Tournament: Nat quals | Round: 1 | Opponent: East OR | Judge: Kinsee Gaither
Death drive
We are sick unto death and the affirmative can do nothing to overcome this fact of life
Žižek ‘9 (Slavoj Žižek, researcher at the institute for sociology at Ljubljana, The Sublime Object of Ideology (Second Edition), January 5, 2009, pg. xvii-xxviii)gingE
Psychoanalytic 'essentialism' is …, this basic impossibility.
Views of death as something to be avoided at all costs renders life valueless – our drive to repress death results in incasing the body in the protective sarcophagus amounting the body to a corpse
Baudrillard ‘76 (Jean. But not like the pants. “Symbolic Exchange and Death”, pg. 177-178)gingE
Security is another … into its sarcophagus.
Gift
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 Cubans 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. In the face of this we affirm terrorism as singularity.
Baudrillard, 2 - Not dead yet (Jean, “The Despair of Having Everything”, November 2002, EGS)eek
The West's mission … condemnation of — itself.
Animal Liberation
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… anthropocentrism passes unchallenged.1
Anthropocentrism subjects animals 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 …the extermination camps..." (4)
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.
Case
Their reliance on economic rationality presupposes a neoliberal form of subjectivity that they superimpose upon the world in order to justify mass violence and homogenization. This also makes transition wars and economic collapse inevitable, as it fails to understand how the crucial problem today is one of symbolic exchange. Against this, we should withdraw from necronomics.
Bifo 11 – (Franco, “After the Future,” ed. Genesko and Thoburn, AKPress, p. 141-7)
More than ever…language and imagination.