Tournament: Samford | Round: 2 | Opponent: Alpharetta KM | Judge: Kelly, Haselton
Thus, the 1AC is not a call to State action, but rather one of individual protest and dissent, for when we call upon the State to engage in a revolution for our agency the project always fails. Constant simulation is destructive to the cornerstones of our existence. We instead view the ¬¬¬¬¬1AC, this very moment, as a political act, which refuses the State, and instead inhabits a discursive space, which refuses to be co-opted and does not lead to violence or martyrdom.
Bey 91 (Hakim, The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism, 1991, http://www.hermetic.com/bey/taz3.html#labelTAZ)
I accept this as a fair criticism. I'd make two rejoinders nevertheless; first, revolution has never yet resulted in achieving this dream. ….begins with a simple act of realization.
CONTENTION 1 is Imperialism
Current US economic engagement towards Cuba is dominated by the forced occupation of Guantanamo Bay, which is in Cuban territory, but is being held illegally as a colonial conquest by the U.S. acting as a hostile, imperial, and biopolitical force.
RT.com, downloaded 10-17-2013
http://rt.com/usa/usa-guantanamo-torture-cuba-633/
The facility has also been the subject of contention between the US and Cuba. Cuban authorities argue the 45 square mile …. would say, the American empire,” said Escobar. An old dispute making waves in a new century as a fortress for the United States to withhold prisoners’ legal rights. (corrected)
Guantanamo lies at the historical and modern heart of U.S. Global Empire, exposing the inextricably linked nature of the war on terror as a continuance of US imperialism and soverign control.
Kaplan, 2005
Where Is Guantánamo? Univ Pennsylvania, Amy Kaplan/American Quarterly, September 2005
http://www.pierretristam.com/Bobst/library/wf-184.htm
The global dimensions of Guantánamo ……. violent penal regime.
US Imperialism results in a death drive in which we sacrifice humanity in order to save it. A sacrificial genocide arises from the totalitarian illusion that there are no alternatives resulting in a collective suicide and endless conflict.
Boaventura De Souza Santos, director of the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, 2003
(http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2003/63/santos.html)
According to Franz Hinkelammert, the West has repeatedly …. of horror and destruction.
Imperialism inevitably fails and guarantees endless wars
Robert Kaercher, May 24, 2005 http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/kaercher/kaercher5.html
“What we are discussing here, after all, is Empire, …. be its own ruin.
Returning Guantanamo is a prerequisite to challenging American imperialism in Latin America
Rueckert, ‘13 June 4, Phineas Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs “Guantánamo Bay: Closing the GTMO Detention Center is a Wilting Olive Branch to Cuba and the Rest of Latin America” http://www.coha.org/guantanamo-bay-closing-the-gtmo-detention-center-is-a-wilting-olive-branch-to-cuba-and-the-rest-of-latin-america/
The continued operation of the (Guantanamo) ….naval base to Cuba. (corrected)
Our stance against the US’ occupation of Guantanamo acts lifts the barrier against economic engagement and a stands against militarist intervention and the colonialist agenda which the base represents.
Hansen ‘12
JONATHAN M. January 10, 2012 “Give Guantánamo Back to Cuba”
Jonathan M. Hansen, a lecturer in social studies at Harvard, is the author of “Guantánamo: An American History.”
In the 10 years since the Guantánamo detention …. than to stand up for the principles Guantánamo has undermined for over a century.
Finally, the argument that Guantanamo belongs to the U.S. because we took it by military force which is central to U.S. imperial dogma – we must counter that discourse with a rejection of colonialist occupation.
Gregory, 2006: D., The black flag: Guantánamo Bay and the
space of exception. Geogr. Ann., 88 B (4): 405–427
When Kaplan describes Guantánamo as ‘haunted by the ghosts of empire’, she is surely correct. She also suggests that its ….extralegal cross over into one another.36
SECOND, BIOPOWER
Guantanamo is the norm-producing convergence of image and biopower leading to ultimate sovereign authority over life and death, integrating the genocidal policies of the Nazis
Federman and Holmes, 2011
http://www.academia.edu/1119001/Guantanamo_Bodies_Law_Media_and_Biopower
The popular image of Guantánamo …used during the Third Reich.
Guantanamo reproduces its inmates as bare life—life stripped of all its political, social and ethical meaning—and purposively keeps them in a space between literal death and non-existence by force feeding them to live.
Wilcox, 2011
Lauren, DYING IS NOT PERMITTED Sovereignty, Biopower, and Force-Feeding at Guantanamo Bay, Univ of Cambridge, Centre for Gender Studies http://laurenbwilcox-net.webs.com/Wilcox20Dying20Is20Not20Permitted20Torture20Power20Human20Body.pdf
The simultaneous …. care that must be efficiently managed.
This means Guantanamo uniquely permits the maximum indeterminacy which advances biopower, or, in the words of Agamben, the ultimate bare life.
Gregory, D., 2006: The black flag: Guantánamo Bay and the space of exception. Geogr. Ann., 88 B (4): 405–427
As Agamben has ….maximum indeterminacy’.
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Biopower justifies removal of any population- makes unrestrained nuclear war, chemical war, environmental collapse, genocide and racism a necessity
Dean 01 (Mitchell, Professor of Sociology at Macquarie University, “Demonic Societies: Liberalism, biopolitics, and sovereignty.” Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State, ed. Hanson and Stepputat, p. 55-58)
Consider again the contrastive terms in which it is possible to view biopolitics …. German race" is inscribed, according to Foucault. in the functioning of the modern state (232).
The way that we frame debates is crucial to the implementation of the aff – our questioning is key to the recognition and understanding of the vulnerability of life. Even if they win that the we don’t actually return Guantanamo, we create a movement which provides the conditions for a more generalized form of horror and outrage necessary to end all violence – this proves we access spillover.
Butler 10 Judith, Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley, “Frames of War”, pgs. 10-12, 2010
The frame that seeks to ….managing ¶ the prospect of its undoing, an undoing that inheres in ¶ its doings.