General Actions:
Tournament | Round | Opponent | Judge | Cites | Round Report | Open Source | Edit/Delete |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Grapevine | 1 | Lafayette JM | Dan Lingel |
| |||
Heritage Hall | 5 | Caddo Magnet CM | Gabe Murillo |
| |||
St Marks | 1 | Berkeley Prep DD | John Hines |
| |||
TOC | 3 | Carrollton RG |
| ||||
TOC | 7 | Stratford OS | Buntin |
|
Tournament | Round | Report |
---|---|---|
Grapevine | 1 | Opponent: Lafayette JM | Judge: Dan Lingel 1AC Symbolic Exchange (1AC Grapevine Round 1) |
Heritage Hall | 5 | Opponent: Caddo Magnet CM | Judge: Gabe Murillo New aff |
To modify or delete round reports, edit the associated round.
Entry | Date |
---|---|
1AC Grapevine Round 1 - Symbolic ExchangeTournament: Grapevine | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lafayette JM | Judge: Dan Lingel Resolved: the United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement with Cuba. My partner and I begin with our definitions: Resolved means to reduce through mental analysis The term resolved is an independent clause before a colon. What follows the colon is the focus of what to reduce through mental analysis. The colon focuses … about things I cannot change. ? The term “Should” implies an inpraesenti ruling couched in a present indicative which means topical affirmatives must act immediately. We have already begun. ? b. In the context of the resolution a substantial increase is evaluated at 0.02 c. That amount rounds down to 0 ? b. Increases can only be compared to the immediately preceding object, we cannot evaluate becoming from a temporal distance because values are constantly in flux. Measurements must be immanent to each becoming. c. A Prerequisite to any increase is a decrease in the Ego. ? b. Engagement is not a policy c. Engagement is a means d. Trade is the transfer of ownership of an object. In the modern economy this transfer is guided by exchange rates. However, look deeper and even so-called rational economic tools like supply and demand, interest rates, and speculation are destroying the system from the inside out. ? We engage in trade with Cuba. We exchange control of objects. Our objects, and the only object we can own - ourselves and our lives. We simultaneously take control of our lives and concede them. This is economic exchange of nothing: zero exchange. In an exchange without content, form is crucial. ? ? Life is slavery if you cannot opt out. We prefer not to opt in. We give our lives to Cuba. We are becoming objects. In this unilateral giving, we are free from all power, including even our power over the self. This is our most private moment, let us rest in peace and without query. ? | 9/13/13 |
Fatal Strategies 1AC- Heritage HallTournament: Heritage Hall | Round: 5 | Opponent: Caddo Magnet CM | Judge: Gabe Murillo Venezuelan President Nicolás … on espionage programs. Will say “no” – recent statement locks Venezuela into rejection of US offers. Contention 3: Losing is Winning Venezuelan refusal of the United States economic project is a direct response to US carnivalization of the world. Through expansive hegemonic economic and cultural imposition the US has turned the world into a wellspring of value to be extracted and manipulated at will. Culture is destroyed through cannibalistic ordering which obviates all difference into bland multiculturalism WE MAY START OUT from … finery of all cultures. Venezuelan refusal of United States economic aid is a form of resistance appropriate against hegemony that directly challenges macro-functions of power. Our inversion of the expectant 1AC is a form of resistance appropriate against hegemony that is immune to direct confrontation. Different forms of resistance are necessary in different political spaces. ? The power relations of hegemony are not inevitable—they are powered only by the distortion of signs and knowledge economy produced in spaces like this one. The United States mires interaction with Venezuela through savior narratives. The strategy of the subject creates a charity case out of devastated populations—this politics is auto-deconstructive and reproduces through cannibalism what it attempts to prevent. The strategy of the subject constitutes paranoid tip-toeing through life—this replaces alterity with images of the same and annihilates experience. In German, there …. of which it | 1/19/14 |
FilibusterTournament: TOC | Round: 3 | Opponent: Carrollton RG | Judge: Despite our wishes and best efforts otherwise, it appears the so-called majority in these chambers will continue to insist on their resolution to increase economic engagement with several Latin American countries. This injustice will not stand.The rules of the filibuster are clear. When the timer hits 0:00 if I have not yet advocated a topical plan under the current chamber resolution then my filibuster is successful. I’ll explain why we are filibustering in a few minutes, but in true filibuster style allow me to expound on some seemingly pointless history. After all, the United States has a long history of the filibuster. It’s been done by everyone.In 1935, Huey Long, a Democrat from Louisiana, protested the New Deal bill, whose reforms he thought were inadequate, for 15 1/2 hours. To keep things interesting, he recited Shakespeare, analyzed the Constitution and read recipes for Southern fried oysters and pot lickers.One of the most famous Filibusters of all time was Strom Thurmond’s 24 hour opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.Thurmond began speaking at 8:54 p.m. on Aug. 28 and continued until 9:12 p.m. the following evening, reciting the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, President George Washington’s farewell address and other historical documents along the way.In the 1980s, Senator Jesse Helms filibustered for 16 days against making MLK’s birthday a national holiday. During his 2013 filibuster, Ted Cruz said "we need 100 more like Jesse Helms in the U.S. Senate."In June last year Wendy Davis filibustered for 11 hours in the Texas state Senate to prevent stringent abortion restrictions. Her filibuster was ended early because Republican law makers decided she was "off topic" too many times, and 3 strikes kills a filibuster in Texas.We can draw a few lessons from these Filibusters:1. The filibuster act itself is pure negation, an unconditional "no", a refusal to move forward. The justifications for the act, however, differ and can be additive. Wendy Davis said "no" to restrictions on abortion and "yes" to increased women’s reproductive health. Huey Long said "no" to the New Deal because it was too limiting. Just because some racists have used the filibuster doesn’t mean it cannot be applied by others.2. The filibuster itself transcends topic. It can float and fly between poetry, historical documents, children’s books, and recipes. When topics become overly restrictive the creative energy generated in filibusters is destroyed. In Wendy Davis case, demands for adherence to an overly narrow topic allowed majoritarian conservative groups to exclude policies and policy makers in search of minority justice.3. What appears to be meaningless chatter is anything but. In a filibuster the rhetorical decisions of the speaker are not obvious, but those flourishes can make arguments. While only the speaker knows for sure what they meant, the audience should be mindful of seemingly pointless statements.Let me again state our position: we refuse to have any discussion of this resolution, whether for it or against it. We will not let it come to a vote. We have a problem here and we need to put on the breaks and consider how we got here in the first place.In their work Empire, Hardt and Negri tell us "Communication has become the central element that establishes the relations of production, guiding capitalist development and also transforming productive forces. This dynamic produces an extremely open situation: here the centralized locus of power has to confront the power of productive subjectivities, the power of all those who contribute to the interactive production of communication." In other words the discourse develop in this very space has a material effect on the expansion of capitalism and empire in Latin America. Though the resolution was likely not written with pernicious intent, it was always already coopted by capitalism. Coopted here means that even those who attempt to challenge systemic systems of violence through resolutional debate have inadvertently benefitted the system.Before we even get to the details, I want you all to consider the context of this continuing resolution. The chambers have optioned for trade with three countries and three only. The first we have not traded with for 50 years. The next we trade with every single day at an incredibly high volume. The last has no interest in altering its trade relationship with the United States.Combine this with our knowledge of debate to draw 3 arguments:These countries are chosen over any others because they have the best market potential, they are cream of the crop investments that occupy differing levels of risk.The purpose of debate is to minimize risk. Judges vote for the team with the lowest risk of causing extinction, but that is just code for voting for the advocacy with the highest rate of return.The resolution, whether affirmed or negated, contributes to a discourse of risk minimization that carves a path for continued engagement in Latin America. When debaters affirm the resolution they are testing different engagement strategies against the negative. When the aff loses they have to readjust their strategy to account for deficiencies, they have to make their engagement strategy stronger and better. The negative, too, will develop more nuanced responses and stronger disadvantages. Collectively, over time, we have developed development itself – we have better developed strategies for colonization.This is not accidental. Developing development is a historic process in the United States, especially in the context of Latin America. Consider just the case of Mexico. According to historian Greg Grandin, "By the early 1900s, Mexico attracted more than a quarter of total American foreign investment, rendering the border meaningless to U.S. financial house." and "By 1911, Americans owned most of Mexico’s oil industry"The United States modernized not only Mexico’s economy but their values. Corporations "were to produce not just sugar, bananas, or ore but, as in Ford’s Amazon endeavor, self-disciplined American-style workers." It seemed an easy enough task, after all "It takes just four years," calculated one Phelps Dodge engineerT, "to complete the Americanization of the Mexican."Expansion of empire continued by redesigning both possibilities and desire.Corporations also advanced their interests and their values through U.S. company towns, which by the early twentieth century had spread throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central and South America This process did not begin from nothing, it is the culmination of ongoing colonization of the south by the United States.Grandin 2006 (Greg, Professor of History at New York University, "Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the How can it be that our discourse affects Ford’s decision to open a plant in the Amazon? Our discourse is both product of and produces values. We are constantly hailing and hailed by communities, and as such we are constantly refabricating new communities that are rendered around central transcendent signifiers. Capitalism, whiteness, hegemony, whatever you choose to call the central locus of power responsible for the worlds illness, it’s doing the same thing. We can see it in the specific iteration of capitalist imperialism in Latin America, expansion predicated on good ole’ American Values, but the shifting empty signifier of power can take form in domestic inner cities, in closed abortion clinics, in African diamond mines, in European sex slavery rings. This power is characterized by utilitarian ability to dismiss whole populations if rational opportunity cost demands it. This power is characterized by its vertical and hierarchical nature. This power is characterized by the general trend of those who have it to gain more, and those who don’t to lose out. This power is not desire itself but a generative framework that distorts desires and manipulates it until the masses desire their own repression and the repression of others.We call this power capitalism and it extends both quantitatively and qualitatively - both by opening markets and changing market formulations. Capitalism always promises this time will be different, this strategy will not collapse the receiving country into poverty, and this strategy will be good for everyone.So here’s the link: if 20th century colonization of Latin America was nakedly economic, then post-colonialism is the same thing under the guise of strategic cooperation. The resolution asks us to talk about mechanisms to make economic engagement better. The resolution says Mexico, Cuba, and Venezuela are factories that have a low production capacity and are inefficient. The factories need a tune up. Every word we speak of the resolution is greasing the wheels of capitalism, innovating imperialism and making the next wave of colonialism both easier and more opaque.Deleuze and Guattari in 1972 (Gilles and Felix; Anti-Oedipus) 231-235 When our timer reaches 0:00 if we have not yet affirmed the resolution then our filibuster has been successful.If the filibuster is successful than we have problematized the resolution, we think for the better.To problematize is a process of making something that was formerly seen as true into a complex and uncertain mess of questions. This is putting on the brakes, making further action impossible because we have an ethico-political deadlock in the form of a problem. We are interested in the ethical problematization of debating about Latin America so that we might learn how this pedagogical technique organizes forms of democratic subjectification available in the present.Like all good legislators, we do not have a teleological solution, no specific bill, just a theoretical mandate to continue searching through the conditions that led us here. We must first cease the endless desire to progress forward and instead reflect inward upon the symbolic resolutional gestures that continue capitalist exploitation though affective hailing.Ramey 12 (Hermetic Deleuze; pg 106-108) | 4/26/14 |
St Marks 1ACTournament: St Marks | Round: 1 | Opponent: Berkeley Prep DD | Judge: John Hines | 10/18/13 |
TOC Round 7 1acTournament: TOC | Round: 7 | Opponent: Stratford OS | Judge: Buntin United States economic engagement toward Latin America is part and parcel of the territorial expansion of modernity. Economic strategies are the result of the Enlightened West’s quest to perfect and replicate itself onto every mapped out facet of existence via sovereignty. This culminates unending geopolitical and racial violence. FOR OVER TWO CENTURIES , Latin America has been … themselves to expand the perimeters of empire Sovereignty has evolved with colonial modernity through a process of deterritorialization that homogenizes and differentiates populations based on spatial and biological marking to forward the narrative of the Western defined human One of the most interesting adaptations … reveals deterritorialization partnered with reterritorialization. Make no mistake, sovereign violence is not a transcendent structure that we are disconnected from. This violence manifests itself in the field of communication. This allows for collective desire to become defined by modernity and ensures that the debate space is another violent zone This is the foundation for racialized violence- the process of deterritorialization creates a static notion of being that attempts to repress all difference. Western defined humanity relies on a narrative of exceptionalism that ignores existence as a process of becoming- that allows the production of desire based out of opposition and justifies the destruction of bodies marked as inferior The human race is facing extinction. One might even say … nothing is left standing once they have passed through. (Deleuze and Guattari 2004a: 94) The question asked by the resolution has already been answered. The emergence of modernity as sovereign means that America is always already engaging Cuba, Mexico, and Venezuela through a process of unchecked deterritorialization that maps itself onto all marked spaces. Thus, vote affirmative as a line of flight away from modern spatial and bodily coding in favor of endorsing a strategy of assemblage. The debate round itself is an assemblage; a space that is comprised of individual bodies with distinct identities and experiences that cannot be reduced or understood by a single objective narrative. Voting affirmative reclaims the debate space as a field of affective potential by affirming differences within the collective. “Racial formation” has become a widespread term, especially … devious machinic connections—which means that it can undo itself too. This is necessary to disrupt the way that debate itself is coded against differing identity Our advocacy cannot be reduced to a single discernable action. Assemblage as a method rejects static understandings of political agency- instead, multiplicity allows for a constant evolution in resistance through the incorporation of difference as a means to produce affective zones outside of domination Deleuze and Guattari famously "call an assemblage …decision-making processes along smaller scales of equal status. We are not a starting point because we are always already cast into the middle. Since we are thrown into the world that contains certain bodily coding, we must begin politics with the question: what can we do now? The affirmative acts as a rupture against the dominating modes of politics which characterize the status quo. Advocacies that remain locked in these systems will fail, thus creating a diversion outside those structures is a precondition for politics beyond sovereign violence. History is always written from the … banks and picks up speed in the middle. | 4/27/14 |
Filename | Date | Uploaded By | Delete |
---|---|---|---|
9/13/13 | MikeDemers1@gmailcom | ||
10/18/13 | samgustavson@gmailcom |
Abernathy (TX)
ACORN Community (NY)
Agape Leaders Prep (NY)
Airline (TX)
Alpharetta (GA)
Alpine (UT)
Alta (UT)
Anderson (TX)
Appleton East (WI)
Appleton (MD)
Arcadia (CA)
Ashland (OR)
Athens (TX)
Atholton (MD)
Austin SFA (TX)
Ballard (WA)
Baltimore City College (MD)
Barbers Hill (TX)
Barstow (MO)
Bellarmine (CA)
Bentonville (AR)
Berkeley Prep (FL)
Berkner High School (TX)
Bexley (OH)
Bingham (UT)
Bishop Guertin (NH)
Bishop Loughlin (NY)
Blake (MN)
Bloomington (MN)
Blue Valley North (KS)
Blue Valley Northwest (KS)
Blue Valley Southwest (KS)
Blue Valley West (KS)
Briar Woods (VA)
Broad Run (VA)
Bronx Law (NY)
Bronx Science (NY)
Brooklyn Technical (NY)
Brophy College Prep (AZ)
Brown (KY)
Buhler (KS)
Byron Nelson (TX)
C.E. Byrd (LA)
Caddo Magnet (LA)
Cairo (GA)
Calhoun (GA)
Cambridge (GA)
Cambridge Rindge (MA)
Campus (KS)
Canyon Springs (NV)
Capitol Debate (MD)
Carrollton (GA)
Carrollton Sacred Heart (FL)
Casady (OK)
Cascia Hall (OK)
Cathedral Prep (PA)
Cedar Rapids Wash. (IA)
Cedar Ridge (TX)
Centennial (ID)
Centennial (MD)
Chamblee Charter (GA)
Chaminade Prep (CA)
Chandler (AZ)
Charles Page (OK)
Charlotte Catholic (NC)
Chattahoochee (GA)
Chesterton (IN)
CK McClatchy (CA)
Clackamas (OR)
Claremont (CA)
Classical Davies (RI)
Clear Lake (TX)
Clifton (TX)
Clovis North (CA)
College Prep (CA)
Colleyville Heritage (TX)
Coppell (TX)
Copper Hills (UT)
Corona Del Sol (AZ)
Coronado (NV)
Crenshaw (CA)
Crosby (TX)
Crossings Christian (OK)
Cypress Bay (FL)
Damien (CA)
Debate Rhode Island (RI)
Denver Arts (CO)
Denver Center For Int'l Studies (CO)
Denver East (CO)
Derby (KS)
Des Moines Roosevelt (IA)
Desert Vista (AZ)
Detroit Country Day (MI)
Dexter (MI)
Dominion (VA)
Dougherty Valley (CA)
Dowling Catholic (IA)
Downtown Magnets (CA)
Dunwoody (GA)
Eagan (MN)
Eagle (ID)
East Chapel Hill (NC)
East Kentwood (MI)
East Side HS (NJ)
Eden Prairie (MN)
Edgemont (NY)
Edina (MN)
Edmond North (OK)
Edmond Santa Fe (OK)
El Cerrito (CA)
Evanston (IL)
Fayetteville (AR)
Field Kindley (KS)
Fort Lauderdale (FL)
Fort Osage (MO)
Fremont (NE)
Friendswood (TX)
Gabrielino (CA)
George Washington (CO)
Georgetown Day (DC)
Glenbrook North (IL)
Glenbrook South (IL)
Gonzaga Prep (WA)
Grapevine (TX)
Green Valley (NV)
Greenhill (TX)
Greenwood (AR)
Greenwood Lab (MO)
Groves (MI)
Gulliver Prep (FL)
Guymon (OK)
Hallsville (TX)
Hamilton (AZ)
Hamilton (MT)
Harker (CA)
Harrisonburg (VA)
Hawken (OH)
Head Royce (CA)
Hebron (TX)
Hendrickson (TX)
Henry W. Grady (GA)
Heritage Hall (OK)
Highland (UT)
Highland Park (MN)
Highland Park (TX)
Homestead (WI)
Homewood Flossmoor (IL)
Houston Academy for Int'l Studies (TX)
Houston County (GA)
Houston Memorial (TX)
Hutchinson (KS)
Ingraham (WA)
Interlake (WA)
Iowa City High (IA)
Iowa City West (IA)
Isidore Newman (LA)
James Logan (CA)
Jenks (OK)
Jesuit Dallas (TX)
Johns Creek (GA)
JSEC LaSalle (RI)
Juan Diego (UT)
Kapaun Mount Carmel (KS)
Katy Taylor (TX)
Kent Denver (CO)
Kermit (TX)
Kingfisher (OK)
Kinkaid (TX)
Kudos College (CA)
La Costa Canyon (CA)
La Salle College (PA)
Lafayette High School (LA)
Lake City (ID)
Lake Oswego (OR)
Lakeland (NY)
Law Magnet (TX)
Lee's Summit West (MO)
Leland (CA)
Leucadia Independent (CA)
Lexington (MA)
Liberal Arts & Science Academy (TX)
Lincoln College (KS)
Lincoln HS (NE)
Lindale (TX)
Lindblom Math&Science (IL)
Little Rock Central (AR)
Little Rock Hall (AR)
Lowell (CA)
Loyola (CA)
Lynbrook (CA)
Maine East (IL)
Maize South (KS)
Marist (GA)
Marquette (WI)
Marriotts Ridge (MD)
Marshfield (MO)
MLK Jr Early College (CO)
McClintock (AZ)
McDonogh (MD)
McDowell (PA)
Meadows (NV)
Midway (TX)
Millard North (NE)
Millard South (NE)
Millard West (NE)
Milton (GA)
Minneapolis South (MN)
Monsignor Kelly (TX)
Montgomery Bell (TN)
Moore (OK)
Mount Vernon Presbyterian (GA)
Mountain Brook (AL)
Mt Hebron (MD)
National Cathedral (DC)
Nevada Union (CA)
New Mission Boston Community Leadership (MA)
New Trier (IL)
Newark Science (NJ)
Newburgh Free Academy (NY)
Newton (KS)
Niles North (IL)
Niles West (IL)
Norfolk (NE)
North Houston (TX)
Northside (IL)
Northview (GA)
Northwood (CA)
Notre Dame (CA)
Oakwood (CA)
Olathe Northwest (KS)
Omaha Westside (NE)
Pace Academy (GA)
Paideia (GA)
Palo Verde (NV)
Palos Verdes (CA)
Park Hill (MO)
Parkway West (MO)
Peak to Peak (CO)
Pembroke Hill (MO)
Peninsula (CA)
Perry High school (OH)
Pine Crest (FL)
Pittsburgh Central (PA)
Plano East (TX)
Polytechnic (CA)
Portage Northern (MI)
Puget Sound Community (WA)
Puyallup (WA)
Ransom Everglades (FL)
Reagan (TX)
Redmond (WA)
Reservoir (MD)
Richardson (TX)
River Hill (MD)
Rogers Heritage (AR)
Rosemount (MN)
Roseville (MN)
Roswell (GA)
Round Rock (TX)
Rowland Hall (UT)
Rufus King (WI)
Sage Ridge (NV)
Saginaw (TX)
Saint Mary's Hall (TX)
Salpointe Catholic (AZ)
San Dieguito Academy (CA)
San Marino (CA)
Santa Margarita (CA)
Saratoga (CA)
Seaholm (MI)
Shawnee Mission East (KS)
Shawnee Mission South (KS)
Sheboygan North (WI)
Sioux Falls Roosevelt (SD)
Sioux Falls Washington (SD)
Skiatook (OK)
Skyview (UT)
Small Schools Debate Coalition (CA)
South East (CA)
SPASH (WI)
St Francis (CA)
St Georges (WA)
St Ignatius (OH)
St James (AL)
St Johns College (DC)
St Marks (TX)
St Marys Hall (TX)
St Paul Central (MN)
St Paul Como Park (MN)
St Petersburg (FL)
St Vincent de Paul (CA)
Stern MASS (CA)
Stratford (GA)
Strath Haven (PA)
Stuyvesant (NY)
Sunset (TX)
Taravella (FL)
Thomas Jefferson (VA)
Thorndale (TX)
Timberline (ID)
Torrey Pines (CA)
Traverse City Central (MI)
Trinity Valley (TX)
Tualatin (OR)
Tulsa (OK)
Tulsa Union (OK)
University (CA)
University (NJ)
University (TN)
U. Chicago Lab (IL)
University Prep (MI)
Vashon High School (WA)
Veritas Prep. (AZ)
Wakeland (TX)
Walter Payton (IL)
Washburn (MN)
Washburn Rural (KS)
Washington Technology Magnet (MN)
Wayzata (MN)
West (UT)
West Bloomfield (MI)
West Des Moines Valley (IA)
Westinghouse (IL)
Westlake (TX)
Weston (MA)
Westminster Schools (GA)
Westwood (TX)
Wheeler (GA)
Whitney Young (IL)
Wichita East (KS)
Wilson (DC)
Winston Churchill (TX)
Woodward Academy (GA)
Wooster (OH)