Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 2 | Opponent: Westminster Forman - Kong | Judge: Tyler Salathe
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Tournament: Scranton | Round: 1 | Opponent: Edgemont Jhangiani - Ning | Judge: Dhruve Sehgal

Andrew and I advocate that we embrace Wonderland and look through the lens of the looking glass as a starting point for revolutionary politics.

1. Embracing Wonderland is the only way to shake off fascism in the macro and micro political spheres- it is the only way to liberate the voices in the 1AC

CHIANG 2004 (Yu-Chi Chiang, Doctoral student, Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, “The Deleuzian Politics of Desiring Nonsense,” National Taiwan Normal University, 2004, http://www.ntnu.edu.tw/acad/rep/r98/h980006-1.pdf

This paper aims to undertake a Deleuzian reading of Lewis Carroll’s two Alices. I plan to study Gilles Deleuze’s politics of desire in general, and his own discussion of Carroll’s philosophy of nonsense in particular.... Instead of being inserted into a space defined by an a priori scheme, Alice, the nomad-subject, moves about freely, dissolves her representative identities in the realm of reason by her singular encounter with Wonderland inhabitants, and scatters her passions in every direction.

2. Our revolutionary politics simply starts with the locus point of Wonderland --- our counter advocacy allows us to change the rose-colored lens of status quo ontological and epistemological certainty and instead break with reality with our encounter through the lens of Looking Glass --- akin to Alice’s interventions in the realms of fantasy, we can reveal the simulacrum of the debate space that they criticize

LOPEZ 2003 (Alan Lopez, PhD, English and American Literature, professor of philosophy, “That Hysterical Discourse in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: Locating a Critical Subject within Carroll,” Deleuze and Feminism, Journal of the Department of Comparative Literature, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2003, http://wings.buffalo.edu/theory/archive/t@b8.pdf

Over and against readings by Beverly Lyn Clark, James Kincaid, and Peter Heath, I would like to suggest that Alice and Through the Looking-Glass inaugurate an epistemological and ontological break with reality, a break which ultimately forces Alice to encounter what Peter Heath identifies as the Kantian “terror” of the Real...With a slight pun on Kincaid’s title, Alice never fully or really “invades” Wonderland, but always maintains a heterogeneous relation to it.

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The aff commodifies the suffering of  in exchange for your ballot in the debate economy---playing a game where we move scenarios of suffering around like chess pieces for our own personal enjoyment is the most unethical form of intellectual imperialism

Baudrillard 94 Jean, “The Illusion of the End” p. 66-71

We have long denounced the capitalistic, economic exploitation of the poverty of the 'other half of the world' 'autre monde. We must today denounce the moral and sentimental exploitation of that poverty - charity cannibalism being worse than oppressive violence...The sacrifices we offer in return are laughable (a tornado or two, a few tiny holocausts on the roads, the odd financial sacrifice) and, moreover, by some infernal logic, these work out as much greater gains for us, whereas our kindnesses have merely added to the natural catastrophes another one immeasurably worse: the demographic catastrophe, a veritable epidemic which we deplore each day in pictures.

Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 3 | Opponent: Niles North Benesch - Tempkin | Judge: Maggie Berthiaume

Point A is our link: The affirmative’s rhetoric of nuclear weapons idolizes an environment of deterrence—creating a false sense of security in the post-plan world. The affirmative’s paradigm of mutually assured destruction allows the United States to threaten non-nuclearized nations like a bank robber to an unarmed teller. Our criticism is grounded in empirics.

Jacqueline Cabasso, Executive Director of the Western States Legal Foundation,” “Rhetoric vs. Reality: Nuclear Dangers in a Time of Growing Global Economic and Environmental Crisis,” Spring 2012, http://www.wslfweb.org/docs/nptinfobull2012.pdf

In Prague, President Obama declared: “To put an end to Cold War thinking, we will reduce the role of nuclear weapons in our national security strategy, and urge others to do the same.”...President Bush had contingency plans drawn up for battlefield use of nuclear weapons in Iraq.

B. Our Implication: The affirmatives assumptions of Western Nuclear Supremacy is a form a racism, but it is a devious form of racism that leads “the Other” to seek out admittance to the nuclear club through proliferation. The implication turns the case

  
Prerna Lal, M.A. in International Relations from San Francisco State University, expected J.D. from George Washington University, “North Korea Is Not a Threat—Unveiling Hegemonic Discourse,” April 2009, http://prernalal.com/2009/04/north-korea-is-not-a-threat-unveiling-hegemonic-discourses/

Tied to the race war schema, is the discourse of nuclearism, which refers to the ideology that nuclear weapons are instruments of peace...we cannot hope to avert nuclear proliferation and prevent ‘rogue states’ from going that route.
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C. Is our alternative: Reject the 1AC and its “nuclearist” assumptions as a starting point to rethinking the way we image catastrophe

G. Clarke Chapman, professor of religion and philosophy at Moravian College, “Facing the Nuclear Heresy: A Call to Reformation,” 1990, http://www.colorado.edu/ReligiousStudies/chernus/4820-ColdWarCulture/Readings/FacingTheNuclearHeresy.pdf

In the nuclear age the classic formulation of this need is an early statement of Albert Einstein...The Second Vatican Council, for instance, recognized this twenty years ago, stating that the technology and likely effects of total warfare now "compel us to undertake an evaluation of war with an entirely new attitude."'
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