Tournament: Blake | Round: 4 | Opponent: St Paul Central NB | Judge:
The animal is subjected to an eternal Treblinka.  Trillions of animals have already been slaughtered in factor farms and viviosected in laboratories.  Current society views the animal other as an object that only as useful as what it provides to its human oppressors.  In the face of this institutionalized speciescide virtually nothing has been done.  The time for action is now.  Isacat tells us in 2008,
Isacat 8 (Ben Isacat; has a Ph.D. in animal behavioural ecology and a bachelor’s in psychology and biology; Written April 2008; “Animal Holocaust”; http://www.animalethics.org.uk/i-ch1-3-animalholocaust.html; Accessed April 12, 2013)eek

Mass extinction is ... extermination camps..." (4) 

Debate Link -
Policy debate maintains this anthropocentric power structure.  At many tournaments part of entrance fees go to the slaughtering of animals.  Banquets glorify the consumption of animals.  And predominantly throughout the year the anthropocentric assumptions of economic expansionism inherent within the resolution go unquestioned or when they are questioned it is because they hurt humans.

Nuetrality Link -
In the face of the worst catastrophe ever perpetuated the aff maintains a politics of neutrality.  Billions of animals are slaughtered but the aff refuses to challenge these structures of oppression.  Rather they focus exclusively on human concerns.  This is not benign neglect but rather a calculated strategy to privilege certain interests over others.  Bell and Russell explain in 2000,
Bell and Russell 2K, (Anne C. by graduate students in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York Universi- ty and Constance L. a graduate student at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Educa- tion, University of Toronto, Beyond Human, Beyond Words: Anthropocentrism, Critical Pedagogy, and the Poststructuralist Turn, http://www.csse-scee.ca/CJE/Articles/FullText/CJE25-3/CJE25-3-bell.pdf)//eek

For this reason, the ... anthropocentrism passes unchallenged.1

Method of Liberation Link/Human Agency Link -
Their notions of material struggles and a liberation of human agency retrench an anthropocentric notion of human subjectivity and are used to justify, discrimination between humans based on so called “animality.”  Bell and Russell continue,

To be fair, Bowers ... or uncivilized (Gaard, 1997; Haraway, 1989, p. 30; Selby, 1995, pp. 17–20; Spiegel, 1988).

Knowledge Production Link -
Their focus on knowledge production prescribes a hierarchy based on rationality.  Their pedagogy is one which leaves out important lessons animals have to offer.  Bell and Russel preach in 2000,
Bell and Russell 2K, (Anne C. by graduate students in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York Universi- ty and Constance L. a graduate student at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Educa- tion, University of Toronto, Beyond Human, Beyond Words: Anthropocentrism, Critical Pedagogy, and the Poststructuralist Turn, http://www.csse-scee.ca/CJE/Articles/FullText/CJE25-3/CJE25-3-bell.pdf)//eek

Further, calls for ... structure their endeavours.

While all beings are created equal, not all are treated equal.  Giving special consideration to humans results in ecological destruction as everything is viewed as expendable.  This egocentric attitude recreates dichotomies between different human groups.  Screaming Wolf says,
Screaming Wolf, 91 (“A DECLARATION OF WAR: Killing People To Save Animals And The Environment,” February 1991, http://www.animalliberationfront.com/Philosophy/Legal/declaration20of20war_files/declaration20of20war.htm)//eek

“ALL BEINGS ARE EQUAL! ... sinners of the world.

No human suffering is comparable to the endless pain of the animal.  Screaming Wolf tells us,

There is another ...what it takes.

Traditional methods of revolution have failed.  Activists pretend to have created change but at the end of the day nothing has changed and no one cares about the animal.  Violent revolution is the only means left to us.  Screaming Wolf elaborates,

They  then  try  ... Liberators believe in killing humans to save animals!

While other political projects work toward inclusion and equal rights Animal Liberation works toward a total exclusion of the animal.  This is because human nature is founded upon a violent speciesism and any inclusion can only lead to further genocidal violence.  We will put the animal first in every instance and will only settle for total liberation by any means necessary.  Screaming Wolf explains,

If  an  animal  ... for these conclusions.

Tournament: USC RR | Round: 5 | Opponent: Loyola AC | Judge: Gannon and Beirer
Non-humans are necessarily excluded from the 1ac movement.
Bell and Russell 2K (Anne C. by graduate students in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York Universi- ty and Constance L. a graduate student at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Educa- tion, University of Toronto, Beyond Human, Beyond Words: Anthropocentrism, Critical Pedagogy, and the Poststructuralist Turn, http://www.csse-scee.ca/CJE/Articles/FullText/CJE25-3/CJE25-3-bell.pdf 10/24/11)

For this reason ... anthropocentrism passes unchallenged.

Anthropocentric ideologies cause ecocide- the alternative is the only unique try or die scenario.
Gottlieb 94 — Roger S. Gottlieb, Professor of Humanities at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Brandeis University, 1994 (“Ethics and Trauma: Levinas, Feminism, and Deep Ecology,” Crosscurrents: A Journal of Religion and Intellectual Life, Summer, Available Online athttp://www.crosscurrents.org/feministecology.htm, Accessed 07-26-2011)
Here I will at least begin in … nor for the other, but for us all. 

Here I will ...for us all.

Reject the affirmative.  Unflinching opposition is key to end anthropocentrism.  Reform will never be enough.
Best, 6 – Banned from the UK (Steven, “Rethinking Revolution: Animal Liberation, Human Liberation, and the Future of the Left” http://www.drstevebest.org/RethinkingRevolution.htm)//eek

The ALM is ... cruelties to animals.

Tournament: Golden Desert | Round: 3 | Opponent: SVDP | Judge: Vitz
We must restore expenditure to the realm of the sacred.  This operates in opposition to a restricted economy based on the tenets of utility and calculations that deprive humanity of its sovereignty.  Such an economy reduces energy to a thing so as to exercise dominion.  This denial of the animality of existence separates humanity from itself and makes life a profane denial of itself.
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)

All such expenditures – …, or continuity (Hollier 1998: 65).

This mortal anxiety establishes an ascetic hatred of the world that denies life.  The only escape is through a chaotic embrace of life.
Turlani, 3 (Aydan, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty of Letters and Sciences, Istanbul Technical University, “Nietzsche and the Later Wittgenstein: An Offense to the Quest for Another World”, The Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 26 (2003), 55-63)

The craving for ... fly-bottle" (PI §309). 

Those who cannot expend wealth are free to expend energy. Instead of desiring to obtain a small piece of wealth for ourselves, we must merely laugh.
Winnubst, 6 – Prof of Gender and Sexuality studies at Ohio State (Shannon, “Queering Freedom” Bloomington, Indiana university Press, pg. 191)eek

But if we … economy of scarcity.

The alternative is to sacrifice the 1AC.
The affirmative operates from a standpoint of reason.  This profane world of utility denies the possibility of intimate expenditure.  We must sacrifice the God of reason to restore sovereignty. In being destroyed, we render the 1AC useless, which frees us from servility to instrumental utility.
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)

The anxious desire …. of the sacred.

Tournament: Meadows | Round: 4 | Opponent: Loyola DW | Judge: Hines
Politics
A. Uniqueness: Next few months are key for broader budget reforms – bipartisan cooperation is likely but not guaranteed
Hook and Peterson, 10/16/13. Janet Hook covers Congress and politics in the Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau. Kristina Peterson covers Congress from the Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau. “Congress Passes Debt, Budget Deal.” Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303680404579139212598765046 – clawan
The House voted … the health law.
B. Links:

1. Insert Specific Link
   2. Obama’s leverage is critical to Congressional action
   Dionne, 10/17/13. Eugene Joseph "E. J." Dionne, Jr is an American journalist and political commentator, and a long-time op-ed columnist for The Washington Post. “Please, Can We Govern Now?” http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/10/17/please_can_we_govern_now_120353.html – clawan
   We should never … in American life.
   C. Impacts: 

1. We’re already on the brink after these last talks – another round would devastate the global economy
   Hormats, 10/17/13. Robert D. "Bob" Hormats was sworn in as Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment on September 23, 2009. Hormats was formerly Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1982. “The Fire Next Time: Why another debt crisis would be a national security disaster.” http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/10/17/the_fire_next_time – clawan
   Those who see … would surely linger.
   2. The impact is global nuclear war
   Freidberg and Schonfeld, 8 -~-- *Professor of Politics and IR at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School, AND senior editor of Commentary and a visiting scholar at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton (10/21/2008, Aaron and Gabriel, “The Dangers of a Diminished America”, Wall Street Journal, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122455074012352571.html?mod=googlenews_wsj)

With the global …continued American leadership.

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 3 | Opponent: Stratford OS | Judge: Wayne Tang
Economic engagement is part of the West’s adventure to carnivalize the world. This globalization of values is the right everything has to its own place in the museum. In attempting to export its culture everywhere the West has exhausted its own culture; in an attempt to restore it the West clothes itself in the cultures it has already converted. This is the farce of modernity that cryogenizes all culture and forces us to realize culture no longer exists.
Baudrillard 6 (Jean Baudrillard; Cannibal and Carnival: The Play of Global Antagonism; Seagull Books; 3-10; September 2006)eek

WE MAY START OUT ... cheap finery of all cultures.

Burn it down!!! Just kidding, but refuse everything on the grounds of nothing.  Refuse the assimilation of the aff with an illogical no.  This rejection forces the West to realize its own in adequacy and collapse.
Baudrillard, 6 (Jean, “THE PYRES OF AUTUMN”, January-February 2006, New Left Review. Vol. 37)eek

Fifteen hundred cars burned ... is nowhere in sight.

Tournament: Berkeley | Round: Octas | Opponent: Pine Crest LM | Judge: Chris Randall Toby Whisenhunt Thomas Hodgeman
Mestiza consciousness only pretends to avoid a unity of identity but it imposes intersectionality as a new form of unified identity.  This singular method of knowing identity and autonomy denies the multiplicity of ways people can come to know themselves outside of intersectionality – excluding and divesting of agency those individuals.
Denbow, 10 – Ph.D., Jurisprudence and Social PolicyUC Berkeley (Jennifer, “Reproducing Autonomy,” Fall, Peer-Reviewed Dissertation)eek

Without relying on ... constrain autonomy.

Mestiza consciousness entrenches geographical privilege by analyzing from the perspective of the American side of the border.  Their method conflates culture with identity by failing to realize the privilege of Americans over Mexicans of the same culture.
Feghali, 11 (Zalfa, “Re-articulating the New Mestiza,” March, Journal of International Women’s Studies, Volume 12, http://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1107andcontext=jiws)//eek

Another critique and  ... is writing against.

Their affirmation of the borderlands and mestizo consciousness reflect a racist ordering of the world – uniquely turns case and undermines the mestizo consciousness
Feghali 11 (Zalfa, PhD candidate in American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham, “Re-articulating the New Mestiza”, http://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1107andcontext=jiws)rkezios)
Anzaldúa?s formulation of ... of Anzaldúa?s analysis.

Their analysis of the borderlands is flawed – conflation of identity and culture and failure to acknowledge priviledge
Feghali 11 (Zalfa, PhD candidate in American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham, “Re-articulating the New Mestiza”, http://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1107andcontext=jiws)rkezios)
Another critique and ... and psychic borders.

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Heritage Hall CC | Judge: Sheaff, Simon
Food

Cuba doesn’t have an ethanol industry
Specht 4/24 (Jonathan, professor at the University of California at Davis, Raising Cane: Cuban Sugarcane ¶ Ethanol’s Economic and Environmental ¶ Effects on the United States, http://environs.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/36/2/specht.pdf, pg.172-173)

To speak of a Cuban … ethanol industry from sugarcane.”  

No Cuban ethanol – not enough sugar and Castro says no
Sanchez ’11 Adriana E. Sanchez, NotiEn, News Agency, 2011, “Biofuels Fighting for Space in Central America and Cuba,” http://repository.unm.edu/bitstream/handle/1928/12797/Biofuels20Fighting20for20Space20in20Central20America20and20Cuba.pdf?sequence=1

Similar to Central America, Cuba’s … Policy at the University of Miami.

embargo is not enough to solve Cuban ethanol industry
Specht,  04/24/2013 (Jonathan Specht, “Raising Cane: Cuban Sugarcane Ethanol’s Economic and Environmental Effects on the United States”, University of California, http://environs.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/36/2/specht.pdf)

The ideal domestic policy … a sugarcane-based ethanol industry.

Even if they create an industry Brazilian investment solves without the US
Israel 12 (Esteban, Reuters Correspondent to Brazil, “Brazil to breathe life into faded Cuban sugar sector,” Reuters, 1-30-12, http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/30/brazil-cuba-sugar-idAFL2E8CUA7620120130)

SAO PAULO, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Brazilian builder Odebrecht plans to produce … Braziland#39;s foreign ministry told Reuters. 

Warming
Cuban ethanol solves close to 0 of warming
Specht, 13 – Legal Advisor, Pearlmaker Holsteins, Inc., B.A., LSU (Jonathan, “Raising Cane: Cuban Sugarcane Ethanol’s Economic and Environmental Effects on the United States”, UC Davis, 4-24-13, http://environs.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/36/2/specht.pdf)//NG

It must be stressed that …the solution to both problems. 

Turn – Ethanol increases the risk of global warming- studies prove
Mendonça, 2009 (Maria Luisa Mendonça, researcher of the University of Sao Paulo , “Impacts of Expansion of Sugarcane Monocropping for Ethanol Production”, Land Research Action Network, 01/27/2009, http://www.landaction.org/spip.php?article380)

Brazil is the fourth country … dependence on big multinational companies.”7

Prices will stay high in the sqo
*Iraq, Conflict, Demand, Decreasing Capacity, Lagging Investment, Dollar Deflation, Weather, and Predictions
Schoen, 13 – NBC Economics Reporter (John, “What’s pushing oil prices higher?”, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/13862677/ns/business-answer_desk/t/whats-pushing-oil-prices-higher/#.UjKeLmTwKNw)//eek

The Iraq war has certainly … be amplified as speculators bail out.

Independently of supply, Saudi Arabi would flood the market in response to the plan
Hulbert, 12 – European Energy Review Analyst (Matthew, Senior Research Fellow, Netherlands Institute for International Relations; Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Security Studies, “OPEC’s pending Bloodbath,” June 10th, 2012, http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewhulbert/2012/06/10/opecs-pending-bloodbath/)
That’s unlikely to happen, precisely because … keep pricing itself out of existence.

Oil prices key to the Russian economy
Schuman 12 (Michael, Asia and Economics Correspondent – TIME, B.A. in Asian History and Political Science – University of Pennsylvania, M.A. in International Affairs – Columbia University, “Why Vladimir Putin Needs Higher Oil Prices”, Time, 7-5, http://business.time.com/2012/07/05/why-vladimir-putin-needs-higher-oil-prices/, Deech)

But Vladimir Putin is not one … to firm up his popularity.

Russian economic decline causes nuclear war
Filger 9 (Sheldon, Correspondent – Huffington Post, “Russian Economy Faces Disastrous Free Fall Contraction”, http://www.globaleconomiccrisis.com/blog/archives/356)

In Russia, historically, economic health … is its least dangerous consequence.

Ethanol doesn’t solve and results in net more warming – massive inefficiencies.
Dunning ’07 (Brian, writer for Skeptoid – an award-winning weekly science podcast.  “Ethanol: Miracle Fuel, or Not?” http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4051 June 25, 2007) BSH 

Thereand#39;s a tendency when … as you would on gasoline.

Solvency

The plan doesn’t increase trade with Cuba –Vanick and trade agreement
Anya Landau French ‘9, Director for the U.S.-Cuba Policy Initiative at the New America Foundation “Options for Engagement A Resource Guide for Reforming U.S. Policy toward Cuba, April, accessed 6-25-2013, http://www.lexingtoninstitute.org/library/ resources/documents/Cuba/USPolicy/options-for-engagement.pdf, JTJEDI

If the United States … adopt statutory and regulatory changes.

War

War is likely
Miller, assistant professor of international security studies – National Defense University, 12/16/’11
(Paul, http://shadow.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/12/16/how_dangerous_is_the_world_part_ii)

Some scholars are unimpressed with … dangerous feature of world politics.

Can’t predict blanket peace
Donald Kagan 99, Professor of Classics and History at Yale, “Is Major War Obsolete? An Exchange”, Survival, Volume 41, Number 2, Summer 1999, pp. 139-152

But I would go further … especially by the US, to keep it at bay.

Tournament: Berkeley | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Damien ML | Judge: Rubaie, Cottrell, Hernandez
Their 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 not a critical one:

 is in fact a foreshadowing of 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 domain, a single form predominates: 

it must be possible to extract them, one by one, from discourse.

Their 1AC 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; “A Hacker Manifesto,” Harvard University Press, paragraph 24-47)eek

Information, like land or capital, becomes a form of property monopolized by a class, 

The potential of a class-divided world to produce its own overcoming comes not a moment too soon. 

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 everywhere, death springs up everywhere again

, just as money reaches the point of no return when it is nothing more than a system of writing

There is no such thing as “proof” – your appeal to objectivity is ideology. Even if your math checks out, no one else could ever make sense of it – even proof is insular
The Ideal Mathematician, 81 (“The Ideal Mathematician”, published in The Mathematical Experience by Phillip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh, http://www.cs.ru.nl/~freek/books/idealmathematician.sat)

Let's see how our ideal mathematician made out with a student who came to him with a strange question. _

 There is no way we could convince a self-confi- dent skeptic that the things we are talking about make sense, let alone `exist.'

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 5 | Opponent: Westminster DL | Judge:
Economic Growth is unsustainable
Trainer 9 (Ted, Faculty of Arts, University of N.S.W., “WE MUST MOVE TO THE  SIMPLER WAY: AN OUTLINE OF THE GLOBAL SITUATION, THE SUSTAINABLE ALTERNATIVE SOCIETY, AND THE TRANSITION TO IT.”, April 29, http://ssis.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/TSWmain.html)

The most serious ... level is unsustainable.

Only dedeveloping prevents extinction
Barry 8 (Dr. Glen, president and founder of Ecological Internet, “Economic Collapse and Global Ecology”, 1/14, Counter Currents, http://www.countercurrents.org/barry140108.htm)

Humanity and the ... industrial economy now.

Decline is peaceful – economic collapse does not lead to war.
Deudney 91 – Hewlett Fellow in Science, Technology, and Society at the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies at Princeton
(Daniel, “Environment and Security: Muddled Thinking”, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, p. 27)

Poverty Wars. In ... and surplus wealth.

Tournament: USC RR | Round: 3 | Opponent: Damien | Judge: McBride and Crowe
Your conception of death presupposes a transcendental emphasis on the vertical hierarchy which establishes individual beings, calling this life. But there is always a horizontal dissolution all boundaries in a positive and immanent complexity. From this perspective, death is nothing more than the abolition of stop signs in an infinite traffic of intensities. All of life is a vertical mirage, a fiction intimately bound to the death immanent to it.
Land, 92 (The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism, Routledge University Press, NY, 1992, p. 173-174) Lecturer in Continental Philosophy at the University of Warwick

General economy is ... solar dreams V 186.

The idea that only organic matter can have value and life is an unfounded and viviocentric assumption.  All matter is a form of non-organic life, which is just as valuable.  The imposition of definitions of life based on biology and subjectivity constrain the value and creativity of non-organic life.
De Landa, 96 (Manuel, Interviewed by Konrad Becker and Miss M. “An Interview with Manuel de Landa,“ 1996, VirtualFeatures)eek

Philosophically, it is ... all to itself.

Tournament: Alta | Round: 7 | Opponent: CPS AG | Judge: Montrieul
The affirmative’s flashback to remember the suffering of the border is rooted in an ascetic ideal that hides suffering with an over proliferation of jouissance, creating charred figures where we feel alive but we are not—we are simply “undead”
Zupancic ‘3 (Alenka Zupancic, “The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Two,” 47-49)gingE

It might seem ...them with enjoyment.

The alternative is to forget the pain of the 1AC—embracing oblivion is key to breaking away from these memories that allows us to resurrect ourselves from the inaction the aff creates
Zupancic ‘3 (Alenka Zupancic, “The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Two,” 47-49)gingE

This is perhaps ... by invincible horror.23

Tournament: Meadows | Round: 5 | Opponent: Josh Reisman | Judge: Juan Diego CC
Text: Israel should eliminate its nuclear arsenal and sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Solves prolif and a new Middle East arms race
Deen, Thalif ‘10, UN Bureau Chief and IPS Regional Director. "Israel, Iran Targeted at Nuke Non-Proliferation Meet." ISP (2010): n. pag. Web. 16 Jul 2010. http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51300. CJ

As the only ... nuclear weapons programme".

Tournament: Alta | Round: 7 | Opponent: CPS AG | Judge: Montrieul
The American culture machine has whitewashed the alterity of the Mexican other. While the border cities may appear to be the worst examples of this murder of authenticity. We hold them up and pretend that the damage is isolated to specific regions or cities. However, the American farce has now expanded to all of Mexico. The image of an authentic Mexico is produced in order to feed the tourist industry.
Stolk, 4 (Hanneke, “‘This is not Mexico’: This is the Border”, 17-1-2, Ethnofoor XVII (1/2), pg. 227-242)

Baudrillard discussed 'bubbles ... to promote tourism. 

Their heterotopia of fluidity between the border produces a metanarrative of free trade and consumerism.  Moreover, their historical interpretation is an out of context selection of facts that reinforces this metanarrative.  It is this disneyification of Mexican culture that rips everything out of context and is a worse form of imperialism.
Bruchansky, 10 – Ph.D. in Semiotics at the University of Siena (Christophe, “The Heterotopia of Disney World,” Philosophy Now 77:15-17, http://philosophynow.org/issues/77/The_Heterotopia_of_Disney_World)//eek

The concept of heterotopia ... not a heterotopia?

Tournament: Golden Desert | Round: 6 | Opponent: Green Valley BH | Judge: Roman Kezios
You are negation of negation—the only end point to that form of affirmation is a limit of the reaction to negation’s radicality. You are reactive affirmation, affirmation in reaction to the suffering outlined by the 1AC that culminates in passive nihilism. Our alternative is to embrace an affirmation of your affirmation—only then can we endorse an affirmation of being, not a function of being
Zupancic ‘3 (Alenka Zupancic, “The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Two”)gingE

To put it differently: … difference of the same.

Tournament: St Marx | Round: 2 | Opponent: Cypress Bay CG | Judge:
Despite their claim of “new aff,” it’s not new because of Eternal Recurrence
Owen ’95 (David Owen 1995 "Nietzsche, Politics and Modernity, p. 112-5)JL

This passage is  ... diet, dear friends ...').

That’s a voting issue for false disclosure—punishment paradigm is best

Tournament: Blake | Round: 7 | Opponent: SF Roosevelt KM | Judge:
Despite their claim of “new aff,” it’s not new because of Eternal Recurrence
Owen ’95 (David Owen 1995 "Nietzsche, Politics and Modernity, p. 112-5)JL

This passage is ... diet, dear friends ...').

That’s a voting issue for false disclosure—punishment paradigm is best

Tournament: USC RR | Round: 3 | Opponent: Damien | Judge: McBride and Crowe
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)

The "problem of ... 288-89, 303-4).

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 5 | Opponent: Westminster DL | Judge:
Our interpretation is the 1AC must be presented as a shared discussion, not an owned object.

Before they get to weigh “their” 1AC they need to justify that the advocacy is theirs. 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)

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Heritage Hall CC | Judge: Sheaff, Simon
A) Framework
The psyche exists and comes first – it shapes our understanding of the world – everything depends on it
Jung 57 (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 … observed every day and can happen to everyone.

B) Link
Their drive for normalcy, freedom and fixes to the world’s problems splits the psyche and pathologizes all that we associate as not valuable
Thomas Moore in 1990 (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, …in our symptoms is our soul. 

C) Impacts
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. … Kant’s struggle with the sublime.

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Heritage Hall CC | Judge: Sheaff, Simon
Text: The United States federal government should substantially increase investment in ocean fertilization to reduce global warming.
Ocean fertilization solves Warming
Parry, 7/18 – LiveScience senior staff writer (Wynne, July 18, 2012, “Could Fertilizing the Oceans Reduce Global Warming?,” http://www.livescience.com/21684-geoengineering-iron-fertilization-climate.html, Hensel)
Some hope fertilizing tiny, floating plants …sank below, 3,280 feet (1,000 m).

Tournament: Notre Dame | Round: 6 | Opponent: West WH | Judge: Christian Ortegas
They are monkeys, which wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t want to be humans.  
Kafka, 17 – Witty Bio (Franz, “A Report to the Academy,” 1917)eek

Honored members of ... made a report.

Tournament: Golden Desert | Round: 6 | Opponent: Green Valley BH | Judge: Roman Kezios
You aren't laughing hard enough.
Land, 92 – Lecturer in Continental Philosophy at the University of Warwick (The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism, Routledge University Press, NY, 1992, preface)eek

It is a mere … not to understand.

Tournament: Berkeley | Round: 1 | Opponent: St Marks JM | Judge:
We begin with a quote from Max Nordau:
“The idea that to-morrow morning at half-past seven o’clock a monstrous, unsuspected event will suddenly take place; that on Thursday next a complete revolution will be accomplished at a single blow, that a revelation, a redemption, the advent of a new age, is imminent—this is frequently observed among the insane; it is a mystic delirium.”

The affirmative endorses the utopianism of modernity, a project not of the present but of the future a linear drive toward, or rather, away from a the far off titillation of the eschatological orgasm, which we will never notice reaching.  Until we answer the question what to do after orgy?” we will be doomed to repetition of an endless hangover of a party we never got to.  The only alternative is to build a new politics not out of but against this culture of exhaustion.
Pettman, 2 (Dominic, “After the Orgy: towards a politics of exhaustion”, STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, pg. ix-xii)eek

We currently find …. of libidinal millenarianism.

Tournament: Meadows | Round: 1 | Opponent: Damien SL | Judge: Saxe
Multilat Bad
The world is moving to pluralism, not multipolarity – the US can still maintain unipolar leadership because most challengers are regional
Etzioni, 13 - served as a senior advisor to the Carter White House; taught at Columbia University, Harvard University and The University of California at Berkeley; and is currently a university professor and professor of international relations at The George Washington University (Amitai, “The Devolution of American Power” 37 Fletcher F. World Aff. 13, lexis)
The theory that … principle strengths of
Unilateralism is what sustains primacy – other states bandwagon with the US for fear of other rising powers.  Moving towards multilateralism makes it unsustainable
Seldena, 13 – assistant professor of political science at the University of Florida (Zachary, “Balancing Against or Balancing With? The Spectrum of Alignment and the Endurance of American Hegemony” Security Studies Volume 22, Issue 2, 2013, Taylor and Francis)

Understanding which of … its national interests.

Unilateralism and heg solve war – best, recent evidence proves
Brooks et al 13 Stephen G. Brooks is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College.G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is also a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University.William C. Wohlforth is the Daniel Webster Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. “Don't Come Home, America: The Case against Retrenchment”, Winter 2013, Vol. 37, No. 3, Pages 7-51,http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00107, GDI File

A core premise … great power war)

Tournament: USC RR | Round: 5 | Opponent: Loyola AC | Judge: Gannon and Beirer
All we do in debate is construct idols, we describe imaginary problems to solve, and we convince ourselves that what we do here is important. We serve ideologies, and paint pictures of the most absurd atrocities, we fight little battles on our virtual academic battlefield, we affirm, and affirm, and affirm, but the SQ remains. Our affirmations give us a glimpse of heaven and a world beyond, we assign rounds meaning and purpose, but the time has come to practice a philosophy of a hammer, as a great 19th century philosopher once described, Idols must be smashed! The affirmative ideological edifice must crumble to dust! We must stand for the work of the negative and negate all affirmations. 

1. Negation is necessary to the love of life, we say no to all affirmations, this is the only way for us to radically embrace the world as is.
   Nietzsche 1888, "Ecce Homo" the psychological problem…Yes and Amen"

But that is ... Dionysos once more.

2. We must resist our desire to "be something" or heroically make a new world, vote negative, yes the world is chaotic and impossible and messed up, and it will never live up to our heroic imagination of it, its ok, we have to accept the ugliness in the world, don’t affirm, negate.
Ruth Helyer 1999 "Refuse Heaped Many Stories High': DeLillo, Dirt, and Disorder: the Modern Fiction Studies 45.3 1003-1004 

Underworld displays the  ... vulnerable and exposed.

3. The affirmative strives for a world that is not this world: they fall into the usual metaphysical trap, craving the better world results in the hatred of this one, only by embracing life "such as it is" rather "as it should be" is the only way to come to terms with this.
Aydan Turanli 2003, "Nietzche and the Later Wittgenstein: An Offense to the Quest for another world" The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 26 (2003) 55-63
61-62 )

The craving for ... fly-bottle" (PI §309).

Before our opponents can weigh the particular merits of their aff they must justify the practice of affirmation itself. The question of whether or not we should affirm or negate is the primary question. The decision of whether one should vote at all comes before deciding what candidate one should vote for. The same goes here, we pose the questions: should we affirm or negate, and this too is primary concern and is our framework for the debate.

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 3 | Opponent: Stratford OS | Judge: Wayne Tang
Prices will stay high in the sqo
*Iraq, Conflict, Demand, Decreasing Capacity, Lagging Investment, Dollar Deflation, Weather, and Predictions
Schoen, 13 – NBC Economics Reporter (John, “What’s pushing oil prices higher?”, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/13862677/ns/business-answer_desk/t/whats-pushing-oil-prices-higher/#.UjKeLmTwKNw)//eek

The Iraq war has ...as speculators bail out.

Independently of supply, Saudi Arabi would flood the market in response to the plan
Hulbert, 12 – European Energy Review Analyst (Matthew, Senior Research Fellow, Netherlands Institute for International Relations; Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Security Studies, “OPEC’s pending Bloodbath,” June 10th, 2012, http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewhulbert/2012/06/10/opecs-pending-bloodbath/)

That’s unlikely to happen ... itself out of existence.

Oil prices key to the Russian economy
Schuman 12 (Michael, Asia and Economics Correspondent – TIME, B.A. in Asian History and Political Science – University of Pennsylvania, M.A. in International Affairs – Columbia University, “Why Vladimir Putin Needs Higher Oil Prices”, Time, 7-5, http://business.time.com/2012/07/05/why-vladimir-putin-needs-higher-oil-prices/, Deech)

But Vladimir Putin ... up his popularity.

Russian economic decline causes nuclear war
Filger 9 (Sheldon, Correspondent – Huffington Post, “Russian Economy Faces Disastrous Free Fall Contraction”, http://www.globaleconomiccrisis.com/blog/archives/356)

In Russia, historically, economic ...least dangerous consequence.

Tournament: NDCA | Round: 3 | Opponent: Bishop Guertin DI | Judge: Henry Reed
Their performance was one that narrated and explained its object; the 1AC is an attempt to define a problem and a solution. Our 1NC was a serious parody of their meaning. We narrated but without referring to the object of our parody. We happen alongside our object without trying to become it. Parody is the only good relationship to the mysteriousness of meaning because only parody does not attempt to define mystery.
Agamben 7 (Giorgio Agamben; Profanations; Zone Books; pg. 40-41)

The concept of ... very form of mystery. 

There is no object to our criticism.  We revel in sharpening our knives of nihilism on the simulated body of the political while traditional politics merely attempt to cut something that isn’t there.
Agamben, 93 – A-GAM-BAN (Giorgio Agamben; Stanzas: Word and Phantasm in Western Culture; Translated by R.L. Martinez)eek

It is possible, perhaps, ... of its inaccessibility.

Our strategy is De?tournement.  It is a rejection of spectacle in both form and content.  We use spectacle’s language against spectacle itself through a negation of society that mutates current politics through the injection of uncertainty.
Debord, 67 – founding member of the situationist international (Guy, “The Society of the Spectacle,” Rebel Press, pgs. 70-81)eek

203 The critical concept ... unified social practice.

The image of Power is the Power of the Image. While meaning is always unhappy and hopeless, we can affirm the poetic play of language as a happy form and an intelligence without hope. Affirmation of the illusions generated by felicitous language is the only internal link to politics
Baudrillard, 96 (Jean, The Perfect Crime, Verso, pg. 102-104)eek

It is not a question ... cannot be resolved.

Extinction – The desire to make everything signify is the logic of unlimited growth and consumption. Attempts to overproduce meaning are the same that over produce greenhouse gasses and over consume natural resouces.
Baudrillard 6 (Jean Baudrillard; Cannibal and Carnival: Ventriloquous Evil; Seagull Books; 70-71; September 2006)

IN THE PROMETHIAN ... our symbolic space.

Meaning – They over proliferate meaning. The attempt to define their object is an attempt to make everything mean something and when everything is meaningful nothing is meaningful.
Baudrillard 9 (Jean Baudrillard; “The Transparency of Evil”; wxy.seu.edu.cn/humanities/sociology/.../20110608125329259.pdf?) 

The law that ... transsexual, the transaesthetic.

Tournament: USC RR | Round: 4 | Opponent: Loyola AC | Judge: Tony Johnson and Nate Wong
Text:
The Executive branch of the United States should grant public interest parole and an employment authorization document to low-skilled laborers who perform agricultural work in the United States who qualify for employment based visas. The Executive branch should grant parole status for people granted parole under this category indefinitely.

The president can grant parole and work authorization on “public interest” grounds- is just as attractive as visas
Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta- J.D., University of Houston and Columbia- 2009, The Path Less Taken: Is There An Alternative To Waiting For Comprehensive Immigration Reform?,  http://www.ilw.com/articles/2009,0225-endelman.shtm#bio
Dinesh Shenoy made ... any non-citizen.12

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Heritage Hall CC | Judge: Sheaff, Simon
Ptx
A. Uniqueness: Obama has the upper hand on debt limit now but GOP demands could create a complicated battle
Kapur, 9/9 -~-- TPM’s senior congressional reporter and Supreme Court correspondent
(9/9/2013, Sahil, “Is House GOP Backing Down In Debt Limit Fight?” http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/09/house-gop-cantor-memo-debt-ceiling-cr-sequester-immigration.php)

House Republicans are taming …-2008 level of discretionary spending.”

B. Links:
Drains capital – Backlash and hostage-taking on unrelated priority legislation is empirically proven – Cuba policy is totally unique
LeoGrande, 12
William M. LeoGrande School of Public Affairs American University, Professor of Government and a specialist in Latin American politics and U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America, Professor LeoGrande has been a frequent adviser to government and private sector agencies, 12/18/12, http://www.american.edu/clals/upload/LeoGrande-Fresh-Start.pdf

The Second Obama Administration Where … forces policymakers to take action.

1. Insert Specific Link
   2. Political capital is finite – the plan would tradeoff with economic priorities  
   Moore, 9/10 -~-- Guardianand#39;s US finance and economics editor
   (Heidi, 9/10/2013, “Syria: the great distraction; Obama is focused on a conflict abroad, but the fight he should be gearing up for is with Congress on Americaand#39;s economic security,” http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/10/obama-syria-what-about-sequester)

Before President Obama speaks to … should now judge his actions better.

C. Impacts:
a. Debt crisis causes food price spikes (and global economic collapse)
Min ‘10 – (David, Associate Director for Financial Policy – Center for American Progress, and#34;The Big Freezeand#34;, 10-28, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/10/big_freeze.html)

A freeze on the debt … even a global economic depression.
b. Nuclear war
Andrew McKillop, former chief policy analyst @ European Commission, 8-4-2011, “The Food Crisis War Endgame,” Market Oracle, http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article29666.html
We know all to well that and#34;food …: FoodWar 2 has gone critical.

D) The alternative is to love what the Aff hates.
This means entering into the pathologies of the affirmative. We acknowledge the harms of the 1AC, but not as psychologically wrong and inherently bad. We recognize that the psyche has a hand in everything and we love what the psyche presents.
Hillman 96 (James Hillman, retired Director of the Jung Institute, “The Soul’s Code”, Warner Books, pg 33-35)

Each biographical exemplifies in … least a symptom of calling.

Tournament: Blake | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Centennial KK | Judge:
The aff’s allowance of difference is the same logic that causes the discrimination they seek to defeat.  This allows that discrimination to attach it to that same signifier of difference and repeat itself.
Baudrillard, 93 - just anOTHER author (Jean, “The Transparency of Evil”, p. 128-132)eek

Sermonizing on the ... spells only annihilation.

Our alternative is radical alterity.  Instead of trying to reconcile otherness we should recognize the Other as totally incomprehensible.  This is the only way to truly combat the viral oppression the aff seeks to defeat.
Baudrillard, 93 - just anOTHER author (Jean, “The Transparency of Evil”, p. 128-132)eek

The very scale ... of eternal contrasts?

Tournament: Copper Classic | Round: 4 | Opponent: West HW | Judge: Kinsee Gaither
The focus on far away violence obscures the connections that we can resolve within our own subject position and leads not only to inaction but to participation within the very structures we criticize.  They are too afraid of backlash to challenge the real issues so they must always imagine real politics as a far off venture that happens elsewhere.  True activists focus on the violence in front of them.
Garrett, 12 (Matthew, “The Romance of Real Politics,” teaches English and American studies at Wesleyan University, Volume 64, Number 4, December 2012)eek

Putting aside for …. authenticity—is illusion.

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 3 | Opponent: Stratford OS | Judge: Wayne Tang
Text: The United States Senate should ratify the Rome Statute.
The CP avoids politics and has multiple internal links to solve multilateralism
Bracknell, 11 – Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council (Butch, “The U.S. and the International Criminal Court: An unfinished debate”, May 26, 2011, http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/26/opinion/la-oe-bracknell-icc-20110526)//eek

The National Security Strategy ... except when it is not.

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 5 | Opponent: Westminster DL | Judge:
Text: The United States federal government should substantially increase its investment in creating Saltar Sinks via the Vidal evidence. 

CP solves the case
Vidal 12 John. “The man who would stop hurricanes with car tyres” The Observer. November 3, 2012. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/nov/04/stephen-salter-tyre-hurricane-sandy

Devastating tropical storms ... develop and pass.

Tournament: USC RR | Round: 3 | Opponent: Damien | Judge: McBride and Crowe
Vote neg on presumption – all meaning is self referential
Luhmann, 96 (Niklas, “Social Systems,” Stanford University Press, pg. 60)eek

Like the problem ... of being conditioned.

Tournament: Copper Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Juan Diego LZ | Judge: Melissa
Their use of politics is rooted in a frame of literal affirmation¬
Edelman ’98 (Lee Edelman, Professor of English at Tufts University “The Future Is Kid Stuff: Queer Theory, Disidentification, and the Death Drive”¶ Source: Narrative, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Jan., 1998), pp. 18-30 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20107133)//JL
But what helps ...framework that compulsively.

Their affirmation necessitates opposition to what we call the sinthomosexual—that just results in more violence because the sinthomosexual embodies negation and is oppositional to all affirmation
Stavrakakis ’99 (Yannis Stavrakakis, PhD, “Lacan and the Political” in 1999)JL
What is this ... nexus producing reality.

The aff’s orientation towards the future is meant to preserve the future for the child that necessitates the exclusion and extermination of those who cannot or will not reproduce in traditional means
Edelman ‘4 (Lee Edelman, Professor of English at Tufts University in 2004, “No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive”)JL
Bound up with ... future-negating queer.

Tournament: NDCA | Round: 1 | Opponent: GBS CK | Judge: D Heidt
Globalization Link
Kellner ‘4 (Douglas, “Media Culture and the Triumph of the Spectacle,” Razón y Palabra, Número 39, Abril/Mayo, 2004, http://www.razonypalabra.org.mx/anteriores/n39/dkelner.html)

Since Debord's theorization ... the global marketplace.

This capitalistic monopoly colonizes value and identity through abstraction of all parts of society into image.  People become valuable based purely on their image.  However, spectacular capitalism is more insidious than the previous stage of capitalism because the proletariat is extend to include all lives and all parts of life as increasingly more things are able to be utilized to strive toward the representation of bourgeoisie perfection.
Debord, 67 – founding member of the situationist international (Guy, “The Society of the Spectacle,” Rebel Press, pgs. 5-7)eek

16 The spectacle is ... it becomes images.

Insert Wordplay

Our strategy is De?tournement.  It is a rejection of spectacle in both form and content.  We use spectacle’s language against spectacle itself through a negation of society that mutates current politics through the injection of uncertainty.
Debord, 67 – founding member of the situationist international (Guy, “The Society of the Spectacle,” Rebel Press, pgs. 70-81)eek

203 The critical concept ... unified social practice.

Tournament: NDCA | Round: 1 | Opponent: GBS CK | Judge: D Heidt
Globalization Link
Kellner ‘4 (Douglas, “Media Culture and the Triumph of the Spectacle,” Razón y Palabra, Número 39, Abril/Mayo, 2004, http://www.razonypalabra.org.mx/anteriores/n39/dkelner.html)

Since Debord's theorization ... the global marketplace.

This capitalistic monopoly colonizes value and identity through abstraction of all parts of society into image.  People become valuable based purely on their image.  However, spectacular capitalism is more insidious than the previous stage of capitalism because the proletariat is extend to include all lives and all parts of life as increasingly more things are able to be utilized to strive toward the representation of bourgeoisie perfection.
Debord, 67 – founding member of the situationist international (Guy, “The Society of the Spectacle,” Rebel Press, pgs. 5-7)eek

16 The spectacle is ... it becomes images.

Insert Wordplay

Our strategy is De?tournement.  It is a rejection of spectacle in both form and content.  We use spectacle’s language against spectacle itself through a negation of society that mutates current politics through the injection of uncertainty.
Debord, 67 – founding member of the situationist international (Guy, “The Society of the Spectacle,” Rebel Press, pgs. 70-81)eek

203 The critical concept ... unified social practice.

Tournament: USC RR | Round: 5 | Opponent: Loyola AC | Judge: Gannon and Beirer
Our interpretation is the affirmative team must defend an unidirectional affirmation of the resolution.

Standards –
a. switch side debate—a forum of discussion that facilitates political agonism where the negative can respond to the aff is the most intellectually effective way to overcome moral hazards and make decisions--the process here is more important than the substance of their arguments.
Gutmann 96 Amy  Gutmann  , is the president of Penn and former prof @ Princeton,  AND  Dennis  Thompson  is Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy at Harvard University, Democracy and Disagreement,  1996  , pp 1  

Of the challenges ... our common ends.

The purpose of debate should be determined by the unique role this forum can play—instrumental switch side debate generates unique critical thinking benefits—err neg because the benefits of their advocacy could be achieved in alternate forums
Muir 93 Star Muir, communication studies at George Mason University, 1993, Philosophy and Rhetoric 26.4, p. 291-2
Firm moral commitment to a value system, however, along with a sense of moral identity, is founded in reflexive assessments of multiple perspectives. Switch-side debate ... tolerance and fairness.

Tournament: Blake | Round: 7 | Opponent: SF Roosevelt KM | Judge:
A. Interpretation: the affirmative team must affirm increasing engagement with one or more topic countries.

B. Violation: they merely examine. Examination does not increase or affirm.

C. Standards: 

1. Decision-Making - You doing something is the only way for us to clash and get dem decision-skills we hear so much about.
   Steinberg, lecturer of communication studies – University of Miami, and Freeley, Boston based attorney who focuses on criminal, personal injury and civil rights law, ’8
   (David L. and Austin J., Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making p. 45)

Debate is a ... the following discussion.

2. Ground - It is pretty much impossible to be negative when all you say is examine. We can't really get ground off of examine. Unless you actually defend something it is impossible for us to be negative. Also, you aren't in the direction of the topic, which makes it rough to get links.

3. Topical Version - You can do pretty much whatever you want as long as you DO SOMETHING. Just defend a method, or an ontology, or an ethic, or really anything that does anything.

Tournament: USC RR | Round: 3 | Opponent: Damien | Judge: McBride and Crowe
Their aff is nothing more than an attempt to force assimilation into Western culture by the humiliation of unilateral gift giving.  Unable to respond to this we force people to become slave-like clones of America.  This not only results in symbolic violence but also the endless intervention and government terrorism they seek to prevent.
Baudrillard, 2  - Not dead yet (Jean, “The Despair of Having Everything”, November 2002, EGS)eek 

The West's mission ... condemnation of — itself.

The underlying assumption of their entire affirmative is the right to life, to sustain existence and reason at all costs. Forced life is more violent than forced death. You should refuse their helping hand and affirm your right to death.
Baudrillard 6  - Not dead yet (Jean Baudrillard; Cannibal and Carnival: Ventriloquous Evil; Seagull Books; 63-70; September 2006)

Let us take ... Gilmote’s fantastic defence.

Burn it down!!! Just kidding, but refuse everything on the grounds of nothing.  Refuse the assimilation of the aff with an illogical no.  This rejection forces the West to realize its own in adequacy and collapse.
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 ... nowhere in sight.

Tournament: St Marx | Round: 2 | Opponent: Cypress Bay CG | Judge:
The American visa process is inherently hostile to the stranger-alien- it scrutinizes and humiliates applicants to ensure they are fit to live among us legitimizing broader biopolitical interventions
Rajan ‘8   (Rajeswari Sunder 'Response', Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 5:2, 218 – 221)

Here the concept  ... of the present.

This construction of a homogeneous social space that must be defended legitimizes whole-scale elimination of populations and global warfare to maintain the sanctity of America
Hoffmann ‘7
(Kasper, International Development Studies at Roskilde University, May, “Militarised Bodies and Spirits of Resistance”, http://diggy.ruc.dk:8080/handle/1800/2766)

In modern processes ... other inassimilable elements.

The kritik is an “interruption” into the discourse of immigration that produces violence. Your ballot can be an unconditional gesture of hospitality and is a prerequisite to solvency.
Devadas and Mummery, ‘7 (Vijay and Jane, University of Otago and University of Ballarat, “Community Without Community,” borderlands, volume 6 number 1, 2007)-mikee

2. To articulate such ... activity of community.

Tournament: Alta | Round: 1 | Opponent: Interlake | Judge: Dannielle Jennings
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

The "problem of ... of tyrant (Nietzsche 1986, pp. 137, 168; 1974, pp. 117-18, 213, 288-89, 303-4). 

The affirmative’s use of fiat to mediate images of suffering is rooted in an ascetic ideal that hides suffering with an over proliferation of jouissance, creating charred figures where we feel alive but we are not—we are simply “undead”
Zupancic ‘3 (Alenka Zupancic, “The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Two,” 47-49)gingE

It might seem ... them with enjoyment. 

Specifically, their mimetic depiction of war divorces the simulated from the real
Der Derian, 99 – Prof. of IR @ UMass, Amherst, and Brown University (James, “A Virtual Theory of Global Politics, Mimetic War and the Spectral State,” Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (American Society of International Law), Vol. 93 (MARCH 24-27, 1999), pp. 163-176, JSTOR)
 
It might seem ... strategy of deterrence."

This division of real war and simulation is the root of the genocidal mindset
Der Derian, 2k – Prof. of IR @ UMass, Amherst, and Brown University (James, “Virtuous War/Virtual Theory,” International Affairs, Vol. 76, No. 4 (Oct., 2000), pp. 771-788, JSTOR)

In a sense, war ... war games blur together.