Opponent: West HW | Judge: Khalid, Kinsee, Challinor
1AC - The Cult of Information 1NC - Derrida Bryant New Affs Bad FW PIC out of Explanation Case 2NC - Bryant 1NR - Derrida Stealing Ballots (we re-stole the ballots) 2NR - Derrida 2AR - We have the ballots Severed the Aff
Copper Classic
Semis
Opponent: West HW | Judge: Khalid, Kinsee, Challinor
1AC - The Cult of Information 1NC - Derrida Bryant New Affs Bad FW PIC out of Explanation Case 2NC - Bryant 1NR - Derrida Stealing Ballots (we re-stole the ballots) 2NR - Derrida 2AR - We have the ballots Severed the Aff
Greenhill
4
Opponent: Jenks | Judge:
1AC - TBHA 1NC - Baudrilard Nuke K Baudrillard Ecology K Baudrillard Death K Nichi Intrinsicness and Permaters 2NC - Everything but intrinsicness and permaters 2AR - Sev Good
Meadows
6
Opponent: CPS FP | Judge: Mulholand
1AC - Hillman 1NC - FW Give Back the Land Cap CP Block - FW Cap CP 2NR - Fw
Meadows
2
Opponent: CPS AG | Judge: Kezios, Roman
1AC - TBHA 2AC - Kick the 2AC and read Bataille
NDCA
5
Opponent: Notre Dame LP | Judge: jon sharp
1AC - Terrorize Thought 1NC - FW Shunning Heg K Case Block - Shunning Heg K Case 2NR - Heg K Case
Tournament of Champions
1
Opponent: Notre Dame AB | Judge: Carl Fitz
1AC was Necropolitics 1NC was fw and coloniality Block was both 2NR was coloniality
USC RR
2
Opponent: Niles North OW | Judge: Heidt, McBride
1NC Pronouns PIC FW Oil PIC
Block Pronouns PIC FW
2NR Pronoun PIC
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1AC Necropolitics
Tournament: Tournament of Champions | Round: 1 | Opponent: Notre Dame AB | Judge: Carl Fitz 1AC Contention one is the Necropolitical Militiarization is rampant along the Mexican border. The government utilizes a politics of death to wage war upon the cartels, with devastating effects for civilians and the environment. ESTÉVEZ, ’13, (ARIADNA, Centre for Research on North America National Autonomous University of Mexico, “THE POLITICS OF DEATH IN MEXICO: DISLOCATING HUMAN RIGHTS AND ASYLUM LAW THROUGH HYBRID AGENTS,” Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2013)erg
In 2006 Mexico’s … protection against suffering.
Simultaneously, the chaos along the border has enabled the cartels to develop a form of economics that utilizes death as its primary commodity. ESTÉVEZ, ’13, (ARIADNA, Centre for Research on North America National Autonomous University of Mexico, “THE POLITICS OF DEATH IN MEXICO: DISLOCATING HUMAN RIGHTS AND ASYLUM LAW THROUGH HYBRID AGENTS,” Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2013)erg
She argues that …framework ‘Gore Capitalism
The discourse of US human rights and security policy inform a politicization of death along the border; to gain refugee status asylum seekers are forced to prove the Mexican government cannot protect them. However, many refugees, called Endriago, cannot provide “legitimate” evidence because they have been forced to occupy a liminal space between government and criminal organization on threat of death. The US refuses to recognize this indistinguishable nature of cartels and government in Mexico because that would delegitimize future military aid. ESTÉVEZ, ’13, (ARIADNA, Centre for Research on North America National Autonomous University of Mexico, “THE POLITICS OF DEATH IN MEXICO: DISLOCATING HUMAN RIGHTS AND ASYLUM LAW THROUGH HYBRID AGENTS,” Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2013)eek
Asylum discourse in …the Mérida Initiative.
This discourse is emblematic of Necropolitics. Necropolitics is the new mode of sovereignty that enacts itself no longer by the control of life but via the control of death. It is the sovereign’s ability to biologically distinguish between life and death that is the precondition for racism and genocide. Mbembe, 3 (Achille Mbembe; is a senior researcher at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of the Witwatersrand; “Necropolitics”; Written in 2003; http://people.ucsc.edu/~nmitchel/achille_mbembe_-_necropolitics.pdf)//eek
Having presented a …enemy disposed of.26
This new political sphere built upon death ensures ever-escalating and more detrimental wars as the sovereign needs to find more ways to justify its existence. However, within an increasingly deterritorialized modernity this sovereignty rests no longer solely in the state but also in criminal organizations, like the cartels. Mbembe, 3 (Achille Mbembe; is a senior researcher at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of the Witwatersrand; “Necropolitics”; Written in 2003; http://people.ucsc.edu/~nmitchel/achille_mbembe_-_necropolitics.pdf)//eek
After having examined … to signify something.
Text: Thus, we resolve to think the Endriago.
Contention two is the Suicide Bomber By definition of being beyond the subject, death is that which escapes epistemological certitude. Therefore, while control over death is the foundation of modern sovereignty it simultaneously allows us to transgress that same sovereignty by breaking us out of the sovereign’s discursive, political, and epistemological constructions within our own lives and broader political spheres. Murray, 6 (Stuart J., “Thanatopolitics: On the Use of Death for Mobilizing Political Life,” Polygraph: An International Journal of Politics and Culture, vol. 18 (2006): 191-215)eek
Conclusion: The Language …continued life together.
In the context of Mexico this is the subjectivity of the Endriago. The Endriago are subjects who have been forced by Necropolitics to occupy a dystopian political discourse that exists in the in-between: a necropolitical space that is neither cartel nor government but simultaneously both. ESTÉVEZ, ’13, (ARIADNA, Centre for Research on North America National Autonomous University of Mexico, “THE POLITICS OF DEATH IN MEXICO: DISLOCATING HUMAN RIGHTS AND ASYLUM LAW THROUGH HYBRID AGENTS,” Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2013)eek
The specific subjectivity …government are unclear.
The suicide bomber injects the intersectionality of death into preexisting binaries Murray ‘6 (Stuart J., “Thanatopolitics: On the Use of Death for Mobilizing Political Life,” Polygraph: An International Journal of Politics and Culture, vol. 18 (2006)gingE This is not … political life today.
Mexico ratified TBA all that remains is US implementation Goldwyn ’13 (David L. Goldwyn, president of Goldwyn Global Strategies, LLC, an international energy advisory consultancy, and a nonresident senior fellow with the Energy Security Initiative at the Brookings Institution. David Goldwyn served as the U.S. State Department’s special envoy and coordinator for international energy affairs from 2009-2011, Neil R. Brown, Cory R. Gill, “Time to Implement the U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbons Agreement — Congress: Drop the Poison Pill”, http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2013/08/14-us-mexico-transboundary-hydrocarbon-goldwyn-brown-gill?rssid=LatestFromBrookings, August 14thJG) The United States and Mexico… The Senate can do better
Plan The United States federal government should implement the Agreement between the United States and Mexico Concerning Transboundary Hydrocarbon Reservoirs in the Gulf of Mexico.
Advantage 1: The United States
The US economy is fragile and only surviving because of consumers Jasinowski 7/24 (Jerry Jasinowski, an economist and author, served as President of the National Association of Manufacturers for 14 years and later The Manufacturing Institute, MA in economics from Columbia university, “A Fragile Economy”, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jerry-jasinowski/a-fragile-economy_b_3643560.html)//TC
The U.S economy is beginning to …see renewed economic and market volatility.
The plan improves the economy in the short-term – creating jobs, lowering energy prices, and generating federal revenue. Hastings ’13 (Doc, Chairman on the Natural Resource House Committee, 5-15-13, “House Committee Approves Legislation to Approve Transboundary Hydrocarbon Agreement with Mexico”, http://naturalresources.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=334042, accessed 6-30-13 WASHINGTON, D.C., May 15, 2013 - Today, the House Natural Resources Committee
The positive economic impacts of … is of utmost importance to the United States.
US economic strength is a firewall – great power wars are impossible because of it and inevitable without it. Gelb ’10 Leslie. President of the Council on Foreign Relations. “GDP Now Matters more than Force” A US Foreign Policy for the Age of Economic Power, 2010. Foreign Affairs Today, the United States continues to …advanced without an economic reawakening at home. Independently, US-Mexico economic integration prevents global recession. Schiffer ’13 Michael, President of the Inter-American Dialogue “A More Ambitious Agenda: A Report of the Inter-American Dialogue’s commission on Mexico-US relations.” February http://www.thedialogue.org/PublicationFiles/IAD9042_USMexicoReportEnglishFinal.pdf
The first is to reinforce and … negotiations toward the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Economic collapse causes global wars Royal ‘10 director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense (Jedediah, Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives, pg 213-215)
Less intuitive is how periods of economic decline … debate and deserves more attention.
The plan solves foreign oil dependence. CFR, ’12 (Committee on Foreign Relations (John Kerry Chairman, Richard Lugar Ranking, William Danvers Staff Director, 20 other Congressional Representatives, “OIL, MEXICO, AND THE TRANSBOUNDARY AGREEMENT,” A MINORITY STAFF REPORT, December 21, 2012, http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CPRT-112SPRT77567/html/CPRT-112SPRT77567.htm)
The centerpiece of the TBA is …. imports support U.S. energy security.
Dependence on oil breeds conflict – increases the incentive to go to war while short-circuiting barriers to conflict Glaser ‘11 (Professor of Political Science and International Relations Elliot School of International Affairs The George Washington University, “ Reframing Energy Security: How Oil Dependence Influences U.S. National Security,” August 2011, http://depts.washington.edu/polsadvc/Blog20Links/Glaser_-_EnergySecurity-AUGUST-2011.docx,)
Oil dependence could reduce a state’s …are to ensure secure access.
Dependence forces presence in the Mid East, which trades off with the Asia pivot Krcmaric, 6/20 (Daniel, National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow and a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Duke University, 6/20/12, “Looking Ahead: America’s Role in the Middle East,” Global Trends 2030, http://gt2030.com/2012/06/20/looking-ahead-americas-role-in-the-middle-east/ As the United States winds down … dependence on Middle Eastern oil. Effective Asia pivot is key to solve multiple scenarios for war Colby ‘11 (Elbridge Colby, research analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses, served as policy advisor to the Secretary of Defense’s Representative to the New START talks, expert advisor to the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission, August 10, 2011, “Why the U.S. Needs its Liberal Empire,” The Diplomat, online: http://the-diplomat.com/2011/08/10/why-us-needs-its-liberal-empire/2/?print=yes)
But the pendulum shouldn’t be … intervene is too important to be so wasted.
Advantage 2: Mexico Mexico oil reforms won’t pass – public demonstrations and political opposition. Kavanagh, 9/8 (Michael, “Mexico: Public hostility threatens Pemex reforms,” Financial Times, September 8, 2013, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/99d3422a-13ce-11e3-9289-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz2eJttoiMw Plans by Mexico’s president to open …. foreign companies to exploit its resources. The plan reverses that trend and builds momentum for reform. CFR, ’12 (Committee on Foreign Relations (John Kerry Chairman, Richard Lugar Ranking, William Danvers Staff Director, 20 other Congressional Representatives, “OIL, MEXICO, AND THE TRANSBOUNDARY AGREEMENT,” A MINORITY STAFF REPORT, December 21, 2012, http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CPRT-112SPRT77567/html/CPRT-112SPRT77567.htm)
First, the TBA will, …domestic energy reform in Mexico.
PEMEX collapses takes out the entire country. Samples and Vittor ‘12 (Tim R Samples and José Luis Vittor are associates in the Houston office of Hogan Lovells US LLP who focuses on transactions in Latin America, 6/21/12, “ENERGY REFORM AND THE FUTURE OF MEXICO’S OIL INDUSTRY: THE PEMEX BIDDING ROUNDS AND INTEGRATED SERVICE CONTRACTS”, http://tjogel.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Samples-Formatted_Final_June13.pdf)
Current declines in productivity will … is currently capable of providing.44
Most significantly, a strengthening Mexican…fromgetting out of control.
Latin America instability causes extinction Manwaring ‘5 (Max G., Retired U.S. Army colonel and an Adjunct Professor of International Politics at Dickinson College, venezuela’s hugo chávez, bolivarian socialism, and asymmetric warfare, October 2005, pg. PUB628.pdf) President Chávez also understands that … problems endanger global security, peace, and prosperity.65
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — The release from prison of infamous drug lord …how he handles the thorny fallout.
Even if political relations are stable, there’s no energy cooperation is the squo – the plan resolves short and long-term gaps in our relationship. Brown and Meacham ’13 (Niel is a non-resident fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Carol is the director of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “Time for US-Mexico Transboundary Agreement”, 06/05/13, The Hill, http://thehill.com/opinion/op-ed/303739-time-for-us-mexico-transboundary-agreement)
Such was the concern of many … likely a necessary first step along that path.
The aff is the key issue – energy spills over to broader cooperation Pascual 13 (Carlos, Vice president and Director of Foreign policy, the Brookings Institution, “U.S. – Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbon Agreement and Steps Needed for Implementation”, April 25th, 2013, http://naturalresources.house.gov/uploadedfiles/pascualtestimony04-25-13.pdf)//moxley
The Transboundary Agreement is …more meaningful ¶ collaboration over time.
Strong US-Mexico relations are essential to stopping the spread of organized crime, drug trafficking, and violence. Olson ‘9 (Eric L., M.A., International Affairs, American University; B.A., History and Secondary Education, Trinity College, Associate Director of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, as a Senior Specialist in the Department for Promotion of Good Governance at the Organization of American States, January 2009, http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/The20U.S.20and20Mexico.20Towards20a20Strategic20Partnership.pdf
It is time to strengthen …the reach of organized crime
Drug cartels along America’s southern …the civilian sectors to create security.
Terrorism causes backlash against state actors resulting in nuclear war Ayson 10 - Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington (Robert, “After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 33.7, InformaWorld)BB
But these two nuclear worlds—… still meet with a devastating response. The plan locks in permanent technical coordination – that’s independently key to prevent oil spills. Brown and Meacham ’13 (Niel is a non-resident fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Carol is the director of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “Time for US-Mexico Transboundary Agreement”, 06/05/13, The Hill, http://thehill.com/opinion/op-ed/303739-time-for-us-mexico-transboundary-agreement)
Regardless of TBA approval, Mexico’s PEMEX …. That is good for Mexico and for the U.S.
Gulf of Mexico diversity is on the brink – any shock can be the tipping point Craig ‘11 (Attorneys’ Title Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Environmental Programs at Florida State University (Robin Kundis, “Legal Remedies for Deep Marine Oil Spills and Long-Term Ecological Resilience: A Match Made in Hell”, Brigham Young University Law Review, 2011, http://lawreview.byu.edu/articles/1326405133_03craig.fin.pdf)//SDL
Ecological resilience and resilience theory …in U.S. waters, however, suggests otherwise.
Ocean biodiversity loss causes extinction Craig ‘3 (Robin Kundis Craig, Associate Professor of Law at the Indiana University School of Law, 2003, “Taking Steps Toward Marine Wilderness Protection? Fishing and Coral Reef Marine Reserves in Florida and Hawaii” http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1289250)
Biodiversity and ecosystem function arguments for …, the Black Sea is not necessarily unique.
Solvency
TBA solves our advantages.
Goldwyn ’13 (David L. Goldwyn, president of Goldwyn Global Strategies, LLC, an international energy advisory consultancy, and a nonresident senior fellow with the Energy Security Initiative at the Brookings Institution. David Goldwyn served as the U.S. State Department’s special envoy and coordinator for international energy affairs from 2009-2011, Neil R. Brown, Cory R. Gill, “Time to Implement the U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbons Agreement — Congress: Drop the Poison Pill”, http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2013/08/14-us-mexico-transboundary-hydrocarbon-goldwyn-brown-gill?rssid=LatestFromBrookings, August 14thJG)
The United States and Mexico concluded a transboundary hydrocarbons agreement, officially titled the “Agreement between the United States and Mexico Concerning Transboundary …be realized without further delay.
Action now is critical or they’ll cancel the deal.
A quick response by the U.S. …not about what’s good for Mexico.’ ”
9/21/13
2AC Arctic Drilling CP
Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 6 | Opponent: GBN CH | Judge: Colin Quinn Experts and empirics show-Arctic drilling is too high risk-not prepared for spills-devastates natural life BEINECKE, ’11, (FRANCES G. BEINECKE, the president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, served on the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, “No to Arctic Drilling,” The New York Times, August 17, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/opinion/dont-allow-oil-drilling-off-alaskas-coast.html?_r=1and)
Last year, Americans watched in mounting fury as … last frontiers, from grave and needless risk.
Troubled Oil Rig in Alaska Reaches Safer Waters (January 8, 2013) Officials said the new assessment by federal regulators could halt or scale back Shell’s program to open Alaska’s Arctic waters to oil exploration, … beset Shell’s accident-prone drilling program and put Alaska’s environment at risk.”
Absolutely no link – military bases are on the Atlantic side and off the coast of Florida. These are not disputed territories and wouldn’t be affected by TBHA, which only provides for cooperation in joint parts of the Gulf of Mexico. THEIR 1NC evidence proves our geography Weiss, Senior Fellow Center for American Progress, ’12 (Daniel, September 13, “The American Energy Initiatives” Congressional Documents and Publications, lexis)
Mid-Atlantic offshore drilling would … is really essential to nine bases in Northwest Florida.
1AR Card
Natural gas doesn’t solve Mallet, 13 Partner in the Arrakis Group, a private energy consulting firm, B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from MIT and MBA from Stanford University (Victor Mallet, 5/16/13, “Shale Gas and Foreign Oil: How Realistic Is US Energy Independence”, http://theenergycollective.com/victormallet/225651/shale-gas-foreign-oil-how-realistic-us-energy-independence-natural-gas)//EM Going forward we must be careful to avoid an apples-to-oranges comparison… domestic recession and the specter of lost industrial dominance. That should be enough to quiet even the most adamant energy hawks.
10/28/13
2AC Arctic Drilling CP
Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 6 | Opponent: GBN CH | Judge: Colin Quinn Experts and empirics show-Arctic drilling is too high risk-not prepared for spills-devastates natural life BEINECKE, ’11, (FRANCES G. BEINECKE, the president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, served on the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, “No to Arctic Drilling,” The New York Times, August 17, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/opinion/dont-allow-oil-drilling-off-alaskas-coast.html?_r=1and)
Last year, Americans watched in mounting fury as … last frontiers, from grave and needless risk.
Troubled Oil Rig in Alaska Reaches Safer Waters (January 8, 2013) Officials said the new assessment by federal regulators could halt or scale back Shell’s program to open Alaska’s Arctic waters to oil exploration, … beset Shell’s accident-prone drilling program and put Alaska’s environment at risk.”
Absolutely no link – military bases are on the Atlantic side and off the coast of Florida. These are not disputed territories and wouldn’t be affected by TBHA, which only provides for cooperation in joint parts of the Gulf of Mexico. THEIR 1NC evidence proves our geography Weiss, Senior Fellow Center for American Progress, ’12 (Daniel, September 13, “The American Energy Initiatives” Congressional Documents and Publications, lexis)
Mid-Atlantic offshore drilling would … is really essential to nine bases in Northwest Florida.
1AR Card
Natural gas doesn’t solve Mallet, 13 Partner in the Arrakis Group, a private energy consulting firm, B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from MIT and MBA from Stanford University (Victor Mallet, 5/16/13, “Shale Gas and Foreign Oil: How Realistic Is US Energy Independence”, http://theenergycollective.com/victormallet/225651/shale-gas-foreign-oil-how-realistic-us-energy-independence-natural-gas)//EM Going forward we must be careful to avoid an apples-to-oranges comparison… domestic recession and the specter of lost industrial dominance. That should be enough to quiet even the most adamant energy hawks.
10/28/13
2AC Cards on Framework - Golden Desert
Tournament: Golden Desert | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Alpharetta KK | Judge: Wolch, Kinsee, Phillips Consensus DA-Their framework establishes debate as a police order. This attempt to build a politics out of consensus is doomed to failure. Consensus destroys the potentiality of politics and silences the voices of the marginal. Disagreement and disunity about the politics and the topic is a prerequisite to both. Cachopo, 13 – Ph.D. in Philosophy from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Theoria and Praxis (João, “Disagreeing before acting: The paradoxes of critique and politics from Adorno to Rancière”, Volume 1, Issue 1)eek II. Politics versus police in a transcendental mood To begin with, let me note that Rancière’s theorization of “…. to make both theory and praxis obey a pre-given schematization of the way in which they should be bound together.
Questioning the nature of politics is the only way to understand politics, the alternative solves the technological mindset that makes politics violent, without the alternative the earth is doomed to ecological catastrophe. Swazo, Professor of Philosophy at University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 2002 Norman K., Crisis Theory and World Order: Heideggerian Reflections,
In the question "What is politics?" … thought is compelling in orienting us towards essential political thinking.
Roleplaying teaches debaters a false sense of superiority and obliviousness to the reality of the state turning us into simulacra of our former selves resulting in ressentiment and conformity that opens the way for violence and tyranny Antonio, 95 (Nietzsche's Antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 101, No. 1 (Jul., 1995), pp. 1-43)Loyola UNDER ERASURE
The "problem of the actor," Nietzsche said, "troubled me for the longest time." … ressentiment paves the way for a new type of tyrant (Nietzsche 1986, pp. 137, 168; 1974, pp. 117-18, 213, 288-89, 303-4).
2/4/14
As The Map Burns 1AC - Bingham
Tournament: Copper Classic | Round: 6 | Opponent: Juan Diego WF | Judge: Jaimie Cheek Today global power operates through assimilation. No longer does power impose itself through the dominance of evil but rather through the hegemony of the good. The question is of the day is “What can America do for you?” The world is being subjugated at an exponential rate into the West’s networks of rationality and control. The world order operates as a generalized economy; everything made exchangeable, nothing unique, nothing singular. Baudrillard, 6 – Not dead yet (Jean Baudrillard; Cannibal and Carnival: The Play of Global Antagonism; Seagull Books; 3-10; September 2006)eek
WE MAY START OUT from Marx’s famous saying about history occurring first as an authentic event and then being repeated as farce…. , the global museum of the cheap finery of all cultures.
Specifically, the West maintains control of the world through a system of symbolic relations of gift-exchange. When a gift is given a counter-gift is expected in return. The gift-giver is indebted to the gift receiver. Western hegemony operates through a giving of gifts to the rest of the world. Unable to return these gifts we all become symbolic slaves to the system. We are in debt but can’t afford to pay ourselves out. Baudrillard, 2 - Not dead yet (Jean, “The Despair of Having Everything”, November 2002, EGS)eek
The West's mission is to make the world's wealth of cultures interchangeable, and to subordinate them within the global order. … Terrorism, in its absurdity and meaninglessness, is society's verdict on — and condemnation of — itself.
The West continuously recirculates images of suffering through symbolic economies. The destitution of the underdeveloped world has been commodified. The West loves being the hero to those it oppresses so it creates disasters for the rest of the world so it can give them a gift and be hailed as a savior. This results not in continued exploitation but also ever escalating catastrophe. Baudrillard, 94 – (Jean, “The Illusion of the End,” Translated by Chris Turner, Verso, pgs. 66-71)eek
The end of history, being itself a catastrophe can only be fuelled by catastrophe. … Because it cannot accept being confronted with an end which is uncertain or governed by fate, it will prefer to stage its own death as a species.
As this White terror continues spreading across the world no zone is immune but some zones are integrated to different degrees. Certain parts of the world are less banalized, less technicized, and less upholstered than the West; some places are backlashing some places maintain their singularity. Baudrillard, 10 – For information on his bio you can reach Baudrillard at 3 Edgar Quinet Boulevard, 75014 Paris, France or by phone at +33-1 44-10-86-50 (Jean, “The Agony of Power,” Semiotext(e), pgs. 70-74)eek
Whence both a vital, visceral resistance to generalized exchange, to total equivalence and connection, to vast prostitution and a vertigi nous attraction to this technological fair, this spectacular masquerade, this nullity. … A revolt, therefore, that targets systematic deregulation under the cover of forced conviviality, that targets the total organization of reality.
Venezuela is one of these zones of singularity. While much of the world is Western, Venezuela certainly is not. The American media tends to paint Venezuelan leaders as crazy but is their any response but absurdity in the face of Bush and Schwartznegger? Sefat, 9 – Member of the Council of Foreign Relations, University of Tehran (Kusha, “Saudi Arabia Does Not Exist,” Intergnational Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 6, Number 2, July 2009)eek
It is the real nation-states that often make the UN look ridiculous. … But the UN perhaps never looked more non-real by any other than the “Super State,” also referred to as the HQ of one of the bigger Empires: the United States of America.
When Chavez died of cancer, his successor, Maduro, proclaimed that the US had poisoned Chavez with cancer. Maduro got one thing right: the West is a poison. It keeps growing and growing because it has forgotten how to stop. This poison is slowly spreading throughout the world but Maduro’s refusal to subscribe to Western rationality proves Venezuela hasn’t succumbed quite yet. O'Brien-Bours, 13 – dabbles in wine and film (yes this is actually part of his bio) (Robinson, “Venezuela President 2013: Nicolas Maduro's 5 Craziest Remarks,” April 18, 2013, http://www.policymic.com/articles/35115/venezuela-president-2013-nicolas-maduro-s-5-craziest-remarks)//eek
Hugo Chavez discovered he had cancer a couple of years ago and died of it two months ago. … Yes, what mere mortals need facts when you have Maduro's intuition?
Exactly the same logic applies with madness. … and I believe this is the way Jean Baudrillard theorized about madness in his oeuvre as well.
Today the World is engaged in a double-potlatch. The West gives the world everything, it sacrifices its values and in return the terrorists give the West their lives. The West debases itself hoping others will integrated and do the same but symbolic terrorists like Maduro refuse negotiation. How can you negotiate with someone who is willing to die? Baudrillard, 10 – For information on his bio you can reach Baudrillard at 3 Edgar Quinet Boulevard, 75014 Paris, France or by phone at +33-1 44-10-86-50 (Jean, “The Agony of Power,” Semiotext(e), pgs. 64-69)eek
After the sacrifice of value, after the sacrifice of Representation, after the sacrifice of reality, the West is now characterized by the deliberate sacrifice of everything through which a human being keeps some value in his or her own eyes. ………….. Can this confrontation come to an end and what could be the consequences if one or the other wins?
Therefore the United States federal government should offer to give everything to Venezuela. We put our Whiteness, our wealth, and everything on the line.
The point of our plan is to fail and for the gift to be rejected. When the gift is refused, the terrorists will win and the West will be humiliated. We wager everything knowing we will lose. Baudrillard, 6 – Not dead yet - Not dead yet (Jean, “THE PYRES OF AUTUMN”, January-February 2006, New Left Review. Vol. 37)eek
Fifteen hundred cars burned on a single night and then, nine hundred, five hundred, two hundred, before “normalcy” was reached again (when ninety cars on average are torched every night in this gentle land of France). ………………….. Yet, everything indicates quite to the contrary, that these are successive phases of a revolt whose end is nowhere in sight.
1/18/14
Bataille 2AC Pivot
Tournament: Meadows | Round: 2 | Opponent: CPS AG | Judge: Kezios, Roman Advantage 1: Monument to Nothing They misunderstood the 1AC. The 1AC was a performance. It was a question of form, not content. We do not endorse the content of the 1AC. The 1AC was meaningless, fiat is meaningless, and all those hours of cutting cards were meaningless. The 1AC was a monument to nothing, an expenditure of energy without reserve; this expenditure reclaims intimacy. Frow, 3 – Ph.D. and Proffessor in English (John, “Culture and Waste: The Creation and Destruction of Value,” Rowman and Littlefield, pg. 31)eek
In Bataille’s thought … sense aesthetic activities.
This sacrifice is a utility of non-utility – far from a quest for masterful control, our ecstatic abandonment of it ruptures restricted economies that lash out in exclusionary and violent ways to establish a true moment of unity Biles, 11 (Jeremy, PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School, “The Remains of God: Bataille/Sacrifice/Community”, Culture, Theory and Critique, 2011, 52(2–3), 127–144, rcheek)
In this sense, then, a sacrifice is always … self as formed through social prohibitions and work.
Our deployment of the state without believing in it profanes the state Agamben, 7 (Giorgio Agamben; Profanations; Zone Books; pg. 75-76)
The passage from the sacred to the … become the gateways to a new happiness.
Their kritik produces Discontinuity – their attempts to know the world and inscribe meaning into the debate space are the mantra of the cult of progress – this attempt to strive toward meaning and truth denies the individual sovereignty of every-day experience DeBoer, ‘99 (Jason, “Bataille versus Theory”, http://www.absintheliteraryreview.com/archives/fierce2.htm)rkezios
For Bataille, philosophy must be … future existing as inherent aspects of theory.
Also absent intimate expenditure the earth’s carrying capacity will suffer a significant decrease Stoekl, 7 professor of French and comparative literature at Penn State University (Allan, 8 October 2007, “Bataille's Peak : Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability,” ¬¬¬43-45, Ebrary) KP
I stress the importance of LeBlanc’s thesis— that violent conflict arising …possibilities of growth, and the infinite faculty for burnoff in pure loss facilité infinie de consumation en pure perte. (OC, 7: 170; AS, 181)
Advantage 2: Productive Thought All communication is meaningless. A sign has no true meaning rather the subject interprets meaning into it. Similarly, you can only read your own meaning into the 1AC. Their attempt to inscribe the 1AC and the debate space with transcendental meaning reduces all singularity by stripping the world of its mystery and fails to realize that the 1AC was unknowable. Instead you should affirm the 1AC as groundless. Fernando, 11 – Jean Baudrillard Fellow at and PhD from the EGS (Jeremy, “Writing Death”, New York, Utgeverji)eek
That beauty of writing lies—perhaps writing…, as though predestined, as though it could not take place.”
While meaning is always unhappy and hopeless, we can affirm the 1AC as poetic play of language as a happy form without hope. Affirmation of the illusions generated by felicitous language is the only internal link to politics Baudrillard 96 (The Perfect Crime, Verso, pp. 102-104)
It is not a question of defending radical thought. …charm lost, but the meaning itself cannot be resolved.
Unknowability is critical to check the productive logic of unlimited growth, which results in symbolic and literal extinction Baudrillard, 6 (Jean Baudrillard; Cannibal and Carnival: Ventriloquous Evil; Seagull Books; 70-71; September 2006)eek
IN THE PROMETHIAN PERSPECTIVE … obliteration of our symbolic space.
10/28/13
Contact
Tournament: Contact sheet | Round: 1 | Opponent: NA | Judge: NA Aff cites: juliagoldman@rowlandhall.org Neg cites: elliotkovnick@rowlandhall.org
10/11/13
Cuba Terror 1AC
Tournament: St Marks | Round: 1 | Opponent: - | Judge: - Contention 1: Cuba Current economic policy towards Cuba is steeped in the rhetoric and policy of the war on terror. This ideology is rooted in a geopolitical anxiety that refuses to relinquish an antiquated national identity in favor of violently lashing out against anything that does not fit within our global purview. Furthermore, the conflation of Cuba with terrorism is ahistorical and hypocritical. Bolander ’13 Keith, Research fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, a freelance journalist, 5/31, The Guardian, “Cuba is hardly a 'state sponsor of terror,” http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/31/cuba-us-terror-sponsors-list)
Of all the components to the United States hostile… it gives insult to all those who have been actual victims of terrorism.
Persecution of Cuba in the name of fighting terror is the continuous thread between the current War on Terror and the original one started by Reagan. Cuba has consistently been portrayed as a threat throughout the modern history of American exceptionalism. Chomksy, Professor of Philosopy and Linguistics at MIT, ‘6 Noam, “The Terrorist in the Mirror”, Counterpunch, JANUARY 24, http://www.counterpunch.org/2006/01/24/the-terrorist-in-the-mirror/ Suppose, then, that we accept these simple guidelines. Let’s turn to …not controversial. And there is a long list beyond them.
The inclusion of Cuba on the terror list reinforces the fantasy of American innocence and benevolence. Locating blame for terrorism in foreign “others” like Cuba is designed to play to racist predispositions and sanitize brutal American policy. Grosscup, International Relations Professor at CSU-Chico, 2000 Beau, Terrorism-at-a-Distance: The Imagery That Serves US Power, GLOBAL DIALOGUE, Volume 2, Number 4, Autumn For nearly two centuries the rationalisation system of …that would otherwise be highly controversial with the full approval of most Americans.
As long as Cuba is on the list, they will remain permanently victimized. US violence against Cuba is a form of economic terrorism, but is concealed by both the status quo definitions of terrorism and an ethically bankrupt form of consequentialism that excuses this violence in the name of national security. Kauzlarich et al. 1 (DAVID KAUZLARICH is a Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice Studies at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville RICK A. MATTHEWS is a criminologist at Ohio University, and WILLIAM J. MILLER is a Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Carthage College. 2002, “TOWARD A VICTIMOLOGY OF STATE CRIME,” Critical Criminology 10: 173–194, 2001. http://jthomasniu.org/class/781/Assigs/kauzvictimology.pdf) Propositions about the victimology of state crime can be developed from this … because they have not waged successful civil insurrections against their oppressors.
Contention 2: Terror Listing Cuba as a state-sponsor of terror is emblematic of continually vague and arbitrary expansions of terrorism’s meaning to serve pre-existing imperialist political goals. The “state-sponsor” label is used to obscure mass terrorism caused by western governments in the name of American exceptionalism. Jackson, Professor in International Politics at Aberystwyth University, 2007 Richard, “Critical reflection on counter-sanctuary discourse”, In: M. Innes, ed. Denial of sanctuary: understanding terrorist safe havens, p. 30-33
A related problem for the "terrorist sanctuaries" discourse is that it has always …and the ongoing problem of civilian-directed state terror. The label of “terrorist” constructs the other as engaged in absolutely illegitimate violence and incapable of negotiation, creating the kind of absolute antagonism that precedes genocidal violence. Barrinha ’11 (Andres, Professor of IR at University of Coimbra, Aug 1st, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Volume 4 Issue 2, “The political importance of labelling: terrorism and Turkey's discourse on the PKK”, pg 167-168) The usage of the terrorist label …potential conflict discourses.
State terrorism is one of the greatest sources of human suffering in history. Empirically, this has vastly outweighed the violence done by non-state actors. Jackson et al ‘10 Richard, Senior Researcher @ Centre for the Study of Radicalization and Contemporary Political Violence and Reader in Politics @ Aberystwyth University, Eamon Murphy is Professor of History and International Relations at Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia, and Scott Poynting is Professor in Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University, “Contemporary State Terrorism: Theory and Practice, p. 1
By all accounts, state terrorism has … global war on terrorism.
The core terrorism narrative creates an insatiable war machine that continually demands new wars. Debrix ‘7 (François Debrix is Associate Professor of International Relations at Florida International University in Miami, “Tabloid Terror”, Page #117-118, NC)
In his essay produced a few days after the 9/11 attacks, …, around an area called Tora Bora, to turn around and start up a plan to invade Iraq instead?).
The endpoints of the exceptionalist violence at the heart of the war on terror are total wars of annihilation and mass imperialist violence. Lifton ‘3 (Professor of psychiatry, Robert Jay, “American Apocalypse”, The Nation, Dec 22nd, http://www.thenation.com/article/american-apocalypse
SUPERPOWER HUMILIATION A superpower …and act in concert with the Islamist apocalyptic.
Contention 3: The Role of the Ballot The role of the ballot is to vote for the team who best undermines the prevailing hegemonic discourse of “terrorism.” We are not policymakers; we are “specific intellectuals” who are engaged in a pedagogical forum. It is your responsibility to encourage critical-thinking and countercultural advocacies that challenge totalizing regimes of truth. The signal sent intellectually outweighs any specific policy proposal. Jones ’99 (Richard Wyn Jones, Professor International Politics @ Aberystwyth University, ?99 (Security, Strategy, and Critical Theory, p. 155-163) The central political task of the … as both an inspiration and a challenge to critical security studies.
This framework is particularly relevant and desirable in context of the aff because terrorism is primarily a performative phenomenon. Intellectuals can influence the effectiveness and direction of counterterror policies by challenging or accepting the representative and framing of those policies. De Graaf and de Graaff ‘10 (Beatrice de Graaf, professor at the Center for Terrorism and Counterterrorism at Leiden University, and Bob de Graaff, professor of history at Utrecht University, 2010, Critical Studies on Terrorism, 261-275, “Bringing politics back in: the introduction of the ‘performative power’ of counterterrorism”) In sum, it is almost impossible to measure arithmetically …wars and imperial designs. ¶
Plan: Thus Julia/Camila and I affirm that Cuba should not be included on the United States’ list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Our advocacy exposes and denaturalizes the current understanding of who is a terrorist and exposes the hypocrisy inherent in US foreign policy towards Cuba. Interrogating the assumptions of the terror list open up critical space for emancipatory forms of knowledge and better relationships to violence. Jackson ‘8 (Richard Jackson, Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University, “State terror, terrorism research and knowledge politics,” http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/handle/2160/1949/BISA-Paper-2008-Jackson-FINAL.pdf?sequence=1)
In contrast to first order critique, second order critique involves … the much greater terrorism of state actors
Your ballot can be a political tool to refuse the logic of a terror list. Concepts like ‘terrorism’ and ‘security’ are powerful when they are absorbed as truth. Current policies toward Cuba are justified for the sake of OUR existence – insecurity and the threat of terrorism are deployed as a totalizing narrative that individualizes security within us. Your ballot functions at that level by refusing the relationship between you and national security. By exposing the internal contradictions within the terror list, we can create fissures and fragments within the totalizing narrative of the war on terror and break down its power. The refusal of the terror list must be recognized and performed through the agency of your ballot. We can only do work on ourselves and, in voting affirmative, the ballot becomes and political refusal that is necessary to think of a world beyond security and terrorism. Vote affirmative as a refusal of the list, as a counter-demand to the discursive legitimatization state terrorism, and to strategically reverse the set of power relations that makes violence possible. Burke ‘2 Anthony, Senior Lecturer in IR at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, “Aporias of Security,” Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 27.1 page InfoTrac OneFile It is perhaps easy to become despondent… is a world after security, and what its shimmering possibilities might be.
10/19/13
Hillman 1AC - Meadows
Tournament: Meadows | Round: 6 | Opponent: CPS FP | Judge: Mulholand Contention One: A Failure of Imagination
“Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.” ? James Hillman
The US is engaged in a ‘war’ on Cuba! Instead of soldiers and shrapnel, there is poverty. Instead of battleships, there are presidential degrees and laws. The war against Cuba is principally fought with weapons of economic destruction. Bastian ‘4 (Hope, an eductor living in Florida. “Sanctions as a War of Attrition,” Weekend Edition, Nov 2, http://www.counterpunch.org/2004/10/30/sanctions-as-a-war-of-attrition/) I’m living in a war zone, but what I see when I look out the window of … limiting the free movement of trade and the economic sovereignty of Cuba and those who would do business with them.
The collective history between the US and Cuba is filled with sanitized war. The ‘Cold’ War was neither cold, nor a war; the Bay of Pigs was a cowardly attempt to prevent war; economic sanctions are seen as the opposite of war – a final attempt to eliminate war. Torricelli ’98 (C. Fred, Director, Institute for International Economics, and Robert G. Torricelli, Member, U.S. Senate (D-NJ), Moderator: Leslie H. Gelb, President, Council on Foreign Relations. “Sanctions Against Rogue States: Do They Work?” May 20, 1998, Council on Foreign Relations, http://www.cfr.org/world/sanctions-against-rogue-states-do-they-work/p51) When the various trends of the twentieth century in American foreign policy are written by some future generation, … viable option are a realistic and a real alternative.
It is no surprise that the archetype of war is present even in the within the economic engagement. War is normal, inevitable, and an integral part of our being but we’ve ignored this part of the psyche by separating war from civilian life and by sanitizing it’s true nature. This suppression of war causes us to erupt violently in our never-ending quest against delusional enemies. Hillman 87 (James, A Founding Fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, “Wars, Arms, Rams, Mars: On the Love of War,” in Facing Apocalypse edited by Valerie Andrews, Robert Bosnak, Karen Goodwin) Our immigrant dream of escape from conscription into the deadly games of Mars … peace negotiations, and as paranoid defenses against delusional enemies.
Sanctions rationalize the absurdity of war and hide our inherent drive for it. War is inevitable but the embargo represses our need for conflict and pacifies our enemies. The embargo seeks to eradicate enemies in a never-ending mission to establish a peaceful utopia – this destroys the value to life. Hillman ‘4 (James, retired Director of the Jung Institute, “A Terrible Love of War”, The Penguin Press, ISBN 1-59420-011-4, pgs 23-27) In both cases, whether human drive or societal…. Israelis bulldozed West Bank houses and gardens.
This failure of imagination, the refusal to see war in our everyday, the separation of war from the spiritual, results in dangerous literalism – the impact is making violence and apocalypse more likely. Hillman 87 (James, A Founding Fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, “Wars, Arms, Rams, Mars: On the Love of War,” in Facing Apocalypse edited by Valerie Andrews, Robert Bosnak, Karen Goodwin) We do not know much nowadays about imagining divinities. … to separate themselves from his dominion.
Contention Two: The Heart of the Topic “I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.” – James Hillman
Cuba is a mirror of our own economic repression. The sanctions are a lashing out in an attempt to control Cuba because of our psychological insecurity with our own economic system. Kleefeld ’13 (Carla PhD, LPCC, “Cuba: ‘Money Can’t Buy You Love’,” January 17th, 2013, http://depthpsychologyandpolitics.com/cuba-money-cant-buy-you-love/
Now, 53 years into the US’s illegal embargo against Cuba… Maybe, we need new and better definitions of what “wealth” really means and can be.
Status quo approaches of economic control in regards Cuba are preoccupied with efficiency, growth and the cost of trade. This pathologizes loss and literalizes the psyche into a bottom-line economics, which justifies atrocities Hillman 81 (Hillman, James; former director of the Zurich Institute; Given October 1981; Anima Mundi: Return of the Soul to the World) Continuing our parallel between city and psyche… chang- es in values, in habits, are coming through the openings left by loss.
Contention Three: Streetcars Named Desire It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it. -James Hillman
Cuba is a product of our imagination – for the US, it’s a symbolic image for the ordering of US power and cultural transcendence – we must imagine Cuba differently. West-Duran ’97 (Alan, Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Director of the Latino/a, Latin American, Ph.D. from New York University. Tropics of History: Cuba Imagined, pg. 1-21)
This book began by claiming that Cuba and its history are continuously … For, as we shall see, ideology and utopia need each other.
In another overly simplistic and equally dismissive gesture, … legible images embed in the national cultural imaginary.
This collective historical memory of Cuba as other is the product of a psychological desire to control and civilize the world. Slater ’94 (David, Professor, Department of Geography, Loughborough University of Technology, Loughborough, “Reimagining the Geopolitics of Development: Continuing the Dialogue,” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 19, No. 2 (1994), pp. 233-238, http://www.jstor.org/stable/622758)
When, for example, the Cuban Revolution erupted on to the international scene, … I have made an implicit connec- tion with what I might refer to as the geopolitics of desire.
The drive for control and normalcy in the world splits the psyche and pathologizes all that we associate as not valuable. Thomas Moore 90 (Thomas Moore is the author of the bestselling book Care of the Soul and fifteen other books. He has Ph. D. in religion from Syracuse University and has won several awards for his work, including an honorary doctorate from Lesley University. The essential James Hillman: a blue fire, Routledge; 1 edition, 1-3)-mikee
Because of its family ties to medicine, psychotherapy … that try our souls. Yet, as Hillman says, in our symptoms is our soul.
A destroyed psyche is the root of all violence. Genocide and extinction are the end result of a soulless understanding of the world. Walter A. Davis 2001 (Deracination: Historicity, Hiroshima, and the Tragic Imperative. State Univesrity of New York Press, p. 95-96)
It is never enough however. Inner discord remains. … As “nuclear unconscious” that motive finds its first ghostly articulation in Kant’s struggle with the sublime.
Contention Four: The Role of the Ballot
“I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche...” ? James Hillman
A) The psyche exists and comes first The psyche shapes our understanding of the world – everything depends on it. The resolution should only be evaluated on its psychological qualities. Jung 58 (Carl G., renowned scholar of psychoanalysis and founder of the Jung Institute, The Undiscovered Self, New American Library, New York, 81-83)
For more than fifty years we have known, … are observed every day and can happen to everyone.
This is especially true in the context of Latin American – the psyche is a prerequisite to effective engagement. Hillman ‘8 (James, an American Psychologist, leading scholar in Jungian and post-Jungian thought, considered by many to be one of the most radical and original critics of contemporary culture. From History to Geography, Conversation with Gustavo Beck, Literal, Reflections, Art and Culture, Vol 14, 2008, http://www.literalmagazine.com/bilingual/from-history-to-geography-conversation-with-gustavo-beck/
JH: What I think is very important is … will be congruent with Latin American Culture.
Refusing to operate on the terrain of the psyche ensures a loss of soul. This state of dehumanization destroys any meaning to life and risks death. Hillman 1990 (James, has written dozens of critically acclaimed books, received his PhD from the University of Zurich, and is a retired Director of the Jung Institute, “A Blue Fire”, a blue fire, Routledge; 1 edition p. 17-18)-mikee
Anthropologists describe a condition among "primitive" peoples called … "modern man in search of a soul."
B) Our interpretation: The judge should endorse the best psychological approach to the resolution. This necessarily requires affirmation. It requires saying ‘yes’ to engagement, ‘yes’ to Cuba, and ‘yes’ to the archetype of the topic. It entails loving what the soul presents. Therefore, we psychologically and emphatically affirm the text: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement toward Cuba. All we have in this debate space is our imagination and our relationships. The ballot is the most tangible form of relating and it signifies an endorsement of the best types of relationships. If we win our approach is psychologically beneficial, you should vote aff.
C) Solvency The resolution can be a site of wonderment. Imagining engagement with Cuba is an image and incorporating myth is key. West-Duran ’97 (Alan, Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Director of the Latino/a, Latin American, Ph.D. from New York University. Tropics of History: Cuba Imagined, pg. 1-21)
This book provides a look at Cuba's history through the minds and images … expresses his or her common ground with Cuban history.
To engage is to explore the myths and the unconscious of Cuba. We must imagine Cuba but not impose imagery from the imperial outside. Fiat is a tool to imagine Cuba as an object; we need to imagine Cuba as an image itself. No dominant narrative of what Cuba should be, simply a contemplation of Cuba as already is. West-Duran ’97 (Alan, Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Director of the Latino/a, Latin American, Ph.D. from New York University. Tropics of History: Cuba Imagined, pg. 1-21) Cuba and its history are continuously being imagined… yet exploitative and constraining images.
D) Our Method Attempts to map out the topic and silence the soul within it by trying to empiricizing and literalizing it and looking at implementation. The ethos of traditional debate is one that tries to cure problems instead of being open to the world as is. Moore 1990 (James, has written dozens of critically acclaimed books, received his PhD from the University of Zurich, and is a retired Director of the Jung Institute, “A Blue Fire”, a blue fire, Routledge; 1 edition p. 10-11)-mikee
Hillman's later essays flash with the passion he brings …countries and provides timely initial response capabilities.
Only affirmation can solve – we need to embrace the ugliness Hillman 6 (James, has written dozens of critically acclaimed books, received his PhD from the University of Zurich, and is a retired Director of the Jung Institute, “City and Soul”, ‘Anima Mundi’ , Spring Journal; p. 27-50; Republished in 2006)
To come back to our own heart, … appreciation of the world ensouled.
We should enter into the resolution, let it speak to us, and psychological appreciate it. Only affirmation can solve – archetypal psychology is incompatible with negation. We must take in texts as the present the mselves. Say yes to fthe resolution. Hillman 90 (James, has written dozens of critically acclaimed books, received his PhD from the University of Zurich, and is a retired Director of the Jung Institute, “A Blue Fire”, a blue fire, Routledge; 1 edition p. 151)-mikee
Here we need to remember that the ways … psychopathic behavior of an emptied soul.
10/28/13
Hillman 1AC - USC
Tournament: USC RR | Round: 2 | Opponent: Niles North OW | Judge: Heidt, McBride Contention One: A Failure of Imagination
“Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.” ? James Hillman
The US is engaged in a ‘war’ on Cuba! Instead of soldiers and shrapnel, there is poverty. Instead of battleships, there are presidential degrees and laws. The war against Cuba is principally fought with weapons of economic destruction. Bastian ‘4 (Hope, an eductor living in Florida. “Sanctions as a War of Attrition,” Weekend Edition, Nov 2, http://www.counterpunch.org/2004/10/30/sanctions-as-a-war-of-attrition/) I’m living in a war zone, but what I see when I look ……… that fly in the face of international law, limiting the free movement of trade and the economic sovereignty of Cuba and those who would do business with them.
The collective history between the US and Cuba is filled with sanitized war. The ‘Cold’ War was neither cold, nor a war; the Bay of Pigs was a cowardly attempt to prevent war; economic sanctions are seen as the opposite of war – a final attempt to eliminate war. Torricelli ’98 (C. Fred, Director, Institute for International Economics, and Robert G. Torricelli, Member, U.S. Senate (D-NJ), Moderator: Leslie H. Gelb, President, Council on Foreign Relations. “Sanctions Against Rogue States: Do They Work?” May 20, 1998, Council on Foreign Relations, http://www.cfr.org/world/sanctions-against-rogue-states-do-they-work/p51) When the various trends of the twentieth century in American foreign policy ……..where war is no longer a viable option are a realistic and a real alternative.
It is no surprise that the archetype of war is present even in the within the economic engagement. War is normal, inevitable, and an integral part of our being but we’ve ignored this part of the psyche by separating war from civilian life and by sanitizing it’s true nature. This suppression of war causes us to erupt violently in our never-ending quest against delusional enemies. Hillman 87 (James, A Founding Fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, “Wars, Arms, Rams, Mars: On the Love of War,” in Facing Apocalypse edited by Valerie Andrews, Robert Bosnak, Karen Goodwin) Our immigrant dream of escape from conscription into the deadly games of Mars on the European battlefields ……….paranoid defenses against delusional enemies.
Sanctions rationalize the absurdity of war and hide our inherent drive for it. War is inevitable but the embargo represses our need for conflict and pacifies our enemies. The embargo seeks to eradicate enemies in a never-ending mission to establish a peaceful utopia – this destroys the value to life. Hillman ‘4 (James, retired Director of the Jung Institute, “A Terrible Love of War”, The Penguin Press, ISBN 1-59420-011-4, pgs 23-27) In both cases, whether human drive or societal necessity, war requires an imagined enemy. "………. The Taliban blew up the giant Buddhist images carved in the rock of Bamian. Israelis bulldozed West Bank houses and gardens.
This failure of imagination, the refusal to see war in our everyday, the separation of war from the spiritual, results in dangerous literalism – the impact is making violence and apocalypse more likely. Hillman 87 (James, A Founding Fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, “Wars, Arms, Rams, Mars: On the Love of War,” in Facing Apocalypse edited by Valerie Andrews, Robert Bosnak, Karen Goodwin) We do not know much nowadays about imagining divinities. ………….his warriors to separate themselves from his dominion.
Contention Two: The Heart of the Topic “I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.” – James Hillman
Cuba is a mirror of our own economic repression. The sanctions are a lashing out in an attempt to control Cuba because of our psychological insecurity with our own economic system. Kleefeld ’13 (Carla PhD, LPCC, “Cuba: ‘Money Can’t Buy You Love’,” January 17th, 2013, http://depthpsychologyandpolitics.com/cuba-money-cant-buy-you-love/
Now, 53 years into the US’s illegal embargo against Cuba, …………..Maybe, we need new and better definitions of what “wealth” really means and can be.
Status quo approaches of economic control in regards Cuba are preoccupied with efficiency, growth and the cost of trade. This pathologizes loss and literalizes the psyche into a bottom-line economics, which justifies atrocities Hillman 81 (Hillman, James; former director of the Zurich Institute; Given October 1981; Anima Mundi: Return of the Soul to the World) Continuing our parallel between city and psyche, if there is to be change, there will be loss.............., in habits, are coming through the openings left by loss.
Contention Three: Streetcars Named Desire It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it. -James Hillman
Cuba is a product of our imagination – for the US, it’s a symbolic image for the ordering of US power and cultural transcendence – we must imagine Cuba differently. West-Duran ’97 (Alan, Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Director of the Latino/a, Latin American, Ph.D. from New York University. Tropics of History: Cuba Imagined, pg. 1-21)
This book began by claiming that ………………..For, as we shall see, ideology and utopia need each other.
In another overly simplistic and equally dismissive gesture, …………………….partially erased and partially legible images embed in the national cultural imaginary.
This collective historical memory of Cuba as other is the product of a psychological desire to control and civilize the world. Slater ’94 (David, Professor, Department of Geography, Loughborough University of Technology, Loughborough, “Reimagining the Geopolitics of Development: Continuing the Dialogue,” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 19, No. 2 (1994), pp. 233-238, http://www.jstor.org/stable/622758)
When, for example, the Cuban Revolution erupted on to the international scene, ……………………………. I have made an implicit connec- tion with what I might refer to as the geopolitics of desire.
The drive for control and normalcy in the world splits the psyche and pathologizes all that we associate as not valuable. Thomas Moore 90 (Thomas Moore is the author of the bestselling book Care of the Soul and fifteen other books. He has Ph. D. in religion from Syracuse University and has won several awards for his work, including an honorary doctorate from Lesley University. The essential James Hillman: a blue fire, Routledge; 1 edition, 1-3)-mikee
Because of its family ties to medicine, psychotherapy typically thinks of affliction as the enemy……………………Yet, as Hillman says, in our symptoms is our soul.
A destroyed psyche is the root of all violence. Genocide and extinction are the end result of a soulless understanding of the world. Walter A. Davis 2001 (Deracination: Historicity, Hiroshima, and the Tragic Imperative. State Univesrity of New York Press, p. 95-96)
It is never enough however. Inner discord remains……………………………………..As “nuclear unconscious” that motive finds its first ghostly articulation in Kant’s struggle with the sublime.
Contention Four: Solvency
“I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche...” ? James Hillman
A) The psyche exists and is important The psyche shapes our understanding of the world – the resolution can be evaluated on its psychological qualities. Jung 58 (Carl G., renowned scholar of psychoanalysis and founder of the Jung Institute, The Undiscovered Self, New American Library, New York, 81-83)
For more than fifty years we have known, or could have known, ……………………………..every day and can happen to everyone.
This is especially true in the context of Latin American – the psyche is a prerequisite to effective engagement. Hillman ‘8 (James, an American Psychologist, leading scholar in Jungian and post-Jungian thought, considered by many to be one of the most radical and original critics of contemporary culture. From History to Geography, Conversation with Gustavo Beck, Literal, Reflections, Art and Culture, Vol 14, 2008, http://www.literalmagazine.com/bilingual/from-history-to-geography-conversation-with-gustavo-beck/
JH: What I think is very important is for psychotherapy to find its ……………………………..original version of psychotherapy that will be congruent with Latin American Culture.
Refusing to operate on the terrain of the psyche ensures a loss of soul. This state of dehumanization destroys any meaning to life and risks death. Hillman 1990 (James, has written dozens of critically acclaimed books, received his PhD from the University of Zurich, and is a retired Director of the Jung Institute, “A Blue Fire”, a blue fire, Routledge; 1 edition p. 17-18)-mikee
Anthropologists describe a condition among "primitive" peoples called ……………………… I believe with Jung that each of us is "modern man in search of a soul."
B) What your ballot means to our aff: A psychological investigation of the resolution necessarily requires affirmation. It requires saying ‘yes’ to engagement, ‘yes’ to Cuba, and ‘yes’ to the archetype of the topic. It entails loving what the soul presents. Therefore: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement toward Cuba. This debate space is produced to our imagination and our relationships. The ballot is the most tangible form of relating and it signifies an endorsement of the best types of relationships. If we win our approach is psychologically beneficial, you should vote aff.
C) Engagement The resolution can be a site of wonderment. Imagining engagement with Cuba is an image and incorporating myth is key. West-Duran ’97 (Alan, Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Director of the Latino/a, Latin American, Ph.D. from New York University. Tropics of History: Cuba Imagined, pg. 1-21)
This book provides a look at Cuba's history through the minds and images of some of its most perspicacious writers and artists. ……………………………..as an individual expresses his or her common ground with Cuban history.
To engage is to explore the myths and the unconscious of Cuba. We must imagine Cuba but not impose imagery from the imperial outside. Fiat is a tool to imagine Cuba as an object; we need to imagine Cuba as an image itself. No dominant narrative of what Cuba should be, simply a contemplation of Cuba as already is. West-Duran ’97 (Alan, Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Director of the Latino/a, Latin American, Ph.D. from New York University. Tropics of History: Cuba Imagined, pg. 1-21) Cuba and its history are continuously being imagined………………………………. these more well-known yet exploitative and constraining images.
D) Our Method Attempts to map out the topic and silence the soul within it by trying to empiricizing and literalizing it and looking at implementation. The ethos of traditional debate is one that tries to cure problems instead of being open to the world as is. Moore 1990 (James, has written dozens of critically acclaimed books, received his PhD from the University of Zurich, and is a retired Director of the Jung Institute, “A Blue Fire”, a blue fire, Routledge; 1 edition p. 10-11)-mikee
Hillman's later essays flash with the passion he brings to the soul of the world…………………………….promotes combined training among the forces of friendly countries and provides timely initial response capabilities.
Only affirmation can solve – we need to embrace the ugliness Hillman 6 (James, has written dozens of critically acclaimed books, received his PhD from the University of Zurich, and is a retired Director of the Jung Institute, “City and Soul”, ‘Anima Mundi’ , Spring Journal; p. 27-50; Republished in 2006)
To come back to our own heart, …………………………………the world ensouled.
We should enter into the resolution, let it speak to us, and psychological appreciate it. Only affirmation can solve – archetypal psychology is incompatible with negation. We must take in texts as the present the mselves. Say yes to fthe resolution. Hillman 90 (James, has written dozens of critically acclaimed books, received his PhD from the University of Zurich, and is a retired Director of the Jung Institute, “A Blue Fire”, a blue fire, Routledge; 1 edition p. 151)-mikee
Here we need to remember that the ways of the soul and those of the spirit only sometimes…………………, or even a kind of charlatanism, the psychopathic behavior of an emptied soul.
11/3/13
Hillman FW 2AC
Tournament: Meadows | Round: 6 | Opponent: CPS FP | Judge: Mulholand 4. Consensus DA-Their framework establishes debate as a police order. This attempt to build a politics out of consensus is doomed to failure. Consensus destroys the potentiality of politics and silences the voices of the marginal. Disagreement and disunity about the politics and the topic is a prerequisite to both. Cachopo, 13 – Ph.D. in Philosophy from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Theoria and Praxis (João, “Disagreeing before acting: The paradoxes of critique and politics from Adorno to Rancière”, Volume 1, Issue 1)eek
II. Politics versus ... be bound together.
6. Innovation DA – Debate is dying from a lack of creativity and new ideas. The compulsion to act, the reliance on jargon, and the desire to exclude all doom the psyche. You should vote for the team that encourages more ideas. Hillman 1990 (James, has written dozens of critically acclaimed books, received his PhD from the University of Zurich, and is a retired Director of the Jung Institute, “A Blue Fire”, a blue fire, Routledge; 1 edition p. 52)-mikee
There seems to ... enacting our lives.
7. Fiat grasps to fantasy as if it where real – this literalization kills the psyche and results in insanity – an imaginative position that realizes the fiction in everything is key Hillman 83 (Hillman, James; former director of the Jung Institute; Written 1983; “Healing Fiction”; Spring Publications; pg. 46-48)eek
What is to ... the lines" (L, §47.
10/28/13
Terrorize Thought 1AC - Bingham
Tournament: Copper Classic | Round: 1 | Opponent: Juan Diego AC | Judge: Khalid Sharif Contention One: The Ontic The US approach toward Cuba is a dual track of pity and Ontological security. America remains terrified of the specter of communism and its challenge to US exceptionalism that the revolution presents but still pretends to be kind to the citizens of Cuba. Policies such the embargo and the terror list are meant to pacify the threat that the Cuban government represents to the US regime of ontological security while still allowing food and medical aid toward the pitiable Cubans so it can retain a guise of moral superiority. McNeil, 12 (Calum,“Ontological Security and Emotion in US-Cuba Relations,” http://citation.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/4/9/8/9/5/pages498959/p498959-17.php)//eek
Sympathy and empathy are interrelated phenomena which represent relational dynamics with profound political repercussions. … Furthermore, it is also clear that there is much, much more at stake for the Cuban government and people in this maladaptive and emotionally wrought relationship. While uncertainty and a lack of control are inevitable, the quest for ontological security has become a will-to-will that admits no questioning and organizes all of politics into a reproduction of the same treating everything as a resource to in the standing reserve to be called into the fight against insecurity. This global enframing NECESSITATES populations such as Cubans fall OUTSIDE of its attempt at creating global order. Mitchell ‘5 Andrew J., Ph.D. Philosophy, Stanford University, “Heidegger and Terrorism”, Research in Phenomenology, Volume 35, Number 1, 2005 , pp. 181-218(38)
There can be no security. …. In this regard, “human resources” are no different from “livestock,” and with this, an evil worse than death has already taken place. Human resources do not die, they perish. The war for ontological security has become a will-to-will with no justification outside of itself. It suppresses the uncertainty and terror of being. To truly be we must be terrorized. Mitchell ‘5 Andrew J., Ph.D. Philosophy, Stanford University, “Heidegger and Terrorism”, Research in Phenomenology, Volume 35, Number 1, 2005 , pp. 181-218(38)
These three points of war equally determine an ideal of peace. ….. This transformation remains important at each point of a Heideggerian thinking of terrorism and is the ultimate consequence of the abolition of war and peace; beings have become uncommon.
The ontological devastation brought about by the incessant drive to annihilate terror leads to an “unworld” that is worse than death Mitchell, ’05. ANDREW J. MITCHELL, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. “HEIDEGGER AND TERRORISM.” http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/rip/2005/00000035/00000001/art00010?crawler=true – clawan Devastation (Verwu?stung) is the process by which the world becomes a desert … being itself is what terrorizes. Terror is the threat of being.
Text: Thus, we resolve to think the Cuban terrorist.
The Cuban terrorist is a revolutionary subject because it challenges the dominant Western ontic relationship to the world. We symbolically challenge the comfort and safety of the resolution. We terrorize to affirm our insecurity make security insecure thus affirming being. So yes, terrorize the resolution and vote aff.
Contention Two: The Onto This act of contemplation in the face of ontological security is one that ruptures the dominant political regime in favor of opening to the possibilities of being itself. Only such a resolute stance can confront the regime of ontological security. Zingale and Hummel, ‘8 (Nicholas, teaches environmental finance, corporate change, and public policy and administration at Cleveland State University and the University of Akron, and Ralph, Institute for Applied Phenomenology in Science and Technology, “Disturbance, Coping, and Innovation: A Phenomenology of Terror”, Administrative Theory and Praxis, Vol. 30, No. 2)
Contemplation, according to Heidegger, can be a step toward revealing our experience that human beings “have” a world… fundamental ontological level than do the conventional social sciences.
Furthermore, we must terrorize thinking itself in order to open political possibilies beyond status quo positivism Mitchell ‘5 Andrew J., Ph.D. Philosophy, Stanford University, “Heidegger and Terrorism”, Research in Phenomenology, Volume 35, Number 1, 2005 , pp. 181-218(38)
Insofar as it is Americanism that is identified with technological domination and the spread of the unworld, … We must hope that in the name of homeland security we do not too obstinately squelch them.
The metaphysics of terror key to understanding being – Rejects capital T truths Ugilt ’12 (Rasmus Ugilt, Rasmus Ugilt is Assistant Professor in the Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark “The Metaphsyics of Terror: The Incoherent System of Contemporary Politics” google books JG) The crucial metaphysical point that is being made¶ here¶ is that metaphysics never simply produced the Truth¶ with a capital 'T`. … Especially, we should take¶ care to notice the lacks and excesses which emerge in¶ this regard.
Your ballot can be a political tool to refuse the logic of status quo policy toward Cuba. This act of political refusal ruptures hegemonic forms of thought and allows for agency in the face of impossibility. Burke ‘2 Anthony, Senior Lecturer in IR at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, “Aporias of Security,” Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 27.1 page InfoTrac OneFile It is perhaps easy to become despondent, but as countless struggles for freedom, … world after security, and what its shimmering possibilities might be.
Finally, hegemonic forms of thought are the LARGEST proximate cause of macro-level violence Burke ‘7 (Anthony, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at UNSW, Sydney, “Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence and Reason”, Theory and Event, 10.2, Muse)
My argument here, whilst normatively sympathetic to Kant's moral demand for the eventual abolition of war, insecurity and …. Will our thought?
We must move away from Heidegger’s conception of Being Bleiker 2k (Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics, pg. 210-1)gingE ¶ While providing compelling evidence of subtle forms of domination, … preparing the ground for more open manifestations of dissent.
1/18/14
Terrorize Thought 1AC - NDCA
Tournament: NDCA | Round: 5 | Opponent: Notre Dame LP | Judge: jon sharp The Bingham 1AC plus this card if Elliot is feeling fast
The ontological devastation brought about by the incessant drive to annihilate terror leads to an “unworld” that is worse than death Mitchell, ’05. ANDREW J. MITCHELL, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. “HEIDEGGER AND TERRORISM.” http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/rip/2005/00000035/00000001/art00010?crawler=true – clawan Devastation (Verwu?stung) is the process by which the world becomes a ….……Terror is the threat of being.
Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement with Cuba. Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement with Mexico. Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement with Venezuela. Plan: All of the above. Plan: None of the above. Plan: Pour molten gold into Mexico. Plan: Tear down the wall. Plan: Take all of Venezuela’s oil. Plan: The United States federal government should lift the restrictions on Cuba on the condition that Cuba places the condition on Mexico that Cuba will give Mexico ¾ of all of their sugar ethanol production, if and only if, Mexico backs the United States federal government in substantially increasing its economic engagement with Venezuela by ensuring they meet Port Security standards. Plan: The United States federal government should plan to do something about the lack of plans for substantially increasing its planning of substantially increasing economic engagement toward Cuba, Mexico, or Venezuela. All plans are double fiated. We reserve the right to clarify. Even if we lose the double fiat debate, you evaluate our plan texts in a vacuum and vote neg on the net benefit of amusement and ridiculousness, which are the key internal to fun.
Contention Two: Hege Hege high but not for long. Taking over Latin America K2 Hege. Hege really good. And, Nuke War. Khalilzad, 95 – God of Policy Debate (Zalmay, “Losing the Moment? The United States and the World After the Cold War” The Washington Quarterly, RETHINKING GRAND STRATEGY; Vol. 18, No. 2; Pg. 84)
Under the third … of power system.
Hegemony solves multiple conflicts for extinction and is sustainable, star this card, then star it again, draw a circle around it, and then a box around that circle. Brooks, Ikenberry, and Wolforth 13 – ALL THE QUALIFICATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (“Lean Forward: In Defense of American Engagement”, January/February 2013, Foreign Affairs, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138468/stephen-g-brooks-g-john-ikenberry-and-william-c-wohlforth/lean-forward)
Since the end … well be disastrous.
Contention Three: Econ Econ going to be low. Buying all three topic countries K2 Econ. Econ really good And…. Extinction. We have literally analyzed everything we could possible analyze and then re-analyzed our analysis. This card has over 9,000 warrants. Royal, 10 – actually concludes Neg but for some reason everyone has only read the introduction (Jedediah, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction – U.S. Department of Defense, “Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises”, Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, Ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213-215)
Less intuitive is … deserves more attention.
Boom goes the dynamite. Harris and Burrows 9 – Swag the Room (Mathew, PhD European History at Cambridge, counselor in the National Intelligence Council (NIC) and Jennifer, member of the NIC’s Long Range Analysis Unit “Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis” http://www.ciaonet.org/journals/twq/v32i2/f_0016178_13952.pdf, AM)
Of course, the … eat-dog world.
Contention Four: Solvency We solve everything because. Like seriously we promise if you just vote aff all the problems will go away. Also, we double fiat ensures no disads. Also put away your multiple CPs and K alts because conditionality is bad. David Perez, former Hillcrest High School Debater… 0-3 record against Mr. Shackelford, in 10 (David A., Yale Law School, JD, Harvard Latino Law Review, Spring, 13 Harv. Latino L. Rev. 187, America’s Cuba Policy: The Way Forward: A Policy Recommendation for the U.S. State Department, p. 216-7)-mikee
After conducting some … leverage over Cuba.
1A: Wow, I finished the 1AC really fast today! Do you have any extra cards? 2A: Ummm…. I have a few more. You could read these I guess… (hands rest of 1AC).
Extra Cards Traditional debate is characterized by an oversaturation of information – too many cards, not enough time; too many causes, not enough effects; too many messages, no meaning – this results in nihilism Baudrillard, 9 (Jean, “The Transparency of Evil,” 2009, 34-36)eek
This process is … this absolute inertia .
The over-proliferation of information has turned debate into what we call a simulacrum. Debate no longer operates in reference to any material reality but rather it creates models, which represent reality. It becomes merely a metastable system for the recirculation of the same information that no longer corresponds to the real but rather creates is own real: the hyper-real. This regime of information is no longer based in material structures. Its indeterminacy is too unpredictable for traditional political revolutions to be effective. The only way to defeat the system is to turn it against itself. Only by taking the system to its logical extreme can we expose it tautological nature and cause it to collapse in on itself. Our performance was just that. We take information to its extreme and expose its absurdity. Baudrillard, 76 (Symbolic Exchange and Death, p. 2-5, Sage)eek
Everywhere, in every … one, from discourse.
The nature of policy debate is characterized by the attempt to control information vectors. Who can cut the most cards, get the newest book, or the most qualified author. We accumulate massive dropboxes filled with evidence and password protected search engines. This hoarding of intellectual property is a way that a new class, the vectoral class, pits the producers of information against each other in competitive environments to ensure their continued exploitation. This process results in escalating series of natural and humanitarian disasters, as capital needs to find more forms of property to base itself on. A Hacker Manifesto, 4 (McKenzie Wark; has Ph.D. from Murdoch University, Professor of Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College, Professor of Liberal Studies at the New School for Social Research; “A Hacker Manifesto,” Harvard University Press, paragraph 24-47)eek
Information, like land … moment too soon.
Not only has evidence and information been commodified but also so has debate’s educational potential. The education modern debate provides not only murders creativity but also is designed in order to give rich white kids even more avenues to success than they already have. This type of education is slavery. A Hacker Manifesto, 4 (McKenzie Wark;Ph.D. from Murdoch University, Professor of Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College, and Professor of Liberal Studies at the New School for Social Research; “A Hacker Manifesto,” Harvard University Press, paragraph 48-68)eek
Education is slavery… of false problems.
The constant recirculation of the same message over and over is death. Baudrillard 76 (Symbolic Exchange and Death, p. 185, Sage)eek
Pursued and censured … system of writing
Debate’s oversaturation of information, the desire to know everything, to force the world to signify is the Promethean drive for infinite growth, which results in extinction and a destruction of the symbolic space. Baudrillard, 6 (Jean Baudrillard; Cannibal and Carnival: Ventriloquous Evil; Seagull Books; 70-71; September 2006)eek
Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement with Cuba. Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement with Mexico. Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement with Venezuela. Plan: All of the above. Plan: None of the above. Plan: Pour molten gold into Mexico. Plan: Tear down the wall. Plan: Take all of Venezuela’s oil. Plan: The United States federal government should lift the restrictions on Cuba on the condition that Cuba places the condition on Mexico that Cuba will give Mexico ¾ of all of their sugar ethanol production, if and only if, Mexico backs the United States federal government in substantially increasing its economic engagement with Venezuela by ensuring they meet Port Security standards. Plan: The United States federal government should plan to do something about the lack of plans for substantially increasing its planning of substantially increasing economic engagement toward Cuba, Mexico, or Venezuela. All plans are double fiated. We reserve the right to clarify. Even if we lose the double fiat debate, you evaluate our plan texts in a vacuum and vote neg on the net benefit of amusement and ridiculousness, which are the key internal to fun.
Contention Two: Hege Hege high but not for long. Taking over Latin America K2 Hege. Hege really good. And, Nuke War. Khalilzad, 95 – God of Policy Debate (Zalmay, “Losing the Moment? The United States and the World After the Cold War” The Washington Quarterly, RETHINKING GRAND STRATEGY; Vol. 18, No. 2; Pg. 84)
Under the third … of power system.
Hegemony solves multiple conflicts for extinction and is sustainable, star this card, then star it again, draw a circle around it, and then a box around that circle. Brooks, Ikenberry, and Wolforth 13 – ALL THE QUALIFICATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (“Lean Forward: In Defense of American Engagement”, January/February 2013, Foreign Affairs, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138468/stephen-g-brooks-g-john-ikenberry-and-william-c-wohlforth/lean-forward)
Since the end … well be disastrous.
Contention Three: Econ Econ going to be low. Buying all three topic countries K2 Econ. Econ really good And…. Extinction. We have literally analyzed everything we could possible analyze and then re-analyzed our analysis. This card has over 9,000 warrants. Royal, 10 – actually concludes Neg but for some reason everyone has only read the introduction (Jedediah, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction – U.S. Department of Defense, “Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises”, Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, Ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213-215)
Less intuitive is … deserves more attention.
Boom goes the dynamite. Harris and Burrows 9 – Swag the Room (Mathew, PhD European History at Cambridge, counselor in the National Intelligence Council (NIC) and Jennifer, member of the NIC’s Long Range Analysis Unit “Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis” http://www.ciaonet.org/journals/twq/v32i2/f_0016178_13952.pdf, AM)
Of course, the … eat-dog world.
Contention Four: Solvency We solve everything because. Like seriously we promise if you just vote aff all the problems will go away. Also, we double fiat ensures no disads. Also put away your multiple CPs and K alts because conditionality is bad. David Perez, former Hillcrest High School Debater… 0-3 record against Mr. Shackelford, in 10 (David A., Yale Law School, JD, Harvard Latino Law Review, Spring, 13 Harv. Latino L. Rev. 187, America’s Cuba Policy: The Way Forward: A Policy Recommendation for the U.S. State Department, p. 216-7)-mikee
After conducting some … leverage over Cuba.
1A: Wow, I finished the 1AC really fast today! Do you have any extra cards? 2A: Ummm…. I have a few more. You could read these I guess… (hands rest of 1AC).
Extra Cards Traditional debate is characterized by an oversaturation of information – too many cards, not enough time; too many causes, not enough effects; too many messages, no meaning – this results in nihilism Baudrillard, 9 (Jean, “The Transparency of Evil,” 2009, 34-36)eek
This process is … this absolute inertia .
The over-proliferation of information has turned debate into what we call a simulacrum. Debate no longer operates in reference to any material reality but rather it creates models, which represent reality. It becomes merely a metastable system for the recirculation of the same information that no longer corresponds to the real but rather creates is own real: the hyper-real. This regime of information is no longer based in material structures. Its indeterminacy is too unpredictable for traditional political revolutions to be effective. The only way to defeat the system is to turn it against itself. Only by taking the system to its logical extreme can we expose it tautological nature and cause it to collapse in on itself. Our performance was just that. We take information to its extreme and expose its absurdity. Baudrillard, 76 (Symbolic Exchange and Death, p. 2-5, Sage)eek
Everywhere, in every … one, from discourse.
The nature of policy debate is characterized by the attempt to control information vectors. Who can cut the most cards, get the newest book, or the most qualified author. We accumulate massive dropboxes filled with evidence and password protected search engines. This hoarding of intellectual property is a way that a new class, the vectoral class, pits the producers of information against each other in competitive environments to ensure their continued exploitation. This process results in escalating series of natural and humanitarian disasters, as capital needs to find more forms of property to base itself on. A Hacker Manifesto, 4 (McKenzie Wark; has Ph.D. from Murdoch University, Professor of Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College, Professor of Liberal Studies at the New School for Social Research; “A Hacker Manifesto,” Harvard University Press, paragraph 24-47)eek
Information, like land … moment too soon.
Not only has evidence and information been commodified but also so has debate’s educational potential. The education modern debate provides not only murders creativity but also is designed in order to give rich white kids even more avenues to success than they already have. This type of education is slavery. A Hacker Manifesto, 4 (McKenzie Wark;Ph.D. from Murdoch University, Professor of Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College, and Professor of Liberal Studies at the New School for Social Research; “A Hacker Manifesto,” Harvard University Press, paragraph 48-68)eek
Education is slavery… of false problems.
The constant recirculation of the same message over and over is death. Baudrillard 76 (Symbolic Exchange and Death, p. 185, Sage)eek
Pursued and censured … system of writing
Debate’s oversaturation of information, the desire to know everything, to force the world to signify is the Promethean drive for infinite growth, which results in extinction and a destruction of the symbolic space. Baudrillard, 6 (Jean Baudrillard; Cannibal and Carnival: Ventriloquous Evil; Seagull Books; 70-71; September 2006)eek
