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2AC - A2: First PriorityTournament: UT | Round: Round 2 | Opponent: Jenks | Judge: A2: First PriorityWe control the root cause debate- Nationalism and sexuality is the root cause of colonialism. Explorers justified their actions by detailing the homosexual eroticism that needed to be quelled.Gaard 97' ~[Article Title: Toward a Queer Ecofeminism. Contributors: Greta Gaard - author. Journal Title:Hypatia. Volume: 12. Issue: 1. Publication Year: 1997. Page Number: 137.~] Greta Claire Gaard (born 1960, Hollywood, California) is an ecofeminist writer, scholar, activist, and documentary filmmaker. Gaard's academic work in the realms of ecocriticism and ecocomposition is widely cited by scholars in the disciplines of composition and literary criticism. Her theoretical work extending ecofeminist thought into queer theory, vegetarianism, and animal liberation has been influential within women's studies. A cofounder of the Minnesota Green Party, Gaard documented the transition of the U.S. Green movement into the Green Party of the United States in her book, Ecological Politics. She is currently a professor of English at University of Wisconsin-River Falls and a community faculty member in Women's Studies at Metropolitan State University, Twin Cities. Perm: Do the advocacy with the ethic of the alt. Aff solves the K. By removing borders, we in effect, give the land back to the natives. We never assume a starting point.Permutation: Do Both- We can deconstruct borders and sexuality as well as the colonial relationship that led to the subjugation of the natives. We'll isolate several net benefits:First is the Reorientation DA- Arguments about "first priority" reinscribe a hierarchy of suffering. This turns the criticism. The elevation of a particular group's suffering over another's is precisely what allows violence and genocide to occur in the first place. The permutation avoids this game of competing genocides.Levene 2k5 ~[Mark Levene. Genocide in the Age of the Nation-State. 2005, pg 5-6~] Second is the Victimization Turn- The subjectless critique of queerness can provide native criticisms with a greater ability to stop hegemonic violence. Queerness provides a starting point to escape academy and fetishization of the victimized native.Smith 10' Andrea Smith. "Queer Theory and Native Studies: Heteronormativity of Settler Colonialism" GLQ: Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. Vol 16, Num 1-2. Pg 42-68. 2010 Third is the Intersectionality - The incorporation of Queerness with the alternative is key to challenging the multicultural academic-industrial complex. A subjectless critique of identity prevents the relocation of colonial hierarchies.Smith 10 Andrea Smith. "Queer Theory and Native Studies: Heteronormativity of Settler Colonialism" GLQ: Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. Vol 16, Num 1-2. Pg 42-68. 2010 Fourth is Differential Consciousness- We don't have to support gender in every instance - Confronting capitalism requires the mobile, intersecting and tactical approach to political change that allows coalitions and multiple sites of resistance, especially in context of the third world feminism as the Sandoval evidence indicates. The alternative alone becomes the authoritarianism they oppose.Moya 2002 (Paula, Paula M. L. Moya is Associate Professor of the Department of English at Stanford University., Learning from Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles, http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=kt8t1nd07c&chunk.id=ss1.09&toc.id=ch02&brand=ucpress) | 6/23/14 |
Baudrillard AffTournament: Emory | Round: 3 | Opponent: Chattahoochee AS | Judge: Andrew Jones On the shores of Guatavitá, a volcanic lake near present-day Bogatá, the new Zipa is prepared for the ceremony marking his ascension to the throne. He is stripped naked and covered with a sticky layer of balsam gum, on which gold dust is applied. Transformed into a golden figure, he steps on to a raft with other gold objects, including intricate votive figurines, tunjos. Once out in the centre of the lake, priests throw all the golden objects into the water, restoring the divine order of things. Finally, the Zipa plunges into the lake and swims to shore a new chief. This legend of the ‘gifted one’, El Dorado, soon spread throughout the newly colonised world. When riches ran out in Mexico, Europe turned its attention to the tropics, seeking the valley of wild cinnamon containing untold gold reserves. The brutal colonisation of the northern stretch of South America can be traced directly to the expeditions in search of El Dorado. The fantasy of El Dorado was based on the hypothesis that there existed a culture in which gold was of no value. Gold in Central America was used only for adornment, rarely currency. The Aztec word for gold was teocuitlatl, or ‘excrement of the gods’. The value of gold was only as it was crafted into precious objects. A Panamanian chief could not understand why the Spanish would melt objects down into featureless ingots.1 In Candide, Voltaire writes about Cacambo and Candide visiting El Dorado, which is an idyllic isolated valley run on strict communitarian principles. The King treats them with great kindness, but is amused with their love of gold, which he dismisses as ‘yellow mud’. Like the number ‘zero’, El Dorado served as a null state that underpinned the emerging mathematics of global trade. The dream of untold wealth was not an auspicious beginning. 500 years later, it was the birth of the hyper-real. Patricia Adams wrote to the world: In glossy brochures … logs and timber - Adams 91 (Patricia, executive director of Probe International (an environmental and public policy advocacy organisation in Canada), “Odious Debts: Loose Lending, ¶ Corruption, And the Third World's ¶ Environmental Legacy,” p 47, *discourse-modified*) Saussure located two … real of signification . The virtual catastrophe reduces the body to a diseased object in need of protection and insurance, making life nothing more than a process of continual mortification Security is another … into its sarcophagus. This system is not limited to monetary economics. In the market of the catastrophe, Venezuela produces the disasters that feed the charity cannibals. An act of complete sacrifice of excess can break through this paradoxical exchange. We have long … as a species In the market of the media, catastrophes fulfill a hyper-real state, a spectacle used to justify our own efforts to alleviate them. The REAL catastrophe happens in our minds as we act out the scenes over and over again. The thought of preventing our destruction brings us joy. Shapiro tells us… In the second … to mythic thinking. (Geis, 29) Even the political has become simulated and commodified – Projections of mass violence and suffering are manipulated into formlessness. Fighting flaws within the simulation only recycles base truths that give new energy to the simulation. Only an exhaustion of the simulation through potlatch from the interior can break through. The mass realizes … and absurd purpose.” Now we return to the real, in just as toxic waste can be transformed into gold, the human population, for which the system was initially designed, becomes devalued and disposable, the new excrement. As Michael Watts … to oil money.”58 In his Philosophy … of this world” (Bataille 2001: 210). The conquest of South America was built on idea irrationality designated as rationality. In the virtual world of the market, the fascination of the ethereal icon of gold has become the icon of pure value, the referendum and criterion by which even the market, life, and being can be understood and sold. One way to … of the earth. These managerial ethics of the status quo inevitably leads to war and depopulation. Stoekl explains Bataille does, then, … not modernity’s) survival. Thus we affirm, United States federal government should substantially and excessively increase its economic engagement towards Venezuela through potlatch. Our act of potlatch is planless planning which turns purpose against itself in a confrontation to the aesthetic ideal – With our actions comes a lucidity that opens onto the death of God and the idols we subscribe to. Only wasteful expenditures are able to destroy the society which lusts for finding utility and purpose. Stoekl furthers… This method of gift giving is capable of permanently breaking through the commodity exchange and the politics of calculation that enable utility. The phenomenon of … on the counter-gift. And so we wonder… Friedrich Nietzsche. The Gay Science. Parable 125. Translated by Walter Kaufman. 1882 | 2/21/14 |
Baudrillard Aff UpdatesTournament: Berkeley | Round: Octas | Opponent: All RD 7 to Octas | Judge: All from RD 7 to Octas Those obligations lead to the tyranny of the self - Freedom is a dream that can only result in the creation of new social regulations and slavery to one’s own desires. Freedom? A dream! ... use of himself themselves. | 2/18/14 |
Debt Relief 1ACTournament: Spring Woods | Round: 1 | Opponent: Memorial CM | Judge: Nick Brown IT BEGINS WITH EL DORADO… On the shores of Guatavitá, a volcanic lake near present-day Bogatá, the new Zipa is prepared for the ceremony marking his ascension to the throne. He is stripped naked and covered with a sticky layer of balsam gum, on which gold dust is applied. Transformed into a golden figure, he steps on to a raft with other gold objects, including intricate votive figurines, tunjos. Once out in the centre of the lake, priests throw all the golden objects into the water, restoring the divine order of things. Finally, the Zipa plunges into the lake and swims to shore a new chief. Kevin Murray ("Colombia – from El Dorado to FARC." 2008, http://ideaofsouth.net/journey/colombia-–-from-el-dorado-to-farc.) Coloniality lingers on in the new economic architecture of modernity. Four centuries later, we’ve managed to literally rebrand our fantasy from the legend of El Dorado, to the finances of Eldorado.inc. The shackles placed by the conquistadors rusted away, but the marks of debt still fasten us to their will. In Venezuela wealth ... the Colonial period8 . This expropriation is not just physical but a symptom of the colonization of human experience. Modernity has established the epistemological structure that privileges the Western subject as the only legitimate expression of human knowledge, founding Latin America on the very system that legitimates its destruction. The logic of ... and “Latin” America PLAN TEXT And thus, the United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement towards Venezuela by cancelling all Venezuelan debts. Contention 2 is Global Restructuring - The struggle over the question of who counts as human is THE question of the debate—the question of Latin American engagement can only be answered when we first unsettle the coloniality of knowledge and being that has demarcated the majority of the world as subhuman populations given over to death. THE ARGUMENT PROPOSES ...and Asian subjugation. This struggle is embedded within politics today- Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) force governments to cut back on programs to help its citizens and force it to conform to western standards of economic prosperities which further abject poverty and discrimination inside the indebted countries But their loans ...the large farms. But the faults in this relationship are beginning to show- Petrocaribe has put the Caribbean on the brink and Venezuela in charge of the whole operation. Maduro faces piling debt that will crash PDVSA the national oil company, and the Caribbean itself. Since 2005 when ...as it can. Critical tipping point is right now. External debt payments are due between August and November. Venezuela could default ... tumble, Volberg wrote.¶ Petrocaribe key to foster cooperation between Caribbean states and prevent foreign exploitation of resources. As reported by ... under the Caribbean. The relationship reappears in more dubious ways, the addict and the supplier-Drug-trafficking is expanding exponentially in the Caribbean. Debt relief and preventing exploitation key to stopping it. Experts say the ... something, they couldn’t.” Venezuela is committed – the ball is in the US court Venezuelan Chargé d'Affaires ... on Washington's "rectification." Debt cancellation is the prerequisite to tackling colonialism. We must recognize the century’s worth of robbery and breaking the perpetual desire of Northern domination. One strand of ... ripe internal terrain. This colonial dichotomy forms the logic that guarantees the permanent state of exception that produces the death ethics of war and hell on earth. Dussel, Quijano, and ... as Fanon suggested." Contention 3 is Our Politics - Discussions of coloniality must come first. We must begin with the question of colonial knowledge. An anti-colonial discursive framework is key to decolonizing debate and challenging institutionalized power. We use a ... Conference, May 2003. Limited deliberative forums like debate which discuss Latin American specific policies prevent elite domination, develops agency, and promotes epistemological equality In the context ... and local¶ levels. Our tactic of holding the law to its letter precipitates a crisis in legitimacy that threatens the disintegration of the entire edifice. Of course civil society cannot accommodate the inclusion of blackness, which is precisely why demanding exactly that leads to its collapse. When, in the ... of men's rights. Grounding action in experience through the perspective of the subaltern requires pragmatism to bring de-coloniality- Africa proves. We provide a blank slate from which to develop new politics. Over the years, ... Pierre de Vol | 11/14/13 |
Gay Mecca 1ACTournament: Grapevine | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lovejoy HN | Judge: Ciborowski To live in the borderlands means you -Gloria Anzaldua For many of us, we encounter the cross-roads at birth. Dissected alive. Sliced. Divided. We aren’t seen for who we are, but who we are “supposed” to be. Sometimes, they try to “fix” us, treat us, cure us, to make us “human”. Losing ones faith … as social fact.42 These social contracts that brand us go further. Attempts to correct the system from within have always failed. The lines that divide us are rooted in the state. The state constantly puts up new standards to limit and control populations. Missing from this … to sex stereotypes.88 But these crossroads we meet aren’t only internal. As we explore reality, we find limits, boundaries, borders. Rather than enforced by culture, they are policed by government. Just as we were split as a person, we are split as a people. Aggressive globalization has codified who we are. Relegated to two check boxes and a signature, we only exist in the wet dreams of the hegemon. There, we meet the colonized, the labored, and the colored. We are all hidden. Development of capitalism … immigrant sexual minorities. The Crossing Wind tugging at my sleeve Miro el mar atacar Welcome to Guadalajara, Mexico, land of the underground transgendered, home of the sex brothels. Every year, millions of Mexican transgender sex workers migrate to their Medina, San Francisco, in search of work. In their Hajj, the workers experience a border crossing of both a literal and symbolic importance. The journey defies all that divides them, venturing through a plurality of strata. They sit on the junction of sexuality, ethnicity, religion, and class, not on the outside looking in, or the inside looking out, but right in the middle, looking around. People point me out Maybe it’s my fault Veronica’s adoption of … home” in Guadalajara. And thus Zaki and I advocate substantially increasing our economic engagement towards Mexico through the deconstruction of the borders of both sexualities and states. A New Life How are gender … patriotism, and nationalism? There has never been a greater need for critical interrogations of our attitudes toward sex than now—sex panics are not simply isolated instances of violence, but are the ideological channel through which social violence is expressed and justified I The Sex … about sexuality. The Return In a New England college where I taught, the presence of a few lesbians threw the more conservative heterosexual students and faculty into a panic. The two lesbian students and we two lesbian instructors met with them to discuss their fears. One of the students said, “I thought homophobia meant fear of going home after a residency.” ¶ And I thought, how apt. Fear of going home. And of not being taken in. We’re afraid of being abandoned by the mother, the culture, la Raza, for being unacceptable, faulty, damaged. Most of us unconsciously believe that if we reveal this unacceptable aspect of the self our mother/culture/race will totally reject us. To avoid rejection, some of us conform to the values of the culture, push the unacceptable parts into the shadows. Which leaves only one fear—that we will be found out and that the Shadow-Beast will break out of its cage. Some of us take another route. We try to make ourselves conscious of the Shadow-Beast, stare at the sexual lust and lust for power and destruction we see on its face, discern among its features the undershadow that the reining order of heterosexual males project on our Beast…But a few of us have been lucky—on the face of the Shadow-Beast we have seen not lust but tenderness; on its face we have uncovered the lie. We have returned, and all that’s left is the beast. It’s time we confront our shadow. Live without fear. Situate yourself within the borderlands and tear it down from inside out. Subvert the old symbols. Let the chain-link fence fall to the sea, and with it the lines that split us. Only through a deconstruction of knowledge, self, and sexuality can we achieve mestiza consciousness. In her seminal … to ¶ Western epistemologies. From our specific … and the government. What now? Where do we go? What is there to do? Quite frankly, there is no happy ending, no Prince Charming, no extinction averted. The entire of concept of a single solution domesticates queerness. Conclusions, wrappings up, … to unnamable possibilities. | 9/17/13 |
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