Tournament: Nat Quals | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lone Peak BM | Judge: Melissa Weiner
1AC
Contention 1 is the embargo
The economic embargo against Cuba is rooted in acts of securitization
Sjoberg 2k (Associate Professor of Political Science and affiliate faculty in Women's Studies at the University of Florida. She has previously taught and researched at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Duke University, Boston College, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Brandeis University, and Merrimack College. She holds a Ph.D. in International Relations and Gender Studies from the University of Southern California, and a law degree from Boston College. Chair of the International Studies Association Committee on the Status of Women (Laura, TOWARDS A FEMINIST THEORY OF SANCTIONS, http://www.laurasjoberg.com/BA.pdf)//gingE
The United States’ … or biological terrorism.”44
It ultimately recreates threats and enemies, makes violence inevitable
Ruži? ‘13 (Researcher and author for the Central and Eastern European Online Library (Maja, Securitization Outside the Liberal Political Context: Did Cuba Matter in the Cuban Missile Crisis?, http://www.sintezis.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Securitization-Outside-the-Liberal-Context.pdf)//gingE
After 1990s the …of emergency measures.
Security politics destroys value to life, reducing all living things to units of calculation.
Dillon 96 Michael, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Lancaster, Politics of Security: Towards a Political Philosophy of Continental Thought, p. 26
Everything, for example, …details have changed.
The embargo exemplifies a state of exception—justified the acquisition of nuclear missiles
Ruži? ‘13 (Researcher and author for the Central and Eastern European Online Library (Maja, Securitization Outside the Liberal Political Context: Did Cuba Matter in the Cuban Missile Crisis?, http://www.sintezis.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Securitization-Outside-the-Liberal-Context.pdf)//gingE
The Cuban Missile … a successful securitization.
The biopolitical determination of the threshold beyond which life ceases to have juridical value creates the category of a “life devoid of value” which spills over to the biological body of every living being and nullifies value to death
Agamben ‘98 (Professor of philosophy at university of Verona (Giorgio, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, pg. 139-140)gingE
It is not … every living being.
The impact is the sovereign’s ability to exploit fundamental flaws in the legal system and continue the global biopolitical war – the ballot should side with the global countermovement against such violence – refuse the line
Gulli ‘13 (Professor of history, philosophy, and political science at Kingsborough College in New York, (Bruno, “For the critique of sovereignty and violence,” http://academia.edu/2527260/For_the_Critique_of_Sovereignty_and_Violence, pg. 1)gingE
We live in … and police brutality¶
Contention 2 is you gotta play with it
The United States Federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement towards Cuba by lifting the embargo
A refusal to use the state makes it sacred
Agamben 7 (Giorgio Agamben; Profanations; Zone Books; pg. 73-74)
The Roman jurists …separated and petrified.
We use the state towards its own end
Agamben 7 (Giorgio Agamben; Profanations; Zone Books; pg. 75-76)
The passage from … a new happiness.
We need to transcend rules to play with the state—detaches humanity from the sacred
Dragona ‘8 (PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Communication and Mass Media at University Of Athens, Freelance media arts curator (Daphne, “WhoDaresToDe-sacraliseTodaySPlay,” Personal Cinema, Page Last Modified 24 April 2008, http://www.personalcinema.org/warport/index.php?n=Main.WhoDaresToDe-sacraliseTodaySPlay?)//gingE
Giorgio Agamben considers … wait and see…
To Kritik first requires that we separate ourselves from the political through play—oh and war and serial policy failure
Agamben ‘7 (On Agamben Sovereignty and Life: stanford university press stanford, california 2007 Giorgio Agamben teaches philosophy at the University of Verona, and has also taught at the University of Haute-Bretagne, Rennes (1970 to 1973); the University of Siena (1982))gingE
The contrast is …