Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: Liberty CS | Judge: Bellon
We begin with the story of the wolf as told by Georgio Agamben in Homo Sacer====

"The entire character of homo sacer shows that it was not¶ born on

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the wolf-man of man, dwells permanently¶ in the city.

The often violent disposition of humans towards other animals makes the position of the wolf unsettling.

The Authorization of Military Force Against the "enemy" signed into law on September 14^th 2001 granted the President of the United States war powers to target and kill anyone they deem a terrorist.  The law "designated terrorists … because of their status as enemy belligerents. That status is determined solely by the President~, making it~ … wholly permissible to inflict "death on enemy personnel irrespective of the actual risk they present" (Maxwell 12).  Like the wolf, these enemies fall under the mercy of the panoptic eye of the sovereign that has become increasingly all-knowing through its use of drone strikes.  Once rendered wolf "the enemy is declared hostile … ~and~ is now targetable" (Maxwell 12).  These drone strikes are held is a space that is both public and classified in order to conceal the violence it takes to uphold sovereignty.

The Obama administration is maintaining this sovereignty over targeted killings through the "Glomar" response

Kravets’13 (David, ~senior writer for Wired.Com~, "CIA Refuses to Acknowledge Drone Targeted Killings",http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/drone-targeted-killings/-http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/drone-targeted-killings/),pg

The CIA is sticking with a so-called "Glomar" response, refusing

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, stating that "this success is a tribute to our intelligence community."

The new biopolitical order administers life through political technology, like the drone, culminating in history’s bloodiest wars and exposing whole populations to death.

Bernauer 90 (James, Professor of Philosophy, Boston College, Michel Foucault’s Force of Flight, 1990, p. 141-142)

This capacity of power to conceal itself cannot cloak the tragedy of the implications contained

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us by the noose that has tightened around each of our own necks.

Advocacy

Phil and I affirm the topical targeted, "Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase statutory and/or judicial restrictions on the war powers authority of the President of the United States in one or more of the following areas: targeted killing; indefinite detention; offensive cyber operations; or introducing United States Armed Forces into hostilities," by reversing the see-er/seen binary of targeted killing.

Drone Culture

Endless war is waged from a chair and a screen, playing out games of life and death thousands of miles away. The technology of Targeted Killings reflect the technocratic imperial mindset that flattens the world into a plane policed by the always watching panoptic eye, which cements the divide between the mythical us and the enemy destined for destruction.

Asaro 13

Peter M. Asaro, School of Media Studies at The New School, (2013): "The labor of surveillance and bureaucratized killing: new subjectivities of military drone operators", Social Semiotics, DOI:10.1080/10350330.2013.777591)TR

The mythologies surrounding the use of lethal drones, both the heroic and antiheroic,

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and potential enemies, as no other categories can be meaningfully acted upon.

The reliance on visual metaphors re-instantiates the metaphysics of site, functionally preventing us from understanding the ideology that over-saturates the world.

Spanos 8

William V., works @BU and you know who he is, "American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization—The specter of Vietnam", pg 36 The Guy Risko

Although Louis Althusser’s central and enabling concept of the "problem- atic" has

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of-history dis- course and the idea of the Pax Americana.

The high resolution camera is symptomatic of the mode of inquiry that overdetermines visual perception, colonizes thinking and eliminates difference.

Spanos 8

William V., works @BU and you know who he is, "American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization—The specter of Vietnam", pg 39-40The Guy Risko

I will provide a more specific critical genealogy of the representational history that culminates in

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discourse, "it" returns to "visit" the visitor."9

American exceptionalism has created a global permanent state of exception reducing the world population to bare life in the camps.

Spanos 11(William, Distinguished Professor of Literature/Baller, The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception, p. 149-50 TR)

As Moby-Dick, Pierre, Israel Potter, and The Confidence-Man

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paradigm of the political space of modernity’’ becomes a black ’’visionary’’ possibility.

Rethinking politics must first begin with the indistinction between biological and political life in law, science, politics, and philosophy or risk unprecedented biological catastrophe. Our analysis of the visual metaphorics accesses the ontology of the seen.

Agamben’98 (Homo Sacer 186-188)

The choice of this brief series of "lives" may seem extreme, if

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i nverselycitizens¶ whose very politics is at issue in their natural body.

====In rethinking politics we must understand that modern biopower began with slavery and not the Nazi concentration camps ====

TESFAHUNEY 26 DAHLSTEDT’ 08 (MEKONNEN and MAGNUS, Linköping University, Department of Social and Welfare Studies, "Maze of Camps: (Im)mobilities, Racism 26 Geographies of Exception", Pg.175

http://www.academia.edu/309787/Maze_of_Camps_Im_mobilities_Racism_and_Geographies_of_Exception-http://www.academia.edu/309787/Maze_of_Camps_Im_mobilities_Racism_and_Geographies_of_Exception)//pg**

According to Agamben, it is neither the prison nor the city that constitutes the

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of its "regimes of terror" (Mbembe,¶ Necropolitics¶ 22)

Spanos dissolves disciplinary differences in loving strife and maximizes critical collaborative politics that respond to instrumentalist policymaking.

Spanos 8 (William, Distinguished Professor of Literature/Baller, American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization-The Spector of Vietnam, p. 248-249TR)

The purpose of this book, both the theoretical chapters and those that interpret literary

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but as a manifestation of the betrayal of its initial collaborative critical possibilities.