Tournament: OSSAA State | Round: 3 | Opponent: Comanche | Judge: Swygard
Zizek and Daly 2k4 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16)
For Zizek it is imperative that we cut through this Gordian knot of postmodern protocol
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.e. the initial prohibition conjures up the very thing it fears).
This is not to endorse any kind of retrograde return to economism. Zizek’s point
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simply a matter of chance and sound judgment in a neutral market place.
Capitalism does indeed create a space for a certain diversity, at least for the
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political boutiquism that is readily sustained by postmodern forms of consumerism and lifestyle.
Against this Zizek argues for a new universalism whose primary ethical directive is to confront
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abject Other to that of a ’glitch’ in an otherwise sound matrix.
Zizek, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana 1999Slavoj, The Ticklish Subject, page 350-351
Thisalreadybrings us to the second aspect of our critical distance towards risk society theory:
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activity on the environ¬ment, as well as the health of humankind itself?
Thus - despite all the talk about a ’second modernity’ which compels us to leave
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by all parties and, as such, more and more depoliticized. 34
The Affirmative’s demand for urgency is a product of hypocritical outrage meant to extend the privilege of global capitalism – our alternative is to do nothing in the face of the affirmative
Zizek 2008 Slavoj Violence p 6-8
Let’s think about the fake sense
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to "learn, learn, and learn" what causes this violence.
The affirmative is nothing but a nostalgic longing for the glory days of US domination of Venezuela and Latin America, a neoliberal fantasy that would devastate Venezuelan popular classes.
Petras, professor of sociology at Binghamton University, 2010 ~James, "U.S. Venezuelan Relations: Imperialism and Revolution", http://lahaine.org/petras/b2-img/petras_usven.pdf~~
Under US hegemony Venezuela was a major player in the US effort to isolate and
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America, especially toward Mercosur (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay).