Tournament: Navy | Round: 1 | Opponent: Georgetown Fang-Kelley | Judge: Cramer
The President of the United States should not have the authority to targeted kill civilian(terrorists).

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 1 | Opponent: Wake Forest Hurwitz-Sugino | Judge: Short
Drones have gotten a bad wrap in the debate community so far. Conservative teams would have you believe that drones need to be rained in but have minimal collateral damage and are the best tool to keep democratic citizens safe, while liberal teams would have you believe that we are drunk with power in our usage of drones, slaughtering babies at their mothers side to hit a cell phone of a terrorist leader. Both and neither of these realities are true. Ignored from these conversations has been the intensification of the intimate forms of violence that drone pilots and their targets experience, commanded from afar by policy makers, drone pilots watch their targets die closer than ground troops did in Iraqi during combat. The human experience of war form this conversation has been ignored.
Holmqvist, 2013. (Caroline, Holmqvist. Centre for International Studies, London School of Economics, UK Swedish National Defense College, Sweden. Undoing War: War Ontologies and the Materiality of Drone Warfare. May 1, 2013. http://mil.sagepub.com/content/early )

Today’s civilian is tomorrow’s terrorist, and today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s civilian. If the literature on targeted killing is teaching us anything it’s that these divisions are malleable. The idea that we can fly planes into a foreign country and rain death from the sky, without any way for affected populations to contest it reproduces the need for strikes continually.
Schmidt 08 (Dennis J. Schmidt Who Counts? On Democracy, Power, and the Incalculable Research in Phenomenology 38 (2008) 228–243)

Drone pilots are confronted with the fluidity of the distinction between civilian and terrorist. The U.S. desire to pinpoint an inherently violent Other has triggered an autoimmune response where the war on terror has transformed into a war on alterity. The attempt to proscribe a response to the presencing of beings in zones of conflict makes violent political response inevitable.
Borradori ‘3 Giovanna Borradori, professor of philosophy at Vassar college, Interview with Jacques Derrida “Philosophy in a Time of Terror” pg. 148-150 

We think that we should not targeted kill civilians(terrorists).

This juxtaposition is an ethical response that fosters openness and refuses to impose order, containment, and domination onto such others. It problematizes the current order of politics by blurring the lines of identification. This aporia is the only way to move towards justice.
MacDonald ‘99 Department of Political Studies, Queens University 1999 Eleanor Science and Society 63.2 proquest

We think debate matters, that debate is a unique political space. It is here that we see an intersection of citizenship, politics, law, and democracy. Debate gestures towards the democracy to come, an open hospitable environment characterized by radically different views of what matters. How we conceptualize polarized others in this space matters, the openness to terrorism has the possibility of a different conceptualization of difference outside of the rubric of security and extermination.
Kuswa and Walsh 2007 (Arguing War in an Era of Terrorism: “Democracy to Come” and Critical Pedagogy Kevin Kuswa and Briann Walsh  (CONTROVERSIA Volume 5 Issue 2 http://www.idebate.org/resources/publications/controversia.php )

Politics has been ceded to the think tanks, tested in focus groups than formulated into law. The entire system would be laughable if it wasn’t our current political context. This engagement with stupidity begs for deconstruction. Our politics is one that is allergic to policy itself, an issue for the public as well as the policy maker. This difference from policy is exactly what makes democracy thinkable it is a politics that lends way to agency.
Mcquillan 08 (Derrida and Policy: Is Deconstruction Really a Social Science? Derrida Today)

Debate depends on the inclusion of those who maintain critical views of state policy. The foreclosure of critique and dissent marks debate as a fugitive activity by effacing alterity and counter-hegemonic discourses. Deconstruction is necessary to invoke new tropes of political dissent.
Butler ‘4 2004, Judith Butler is a Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at U.C. Berkeley, “Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence”, pg. xix-xxi

Terrorism is the only responsible course of the action. This does not mean we do not come to a decision, but rather choose the action which least imposes onto alterity.  
Borradori ‘3 Giovanna Borradori, professor of philosophy at Vassar college, Interview with Jacques Derrida “Philosophy in a Time of Terror” pg. xiii

Justice is the only non-deconstructable impact. Justice is the foremost concern for the policymaker, to pay respect to the otherness of the other.
Mcquillan 08 (Derrida and Policy: Is Deconstruction Really a Social Science? Derrida Today)

Tournament: Navy | Round: 3 | Opponent: Pittsburgh Julian-Larsen | Judge: Clarke
The friction between the 1AC and 1NC methodologies are able to induce new tropes of political reality via deconstructive juxtaposition.
Spivak ‘97 an Indian theorist, philosopher and University Professor at Columbia University, where she is a founding member of the school's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, “Jacques Derrida OF GRAMMATOLOGY” Translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak,” http://www.mohamedrabeea.com/books/book1_3997.pdf

Tournament: USC | Round: 3 | Opponent: Michigan Keller-Keenan | Judge: Weil
Doesn’t solve the aff – they posit ethics as conditional. Decision is the utmost ethical responsibility and must be made unconditionally.
Mules ‘10 Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Central Queensland University and Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland 2010 Warwick Derrida Today 3.1 http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdfplus/10.3366/drt.2010.0007

Tournament: Navy | Round: 7 | Opponent: Wake Forest Manchester-Shaw | Judge: Bertram
Permutation do both – The friction between the 1AC and 1NC methodologies are able to induce new tropes of political reality via deconstructive juxtaposition.
Spivak ‘97 an Indian theorist, philosopher and University Professor at Columbia University, where she is a founding member of the school's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, “Jacques Derrida OF GRAMMATOLOGY” Translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak,” http://www.mohamedrabeea.com/books/book1_3997.pdf

Doesn’t solve the aff – Any precondition imposed onto accepting the Other lends itself to a politics of tolerance and scrutinized hospitality.
Borradori ‘3 Giovanna Borradori, professor of philosophy at Vassar college, Interview with Jacques Derrida “Philosophy in a Time of Terror” pg. 158-159

Doesn’t solve the aff – they posit ethics as conditional. Decision is the utmost ethical responsibility and must be made unconditionally.
Mules ‘10 Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Central Queensland University and Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland 2010 Warwick Derrida Today 3.1 http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdfplus/10.3366/drt.2010.0007

Tournament: Navy | Round: 5 | Opponent: George Washington Stasaski-Arsht | Judge: McGrath
The friction between the 1AC and 1NC methodologies are able to induce new tropes of political reality via deconstructive juxtaposition.
Spivak ‘97 an Indian theorist, philosopher and University Professor at Columbia University, where she is a founding member of the school's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, “Jacques Derrida OF GRAMMATOLOGY” Translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak,” http://www.mohamedrabeea.com/books/book1_3997.pdf

Doesn’t solve the aff – Any precondition imposed onto accepting the Other lends itself to a politics of tolerance and scrutinized hospitality.
Borradori ‘3 Giovanna Borradori, professor of philosophy at Vassar college, Interview with Jacques Derrida “Philosophy in a Time of Terror” pg. 158-159

Tournament: USC | Round: 3 | Opponent: Michigan Keller-Keenan | Judge: Weil
Nuclear war is a text – its reference is what makes it a threat.
Derrida ’84 Jacques Derrida; Catherine Porter; Philip Lewis, “No Apocalypse, Not Now (Full Speed Ahead, Seven Missiles, Seven Missives)” Diacritics, Vol. 14, No. 2, Nuclear Criticism. (Summer, 1984), pp. 20-31

Tournament: USC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Minnesota Crunkilton-Ehrlich | Judge: Heidt
Hegemonic stability theory is wrong and racist, impact is genocide.
Lutz (professor of anthropology at Brown University and the Watson Institute for International Studies) 9
(Catherine, The Bases of Empire p. 29)

Brooks, Wohlforth, and Ikenberry’s analysis doesn’t even consider the will of non-Americans.  Their scholarship is just a tool of imperialism.
Roger 13 Comment on “Pull Back or Lean Forward?” The Monkey Cage; January 4, 2013; http://themonkeycage.org/blog/2013/01/03/pull-back-or-lean-forward/

Barnett is a hack and paid off by weapons contractors—heg just leads to war
Robb 5 John, expert military analyst who has consulted the DoD, JCS, House Armed Services Committee, and CIA; “Barnett's Neo-Conservative Redux” John Robb’s Weblog; December 14, 2005;
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/johnrobb/2005/12/barnetts_neocon.html

Their threats are constructed by the military industrial complex.
Lutz (Research Professor at the Watson Institute for International Studies and Professor of Anthropology at Brown University) 9
(Catherine, US Bases and Empire: Global Perspectives on the Asia Pacific, The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 12-3-09, March 16, 2009. http://old.japanfocus.org/-Catherine_Lutz/3086)

Tournament: Navy | Round: 7 | Opponent: Wake Forest Manchester-Shaw | Judge: Bertram
Nuclear war is a text – its reference is what makes it a threat.
Derrida ’84 Jacques Derrida; Catherine Porter; Philip Lewis, “No Apocalypse, Not Now (Full Speed Ahead, Seven Missiles, Seven Missives)” Diacritics, Vol. 14, No. 2, Nuclear Criticism. (Summer, 1984), pp. 20-31

Tournament: Navy | Round: Octas | Opponent: United States Military Barlow-Saker | Judge: Corrigan, Hagwood, Kallmyer
Al-Qaeda is the phantom enemy who must be exterminated, regardless of cost. The callous disregard for ‘collateral damage’ or (human life) along the way is part and parcel of the permanent state of war on terror. The precautionary logic that demands strikes to keep us safe fuels the fires of enemy construction and ensures pre-emptive war.
Erickson 08 (Ericsonwas Professor and Director, Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto, Canada, “Risk and the War on Terror”, http://www.didierbigo.com/students/readings/IPS2011/12/Risk_and_the_War_on_Terror.pdf#page=40)

Relations collapsing now—Iran and Syria
Zaki Shalom , Yoel Guzansky ’14, 1/1, http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/60194

Nuclear war is a text – its reference is what makes it a threat.
Derrida ’84 Jacques Derrida; Catherine Porter; Philip Lewis, “No Apocalypse, Not Now (Full Speed Ahead, Seven Missiles, Seven Missives)” Diacritics, Vol. 14, No. 2, Nuclear Criticism. (Summer, 1984), pp. 20-31

Their scholarship is BS—it’s influenced by profit motive over fact.
Greenwald 12 Glenn, was named by The Atlantic as one of the 25 most influential political commentators in the nation. He is the recipient of the first annual I.F. Stone Award for Independent Journalism, and is the winner of the 2010 Online Journalism Association Award for his investigative work on the arrest and oppressive detention of Bradley Manning former Constitutional and civil rights litigator and is the author of three New York Times Bestselling books, Salon AUG 15, 2012 http://www.salon.com/2012/08/15/the_sham_terrorism_expert_industry/

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 7 | Opponent: Northwestern OBrien-Shakoor | Judge: Crowe
Their simplification of terrorism perpetuates the harms by oversimplifying a complex event—exploiting fears of future strikes is a self-destructive process that ultimately risks seeking such strikes to justify future violence.
Derrida ‘3
Jacques, the original postmodernist, Philosophy in a Time of Terror p 107-9

The War on Terrorism is a never ending war against alterity. This infinite war culminates in extinction.
Machowski 2010 (Mattehew http://www.matthewmachowski.com/2010/09/derrida-islam-9-11.html)

Take the position of the other, as any of the nameless victims of the so-called smart bombs, this is the only way to determine ethical action.
Mules 10 Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Central Queensland University and Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland 2010 Warwick Derrida Today 3.1 http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdfplus/10.3366/drt.2010.0007

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 3 | Opponent: United States Military Barlow-Saker | Judge: Awsare
Demanding a plan text and forcing us to be coherent, logical and packaged is violent policing of our expression that has no basis in the resolution.
Butler ‘4 2004, Judith Butler is a Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at U.C. Berkeley, “Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence”, pg. xix-xxi

Deconstruction is the opposite of policy.
Mcquillan 08 (Derrida and Policy: Is Deconstruction Really a Social Science? Derrida Today)

Deconstruction is an engagement of the political because discourse and text construct reality.
Mcquillan 08 (Derrida and Policy: Is Deconstruction Really a Social Science? Derrida Today)

Tournament: Harvard | Round: 8 | Opponent: Louisville Lusco-Reddy | Judge: Henry
A retreat is privileged narcissism that abdicates political responsibility in favor of political apathy. WHITE SCHOLARS MUST FIND WAYS TO SPEAK ABOUT RACE.
Dr. Crenshaw ‘97 Prof of Speech Comm @ Univ. Ala. Carrie-PhD. USC; former director of debate @ Univ. of Ala.; WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION; Resisting Whiteness’ Rhetorical Silence; 61(3), Summer; pp. 253-278.

Tournament: D8 | Round: 3 | Opponent: NYU Kuzmenko-Zhan | Judge: Jensen, Lee
Failure to come to terms with preference of life results inside of a self-destructive auto-immunity where the targets we aim at the other come to be wielded against the self. We must deconstruct this divide.
Derrida ‘6 originally published in 1993 Jacques Derrida Specters of Marx Translated by Peggy Kamuf p 175-177

Tournament: USC | Round: 6 | Opponent: Arizona State Rajan-Chotras | Judge: Ehrlich-Quinn
Turn: Adding the ethos of deconstruction takes the alt from a teleological process to an open process of delimitation.
Cheah ‘8 Professor of Rhetoric UC-Berkeley 2008 Pheng diacritics 38.1-2 project muse

Turn: The recognition of value is a precondition for a commodity’s exchangeability and use-value. Only a deconstruction of value can prevent the reification of capital.
Derrida ‘93 Jacques Derrida, “Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International” 1993 pg. 201-203

The conceptual economy of use value and exchange value must be deconstructed at logo-centric level.
Jay ‘88 Gregory Jay, Professor of English, “Values and Deconstructions: Derrida, Saussure, Marx” Cultural Critique,
No. 8 (Winter, 1987-1988), pp. 153-196

Perm embrace the spectre of marx: Marx's original Communist Manifesto highlighted why capitalism was bad but did not articulate a coherent position on how communism would pragmatically function. Because deconstruction is the process of breaking apart ideological barriers we performatively engage the critique Karl Marx advocated.
Abbinett 2k6 Ross Abbinnett “Spectres of Class: Marxism, Deconstruction and the Politics of Affiliation” JOURNAL FOR CULTURAL RESEARCH VOLUME 10 NUMBER 1 (JANUARY 2006)

We solve the impact. Democracy to come is always something to come, this prevents co-option by capitalists, the aff is key to separate capitalism from the ideology of capital.
Mules ‘10 Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Central Queensland University and Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland 2010 Warwick Derrida Today 3.1 http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdfplus/10.3366/drt.2010.0007

Tournament: Navy | Round: 3 | Opponent: Pittsburgh Julian-Larsen | Judge: Clarke
Memory is not about preserving the past but turning towards the future. Reorienting the memory of the Enlightenment through deconstruction problematizes coloniality.
Borradori ‘3 Giovanna Borradori, professor of philosophy at Vassar college, Interview with Jacques Derrida “Philosophy in a Time of Terror” pg. 170-172

Tournament: D8 | Round: 5 | Opponent: CUNY Cheung-DeJohn | Judge: Fountain, Rubino
Permutation do the plan as a line of flight. Deleuze would fundamentally agree that our methodology is a good way to break down ideological binaries which escapes from normative thought processes. Deleuze encourages a breakdown of binary thinking.
Brian Massumi, 1983 (Professor at U of Montreal, Masters and Doctoral degrees in French Literature from Yale University and completed postdoctoral work at Stanford University.; Ph. D., is a political theorist, writer and  philosopher; A Thousand Plateaus, Introduction)

There can be no separation from the academy – only a deconstruction of rationality and freedom can appropriate those concepts in a counter-hegemonic manner.
Derrida ‘3 Jacques Derrida, THE “WORLD” OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO COME (EXCEPTION, CALCULATION, SOVEREIGNTY)* 2003 Pg. 43-44

Tournament: Navy | Round: 1 | Opponent: Georgetown Fang-Kelley | Judge: Cramer
Only by considering the spectral Other can we move towards justice.
Derrida ‘93 Jacques Derrida, “Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International” 1993 pg.xviii

Tournament: D8 | Round: 2 | Opponent: CUNY McIntyre-Joseph | Judge: Goodrich, Leeson-Schatz
Turn: Debate isn’t a home because of Eurocentric focus on what constitutes rationality. Only reorienting the memory of the Enlightenment through deconstruction problematizes whiteness. Borradori indicates that memory is always towards the future which means we can have a responsibility to the Other by recognizing Enlightment
Borradori ‘3 Giovanna Borradori, professor of philosophy at Vassar college, Interview with Jacques Derrida “Philosophy in a Time of Terror” pg. 170-172

The striving for unity and coherence is the hallmark of whiteness. Deconstruction is a logic of disintegration that would generate radical and open subjectivities.
Wadham ‘3 Ben Wadham, TASA Conference University of New England, “The Turn to Whiteness: Race, Nationand Cultural Sociology” December 2003 

Archive DA: The 1AC attempt to archive the black woman and Chicana queer narrative of Kianna Middleton within the debate space is reflective of a much larger political play. That which is archived has always been interpreted, represented, and displayed by those in a position of privilege.
Derrida ‘95 Jacques Derrida, “Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression” Diacritics, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Summer, 1995), pp. 9-63, http://www.jstor.org/stable/465144

The archive requires the inscription of an event into an external environment similar to how the 1AC inscribes Middleton’s narrative to give it credence within debate. The archive can only assume an originary breakdown of her memory, and by doing so imposes hermeneutic violence upon the text.
Derrida ‘95 Jacques Derrida, “Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression” Diacritics, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Summer, 1995), pp. 9-63, http://www.jstor.org/stable/465144

Nothing is more problematic than the notion of the archive – the 1AC documentation of Middleton’s narrative is not reflective of her own thoughts, but rather the aff’s re-presentation of her text.
Derrida ‘95 Jacques Derrida, “Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression” Diacritics, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Summer, 1995), pp. 9-63, http://www.jstor.org/stable/465144

The aff solves the disad because we recognize that we can never have a pure identification with the oppressed. This is the only way to prevent the violence of the static archive – we must always yearn to know what was lost.
Derrida ‘95 Jacques Derrida, “Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression” Diacritics, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Summer, 1995), pp. 9-63, http://www.jstor.org/stable/465144

Tournament: D8 | Round: 5 | Opponent: CUNY Cheung-DeJohn | Judge: Fountain, Rubino
Nietzsche and Derrida are basically the same argument. The nature of unconditional hospitality, form of criticism, and acceptance of difference.
Ronell 08 (Untread and Untried Nietzsche Reads Derridemocracy Avital Ronell diacritics, Volume 38, Numbers 1-2, Spring-Summer 2008, pp. 158-171 (Article) Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press)

Deconstruction is the culture of experimentation Nietzsche desired.
Ronell 08 (Untread and Untried Nietzsche Reads Derridemocracy Avital Ronell diacritics, Volume 38, Numbers 1-2, Spring-Summer 2008, pp. 158-171 (Article) Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press) 

The elimination of the civilians is not resentmount, the reading they have turns Nietzsche into a fascist in support of Cheney and Bush.
Ronell 08 (Untread and Untried Nietzsche Reads Derridemocracy Avital Ronell diacritics, Volume 38, Numbers 1-2, Spring-Summer 2008, pp. 158-171 (Article) Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press)

Tournament: Harvard | Round: 5 | Opponent: Oklahoma Cherry-Baker | Judge: Peters
A retreat is privileged narcissism that abdicates political responsibility in favor of political apathy. WHITE SCHOLARS MUST FIND WAYS TO SPEAK ABOUT RACE.
Dr. Crenshaw ‘97 Prof of Speech Comm @ Univ. Ala. Carrie-PhD. USC; former director of debate @ Univ. of Ala.; WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION; Resisting Whiteness’ Rhetorical Silence; 61(3), Summer; pp. 253-278.

Tournament: Navy | Round: Octas | Opponent: United States Military Barlow-Saker | Judge: Corrigan, Hagwood, Kallmyer
Unconditional acceptance of the other is a precondition to any ethics and politics.
Borradori ‘3 Giovanna Borradori, professor of philosophy at Vassar college, Interview with Jacques Derrida “Philosophy in a Time of Terror” pg. 158-159

Doesn’t solve the aff – they posit ethics as conditional. Decision is the utmost ethical responsibility and must be made unconditionally.
Mules ‘10 Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Central Queensland University and Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland 2010 Warwick Derrida Today 3.1 http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdfplus/10.3366/drt.2010.0007

Tournament: Navy | Round: Octas | Opponent: United States Military Barlow-Saker | Judge: Corrigan, Hagwood, Kallmyer
The friction between the 1AC and 1NC methodologies are able to induce new tropes of political reality via deconstructive juxtaposition.
Spivak ‘97 an Indian theorist, philosopher and University Professor at Columbia University, where she is a founding member of the school's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, “Jacques Derrida OF GRAMMATOLOGY” Translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak,” http://www.mohamedrabeea.com/books/book1_3997.pdf

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 5 | Opponent: Cal State Fullerton Rodriguez-Su | Judge: Reynolds
The 1nc engages in dangerous politics of prioritizing methodology and assigning intellectual prerequisites political strategy. Their use of the experience of oppression as the status that defines those who should guide politics harms progressive political strategies. Their particular strategy is part of a larger discourse of recapturing agency through privileging experience as the basis for politics.
Craig IRELAND American Culture @ Bilkent ‘02 "The Appeal to Experience and its Consequences" Cultural Critique 52 Fall 2002p.87-88

Experience as manifest destiny. The 1ac's description of unalienated experience turns into a new form of authoritarian pedagogy. Presenting the self as evidence prevents a critical inquiry into what authorities experience itself. The discourse of experience becomes a trump card-a fascist prohibition on what can be criticized and what stands as absolute.
Rey CHOW Modern Culture and Media @ Brown ’98 Ethics After Idealism

The 1nc begins with the appeal to bodily experience and materiality as the basis for political action. This becomes the basis for an authentic and unideological experience that questions dominant narrative. Treating this body as the corrective to ideology reduces everyone to a purely biological identity. Instead of exchange and transgression we end up with a static politics and pedagogy.
Craig IRELAND American Culture @ Bilkent ’02  "The Appeal to Experience and its Consequences" Cultural Critique 52 Fall 2002, 91-96

Tournament: D8 | Round: 8 | Opponent: CUNY Singh-Ayaz | Judge: Marty, Webster Dunn
A retreat is privileged narcissism that abdicates political responsibility in favor of political apathy. WHITE SCHOLARS MUST FIND WAYS TO SPEAK ABOUT RACE.
Dr. Crenshaw ‘97 Prof of Speech Comm @ Univ. Ala. Carrie-PhD. USC; former director of debate @ Univ. of Ala.; WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION; Resisting Whiteness’ Rhetorical Silence; 61(3), Summer; pp. 253-278.

Racial violence cites the structures and movements of language to gain potency. Instead of focusing on the individual words we have to identify the relations between words.
Johndruff ‘7 Mike Johndruff, studies relations between the intellect and literature from the Enlightenment to the age of modern literary studies, “Language, Racism, and Beyond” November 23rd 2007

Memory is not about preserving the past but turning towards the future. Reorienting the memory of the Enlightenment through deconstruction problematizes whiteness.
Borradori ‘3 Giovanna Borradori, professor of philosophy at Vassar college, Interview with Jacques Derrida “Philosophy in a Time of Terror” pg. 170-172

The striving for unity and coherence is the hallmark of whiteness. Deconstruction is a logic of disintegration that would generate radical and open subjectivities.
Wadham ‘3 Ben Wadham, TASA Conference University of New England, “The Turn to Whiteness: Race, Nationand Cultural Sociology” December 2003 

There can be no separation from reason – only a deconstruction of rationality and freedom can appropriate those concepts in a counter-hegemonic manner.
Derrida ‘3 Jacques Derrida, THE “WORLD” OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO COME (EXCEPTION, CALCULATION, SOVEREIGNTY)* 2003 Pg. 43-44

Ontological Blackness DA: The neg reinscribes a notion of ontological blackness that effaces black bodies’ individuality. Race becomes replicated within black racial discourses so that ontological blackness becomes the “blackness that whiteness created,” a black aesthetic that signifies the totality of black existence.
Anderson ’95 Victor – Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics at Vanderbilt Divinity School; PhD in religion, ethics and politics from Princeton University, “BEYOND ONTOLOGICAL BLACKNESS: An Essay on African American Religious and Cultural Criticism

Turns all offense: ontological blackness distorts homogenizes the conditions of Black life and experience which is at odds with the new postmodern cultural politics of black identity.
Anderson ’95 Victor – Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics at Vanderbilt Divinity School; PhD in religion, ethics and politics from Princeton University, “BEYOND ONTOLOGICAL BLACKNESS: An Essay on African American Religious and Cultural Criticism

Tournament: Ndt | Round: 2 | Opponent: North Texas Kersch-Anderson | Judge: Cook, Evans, Morgan

1AC Rd 2 NDT

Drones have gotten a bad rap in the debate community so far. Conservative teams would have you believe that drones need to be reined in but have minimal collateral damage and are the best tool to keep democratic citizens safe, while liberal teams would have you believe that the U.S. is drunk with power in its usage of drones, slaughtering babies to hit the cell phone of a terrorist leader. Both and neither of these realities are true. Ignored from these conversations has been the intensification of the intimate forms of violence that drone pilots and their targets experience, commanded from afar by policy makers, drone pilots watch their targets die closer than ground troops did in Iraqi during combat. The human experience of war from the conversation has been ignored.

Holmqvist, 2013. (Caroline, Holmqvist. Centre for International Studies, London School of Economics, UK Swedish National Defense College, Sweden. Undoing War: War Ontologies and the Materiality of Drone Warfare. May 1, 2013. http://mil.sagepub.com/content/early-http://mil.sagepub.com/content/early )
No doubt, drone warfare is infinitely more real for the populations amongst whom attacks
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about the way in which that rela- tion is mediated by technology.

Today’s civilian is tomorrow’s terrorist, and today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s civilian. If the literature on targeted killing is teaching us anything it’s that these divisions are malleable. The idea that we can fly planes into a foreign country and rain death from the sky, without any way for affected populations to contest such violence, continually reproduces the need for strikes.

Schmidt 08 (Dennis J. Schmidt Who Counts? On Democracy, Power, and the Incalculable Research in Phenomenology 38 (2008) 228–243)
In place of any possible sovereign power, today we find the final possible alternative
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totalization and closure of the space of political life is indeed so seamless.

Drone pilots are confronted with the fluidity of the distinction between civilian and terrorist. The U.S. desire to pinpoint an inherently violent Other has triggered an autoimmune response where the war on terror has transformed into a war on alterity. The attempt to proscribe a response to the presencing of beings in zones of conflict makes violent political response inevitable.

Borradori ’3 ~Giovanna Borradori, professor of philosophy at Vassar college, Interview with Jacques Derrida "Philosophy in a Time of Terror" pg. 148-150~
In Derrida’s reading, 9/11 is the symptom of an autoimmune crisis oc¬curring
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. This truth is hard to accept but even more dangerous to reject.

Daniel and I think that we should not targeted kill civilian(terrorists).

The juxtaposition of the terrorist(civilian) is an ethical response that fosters openness and refuses to impose order, containment, and domination onto such others. It problematizes the current order of politics by blurring the lines of identification. This aporia is the only way to move towards justice and is a precondition to ethics.

MacDonald ’99 Department of Political Studies, Queens University 1999 Eleanor Science 26 Society 63.2 proquest
In an unusually direct moment in his article, "Force of Law: The
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modality of a living present (Derrida, 1994, 64-5.)

We think debate matters, that debate is a unique political space. It is here that we see an intersection of citizenship, politics, law, and democracy. Debate gestures towards democracy to come, an open hospitable environment characterized by radically different views of what matters. How we conceptualize polarized others in this space matters, the openness to terrorism has the possibility of a different conceptualization of difference outside of the rubric of security and extermination.

Kuswa and Walsh ’07 (Arguing War in an Era of Terrorism: "Democracy to Come" and Critical Pedagogy Kevin Kuswa and Briann Walsh  (CONTROVERSIA Volume 5 Issue 2 http://www.idebate.org/resources/publications/controversia.php-http://www.idebate.org/resources/publications/controversia.php )
Our argument updates the insights of critical pedagogy by re-thinking the way the
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, a critical connection to teaching and learning that argues war to transcend.

Politics has been ceded to the think tanks, tested in focus groups than formulated into law. The entire system would be laughable if it wasn’t our current political context. This engagement with stupidity begs for deconstruction. Our politics is one that is allergic to policy itself, an issue for the public as well as the policy maker. This difference from policy is exactly what makes democracy thinkable it is a politics that lends way to agency.

Mcquillan 08 (Derrida and Policy: Is Deconstruction Really a Social Science? Derrida Today)
In order for politics to be thinkable there must be some moment at which thought
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properly philosophical and properly a ’political science’, if such a thing exists.

Debate depends on the inclusion of those who maintain critical views of state policy. The foreclosure of critique and dissent marks debate as a fugitive activity by effacing alterity and counter-hegemonic discourses. Deconstruction is necessary to invoke new tropes of political dissent.

Butler ’4 ~2004, Judith Butler is a Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at U.C. Berkeley, "Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence", pg. xix-xxi~
Dissent and debate depend upon the inclusion of those who maintain critical views of state
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as the ability to think critically and publicly about the effects of war.

Deconstructing terrorism is the only responsible course of action. This does not mean we do not come to a decision, but rather choose the action which least imposes onto alterity.

Borradori ’3 ~Giovanna Borradori, professor of philosophy at Vassar college, Interview with Jacques Derrida "Philosophy in a Time of Terror" pg. xiii~
Derrida claims that the deconstruction of the notion of terrorism is the only politically responsible
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digital communication disruptions—may be silent, invisible, and ultimately unimaginable.

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Perm do both –  Adding the ethos of deconstruction takes the alt from a teleological process to an open process of delimitation.

Cheah ’8 Professor of Rhetoric UC-Berkeley 2008 Pheng diacritics 38.1-2 project muse
In dialectical materialism, the process of actualizing material reality is part of the epigenesis
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other as the same, it closes off the experience of radical alterity.

Turn: The recognition of value is a precondition for a commodity’s exchangeability and use-value. Only a deconstruction of value can prevent the reification of capital.

Derrida ’93 ~Jacques Derrida, "Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International" 1993 pg. 201-203~
Without disappearing, use-value becomes, then, a sort of limit,
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value" which arises out of the specific social function of money. 30

The conceptual economy of use value and exchange value must be deconstructed at logo-centric level.

Jay ’88 ~Gregory Jay, Professor of English, "Values and Deconstructions: Derrida, Saussure, Marx" Cultural Critique,
No. 8 (Winter, 1987-1988), pp. 153-196~
The relation of Marxism to deconstruction, and of both to the do-main
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this exterior could operate from the simple position of cause or accident."0

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Permutation embrace the negative’s epistemological standpoint as a furthering of deconstruction that problematizes status quo epistemology. The friction between the 1AC and 1NC methodologies are able to induce new tropes of political reality via deconstructive juxtaposition.

Spivak ’97 ~an Indian theorist, philosopher and University Professor at Columbia University, where she is a founding member of the school’s Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, "Jacques Derrida OF GRAMMATOLOGY" Translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak," http://www.mohamedrabeea.com/books/book1_3997.pdf-http://www.mohamedrabeea.com/books/book1_3997.pdf~~
Speaking of the hymen, Derrida emphasizes the role of the blank spaces of the
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, involving both subject and analyst, is here not to be ignored.

Deconstruction is decolonization – destabilizing Eurocentrism is a prerequisite for engaging in questions of colonialism.

Drabiniski ’13 ~John E. Drabinski, Professor of Black Studies in the Department of Black Studies-https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/black_studies at Amherst College, "Derrida, Eurocentrism, decolonization" December 21, 2013~http://jdrabinski.wordpress.com/2013/12/21/derrida-eurocentrism-decolonization/ - respond-http://jdrabinski.wordpress.com/2013/12/21/derrida-eurocentrism-decolonization/
While I am not the biggest advocate of Aimé Césaire’s work, I’ve always been taken in – in ways that would take more words than I write below to explain – by his comment at the beginning of Discourse on Colonialism that European culture issick. That bit from Césaire came to mind when I came across this short piece by Simon Glendinning-http://blog.oup.com/2012/04/derrida-european-philosophy-eurocentrism/ the other day, which discusses Jacques Derrida’s work on Europe, Eurocentrism, and deconstructive critique. Glendinning’s piece is short, so I don’t want to subject it to too rigorous a reading, but it does make clear and explicit declarations, and it underscores an important difference, for me, between the rhetoric of "Eurocentrism" and of "decolonization." In a certain sense, the two terms share an important family resemblance in antagonism. Glendinning here characterizes Eurocentrism as the view that Europe is the model, the avant garde, and therefore "the best example." That’s true, and I’d summarize such a view, borrowing from Fanon’s early work, as "taking itself as its own measure." In that sense, Eurocentrism is a key component of colonialism not just as a political and economic relation, but as a cultural project: taking itself as its own measure, Europe could do its violent work across the globe without ever being put in question by the victims. Further, and doubling the violence, taking itself as its own measure underpinned the missionary relation as civilizing force that figured as central to global domination after conquest and enslavement. Conversion to European languages and values (in the broadest sense) becomes equivalent to installing civilization where none previously existed. Derrida’s work (Glendinning’s focus), as the thinker himself came to articulate clearly late in his career, ought to be read as a contestation of this centrism. By reading the tradition against itself, the European tradition is destabilized and, I gather (I’ve never quite understood this last moment), shifted away from the self-assigned privilege of being the measure of the world. Because that’s what, on Glendinning’s interpretation, Eurocentrism is all about: the measure of the world. You can’t separate Eurocentrism from colonialism and imperial domination. Perhaps, then, there is (or wants to be) an implicit connection between critiquing Eurocentrism and contesting colonialism in all of its forms. Glendinning co-signs to this project. He does make a juxtaposition, however, that I want to question. Against the critique of Eurocentrism, Glendinning opposes anti-Eurocentrism, which he characterizes in a general way, with Derrida’s words, as a "critical fury" that "condemns" and "rejects" Eurocentrism and replaces it with (self-) loathing. I find that turn in Glendinning’s and Derrida’s analysis interesting and troubling, initially because it pathologizes critique at the affective level. Critics suffer from rage and loathing. And what could be healthy about that? I would say that rage and loathing are completely reasonable responses to multiple centuries of conquest, domination, enslavement, and waging war. So, it’s not clear to me why fury, condemnation, and rejection are problematic. But that’s not my point. What I think Glendinning’s and Derrida’s critical orientation reveals is an important difference between criticizing Eurocentrism and engaging in the work of decolonizing thought. The former wants to de-emphasize and relativize the European tradition by acknowledging excess and, perhaps, pathologizing the erotic relation Western intellectuals often have to European history and thought. I like that. But it doesn’t go nearly far enough. The latter, decolonizing thought, asks more destabilizing questions. What is the relationship between foundational insights and claims in a tradition (or a given thinker) and practices of colonial domination? How is the subconscious of the European tradition (or a given thinker) structured by the desire to take one’s self as measure, and so desire a kind of domination of the interior life of Europe’s others? And of course what I noted in a previous post-http://jdrabinski.wordpress.com/2013/12/09/on-decolonizing-the-colonizer/: where are all the non-European thinkers in the texts of the European tradition, especially the allegedly radical tradition in Europe? This is key. Decolonizing thought means not simply letting Europeans question Europe – a gesture that seems as casually colonial as any other – but rather unleashing the often destructive force of a thought from the other inside the European text. What would it mean, for example, to read The Wretched of the Earth inside of Totality and Infinity, both of which were released in 1961? Totality and Infinity is not the same. That is for sure. And this is a very different kind of deconstruction than one that wants to protect Europe from being consumed by its own crimes. Look, I love Derrida’s work. The truth is, for all of my writing on Levinas early in my writerly career through the present, my thinking (and my imagination of Levinas) has always been very close to Derridean deconstruction. It is an important approach, and Glendinning shows in this brief piece how Derrida’s critical engagement is never polemical. I wouldn’t go so far as to imagine that deconstruction means, as Glendinning puts it, "~t~his European legacy of responsible and relentless self-critique is what Derrida wanted to save, to preserve, and to radicalise." Except that Derrida’s practice, and Glendinning provides the key quotation here, wants to protect Europe from being "defined only by its crimes." So maybe in the hands of Europeans directing discourse back to Europe, it is just this fantasy of self-critique. Where does that desire come from? Why, from the outset, ought we presume that crimes are somehow at critical distance from the methods and content of the tradition? Why not begin with the presumption that the tradition is intimately involved with the crimes, both as effective agents and as modes of justification? After all, plenty of work has been done over the past two decades exploring how the formerly characterized as "occasional pieces or comments" by folks like Locke or Kant or Hegel are absolutely central to the broader projects of epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics. If we entangle the very marrow of tradition, as it were, with the crimes of Europe, then we aren’t so well-positioned to declare at the outset that the European tradition is fundamentally good and just in its striving. In fact, we might discover the opposite. Or even just something different. All of this is to say, if a critique of Eurocentrism is undertaken without attention to the entanglement of foundational questions with the multi-centuries crimes of the region called Europe, then something fundamental about colonialism is never questioned – namely, the privilege, always self-assigned, of being the measure of yourself. One cannot decide the relation to crimes from the outset – who has shown us better than Derrida how such decisions are repetitions and doublings of violence? As well, Derrida’s own conception of the supplement is helpful here: an other (here, perhaps, the colonized) identified at the heart of a text (here, perhaps, the European tradition) that renders the text so unstable that it can no longer justify rights to its former name. After that instability? We cannot know before the work of critique is done. To assign the name and meaning to Europe and its tradition ahead of time – clinging to this myth of "relentless self-critique" that has never actually implicated itself in conquest and colonial domination – is to undertake no critique at all.

The presencing of the Native subject is a precondition for the production of American identity. Exposing how power constitutes the American narrative is a prerequisite to action.

Trapani, 2002 (William, Asst. Professor in Department of Communication Studies (Rhetorical Theory and Criticism, Critical and Cultural Theory, and the Rhetoric of Visual Culture) @ Wayne State University, Winter, "RE/COGNIZING NATIVE AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY IN AN AGE OF MANIFEST MANNERS," The Journal of Law in Society, Lexis)
Far from resolving these questions, the Hearing restaged the primacy and complexity of these
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Indian" became the conduit by which Americans would come to define themselves.

Deconstruction solves – problematizes the homogeneity of Anglo-Euroamerican culture.

Trapani, 2002 (William, Asst. Professor in Department of Communication Studies (Rhetorical Theory and Criticism, Critical and Cultural Theory, and the Rhetoric of Visual Culture) @ Wayne State University, Winter, "RE/COGNIZING NATIVE AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY IN AN AGE OF MANIFEST MANNERS," The Journal of Law in Society, Lexis)
The "serious consequences" discussed are the possibility that an impure and potentially uncontrollable
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may "look like" provides privilege for some tribes while denigrating others.

There can be no separation from reason – only a deconstruction of rationality and freedom can appropriate those concepts in a counter-hegemonic manner.

Derrida ’3 ~Jacques Derrida, THE "WORLD" OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO COME (EXCEPTION, CALCULATION, SOVEREIGNTY)* 2003 Pg. 43-44~
What must be thought here, then, is this inconceivable and unknowable thing,
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infinite, but as the very possibility of an auto-immunitary finitude.

Mignolo’s search for truth and structure reifies the exclusionary framework he contests.

Alcoff 7 ~Linda Martín Alcoff Mignolo’s Epistemology of Coloniality CR: The New Centennial Review, Volume 7, Number 3, Winter 2007, pp. 79-101 (Article) Published by Michigan State University Press DOI: 10.1353/ncr.0.0008~
But I would press Mignolo on two points. Th e first concerns his notion
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aims in regard to forms of knowing, then I am on board.

Memory is not about preserving the past but turning towards the future. Reorienting the memory of the Enlightenment through deconstruction problematizes colonialism.

Borradori ’3 ~Giovanna Borradori, professor of philosophy at Vassar college, Interview with Jacques Derrida "Philosophy in a Time of Terror" pg. 170-172~
Derrida’s reflection on the Europe-to-come began in 1990 when he was
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memory of the promise of the Enlightenment: freedom and equality for all.