Tournament: St Marks | Round: Doubles | Opponent: GBS CK | Judge: David Herman, Eric Lanning, Sarah Topp
We endorse the 1AC without their uncritical use of the term “African American”
It mystifies the legacy of slavery—turns case
Fields 2K (Darell, Associate Professor of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Architecture in Black, pp. 27-28shree)

The same is true ... New World—it sought us.

Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 2 | Opponent: Reagan GH | Judge: Hanna Roberts
Civil Society is founded upon a Master/Slave relationship that exploits and alienates the Black Body.  Modernity is derived from the middle passage, creating an ontological condition of blackness that is systematically exposed to gratuitous violence
Wilderson 2010 (Frank B., Professor of Drama @ UC Irvine- “Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms” pg. 9-11- SG) 

The polemic animating ... awaits an answer.

The understanding of identity as a fluid construct mystifies the paradigm of anti-blackness and obscures the gratuitous violence cast upon that Black body- this reinforces an understanding of blackness that perpetuates White privilege
Wilderson ’11 (Frank B., Professor of Drama @ UC Irvine, “The Vengeance of Vertigo: Aphasia and Abjection in the Political Trials of Black Insurgents”, http://www.yorku.ca/intent/issue5/articles/frankbwildersoniii.php, SG) 

Subjective vertigo is ... turn myself in.

The affirmative’s call for institutional action is based out of the Grammar of the Settler that upholds current antagonisms of anti-blackness. The modernity of America is defined by violence to slave, and theft of the savage’s land. Their call to action forecloses the possibility of ethical analysis and crowds out questions of Black and Red suffering.   
Wilderson 2010 (Frank B., Professor of Drama @ UC Irvine- “Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms” pg. 1-5- SG) 

WHEN I WAS a ... theory that follows.

The call for equality will always fail. Claims of American progression are all lies. Civil society produces a perfected form of slavery, where violence is hidden from us by a mask of freedom and reformism. Liberation is impossible under current legal structure, and their unwillingness to break away from that structure reinforces hierarchies of anti-blackness through a process of the slave willingly bowing down to its master.
Farley ’05 (Anthony Paul, Professor of Law @ Boston College, “Perfecting Slavery”, 1/27/2005, http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1028andcontext=lsfp - SG)

The white race ... pleasure and cultivating desire).

White supremacy is a global modality of genocidal violence – Slavery may have ended in name, but its operational logic continues to fester. Reformist measures simply provide fuel for Whiteness
Rodriguez ’11 (Dylan, PhD in Ethnic Studies Program of the University of California Berkeley and Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at University of California Riverside, “The Black Presidential Non-Slave: Genocide and the Present Tense of Racial Slavery”, Political Power and Social Theory Vol. 22, pp. 38-43)

To crystallize what ... with the overwhelming consent of.

The alternative is to reject the affirmative as an act of burning down the structure of hierarchy that produces violence against the slave. Freedom is an illusion created by the shackles of civil society, and abandoning the pursuit for equality is the only way to break down the way that whiteness maintains itself.
Farley ’05 (Anthony Paul, Professor of Law @ Boston College, “Perfecting Slavery”, 1/27/2005, http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1028andcontext=lsfp - SG)

What is to ... is not a calling.

Modern revolutionary politics fail because they are based on an assumptive logic that structures an individual’s capacity for freedom around their social location. This is a dangerous form of metacommentary, because it ignores the subject position of the slave. Only the alternative allows for new political discourses to emerge.
Wilderson 2010 (Frank B., Professor of Drama @ UC Irvine- “Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms”- pg. 7-8- SG)

The aim of ... of the Slave.

Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 4 | Opponent: Greenhill DJ | Judge: Neill Normand
Apocalyptic predictions make serial policy failure inevitable
Kurasawa 4 – Professor of Sociology, York University of Toronto, Fuyuki, “Cautionary Tales: The Global Culture of Prevention and the Work of Foresight”, Constellations Volume 11, No 4, http://www.yorku.ca/kurasawa/Kurasawa20Articles/Constellations20Article.pdf

Up to this ... and global justice. 

The alternative is to reject the apocalyptic frames of the 1AC

Even if the rational arguments in favor of the plan are logical, the representations of apocalypse colonize the debate towards pressure for fast invasion and warmongering
Goodnight 2010 (G. Thomas Goodnight is Professor and Director of Doctoral Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, the University of Southern California in Los Angeles; "The Metapolitics of the 2002 Iraq Debate: Public Policy and the Network Imaginary", Rhetoric and Public Affairs Volume 13, Number 1, Spring 2010)
Opponents of the ... twenty-first-century network imaginaries.

The PARADOX OF RISK makes this issue NOT resolvable by weighing the plan.
If impact is calculated by multiplying probability and magnitude, any probability of an infinite impact irrationally registers as infinite
Kessler 2008 (Oliver Kessler, Sociology at University of Bielefeld,   “From Insecurity to Uncertainty:  Risk and the Paradox of Security Politics” Alternatives  33 (2008), 211-232)

The problem of ... with relative certainty.

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 6 | Opponent: Pine Crest | Judge: Derek Ziegler
White Knight Complex—they create a charity case out of less fortunate populations—results in the creation of new ethical crises to intervene in to maintain enjoyment that snowballs uncontrollably
Baudrillard 94 (Jean, ex-Prof of Sociology at Paris X, “The Illusion of the End” p. 66-70)
We have long denounced the capitalistic, ... to stage its own death as a species.

Their politics lead to passivity
Antonio 95 (Nietzsche’s antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History”; American Journal of Sociology; Volume 101, No. 1; July 1995, jstor,)

According to Nietzsche, the ... paves the way for a new type of tyrant 

This utopian conception of responsibility transforms us all into slaves of the self – a truly unheard of type of servitude.
Jean Baudrillard 1993 (Jean, The Transparency of evil: essays on extreme phenomena / Jean Baudrillard; translated by James Benedict.  London: New York: Verso, 1993 Pages 165)

We live in a culture which .. : a truly unheard-of servitude.

This reinscribes the tyranny of the self, which is comparatively, the worst form of oppression possible.  Not only are we forced to be their authentic subjects, but to enforce this tyranny onto others as well. Also, this piece of ev is the only comparative piece of evidence in the round.
Jean Baudrillard 2001. (Au royaume des aveugles pg. 32 Professor of Philosophy of Culture and Media Criticism at the European Graduate School)

To be able to disobey moral rules and laws ... to no master but himself.

We don’t propose an alternative—we don’t will forth a utopian vision of the liberated masses. Instead, vote negative on presumption—when confronted with the ethical injunctions of the aff, respond with “I would prefer not to”
Baudrillard 98 (Jean, Ex-Prof of Media and Philosophy @ EGS, Paroxysm, p 60)

JB:  The paradox of liberation ... simple, and liberation even less so.

Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 4 | Opponent: Greenhill DJ | Judge: Neill Normand
US engagement with Mexico is a ruse to increase foreign domination of markets and create unequal economic ties
Hart 02 – John and Rebecca Moores Distinguished Professor of History at U Houston, (John Mason, Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico since the Civil War, 04/2002, eBook)

The American experience ... except as menial laborers. 

The affirmative’s deployment of economic engagement is gridded within the Western metaphor of the centered circle. Their appeals for inclusion is the extension of ontological violence into the periphery, converting the other to sameness as part and parcel of the ever expanding imperial project.
Spanos 2K (William, Prof of English and Comparative Literature at Binghamtom University, America’s Shadow, pg 56-60)

The end of the ... contemporary, "postcolonial," occasion.

This metaphysical grounding justifies extermination and makes their epistemology suspect
Spanos 5 (William Spanos, professor of English and comparative literature at Binghamton University, “Humanism and Studia Humanitatis after 9/11/01: Rethinking the Anthropologos,” published in symploke volume 13 number 1-2)
In 1991, following ... structure remains invisible.

Vote negative to interrupt the imperial underpinnings of the 1AC- only decolonizing interventionist practices solves
Taylor 12 - Lecturer in Latin American Studies BA University of London, Queen Mary MPhil University of Glasgow PhD University of Manchester, (Lucy, “Decolonizing International Relations: Perspectives from Latin America,” International Studies Review, Volume 14, Issue 3,  11 SEP 2012, 14, 386–400, Wiley Online Library)

The aim of ... and International Relations

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Centennial KK | Judge: Hunter McCullough
While death is an inevitable part of life, the preference for catastrophic death encased in virtual artifice betrays a symbolic economy in which group identity is founded by devouring the deaths of others. Not only does this economy make ‘natural’ or non-catastrophic deaths meaningless but it also makes us all hostages in which are card may be pulled, willed by the collective group to die. To identify death as the locus of the real is to transform our bodies into flesh caskets.
Jean Baudrillard 1976 (Symbolic Exchange and Death, pp. 164-166 NN)

Why is it that today there ... been something else altogether

The slightest introduction of death into the social order is sufficient to blackmail the perfect system according to its own standards; it is a refusal to generate use value in a system which bases production on our long lives
Jean Baudrillard 1976 (“Symbolic exchange and Death,” p. 175-176)

Amongst these is suicide ... playing against itself win 

The 1AC’s images of violence are just as deadly in their mental simulated state. The only true violence is the violence committed mentally against ourselves by these images. Also, the psychosis of deterrence that stems from this violent end up in an evisceration of sovereign life itself
Jean  Baudrillard 1988 (Dead French philosopher, and professor.) (America Pgs. 40-42 NN) 

Everywhere survival has become ... protective bubble or other.

Tournament: Texas | Round: 4 | Opponent: Moore CG | Judge: Ben Mitchell
Transcendent and essentializing stances against capitalism are futile because of their characterization of capitalism as an external object acting upon individuals.  This obscures capitalisms true function as individual desires resonating into aggregate market forces.  Our reframing of politics is key to solve everyday forms of capitalism
Gilbert Et Al 2008 (Jeremy Gilbert, Éric Alliez, Claire Colebrook, Peter Hallward, Nicholas Thoburn - all have PhDs and whatever; "Deleuzian Politics? A Roundtable Discussion"; New Formations)

Claire: It comes ... profit, or capital.

Capitalism is not an external force, it is internally produced and created by the desires of the masses.  Rather, the resonant forces of desire shape the power of globalization for beneficial or malicious purposes.  Our challenge to dominant forms of desire is a necessary precondition to understanding and affecting capitalism for the better
Zalloua, 2008 (Zahi,Assistant Professor of French at Whitman College , "The Future of an Ethics of Difference After Hardt and Negri’s Empire" MUSE)   

The merits of ... purports to contest.

The alternative is a different method of engaging capitalism.  Instead of challenging capitalism as an external system we should exhaust it through a refusal to engage. This c is a better approach - trying to reappropriate it only allows it to suck in critical energy and use frenetic desire to do the productive work of anti-black debate. Invest energy in collective desire.
Bifo ’09 (Franco Berardi, I know it's confusing that Bifo is just a nickname but bear w/ me, "The Soul at Work", Semiotext (e), 137-40)

The process of ... possession, and accumulation.

Desire manifests itself at the local level – the unconscious – and resonates into a group order, powering politics.  Failure to investigate motivations at the level of desire abandons any possibility of understanding how political formations come to be and ensures serial policy failure
Ballantyne 2007 (Andrew, Tectonic Cultures Research Group at Newcastle University , "Deleuze and Guattari for Architects" 27-28)

So these habits ... an inaccurate aspect.

Tournament: Texas | Round: Octas | Opponent: Clear Lake MV | Judge: Ashley Morgan, Varun Koneru, Michael Yost
The affirmative’s construction of a “war on drugs” is not neutral, but rather a perpetuation a form of cultural militarism that constructs certain spaces as war zones, necessitating violent intervention.
Gregory ’11 (Derek, Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, “The Everywhere War”, The Geographical Journal vol. 177 No. 3, September 2011, pgs. 5-7, SG) 

The United States–Mexico ... explicitly framed as combat. 

The affirmative is merely an attempt to territorialize Mexico as a battleground against drugs. This is a form of transnational militarization that is at the heart of modern biopolitical violence
Corva ’09 (Dominic, Professor of Geography at the University of Washington, “Biopower and the Militarization of the Police Function”, Acme Journal 2009 Issue, http://www.acme-journal.org/vol8/Corva09.pdf , SG)

As Hardt and Negri ... the penal state.

The pursuit of biopolitics creates dichotomies between the “evil” foreign and the “secure” domestic, drawing boundaries that justify killing in the name of saving life.  This society of control spreads across the globe as the domestic populous becomes ever more isolated
Campbell ’05 (David, Professor of Cultural and Political Geography in the Department of Geography at Durham University in the UK “The Biopolitics of Security: Oil, Empire, and the Sports Utility Vehicle,” American Quarterly 57.3 (2005) 943-972, JSTOR)

As an imagined community ... with the immaterial."

Vote negative to reject their strategy of biopolitics. 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.

Tournament: CPS RR | Round: 2 | Opponent: St Vincent de Paul MY | Judge: Elyse Conklin, Leah Moczulski
The academy is the new factory. While the affirmative’s advocacy may be subversive or even revolutionary in a vacuum, their description alignment with the Zapatistas as requiring the confirmation of the ballot means that they have assigned use-value to their advocacy which plugs them into an economy of symbolic exchange- this rational commodity exchange ensures that the aff becomes a battery plugged into the cognitive labor machine that is upheld by the debate community
Lewis 11
(Tyson E., Montclair State University, Faculty, “Rethinking the Learning Society: Giorgio Agamben on Studying, Stupidity, and Impotence”, Springer Science+Business Media, 2011, http://www.academia.edu/2434199/Rethinking_the_Learning_Society_Giorgio_Agamben_on_Studying_Stupidity_and_Impotence, CL)

Recently there have been  ... have not adequately addressed.

The reduction of their advocacy to a rational economic science contributes to a bloodthirsty form of capitalism that erases affective engagements with desire and makes violence inevitable - neoliberalism constantly produces crisis to rationalize its capacity for control - this makes the destruction of all life the very impulse of the economy
James Wiltgen 2005 (Professor of History and Critical Theory at CalArts, "Sado-Moneatrism or Saint Fond – Saint Ford", in Consumption in the Age of Information, ed. Cohen and Rutsky, BERG, New York, p. 107-10 6)

How does digital capitalism ... and complex oscillations.

The Aff is an attempt to fight the system through power relations. These types of revolutions are not revolutions at all but rather part of the system of Zero Death.  The movements are absorbed right back into the system because they continue to play by the same rules, and simultaneously the capitalist revolutionary is crushed by the real power of the system it attempts to revolt against
Jean Baudrillard 1976  (Symbolic Exchange and Death pg. 36)

We will not destroy ... its own death.

This system of zero death is not benign—late modern capital functions by reducing everything to a regime of value based on the accumulation.  This inevitably fails and breeds alienation because death is always lurking in the shadows of the system
Robinson 12 (Andrew; political theorist and activist based in the UK; http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/in-theory-baudrillard-2/; “Jean Baudrillard: The Rise of Capitalism and the Exclusion of Death”)RW

Symbolic exchange – or rather ... regime of the code.

Vote negative not to affirm, but to exhaust. To refuse to give legitimacy to the affirmative's commodity exchange. This is a better approach - trying to reappropriate it only allows it to suck in critical energy and use frenetic desire to do the productive work of semiotic capitalism.
Bifo ’09 (Franco Berardi, I know it's confusing that Bifo is just a nickname but bear w/ me, "The Soul at Work", Semiotext (e), 137-40)

The process of the ... competition, possession, and accumulation.

Exhaustion threats the ethos of relentless productivity that capitalism requires- the aff fails because it breathes life into the system
Bifo 11 (Franco “Bifo” Berardi, After the Future pg 106-108 NN)

Nothing, not even the ... to the common good.

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Centennial KK | Judge: Hunter McCullough
Either the harms of the 1AC are true and they cannot effect change before extinction happens, or their impacts are constructed for alarmism which makes them symbolic terrorists 

Vote negative on presumption: state change is impossible
Gilbert 2009 (Jeremy, "Deleuzian Politics? A survey and Some Suggestions", New Formations, EBSCO)

The key question which emerges here ... majority and individualisation.

Their politics lead to passivity
Antonio 95 (Nietzsche’s antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History”; American Journal of Sociology; Volume 101, No. 1; July 1995, jstor) 

According to Nietzsche, the "subject" ... for a new type of tyrant

Tournament: Houston Memorial | Round: Octas | Opponent: Katy Taylor | Judge: Jennings, Makuch, Mitchell
Affirmation of Mestizo consciousness in Latin America assimilates minorities into a system of dominance and intelligibility and papers over racist violence- this is counterproductive for emancipation
Bailey and Telles ’13 (Stanley, Professor of Sociology at UC Irvine- Edward, Professor of Sociology at Princeton, “Understanding Latin American Beliefs about Racial Inequality”, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 118, No. 6 (May 2013), SG) *This card has been modified from its original form because it was super ableist, which we don’t endorse*

Although the tide ... Latin American context.

The notion of a fluid border always empowers the privileged subject position to vampirically drain from those who are already oppressed and to inhabit the oppressed subject position, but never the inverse. Their politics can never and will never empower the oppressed to the position of white middle class America. The link only goes one direction; they can only harm indigenous identity
Grande 4 Sandy, Associate Professor of Education at Connecticut College, Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought, p 112-113

Whether it is ... of whitestream America.

Lumping the American Indian struggle with other issues of identity erases issues of sovereignty and self-determination providing the conditions for the sustained project of cultural genocide
Grande 00 QUALITATIVE STUDIES IN EDUCATION, 2000, VOL. 13, NO. 4, 343–359 American Indian identity and intellectualism: the quest for a new red pedagogy SANDY GRANDE Colby College, Waterville, ME

For example, in ... of representation (Ebert, 1996a).

Decolonization must be at the forefront of all activities- failure to do so dehumanizes all involved
McCaslin and Breton 08 Wanda D. Law Foundation of Saskatchewan Research Officer with the Native Law Centre of Canada, Denise C. founder and executive director of Living Justice Press, “Justice as healing: Going outside the colonizer’s cage,” ,” Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies, pp 513

First, decolonization is ... need decolonization too.

Vote negative to adopt a pedagogy of decolonization
Confronting colonialism is the only way to solve extinction
Friedberg, author and political activist with a master's degree in the humanities from the university of Chicago and has a doctorate in Germanic studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, 2k Lillian , dare to compare:  Americanizing  the holocaust, the American Indian quarterly 24.3 (2000) 353-380

This is not ... of the deceased. 75

Only shifting the framework to questions of decolonization can we solve- only unconditional acceptance of a decolonizing framework can empower indigenous peoples to break out of colonial oppression
McCaslin and Breton 08 Wanda D. Law Foundation of Saskatchewan Research Officer with the Native Law Centre of Canada, Denise C. founder and executive director of Living Justice Press, “Justice as healing: Going outside the colonizer’s cage,” ,” Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies, pp 528-529

Suffice it to ... fundamentally healing direction.

Nothing changes without a focus on colonialism- only our project can provide for a means of transformation
McCaslin and Breton 08 Wanda D. Law Foundation of Saskatchewan Research Officer with the Native Law Centre of Canada, Denise C. founder and executive director of Living Justice Press, “Justice as healing: Going outside the colonizer’s cage,” ,” Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies, pp 521

As long as ... of healing calls.

Tournament: Texas | Round: 1 | Opponent: Kinkaid BR | Judge: Will Freeman
The 1ACs affirmation of equitable nanotechnology in the symbolic economy of debate creates a charity case out of the devastated, impoverished Mexican population—this politics is auto-deconstructive and reproduces through cannibalism as we must satisfy the moral equilibrium of the West through the exportation of developed technology in the name of justice
Baudrillard 94 (Jean, ex-Prof of Sociology at Paris X, “The Illusion of the End” p. 66-70)
We have long ... the white race. 

The AFF is a sentimental politics which promises that empathetic commitment to justice will suddenly reshape the world and actualize an ethics of care. The AFF imagines their presentation of structural violence as a blockade against the resurgence of violence, all the while ignoring that liberal moralism is the motor of modern warfare. The AFF calls on the impoverished Mexican victims to bargain for a more just world by exposing their wounds for academic consumption. This act of politicization relies on a racist victim economy in which marginalized bodies are vampirically drained of life, made to dance for an infinitely deferred freedom, all while academics extract jouissance and advancement from their objectified identities.
Berlant ‘98 (Lauren, George M. Pullman Professor, Department of English, University of Chicago, “Poor Eliza,” American Literature, Vol. 70, No. 3, No More Separate Spheres! (Sep., 1998), Duke University Press, pg. 635-668)
What distinguishes these ... the stereotypical image.

The AFF’s presentation of suffering creates a marketplace of trauma transforming wounds into a commodity for western consumption. Their politics of mourning exists by turning the other into a dead object through which we can construct a sentimental economy of pleasure and pacification through the imagination of the USFG as the savior.  The AFF is a form of empathetic identification which is a process of deathmaking which ensures the smooth functioning of imperialism. The AFF’s fantasy of change through investment in the law shields criticism and guises violence.
Berlant 1999
/Lauren, George M. Pullman Professor, Department of English, University of Chicago, “The Subject of True Feeling: Pain, Privacy and Politics” in Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics and the Law ed. Sarat and Kearns, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, Pg. 49-54/
Ravaged wages and ... the hegemonic field.

The AFF assumes the role of the ascetic priest who suffers in their role as the symbol of the rest. In their attempt to master and banish suffering, ressentiment is turned inward as feelings of guilt flourish. The drive to resolve the suffering of the world is rooted in a will to self-protection. Liberalism’s management of suffering is a life-denying will to nothingness which attempts to sterilize existence and freeze the movement/becoming which is constitutive of life’s meaning.
Abbas 2010 /Asma, Professor and Division Head in Social Studies, Political Science, Philosophy at the Liebowitz Center for International Studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Liberalism and Human Suffering: Materialist Reflections on Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pg. Pg. 68-71/
We are told ... and  unwanted subjects?

We must refuse the politics of liberalism and the economization of injury and suffering. Our politics does not ignore the violence of the world, it refuses a particular set of represetations and values which enframe said suffering against the movement of becoming, of life. The alternative does not wish away suffering, nor can it resolve all of the violence of modernity, but it can open us up to experiencing the world, not as zombies or vampires, but as creatures of sensuous life.
Abbas 2010
/Asma, Professor and Division Head in Social Studies, Political Science, Philosophy at the Liebowitz Center for International Studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Liberalism and Human Suffering: Materialist Reflections on Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pg. Pg. 183 - 187/
In Martha Nussbaum’s ... and life itself.

Tournament: Houston Memorial | Round: 1 | Opponent: Bellaire CM | Judge: David Kilpatrick
The universe is expanding, but we do not know what it is expanding into.  This makes the universe simultaneously all-encompassing and incomplete.  The universe is therefore both all and none. This makes life itself an unanswerable paradox, and you should default to the only logical explanation: the universe does not even exist. Vote negative on presumption because the expansion of the universe is the foremost metaphysical question and until that question is answered there is no value to the 1AC.

Since this is true, we can only know the ontological fact that LIFE IS SAUCY – rather than trying to preserve it or improve it we must learn to smother it with sauce and devour it – this is key to create meaning
Powers 9 (Michael, a fairly cultured American with an eye for seriousness, but willing to entertain the occasional dabble into the surreal and the inane. His writing focuses on news, random stories, politics, and social issues with his own brand of cynicism, but always with a humorous or optimistic outlook, “Philosophy of the Meatball,” April 3, http://amsatire.blogspot.com/2009/04/philosophy-of-meatball.html)

It is an ... Round and edible.

Tournament: St Marks | Round: 2 | Opponent: Kinkaid BY | Judge: Preston Stolte
The development of nanotechnology relies on a rhetorical understanding of existence that reduces life to a purely biological experience- this technologisation of life and nature reduces the world to a game board that can be controlled and replicated through an instrumental project of creation
Kearnes ’06 (M.B., Professor of Geography at Durham University, “Chaos and Control: Nanotechnology and the Politics of Emergence”, pg. 6-11, SG)

The reductionism implicit ... ‘atom by atom’. 

This reductionism means the plan will be coopted for militarism- the State’s vision of nanotechnology is not neutral, rather it will be used for a project of total control that attempts to control forces of existence that it deems as unworthy
Kearnes ’06 (M.B., Professor of Geography at Durham University, “Chaos and Control: Nanotechnology and the Politics of Emergence” pg. 12-14, SG)

The reductionism of ... continuous and Unbounded. 

Control is bad
Peat 8 – theoretical physicist, Ph.D., founder of the Pari Centre for New Learning
(F. David, “Gentle Action: Surviving Chaos and Change”, http://www.gentleaction.org/library/paper2.php, dml)

Many rapid changes ... to each new situation. 

The alternative is to vote negative as a rejection of their project of control- The emergence of nanotechnology signals an ontological incompleteness that is unable to grapple with the constant flux of the universe. Only an ethic of openness towards ontological difference is able to disrupt a dominant ethic that attempts to control spatiotemporal relations¶a
Kearnes ’06 (M.B., Professor of Georgraphy at Durham University, “Chaos and Control: Nanotechnology and the Politics of Emergence”, 19-22)

Such inventions are ... these temporal arrangements.

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: Octas | Opponent: Westminster HL | Judge: Sean Kennedy, Phil Samuels, Morgan Titcher
1NC 

We affirm the entirety of the 1AC, but reject their use of preemptive argumentation 

Preemption has become the doctrine of war. Any event can be simulated as a threat to the existing order, justifying complete destruction of our knowledge production in this academic space
Bishop 09 (Ryan, Professor at the National University of Singapore, “Baudrillard Now: Baudrillard, Death and Cold War Theory”)RW

The raw power of the integral ... intractable conflict in Iraq.

2NC cards 

Preemption is the foundation for modern violence
Massumi 07 (Brian, Communication Department of the Université de Montréal , “Potential Politics and the Primacy of Preemption”) 

It is certain that there will ... achieve life-defining mutuality.

This is especially true in the context of scholarship- they perpetuate a and#34;conform or dieand#34; strategy that homogenizes knowledge and causes violent eradication  
Orford 1996 (Anne Orford Lecturer, Faculty of Law, The Australian National University, “A Symposium On Reenvisioning The Security Council: Article: The Politics Of Collective Security”, Winter 1996, Lexis)

Those international lawyers who ... recreate a fictitious unity.

Reps first- even if their epistemology arguments are true in the abstract, only ours speaks to the doctrine of preemption
Massumi 07 (Brian, Communication Department of the Université de Montréal , “Potential Politics and the Primacy of Preemption”) 

The self-perpetuating nature ... we and#34;fat and happyand#34; yet?

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Centennial KK | Judge: Hunter McCullough
There is no such thing as statistical “proof” – your appeal to objectivity is ideology. Even if your math checks out, no one else could ever make sense of it – even proof is insular.
The Ideal Mathematician explains in 1981…
(“The Ideal Mathematician”, published in The Mathematical Experience by Phillip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh, http://www.cs.ru.nl/~freek/books/idealmathematician.sat, Lenny)

Let's see how our ideal mathematician ... sense, let alone `exist.'

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Centennial KK | Judge: Hunter McCullough
Counter Advocacy: we affirm the entirety of the 1AC with the exception of its racist components.

It’s competitive and fair: the 2AC can decide what the racist parts of the aff are.  

The aff questions racism from the outside but is conspicuously silent on the potential racism of the 1AC itself.  Before we can even consider the outcome of the aff we must question its potentially racist underpinnings.  Refusing the 1NC position makes violence inevitable.
Kokontis 2011 (Kate, PhD in Performance Studies from UC-Berkeley, “Performative Returns and the Rememory of History: genealogy and performativity in the American racial state,” accessed via Proquest- SG)

On one hand, she ... profound absence and loss.

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Centennial KK | Judge: Hunter McCullough
The affirmative’s deployment of economic engagement is gridded within the Western metaphor of the centered circle. Their appeals for interdependence and reform are an extension of ontological violence into the periphery, converting the other to sameness as part and parcel of the ever expanding imperial project.
Spanos 2K (William, Prof of English and Comparative Literature at Binghamtom University, America’s Shadow, pg 56-60)

The end of the pursuit of knowledge ... contemporary, "postcolonial," occasion. 

This metaphysical grounding justifies extermination and makes their epistemology suspect
Spanos 5 (William Spanos, professor of English and comparative literature at Binghamton University, “Humanism and Studia Humanitatis after 9/11/01: Rethinking the Anthropologos,” published in symploke volume 13 number 1-2)

In 1991, following the disintegration ... anthropological structure remains invisible.

Tournament: Heritage Hall | Round: 2 | Opponent: LASA DS | Judge: Dana Christensen
The 1ac was sweet until they read the plan text, then things stopped making sense.

They externalize agency onto the state, obliterating personal subjectivity and sanctioning nationalist violence.
Shaffer 7 (Butler teaches at the Southwestern University School of Law. B.S., Law, 1958, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; B.A., Political Science, 1959, and J.D., 1961, University of Chicago; Member, Colorado and Nebraska State Bars. “Identifying With the State” June 29th 2007. http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer159.html)

One of the deadliest... in our lives.

That turns the entirety of the case – overidentifying with the state creates an addiction to simulation that breeds ressentiment.
Antonio 95 (Nietzsche’s antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History”; American Journal of Sociology; Volume 101, No. 1; July 1995, jstor, azp)

According to Nietzsche...new type of tyrant 

The defense of fiat makes no sense – Vote neg on presumption.
Schlag 90 (Pierre Schlag, professor of law@ univ. Colorado, stanford law review, november, page lexis)

In fact, normative ... advice into effect.

This disconnects them from agency – normative legal thought whitewashes violence.
Delgado 91 (richard delgado , colorado law professor, 139 pa. L. Rev. 933, april)

But what is the ... with subsistence claims.

Tournament: Texas | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Dallas Jesuit FP | Judge: John Cook, Faraz Hemani, Ashley Morgan
The plan’s rejection of “Cold War politics” represents the forgetting of the destruction of imperialism. Just as the senior Bush administration dismissed the protests of the Vietnam War era by proclaiming that they had “kicked the Vietnam syndrome,” the lifting of the embargo for Cubans is a half-way reform that returns legitimacy to America's oppressive federal control, crushing movement away from the control of the empire
Spanos 2K (William, Prof of English and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University, America’s Shadow, pg 141-144)

With this symbolic ... this (self-)disclosure. 

The affirmative’s deployment of economic engagement is gridded within the Western metaphor of the centered circle. Their appeals for multilateralism is the extension of ontological violence into the periphery, converting the other to sameness as part and parcel of the ever expanding imperial project.
Spanos 2K (William, Prof of English and Comparative Literature at Binghamtom University, America’s Shadow, pg 56-60)

The end of the ... contemporary, "postcolonial," occasion.

This metaphysical grounding justifies extermination and makes their epistemology suspect
Spanos 5 (William Spanos, professor of English and comparative literature at Binghamton University, “Humanism and Studia Humanitatis after 9/11/01: Rethinking the Anthropologos,” published in symploke volume 13 number 1-2)

In 1991, following ... structure remains invisible.

Vote negative to take the position of oppositional intellectuals. Our renunciation of the affirmative plan discloses the tie between Occidental thought and imperialism, opening up space to rethink thinking and to form a politics free from the affirmative’s imperial tendencies.
Spanos 2K (William, Prof of English and Comparative Literature at Binghamtom University, America’s Shadow, pg 204-206)

In the face ... injustice – always rules. 

Their normative affirmation of state-centric solutions mystifies colonialism and turns debate into regurgitating imperialistic scholarship- only the alt solves
Robinson and Gindin 05 - Jonah Gindin is a Canadian journalist living and working in Caracas, Venezuela, William I Robinson is professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, “The Battle for Global Civil Society,”  June 13th 2005, http://web.archive.org/web/20130314033424/http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/1186)//

But intellectuals – who ... proportions we face in 2005.

Tournament: CPS RR | Round: 4 | Opponent: Notre Dame AB | Judge: Jeremy Hammond, Stephen Pipkin
The 1AC was bull shit. Vote negative because they wasted 8 minutes of your existence. Anything is better than listening to these ass holes
The Onion 2011 ("Open-Minded Man Grimly Realizes How Much Life He's Wasted Listening To Bullshit" http://www.theonion.com/articles/openminded-man-grimly-realizes-how-much-life-hes-w,19273/?utm_source=recentnews)

CLEVELAND—During an unexpected moment of clarity Tuesday, open-minded man Blake Richman was suddenly struck by the grim realization that he's squandered a significant portion of his life listening to everyone's bullshit, the 38-year-old told reporters.  A visibly stunned and solemn Richman, who until this point regarded his willingness to hear out the opinions of others as a worthwhile quality, estimated that he's wasted nearly three and a half years of his existence being open to people's half-formed thoughts, asinine suggestions, and pointless, dumbfuck stories.  "Jesus Christ," said Richman, taking in the overwhelming volume of useless crap he's actively listened to over the years. "My whole life I've made a concerted effort to give people a fair shake and understand different points of view because I felt that everyone had something valuable to offer, but it turns out most of what they had to offer was complete bullshit."  "Seriously," Richman added, "what have I gained from treating everyone's opinion with respect? Nothing. Absolutely nothing." According to Richman, it was just now hitting him how many hours of his life he's pissed away listening intently to nonsense about celebrity couples, how good or bad certain pens are, and why a particular sports team might have a chance this year. The husband and father of two said that every time he's felt at all put out or bored by a bullshit conversation—especially a speculative one about how bad allergy season was going to be—he should have just turned around, walked away, and gone rafting or rappelling or done any of the millions of other things he's always wanted to do but never thought he had time for.  At various points throughout the day, Richman could be heard muttering to himself that he couldn't believe he was almost 40 years old.  "Twenty minutes here, 10 minutes there. It all starts to add up," said Richman, who sat down and figured out that between stupid discussions about favorite baby names and reviews of restaurants in cities he'll never visit, he'd wasted 390 hours of his life. "And you know what the worst part is? It's my fault. Here I thought being considerate to others by always listening patiently to what they had to say was the right thing to do. Well, fuck me, right?"  According to Richman, he started thinking about how much time he's flushed down the toilet being an approachable person after a work meeting in which he let a coworker, David Martin, ramble on and on with an idea everyone knew was "total shit" the moment the man opened his mouth. Richman said that a single glance at the clock made him realize he had just spent 14 minutes of his finite time on earth not playing with his kids or being with his wife, but listening to garbage.  "It was like I stepped out of my body and saw myself actually listening to this man's worthless drivel—but it wasn't him who looked like a moron, it was me," Richman said. "I was nodding my head like an asshole and saying ridiculous things like, 'Right,' and, 'I see your point, Dave,' when I should have just said, 'Dave, your idea isn't good and you are wasting our time and you need to shut up right now.'"  By his estimates, Richman's receptiveness has resulted in 160 irreplaceable hours of listening to grossly uninformed political opinions, 300 hours of carefully hearing out both sides of pointless arguments, and at least a month of listening to his parents' bullshit about how important it is to be open-minded.  Eighty days have been wasted on the inane blather of his college friend Brian alone.  "All those hours I could have been relaxing, or reading all these great books, or getting into shape, or working on side projects that I'm really excited about," Richman said. "But instead I've been listening to overrated albums recommended to me by my asshole friends."  "Did you know that in my life I've listened to five days' worth of people talking about their furniture?" he added. "It's true. That's a trip to Europe right there."  While Richman has vowed to cease being open-minded to absolute horseshit, acquaintances reflected on his approachability.  "I love Blake," coworker David Martin said. "He's such a good listener. A lot of people are closed-minded and self-absorbed, but Blake always makes an effort to hear where I'm coming from. The world could use more people like him.