for the Americas and former President of Mexico (Ernesto, Thomas R. Pickering, etc, “Rethinking U.S.-Latin American Relations: A Hemispheric Partnership for a Turbulent World,” Report of the Partnership for the Americas Commission, The Brookings Institution, November 2008, http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Research/Files/Reports/2008/11/2420latin20america20partnership/1124_latin_america_partnership.PDF) The Need for a Hemispheric Partnership … hemisphere’s countries.
Failure to rebuild ties on oil issues allows China to solidify its stronghold and use oil as a diplomatic weapon against the U.S. Hurst, 8 – political-military research analyst with the Foreign Military Studies Office and a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy Reserve (Cindy, “China's Global Quest for Energy; Rocky U.S. Relationship with Venezuela is Playing into China's Energy Policy Despite The Ocean Between Them,” 8 September 2008, www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=740andpageid=andpagename=) The U.S. rocky relationship with Venezuela is playing into China’s hands, … for technology that will stretch its resources.
Triggers great power conflict with China Salameh, 11 – international oil economist, a consultant to the World Bank in Washington, DC on energy affairs and a technical expert of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in Vienna (Mamdouh G., “China’s Oil ‘Adventure’ into Venezuela,” International Association for Energy Economics, Second Quarter 2011, www.iaee.org/en/publications/newsletterdl.aspx?id=130) China’s Global Oil Diplomacy … on oil exports to the United States.
Aff is a prerequisite to other forms of engagement – now is the key time to use leverage to change internal Venezuelan policy Roberts, 13 – master’s degree in international and development economics from Yale University and also holds a master of business administration from the University of Pittsburgh, Research Fellow For Economic Freedom and Growth, Center for International Trade and Economics (CITE), and Sergio Daga, Visiting Senior Policy Analyst, Center for International Trade and Economics (CITE) (James, “Venezuela: U.S. Should Push President Maduro Toward Economic Freedom,” Issue Brief #3911, 4-15-13) Hugo Chavez’s hand-picked successor, … back into the globalized economic system.
U.S. assistance prevents exclusive Chinese influence Fillingham, 13 – Managing Editor and Asia Analyst and MA in Chinese Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London (Zachary, “Post-Chavez US-Venezuelan Relations: Headed for a Thaw?” 10 March 2013, http://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/post-chavez-us-venezuelan-relations-headed-for-a-thaw-4790) Current polls indicate that Maduro would … their window of opportunity presents itself.
9/7/13
1AC Wake Forest Round 3
Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 3 | Opponent: BCC DI | Judge: Thomas Stirrat Same as Round 1
9/11/13
1AC Wake Forest Round 5
Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 5 | Opponent: Dexter SM | Judge: Noah Cramer Same
9/11/13
Blake Octos
Tournament: Blake | Round: Octas | Opponent: Saint Paul Central NB | Judge: Tyler Snelling, Dylan Quigley, Emily Bosch 1AC
Since the 70s, the “war on drugs” has proven a failed initiative, yet it endures; economic engagement with Mexico has only expanded the trafficking problem the US has crusaded against. Intertwined with the economics of the drug war is a fundamental shift in the way that sovereignty operates on the US-Mexico border. Parker, 11 – master’s degree in cultural and political studies from Royal Holloway, University of London, written extensively in the academic arena on geopolitics, ‘radical’ politics and protest, and mass media (Lindsay, “The Making of a Space of Exception: the War on Drugs, Agamben, and Ciudad Juarez,” Cultural Geography, August 2011, http://lindsayparkerdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/the-making-of-a-space-of-exception.pdf)//bghs-BI The “war on drugs” … power to drug cartels.
Legal approaches have failed – cartels have subverted governmental sovereignty in Juarez as sovereignty has been transferred to the drug underworld Parker, 11 – master’s degree in cultural and political studies from Royal Holloway, University of London, written extensively in the academic arena on geopolitics, ‘radical’ politics and protest, and mass media (Lindsay, “The Making of a Space of Exception: the War on Drugs, Agamben, and Ciudad Juarez,” Cultural Geography, August 2011, http://lindsayparkerdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/the-making-of-a-space-of-exception.pdf)//bghs-BI Recalling Agamben’s paradox … and profits swell (Naim 2005).
This transfer of sovereignty constitutes Juarez as a space of exception. Citizens’ juridical value is suspended by both cartels and state military forces, as these categories become one in the same – rule and exception become indistinguishable, which is the enabling condition for violence Parker, 11 – master’s degree in cultural and political studies from Royal Holloway, University of London, written extensively in the academic arena on geopolitics, ‘radical’ politics and protest, and mass media (Lindsay, “The Making of a Space of Exception: the War on Drugs, Agamben, and Ciudad Juarez,” Cultural Geography, August 2011, http://lindsayparkerdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/the-making-of-a-space-of-exception.pdf)//bghs-BI This analysis of … a state of emergency.
The biopolitical determination of the threshold beyond which life ceases to have juridical value creates the category of a “life devoid of value” which spills over to the biological body of every living being and nullifies value to death Agamben, 98 – professor of philosophy at university of Verona (Giorgio, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, pg. 139-140) It is not our … every living being.
The impact is the sovereign’s ability to exploit fundamental flaws in the legal system and continue the global biopolitical war – the ballot should side with the global countermovement against such violence – refuse the line Gulli, 13 - professor of history, philosophy, and political science at Kingsborough College in New York, (Bruno, “For the critique of sovereignty and violence,” http://academia.edu/2527260/For_the_Critique_of_Sovereignty_and_Violence, pg. 1) We live in … and police brutality¶
Interrogation of Juarez as a space of exception is valuable in its ability to foster understanding the operation and implication of such categories Parker, 11 – master’s degree in cultural and political studies from Royal Holloway, University of London, written extensively in the academic arena on geopolitics, ‘radical’ politics and protest, and mass media (Lindsay, “The Making of a Space of Exception: the War on Drugs, Agamben, and Ciudad Juarez,” Cultural Geography, August 2011, http://lindsayparkerdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/the-making-of-a-space-of-exception.pdf)//bghs-BI All countries have … restoral of order.
Representations and exposition are the organizing principles behind the debate which we can challenge to alter power Agamben, 2000 – professor of philosophy at the College International de Philosophie in Paris (Giorgio, Means Without End: Notes on Politics, p. 93-95) Exposition is the … over its management.
Theoretical thinking concerning security problematizes militarized practices like the “war on drugs” – it constitutes reality Bilgin, 5 – Professor of IR, Bikent University, Regional Security In The Middle East A Critical Perspective, Page 7 From a critical … theory and practice.
Our affirmation is a form of play that liberates debate from rigid rules and detaches humanity from the sacred Dragona, 8 – PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Communication and Mass Media at University Of Athens, Freelance media arts curator (Daphne, “WhoDaresToDe-sacraliseTodaySPlay,” Personal Cinema, Page Last Modified 24 April 2008, http://www.personalcinema.org/warport/index.php?n=Main.WhoDaresToDe-sacraliseTodaySPlay?) Giorgio Agamben considers … and wait and see…
Truth and predictability are nihilistic illusions built upon a myth of sameness and unity grounded in a fear of the flux and movement which lie at the heart of life – embrace the ecstasy of risk and the glory of active interpretation which uses force to wrest meaning from the abyss of nihilism. Lotringer, 1 – Professor of Foreign Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Columbia University, (Sylvere, “The Dance of Signs” in Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader ed. KrausandLotringer, Los Angeles:Semiotext(e), pg 174-176) Freud is not … forever being reborn.
2AC
Biopolitics is the precondition for the fungibility of colored bodies Tesfahuney and Dahlstedt, 8 MEKONNEN and MAGNUS, Linköping University, Department of Social and Welfare Studies, "Maze of Camps: (Im)mobilities, Racism 26 Geographies of Exception", Pg.175 bghs-ms According to Agamben, … (Mbembe, Necropolitics 22).
Positioning personal experience as a justification for action creates an insulation from reevaluation--“You can’t criticize how I felt!” This process prevents criticism of the status quo, which can be rendered as purely subjective—“That’s only your experience, it can’t be applied to larger structural problems of social organization.” Vote affirmative to affirm criticism of ANY identity categories. Scott 97. Joan Scott, Professor of History at Princeton, 1997, Feminists Theorize the Political, “Experience” When the evidence … the category of “experience.”
1AR
Refuse attempts to reform the legal system and doom it to its own nihilistic destruction—we must refuse all conceptual apparatuses of capture Prozorov 10. Sergei Prozorov, professor of political and economic studies at the University of Helsinki, “Why Giorgio Agamben is an optimist,” Philosophy Social Criticism 2010 36: pg. 1065
This is an embodiment of whiteness and colonialism that upholds structures of anti-black violence and the very form of exclusion their critique criticizes Curry ’13 (Tommy J., Professor of Philosophy at Texas AandM University, “Please Don’t Make Me Touch ‘Em: Towards a Critical Race Fanonianism”, pgs. 145-146, Academia.edu) Once we (as African descended people) come to grips with the endemic nature AND their economic interests in Black subjugation in the effort to respect Black humanity.
2AC – Irigaray
The critique’s approach to sexual difference is totalizing—only by analyzing the articulation of sexual difference among other vectors of domination such as race and class can we preclude the critique from becoming essentialist Winnubst, 99 Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Southwestern, 1999 Shannon, “Exceeding Hegel and Lacan: Different Fields of Pleasure within Foucault and Irigaray,” Hypatia 14.1, muse Simultaneously, bringing Foucault's rich sense of historical discourse, genealogical change, and discursive AND tools with which to approach and articulate the differences within our different lives.
Psychoanalysis has enabled modern governmentality – its techniques are used manage populations and develop disciplinary society Milchman and Rosenberg 02 Milchman teaches in the department of Political Science of Queens College of the City University of New York. He has published on Marxism, modern genocide, Max Weber, Heidegger, Foucault, and postmodernism. He has co-edited Postmodernism and the Holocaust, with Alan Rosenberg (Rodopi, 1998) and Martin Heidegger and the Holocaust, with Alan Rosenberg (Humanities Press, 1996), Alan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queens College of the City University of New York. He has published widely on psychoanalysis, the Holocaust, and the philosophies of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Foucault. Among the books that he has co-edited are Foucault and Heidegger: Critical Encounters, with Alan Milchman (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming); Contemporary Portrayals of Auschwitz: Philosophical Challenges, with James Watson and Detlef B. Linke (Humanity Books); Psychoanalytic Versions of the Human Condition, with Paul Marcus (NYU press, 1998); Healing Their Wounds: Psychotherapy with Holocaust Survivors and Their Families, with Paul Marcus (Praeger, 1989); and Echoes from the Holocaust: Philosophical Reflections on a Dark Time, with Gerald Myers (Temple University Press, 1988). “A Foucauldian Analysis of Psychoanalysis: A Discipline that ‘Disciplines’” Academy for the Study of the Psychoanalytic Arts, http://www.academyanalyticarts.org/milchandrosen.htm/ For Foucault, the very genesis of the discipline of psychoanalysis is itself linked to AND a lynchpin of the developing disciplinary society and its techniques for managing people.
As a critical intellectual, you must resist power relations inscribed in the practice of psychoanalysis Milchman and Rosenberg, 2 Milchman teaches in the department of Political Science of Queens College of the City University of New York. He has published on Marxism, modern genocide, Max Weber, Heidegger, Foucault, and postmodernism. He has co-edited Postmodernism and the Holocaust, with Alan Rosenberg (Rodopi, 1998) and Martin Heidegger and the Holocaust, with Alan Rosenberg (Humanities Press, 1996), Alan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queens College of the City University of New York. He has published widely on psychoanalysis, the Holocaust, and the philosophies of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Foucault. Among the books that he has co-edited are Foucault and Heidegger: Critical Encounters, with Alan Milchman (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming); Contemporary Portrayals of Auschwitz: Philosophical Challenges, with James Watson and Detlef B. Linke (Humanity Books); Psychoanalytic Versions of the Human Condition, with Paul Marcus (NYU press, 1998); Healing Their Wounds: Psychotherapy with Holocaust Survivors and Their Families, with Paul Marcus (Praeger, 1989); and Echoes from the Holocaust: Philosophical Reflections on a Dark Time, with Gerald Myers (Temple University Press, 1988). “A Foucauldian Analysis of Psychoanalysis: A Discipline that ‘Disciplines’” Academy for the Study of the Psychoanalytic Arts, http://www.academyanalyticarts.org/milchandrosen.htm/ William Connolly has pointed out that Foucault contended "that systematic cruelty flows regularly from AND hyper- and pessimistic activism which Foucault directs to an encounter with psychoanalysis.
Their understanding of femininity as pure negativity, the absolutely otherized in masculine discourse, is an illegitimate monopoly that reproduces masculine violence—otherization functions plurally, making use of women, slaves, children, and animals among others Butler, 4, Professor of Rhetoric at Berkeley, 2004 Judith, “Bodies That Matter,” Engaging with Irigaray, Ed. Burke, Schor, Whitford, p.p. 160-162 So perhaps here is the return of essentialism, in the notion of a " AND that in its redoublings and contradictions enacts an inchoate drama of sexual difference.
Their argument relies on a dangerous binaries – there are other differences which produce commonalities of experience Silverman, 88 (Kaja – Rhetoric Department and Film Studies @ University of California, Berkeley, The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema, p. 148)
Finally, Irigaray relies heavily upon binary opposition, AND want to lay out those assumptions in some detail before returning to Irigaray.
Irigaray reduces the feminine to bodily sex, removing the mind to something "out there" Silverman, 88 (Kaja – Rhetoric Department and Film Studies @ University of California, Berkeley, The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema, p. 147-8) Irigaray fails, in addition, to distinguish between sexuality and the body, treating AND feminism has anything to gain from buying into a myth of sexual immediacy.
The neg’s examination of gender ignores the biopolitical construction of sexuality Repo ’13 (Jemima Repo “The Biopolitical Birth of Gender: Social Control, Hermaphroditism, and the New Sexual Apparatus” Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 2013 38: 228 DOI: 10.1177/0304375413497845 The online version of this article can be found at: http://alt.sagepub.com/content/38/3/228)//JL In 1955, John Money (1921–2006), professor of medical psychology and AND apparatus itself emerged, through what conditions of knowledge and strategies of power.
Nothing wrong with Agamben Cerwonka and Loutfi 11 (Allaine Cerwonka, professor of gender studies at Central European University, Anna Loutfi, assistant professor of gender studies at Central European University, “Biopolitics and the Female Reproductive Body as the New Subject of Law,” Feminists at Law Volume 1 Number 1, journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/feministsatlaw/article/view/18/75?) To say that the histories and conceptual frameworks of Michel Foucault have, since the AND sex blindness – as earlier scholars were by the sex blindness of Foucault.
Theoretical thinking concerning security problematizes militarized practices like the “war on drugs” – it constitutes reality Bilgin, 5 – Professor of IR, Bikent University, Regional Security In The Middle East A Critical Perspective, Page 7 From a critical perspective, thinking differently about security involves: first, challenging the AND some, emancipation-oriented) approach to security in theory and practice.
2AC – USFG CP
The entirety of Western politics rests on the state of exception – any action that begins with the State maintains the ability to determine life Agamben 98 – professor of philosophy at the University of Verona (Giorgio, Homo Sacer, pg. 8-9) The protagonist of this book is bare life, that is, the life of AND the bare life of the citizen, the new biopolitical body of humanity.
2AC – Suffering
Ignoring images of suffering degrades ethics and legitimizes the worst violence Sontag, 3 (Susan, Peace Prize Recipient, Human Rights Activist And Internationally Renowned Author, Regarding the Pain of Others, p. 114-116) To designate a hell is not, of course, to tell us anything about AND more general understanding that human beings everywhere do terrible things to one another.
Psychoanalysis has enabled modern governmentality – its techniques are used manage populations and develop disciplinary society Milchman and Rosenberg 02 Milchman teaches in the department of Political Science of Queens College of the City University of New York. He has published on Marxism, modern genocide, Max Weber, Heidegger, Foucault, and postmodernism. He has co-edited Postmodernism and the Holocaust, with Alan Rosenberg (Rodopi, 1998) and Martin Heidegger and the Holocaust, with Alan Rosenberg (Humanities Press, 1996), Alan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queens College of the City University of New York. He has published widely on psychoanalysis, the Holocaust, and the philosophies of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Foucault. Among the books that he has co-edited are Foucault and Heidegger: Critical Encounters, with Alan Milchman (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming); Contemporary Portrayals of Auschwitz: Philosophical Challenges, with James Watson and Detlef B. Linke (Humanity Books); Psychoanalytic Versions of the Human Condition, with Paul Marcus (NYU press, 1998); Healing Their Wounds: Psychotherapy with Holocaust Survivors and Their Families, with Paul Marcus (Praeger, 1989); and Echoes from the Holocaust: Philosophical Reflections on a Dark Time, with Gerald Myers (Temple University Press, 1988). “A Foucauldian Analysis of Psychoanalysis: A Discipline that ‘Disciplines’” Academy for the Study of the Psychoanalytic Arts, http://www.academyanalyticarts.org/milchandrosen.htm/ For Foucault, the very genesis of the discipline of psychoanalysis is itself linked to AND a lynchpin of the developing disciplinary society and its techniques for managing people.
2AC – FW
Their complaint is with the form rather than the content of the 1AC – translating this complaint into a rule plays into sovereign hands which turns decisionmaking and guts education Steele 10 – Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas (Brent, Defacing Power: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics pg 109-111, dml) The rules of language and speaking can themselves serve to conceal truth in world politics AND for the victim, inappropriate or, more to the point, inconvenient.
“Resolved” means to reduce through mental analysis Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 6 (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/resolved) Resolve: 1.To come to a definite or earnest decision about; determine AND 5.to reduce by mental analysis (often fol. by into).
AT: Portable Skills
Their claims about portable skills, limits and community rely on an understanding of education which frames subjects as units of rationality to be bettered through civilizing practices. This form of dispassionate subject construction eliminates care and dooms millions to suffering and death. Mourad, 1 /Roger Jr., Director of Institutional Research at Washtenaw College and teaches at the AND 103, Number 5, October 2001, pp. 739–759/ EDUCATION FOR IMPROVEMENT, OR “KICKING THE DOG” Too many lost names too AND and fundamentally acknowledges suffering and limitation in philosophy, policy, and practice.
AT: Simulation
You should be an informed citizen, not the government – they shut down critical thinking and deliberation Steele, 10 – Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas (Brent, Defacing Power: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics pg 130-132, dml) gender/ableist language modified with brackets When facing these dire warnings regarding the manner in which academic-intellectuals are seduced AND a place fit for human habitation” (1964 2006: 233).
AT: CTP
The personal is political Colebrook, 2 (Claire Colebrook; Understanding Deleuze, Pg. xxxviii) Human freedom became the problem. If human beings are free, does this mean AND itself political; it produces relations, effects, and organises our bodies.
Link to this arg was taken out in cross-ex and on case – we aren’t silent on our own social location in the context of the drug war – we are all foot soldiers Perm do both – collectivity is best Jones and Campbell, 12 (Richard D. Jones, Department of Communication Studies, Eastern Illinois University, AND Bernadette Marie Campbell, Department of Communication Studies, University of Denver; “Contesting Neoliberalism Through Critical Pedagogy, Intersectional Reflexivity, and Personal Narrative: Queer Tales of Academia” Journal of Homosexuality, 59) Extending Alcoff’s (1991–1992) reminder to critically question political accountability and positionality AND and rejoices in collective dedication to truth” (p. 33).
Exclusive focus on blackness fails Perea 97 (Juan F. Perea – Professor of Law at Loyola University Chicago, 10/31/97, “The Black/White Binary Paradigm of Race: The Normal Science of American Racial Thought”, http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1605andcontext=californialawreview)MD One might object that I am distorting history by suggesting that slavery and the experience AND is so frequently missing from the texts that structure our thinking about race.
Anti-blackness cannot explain orientalist violence against Islam which preceded the Enlightenment Charoenying (citing Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Prof of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley) 8 (Timothy, Islamophobia and Anti-Blackness: A Genealogical Approach, http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/islamophobia-anti-blackness-genealogical-approach) The year 1492 marked a major turning point in the trajectory of Western Civilization. AND the way for the enslavement and human trafficking of sub-Saharan Africans.
Orientalist Otherization creates a dyad between faiths, making genocidal violence inevitable Batur, 2k7 (Pinar Batur, Professor of Sociology and Director of Environmental Studies at Vassar College; “Heart of Violence: Global Racism, War, and Genocide,” 2007, “Handbook of the Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations,” “Heart of Violence: Global Racism, War, and Genocide”) Albert Memmi argued that “We have no idea what the colonized would have been AND do, but because of who they are and what they believe in.”
Orientalist academia is incredibly dangerous—debate will continue to produce war-inspired knowledge that makes violence and war inevitable Chow 06 (Rey Chow – Andrew W. Mellon professor of the humanities at Brown, 2006, “The Age of the World Target”, pg. 38-41) In the decades since 1945, whether in dealing with the Soviet Union, the AND object" —and by "the problem of the vanishing object."55
Perm do both – collectivity is best Jones and Campbell, 12 (Richard D. Jones, Department of Communication Studies, Eastern Illinois University, AND Bernadette Marie Campbell, Department of Communication Studies, University of Denver; “Contesting Neoliberalism Through Critical Pedagogy, Intersectional Reflexivity, and Personal Narrative: Queer Tales of Academia” Journal of Homosexuality, 59) Extending Alcoff’s (1991–1992) reminder to critically question political accountability and positionality AND rejoices in collective dedication to truth” (p. 33).
Positioning personal experience as a justification for action creates an insulation from reevaluation--“You can’t criticize how I felt!” This process prevents criticism of the status quo, which can be rendered as purely subjective—“That’s only your experience, it can’t be applied to larger structural problems of social organization.” Vote affirmative to affirm criticism of ANY identity categories. Scott 97. Joan Scott, Professor of History at Princeton, 1997, Feminists Theorize the Political, “Experience” When the evidence offered is the evidence of “experience,” the claim for referentiality AND explanatory categories usually taken for granted, including the category of “experience.”
Their arguments about personal agency are ultimately conservative and de-politicizing – arguments for localizing activism within the purview of social location are the equivalent of privatizing social change, creating us as dependent on the necessity of their advocacy. The more successful their strategy is the more damage it does by making institutions necessary to our understanding of social change Hershock '99, East-West Center, 1999. “Changing the way society changes”, Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 6, 154; http://jbe.gold.ac.uk/6/hershock991.html The trouble is that, like other technologies biased toward control, the more successful AND depletion of our resources for meaningfully improvised and liberating intimacy with all things.
2AC – Rodriguez
Theoretical thinking concerning security problematizes militarized practices like the “war on drugs” – it constitutes reality Bilgin, 5 – Professor of IR, Bikent University, Regional Security In The Middle East A Critical Perspective, Page 7 From a critical perspective, thinking differently about security involves: first, challenging the AND some, emancipation-oriented) approach to security in theory and practice.
Poetic discursive methods like the narcocorrido transforms our understanding of global politics by disrupting static, entrenched values and creating spaces for thought to rupture sovereign power Bleiker, 2000 (Roland, coordinator of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program @ U of Queensland, Popular Dissent, Human Agency, and Global Politics) Poetry does, in a sense, what critical international theory seeks to do: AND either have an answer or are considered irrational, absurd, taboo.48
1AR
Personal experience precludes objection Subotnik 1998 – professor of law, Touro College, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center (7 Cornell J. L. and Pub. Pol'y 681) Having traced a major strand in the development of CRT, we turn now to AND to faculty offices and, more generally, the streets and the airwaves.
Coalitions are key Halberstam 13 (Jack Halberstam, “The Wild Beyond: With and for the Undercommons”, intro to “The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study”) MD The mission then for the denizens of the undercommons is to recognize¶ that when AND war against foreign others which are now used to police black people in Brooklyn
4/2/14
Blake Round 6
Tournament: Blake | Round: 6 | Opponent: Kent Denver BJ | Judge: Charlie Clark
2AC
Case
CTP
The personal is political Colebrook, 2 (Claire Colebrook; Understanding Deleuze, Pg. xxxviii) Human freedom became the problem. If human beings are free, does this mean AND itself political; it produces relations, effects, and organises our bodies.
Already ceded Neocleous 8 Mark Neocleous, Prof. of Government @ Brunel, Critique of Security Eliding the distinction between military practice and the everyday political administration of civil society thereby AND a different moral universe from the‘slavery’ of the Communist system.54
2AC – Commodification
Even if they win a link argument, some level of speaking for Others is inevitable and can be productive – the affirmative is a prerequisite to hearing the voice of the marginalized Marino 2k5 (Lauren Marino, Macalester Department of Philosophy; “Speaking for Others,” Macalester Journal of Philosophy: Vol. 14: Iss. 1, Article 4)
If the self is located within language games the there is a commonality between those AND best to be hoped for is cooption forcing the margins into the mainstream.
2AC – Schmitt
Western politics is not built on friend/enemy but rather bare life/political existence Agamben 98 – professor of philosophy at university of Verona (Giorgio, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, pg. 8, gendered language under erasure) The question “In what way does the living being have lan¬guage?” corresponds exactly AND maintains himself in relation to that bare life in an inclusive exclusion.
The alternative is the state of exception – makes the aff’s impacts inevitable Boersma, 5 (Jess Boersma teaches courses in Peninsular literatures, critical thought, and Spanish language at U of NC, “What About Schmitt? Translating Carl: Schmitt’s Theory of Sovereignty as Literary Concept”, published in Discourse, 27.2and3, Spring and Fall 2005, pp. 215-227 (Article), accessed 7/16/13, projectMUSE) It would be too hasty to conclude that Schmitt’s current critical standing indicates any kind AND of President Bush’s decision to not fully disclose matters regarding domestic spying.5
Schmitt’s politics lead to Nazism – don’t discard the obvious in favor of his apologists Farr, 9 Evan, With Friends Like These...Carl Schmitt, Political Ontology, and National Socialism, PhD Student in Political Science, University of Virginia Graduate Student Conference, http://www.virginia.edu/politics/grad_program/print/Farr_gradconference09.pdf 3: Schmitt’s Nazism: Interlude or Inevitability? Carl Schmitt’s membership in the Nazi AND predisposed Schmitt to sympathize with a totalitarian – and ultimately genocidal – regime.
2AC – FW
Their complaint is with the form rather than the content of the 1AC – translating this complaint into a rule plays into sovereign hands which turns decisionmaking and guts education Steele 10 – Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas (Brent, Defacing Power: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics pg 109-111, dml) The rules of language and speaking can themselves serve to conceal truth in world politics AND for the victim, inappropriate or, more to the point, inconvenient.
“Resolved” means to reduce through mental analysis Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 6 (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/resolved) Resolve: 1.To come to a definite or earnest decision about; determine AND 5.to reduce by mental analysis (often fol. by into).
AT: Decisionmaking
Their claims about portable skills rely on an understanding of education which frames subjects as units of rationality to be bettered through civilizing practices. This form of dispassionate subject construction eliminates care and dooms millions to suffering and death. Mourad, 1 Roger Jr., Director of Institutional Research at Washtenaw College and teaches at the University of Michigan. His academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Higher Education, M.A. in Philosophy of Education, and J.D. in Law, all from the University of Michigan. He is the author of Postmodern Philosophical Critique and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Higher Education Westport: Greenwood, 1997! and several recent journal publications on epistemological, ethical, and legal issues pertaining to the nature and structure of institutionally organized education and its relation to the social good, “Education After Foucault: The Question of Civility” Teachers College Record Volume 103, Number 5, October 2001, pp. 739–759 EDUCATION FOR IMPROVEMENT, OR “KICKING THE DOG” Too many lost names too AND and fundamentally acknowledges suffering and limitation in philosophy, policy, and practice.
Traditional conceptions of government fiat misrepresent the process of government decisionmaking, and are neither educational nor predictable Claude 1988 (Inis, Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, States and the Global System, pages 18-20) This view of the state as an institutional monolith is fostered by the notion of AND and discipline that theory attributes to them–and that they sometimes claim.
AT: Institutions
You should be an informed citizen, not the government – they shut down critical thinking and deliberation Steele, 10 – Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas (Brent, Defacing Power: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics pg 130-132, dml) gender/ableist language modified with brackets When facing these dire warnings regarding the manner in which academic-intellectuals are seduced AND a place fit for human habitation” (1964 2006: 233).
AT: Predictable Limits
Their insistence upon the truth of their framework is contrived and ignores the historical contingency of debate – we should embrace this contingency rather than closely guarding the borders of our activity Johnston, 96 (Ian Johnston, Malaspina College; "There’s Nothing Nietzsche Couldn’t Teach Ya About the Raising of the Wrist,"http://www.mala.bc.ca/~~johnstoi/introser/nietzs.htm) When Nietzsche looks at Europe historically what he sees is that different games have been AND thus, they have no permanent status and no claim to privileged access.
4/2/14
Glenbrooks Round 2
Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 2 | Opponent: University of Chicago Lab DL | Judge: William Parsley
2AC
2AC – Give Back the Land
Their description of natives as tied to the land reinforces colonialist attitudes about the superior complexity of Western culture Appadurai, 88 Arjun Appadurai, Professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, Cultural Anthropology; February 1988, Volume 3, No.1, Place and Voice in Anthropological Theory,pp. 36-49, Putting Hierarchy in Its Place, JSTOR Who is a "native" (henceforth … that he is from somewhere.
K links to itself – Churchill’s academic practices were disrespectful of Native American traditions Wesson et al, 6 (Marianne Wesson, Professor of Law and chair of the standing committee on research misconduct at the University of Colorado at Boulder concerning allegations of academic misconduct against Professor Ward Churchill – other members include Robert N. Clinton, Jose E. Limon, Marjori K. McIntosh, Michael L. Radelet, Linda Morris, and J. Eric Elliff; “Report of the Investigative Committee of the Standing Committee on Research Misconduct at the University of Colorado at Boulder concerning Allegations of Academic Misconduct against Professor Ward Churchill,” 5/9/2006, http://www.nacua.org/documents/WardChurchReport.pdf) We note additionally that Professor … as discussed in Allegation D.
2AC – FW
Economic engagement is academic analysis of economic areas Bond and Paterson, 5 – *lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh AND professor of educational policy at the University of Edinburgh (Ross and Lindsay, “Coming down from the ivory tower? Academics’ civic and economic engagement with the community”; September 2005) We now turn our attention … they should have economic relevance.
Their complaint is with the form rather than the content of the 1AC – translating this complaint into a rule plays into sovereign hands which turns decisionmaking and guts education Steele 10 – Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas (Brent, Defacing Power: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics pg 109-111, dml) The rules of language and … more to the point, inconvenient.
“Resolved” means to reduce through mental analysis Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 6 (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/resolved) Resolve: 1.To come to a … analysis (often fol. by into).
You should be an informed citizen, not the government – they shut down critical thinking and deliberation Steele, 10 – Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas (Brent, Defacing Power: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics pg 130-132, dml) gender/ableist language modified with brackets When facing these dire warnings … place fit for human habitation” (1964 2006: 233).
AT: Decisionmaking
Their claims about portable skills rely on an understanding of education which frames subjects as units of rationality to be bettered through civilizing practices. This form of dispassionate subject construction eliminates care and dooms millions to suffering and death. Mourad, 1 /Roger Jr., Director of Institutional Research at Washtenaw College and teaches at the University of Michigan. His academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Higher Education, M.A. in Philosophy of Education, and J.D. in Law, all from the University of Michigan. He is the author of Postmodern Philosophical Critique and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Higher Education Westport: Greenwood, 1997! and several recent journal publications on epistemological, ethical, and legal issues pertaining to the nature and structure of institutionally organized education and its relation to the social good, “Education After Foucault: The Question of Civility” Teachers College Record Volume 103, Number 5, October 2001, pp. 739–759/ EDUCATION FOR IMPROVEMENT, OR “KICKING … and that they sometimes claim.
1AR
SSD
Bracketing off of our protest is enabled by the state of exception and legitimizes brutal cycles of governmentality – turns switch-side Elmer and Opel, 8 (Greg Elmer, associate professor of communication and culture at Ryerson University, PhD in communication from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, director of the Infoscape Research Lab at Ryerson University, Andy Opel, associate professor of communication at Florida State University, PhD in mass communication from the University of North Carolina, member of the International Communication Association, November 2008, “Preempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future,” pages 29-41) SHORTLY AFTER THE LARGE-SCALE PROTESTS … reducing actual risks and dangers.
Theoretical thinking concerning security problematizes militarized practices like the “war on drugs” – it constitutes reality Bilgin, 5 – Professor of IR, Bikent University, Regional Security In The Middle East A Critical Perspective, Page 7 From a critical perspective, thinking … security in theory and practice.
AT: Poetry Fails/Bad
The discursive method of poetry transforms our understanding of global politics by disrupting static, entrenched values and creating spaces for thought to rupture sovereign power Bleiker, 2000 (Roland, coordinator of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program @ U of Queensland, Popular Dissent, Human Agency, and Global Politics) Poetry does, in a sense, … are considered irrational, absurd, taboo.48
AT: Anthropocentrism
Our critiques are one in the same – the category of bare life connects and sustains the categories of human and other beings – only through an understanding of this construction can we hope to stop this form of violence by the sovereign Oliver, 7 – W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy and Professor of Women's Studies at Vanderbilt University (Kelly, PhaenEx 2, No. 2 (fall/winter 2007): 1-23; Stopping the Anthropological Machine: Agamben with Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, 2007) In The Open, even while … we hope to stop it.
Dubbing people “anthropocentric” because they didn’t talk about animals is inaccurate and turns the critique Lewis 92 – professor in the School of the Environment and the Center for International Studies at Duke University. Green Delusions, 1992 p17-18 It is widely accepted that … aligned in such a manner.
Anthropocentrism is inevitable, but strategic anthropomorphism is possible – we can identify with and make decisions for the benefit of other beings Scholtz, 5 – associate Professor in Law, North-West University, (“Animal Culling: A Sustainable Approach or Anthropocentric Atrocity?: Issues of Biodiversity and Custodial Sovereignty”, MqJICEL (2005) Vol 2) The CBD recognizes that the … linkage between man and environment.
2AC – Race
Perm do both – collectivity is best Jones and Campbell, 12 (Richard D. Jones, Department of Communication Studies, Eastern Illinois University, AND Bernadette Marie Campbell, Department of Communication Studies, University of Denver; “Contesting Neoliberalism Through Critical Pedagogy, Intersectional Reflexivity, and Personal Narrative: Queer Tales of Academia” Journal of Homosexuality, 59) Extending Alcoff’s (1991–1992) reminder to critically question political accountability and positionality, Carrillo Rowe (2005) calls for a … in collective dedication to truth” (p. 33).
The neg’s exclusive focus on blackness as per their 1NC framing recreates racism Perea 97 (Juan F. Perea – Professor of Law at Loyola University Chicago, 10/31/97, “The Black/White Binary Paradigm of Race: The Normal Science of American Racial Thought”, http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1605andcontext=californialawreview)MD One might object that I … structure our thinking about race.
Anti-blackness cannot explain orientalist violence against Islam which preceded the Enlightenment Charoenying, 8 (citing Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Prof of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley) (Timothy, Islamophobia and Anti-Blackness: A Genealogical Approach, http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/islamophobia-anti-blackness-genealogical-approach) The year 1492 marked a … trafficking of sub-Saharan Africans.
Orientalist Otherization creates a dyad between faiths, making genocidal violence inevitable Batur, 7 (Pinar Batur, Professor of Sociology and Director of Environmental Studies at Vassar College; “Heart of Violence: Global Racism, War, and Genocide,” 2007, “Handbook of the Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations,” “Heart of Violence: Global Racism, War, and Genocide”) Albert Memmi argued that “We … and what they believe in.”
Theoretical thinking concerning security problematizes militarized practices like the “war on drugs” – it constitutes reality Bilgin, 5 – Professor of IR, Bikent University, Regional Security In The Middle East A Critical Perspective, Page 7 From a critical perspective, thinking …security in theory and practice.
AT: Narcocorridos Bad
Even though they describe violence, it’s not collective Lajous, 12 – doctor of Law at Yale, professor and researcher at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica, a Mexican center of research and higher education specialized in social sciences (Alejandro Madrazo, “Criminals and enemies? The Mexican drug trafficker in official discourse and in narcocorridos,” translated by Fernanda Alonso)bghs-BI We can begin to explore … those of the political community.
The corridor form is necessary – it is used to record community history and experiences Rodriguez, 9 – Mariana, PhD candidate at the University of Technology, Sydney (“‘¡SOMOS MÁS AMERICANOS!’: The music of Los Tigres del Norte as Grass Roots Activism,” Transforming Cultures eJournal, Vol. 4 No 1, April 2009, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/TfC/article/view/1067/1070)//bghs-BI As mentioned before Los Tigres … is born here is American.
Los Tigres del Norte are key to challenge the subjugated role of women – their narcocorridos place empowered women as the protagonist and condemn the femicide in Juarez Rodriguez, 9 – Mariana, PhD candidate at the University of Technology, Sydney (“‘¡SOMOS MÁS AMERICANOS!’: The music of Los Tigres del Norte as Grass Roots Activism,” Transforming Cultures eJournal, Vol. 4 No 1, April 2009, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/TfC/article/view/1067/1070)//bghs-BI The last point I want … the cowards who abuse women
2AC – Wilderson
Wilderson presents a naïve and undifferentiated view of racial relations in the US. The neg’s understanding of structural antagonism destroys the possibility for engaging the complexities necessary to tackle whiteness. Janani 2013 “What's Wrong With the Term 'Person of Color',” http://blackgirldangerous.org/new-blog/2013/3/21/whats-wrong-with-the-term-person-of-color/ Black cultural theorist Frank Wilderson's … much farther from racial liberation.
Anti-blackness cannot explain orientalist violence against Islam which preceded the Enlightenment Charoenying (citing Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Prof of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley) 8 (Timothy, Islamophobia and Anti-Blackness: A Genealogical Approach, http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/islamophobia-anti-blackness-genealogical-approach) The year 1492 marked a … human trafficking of sub-Saharan Africans.
Orientalist Otherization creates a dyad between faiths, making genocidal violence inevitable Batur, 2k7 (Pinar Batur, Professor of Sociology and Director of Environmental Studies at Vassar College; “Heart of Violence: Global Racism, War, and Genocide,” 2007, “Handbook of the Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations,” “Heart of Violence: Global Racism, War, and Genocide”) Albert Memmi argued that “We … and what they believe in.”
Wilderson’s ontology makes fatalism inevitable and offers no alt Bâ, 11 (teaches film at Portsmouth University (UK). He researches ‘race’, the ‘postcolonial’, diaspora, the transnational and film ‘genre’, African and Caribbean cinemas and film festivals) (Saër Maty, The US Decentred, Cultural Studies Review, volume 17 number 2 September 2011) In chapter nine, ‘“Savage” Negrophobia’, … with its answers in tow.’ (340)
Turns the K – greatest comparative threat Miah quoting West in 94 (Malik Miah, Cornel West's Race Matters, May-June, http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/3079) In the chapter, “Nihilism in … there can be no struggle.” (14-15)
Wilderson’s logic of social death replicates the violence of the middle passage – rejection is necessary to honor the dead Brown, 9 (Vincent Brown, professor of history and of African and African American Studies specializing in Atlantic Slavery; “Social Death and Political Life in the Study of Slavery,” http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/documents/brown-socialdeath.pdf) But this was not the … are slavery’s bequest to us.
Black social death theory ignores the plurality of life affirming possibilities available even to the fungible body and fails to explain the oppression of other groups Bales, 5 (Kevin Bales, co-founder of Free the Slaves, PhD in economics at the London School of Economics, MA in sociology from the University of Mississippi, “Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader,” p56-7) The concept of social death … cease to be social beings.
The master and slave can’t work together Wilderson, 3 (Frank B. III, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Drama at the University of California, Irvine, “The Position of the Unthought”, pg. 190, C.A.) You’ve just thrown something … even today, are never allies.
The neg is the character of Schultz in Django Unchained – The liberal anti-racist white who assumes the position of savior all the while ignoring the way privilege denies the efficacy of their actions. The 1AC’s inability to turn the theoretical lens towards the self ends up reinforcing the differential in agency which undergirds slavery. Gilmore, 13 /Garrett, Film Critic and Literary Theorist,” Django Unchained and the Crises of White Viewership” http://www.contendersmag.com/features/2013/1/11/django-unchained-and-the-crises-of-white-viewership.html/ Returning to Sharpe’s question, with … would free Django, we think.
This is a revenge fantasy which allows the white spectator and participant to get their momentary rage on while leaving the structure of anti-blackness in place – this act generates passivity and entrenches anti-blackness. Gilmore, 13 /Garrett, Film Critic and Literary Theorist,”Django Unchained and the Crises of White Viewership” http://www.contendersmag.com/features/2013/1/11/django-unchained-and-the-crises-of-white-viewership.html/ As a (white?) viewer I … to see this fantasy through.
12/5/13
Greenhill Doubles
Tournament: Greenhill | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Austin SFA EE | Judge: John Hines, Nick Fiori, Preston Stolte
2AC
Anthropocentrism
Our critiques are one in the same – the category of bare life connects and sustains the categories of human and other beings – only through an understanding of this construction can we hope to stop this form of violence by the sovereign. Oliver, 7 – W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy and Professor of Women's Studies at Vanderbilt University (Kelly, PhaenEx 2, No. 2 (fall/winter 2007): 1-23; Stopping the Anthropological Machine: Agamben with Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, 2007) Modified for gendered language In The Open, Giorgio Agamben … can we hope to stop it. Dubbing people “anthropocentric” because they didn’t talk about animals is inaccurate and turns the critique Lewis 92 – professor in the School of the Environment and the Center for International Studies at Duke University. Green Delusions, 1992 p17-18 Nature for Nature’s Sake…aligned in such a manner. The intersectional approach of the perm is comparatively the best option – otherwise the alt gets coopted Kahn and Humes, 9 Richard Kahn, Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations and Research at the University of North Dakota, AND Brandy Humes, Masters of Education from the Feminist Approaches to Social Justice in Education program at the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Environmental Studies from York University; “Marching Out From Ultima Thule: Critical Counterstories of Emancipatory Educators Working at the Intersection of Human Rights, Animal Rights, and Planetary Sustainability”, 2009, http://www.academia.edu/167063/Marching_Out_From_Ultima_Thule_Critical_Counterstories_of_Emancipatory_Educators_Working_at_the_Intersection_of_Human_Rights_Animal_Rights_and_Planetary_Sustainabilitybghs-ms Despite environmental education’s potential limitations … overthrow speciesist relations across society.
FW
“Resolved” means to reduce through mental analysis Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 6 (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/resolved) Resolve: 1.To come to a ….to reduce by mental analysis (often fol. by into). a) The entirety of Western politics rests on the state of exception – any action that begins with the State maintains the ability to determine life Agamben 98 – professor of philosophy at the University of Verona (Giorgio, Homo Sacer, pg. 8-9) The protagonist of this book … new biopolitical body of humanity. Passivity Antonio, 95 – Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas (Robert J., “Nietzsche's Antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History,” The American Journal of Sociology, 101.1, p. 14-15, 1995) The "problem of the actor," … a new type of tyrant (Nietzsche 1986, pp. 137, 168; 1974, pp. 117-18, 213, 288-89, 303-4). Their insistence upon the truth of their framework is contrived and ignores the historical contingency of debate – we should embrace this contingency rather than closely guarding the borders of our activity Johnston, 96 (Ian Johnston, Malaspina College; "There’s Nothing Nietzsche Couldn’t Teach Ya About the Raising of the Wrist,"http://www.mala.bc.ca/~~johnstoi/introser/nietzs.htm) When Nietzsche looks at Europe … no claim to privileged access. AT: Portable Skills Their claims about portable skills, limits and community rely on an understanding of education which frames subjects as units of rationality to be bettered through civilizing practices. This form of dispassionate subject construction eliminates care and dooms millions to suffering and death. Mourad, 1 /Roger Jr., Director of Institutional Research at Washtenaw College and teaches at the University of Michigan. His academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Higher Education, M.A. in Philosophy of Education, and J.D. in Law, all from the University of Michigan. He is the author of Postmodern Philosophical Critique and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Higher Education Westport: Greenwood, 1997! and several recent journal publications on epistemological, ethical, and legal issues pertaining to the nature and structure of institutionally organized education and its relation to the social good, “Education After Foucault: The Question of Civility” Teachers College Record Volume 103, Number 5, October 2001, pp. 739–759/ Too many lost names too … in philosophy, policy, and practice. AT: Dialogue Link turn – we cannot rely upon common terms for discussion – they freeze alternative thought and prevent real debate from occurring Bleiker, 98 – asst. prof. of International Studies at Pusan National University (Roland, “Retracing and redrawing the boundaries of events: Postmodern interferences with international theory”, Alternatives, Oct-Dec 1998, Vol. 23, Issue 4) In the absence of authentic … bringing modesty to a majority.
10/12/13
Greenhill Octas
Tournament: Greenhill | Round: Octas | Opponent: Glenbrook North CH | Judge: Brian Kersch, Martin Osborn, Max Anderson
2AC
Case
The entirety of Western politics rests on the state of exception – any action that begins with the State maintains the ability to determine life Agamben 98 – professor of philosophy at the University of Verona (Giorgio, Homo Sacer, pg. 8-9) The protagonist of this book … new biopolitical body of humanity.
Discourse Shapes Reality
Theoretical thinking concerning security problematizes militarized practices like the “war on drugs” – it constitutes reality Bilgin, 5 – Professor of IR, Bikent University, Regional Security In The Middle East A Critical Perspective, Page 7 From a critical perspective, thinking … security in theory and practice.
Their position is incoherent – content has no meaning without an interrogation of form Bleiker 2000 (Roland Bleiker, professor of international relations at the University of Queensland, 2000, “Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics” pg. 280) To recognize that language is … that interferes with such objections.
AT: Util
Utilitarian problem solving justifies mass atrocity and turns its own end Weizman 11 (Eyal Weizman, professor of visual and spatial cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, 2011, “The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza,” pp 8-10) The theological origins of the … are grounded in this impossibility.17
FW
“Resolved” means to reduce through mental analysis Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 6 (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/resolved) Resolve: 1.To come to a …to reduce by mental analysis (often fol. by into).
Passivity Antonio, 95 – Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas (Robert J., “Nietzsche's Antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History,” The American Journal of Sociology, 101.1, p. 14-15, 1995) The "problem of the actor," … for a new type of tyrant (Nietzsche 1986, pp. 137, 168; 1974, pp. 117-18, 213, 288-89, 303-4).
Their insistence upon the truth of their framework is contrived and ignores the historical contingency of debate – we should embrace this contingency rather than closely guarding the borders of our activity Johnston, 96 (Ian Johnston, Malaspina College; "There’s Nothing Nietzsche Couldn’t Teach Ya About the Raising of the Wrist,"http://www.mala.bc.ca/~~johnstoi/introser/nietzs.htm) When Nietzsche looks at Europe … no claim to privileged access.
AT: Portable Skills Their claims about portable skills rely on an understanding of education which frames subjects as units of rationality to be bettered through civilizing practices. This form of dispassionate subject construction eliminates care and dooms millions to suffering and death. Mourad, 1 /Roger Jr., Director of Institutional Research at Washtenaw College and teaches at the University of Michigan. His academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Higher Education, M.A. in Philosophy of Education, and J.D. in Law, all from the University of Michigan. He is the author of Postmodern Philosophical Critique and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Higher Education Westport: Greenwood, 1997! and several recent journal publications on epistemological, ethical, and legal issues pertaining to the nature and structure of institutionally organized education and its relation to the social good, “Education After Foucault: The Question of Civility” Teachers College Record Volume 103, Number 5, October 2001, pp. 739–759/ Too many lost names too … in philosophy, policy, and practice.
AT: Dialogue Link turn dialogue – we cannot rely upon common terms for discussion – they freeze alternative thought and prevent real debate from occurring Bleiker, 98 – asst. prof. of International Studies at Pusan National University (Roland, “Retracing and redrawing the boundaries of events: Postmodern interferences with international theory”, Alternatives, Oct-Dec 1998, Vol. 23, Issue 4) In the absence of authentic …bringing modesty to a majority.
AT: ASPEC Fairness isn’t objective; it covers up oppression Delgado 92 (Richard Delgado, law professor at the University of Coloroado; “Shadowboxing: An Essay on Power,” 1992) The debate on objective and … can get away with it.
Speaking for Others
Perm do the aff – Alcoff concludes we can speak with others and there’s no impact because our discourse is good Calia 2011 (Philippe – MA in photographic studies and former social science research assistant specializing in Asia – University of Westminster, Peer-reviewed essay, “‘REPRESENTING THE OTHER’ TODAY: CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE LIGHT OF THE POSTCOLONIAL DEBAT (WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON INDIA) 1 ”, http://www.upf.edu/forma/_pdf/vol04/forma_vol04_07callia.pdf) In general, Indians are quite … location, language, and so on.” (Ibid.)
The kritik creates a perpetual state of socio-political stasis by ignoring the fact that Others sometimes CANNOT speak for themselves – that means their project gets coopted by totalitarian disinformation campaigns Kleinman and Kleinman 96 (Arthur – professor of anthropology at Harvard University – and Joan – Sinologist at Harvard University. “The appeal of experience; the dismay of images: Cultural appropriations of suffering in our times,” Daedalus. Winter 1996. Vol.125, Iss. 1; pg. 1-24 pgs) It is necessary to balance … and to craft humane responses.
Speaking for others is inevitable and is the only way for the oppressed to make their voices heard Marino, 5 (Lauren Marino, Macalester Department of Philosophy; “Speaking for Others,” Macalester Journal of Philosophy: Vol. 14: Iss. 1, Article 4) If the self is located … the margins into the mainstream.
The alternative is silence and inaction which reinforces oppression and turns the critique Blomley 94 (Nicholas K. Blomley – Professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University, 1994, “Activism and the Academy”, http://www.praxis-epress.org/CGR/CG_Whole.pdf)MD So why the silence? Several … field of contradiction and diversity.
1AR
AT: SSD
Bracketing off of our protest is enabled by the state of exception and legitimizes brutal cycles of governmentality – turns switch-side Elmer and Opel, 8 (Greg Elmer, associate professor of communication and culture at Ryerson University, PhD in communication from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, director of the Infoscape Research Lab at Ryerson University, Andy Opel, associate professor of communication at Florida State University, PhD in mass communication from the University of North Carolina, member of the International Communication Association, November 2008, “Preempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future,” pages 29-41) SHORTLY AFTER THE LARGE-SCALE PROTESTS … reducing actual risks and dangers.
10/12/13
Greenhill Semis
Tournament: Greenhill | Round: Semis | Opponent: St Marks JM | Judge: Hunter McCullough, Eric Forslund, Paul Johnson
2AC
Case
AT: Modern Politics Good The entirety of Western politics rests on the state of exception – any action that begins with the State maintains the ability to determine life Agamben 98 – professor of philosophy at the University of Verona (Giorgio, Homo Sacer, pg. 8-9) The protagonist of this book … new biopolitical body of humanity.
Discourse Shapes Reality Theoretical thinking concerning security problematizes militarized practices like the “war on drugs” – it constitutes reality Bilgin, 5 – Professor of IR, Bikent University, Regional Security In The Middle East A Critical Perspective, Page 7 From a critical perspective, thinking … security in theory and practice.
Their position is incoherent – content has no meaning without an interrogation of form Bleiker 2000 (Roland Bleiker, professor of international relations at the University of Queensland, 2000, “Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics” pg. 280) To recognize that language is … that interferes with such objections.
FW
Resolved before the colon means reserved—we don’t need to be certain about its truth—this is key to analyzing performativity Evans, 1 (Nathan Kirk, CEDA Debate, “A2: Jeff P-Is the resolution a question?,” http://cedadebate.org/pipermail/mailman/2001-February/030719.html) The resolution is not a … Debaters, however, have that opportunity.
Economic engagement is academic analysis of economic areas Bond and Paterson, 5 – *lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh AND professor of educational policy at the University of Edinburgh (Ross and Lindsay, “Coming down from the ivory tower? Academics’ civic and economic engagement with the community”; September 2005) We now turn our attention … they should have economic relevance.
Their insistence upon the truth of their framework is contrived and ignores the historical contingency of debate – we should embrace this contingency rather than closely guarding the borders of our activity Johnston, 96 (Ian Johnston, Malaspina College; "There’s Nothing Nietzsche Couldn’t Teach Ya About the Raising of the Wrist,"http://www.mala.bc.ca/~~johnstoi/introser/nietzs.htm) When Nietzsche looks at Europe … no claim to privileged access.
AT: Limits Their move is not benign – the rhetoric of limits creates a necessarily exclusionary and authoritarian politics Kulynych, 97 (Kulynych, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Winthrop University, 1997 Jessica, “Performing Politics," Polity, Winter, v.XXX, n.2, p. 315-330) Political scientists have traditionally understood … matter of utilizing correct procedure.
AT: Decisionmaking Their claims about portable skills rely on an understanding of education which frames subjects as units of rationality to be bettered through civilizing practices. This form of dispassionate subject construction eliminates care and dooms millions to suffering and death. Mourad, 1 /Roger Jr., Director of Institutional Research at Washtenaw College and teaches at the University of Michigan. His academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Higher Education, M.A. in Philosophy of Education, and J.D. in Law, all from the University of Michigan. He is the author of Postmodern Philosophical Critique and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Higher Education Westport: Greenwood, 1997! and several recent journal publications on epistemological, ethical, and legal issues pertaining to the nature and structure of institutionally organized education and its relation to the social good, “Education After Foucault: The Question of Civility” Teachers College Record Volume 103, Number 5, October 2001, pp. 739–759/ Too many lost names too … in philosophy, policy, and practice.
AT: SSD Bracketing off of our protest is enabled by the state of exception and legitimizes brutal cycles of governmentality – turns switch-side Elmer and Opel, 8 (Greg Elmer, associate professor of communication and culture at Ryerson University, PhD in communication from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, director of the Infoscape Research Lab at Ryerson University, Andy Opel, associate professor of communication at Florida State University, PhD in mass communication from the University of North Carolina, member of the International Communication Association, November 2008, “Preempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future,” pages 29-41) SHORTLY AFTER THE LARGE-SCALE PROTESTS … reducing actual risks and dangers.
Anyone who can’t think of opposing arguments without being forced to publicly debate for them won’t benefit from being forced to play devil’s advocate Yudkowsky, 8 – Research Fellow at the Singularity Institute (Eliezer, Against Devils Advocacy, June 2008 http://lesswrong.com/lw/r3/against_devils_advocacy/) Believe me, I understand the … Reason is not a game.
AT: Topical Version Passivity Antonio, 95 – Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas (Robert J., “Nietzsche's Antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History,” The American Journal of Sociology, 101.1, p. 14-15, 1995) The "problem of the actor," … for a new type of tyrant (Nietzsche 1986, pp. 137, 168; 1974, pp. 117-18, 213, 288-89, 303-4).
1AR
Resolved
Resolved means “to reduce by mental analysis” More evidence Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 6 (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/resolved) Resolve: 1.To come to a … to reduce by mental analysis (often fol. by into).
10/12/13
MBA Round 2
Tournament: MBA | Round: 2 | Opponent: Dexter MS | Judge: Travis Henderson
Case
Util
Utilitarian calculability justifies mass atrocity and turns its own end Weizman 11 (Eyal Weizman, professor of visual and spatial cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, 2011, “The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza,” pp 8-10) The theological origins of the lesser evil argument cast a long shadow on the present AND so. The demand of his ethics are grounded in this impossibility.17
2AC – Politics
The status quo public sphere surrounding policy has been ceded to corporations; as congressperson’s votes are auctioned off to the highest bidder, the opinions of the populace are disregarded, destroying any notion of agency. The negative remains locked in this corporate mode of political decision-making by calling for plan rejection to prevent preposterously far-fetched impact claims that are more image than substance Chaput 1 (Catherine, BA Creighton University, MA SUNY Binghamton, PhD University of Arizona, Assistant Professor at University of Arizona, “Review of Carl Boggs's The End of Politics: Corporate Power and the Decline of the Public Sphere” Workplace 4, June 1, 2001) As part of this larger trend of corporatization, Boggs argues that corporations and their AND the hyperreal tends to override substantive political debates and concerns" (85).
American hegemony is dead—the only thing that remains is a racist sovereign violence that makes all their impacts and the destruction of American polity only a matter of inevitability Gulli 13. Bruno Gulli, professor of history, philosophy, and political science at Kingsborough College in New York, “For the critique of sovereignty and violence,” http://academia.edu/2527260/For_the_Critique_of_Sovereignty_and_Violence, pg. 14 It is then important to ask the question of what power can alter this racism AND conquest, enslavement, robbery, and murder” (ibid.).
Economic threat predictions will cause the US to manipulate regimes in a non-democratic fashion-~--link turns the whole case and empirically kills millions Neocleous, Prof of Gov, 08 Mark Neocleous, Prof. of Government @ Brunel, Critique of Security, p95- In other words, the new international order moved very quickly to reassert the bene?ts to liberty of the security strategy proposed.111
No impact to the economy Thomas P.M. Barnett (senior managing director of Enterra Solutions LLC and a contributing editor/online columnist for Esquire magazine) August 2009 “The New Rules: Security Remains Stable Amid Financial Crisis” http://www.aprodex.com/the-new-rules~-~-security-remains-stable-amid-financial-crisis-398-bl.aspx When the global financial crisis struck roughly a year ago, the blogosphere was ablaze AND fear-mongering to proceed apace. That's what the Internet is for.
Data disproves hegemony impacts Fettweis, 11 Christopher J. Fettweis, Department of Political Science, Tulane University, 9/26/11, Free Riding or Restraint? Examining European Grand Strategy, Comparative Strategy, 30:316–332, EBSCO It is perhaps worth noting that there is no evidence to support a direct relationship AND global policeman. Those who think otherwise base their view on faith alone.
2AC – FW
Their complaint is with the form rather than the content of the 1AC – translating this complaint into a rule plays into sovereign hands which turns decisionmaking and guts education Steele 10 – Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas (Brent, Defacing Power: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics pg 109-111, dml) The rules of language and speaking can themselves serve to conceal truth in world politics AND for the victim, inappropriate or, more to the point, inconvenient.
AT: Roleplaying/Simulation
You should be an informed citizen, not the government – they shut down critical thinking and deliberation Steele, 10 – Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas (Brent, Defacing Power: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics pg 130-132, dml) gender/ableist language modified with brackets When facing these dire warnings regarding the manner in which academic-intellectuals are seduced AND a place fit for human habitation” (1964 2006: 233).
Policymaking absolves individual responsibility for violence – ensures violence will be inevitable Kappeler 95 (Susanne, The Will to Violence, pgs 9-11) War does not suddenly break out in a peaceful society; sexual violence is not AND our values' according to the structures and the values of war and violence.
AT: Portable Skills
Their claims about portable skills, limits and community rely on an understanding of education which frames subjects as units of rationality to be bettered through civilizing practices. This form of dispassionate subject construction eliminates care and dooms millions to suffering and death. Mourad, 1 Roger Jr., Director of Institutional Research at Washtenaw College and teaches at the University of Michigan. His academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Higher Education, M.A. in Philosophy of Education, and J.D. in Law, all from the University of Michigan. He is the author of Postmodern Philosophical Critique and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Higher Education Westport: Greenwood, 1997! and several recent journal publications on epistemological, ethical, and legal issues pertaining to the nature and structure of institutionally organized education and its relation to the social good, “Education After Foucault: The Question of Civility” Teachers College Record Volume 103, Number 5, October 2001, pp. 739–759 EDUCATION FOR IMPROVEMENT, OR “KICKING THE DOG” Too many lost names too AND and fundamentally acknowledges suffering and limitation in philosophy, policy, and practice.
AT: Dialogue
Link turn – we cannot rely upon common terms for discussion – they freeze alternative thought and prevent real debate from occurring Bleiker, 98 – asst. prof. of International Studies at Pusan National University (Roland, “Retracing and redrawing the boundaries of events: Postmodern interferences with international theory”, Alternatives, Oct-Dec 1998, Vol. 23, Issue 4) In the absence of authentic knowledge, the formulation of theoretical positions and practical action AND to take on responsibility in the form of bringing modesty to a majority.
4/2/14
MBA Round 3
Tournament: MBA | Round: 3 | Opponent: Harker KM | Judge: Jeremy Hammond
Case
AT: Biopolitics Good
No link – the affirmative is a criticism of sovereign power, which is distinct – sovereign power is the power to decide between life and death, while biopower seeks to promote and protect life Roldan, 12 – B.A. in Criminology and Sociology from the University of Illinois, Chicago (Yolanda, “Sovereign Power and Biopower – Foucault,” http://uicsocialtheory.weebly.com/13/post/2012/12/sovereign-power-and-biopower-foucault-yolanda-roldan.html)//bghs-BI Foucault explains power in depth to his readers. There are five things that he AND is paying for it then they are promoting the life of their citizens.
2AC Perceptibility
The K misreads history – change is the key internal link to progress – also their argument necessitates complicity in evil because any action could be coopted – they stick us with the status quo Trott, 10 Ben Trott, journal newspaper in which to think through, debate and articulate the political, social, economic and cultural theories of our movements, as well as the networks of diverse practices and alternatives that surround them; “Skipping steps,” May 2010, http://www.redpepper.org.uk/Skipping-steps/bghs-ms Second, The Coming Insurrection offers a very one-dimensional reading of history, AND vital questions the book ends up providing a strategy unlikely to bear fruit.
Every space has emancipatory potential – their attempt to say otherwise only endorses ideological policing Springer, ’11 Lecturer at Department of Geography at the University of Otago (Simon Springer, 2011, Antipode, “Public Space as Emancipation: Meditations on Anarchism, Radical Democracy, Neoliberalism and Violence,” Vol. 43 Iss. 2 pp. 525-562)
Radical democracy is a messy process with an inherent uncertainty reflecting the essential agonism of AND in the current moment, are related primarily to the strains of neoliberalism.
2AC – FW
Their complaint is with the form rather than the content of the 1AC – translating this complaint into a rule plays into sovereign hands which turns decisionmaking and guts education Steele 10 – Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas (Brent, Defacing Power: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics pg 109-111, dml) The rules of language and speaking can themselves serve to conceal truth in world politics AND for the victim, inappropriate or, more to the point, inconvenient.
AT: Decisionmaking
Their claims about portable skills rely on an understanding of education which frames subjects as units of rationality to be bettered through civilizing practices. This form of dispassionate subject construction eliminates care and dooms millions to suffering and death. Mourad, 1 Roger Jr., Director of Institutional Research at Washtenaw College and teaches at the University of Michigan. His academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Higher Education, M.A. in Philosophy of Education, and J.D. in Law, all from the University of Michigan. He is the author of Postmodern Philosophical Critique and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Higher Education Westport: Greenwood, 1997! and several recent journal publications on epistemological, ethical, and legal issues pertaining to the nature and structure of institutionally organized education and its relation to the social good, “Education After Foucault: The Question of Civility” Teachers College Record Volume 103, Number 5, October 2001, pp. 739–759 EDUCATION FOR IMPROVEMENT, OR “KICKING THE DOG” Too many lost names too AND and fundamentally acknowledges suffering and limitation in philosophy, policy, and practice.
AT: Roleplaying/Simulation
You should be an informed citizen, not the government – they shut down critical thinking and deliberation Steele, 10 – Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas (Brent, Defacing Power: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics pg 130-132, dml) gender/ableist language modified with brackets When facing these dire warnings regarding the manner in which academic-intellectuals are seduced AND a place fit for human habitation” (1964 2006: 233).
4/2/14
MBA Round 5
Tournament: MBA | Round: 5 | Opponent: Niles West NP | Judge: Maggie Berthiaume
2AC
Case
AT: Biopolitics Good
No link – the affirmative is a criticism of sovereign power, which is distinct – sovereign power is the power to decide between life and death, while biopower seeks to promote and protect life Roldan, 12 – B.A. in Criminology and Sociology from the University of Illinois, Chicago (Yolanda, “Sovereign Power and Biopower – Foucault,” http://uicsocialtheory.weebly.com/13/post/2012/12/sovereign-power-and-biopower-foucault-yolanda-roldan.html)//bghs-BI Foucault explains power in depth to his readers. There are five things that he AND is paying for it then they are promoting the life of their citizens.
AT: War on Drugs Good
State-based policies to combat drugs structurally fail (*Laurie, Director for Yemen at the National Security Council, former State Department Official, fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America, writer for the Washington Post Mexico Bureau, M.A. in International Politics from Princeton University, degree from Duke in Latin American Studies, Jorge, Knight International Journalism Fellow, degree in International Journalism from the University of Southern California, defense policy and economics fellow at the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University, “Mexico: The Militarization Traip”, 2005, part of “Drugs and Democracy in Latin America: The impact of U.S. Policy”, Rienner, Google Books) U.S. drug control policy toward the Caribbean has failed to achieve even AND has been the practice of the U.S. drug control bureaucracy.
2AC – CP
The entirety of Western politics rests on the state of exception – any action that begins with the State maintains the ability to determine life Agamben 98 – professor of philosophy at the University of Verona (Giorgio, Homo Sacer, pg. 8-9) The protagonist of this book is bare life, that is, the life of AND the bare life of the citizen, the new biopolitical body of humanity.
2AC – Anthropocentrism
Sovereign power dictates the modern exercise of anthropocentrism, and our resistance solves the critique Chrulew, 5 Matthew Chrulew, Monash University; “ON ANIMALS: REVIEWING AGAMBEN, ATTERTON and CALARCO,” THE BIBLE AND CRITICAL THEORY, VOLUME 1, NUMBER 2, 2005, pg. 5-7 bghs-ms Gender modified Animal Philosophy successfully accomplishes its goal – to be, as its blurb says, AND they work so that we might, eventually, be able to stop them’
The intersectional approach of the perm is comparatively the best option – otherwise the alt gets coopted Kahn and Humes, 9 Richard Kahn, Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations and Research at the University of North Dakota, AND Brandy Humes, Masters of Education from the Feminist Approaches to Social Justice in Education program at the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Environmental Studies from York University; “Marching Out From Ultima Thule: Critical Counterstories of Emancipatory Educators Working at the Intersection of Human Rights, Animal Rights, and Planetary Sustainability”, 2009, http://www.academia.edu/167063/Marching_Out_From_Ultima_Thule_Critical_Counterstories_of_Emancipatory_Educators_Working_at_the_Intersection_of_Human_Rights_Animal_Rights_and_Planetary_Sustainabilitybghs-ms Despite environmental education’s potential limitations as a critical field of study, significant theoretical inroads AND cultural and political practices that actively seek to overthrow speciesist relations across society.
2AC – FW
Their complaint is with the form rather than the content of the 1AC – translating this complaint into a rule plays into sovereign hands which turns decisionmaking and guts education Steele 10 – Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas (Brent, Defacing Power: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics pg 109-111, dml) The rules of language and speaking can themselves serve to conceal truth in world politics AND for the victim, inappropriate or, more to the point, inconvenient.
“Resolved” means to reduce through mental analysis Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 6 (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/resolved) Resolve: 1.To come to a definite or earnest decision about; determine AND 5.to reduce by mental analysis (often fol. by into).
AT: Roleplaying
You should be an informed citizen, not the government – they shut down critical thinking and deliberation Steele, 10 – Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas (Brent, Defacing Power: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics pg 130-132, dml) gender/ableist language modified with brackets When facing these dire warnings regarding the manner in which academic-intellectuals are seduced AND a place fit for human habitation” (1964 2006: 233). Michael Ruse doesn't - that Reason is not a game.
4/2/14
NDCA Round 1
Tournament: NDCA | Round: 2 | Opponent: Pace FQ | Judge: Josh Clark
1AC
Take my blood. Take my death shroud and The remnants of my body. Take photographs of my corpse at the grave, lonely.
Send them to the world, To the judges and To the people of conscience, Send them to the principled ones men and the fair-minded.
And let them bear the guilty burden, before the world, Of this innocent soul. Let them bear the burden, before their children and before history, Of this wasted, sinless soul, Of this soul which has suffered at the hands of the “protectors of peace.” - Jumah al Dossari
Guantanamo Bay does not exist – the US military industrial complex has patched together a simulacrum of the detention center which now dominates the public’s consciousness and whitewashes the daily violence of Guantanamo. Through this simulacrum, the Global War on Terror is justified Veeren, 11 Elspeth van Veeren, PhD in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Bristol and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex focusing on the production of meaning in world politics through an exploration of the material and visual practices at Joint Task Force Guanta?namo; “Guanta?namo does not exist: Simulation and the production of ‘the real’ Global War on Terror,” 10/7/2011, Journal of War and Culture Studies, Volume 4, Number 2, pg. 193-206 bghs-ms
Joint Task Force (JTF) Guanta?namo, the high-profile US military detention AND a creation of these mediations; the ‘real’ Guanta?namo does not exist.
This securitized performance of Guantanamo as clean and humane is part and parcel of the military industrial complex’s justification of the Global War on Terror – it serves to legitimize the pseudo-war while masking its violence Veeren, 2 Elspeth van Veeren, PhD in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Bristol and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex focusing on the production of meaning in world politics through an exploration of the material and visual practices at Joint Task Force Guanta?namo; “Clean War, Invisible War, Liberal War: The Clean and Dirty Politics of Guanta?namo,” 3/19/2002 bghs-ms
The Global War on Terror (GWoT) now ranks as one of the costliest AND the performance of a national identity that is always in need of securing.
The War on Terror is part of the sovereign’s ability to exploit fundamental flaws in the legal system and continue the global biopolitical war – the ballot should side with the global countermovement against such violence – refuse the line Gulli, 13 - professor of history, philosophy, and political science at Kingsborough College in New York, (Bruno, “For the critique of sovereignty and violence,” http://academia.edu/2527260/For_the_Critique_of_Sovereignty_and_Violence, pg. 1)
We live in an unprecedented time of crisis. The violence that characterized the twentieth AND nice rhetoric, ultimately rests on the threat of military violence and police brutality
The purported sterilized environment of Guantanamo could be no further from the truth, and this image serves to hide the detention center’s ongoing violence Veeren, 11 Elspeth van Veeren, PhD in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Bristol and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex focusing on the production of meaning in world politics through an exploration of the material and visual practices at Joint Task Force Guanta?namo; “Guanta?namo does not exist: Simulation and the production of ‘the real’ Global War on Terror,” 10/7/2011, Journal of War and Culture Studies, Volume 4, Number 2, pg. 193-206 bghs-ms
After April 2002 and the move from Camp X-Ray to Camp Delta, AND while (re)producing their treatment in Camp Delta as ‘humane’.
This year’s resolution presents us with the question of increasing economic engagement toward Cuba. We respond with another question: “What of the Guantanamo detainees”? Guantanamo has historically been a centerpiece of US economic policy toward Cuba, and we believe criticism of the effects current policy has on Guantanamo detainees is a prerequisite to further engagement Ree, 12 Patrick Ree, student of Arts (BA), Art History, Criticism and Conservation at Rutgers University; “Locating in Obscurity: Cuba and Guantánamo Bay,” 4/19/2012, http://blog.gitmomemory.org/2012/04/19/locating-in-obscurity-cuba-and-guantanamo-baybghs-ms
The geography of Guantánamo has always involved a contested race for authority, due to AND of imperial expansion that is evolving with new meanings of global political economy.
Video
Our advocacy is one that seeks to expose the hidden flaws in current US-Cuba policy. The performance of the 1AC is the performance the sovereign intended you not to see – we are a starting point for the reversal of the Guantanamo Bay simulacrum Veeren, 2 Elspeth van Veeren, PhD in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Bristol and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex focusing on the production of meaning in world politics through an exploration of the material and visual practices at Joint Task Force Guanta?namo; “Clean War, Invisible War, Liberal War: The Clean and Dirty Politics of Guanta?namo,” 3/19/2002 bghs-ms
On top of this, many activists outside the wire engaged in public protests against AND and Guanta?namo continues to mean Camp X-Ray and its dirty practices.
Our discussion is valuable Debrix and Lacy, 10 Francois Debrix, bilingual scholar whose research focuses on critical world order studies and the theory of transnational politics and director of interdisciplinary Ph.D. program at Virginia Tech, AND Dr. Mark Lacy, Lecturer, Associate Director: Security Lancaster; “The Geopolitics of American Insecurity: Terror, Power and Foreign Policy,” 9/30/2010, pg. 81-83 bghs-ms
But forgetting often trumps remembering. When the Tipton Three were about to be released AND The wrongdoers were arrested and prosecuted, and justice was demanded. 63
2AC
AT: Terror
No risk of terror – assumes every warrant Mueller 10 (John, professor of political science at Ohio State, Calming Our Nuclear Jitters, Issues in Science and Technology, Winter, http://www.issues.org/26.2/mueller.html)
Politicians of all stripes preach to an anxious, appreciative, and very numerous choir AND above: one in a million or one in three billion per attempt.
AT: Guantanamo Good Turns
You should be highly skeptical of their evidence --- it’s all from neocons basing their work off other neocons --- the impact to this epistemology is the aff Veeren, 11 Elspeth van Veeren, PhD in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Bristol and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex focusing on the production of meaning in world politics through an exploration of the material and visual practices at Joint Task Force Guanta?namo; “Guanta?namo does not exist: Simulation and the production of ‘the real’ Global War on Terror,” 10/7/2011, Journal of War and Culture Studies, Volume 4, Number 2, pg. 193-206 bghs-ms
So, despite marketing themselves as independent commentators for US television networks and magazines, AND of state power and its capacity for specialization’ (Pugliese 2008: 212).
2AC - Law K
The 1AC is a resistant reading of the images of the Guantanamo detainees’ suffering. Vote aff to reclaim the field of representation – we should move away from the “safe and humane” simulacrum of Gitmo circulated by the USFG and toward the exposition of the torture victims’ anguish. This reinterpretation is key to mobilize successful anti-Guantanamo resistance Veeren, 11 Elspeth van Veeren, PhD in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Bristol and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex focusing on the production of meaning in world politics through an exploration of the material and visual practices at Joint Task Force Guanta?namo; “Guanta?namo does not exist: Simulation and the production of ‘the real’ Global War on Terror,” 10/7/2011, Journal of War and Culture Studies, Volume 4, Number 2, pg. 193-206 bghs-ms
Despite the short space of time (or time frame) during which the orange AND images by protestors forced a reframing of detention practices by the US military.
2AC - Nietzsche
Ressentiment is inevitable but resisting it only causes us to use it unconsciously – ressentiment can be good if it is consciously utilized to change politics Dolgert, 10 (Stefan, Prof @ Brock U, In Praise of Ressentiment: OR, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Glen Beck, APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1642232)//LA Ressentiment is not jealous: It is not necessary to maintain consistency of political message AND direct our blame toward more useful ends than where it is currently located.
2AC – FW
“Resolved” means to reduce through mental analysis Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 6 (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/resolved) Resolve: 1.To come to a definite or earnest decision about; determine AND 5.to reduce by mental analysis (often fol. by into).
“Should” means you look to method of advocacy New Oxford American Dictionary
Should: Used to indicate obligation, duty, or correctness, typically when criticizing someone's actions
Economic engagement is academic analysis of economic areas Bond and Paterson 5 – *lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh AND professor of educational policy at the University of Edinburgh (Ross and Lindsay, “Coming down from the ivory tower? Academics’ civic and economic engagement with the community”; September 2005)
We now turn our attention to a more specific form of interaction with the nonacademic AND also consider beliefs about the extent to which they should have economic relevance.
Framework equals normalization of violence
Evans 14 (Brad Evans, PhD from Leeds University, Senior Lecturer in international studies at the University of Bristol, founder and director of the histories of violence project, 2013-2014, “Inaugural Statement,” On Violence Volume 1) gz Violence is a complex phenomenon that defies neat description. It cannot be reduced to AND violently for the better, the fight for dignity is already lost.
AT: Decisionmaling/Predictability/Limits
Their identification of the resolution as the sole stasis of debate ignores that arguments can never be confined to a single point of contestation – sources of disagreement in debate rounds are constantly in flux which makes predictability impossible – the attempt to limit debate to instrumental affirmation of the resolution leads to an exclusionary securitizing logic that produces an essentialist and violent pedagogy – prefer the affirmative’s inquiry of the resolution Theodorakakou, 5 A. Theodorakakou, rhetorician and writer for the “Argumentation” Journal; “What is at Issue in Argumentation? Judgment in the Hellenistic Doctrine of Krinomenon,” Argumentation (2005): 19: pg. 239-250 bghs-ms Gender modified
ABSTRACT: This paper offers an account of the Hellnistic doctrine of krinomenon, elaborating AND impossibility of judgment; on the contrary, it is its very condition.
4/13/14
New Trier Doubles
Tournament: New Trier | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Des Moines Roosevelt PW | Judge: Brian Rubaie, Eric Oddo, Erin Dinser
2AC
2AC – T: Economic Engagement
Topicality should be evaluated through the lens of revealing and concealing Bleiker 2k (Roland Bleiker, professor of international relations at the University of Queensland, 2000, “Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics,” pp 281-2) A discursive notion of human … transversal domain of global politics.
Economic engagement is academic analysis of economic areas Bond and Paterson, 5 – *lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh AND professor of educational policy at the University of Edinburgh (Ross and Lindsay, “Coming down from the ivory tower? Academics’ civic and economic engagement with the community”; September 2005) We now turn our attention … they should have economic relevance.
The entirety of Western politics rests on the state of exception – any action that begins with the State maintains the ability to determine life Agamben 98 – professor of philosophy at the University of Verona (Giorgio, Homo Sacer, pg. 8-9) The protagonist of this book … new biopolitical body of humanity.
Policymaking absolves individual responsibility for violence – ensures violence will be inevitable – independent reason to vote aff Kappeler 95 (Susanne, The Will to Violence, pgs 9-11) War does not suddenly break … values of war and violence.
2AC – Nietzsche
Perm do both - embrace compassion because it’s difficult and fraught with risk Frazer 6 The Review of Politics (2006), 68: 49-78 Cambridge University Press Michael Frazer's research focuses on Enlightenment political philosophy and its relevance for contemporary political theory. His current book project, “The Enlightenment of Sympathy: Justice and the Moral Sentiments in the Eighteenth Century and Today,” defends a psychologically holistic approach to political reflection through an examination of such authors as David Hume, Adam Smith and J. G. Herder. Dr. Frazer has also published articles on Maimonides, Nietzsche, John Rawls and Leo Strauss in such journals as "Political Theory" and "The Review of Politics." After receiving his B.A. from Yale University and his Ph.D. from Princeton University, Dr. Frazer spent the 2006-7 academic year as a postdoctoral research associate in the Political Theory Project at Brown University. Assistant professor – HARVARD There is a second way … as opponents of human flourishing.
There is no opposition between arguing for change in the world and affirming life in a Nietzschean sense – their refusal of change and reform is self-delusion that withdraws from the world and denies an important aspect of life May 5 (Todd, Professor of Philosophy at Clemson University, September 2005, “To change the world, to celebrate life,” Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 31, No. 5-6) For those among us who … choose both sides at once.
Suffering is not inevitable – engagement is necessary to celebrate life and withdrawing inward forecloses opportunities to change our surroundings May 5 – Philosophy Professor at Clemenson University (Todd, “To change the world, to celebrate life,” Philosophy and Social Criticism 2005 Vol 31 No. 5–6 p. 517–531) There are many ways to …Asceticism like that is dangerous.
Meaning is transient – we should stop suffering when we can Mitchell Smolkin, doctor who specializes in depression, Understanding Pain, 1989 p75-79 For Camus, the absurdity of … die in a happy city.”76
2AC – Anthro
Our critiques are one in the same – the category of bare life connects and sustains the categories of human and other beings – only through an understanding of this construction can we hope to stop this form of violence by the sovereign Oliver, 7 – W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy and Professor of Women's Studies at Vanderbilt University (Kelly, PhaenEx 2, No. 2 (fall/winter 2007): 1-23; Stopping the Anthropological Machine: Agamben with Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, 2007) In The Open, even while … can we hope to stop it.
Dubbing people “anthropocentric” because they didn’t talk about animals is inaccurate and turns the critique Lewis 92 – professor in the School of the Environment and the Center for International Studies at Duke University. Green Delusions, 1992 p17-18 It is widely accepted that … aligned in such a manner.
Anthropocentrism is inevitable, but strategic anthropomorphism is possible – we can identify with and make decisions for the benefit of other beings Scholtz, 5 – associate Professor in Law, North-West University, (“Animal Culling: A Sustainable Approach or Anthropocentric Atrocity?: Issues of Biodiversity and Custodial Sovereignty”, MqJICEL (2005) Vol 2) The CBD recognizes that the … linkage between man and environment.
Alt is impossible – it still requires a concept of human agency – we are limited to our own spatial-temporal perspective Grey, 2000 (William, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Queensland, Australia ("A Critique of Deep Green Theory", Beneath the Surface, p. 48) Values depend on the existence … creatures such as ourselves possess.
10/23/13
New Trier Octas
Tournament: New Trier | Round: Octas | Opponent: Glenbrook North MS | Judge: Erin Dinser, Martin Osborn, Patrick Kennedy
2AC
2AC – FW
“Resolved” means to reduce through mental analysis Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 6 (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/resolved) Resolve: 1.To come to a …to reduce by mental analysis (often fol. by into). The entirety of Western politics rests on the state of exception – any action that begins with the State maintains the ability to determine life Agamben 98 – professor of philosophy at the University of Verona (Giorgio, Homo Sacer, pg. 8-9) The protagonist of this book … new biopolitical body of humanity. Their politics leads to passivity Antonio, 95 – Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas (Robert J., “Nietzsche's Antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History,” The American Journal of Sociology, 101.1, p. 14-15, 1995) The "problem of the actor," …a new type of tyrant
AT: Decisionmaking
Their claims about portable skills rely on an understanding of education which frames subjects as units of rationality to be bettered through civilizing practices. This form of dispassionate subject construction eliminates care and dooms millions to suffering and death. Mourad, 1 /Roger Jr., Director of Institutional Research at Washtenaw College and teaches at the University of Michigan. His academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Higher Education, M.A. in Philosophy of Education, and J.D. in Law, all from the University of Michigan. He is the author of Postmodern Philosophical Critique and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Higher Education Westport: Greenwood, 1997! and several recent journal publications on epistemological, ethical, and legal issues pertaining to the nature and structure of institutionally organized education and its relation to the social good, “Education After Foucault: The Question of Civility” Teachers College Record Volume 103, Number 5, October 2001, pp. 739–759/ Too many lost names too … in philosophy, policy, and practice.
2AC – Gringo PIC
Reappropriating the meaning of oppressive words is the ultimate confrontation to oppressive language Butler 4 (Judith, “Undoing Gender,” Routledge, 2004) In the same way that … politics of hope and anxiety. Censorship fails—destroys our ability to fight dominant interpretations of words Schram, 95 (Sanford F. Schram, professor of social theory and policy at Bryn Mawr College, 1995, words of welfare: The Poverty of Social Science and the Social Science of Poverty) Euphemisms also encourage self-censorship. … many intelligent interpretations as possible.
10/30/13
New Trier Round 2
Tournament: New Trier | Round: 2 | Opponent: Northside College Prep JS | Judge: Ben Hamburger
2AC
Discourse Shapes Reality
Theoretical thinking concerning security problematizes militarized practices like the “war on drugs” – it constitutes reality Bilgin, 5 – Professor of IR, Bikent University, Regional Security In The Middle East A Critical Perspective, Page 7 From a critical perspective, thinking …security in theory and practice.
Their position is incoherent – content has no meaning without an interrogation of form Bleiker 2000 (Roland Bleiker, professor of international relations at the University of Queensland, 2000, “Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics” pg. 280) To recognize that language is … that interferes with such objections.
2AC – Nietzsche
Perm do both - embrace compassion because it’s difficult and fraught with risk Frazer 6 The Review of Politics (2006), 68: 49-78 Cambridge University Press Michael Frazer's research focuses on Enlightenment political philosophy and its relevance for contemporary political theory. His current book project, “The Enlightenment of Sympathy: Justice and the Moral Sentiments in the Eighteenth Century and Today,” defends a psychologically holistic approach to political reflection through an examination of such authors as David Hume, Adam Smith and J. G. Herder. Dr. Frazer has also published articles on Maimonides, Nietzsche, John Rawls and Leo Strauss in such journals as "Political Theory" and "The Review of Politics." After receiving his B.A. from Yale University and his Ph.D. from Princeton University, Dr. Frazer spent the 2006-7 academic year as a postdoctoral research associate in the Political Theory Project at Brown University. Assistant professor – HARVARD
There is a second way … as opponents of human flourishing.
Meaning is transient – we should stop suffering when we can Mitchell Smolkin, doctor who specializes in depression, Understanding Pain, 1989 p75-79 For Camus, the absurdity of … die in a happy city.”76 There is no opposition between arguing for change in the world and affirming life in a Nietzschean sense – their refusal of change and reform is self-delusion that withdraws from the world and denies an important aspect of life May 5 (Todd, Professor of Philosophy at Clemson University, September 2005, “To change the world, to celebrate life,” Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 31, No. 5-6) For those among us who … choose both sides at once.
Suffering is not inevitable – engagement is necessary to celebrate life and withdrawing inward forecloses opportunities to change our surroundings May 5 – Philosophy Professor at Clemenson University (Todd, “To change the world, to celebrate life,” Philosophy and Social Criticism 2005 Vol 31 No. 5–6 p. 517–531) There are many ways to …Asceticism like that is dangerous.
2AC – FW
The entirety of Western politics rests on the state of exception – any action that begins with the State maintains the ability to determine life Agamben 98 – professor of philosophy at the University of Verona (Giorgio, Homo Sacer, pg. 8-9) The protagonist of this book … new biopolitical body of humanity.
Their politics leads to passivity Antonio, 95 – Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas (Robert J., “Nietzsche's Antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History,” The American Journal of Sociology, 101.1, p. 14-15, 1995) The "problem of the actor," …a new type of tyrant
AT: Limits
Their move is not benign – the rhetoric of limits creates a necessarily exclusionary and authoritarian politics Kulynych 97 (Kulynych, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Winthrop University, 1997 Jessica, “Performing Politics," Polity, Winter, v.XXX, n.2, p. 315-330) Political scientists have traditionally understood … matter of utilizing correct procedure.
AT: SSD
Bracketing off of our protest is enabled by the state of exception and legitimizes brutal cycles of governmentality – turns switch-side Elmer and Opel, 8 (Greg Elmer, associate professor of communication and culture at Ryerson University, PhD in communication from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, director of the Infoscape Research Lab at Ryerson University, Andy Opel, associate professor of communication at Florida State University, PhD in mass communication from the University of North Carolina, member of the International Communication Association, November 2008, “Preempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future,” pages 29-41) SHORTLY AFTER THE LARGE-SCALE PROTESTS … reducing actual risks and dangers.
AT: Roleplaying Good
Policymaking absolves individual responsibility for violence – ensures violence will be inevitable – independent reason to vote aff Kappeler 95 (Susanne, The Will to Violence, pgs 9-11) War does not suddenly break … values of war and violence.
10/23/13
New Trier Round 4
Tournament: New Trier | Round: 4 | Opponent: University of Chicago Lab DL | Judge: Mary Gregg
2AC
2AC – Hobbes DA
Theoretical thinking concerning security problematizes militarized practices like the “war on drugs” – it constitutes reality Bilgin, 5 – Professor of IR, Bikent University, Regional Security In The Middle East A Critical Perspective, Page 7 From a critical perspective, thinking … security in theory and practice.
Their position is incoherent – content has no meaning without an interrogation of form Bleiker 2000 (Roland Bleiker, professor of international relations at the University of Queensland, 2000, “Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics” pg. 280) To recognize that language is … that interferes with such objections.
2AC – Anthropocentrism
Our critiques are one in the same – the category of bare life connects and sustains the categories of human and other beings – only through an understanding of this construction can we hope to stop this form of violence by the sovereign Oliver, 7 – W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy and Professor of Women's Studies at Vanderbilt University (Kelly, PhaenEx 2, No. 2 (fall/winter 2007): 1-23; Stopping the Anthropological Machine: Agamben with Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, 2007) In The Open, even while … can we hope to stop it.
Dubbing people “anthropocentric” because they didn’t talk about animals is inaccurate and turns the critique Lewis 92 – professor in the School of the Environment and the Center for International Studies at Duke University. Green Delusions, 1992 p17-18 It is widely accepted that … aligned in such a manner.
Alt is impossible – it still requires a concept of human agency – we are limited to our own spatial-temporal perspective Grey, 2000 (William, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Queensland, Australia ("A Critique of Deep Green Theory", Beneath the Surface, p. 48) Values depend on the existence … creatures such as ourselves possess.
Anthropocentrism is inevitable, but strategic anthropomorphism is possible – we can identify with and make decisions for the benefit of other beings Scholtz, 5 – associate Professor in Law, North-West University, (“Animal Culling: A Sustainable Approach or Anthropocentric Atrocity?: Issues of Biodiversity and Custodial Sovereignty”, MqJICEL (2005) Vol 2) The CBD recognizes that the … linkage between man and environment.
2AC – FW
The entirety of Western politics rests on the state of exception – any action that begins with the State maintains the ability to determine life Agamben 98 – professor of philosophy at the University of Verona (Giorgio, Homo Sacer, pg. 8-9) The protagonist of this book … new biopolitical body of humanity.
Their politics leads to passivity Antonio, 95 – Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas (Robert J., “Nietzsche's Antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History,” The American Journal of Sociology, 101.1, p. 14-15, 1995) The "problem of the actor," …a new type of tyrant
AT: Decisionmaking
Their claims about portable skills rely on an understanding of education which frames subjects as units of rationality to be bettered through civilizing practices. This form of dispassionate subject construction eliminates care and dooms millions to suffering and death. Mourad, 1 /Roger Jr., Director of Institutional Research at Washtenaw College and teaches at the University of Michigan. His academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Higher Education, M.A. in Philosophy of Education, and J.D. in Law, all from the University of Michigan. He is the author of Postmodern Philosophical Critique and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Higher Education Westport: Greenwood, 1997! and several recent journal publications on epistemological, ethical, and legal issues pertaining to the nature and structure of institutionally organized education and its relation to the social good, “Education After Foucault: The Question of Civility” Teachers College Record Volume 103, Number 5, October 2001, pp. 739–759/ Too many lost names too … in philosophy, policy, and practice.
10/23/13
New Trier Round 6
Tournament: New Trier | Round: 6 | Opponent: Kinkaid RB | Judge: Gabe Murillo
2AC
Discourse Shapes Reality
Theoretical thinking concerning security problematizes militarized practices like the “war on drugs” – it constitutes reality Bilgin, 5 – Professor of IR, Bikent University, Regional Security In The Middle East A Critical Perspective, Page 7 From a critical perspective, thinking …security in theory and practice.
Their position is incoherent – content has no meaning without an interrogation of form Bleiker 2000 (Roland Bleiker, professor of international relations at the University of Queensland, 2000, “Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics” pg. 280) To recognize that language is … that interferes with such objections.
2AC – T: Economic Engagement
Topicality should be evaluated through the lens of revealing and concealing Bleiker 2k (Roland Bleiker, professor of international relations at the University of Queensland, 2000, “Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics,” pp 281-2) A discursive notion of human … transversal domain of global politics.
Economic engagement is academic analysis of economic areas Bond and Paterson, 5 – *lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh AND professor of educational policy at the University of Edinburgh (Ross and Lindsay, “Coming down from the ivory tower? Academics’ civic and economic engagement with the community”; September 2005) We now turn our attention … they should have economic relevance.
2AC – CP
The entirety of Western politics rests on the state of exception – any action that begins with the State maintains the ability to determine life Agamben 98 – professor of philosophy at the University of Verona (Giorgio, Homo Sacer, pg. 8-9) The protagonist of this book … new biopolitical body of humanity.
Policymaking absolves individual responsibility for violence – ensures violence will be inevitable – independent reason to vote aff Kappeler 95 (Susanne, The Will to Violence, pgs 9-11) War does not suddenly break … values of war and violence.
Their politics leads to passivity Antonio, 95 – Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas (Robert J., “Nietzsche's Antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History,” The American Journal of Sociology, 101.1, p. 14-15, 1995) The "problem of the actor," … a new type of tyrant
2AC – Fem
Absent our politics, they have no project Cerwonka and Loutfi 11 (Allaine Cerwonka, professor of gender studies at Central European University, Anna Loutfi, assistant professor of gender studies at Central European University, “Biopolitics and the Female Reproductive Body as the New Subject of Law,” Feminists at Law Volume 1 Number 1, journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/feministsatlaw/article/view/18/75?) gz To say that the histories … the sex blindness of Foucault.
The alt is essentialist – doesn’t change reality and reproduces gender stereotypes Witworth, 94 prof of political science and female studies @ York U, (Feminism and International Relations, pg 20, 1994) Even when not concerned with … pause to reconsider this position.
Totalizing conceptions of feminism reinscribe violence Crenshaw, 91 Kimberlie, Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color, Stanford Law Review, July, 43 Stan. L. Rev. 1241 The concept of political intersectionality … fully empowers women of color.
The alt can never explain broader systems of power – reifies gender-centrism without the perm Caprioli 4 (“Feminist IR Theory and Quantitative Methodology: A Critical Analysis” Mary Caprioli, Dept. of Political Science, University of Tennessee. International Studies Review. Volume 42 Issue 1 Page 193-197, March 2004. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/0020-8833.00076). If researchers cannot add gender … what happens in the world.
Incorporating the plan and the kritik allows us to undermine notions of sexual difference from the inside – only incorporation of outside viewpoints can create a coalitional politics to maintain the relevance of the alternative’s agenda Ashton, 3 (Nancy L.; Associate Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies – Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Book Review, Feminist Formations, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring) Some decades ago when I … to people of diverse fields.
10/23/13
Notre Dame Octas
Tournament: Notre Dame | Round: Octas | Opponent: Hamilton CP | Judge: Mataea Ivanovic, Brock Hanson, Joel Lemuel
2AC
2AC – Suffering K
Their understanding of desire is violent – its techniques are used manage populations and develop disciplinary society – case turns the K Milchman and Rosenberg, 2 Milchman teaches in the department of Political Science of Queens College of the City University of New York. He has published on Marxism, modern genocide, Max Weber, Heidegger, Foucault, and postmodernism. He has co-edited Postmodernism and the Holocaust, with Alan Rosenberg (Rodopi, 1998) and Martin Heidegger and the Holocaust, with Alan Rosenberg (Humanities Press, 1996), Alan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queens College of the City University of New York. He has published widely on psychoanalysis, the Holocaust, and the philosophies of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Foucault. Among the books that he has co-edited are Foucault and Heidegger: Critical Encounters, with Alan Milchman (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming); Contemporary Portrayals of Auschwitz: Philosophical Challenges, with James Watson and Detlef B. Linke (Humanity Books); Psychoanalytic Versions of the Human Condition, with Paul Marcus (NYU press, 1998); Healing Their Wounds: Psychotherapy with Holocaust Survivors and Their Families, with Paul Marcus (Praeger, 1989); and Echoes from the Holocaust: Philosophical Reflections on a Dark Time, with Gerald Myers (Temple University Press, 1988). “A Foucauldian Analysis of Psychoanalysis: A Discipline that ‘Disciplines’” Academy for the Study of the Psychoanalytic Arts, http://www.academyanalyticarts.org/milchandrosen.htm/ For Foucault, the very genesis … its techniques for managing people.
2AC – CP
Bracketing off of our protest is enabled by the state of exception and legitimizes brutal cycles of governmentality – turns switch-side Elmer and Opel, 8 (Greg Elmer, associate professor of communication and culture at Ryerson University, PhD in communication from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, director of the Infoscape Research Lab at Ryerson University, Andy Opel, associate professor of communication at Florida State University, PhD in mass communication from the University of North Carolina, member of the International Communication Association, November 2008, “Preempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future,” pages 29-41) SHORTLY AFTER THE LARGE-SCALE PROTESTS … reducing actual risks and dangers.
Wrong forum claim is wrong – discussing debate’s structural issues within the rounds can generate controversy that forces the issues onto the community’s agenda DSRB 8 (Dr. Shanara Reid-Brinkley, first black woman director of debate in the country, a professor of communications at Pitt, and a general goddess of knowledge; “THE HARSH REALITIES OF ‘ACTING BLACK’: HOW AFRICAN-AMERICAN POLICY DEBATERS NEGOTIATE REPRESENTATION THROUGH RACIAL PERFORMANCE AND STYLE,” 2008, pg. 128) Zompetti’s fears are fairly reasonable … maintain racial exclusion and privilege.
2AC – FW
“Resolved” means to reduce through mental analysis Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 6 (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/resolved) Resolve: 1.To come to a … analysis (often fol. by into).
The entirety of Western politics rests on the state of exception – any action that begins with the State maintains the ability to determine life Agamben 98 – professor of philosophy at the University of Verona (Giorgio, Homo Sacer, pg. 8-9) The protagonist of this book … new biopolitical body of humanity.
Their politics leads to passivity Antonio, 95 – Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas (Robert J., “Nietzsche's Antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History,” The American Journal of Sociology, 101.1, p. 14-15, 1995) The "problem of the actor," …a new type of tyrant
Their insistence upon the truth of their framework is contrived and ignores the historical contingency of debate – we should embrace this contingency rather than closely guarding the borders of our activity Johnston, 96 (Ian Johnston, Malaspina College; "There’s Nothing Nietzsche Couldn’t Teach Ya About the Raising of the Wrist,"http://www.mala.bc.ca/~~johnstoi/introser/nietzs.htm) When Nietzsche looks at Europe … no claim to privileged access.
AT: Decisionmaking Their claims about portable skills rely on an understanding of education which frames subjects as units of rationality to be bettered through civilizing practices. This form of dispassionate subject construction eliminates care and dooms millions to suffering and death. Mourad, 1 /Roger Jr., Director of Institutional Research at Washtenaw College and teaches at the University of Michigan. His academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Higher Education, M.A. in Philosophy of Education, and J.D. in Law, all from the University of Michigan. He is the author of Postmodern Philosophical Critique and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Higher Education Westport: Greenwood, 1997! and several recent journal publications on epistemological, ethical, and legal issues pertaining to the nature and structure of institutionally organized education and its relation to the social good, “Education After Foucault: The Question of Civility” Teachers College Record Volume 103, Number 5, October 2001, pp. 739–759/ EDUCATION FOR IMPROVEMENT, OR “KICKING … in philosophy, policy, and practice.
12/5/13
Notre Dame Round 1
Tournament: Notre Dame | Round: 1 | Opponent: Rowland Hall LS | Judge: Matea Ivanovic
2AC
AT: Mann
Dissent is real and effective Bleiker 2k (Roland Bleiker, Ph.D. visiting research and teaching affiliations at Harvard, Cambridge, Humboldt, Tampere, Yonsei and Pusan National University as well as the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague; “Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics,” Cambridge University Press) Dissent has become a significant …nonterritorial contingencies upon our horizons'.3
2AC – Queer Theory
The alternative dooms liberation of lesbians – queer theory homogenizes male and female interests Jeffreys 94 (Sheila, Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Melbourne, Women’s Studies International Forum, “The Queer Disappearance of Lesbians: Sexuality In the Academy, Volume 17, Issue 5, p. 459-472) The appearance of queer theory … been culturally assigned to women.
AT: Edelman
Alternative doesn’t solve – Edelman’s use of queer theory can’t be universalized. Snediker, 6 (Michael, Visiting Assistant Professor of American Literature at Mount Holyoke College, Postmoden Culture, Vol 16, “Queer Optimism”, May, http://muse.jhu.edu.proxy.lib.umich.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v016/16.3snediker.html) Edelman's might be one way … but a claustrophobia unto itself.
Edelman’s alternative perpetuates essentialism and does not address material oppression. Edwards, 6 (Tim, Senior Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Leicester, Routledge, “Cultures of Masculinity” p85, http://books.google.com/books?id=jiDisMipzEsCandsource=gbs_navlinks_s) Gay liberation is problematic not … overtly sexualised and hypermasculine clone.
Psychoanalysis has enabled modern governmentality – its techniques are used manage populations and develop disciplinary society Milchman and Rosenberg, 2 Milchman teaches in the department of Political Science of Queens College of the City University of New York. He has published on Marxism, modern genocide, Max Weber, Heidegger, Foucault, and postmodernism. He has co-edited Postmodernism and the Holocaust, with Alan Rosenberg (Rodopi, 1998) and Martin Heidegger and the Holocaust, with Alan Rosenberg (Humanities Press, 1996), Alan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queens College of the City University of New York. He has published widely on psychoanalysis, the Holocaust, and the philosophies of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Foucault. Among the books that he has co-edited are Foucault and Heidegger: Critical Encounters, with Alan Milchman (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming); Contemporary Portrayals of Auschwitz: Philosophical Challenges, with James Watson and Detlef B. Linke (Humanity Books); Psychoanalytic Versions of the Human Condition, with Paul Marcus (NYU press, 1998); Healing Their Wounds: Psychotherapy with Holocaust Survivors and Their Families, with Paul Marcus (Praeger, 1989); and Echoes from the Holocaust: Philosophical Reflections on a Dark Time, with Gerald Myers (Temple University Press, 1988). “A Foucauldian Analysis of Psychoanalysis: A Discipline that ‘Disciplines’” Academy for the Study of the Psychoanalytic Arts, http://www.academyanalyticarts.org/milchandrosen.htm/ For Foucault, the very genesis … its techniques for managing people.
2AC – Batman
Even if they win a link argument, some level of speaking for Others is inevitable and can be productive – the affirmative is a prerequisite to hearing the voice of the marginalized Marino, 5 (Lauren Marino, Macalester Department of Philosophy; “Speaking for Others,” Macalester Journal of Philosophy: Vol. 14: Iss. 1, Article 4) If the self is located … the margins into the mainstream.
2AC – Zupancic
Perm do both - embrace compassion because it’s difficult and fraught with risk Frazer 6 The Review of Politics (2006), 68: 49-78 Cambridge University Press Michael Frazer's research focuses on Enlightenment political philosophy and its relevance for contemporary political theory. His current book project, “The Enlightenment of Sympathy: Justice and the Moral Sentiments in the Eighteenth Century and Today,” defends a psychologically holistic approach to political reflection through an examination of such authors as David Hume, Adam Smith and J. G. Herder. Dr. Frazer has also published articles on Maimonides, Nietzsche, John Rawls and Leo Strauss in such journals as "Political Theory" and "The Review of Politics." After receiving his B.A. from Yale University and his Ph.D. from Princeton University, Dr. Frazer spent the 2006-7 academic year as a postdoctoral research associate in the Political Theory Project at Brown University. Assistant professor – HARVARD There is a second way … as opponents of human flourishing.
2AC – Anthropocentrism
Our critiques are one in the same – the category of bare life connects and sustains the categories of human and other beings – only through an understanding of this construction can we hope to stop this form of violence by the sovereign Oliver, 7 – W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy and Professor of Women's Studies at Vanderbilt University (Kelly, PhaenEx 2, No. 2 (fall/winter 2007): 1-23; Stopping the Anthropological Machine: Agamben with Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, 2007) In The Open, even while … we hope to stop it.
Dubbing people “anthropocentric” because they didn’t talk about animals is inaccurate and turns the critique Lewis 92 – professor in the School of the Environment and the Center for International Studies at Duke University. Green Delusions, 1992 p17-18 It is widely accepted that … aligned in such a manner.
Anthropocentrism is inevitable, but strategic anthropomorphism is possible – we can identify with and make decisions for the benefit of other beings Scholtz, 5 – associate Professor in Law, North-West University, (“Animal Culling: A Sustainable Approach or Anthropocentric Atrocity?: Issues of Biodiversity and Custodial Sovereignty”, MqJICEL (2005) Vol 2) The CBD recognizes that the … linkage between man and environment.
AT: Kochi and Ordan Alt
Permutation solves their thought experiment Kochi and Ordan, 8 *Queen’s University AND Bar Ilan University, (Tarik and Noam, “An Argument for the Global Suicide of Humanity”, Borderlands VOLUME 7 NUMBER 3) While we are not interested … forget, suppress or repress it.
Theoretical thinking concerning security problematizes militarized practices like the “war on drugs” – it constitutes reality Bilgin, 5 – Professor of IR, Bikent University, Regional Security In The Middle East A Critical Perspective, Page 7 From a critical perspective, thinking …security in theory and practice.
The K misreads history – change is the key internal link to progress – also their argument necessitates complicity in evil because any action could be coopted Trott, 10 Ben Trott, journal newspaper in which to think through, debate and articulate the political, social, economic and cultural theories of our movements, as well as the networks of diverse practices and alternatives that surround them; “Skipping steps,” May 2010, http://www.redpepper.org.uk/Skipping-steps/bghs-ms Second, The Coming Insurrection offers … strategy unlikely to bear fruit.
Alt prevents coalitions Krishna, 93 (Sankaran, professor of political science, university of Hawaii, Alternatives 1993 v. 18 p.400) The dichotomous choice presented in … on such an activist politics.
2AC – FW
“Resolved” means to reduce through mental analysis Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 6 (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/resolved) Resolve: 1.To come to a … analysis (often fol. by into).
The entirety of Western politics rests on the state of exception – any action that begins with the State maintains the ability to determine life Agamben 98 – professor of philosophy at the University of Verona (Giorgio, Homo Sacer, pg. 8-9) The protagonist of this book … new biopolitical body of humanity.
Their politics leads to passivity Antonio, 95 – Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas (Robert J., “Nietzsche's Antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History,” The American Journal of Sociology, 101.1, p. 14-15, 1995) The "problem of the actor," …a new type of tyrant
AT: Dialogue
Link turn – we cannot rely upon common terms for discussion – they freeze alternative thought and prevent real debate from occurring Bleiker, 98 – asst. prof. of International Studies at Pusan National University (Roland, “Retracing and redrawing the boundaries of events: Postmodern interferences with international theory”, Alternatives, Oct-Dec 1998, Vol. 23, Issue 4) In the absence of authentic … bringing modesty to a majority. AT: Limits Their move is not benign – the rhetoric of limits creates a necessarily exclusionary and authoritarian politics Kulynych 97 (Kulynych, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Winthrop University, 1997 Jessica, “Performing Politics," Polity, Winter, v.XXX, n.2, p. 315-330) Political scientists have traditionally understood … matter of utilizing correct procedure.
AT: McClean
Not their model of debate – traditional conceptions of government fiat misrepresent the process of government decisionmaking, and are neither educational nor predictable Claude, 88 (Inis, Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, States and the Global System, pages 18-20) This view of the state …and that they sometimes claim.
AT: Portable Skills
Their claims about portable skills, limits and community rely on an understanding of education which frames subjects as units of rationality to be bettered through civilizing practices. This form of dispassionate subject construction eliminates care and dooms millions to suffering and death. Mourad, 1 /Roger Jr., Director of Institutional Research at Washtenaw College and teaches at the University of Michigan. His academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Higher Education, M.A. in Philosophy of Education, and J.D. in Law, all from the University of Michigan. He is the author of Postmodern Philosophical Critique and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Higher Education Westport: Greenwood, 1997! and several recent journal publications on epistemological, ethical, and legal issues pertaining to the nature and structure of institutionally organized education and its relation to the social good, “Education After Foucault: The Question of Civility” Teachers College Record Volume 103, Number 5, October 2001, pp. 739–759/ EDUCATION FOR IMPROVEMENT, OR “KICKING … in philosophy, policy, and practice.
State-based policies to combat drugs structurally fail Freeman and Luis Sierra, 5 (*Laurie, Director for Yemen at the National Security Council, former State Department Official, fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America, writer for the Washington Post Mexico Bureau, M.A. in International Politics from Princeton University, degree from Duke in Latin American Studies, Jorge, Knight International Journalism Fellow, degree in International Journalism from the University of Southern California, defense policy and economics fellow at the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University, “Mexico: The Militarization Traip”, 2005, part of “Drugs and Democracy in Latin America: The impact of U.S. Policy”, Rienner, Google Books) U.S. drug control policy toward … the U.S. drug control bureaucracy.
Policymaking absolves individual responsibility for violence – ensures violence will be inevitable – independent reason to vote aff Kappeler 95 (Susanne, The Will to Violence, pgs 9-11) War does not suddenly break … values of war and violence.
Discourse of “failed states” legitimizes an interventionist epistemology that effaces difference, makes north-south inequality inevitable, and is self-fulfilling Eisenträger 12 (Stian Eisenträger, MA student in IR, board member at International Reporter, a Norwegian NGO, 3-27-12, “Failed State or Failed Label?: The Concealing Concept and the Case of Somalia,” http://www.e-ir.info/2012/03/27/failed-state-or-failed-label-the-concealing-concept-and-the-case-of-somalia/) gz The end of the Cold … in Africa, and especially Somalia.
Economic threat predictions will cause the US to manipulate regimes in a non-democratic fashion – link turns the whole case and empirically kills millions Neocleous, 8, Prof of Gov (Mark Neocleous, Prof. of Government @ Brunel, Critique of Security, p95) In other words, the new …of the security strategy proposed.111
2AC – T: Economic Engagement
Topicality should be evaluated through the lens of revealing and concealing Bleiker 2k (Roland Bleiker, professor of international relations at the University of Queensland, 2000, “Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics,” pp 281-2) A discursive notion of human … transversal domain of global politics.
Economic engagement is academic analysis of economic areas Bond and Paterson, 5 – *lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh AND professor of educational policy at the University of Edinburgh (Ross and Lindsay, “Coming down from the ivory tower? Academics’ civic and economic engagement with the community”; September 2005) We now turn our attention … they should have economic relevance.
2AC – FW
“Resolved” means to reduce through mental analysis Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 6 (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/resolved) Resolve: 1.To come to a … analysis (often fol. by into).
The entirety of Western politics rests on the state of exception – any action that begins with the State maintains the ability to determine life Agamben 98 – professor of philosophy at the University of Verona (Giorgio, Homo Sacer, pg. 8-9) The protagonist of this book … new biopolitical body of humanity.
Their politics leads to passivity Antonio, 95 – Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas (Robert J., “Nietzsche's Antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History,” The American Journal of Sociology, 101.1, p. 14-15, 1995) The "problem of the actor," …a new type of tyrant
Their insistence upon the truth of their framework is contrived and ignores the historical contingency of debate – we should embrace this contingency rather than closely guarding the borders of our activity Johnston, 96 (Ian Johnston, Malaspina College; "There’s Nothing Nietzsche Couldn’t Teach Ya About the Raising of the Wrist, "http://www.mala.bc.ca/~~johnstoi/introser/nietzs.htm) When Nietzsche looks at Europe … no claim to privileged access. Discourse Shapes Reality
Theoretical thinking concerning security problematizes militarized practices like the “war on drugs” – it constitutes reality Bilgin, 5 – Professor of IR, Bikent University, Regional Security In The Middle East A Critical Perspective, Page 7 From a critical perspective, thinking …security in theory and practice.
12/5/13
Notre Dame Semis
Tournament: Notre Dame | Round: Semis | Opponent: Brophy MS | Judge: Sam Haley-Hill, Clara Purk, Alex Velto
2AC
AT: War on Drugs Good
State-based policies to combat drugs structurally fail Freeman and Luis Sierra, 5 (*Laurie, Director for Yemen at the National Security Council, former State Department Official, fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America, writer for the Washington Post Mexico Bureau, M.A. in International Politics from Princeton University, degree from Duke in Latin American Studies, Jorge, Knight International Journalism Fellow, degree in International Journalism from the University of Southern California, defense policy and economics fellow at the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University, “Mexico: The Militarization Traip”, 2005, part of “Drugs and Democracy in Latin America: The impact of U.S. Policy”, Rienner, Google Books) U.S. drug control policy toward … the U.S. drug control bureaucracy.
Hasn’t curtailed illegal drug trade Boesler, 12 (Matthew, reporter for Business Insider's markets desk, and Ashley Lutz, writer for Business Insider's retail section, “32 Reasons Why We Need To End The War On Drugs,” Business Insider, 7/12/12, http://www.businessinsider.com/32-reasons-why-we-need-to-end-the-war-on-drugs-2012-7?op=1) The 'war on drugs' is … harm caused and little accountability.
Their epistemology is flawed – the benefits of War on Drugs constitute a hyperbolic ruse perpetuated by the government – drug trade is only violent because it’s a reaction to the war on drugs Fukumi, 8 (Sayaka, PhD student in International Relations at the University of Nottingham, Cocaine Trafficking in Latin America, Ashgate Publishing Company, pg. 90-94) The use of violence by … has yet to be proved.
AT: Failed States
The affirmative’s discourse of “failed states” legitimizes an interventionist epistemology that effaces difference, makes north-south inequality inevitable, and is self-fulfilling Eisenträger 12 (Stian Eisenträger, MA student in IR, board member at International Reporter, a Norwegian NGO, 3-27-12, “Failed State or Failed Label?: The Concealing Concept and the Case of Somalia,” http://www.e-ir.info/2012/03/27/failed-state-or-failed-label-the-concealing-concept-and-the-case-of-somalia/) gz The end of the Cold … in Africa, and especially Somalia.
AT: Heg
Hegemony is maintained by a farce of legitimacy which justifies endless destruction Gulli 13. Bruno Gulli, professor of history, philosophy, and political science at Kingsborough College in New York, “For the critique of sovereignty and violence,” http://academia.edu/2527260/For_the_Critique_of_Sovereignty_and_Violence, pg. 5 I think that we have … they have lost their hegemony.
AT: Util
Utilitarian calculability justifies mass atrocity and turns its own end – it’s not inevitable Weizman 11 (Eyal Weizman, professor of visual and spatial cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, 2011, “The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza,” pp 8-10) The theological origins of the … are grounded in this impossibility.17
2AC – Suffering K
Ignoring images of suffering degrades ethics and legitimizes the worst violence Sontag, 3 (Susan, Peace Prize Recipient, Human Rights Activist And Internationally Renowned Author, Regarding the Pain of Others, p. 114-116) To designate a hell is … terrible things to one another.
Images of suffering are key to compassion Porter, 6 – Prof and head of the School of International Studies at the University of South Australia, (Elisabeth, Hypatia 21.4, project muse) I have explained what constitutes … is about priorities and choices. The alternative is silence and inaction which reinforces oppression and turns the critique Blomley 94 (Nicholas K. Blomley – Professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University, 1994, “Activism and the Academy”, http://www.praxis-epress.org/CGR/CG_Whole.pdf)MD So why the silence? Several … field of contradiction and diversity.
2AC – FW
“Resolved” means to reduce through mental analysis Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 6 (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/resolved) Resolve: 1.To come to a … analysis (often fol. by into). The entirety of Western politics rests on the state of exception – any action that begins with the State maintains the ability to determine life Agamben 98 – professor of philosophy at the University of Verona (Giorgio, Homo Sacer, pg. 8-9) The protagonist of this book … new biopolitical body of humanity.
Their politics leads to passivity Antonio, 95 – Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas (Robert J., “Nietzsche's Antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History,” The American Journal of Sociology, 101.1, p. 14-15, 1995) The "problem of the actor," …a new type of tyrant Their insistence upon the truth of their framework is contrived and ignores the historical contingency of debate – we should embrace this contingency rather than closely guarding the borders of our activity Johnston, 96 (Ian Johnston, Malaspina College; "There’s Nothing Nietzsche Couldn’t Teach Ya About the Raising of the Wrist,"http://www.mala.bc.ca/~~johnstoi/introser/nietzs.htm) When Nietzsche looks at Europe … no claim to privileged access.
AT: Decisionmaking
Their claims about portable skills rely on an understanding of education which frames subjects as units of rationality to be bettered through civilizing practices. This form of dispassionate subject construction eliminates care and dooms millions to suffering and death. Mourad, 1 /Roger Jr., Director of Institutional Research at Washtenaw College and teaches at the University of Michigan. His academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Higher Education, M.A. in Philosophy of Education, and J.D. in Law, all from the University of Michigan. He is the author of Postmodern Philosophical Critique and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Higher Education Westport: Greenwood, 1997! and several recent journal publications on epistemological, ethical, and legal issues pertaining to the nature and structure of institutionally organized education and its relation to the social good, “Education After Foucault: The Question of Civility” Teachers College Record Volume 103, Number 5, October 2001, pp. 739–759/ EDUCATION FOR IMPROVEMENT, OR “KICKING … in philosophy, policy, and practice.
1AR
Discourse Shapes Reality
Theoretical thinking concerning security problematizes militarized practices like the “war on drugs” – it constitutes reality Bilgin, 5 – Professor of IR, Bikent University, Regional Security In The Middle East A Critical Perspective, Page 7 From a critical perspective, thinking … security in theory and practice.
SSD
Bracketing off of our protest is enabled by the state of exception and legitimizes brutal cycles of governmentality – turns switch-side Elmer and Opel, 8 (Greg Elmer, associate professor of communication and culture at Ryerson University, PhD in communication from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, director of the Infoscape Research Lab at Ryerson University, Andy Opel, associate professor of communication at Florida State University, PhD in mass communication from the University of North Carolina, member of the International Communication Association, November 2008, “Preempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future,” pages 29-41) SHORTLY AFTER THE LARGE-SCALE PROTESTS … reducing actual risks and dangers.
12/5/13
Ohio Valley Octas
Tournament: Ohio Valley | Round: Octas | Opponent: Dexter SM | Judge: Matt Struth, Tyler Salathe, Matt Azimi
2AC
2AC K
Use of intellectual contingency avoids essentialism Owen, 97 – professor of social sciences at Southampton University, 1997, (David, “Maturity and Modernity: Nietszche, Weber, Foucault and the ambivalence of reason,” Routledge publishers, published July 22, 1997) In our reflections on Foucault’s methodology, it was noted that, like Nietszche and AND which we recognize our autonomy in the contestation of determinations of who we are
“El General” expose the hypocrisy of the US drug war, a contradiction in sovereign power Lajous, 12 – professor of constitutional law at Yale, professor and researcher at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica, a Mexican center of research and higher education specialized in social sciences (Alejandro Madrazo, “Criminals and enemies? The Mexican drug trafficker in official discourse and in narcocorridos,” translated by Fernanda Alonso)bghs-BI At the national level, there is also an important vein affirming belonging and vindicating AND give themselves privileges. ("The General", Los Tigres del Norte)30
Los Tigres del Norte actively challenge the subjugated role of women – their narcocorridos place empowered women as the protagonist and condemn the femicide in Juarez Rodriguez, 9 – Mariana, PhD candidate at the University of Technology, Sydney (“‘¡SOMOS MÁS AMERICANOS!’: The music of Los Tigres del Norte as Grass Roots Activism,” Transforming Cultures eJournal, Vol. 4 No 1, April 2009, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/TfC/article/view/1067/1070)//bghs-BI The last point I want to highlight is that, while not explicitly influenced by AND it, we should resolve it, punishing the cowards who abuse women
Not collective violence Lajous, 12 – professor of constitutional law at Yale, professor and researcher at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica, a Mexican center of research and higher education specialized in social sciences (Alejandro Madrazo, “Criminals and enemies? The Mexican drug trafficker in official discourse and in narcocorridos,” translated by Fernanda Alonso)bghs-BI We can begin to explore the relationship between drug trafficking and the political community through AND drug trafficker identifies with do not overlap with those of the political community.
Narcocorridos do not necessitate promotion of violence – they simply tell stories Watling, 12 (Ines, “Mexico: Do ‘narcocorridos’ advocate violence?,” Infosurhoy.com, 4 November 2012, http://infosurhoy.com/en_GB/articles/saii/features/main/2012/04/11/feature-02)//bghs-BI “I will sing a ballad/ Listen closely, my friends/ For the AND of the region and the country for centuries, Martínez-Amador added.
The corridor form is necessary – it is used to record community history and experiences Rodriguez, 9 – Mariana, PhD candidate at the University of Technology, Sydney (“‘¡SOMOS MÁS AMERICANOS!’: The music of Los Tigres del Norte as Grass Roots Activism,” Transforming Cultures eJournal, Vol. 4 No 1, April 2009, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/TfC/article/view/1067/1070)//bghs-BI As mentioned before Los Tigres del Norte use popular music as a tool to express AND America is all the continent and he who is born here is American.
2/6/14
Ohio Valley Round 1
Tournament: Ohio Valley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Johns Creek LP | Judge: Margaret Sites
1AC
New Card
The impact is the sovereign’s ability to exploit fundamental flaws in the legal system and continue the global biopolitical war—the ballot should side with the global countermovement against such violence Gulli 13. Bruno Gulli, professor of history, philosophy, and political science at Kingsborough College in New York, “For the critique of sovereignty and violence,” http://academia.edu/2527260/For_the_Critique_of_Sovereignty_and_Violence, pg. 1 We live in an unprecedented … military violence and police brutality¶
2AC
2AC – SSD DA
You should be an informed citizen, not the government – they shut down critical thinking and deliberation Steele, 10 – Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas (Brent, Defacing Power: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics pg 130-132, dml) gender/ableist language modified with brackets When facing these dire warnings … place fit for human habitation” (1964 2006: 233).
The entirety of Western politics rests on the state of exception – any action that begins with the State maintains the ability to determine life Agamben 98 – professor of philosophy at the University of Verona (Giorgio, Homo Sacer, pg. 8-9) The protagonist of this book … new biopolitical body of humanity.
Krause and Williams conclude aff – discourse is a prerequisite Krause and Williams 97 (Keith Krause, professor of political science at the Graduate Institute on International and Development Studies, Michael C Williams, professor of international relations at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, “From Strategy to Security: Foundations of Critical Security Studies,” chapter 2 of Critical Security Studies, p 49-50) The challenges to the conventional … the outcome of timeless structures.56
2AC – Limits DA
Limits are bad
A) Prevents holistic education Miller, 98 – Professor of Philosophy (George D, Negotiating toward truth: the extinction of teachers and students, Google Book ) Compartmentalization prevents students from seeing … similar. Compartmentalized learning narrows perspectives.
b) Critical thinking Miller, 98 – Professor of Philosophy (George D, Negotiating toward truth: the extinction of teachers and students, Google Book ) The fact that the oppressed … This understanding illuminates limit-situations. Their move is not benign – the rhetoric of limits creates a necessarily exclusionary and authoritarian politics Kulynych 97 (Kulynych, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Winthrop University, 1997 Jessica, “Performing Politics," Polity, Winter, v.XXX, n.2, p. 315-330) Political scientists have traditionally understood … matter of utilizing correct procedure.
Utilitarian calculability justifies mass atrocity and turns its own end Weizman 11 (Eyal Weizman, professor of visual and spatial cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, 2011, “The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza,” pp 8-10) The theological origins of the … are grounded in this impossibility.17
Limits are impossible De Cock 1 (Christian De Cock, Professor of Organizational behaviour, change management, creative problem solving, 2001, “Of Philip K. Dick, reflexivity and shifting realities Organizing (writing) in our post-industrial society” in the book “Science Fiction and Organization”) 'As Marx might have said … some hell to break loose' (McCloskey, 1994, p. 166).
2AC – Counter Advocacy
Bracketing off of our protest is enabled by the state of exception and legitimizes brutal cycles of governmentality – turns switch-side Elmer and Opel, 8 (Greg Elmer, associate professor of communication and culture at Ryerson University, PhD in communication from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, director of the Infoscape Research Lab at Ryerson University, Andy Opel, associate professor of communication at Florida State University, PhD in mass communication from the University of North Carolina, member of the International Communication Association, November 2008, “Preempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future,” pages 29-41) SHORTLY AFTER THE LARGE-SCALE PROTESTS … reducing actual risks and dangers.
Wrong forum claim is wrong – discussing debate’s structural issues within the rounds can generate controversy that forces the issues onto the community’s agenda DSRB 8 (Dr. Shanara Reid-Brinkley, first black woman director of debate in the country, a professor of communications at Pitt, and a general goddess of knowledge; “THE HARSH REALITIES OF ‘ACTING BLACK’: HOW AFRICAN-AMERICAN POLICY DEBATERS NEGOTIATE REPRESENTATION THROUGH RACIAL PERFORMANCE AND STYLE,” 2008, pg. 128) Zompetti’s fears are fairly reasonable. … maintain racial exclusion and privilege.
12/8/13
Ohio Valley Round 4
Tournament: Ohio Valley | Round: 4 | Opponent: Johns Creek SX | Judge: Tyler Salathe
2AC
2AC – Race
Los Tigres del Norte actively challenge the subjugated role of women – their narcocorridos place empowered women as the protagonist and condemn the femicide in Juarez Rodriguez, 9 – Mariana, PhD candidate at the University of Technology, Sydney (“‘¡SOMOS MÁS AMERICANOS!’: The music of Los Tigres del Norte as Grass Roots Activism,” Transforming Cultures eJournal, Vol. 4 No 1, April 2009, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/TfC/article/view/1067/1070)//bghs-BI
The last point I want to … the cowards who abuse women Perm do both – collectivity is best Jones and Campbell, 12 (Richard D. Jones, Department of Communication Studies, Eastern Illinois University, AND Bernadette Marie Campbell, Department of Communication Studies, University of Denver; “Contesting Neoliberalism Through Critical Pedagogy, Intersectional Reflexivity, and Personal Narrative: Queer Tales of Academia” Journal of Homosexuality, 59)
Extending Alcoff’s (1991–1992) reminder to … in collective dedication to truth” (p. 33).
The K misreads history – change is the key internal link to progress – also their argument necessitates complicity in evil because any action could be coopted Trott, 10 Ben Trott, journal newspaper in which to think through, debate and articulate the political, social, economic and cultural theories of our movements, as well as the networks of diverse practices and alternatives that surround them; “Skipping steps,” May 2010, http://www.redpepper.org.uk/Skipping-steps/bghs-ms
Second, The Coming Insurrection offers … to align themselves against it Orejection destroys ability to find allies Krishna, 93 (Sankaran, professor of political science, university of Hawaii, Alternatives 1993 v. 18 p.400) The dichotomous choice presented in … on such an activist politics.
2AC – FW
Their complaint is with the form rather than the content of the 1AC – translating this complaint into a rule plays into sovereign hands which turns decisionmaking and guts education Steele 10 – Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas (Brent, Defacing Power: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics pg 109-111, dml) The rules of language and speaking … more to the point, inconvenient.
“Resolved” means to reduce through mental analysis Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 6 (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/resolved) Resolve: 1.To come to a … to reduce by mental analysis (often fol. by into).
You should be an informed citizen, not the government – they shut down critical thinking and deliberation Steele, 10 – Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas (Brent, Defacing Power: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics pg 130-132, dml) gender/ableist language modified with brackets When facing these dire warnings … place fit for human habitation” (1964 2006: 233).
AT: Decisionmaking
Their claims about portable skills rely on an understanding of education which frames subjects as units of rationality to be bettered through civilizing practices. This form of dispassionate subject construction eliminates care and dooms millions to suffering and death. Mourad, 1 /Roger Jr., Director of Institutional Research at Washtenaw College and teaches at the University of Michigan. His academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Higher Education, M.A. in Philosophy of Education, and J.D. in Law, all from the University of Michigan. He is the author of Postmodern Philosophical Critique and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Higher Education Westport: Greenwood, 1997! and several recent journal publications on epistemological, ethical, and legal issues pertaining to the nature and structure of institutionally organized education and its relation to the social good, “Education After Foucault: The Question of Civility” Teachers College Record Volume 103, Number 5, October 2001, pp. 739–759/ EDUCATION FOR IMPROVEMENT, OR “KICKING … limitation in philosophy, policy, and practice.
AT: SSD
Bracketing off of our protest is enabled by the state of exception and legitimizes brutal cycles of governmentality – turns switch-side Elmer and Opel, 8 (Greg Elmer, associate professor of communication and culture at Ryerson University, PhD in communication from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, director of the Infoscape Research Lab at Ryerson University, Andy Opel, associate professor of communication at Florida State University, PhD in mass communication from the University of North Carolina, member of the International Communication Association, November 2008, “Preempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future,” pages 29-41) SHORTLY AFTER THE LARGE-SCALE PROTESTS … reducing actual risks and dangers.
2/6/14
Ohio Valley Round 5
Tournament: Ohio Valley | Round: 5 | Opponent: Chattahoochee AS | Judge: Libby Mandarino
2AC
2AC – Capitalism
Case turns the K – capitalism’s motor will never be jammed in a world of security’s state of exception Agamben, 2000 (Giorgio Agamben, professor of philosophy at the European Graduate School; “Means Without End,” Univ. Minnesota Press, 2000, pg. 133) Nothing is more nauseating than the impudence with which those who have turned money into AND and up to its neck in such a massive production of human misery.
Sovereignty, not capitalism, is the organizing structure of the symbolic order – attempts to create the notion of an undivided people necessitates purging all that is difference Agamben, 2000 (Giorgio, professor of philosophy at the College International de Philosophie in Paris, Means Without End: Notes on Politics, p. 33-34) If this is the case—if the concept of people necessarily contains within itself AND because it coincides with the biopolitical plan to produce a people with¬out fracture.
Case turns the K – the war on drugs serves as a pretext for US hegemony over Mexico and expansion of neoliberal policies Mercille, 11 lecturer in the School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy at Univeristy College Dublin, PhD from UCLA (Julien, “Violent Narco-Cartels or US Hegemony? The political economyof the ‘war on drugs’ in Mexico,” Third World Quarterly, Vol. 32 No. 9, 2011, pp 1637–1653, Taylor and Francis Online)BI What are the causes of Mexico’s drug trafficking and violence? What is the meaning AND provides historical background showing the continuities between the past and more recent situation.
2AC – FW
Their complaint is with the form rather than the content of the 1AC – translating this complaint into a rule plays into sovereign hands which turns decisionmaking and guts education Steele 10 – Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas (Brent, Defacing Power: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics pg 109-111, dml) The rules of language and speaking can themselves serve to conceal truth in world politics AND for the victim, inappropriate or, more to the point, inconvenient.
“Resolved” means to reduce through mental analysis Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 6 (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/resolved) Resolve: 1.To come to a definite or earnest decision about; determine AND 5.to reduce by mental analysis (often fol. by into).
Economic engagement is academic analysis of economic areas Bond and Paterson, 5 – *lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh AND professor of educational policy at the University of Edinburgh (Ross and Lindsay, “Coming down from the ivory tower? Academics’ civic and economic engagement with the community”; September 2005) We now turn our attention to a more specific form of interaction with the nonacademic AND also consider beliefs about the extent to which they should have economic relevance.
You should be an informed citizen, not the government – they shut down critical thinking and deliberation Steele, 10 – Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas (Brent, Defacing Power: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics pg 130-132, dml) gender/ableist language modified with brackets When facing these dire warnings regarding the manner in which academic-intellectuals are seduced AND a place fit for human habitation” (1964 2006: 233).
AT: Dialogue
Link turn – we cannot rely upon common terms for discussion – they freeze alternative thought and prevent real debate from occurring Bleiker, 98 – asst. prof. of International Studies at Pusan National University (Roland, “Retracing and redrawing the boundaries of events: Postmodern interferences with international theory”, Alternatives, Oct-Dec 1998, Vol. 23, Issue 4) In the absence of authentic knowledge, the formulation of theoretical positions and practical action AND to take on responsibility in the form of bringing modesty to a majority.
2/6/14
St Marks Doubles
Tournament: St Marks | Round: Doubles | Opponent: College Prep AG | Judge: Matea Ivanovic, Paul Johnson, Chris Leonardi
2AC
2AC – Opacity
Even if they win a link argument, some level of speaking for Others is inevitable and can be productive – the affirmative is a prerequisite to hearing the voice of the marginalized Marino, 5 (Lauren Marino, Macalester Department of Philosophy; “Speaking for Others,” Macalester Journal of Philosophy: Vol. 14: Iss. 1, Article 4) If the self is located … the margins into the mainstream.
The kritik creates a perpetual state of socio-political stasis by ignoring the fact that Others sometimes CANNOT speak for themselves – that means their project gets coopted by totalitarian disinformation campaigns Kleinman and Kleinman 96 (Arthur – professor of anthropology at Harvard University – and Joan – Sinologist at Harvard University. “The appeal of experience; the dismay of images: Cultural appropriations of suffering in our times,” Daedalus. Winter 1996. Vol.125, Iss. 1; pg. 1-24 pgs) It is necessary to balance … and to craft humane responses.
The alternative is silence and inaction which reinforces oppression and turns the critique Blomley 94 (Nicholas K. Blomley – Professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University, 1994, “Activism and the Academy”, http://www.praxis-epress.org/CGR/CG_Whole.pdf)MD So why the silence? Several … field of contradiction and diversity.
2AC – Wilderson
Wilderson presents a naïve and undifferentiated view of racial relations in the US. The neg’s understanding of structural antagonism destroys the possibility for engaging the complexities necessary to tackle whiteness. Janani 2013 “What's Wrong With the Term 'Person of Color',” http://blackgirldangerous.org/new-blog/2013/3/21/whats-wrong-with-the-term-person-of-color/ Black cultural theorist Frank Wilderson's … much farther from racial liberation.
Anti-blackness cannot explain orientalist violence against Islam which preceded the Enlightenment Charoenying (citing Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Prof of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley) 8 (Timothy, Islamophobia and Anti-Blackness: A Genealogical Approach, http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/islamophobia-anti-blackness-genealogical-approach) The year 1492 marked a … human trafficking of sub-Saharan Africans.
Orientalist Otherization creates a dyad between faiths, making genocidal violence inevitable Batur, 7 (Pinar Batur, Professor of Sociology and Director of Environmental Studies at Vassar College; “Heart of Violence: Global Racism, War, and Genocide,” 2007, “Handbook of the Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations,” “Heart of Violence: Global Racism, War, and Genocide”) Albert Memmi argued that “We … and what they believe in.”
Wilderson’s ontology makes fatalism inevitable and offers no alt Bâ, 11 (teaches film at Portsmouth University (UK). He researches ‘race’, the ‘postcolonial’, diaspora, the transnational and film ‘genre’, African and Caribbean cinemas and film festivals) (Saër Maty, The US Decentred, Cultural Studies Review, volume 17 number 2 September 2011) In chapter nine, ‘“Savage” Negrophobia’, … with its answers in tow.’ (340)
Turns the K – greatest comparative threat Miah quoting West in 94 (Malik Miah, Cornel West's Race Matters, May-June, http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/3079) In the chapter, “Nihilism in … there can be no struggle.” (14-15)
Wilderson’s logic of social death replicates the violence of the middle passage – rejection is necessary to honor the dead Brown, 9 (Vincent Brown, professor of history and of African and African American Studies specializing in Atlantic Slavery; “Social Death and Political Life in the Study of Slavery,” http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/documents/brown-socialdeath.pdf) But this was not the … are slavery’s bequest to us.
Black social death theory ignores the plurality of life affirming possibilities available even to the fungible body and fails to explain the oppression of other groups Bales, 5 (Kevin Bales, co-founder of Free the Slaves, PhD in economics at the London School of Economics, MA in sociology from the University of Mississippi, “Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader,” p56-7) The concept of social death … cease to be social beings.
12/5/13
St Marks Octas
Tournament: St Marks | Round: Octas | Opponent: Greenhill JD | Judge: Paul Johnson, Ian Beier, Austin Layton
2AC
2AC – SSD
Bracketing off of our protest is enabled by the state of exception and legitimizes brutal cycles of governmentality – turns switch-side Elmer and Opel, 8 (Greg Elmer, associate professor of communication and culture at Ryerson University, PhD in communication from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, director of the Infoscape Research Lab at Ryerson University, Andy Opel, associate professor of communication at Florida State University, PhD in mass communication from the University of North Carolina, member of the International Communication Association, November 2008, “Preempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future,” pages 29-41) SHORTLY AFTER THE LARGE-SCALE PROTESTS … reducing actual risks and dangers.
Anyone who can’t think of opposing arguments without being forced to publicly debate for them won’t benefit from being forced to play devil’s advocate Yudkowsky, 8 – Research Fellow at the Singularity Institute (Eliezer, Against Devils Advocacy, June 2008 http://lesswrong.com/lw/r3/against_devils_advocacy/) Believe me, I understand the … that Reason is not a game.
2AC – Iraq DA
The entirety of Western politics rests on the state of exception – any action that begins with the State maintains the ability to determine life Agamben 98 – professor of philosophy at the University of Verona (Giorgio, Homo Sacer, pg. 8-9) The protagonist of this book … new biopolitical body of humanity.
The discursive method of poetry transforms our understanding of global politics by disrupting static, entrenched values and creating spaces for thought to rupture sovereign power Bleiker, 2000 (Roland, coordinator of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program @ U of Queensland, Popular Dissent, Human Agency, and Global Politics) Poetry does, in a sense… are considered irrational, absurd, taboo.48
Theoretical thinking concerning security problematizes militarized practices like the “war on drugs” – it constitutes reality Bilgin, 5 – Professor of IR, Bikent University, Regional Security In The Middle East A Critical Perspective, Page 7 From a critical perspective, thinking … security in theory and practice.
The personal is political Colebrook, 2 (Claire Colebrook; Understanding Deleuze, Pg. xxxviii) Human freedom became the problem … effects, and organises our bodies.
Already ceded Neocleous 8 Mark Neocleous, Prof. of Government @ Brunel, Critique of Security Eliding the distinction between military … ‘slavery’ of the Communist system.54
12/5/13
St Marks Round 2
Tournament: St Marks | Round: 2 | Opponent: New Trier LO | Judge: Matt Harkins
2AC
2AC – Schmitt
Western politics is not built on friend/enemy but rather bare life/political existence Agamben 98 – professor of philosophy at university of Verona (Giorgio, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, pg. 8, gendered language under erasure) The question “In what way … life in an inclusive exclusion.
The alternative is the state of exception – makes the aff’s impacts inevitable Boersma, 5 (Jess Boersma teaches courses in Peninsular literatures, critical thought, and Spanish language at U of NC, “What About Schmitt? Translating Carl: Schmitt’s Theory of Sovereignty as Literary Concept”, published in Discourse, 27.2and3, Spring and Fall 2005, pp. 215-227 (Article), accessed 7/16/13, projectMUSE) It would be too hasty … disclose matters regarding domestic spying.5
Schmitt’s politics lead to Nazism – don’t discard the obvious in favor of his apologists Farr, 9 Evan, With Friends Like These...Carl Schmitt, Political Ontology, and National Socialism, PhD Student in Political Science, University of Virginia Graduate Student Conference, http://www.virginia.edu/politics/grad_program/print/Farr_gradconference09.pdf Schmitt’s Nazism: Interlude or Inevitability? … totalitarian – and ultimately genocidal – regime.
2AC – FW
The entirety of Western politics rests on the state of exception – any action that begins with the State maintains the ability to determine life Agamben 98 – professor of philosophy at the University of Verona (Giorgio, Homo Sacer, pg. 8-9) The protagonist of this book … new biopolitical body of humanity.
Their politics leads to passivity Antonio, 95 – Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas (Robert J., “Nietzsche's Antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History,” The American Journal of Sociology, 101.1, p. 14-15, 1995) The "problem of the actor," …a new type of tyrant
AT: Portable Skills
Their claims about portable skills rely on an understanding of education which frames subjects as units of rationality to be bettered through civilizing practices. This form of dispassionate subject construction eliminates care and dooms millions to suffering and death. Mourad, 1 /Roger Jr., Director of Institutional Research at Washtenaw College and teaches at the University of Michigan. His academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Higher Education, M.A. in Philosophy of Education, and J.D. in Law, all from the University of Michigan. He is the author of Postmodern Philosophical Critique and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Higher Education Westport: Greenwood, 1997! and several recent journal publications on epistemological, ethical, and legal issues pertaining to the nature and structure of institutionally organized education and its relation to the social good, “Education After Foucault: The Question of Civility” Teachers College Record Volume 103, Number 5, October 2001, pp. 739–759/ Too many lost names too … in philosophy, policy, and practice.
2AC – Critique
Ignoring images of suffering degrades ethics and legitimizes the worst violence Sontag, 3 (Susan, Peace Prize Recipient, Human Rights Activist And Internationally Renowned Author, Regarding the Pain of Others, p. 114-116) To designate a hell is … terrible things to one another.
Images of suffering are key to compassion Porter, 6 – Prof and head of the School of International Studies at the University of South Australia, (Elisabeth, Hypatia 21.4, project muse) I have explained what constitutes … is about priorities and choices.
Theoretical thinking concerning security problematizes militarized practices like the “war on drugs” – it constitutes reality Bilgin, 5 – Professor of IR, Bikent University, Regional Security In The Middle East A Critical Perspective, Page 7 From a critical perspective, thinking …security in theory and practice.
Speaking for others is inevitable and is the only way for the oppressed to make their voices heard Marino, 5 (Lauren Marino, Macalester Department of Philosophy; “Speaking for Others,” Macalester Journal of Philosophy: Vol. 14: Iss. 1, Article 4) If the self is located … the margins into the mainstream.
Suffering is not inevitable – engagement is necessary to celebrate life and withdrawing inward forecloses opportunities to change our surroundings May 5 – Philosophy Professor at Clemenson University (Todd, “To change the world, to celebrate life,” Philosophy and Social Criticism 2005 Vol 31 No. 5–6 p. 517–531) There are many ways to …Asceticism like that is dangerous.
11/7/13
St Marks Round 3
Tournament: St Marks | Round: 3 | Opponent: College Prep BY | Judge: Sarah Topp
2AC
2AC – DM
Case solves the impacts – capitalism’s motor will never be jammed in a world of security’s state of exception Agamben, 2000 (Giorgio Agamben, professor of philosophy at the European Graduate School; “Means Without End,” Univ. Minnesota Press, 2000, pg. 133) Nothing is more nauseating than … massive production of human misery.
Theoretical thinking concerning security problematizes militarized practices like the “war on drugs” – it constitutes reality Bilgin, 5 – Professor of IR, Bikent University, Regional Security In The Middle East A Critical Perspective, Page 7 From a critical perspective, thinking …security in theory and practice.
Alt fails – either it’s never been used and their solvency is empirically denied or it has been used and failed since no Marxist states exist today Lichtenstein, 12 (Rosa Lichtenstein, Marxist scholar and writer; “Anti-Dialectics For Dummies,” 2012, http://anti-dialectics.co.uk/Anti-D_For_Dummies2001.htm) Unfortunately, Dialectical Marxism has not … and has thus been refuted.
Capitalism isn’t the root cause of anything; additionally, the empirical failure of Marxism proves the alternative will just create more violence – it ends in a return to the Soviet Union’s interpretation of Marx – their rejection reifies the gulag. Aberdeen, 3 (Richard Aberdeen 2003 “THE WAY A Theory of Root Cause and Solution” http://freedomtracks.com/ uncommonsense/theway.html) A view shared by many … within a perceived economic “class”.
Marxism ends in war and genocide Rummel 4 – prof. emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii (Rudolph, The Killing Machine that is Marxism, Online) Of all religions, secular and … vote against Marxist utopian pretensions.
Marxism is structurally unsustainable Pipes 1 (Richard Pipes, Polish-American academic specializing in Russian and Soviet Union history; “Communism: A History,” 9/4/2001, pg. 148-149) Marxism, the theoretical foundation of … that rests directlv on coercion.”
Sovereignty, not capitalism, is the organizing structure of the symbolic order – attempts to create the notion of an undivided people necessitates purging all that is difference Agamben, 2000 (Giorgio, professor of philosophy at the College International de Philosophie in Paris, Means Without End: Notes on Politics, p. 33-34) If this is the case … produce a people with¬out fracture.
2AC – FW
The entirety of Western politics rests on the state of exception – any action that begins with the State maintains the ability to determine life Agamben 98 – professor of philosophy at the University of Verona (Giorgio, Homo Sacer, pg. 8-9) The protagonist of this book … new biopolitical body of humanity.
Their insistence upon the truth of their framework is contrived and ignores the historical contingency of debate – we should embrace this contingency rather than closely guarding the borders of our activity Johnston, 96 (Ian Johnston, Malaspina College; "There’s Nothing Nietzsche Couldn’t Teach Ya About the Raising of the Wrist,"http://www.mala.bc.ca/~~johnstoi/introser/nietzs.htm) When Nietzsche looks at Europe … no claim to privileged access.
AT: Fiat
Traditional conceptions of government fiat misrepresent the process of government decisionmaking, and are neither educational nor predictable Claude, 88 (Inis, Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, States and the Global System, pages 18-20) This view of the state … and that they sometimes claim.
11/7/13
St Marks Round 5
Tournament: St Marks | Round: 5 | Opponent: Polytechnic AA | Judge: Kirk Evans
2AC
2AC – PIC
“El General” expose the hypocrisy of the US drug war, a contradiction in sovereign power Lajous, 12 – doctor of Law at Yale, professor and researcher at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica, a Mexican center of research and higher education specialized in social sciences (Alejandro Madrazo, “Criminals and enemies? The Mexican drug trafficker in official discourse and in narcocorridos,” translated by Fernanda Alonso)bghs-BI At the national level, there … General", Los Tigres del Norte)30
Theoretical thinking concerning security problematizes militarized practices like the “war on drugs” – it constitutes reality Bilgin, 5 – Professor of IR, Bikent University, Regional Security In The Middle East A Critical Perspective, Page 7 From a critical perspective, thinking …security in theory and practice.
2AC – Bataille
Embrace compassion because it’s difficult and fraught with risk Frazer 6 The Review of Politics (2006), 68: 49-78 Cambridge University Press Michael Frazer's research focuses on Enlightenment political philosophy and its relevance for contemporary political theory. His current book project, “The Enlightenment of Sympathy: Justice and the Moral Sentiments in the Eighteenth Century and Today,” defends a psychologically holistic approach to political reflection through an examination of such authors as David Hume, Adam Smith and J. G. Herder. Dr. Frazer has also published articles on Maimonides, Nietzsche, John Rawls and Leo Strauss in such journals as "Political Theory" and "The Review of Politics." After receiving his B.A. from Yale University and his Ph.D. from Princeton University, Dr. Frazer spent the 2006-7 academic year as a postdoctoral research associate in the Political Theory Project at Brown University. Assistant professor – HARVARD There is a second way in … seen as opponents of human flourishing.
There is no opposition between arguing for pragmatic change in the world and affirming life in a Nietzschean sense---their refusal of change and reform is self-delusion that withdraws from the world and denies an important aspect of life May 5 (Todd, Professor of Philosophy at Clemson University, September 2005, “To change the world, to celebrate life,” Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 31, No. 5-6) For those among us who … choose both sides at once.
Suffering is not inevitable – engagement is necessary to celebrate life and withdrawing inward forecloses opportunities to change our surroundings May 5 – Philosophy Professor at Clemenson University (Todd, “To change the world, to celebrate life,” Philosophy and Social Criticism 2005 Vol 31 No. 5–6 p. 517–531) There are many ways to … Asceticism like that is dangerous.
Meaning is transient – we should stop suffering when we can Smolkin, 89 – doctor who specializes in depression (Mitchel, Understanding Pain, 1989 p75-79 For Camus, the absurdity of … die in a happy city.”76
2AC – Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis has enabled modern governmentality – its techniques are used manage populations and develop disciplinary society Milchman and Rosenberg 02 Milchman teaches in the department of Political Science of Queens College of the City University of New York. He has published on Marxism, modern genocide, Max Weber, Heidegger, Foucault, and postmodernism. He has co-edited Postmodernism and the Holocaust, with Alan Rosenberg (Rodopi, 1998) and Martin Heidegger and the Holocaust, with Alan Rosenberg (Humanities Press, 1996), Alan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queens College of the City University of New York. He has published widely on psychoanalysis, the Holocaust, and the philosophies of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Foucault. Among the books that he has co-edited are Foucault and Heidegger: Critical Encounters, with Alan Milchman (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming); Contemporary Portrayals of Auschwitz: Philosophical Challenges, with James Watson and Detlef B. Linke (Humanity Books); Psychoanalytic Versions of the Human Condition, with Paul Marcus (NYU press, 1998); Healing Their Wounds: Psychotherapy with Holocaust Survivors and Their Families, with Paul Marcus (Praeger, 1989); and Echoes from the Holocaust: Philosophical Reflections on a Dark Time, with Gerald Myers (Temple University Press, 1988). “A Foucauldian Analysis of Psychoanalysis: A Discipline that ‘Disciplines’” Academy for the Study of the Psychoanalytic Arts, http://www.academyanalyticarts.org/milchandrosen.htm/ For Foucault, the very genesis … its techniques for managing people.
Psychoanalysis is a dividing practice that dictates what constitutes a “normal” subject – designating individuals a pathological renders them powerless Milchman and Rosenberg 02 Milchman teaches in the department of Political Science of Queens College of the City University of New York. He has published on Marxism, modern genocide, Max Weber, Heidegger, Foucault, and postmodernism. He has co-edited Postmodernism and the Holocaust, with Alan Rosenberg (Rodopi, 1998) and Martin Heidegger and the Holocaust, with Alan Rosenberg (Humanities Press, 1996), Alan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queens College of the City University of New York. He has published widely on psychoanalysis, the Holocaust, and the philosophies of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Foucault. Among the books that he has co-edited are Foucault and Heidegger: Critical Encounters, with Alan Milchman (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming); Contemporary Portrayals of Auschwitz: Philosophical Challenges, with James Watson and Detlef B. Linke (Humanity Books); Psychoanalytic Versions of the Human Condition, with Paul Marcus (NYU press, 1998); Healing Their Wounds: Psychotherapy with Holocaust Survivors and Their Families, with Paul Marcus (Praeger, 1989); and Echoes from the Holocaust: Philosophical Reflections on a Dark Time, with Gerald Myers (Temple University Press, 1988). “A Foucauldian Analysis of Psychoanalysis: A Discipline that ‘Disciplines’” Academy for the Study of the Psychoanalytic Arts, http://www.academyanalyticarts.org/milchandrosen.htm/ One of the ethico-political choices … and dividing practices of psychoanalysis.
As a critical intellectual, you must resist power relations inscribed in the practice of psychoanalysis Milchman and Rosenberg, 2 Milchman teaches in the department of Political Science of Queens College of the City University of New York. He has published on Marxism, modern genocide, Max Weber, Heidegger, Foucault, and postmodernism. He has co-edited Postmodernism and the Holocaust, with Alan Rosenberg (Rodopi, 1998) and Martin Heidegger and the Holocaust, with Alan Rosenberg (Humanities Press, 1996), Alan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queens College of the City University of New York. He has published widely on psychoanalysis, the Holocaust, and the philosophies of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Foucault. Among the books that he has co-edited are Foucault and Heidegger: Critical Encounters, with Alan Milchman (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming); Contemporary Portrayals of Auschwitz: Philosophical Challenges, with James Watson and Detlef B. Linke (Humanity Books); Psychoanalytic Versions of the Human Condition, with Paul Marcus (NYU press, 1998); Healing Their Wounds: Psychotherapy with Holocaust Survivors and Their Families, with Paul Marcus (Praeger, 1989); and Echoes from the Holocaust: Philosophical Reflections on a Dark Time, with Gerald Myers (Temple University Press, 1988). “A Foucauldian Analysis of Psychoanalysis: A Discipline that ‘Disciplines’” Academy for the Study of the Psychoanalytic Arts, http://www.academyanalyticarts.org/milchandrosen.htm/ William Connolly has pointed out … to an encounter with psychoanalysis.
The lack is created by the presupposition of an empty space between subjects – neg makes violence inevitable Oliver, 1 (Kelly, W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy and Professor of Women's Studies @ Vanderbilt, “The Look of Love”, Hypatia, vol. 16, no. 3, Summer, Muse) The presupposition that space is … not recognize makes recognition possible.
