Tournament: Neregional | Round: 2 | Opponent: John Carroll Dockery-Mendes | Judge: Poapst
1AC

The free bird leaps
…sings of freedom. 

The Presidential War Powers Represent The Modus Operandi Of The Bio-Political System. The System Dodges And Shifts Around The Legislative Changes Called For In This Years‘ Resolution: We End Drone Strikes And End Up In War, We Close Guantanamo Bay But Move The Prison To The Mid-West United States, We Reduce Offensive Cyber Operations And Enforce Cyber-Securitization, We Refuse To Put Soldiers In Battle, But Cripple Our “Enemies” With Sanctions And Embargos
Federman and Holmes 11 (cary phd political science,university of virginia; dave professor, university of ottawa; “guantánamo bodies:?law, media, and biopower” mediatropes ejournal vol iii, no 1 (2011): 58–88)
The German legal theorist, Carl Schmitt, is regarded as the first thinker to characterize modern society by the distinction “friend” and “enemy.” ….For Agamben, however, it is a strategy for governance amid the presence of the enemy. Agamben actualizes the homo sacer because the homo sacer is “exemplary of biopolitics” (Ansah, 2010, 147).

Status Quo Political Discourse Violently Excludes Stories And Practices Of Identity Outside Its Own Normalized Representations
Bleiker 2k (Roland, “Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics” Cambridge University Press, pg. 9)
To expand the scope of international theory and to bring transversal struggles into focus is not to declare the state obsolete. States remain central actors in international politics and they have to be recognised and theorised as such. … This effort is as much an expression of the need to understand the complexities and the changing nature of contemporary global politics, as it is a desire to heed and engage a variety of counter-narratives that may well give rise to ideas and practices that engender political transformation in international spheres.

This Bio-Political Management and Exclusion Destroys Value To Life
Caldwell 04 – Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Louisville
(Anne, “Bio-Sovereignty and the Emergence of Humanity,” Theory and Event, Volume 7, Issue 2, Project Muse)

The role of the exception and the presence of bare life appear in the capriciousness of international humanitarian interventions. … As Schmitt recognized in the context of eighteenth century debates over the status of humanity, the division of the human and the inhuman could be traced back to Aristotle (2003: 104). 19

THUS THE PLAN- Abdullah and I advocate for the use of per formative resistance 

As The Expanse Of Bio-Politics Reaches Beyond The Conventional Political Sphere Into The Realm Of The Body And Knowledge, Per Formative Resistance Is Needed To Open The Space For Micro-Political Resistance.
Kulynych 97 (Jessica, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Winthrop University “Performing politics: Foucault, Habermas, and postmodern participation” Polity, Winter 1997 v30 n2 p315)
A performative concept of participation as resistance explodes the distinction between public and private, between the political and the apolitical. As Foucault explains, what was formerly considered apolitical, or social rather than political, is revealed as the foundation of technologies of state control…Political participation is not categorically distinguished from protest or resistance, but rather the focus is on the disruptive potential of an action in a particular network of power relations.
THE FRAMING OF THIS ROUND IS WHO BEST POSITS A BETTER FORM OF RESISTANCE TO THE BIOPOLITICAL FUNCTIONINGS OF THE STATE

We Win Because Our Use Of Poetry Has Specifically Been Proven To Help Create New Modes Of Knowledge And Communication Outside The Normative, One-Dimensional Approach Of The State
Bleiker 2k (Roland, “Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics” Cambridge University Press, pg. 40)
But were these poetic dissident activities, as some fear, a mere play with words, intellectual games devoid of social significance? …. They celebrated multiplicities, they made ambivalence part of their language, and by doing so challenged the state’s promotion of a black-and-white, one-dimensional and teleological approach to history.

The Affirmative Goes Beyond Organized Movements Of Resistance, Which Have Themselves Become Institutionalized
Kulynych 97 (Jessica, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Winthrop University “Performing politics: Foucault, Habermas, and postmodern participation” Polity, Winter 1997 v30 n2 p315)
Understanding participation as performative resistance also provides a theoretical grounding for rethinking conventional participatory activities. …. Political participation must also account for the performative potential of traditional acts of participation in modern societies where these acts no longer fill traditional purposes, as well as the complicity of formalized protest in bolstering the status quo. 

It Is Not A Matter Of Destroying The Political, But Rather Examining The Underlying Assumptions And Creating Fissures In The Diciplinary Technologies
Kulynych 97 (Jessica, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Winthrop University “Performing politics: Foucault, Habermas, and postmodern participation” Polity, Winter 1997 v30 n2 p315)
The notion of performativity as both identity- or world-creating and as demonstration, is crucial for understanding contemporary political action. ….Second, it requires that we look anew at traditional participatory activities and evaluate their performative potential.