Opponent: Dartmouth College Kreus-Singh | Judge: Henry, Rollins, Sternhagen
1ac - Counter Archive 1nc T- Indefinite Detention Derrida Speaking for others 2nc - T 1ar - Derrida
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2ac AT T - Indefinate Detention
Tournament: Ndt | Round: 3 | Opponent: Dartmouth College Kreus-Singh | Judge: Henry, Rollins, Sternhagen Deloria 98 (Vine Deloria of the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, he was an American Indian author, theologian, historian, and activist, For This Land: Writings on Religion in America , 1998)
For the history of Western thinking in the past eight centuries has been one of AND able to see different types of questions inherent in our immediate problem areas.
Goeman 9 (Notes toward a Native Feminism’s Spatial Practice Mishuana R. Goeman Wicazo Sa Review, Volume 24, Number 2, Fall 2009, pp. 169-187 (Article) Published by University of Minnesota Press)TR
The politics of place in Native American studies is very tricky both socially and politically AND How do we uproot settler maps that drive our everyday materiality and realities?
Whitt 9 (Laurelyn Whitt is a Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Integrated Studies at Utah AND and Knowledge, P. 219-223, Published August 2009)TR
Knowledge has not become politicized; it always has been so. Indigenous knowledge systems AND supported those ways. Even now this is not an impossible task.12
Their alternative is violent and ahistorical, forgetting indigenous genocide and our complicity in it is simply not an option for the Potawatomi whose very existence is forgotten day by day. Extend Baird Jackson from the 1ac- he indicates that as people on Indiana University grounds "Remembering the living signifi- cance of this place, and of this his- tory, is an obligation and a starting point." The short explanation is if the alt can’t account for genocidal history here it simply can’t solve the aff and thus indigenous genocide is offense against it. Also extend Rodriguez and Goeman- spatial politics in place is a reason to vote affirmative. Every speech act made in academic settings is complicit in extending the foundational violence of the academy as long as they don’t account for the indigenous land claims and anti-black violence that is necessary to alter knowledge produced in place. We don’t have to win the academy’s good in every instance we just have to win this act is good here- spatial politics is a "counter-monumental" abolitionist practice that alters our notion of history and liberates us
Luciano 2004 (Dana, Georgetown English Professor , Melville’s Untimely History: "Benito Cereno" as Counter-Monumental Narrative, The Arizona Quarterly. Tucson: Autumn 2004. Vol. 60, Iss. 3; pg. 33,)TR
Frederick Nietzsche observes, "monumental history, since it disregards causes as much as AND consumption and emphasizing the observer’s implication in an historical narrative that remains unresolved.
There’s no link and only a risk of a link turn- We have the only comparative evidence in the debate- Political actions like native spatial politics don’t attempt to fix knowledge of the Other but rather is a liberatory praxis that undermines the way that bodies are mapped as "savage" in the first place- remapping this land for the Potawatomi undoes contemporary liberal frames and opens up alternative realities which don’t exist within liberal forms of knowing- Their evidence is all criticizing White European notions of psyche and identification which Potawatomi peoples are not a part of- indigenous spatial futurity avoids their homogenous politics and creates liberatory potential in place. Andrea Smith explains
Smith 13 (Andrea Smith (Cherokee) is associate professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Her publications include Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances (Duke University Press, 2008), and Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide (South End Press, 2005), Unsettling the Privilige of Self-Reflexivity in GEOGRAPHIES OF PRIVILEGE, edited by France Winddance Twine and Bradley Gardener, published 2013 by Routledge)
As Viego argues, our goal may not be to "understand" the Native AND new styles of human subjectivity and community" (Weheliye 2009, 174). Indigenity then in this call does not become an easily calculable category that the privileged subject can become through a simple process of appropriation and commodification. Rather, to borrow from the work of Justine Smith (2005), indigenity becomes the performance of transformation itself. Their call then was less about critiquing settler privilege and more about gesturing toward a political project that requires global and collective participation to move beyond the conditions of settler colonialism. Beyond Recognition If we question the self as a self-determining subject that uses others as AND the future, the order of the same "(Edelman 2004, 151). Kara Keeling’s (2009) work, while sharing much of this analysis, provides AND can cloud us from seeing those spaces in which liberatory praxis does exist.
Only a risk of a link turn— We must resist not speaking for others- mistakes lead to greater education and a better resistance to domination. Not speaking means that we are not responsible for our words even though they effect all.
Thus, the attempt to avoid the problematic of speaking for by retreating into an AND others. Such a desire for mastery and immunity must be resisted. ?
Avoids Political Apathy—
Not speaking for others means we can retreat into our privileged life styles- retreating from speaking about others means political actions over such events never occurs.
Now, sometimes I think this is the proper response to the problem of speaking AND such a retreat is that it significantly undercuts the possibility of political effectivity.
B. Recognition of interdependence solves domination especially in place—
Speaking for others is critical because all locations are connected and not speaking allows the domination and exploitation to continue.
This problem is that Trebilcot’s position, as well as a more General retreat position AND continued dominance of current discourses and acts by omission to reinforce their dominance.
3/28/14
Monmouth 1AC- 1
Tournament: Jerseyinvitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: United States Military Lipksy-Stevens | Judge: Keenan William Spanos, in his 2013 book, Shock and Awe: American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, helps contextualize our affirmation of this year's debate topic: Spanos 13 (William V., English Professor @ Binghamton University, Shock and Awe: American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, p.155)
. . . the phrase “American exceptionalism” …spectacular techno-military-industrial errand in the global wilderness possible.
He continues to develop his genealogy of American exceptionalism, indirectly indicting utopian policymaking and violent metaphysical thought in the modern War on Terror: Spanos 13 (William V., English Professor @ Binghamton University, Shock and Awe: American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, p.174)
. . . The . . . Bush administration . . . unleashed a massive reinterpretation of the Constitution could be practiced with immunity. Exceptionalism carries on the metaphysical tradition which has produced banal thought in academia and global thought itself. Spanos 8 (William V., English Professor @ Binghamton University, “American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization—The specter of Vietnam, p. 2)
… The project of thinking or … traditionalists it was intended to disarm.
Current political practices exclude the ontological Other Spanos 8 (William V., English Professor @ Binghamton University, “American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization—The specter of Vietnam, p. 2-3)
"an especially urgent imperative … dangerous phase.
Vietnam exemplifies the failure of the exceptionalist ethos which is mobilizing in the War on Terror Spanos 8 (William V., English Professor @ Binghamton University, “American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization—The specter of Vietnam, p. 95-97)
". . . As the sporadic and dispersed …or the annihilation of the planet."
Conventional political thought reduces the indissoluble continuum of being to reified Being Spanos 8 (William V., English Professor @ Binghamton University, “American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization—The specter of Vietnam, p. 2)
"the (temporal) be-ing…sociopolitics, to a reified entity."
We affirm the exilic thinking that escapes disciplinary reduction and remains in time. Spanos 8 (William V., English Professor @ Binghamton University, “American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization—The specter of Vietnam, p. 42-43)
Most commentators’ ac¬counts … imperial prac¬tice of liberal humanist capitalism. Trevor and I affirm the topical exile that, through an inclusive exclusion, belongs to "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,” specifically the targeted and killed, indefinitely detained, offensive techs, and introduced soldiers. Following Spanos, we overdetermine Spanos 8 (William V., English Professor @ Binghamton University, “American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization—The specter of Vietnam, p. 29)
. . . the ontological perspective …the post-Cold War conjuncture.
12/3/13
Monmouth 1AC- 2
Tournament: Jerseyinvitational | Round: 3 | Opponent: New Diniz-Trevett | Judge: Rubino Same as Wake 1AC-1, but with the replacement of the Wake Forest genealogy with a genealogy of Monmouth indigenous peoples, flaura, and fauna
Tournament: NDT | Round: 5 | Opponent: ASU CR | Judge: Ewing, Wash, Schultz We begin our affirmation of this year’s debate topic with the inestimable Natsu Taylor Saito, Professor of Law at Georgia State University. She served on boards of the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, the Center for Democratic Renewal, and the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, and is co-director of the Human Rights Research Fund. Professor Saito argues that indefinite detention is the rule for the United States’ treatment of alien others, not an aberration. Our topic accurately assesses the President’s war powers authority to detain indefinitely whomever s/he wants as excessive and in need of substantial restriction. Professor Saito explains in 2005 that: The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II has been generally understood to be an aberration; an exception, as it were, that proves the rule of the United States' fundamental commitment to constitutionally protected rights of due process and equal protection. However, we need only engage in only the most cursory review of the historical interactions between the United States and American Indian peoples, on whose land it has established itself, to discover that the mass internment of civilians has been undertaken as a normal, rather than exceptional, prerogative by the federal government.62 She continues in a footnote: “The mass internment of civilians in wartime has also been common, as illustrated by the United States' internment of much of the Filipino population in its war of "pacification" which began in 1898 and its policy of forcing Vietnamese villagers into "strategic hamlets" during the war in Indochina.” Back to the text: American Indians are, in many respects, prototypical "non-aliens": their nations were first acknowledged as independent sovereigns, then were deemed to be "domestic dependent nations." This appellation continues to be accurate in light of their still-colonized status under which the federal government exercises plenary power over them, but recognizes their "quasi-sovereign" status when convenient.95 That many became U.S. citizens pursuant to the 1887 Allotment Act did not affect the government's ability to collectively treat them as prisoners of war, and internment has been a routine part of the U.S. government's attempts to control indigenous peoples and their lands and resources.96 She concludes her research with the observation that: Mass internment has thus been used throughout American history to control civilian populations considered Other by virtue of race or national origin and deemed a threat to national security. Internment has also been considered a viable option for dealing with those who threaten the political status quo, and political dissidents have often been characterized as aliens or under the influence of foreign powers or ideologies. A brief overview of this history illustrates that much of what is now happening in the "war on terror" is simply an extension of this long-standing practice. Our own research at Texas, for example, brought us into contact with the extraordinary Margot Tamez, Ndé scholar and activist. She was extremely generous with her time, helping to explain to us how topical carceral structures continue to detain indefinitely the Ndé people and other Indigenous peoples.. Anthropologists who produced canonical, academic knowledge about the Ndé used what she calls the “carceral systems designed to permanently incarcerate Indigenous peoples in various types of open-air containment pens.” Echoing Saito, Professor Tamez emphasizes settler-colonialism’s “political control over naming” and explains that “Naming bodies, places, and concepts demarcates settler ecologies as it deterritorializes Indigenous collective identity and ownership. Naming cartographically erases the embedded Indigenous knowledge system in the region and makes Indigenous people ‘foreigners’ in our homelands.” To affirm the topic and demand that restrictions on Presidential war powers authority should be substantially increased requires understanding and critiquing the relay of political sites from social and
3/29/14
NDT Round 5 - 2AC
Tournament: NDT | Round: 5 | Opponent: ASU CR | Judge: Ewing, Wash, Schultz AT: 1st Berlant Ext. Baird Jackson and Rodriguez- Violence upon indigenous bodies is the status quo- we must be attentive to the fact that there is no self without the Other and that our existence hre itself and the speech act of the 1nc is tied directly to lived realities of Potawatomi people. Only a risk of a link turn-- We must resist not speaking for others- mistakes lead to greater education and a better resistance to domination. Not speaking means that we are not responsible for our words even though they effect all.
Thus, the attempt to avoid the problematic …Such a desire for mastery and immunity must be resisted. AT: Foucault Luciano 2004 (Dana, Georgetown English Professor , Melville's Untimely History: "Benito Cereno" as Counter-Monumental Narrative, The Arizona Quarterly. Tucson: Autumn 2004. Vol. 60, Iss. 3; pg. 33,)TR
Frederick Nietzsche observes, "monumental history, …implication in an historical narrative that remains unresolved. AT: TandY There’s no link and only a risk of a link turn- We have the only comparative evidence in the debate- Political actions like native spatial politics don’t attempt to fix knowledge of the Other but rather is a liberatory praxis that undermines the way that bodies are mapped as “savage” in the first place- remapping this land for the Potawatomi undoes contemporary liberal frames and opens up alternative realities which don’t exist within liberal forms of knowing- Their evidence is all criticizing White European notions of psyche and identification which Potawatomi peoples are not a part of- indigenous spatial futurity avoids their homogenous politics and creates liberatory potential in place. Andrea Smith explains
Smith 13 (Andrea Smith (Cherokee) is associate professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Her publications include Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances (Duke University Press, 2008), and Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide (South End Press, 2005), Unsettling the Privilige of Self-Reflexivity in GEOGRAPHIES OF PRIVILEGE, edited by France Winddance Twine and Bradley Gardener, published 2013 by Routledge)
As Viego argues, our goal may not be to “understand” … those spaces in which liberatory praxis does exist.
AT: Beloved Card 1) The link is culturally homogenous- Potawatomi culture and society doesn’t work in the way Berlant is talking about- There is transcedence in the speaking of stories- especially in oral traditions like the Potawatomi- Stories break ontological relationship to time- extend Mishuana Goeman on mapping- she references indigenous artist Esther Belin and her poetry to explain how when she recites poetry she links up with past and future worlds. The Shoshone people denied the USFG’s use of Yucka Mountain because they believe all their relatives come back to them and are able to exceed linear time- imagine the experience of speaking to a dead loved one, these relationships are profound and is transcendent
Goeman 9 (Notes toward a Native Feminism’s Spatial Practice Mishuana R. Goeman Wicazo Sa Review, Volume 24, Number 2, Fall 2009, pp. 169-187 (Article) Published by University of Minnesota Press)TR
Locating a Native feminism’s spatial dialogue …a just spatial “framework” for our future. 2) Presumption Goes Aff: Notion of presumption comes from a bias against change- this no longer holds true because society is changing all the time. This is a holdover of Bishop Weightley saying that the presumption was on atheists to prove that God doesn’t exist, it’s a conservative ideology that is rooted in metaphysical violence, it’s a theory with ideological underpinnings not a rule!! Presumption assumes that the status quo is better than any other option which is bullshit, we come to college and participate in debate because we assume change is good, college student in the status quo is untenable because change happens constantly- it’s non-unique and uniqueness overwhelms means that presumption goes aff
3/29/14
Texas
Tournament: Texas | Round: 3 | Opponent: Nevada Las Vegas Kezios-Ogata | Judge: Roberts The aff involves the introduction of Ndé poetry, pictographs, epistemology and history to critique indefinite detention of the Ndé
Margo Tamez “Place and Perspective in the Shadow of the Wall: Recovering Ndé Knowledge and Self-Determination in Texas,” Aztlán:A Journal of Chicano Studies, Spring, 2013 (38:1) 167-74.
“Ndé lineal and inherent relationships with homelands near, along, and across the Rio Grande River have too long been denied...the growing national and international realization that Ndé never surrendered or ceded the traditional homeland confronts the nation-state and the state of Texas.
The discursive “Enemy” like “Apache” has historically justified indefinite detention
Ian Baucom Professor, Chair of English Department and Director of the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. Professor Baucom is the author of "Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity" (Princeton University Press) and "Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History" (Duke University Press). Beginning with Cicero and continuing through to Kant and Agamben, Professor Baucom explores the origins of the figure of the "unjust enemy" in order to understand its place in the history of imperial war and the current "war on terror." From the chapter Cicero's Ghost: The Atlantic, the Enemy, and the Laws of War in States of Emergency : the Object of American StudiesTR
“Against “an unjust enemy,” Immanuel Kant asserts in a startling passage of The Metaphysics of Morals¸”… the key exemplars, in his work, of a people living in the state of nature.”
Sovereignty is not just the President’s authoritative power but the discursive justifications Chad Shomura PhD Candidate/Dean’s Teaching Fellowship at Johns Hopkins Political Science, "These Are Bad People" -Enemy Combatants and the Homopolitics of the "War on Terror", http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/v013/13.1.shomura.html#back)//TR
“The "'war' on terror" and its institution of states of exception rely upon normative figurations… insofar as the norms by which ontologies are recognized by the state have been ruptured.”
Our counter-archive radically challenges the academy and opens the space for change
Dylan Rodríguez Professor and chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside, where he began his teaching career in 2001. Author of 2 books, he is a founding member of Critical Resistance: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex, a national movement-building collective that seeks to fulfill the social and historical vision of abolition. Racial/Colonial Genocide and the “Neoliberal Academy”: In Excess of a Problematic, American Quarterly, Volume 64, Number 4, December 2012, Project Muse)TR
“If the ethical imperative is to abolish (rather than merely render temporarily survivable) the social logics…and cohere in the academy through affinities of ideas, analytics, and scholars whose work is mutually nourishing and critically enabling.“
Our Advocacy: Thus, Trevor and I affirm transformative legal genealogies, cartographies, and counter-archives of Nde memory and pictographs that rupture the carceral architecture of containment as a substantial increase of statutory and judicial restrictions on the war powers authority of the President of the United States to indefinitely detain.
2/13/14
The Counter-Archive
Tournament: Texas | Round: 1 | Opponent: West Virginia Dorsey-Ejimofor | Judge: Weathers Here you will find our Ndé counter-archive with the pictographs, poetry, and other forms of Ndé knowledge reclamation we are presenting into debate's archive at the UT Austin Debate Tournament.
On the attached pdf please see pages 551 to the end for the many pictographs we enter into the debate- they vary depending on the debate, but we welcome and encourage you to look through them all.
The poems that we read will be posted below, again they vary dependent on the debate.
“The Birth of Thought Woman” by Margo Tamez
Children shrink from blood Relations whose faces dictate them trust Whose hands and words peck The order like sport
Relatives say Maize saves people from themselves
This food is medicine Says the road man
But the medicine is laced uranium rape DDT lynching Toxaphene apartheid radiation blood violence And the seed keeper rapes his wife like Pistons ram inside pipes And his sons rape her daughter like Scissors want to be cut Smash her son’s head as tidal waves Pound the shore
We didn’t count on that but were warned and English says Little in long sounds with no air The fetus inside the moon curdles in her Milkysoft placenta we’re going back in Time to the end of the barbed world English says Little in long sounds No air I tell the rapist’s words to my grandmothers To my grandmothers to my grandmothers
Splitting my body
Making me unnatural
When I walk away from The shove of wounds
I am sound before language Before language Before all language until Spider’s web spins and unfurls her next move
Thought…it’s your turn to be born War is at hand _
“Drinking under the Moon She Goes Laughing”:
When the end was near He threatened hands trembling There is no end never his hands reaching to my face You can’t leave taking off his shirt going for his pants The trickle of sweat beading off his nose
Moon-orb spray metallic shimmer slicklove Tripping numb night shadows Crows perched on a streetlight
We’re terrestrial ants living in fragility On Huhugam sacred ground Jar of our dead
Like ragged cats my ghosts and I Gossip in the alley behind a bar My eyes grasp theirs a spark revolution Feet without tracks on gravel
Our existence erased far off From clinking beer bottles and vanity
On the bench outside a bookstore We get erased see the news of the street Resistance getting milled
My favorite ghosts and I bear down harder birth ourselves
On the bench outside a bookstore Frigid wind wants to snatch our secrets
Hey nay ya nay a nay a na I thank you thank you for your presence My ghosts I thank you for your presence Hey nay ya na ya na ya na ya na This dilemma oh ancestors O! ancestors !!!! I thank you thank you thank you Hey nay ya na ya na ya na ya na
I’m still the Lipan Jumano land-grant mongrel Nobody sees nobody recognizes an invisibility Scudding through all the checkpoints Border towns train tracks pesticide flybys welfare lines
Wings shifting shape Scorpion’s venom injects me for the night
Green light spasms in the click click delete cut paste fucking do something do something different
An orgasm of light at the slippery edge One good time to die And live spreading like osmosis
Tripping grandmother rabbit on the moon Always with that sorrowful look on her face Make the medicine Be artistic Do what is necessary
2/8/14
USC Aff
Tournament: Usc | Round: 2 | Opponent: California, Berkeley Sergent-Leventhal-Wimsatt | Judge: Osborn Brendan Lindsay describes in 2012 the early violence against Tongva and Chumash peoples by California gold-miners and home-steaders.
Brendan C. Lindsay, Murder State: California's Native Genocide, 1846-1873 (Lincoln: U Nebraska Pr, 2012) x-xi. Self-described hard-working… from diseases at an alarming rate.
Governor Peter Burnett of Los Angeles in 1851 proclaimed that the war on indigenous peoples was inevitable Peter H. Burnett, Governor of California, "The Governor's Message," January 7, 1851 in Sacramento Transcript, Volume 2, Number 65, January, 10 1851, p2. That a war of extermination … wisdom of man to avert.
Debating on this land, in these sacred and profane places, instills an affirmative obligation to decolonize this classroom, the space of our genocidal inheritance. In 2012, Dylan Rodríguez, professor and chair of Ethnic Studies at UC, Riverside, details this spatial mandate, especially when our buildings are constructed on and desecrate sacred grounds, "Desecration is not an incidental and fleeting moment in the campus’s creation, it is the continual condition of UCR’s existence as such." While Rodríguez refers to Riverside specifically, this obligation extends to places like USC, where its campus and the entire city was made possible by such desecration. He continues:
Rodriguez 12 (Dylan Rodríguez is professor and chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside, where he began his teaching career in 2001. Author of 2 books, he is a founding member of Critical Resistance: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex, a national movement-building collective that seeks to fulfill the social and historical vision of abolition. Racial/Colonial Genocide and the “Neoliberal Academy”:In Excess of a Problematic, American Quarterly, Volume 64, Number 4, December 2012, Project Muse)TR
These local examples … wipe them out of the social text.
Trevor and I accept Rodríguez's charge and affirm this year's topic through the genocide analytic. We focus our kritik on the spatial, cultural, economic, and political structures that bring us to this place where the Tongva and Chumash peoples, among others, once flourished and are now resurgent. We employ activist scholarship generating "counter-archives," revising the whitestream topical script, and engaging in spatial kritik, to name a few—to help end what Sandy Grande calls the "depredations of indigenous peoples' genocide, colonization, and cultural annihilation"
We must not remain entirely in the past, but attend to the legacy of settler colonialism as it presents itself today. Mishuana R. Goeman, " Notes toward a Native Feminism’s Spatial Practice," Wicazo Sa Review (Volume 24, Number 2: Fall 2009) 170-71. The politics of place in … body polity and nation-state.
Goeman offers us specific pathways toward (re)mapping settler colonial landscapes. In particular, she explicates the work of Esther Belin, a Diné artist and poet who grew up in LA. Belin's book of poetry, From the Belly of My Beauty, is the focus of Goeman's article and the remainder of our topical affirmative. Goeman writes: ibid Belin’s poetry is an example … Indian policy in the United States.
Reading Goeman and Belin radically reconfigures our understanding of debating this year's topic in this very classroom. They literally transform the framework of our relationship to debate, the federal government, reality, and the rest. As the late, great Vine Deloria, Jr. recognized, Vine Deloria, Jr., For This Land: Writings on Religion in America (NY: Routledge, 1999) 101. "Challenging this framework …into a new format."
Directional Memory Esther Belin, From the Belly of My Beauty (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1999) 8-9.
West
Let's begin with the first thing you remember. You lost a sandal in the move from the apartment on Muiford to the house on Poplar Drive. Specific memory of wanting to go back and get the shoe and in your head you even telepathically announce to everyone that you left your shoe at the old home. Never to be seen again. Part of you left behind. Never to be seen again.
North
Kissing me with your red lips blessing me with your diva-ness shiny black hair dances at Mr. Fives swinging wet with heat steam from the jungle you emerged traces my image in blues ultra. Our touch moved people off the dance floor and out of recliners. Our touch tack-sharp tickled memories of Maxine Hong Kingston and Norman Mailer and Gary Snyder trying to levitate the Pentagon of small children selling Chiclets trying to levitate their image to heaven. Our touch tender as ginger on tongue forks into the two of us.
South
Christmas night in Southern California rollerblading on the strand night fishing oil Hermosa Pier. Walking on the beach wanting to sleep there not wanting to awaken in someone private property, saying it’s a drag waiting to get a piece, saying it’s a drag ‘cause that sand belongs to the six-million-dollar home in the back- ground. When you were little the water called your name to jump in same as the stench of contamination warns you to stay out If all the sand in my boots could build my castle . . .
East
When the awe of downtown Los Angeles scratches my back the ghosts of native brothers and sisters of this tropical climate seers grade school, high school never told of their existence Indian land was far away in another world, across states lines where grandparents plant corn and herd sheep on a brown-eyed/blue- eyed horse . . .
I always forget L.A. has sacred mountains.
1/3/14
Wake 1AC- 1
Tournament: Shirley | Round: 2 | Opponent: Louisville Lusco-Reddy | Judge: Massey The 1AC Contains Performance and Poetry. For Wake it was performance of Terror Drag and its radical reorientation of political thought and identity which breaks down identitarian violence and the homonationalism of the War on Terror.
Terror Drag Solvency Evidence Puar 7 (Jasbir, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers, Terrorist Assemblages Homonationalism Queer Times p. 12-21)
Genealogy of Winston Salem, its indigenous peoples, flaura, fauna, history of Wake Forest as a plantation, forced labor camp, to University. We analyze privilege in the place we debate to situate our critique of biopolitical violence
Endangered Species Handbook, Animal Welfare Institute, 2005http:www.endangeredspecieshandbook.org/dinos_eastern.php, Swanton, John R.
The Indian Tribes of North America. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology, Bulletin #145, Facing East from Indian Country, Daniel K. Richter (Harvard, 2002),
These are the footnotes for the rest of the 1ac which is given in poetic form and contains quotes from the following sources which develop a criticsm of homonationalism and its inclusive/exclusion paradigm. We also argue that the structures of oppression and specifically racism are constantly recodified and thus we can and must use our bodies to problematize the way identities are violently construed in the spaces we debate
Puar’07 (Jasbir, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers, Terrorist Assemblages Homonationalism Queer Times p. xi-xii
Puar’07 (Jasbir, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers, Terrorist Assemblages Homonationalism Queer Times, p.183-184)pg
Dabashi 11 (Hamid, Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, “Brown Skin, White Masks,” Pluto Press, January 18th, pg. 131)/ds
Dabashi 11 (Hamid, Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, “Brown Skin, White Masks,” Pluto Press, January 18th, pg 36-37)/ds
Dabashi 11 (Hamid, Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, “Brown Skin, White Masks,” Pluto Press, January 18th, pg. 113-115)/ds
Du Bois, W. E. B., The Souls of Black Folk, New York: New American Library, Inc, 1903.http://www.bartleby.com/114/2.html - retrieved on 10/16/13
Dabashi 11 (Hamid, Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, “Brown Skin, White Masks,” Pluto Press, January 18th, pg. 130-131)/ds
12/3/13
Wake 1AC-2
Tournament: Shirley | Round: 8 | Opponent: Wyoming Dilldine-McFarland | Judge: Ziering William Spanos, in his 2013 book, Shock and Awe: American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, helps contextualize our affirmation of this year's debate topic: Spanos 13 (William V., English Professor @ Binghamton University, Shock and Awe: American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, p.155)
. . . the phrase “American exceptionalism” …spectacular techno-military-industrial errand in the global wilderness possible.
He continues to develop his genealogy of American exceptionalism, indirectly indicting utopian policymaking and violent metaphysical thought in the modern War on Terror: Spanos 13 (William V., English Professor @ Binghamton University, Shock and Awe: American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, p.174)
. . . The . . . Bush administration . . . unleashed a massive reinterpretation of the Constitution could be practiced with immunity. Exceptionalism carries on the metaphysical tradition which has produced banal thought in academia and global thought itself. Spanos 8 (William V., English Professor @ Binghamton University, “American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization—The specter of Vietnam, p. 2)
… The project of thinking or … traditionalists it was intended to disarm.
Current political practices exclude the ontological Other Spanos 8 (William V., English Professor @ Binghamton University, “American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization—The specter of Vietnam, p. 2-3)
"an especially urgent imperative … dangerous phase.
Vietnam exemplifies the failure of the exceptionalist ethos which is mobilizing in the War on Terror Spanos 8 (William V., English Professor @ Binghamton University, “American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization—The specter of Vietnam, p. 95-97)
". . . As the sporadic and dispersed …or the annihilation of the planet."
Conventional political thought reduces the indissoluble continuum of being to reified Being Spanos 8 (William V., English Professor @ Binghamton University, “American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization—The specter of Vietnam, p. 2)
"the (temporal) be-ing…sociopolitics, to a reified entity."
We affirm the exilic thinking that escapes disciplinary reduction and remains in time. Spanos 8 (William V., English Professor @ Binghamton University, “American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization—The specter of Vietnam, p. 42-43)
Most commentators’ ac¬counts … imperial prac¬tice of liberal humanist capitalism. Trevor and I affirm the topical exile that, through an inclusive exclusion, belongs to "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,” specifically the targeted and killed, indefinitely detained, offensive techs, and introduced soldiers. Following Spanos, we overdetermine Spanos 8 (William V., English Professor @ Binghamton University, “American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization—The specter of Vietnam, p. 29)
. . . the ontological perspective …the post-Cold War conjuncture.
12/3/13
Wes Con Aff Cites
Tournament: D8ndtqualifier | Round: 2 | Opponent: CUNY Cheung-DeJohn | Judge: Marty, Webster Dunn We begin again, where we started, with the incomparable, Alan Gallay, emeritus at Ohio State, Woodring Chair in Atlantic World and Early American History, received Columbia's 03 Bancroft Prize for The Indian Slave Trade, writes in Al Jazeera , also in 03:
When Americans think of slavery, our minds create images of Africans inhumanely crowded aboard ships plying the middle passage from Africa... if we look more closely we find Indians not only enslaved on plantations but working as police forces to maintain those plantations and receiving substantial rewards for returning runaway slaves.
Max Carocci writes about the interconnections of early slavery, indigeneity, and the transatlantic slave trade in the context of Connecticut Indians that lived in and around this university, this classroom, some Virginia tribes, and other native peoples who were enslaved so that the Caribbean plantations and the British Empire could flourish.
Carocci 9 (Max, “Written out of history: Contemporary Native American narratives of enslavement,” Anthropology Today, April, 200 (Vol. 25, No. 2) 19)/TR
The major point of this article is to demonstrate that the enslavement of Native Americans has been largely written out of official versions of history. ..., they are at the same time a painful reminder that North America’s genocidal assault on its indigenous peoples was perpetrated not only through direct physical annihilation and displacement, but also through the simple stroke of a pen.
Former Interior Secretary Gale Norton testified that she was threatened with firing if she didn’t reverse the Tribes acknowledgement, but no undue political influence was exerted*
We have begun our institutional labor against racist and colonial violence in debate through our research, debating, and activism, including beginning to build a counter-archive in our debating since Monmouth and online at caselist.com. Dylan Rodriguez, Professor and Chair of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside, concludes that colleges and universities are one of the more productive sites for confronting genocidal, colonial policies like ending indefinite indigenous detention and racist prison practices and policies. He explains in December, 2012:
Rodriguez 12 (Dylan Rodríguez is professor and chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside, where he began his teaching career in 2001. Author of 2 books, he is a founding member of Critical Resistance: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex, a national movement-building collective that seeks to fulfill the social and historical vision of abolition. Racial/Colonial Genocide and the “Neoliberal Academy”: In Excess of a Problematic, American Quarterly, Volume 64, Number 4, December 2012, Project Muse)TR
If the ethical imperative is to abolish (rather than merely render temporarily survivable) the social logics and institutionalized systems of violence ... cohere in the academy through affinities of ideas, analytics, and scholars whose work is mutually nourishing and critically enabling.
Our affirmative also continues to follow the sage advice of Mishuana R. Goeman, vice chair and associate professor of Gender Studies at UCLA, who focuses on the urgent need to "uproot settler maps that drive our everyday materiality and realities," in her magnificent 09 article, "Notes toward a Native Feminism’s Spatial Practice,” where she also implores us
Goeman 9 (Mishuana R, Vice Chair and Associate Professor of Gender Studies @ UCLA, “Notes toward a Native Feminism’s Spatial Practice,” Wicazo Sa Review (Volume 24, Number 2: Fall 2009))TR
to scrutinize the impact of spatial policies in our cognitive mapping of Native lands and bodies... that are “critical to, yet obscured within” the mapping of the body polity and nation-state.
2/22/14
West Point 1AC
Tournament: Westpoint | Round: 1 | Opponent: Liberty Chiri-Edwards | Judge: Stone We begin with "The Ban and the Wolf" from giorgio agamben's Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life:
"The entire character of homo sacer … while belonging to neither —
from the fragments of pre-social life, to germanic and scandinavian antiquity, rome, greece, possibly egypt, phoenicia, canaan, from schmitt, melville, arendt, adorno, benjamin, and foucault, to spanos, agamben, and this year's debate topic - for now, from the wolf to obama, on "the bandit," syria: "
My fellow Americans, for nearly …God bless the United States of America" :
This year's topic is a biopolitical body, of affirmatives, of arguments, of research, a body we affirm - we also affirm the biopolitical bodies in the topic, that is, we affirm the targeted killed, the indefinitely detained, the offensive techs, the armed forces introduced into hostilities and the "hostiles" introduced to our armed forces:
As such, Trevor and I affirm "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,"
In spanos' monumental 2011 work, The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception, he reads his own and melville's kritik of american exceptionalism into agamben's and schmitt's biopolitics: we our aff follows these symptomatic interpretive tactics and reads all of the above into this year's topic - spanos offers a brief summary:
Spanos 11 (William, Distinguished Professor of English Binghamton University, The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception: Herman Melville’s Billy Budd Sailor, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011, p.159-160)
"To underscore the deadly … late-nineteenth-century America" –
Spanos reconstellates into agamben and schmitt the powerful myth of american exceptionalism that conditions today's global biopolitical police state and declares that it
Spanos 11 (William, Distinguished Professor of English Binghamton University, The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception: Herman Melville’s Billy Budd Sailor, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011, p.159)
"(1) is informed by a metaphysical ontology … in Agamben's chilling phrase, bare life"
We must transform "this biopolitical body that is bare life" into a topical site for "the constitution and installation of a form of life that is wholly exhausted in bare life and a bios that is only its own zo?": and, Agamben 98 (Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, p. 105, Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen , Stanford University Press Stanford California 1998 http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ucsd/biopolitics/HomoSacer.pdf,)
"If we give the name … sciences and jurisprudence" –
Before attempting this, agamben cautioned, Agamben 98 (Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, p. 63, Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen , Stanford University Press Stanford California 1998, http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ucsd/biopolitics/HomoSacer.pdf)
" it will be necessary to … unprecedented biopolitical catastrophe":
Unraveling the ontological friend/enemy binary from schmitt, american exceptionalism, billy's captain vere, even obama and bush before him, reversing this metaphysical principle of principles, that places identity before difference, spanos Spanos 11 (William, Distinguished Professor of English Binghamton University, The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception: Herman Melville’s Billy Budd Sailor, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011, p.160-161)
"discloses the shadow that … speculate about such a positive alternative polity"
Our kritik of the american exceptionalist myth, within the permanent state of exception and a global biopolitical police state is an intimate antagonism, agonic play, in loving strife - spanos concludes once Spanos 11 (William, Distinguished Professor of English Binghamton University, The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception: Herman Melville’s Billy Budd Sailor, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011, p.162-163)
"the 'theologically' ordained …this paradoxical creative relationship a 'loving strife' (Auseinandersetzung)"
