1AC - Indefinite Detention - 3-tiered Methodology 1NC - Framework Cap K "Detention" PIC State PIC 2NC - Cap K State PIC 1NR - Detention PIC Case 2NR - State PIC
Kentucky
6
Opponent: Georgia State Stewart-Floyd | Judge: Matheson
1AC - Veteran Personal Narrative 1NC - Peace K Framework Ablism PIC Case 2NC - Peace K Case 1NR - Framework
Kentucky
8
Opponent: Kansas Reed-Goh | Judge: Miller
1AC - Ban Space Weapons 1NC - T-Authority T-Hostilities T-Armed Forces Politics XO Security 2NC - Security Case 1NR - T Case 2NR - T
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2NC Cap round 4 Kentucky
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 4 | Opponent: Louisville Kettle-Tolbert | Judge: Ewald Their musings of "who am I" , is exactly what capitalism needs - a diverse network of ’I’s and ’me’s to consume resources for their own egotistical benefit. The Invisible Committee 9, an anonymous group of French intellectuals. The Coming Insurrection. 2009. Meanwhile, I manage. The quest for a self, my blog, my AND three. Because everywhere the hypothesis of the self is beginning to crack.
This makes resistance to capitalism impossible. Your question should not be "what is MY" subject position, but what is "OUR" subject position. Kirsch 1 Max H. Kirsch, Associate Professor at Florida Atlantic University. P 65-7. 2001. Queer Theory and Social Change. My argument has been that the development of theory which takes the idea of the AND in this way, gives rise to psychological as well as social consequences.
Embracing "experience" or "standpoint" as the basis for epistemology ignores the mediated nature of experience—Experience is just another site for articulating the dominant ideology because it ignores the historical continuity of class domination in favor of a ’local’ understanding of oppression.
Young 2006 (Robert, Red Critique, Winter/Spring, "Putting Materialism back into Race Theory", http://www.redcritique.org/WinterSpring2006/puttingmaterialismbackintoracetheory.htm-http://www.redcritique.org/WinterSpring2006/puttingmaterialismbackintoracetheory.htm) Bourgeois philosophical assumptions haunt the Afrocentric project and, in the domain of black feminist AND suggests that "concrete experience" constitutes a criterion of meaning (208). However, the experiential, the "real", does not adequate the "truth AND an historical understanding of the structures that make experience itself possible as experience? Asante and Collins assume that experience is self-intelligible and in their discourse it AND humanist) scholars through the invocation of the black (transcendental) subject.
Even if they win the historical question of ’what came first’, the question you should default to is: what system reproduces the violence they criticize? Capitalism is that system. Ollman 89 (Bertell, 1989 Professor of Politics at NYU, "In Defense of Marxism," May, http://www.nyu.edu/projects/ollman/docs/marxism_defense.php) First, and most important, Albert and Bookchin seriously misconstrue the nature of Marx’s AND united movement that is needed to achieve our—yes21—common goals.
In this round, we should welcome and affirm the perspectives of veterans. The role of the ballot is the critic should vote for the team that best welcomes and affirms the perspectives of veterans.
As rhetoricians, we have a unique responsibility to reject the ableism of "listening/voice" metaphors Lacey 10 (Teacher, MA in English, "The Conversations Metaphor and Ableism", 9/6, http://equality101.net/?p=1886-http://equality101.net/?p=1886 Accessed 2/10/11 GAL)
In my last post-http://equality101.net/?p=1809, I discussed how I might use the seemingly elementary activity AND teaching students how to critically engage with texts and contribute to their communities.
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: University of Chicago BP | Judge: Jack Ewing Capitalism make real enjoyment impossible, you can have anything you want as long as you don’t have it to excess. Revolution requires the necessarily painful rejection of this form of enjoyment Zizek 5 (http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/endconstruction/desublimation Liberation Hurts: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek Eric Dean Rasmussen 07-26-2005) What interests me is the following paradox: of how, precisely in our liberal AND but nobody will be really hurt. No, sorry, it hurts.
Revolution is not a tea party—it requires violent struggle, our alternative is to embrance the violent exuberance of revolution, only repeating the Maoist-Leninist gesture of violently opposing capitalism makes new modes of social production possible Mao 27 (REPORT ON AN INVESTIGATION OF THE PEASANT MOVEMENT IN HUNAN to CCP headquarters in Shanghai, Mao Zedong 1927) The main targets of attack by the peasants are the local tyrants, the evil AND "It’s terrible21" school then flooding the city, even quite revolutionary minded ?
people became down-hearted as they pictured the events in the countryside in their AND peasant movement and so disrupts the revolution, we must firmly oppose it.
10/5/13
Cap K 1nc round 4 Kentucky
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 4 | Opponent: Louisville Kettle-Tolbert | Judge: Ewald The aff’s focus on race shatters class based coalitions against capitalism - even if oppression is found within intersectionality, capitalism is a much greater force to fostering that inequality, which means we turn the case. Dander 26 Torres 99 A. Darder and R. Torres, 1999.Darder is a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Latino/a Studies, Torres is Professor of Planning, Policy, and Design, Chicano/Latino Studies, and Political Science. "Shattering the Race Lens: Towards a Critical Theory of Racism." Critical Ethnicity. P. 174-6 ~W~e work with raced identities on already reified ground. In the AND view that firmly anchors and sustains prevailing class relations of power in society.
Capitalism is a life cycle, has resulted in the deaths of millions and renders these deaths invisible - it is the driving engine of structural violence today. Herod 7 (James, Columbia U graduate and political activist, "Getting Free" Pg. 22-23 JF) We must never forget that we are at war, however, and that we AND Hun look like boy scouts. This is a terrible enemy we face.
one must understand the existing social totality before one can act on it—grounding the sites of political contestation or knowledge outside of labor and surplus value merely serve to humanize capital and prevent a transition to a society beyond oppression Tumino(Prof. English @ Pitt) 01 ~Stephen, "What is Orthodox Marxism and Why it Matters Now More than Ever", Red Critiqu~
Any effective political theory will have to do at least two things: it will AND determinism of corporate theory ("knowledge work") that masquerades as social theory.
10/6/13
Cap K 2nc
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: University of Chicago BP | Judge: Jack Ewing 2NC And, don’t misunderstand us, it is the revolution itself that creates value to life, not any sort of utopian society Zizek 2 (A Plea for Leninist Intolerance Author(s): Slavoj Zizek Reviewed work(s): Source: Critical Inquiry, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Winter, 2002), pp. 542-566 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1344281) The Leninist Utopia Which, then, is the criterion of the political act? AND It is significant that it was at this very point that Mao ordered the restoration of order.
univ Zizek 8 (Tolerance as an Ideological Category, Slavoj Zizek summer 08 in Critical Inquiry) In the same way, the French royalists were victims of the cunning of reason AND the particular element that is thwarted in its endeavor to reach its identity.
Micropower and the reduction of all politics to discursive interprellation prevents any radical formulations of resistance Feldner and Vighi 7 ( Zizek, Beyond Foucault Fabio Vighi 26 Heiko Feldner 2007 Probably qualled?) Let us now move on to Zizek’s criticism of the second standard approach to ideology AND of agency; both these questions shall be developed fully in Part II.
Their willingness to act within the political horizons of capitalism, to not question the role of democracy and create new forms of political engagement Anything Zizek 1 (Repeating Lenin http://www.lacan.com/replenin.htm) Here, Lenin’s stance against economism as well as against pure politics is crucial today AND that Marx is really dead: appropriated when deprived of his political sting.
10/5/13
Case vs Veterans
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 6 | Opponent: Georgia State Stewart-Floyd | Judge: Matheson The 1ac 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 " Once an arcane philosophical term, experience over the last three decades has become AND of appeals to immediate experience as a ground for subaltern agency and specificity. And it is just such potential consequences that will be examined here, These indeed AND of an essentialized standpoint of critical awareness" (468 n.64). The consequences of such appeals to experience can best be addressed not by individually considering disparate currents, but by seeking their common denominator. And in this regard, E.P. Thompson will occupy the foreground. It is safe to say that what started as an altercation between Thompson and AND ’black’ or ’lesbian’ or ’homosexual’ for ’working class’" (Scott, 786)
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 In the foregoing pages, I have tried to argue that fascism needs to be AND accounts of difference and alternative histories derived from personal experience" now aspire. This kind of aspiration, Scott implies, is an aspiration toward the self-evidence of the self’s (personal) experience. The self as evidence this means that the self, like the Stalin myth in Soviet cinema, is so transparent, so shone through with light, that it simply is without need for further argument about its history or what Scott calls its "discursive character."
President Barack Obama started September in an agonizing, extended display of how little sway AND "They don’t suddenly start going the other way as people rethink this."
Going off message undermines Obama’s constant pressure on the GOP.
If President Obama can stick to his guns, he will win his October standoff AND If he retreats, he will embolden his opponents and demoralize his supporters.
Failure to lift the ceiling collapses the global economy.
If the debt ceiling isn’t lifted again this fall, some serious financial decisions will AND free asset more risky, the entire global economy becomes riskier and costlier.
Economic collapse causes global nuclear war.
Merlini, Senior Fellow – Brookings, 11 ~Cesare Merlini, nonresident senior fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Italian Institute for International Affairs (IAI) in Rome. He served as IAI president from 1979 to 2001. Until 2009, he also occupied the position of executive vice chairman of the Council for the United States and Italy, which he co-founded in 1983. His areas of expertise include transatlantic relations, European integration and nuclear non-proliferation, with particular focus on nuclear science and technology. A Post-Secular World? DOI: 10.1080/00396338.2011.571015 Article Requests: Order Reprints : Request Permissions Published in: journal Survival, Volume 53, Issue 2 April 2011 , pages 117 - 130 Publication Frequency: 6 issues per year Download PDF Download PDF (~357 KB) View Related Articles To cite this Article: Merlini, Cesare ’A Post-Secular World?’, Survival, 53:2, 117 – 130~ Two neatly opposed scenarios for the future of the world order illustrate the range of AND theocratic absolutes, competing or converging with secular absolutes such as unbridled nationalism.
10/14/13
Detention PIC
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 4 | Opponent: Louisville Kettle-Tolbert | Judge: Ewald The United States Federal Government should increase its judicial restrictions on indefinite imprisonment
This militarization of language results in global catastrophe
Zournazi, 07 – professor at the University of Woolongong (Mary, Keywords to War: Reviving Language in an Age of Terror, pp. 1-4, Scribe Publications)Red Keywords to War is a response to this profoundly disturbing environment. The book emerges AND so in order to imagine and construct an alternative vision of our world.
10/6/13
Framework Round 2 Kentucky
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: University of Chicago BP | Judge: Jack Ewing
FW
Our interpretation is that an affirmative should defend a topical action by the USfg as the endpoint of their advocacy. This does not mandate roleplaying, immediate fiat or any particular means of impact calculus.
"USFG should" proscribes both a stable agent and mechanism Ericson ’03 (Jon M., Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts – California Polytechnic U., et al., The Debater’s Guide, Third Edition, p. 4)
The Proposition of Policy: Urging Future Action In policy propositions, each topic contains AND compelling reasons for an audience to perform the future action that you propose.
The Aff undermines the ability to have a limited and stable number of Affirmatives to prepare against. This is a reason to vote negative.
First is Decision-making Increasing the abstraction of debates and undermining stasis hampers the decision-making benefits of debate Steinberg, lecturer of communication studies – University of Miami, and Freeley, Boston based attorney who focuses on criminal, personal injury and civil rights law, ’8 (David L. and Austin J., Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making p. 45) Debate is a means of settling differences, so there must be a difference of AND Congress to make progress on the immigration debate during the summer of 2007. Someone disturbed by the problem of the growing underclass of poorly educated, socially disenfranchised AND specific policies to be investigated and aid discussants in identifying points of difference. To have a productive debate, which facilitates effective decision making by directing and placing AND
the comparative effectiveness of writing or physical force for a specific purpose. Although we now have a general subject, we have not yet stated a problem AND particular point of difference, which will be outlined in the following discussion.
Decision-making is the most important facet of education we could take away from debate – key to success in any future role Steinberg, lecturer of communication studies – University of Miami, and Freeley, Boston based attorney who focuses on criminal, personal injury and civil rights law, ’8 (David L. and Austin J., Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making p. 9-10)
After several days of intense debate, first the United States House of Representatives and AND support the military action, and in the face of significant international opposition. Meanwhile, and perhaps equally difficult for the parties involved, a young couple deliberated AND made. Each decision maker worked hard to make well-reasoned decisions. Decision making is a thoughtful process of choosing among a variety of options for acting AND decision making, as do our school, community, and social organizations. We all make many decisions even- day. To refinance or sell one’s home, to buy a high-performance SUV or an economical hybrid car. what major to select, what to have for dinner, what candidate CO vote for. paper or plastic, all present lis with choices. Should the president deal with an international crisis through military invasion or diplomacy? How should the U.S. Congress act to address illegal immigration? Is the defendant guilty as accused? Tlie Daily Show or the ball game? AND do we sort through it and select the best information for our needs? The ability of every decision maker to make good, reasoned, and ethical decisions relies heavily upon their ability to think critically. Critical thinking enables one to break argumentation down to its component parts in order to evaluate its relative validity and strength. Critical thinkers are better users of information, as well as better advocates. Colleges and universities expect their students to develop their critical thinking skills and may require students to take designated courses to that end. The importance and value of such study is widely recognized. Much of the most significant communication of our lives is conducted in the form of debates. These may take place in intrapersonal communications, in which we weigh the pros and cons of an important decision in our own minds, or they may take place in interpersonal communications, in which we listen to arguments intended to influence our decision or participate in exchanges to influence the decisions of others. Our success or failure in life is largely determined by our ability to make wise AND customer for out product, or a vote for our favored political candidate.
Next is substantive side bias Surely the Aff will say the Neg can still debate them on the substance of their advocacy but not defending the clear actor and mechanism of the resolutional produces a substantive side bias. Affirmatives that don’t defend the resolution make deploying other strategies against them inordinately Aff tilted. They have the ability to radically recontextualize link arguments, empathize different proscriptive claims of the 1AC while using traditional competition standards like perms to make being impossible inordinately difficult.
And we have an external impact to this net benefit Sufficient research-based preparation and debates focused on detailed points of disagreement are crucial to transforming political culture Gutting (professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame) 13 (Gary, Feb 19, A Great Debate, http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/a-great-debate/?emc=eta1) This is the year of what should be a decisive debate on our country’s spending and debt. But our political "debates" seldom deserve the name. For the most part representatives of the rival parties exchange one-liners: "The rich can afford to pay more" is met by "Tax increases kill jobs." Slightly more sophisticated discussions may cite historical precedents: "There were higher tax rates during the post-war boom" versus "Reagan’s tax cuts increased revenues." Such volleys still don’t even amount to arguments: they don’t put forward generally accepted premises that support a conclusion. Full-scale speeches by politicians are seldom much more than collections of such slogans and factoids, hung on a string of platitudes. Despite the name, candidates’ pre-election debates are exercises in looking authoritative, imposing their talking points on the questions, avoiding gaffes, and embarrassing their opponents with "zingers" (the historic paradigm: "There you go again."). There is a high level of political discussion in the editorials and op-eds AND through the strengths of their rivals’ positions or the weaknesses of their own. Is there any way to make genuine debates — sustained back-and-forth exchanges, meeting high intellectual standards but still widely accessible — part of our political culture? (I leave to historians the question of whether there are historical precedents— like the Webster-Hayne or Lincoln-Douglas debates.) Can we put our politicians in a situation where they cannot ignore challenges, where they must genuinely engage with one another in responsible discussion and not just repeat talking points? A first condition is that the debates be focused on specific points of major disagreement. Not, "How can we improve our economy?" but "Will tax cuts for the wealthy or stimulus spending on infrastructure do more to improve our economy?" This will prevent vague statements of principle that don’t address the real issues at stake. Another issue is the medium of the debate. Written discussions, in print or online could be easily arranged, but personal encounters are more vivid and will better engage public attention. They should not, however, be merely extemporaneous events, where too much will depend on quick-thinking and an engaging manner. We want remarks to be carefully prepared and open to considered responses.
And effective deliberative discourse is the lynchpin to solving all existential problems Christian O. Lundberg 10 Professor of Communications @ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Tradition of Debate in North Carolina" in Navigating Opportunity: Policy Debate in the 21st Century By Allan D. Louden, p311 The second major problem with the critique that identifies a naivety in articulating debate and AND their time and political energies toward policies that matter the most to them. The merits of debate as a tool for building democratic capacity-building take on AND navigate academic search databases and to effectively search and use other Web resources: To analyze the self-report ratings of the instructional and control group students, AND searching, not just in academic databases. (Larkin 2005, 144) Larkin’s study substantiates Thomas Worthcn and Gaylcn Pack’s (1992, 3) claim that AND cite and rely upon from an easily accessible and veritable cornucopia of materials. There are, without a doubt, a number of important criticisms of employing debate AND to the possibilities of meaningful political engagement and new articulations of democratic life. Expanding this practice is crucial, if only because the more we produce citizens that AND with the existential challenges to democracy ~in an~ increasingly complex world.
Third is Mechanism Education The Aff’s failure to ID a clear mechanism of change has the most devastating effects on the quality of debates. It makes link comparisons vacuous and means that detailed and well prepared PICs about substance, everyone’s favorite and most education part of debate are all but impossible.
We do not need to win that the state is good, rather just that AND on the aff, only provides an unfair tactical advantage to their arguments.
And this turns the Aff – debates over mechanisms for change are crucial to the success of leftist politics Schostak (Professor of Education at Manchester Metropolitan University) 11 (John, Wikileaks, Tahrir Square – their significance for re-thinking democracy, Manchester social movements conference, April, http://www.enquirylearning.net/ELU/politics/tahrirwikileaks.html) In his study of the conditions of work imposed by neo-liberal practices in AND Wikileaks and has been happening in the Middle East is so important today.
This is particularly true for education on this topic Public sphere debates over engagement with the state energy apparatus prevents energy technocracy and equips us to oppose the dominance of oil, coal, and other elitist interests they criticize Hager, professor of political science – Bryn Mawr College, ’92 (Carol J., "Democratizing Technology: Citizen 26 State in West German Energy Politics, 1974-1990" Polity, Vol. 25, No. 1, p. 45-70) During this phase, the citizen initiative attempted to overcome its defensive posture and implement AND . Thus, local activists met to discuss forming their own voting list. These discussions provoked internal dissent. Many citizen initiative members objected to the idea of AND politics themselves; self-determination was the aim of their activity.48 Once in parliament, the AL proposed establishment of a temporary parliamentary commission to study AND forum they sought to push for modernization and technical innovation in energy policy. Although it had scaled down the proposed new plant, the utility had produced no AND policy motivated policy makers to take stronger positions in favor of environmental protection. III. Conclusion The West Berlin energy project eventually cleared all planning hurdles, and construction began in AND particular projects was a reaction against the administrative-economic system in general. One author, for example, describes the emergence of two-dimensional protest against AND as the more important and in many ways the more prob-lematic. Parliamentary Politics In the 1970s, energy politics began to develop in the direction Offe de- AND and fundamentally change it, to restore the link between bureaucracy and citizenry. Parliamentary politics was partially revived in the eyes of West German grassroots groups as a AND they have a chance to implement at least some parts of their program. This internal debate, which has never been resolved, can be interpreted in different AND by grassroots groups and parties keeps questions of democracy on the public agenda. Technical Debate In West Berlin, the two-dimensionality of the energy issue forced citizen activists to become both participants in and critics of the policy process. In order to defeat the plant, activists engaged in technical debate. They won several decisions in favor of environmental protection, often proving to be more informed than bureaucratic experts themselves. The case study demonstrates that grassroots groups, far from impeding techno-logical advancement, can actually serve as technological innovators. The activists’ role as technical experts, while it helped them achieve some success on AND much influenced by the choices of policy makers as by independent technical criteria. Submission to the form and language of technical debate, however, weakened activists’ attempts AND raised the possibility of a dialogue that is both technically sophisticated and democratic. In sum, although the legitimation problems which gave rise to grass-roots protest have not been resolved, citizen action has worked to counter the marginalization of parliamentary politics and the technocratic character of policy debate that Offe and Habermas identify. The West Berlin case suggests that the solutions to current legitimation problems may not require total repudiation of those things previously associated with technocracy.56 In Berlin, the citizen initiative and AL continue to search for new, more AND a space for a delibera-tive politics in modern technological society.61
The experience of war has driven Russel Brown, who served in Vietnam with the Fourth Marines, to a life of political resistance to war. Brown explains with Sherwood Bross in 2012
====Ross 26 Brown in 12 Sherwood Ross, Military Journalist; 26 Russel Brown—Vietnam veteran turned anti-war activist; "Why An Ex-Marine Turns Pacifist" Veterans Today; May 21, 2012; http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/05/21/why-an-ex-marine-turns-pacifist/====** It’s been a long journey for Russell Brown, 65, from the days when AND defy it, a man who refuses to allow himself to be intimidated.
We propose an alternate approach – instead of assuming the specter of war can always reappear, we deny the inevitability of war
Cady 10 (Duane L., prof of phil @ hamline university, From Warism to Pacifism: A Moral Continuum, pp. 22-23) The widespread, unquestioning acceptance of warism and the corresponding reluctance to consider pacifism as AND a given war or the morality of specific acts within a particular war.
This consciousness of war guarantees endless violence that ensures planetary destruction and structural violence. Our opposition to war isn’t an opposition to soldiers, but to the elites that send them to fight for their own interests.
- Another impact: freeing ourselves from war = more resources for peace Lawrence 9 (Grant, "Military Industrial "War" Consciousness Responsible for Economic and Social Collapse," OEN—OpEdNews, March 27) As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama-http://obama.senate.gov/ called Afghanistan-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_282001E28093present29 ’’the war we must win. AND will be forced to live the life our present war consciousness is creating.
The alternative must begin in here and now– we need to free ourselves of the presumption towards war and advocate for peace and social justice to stop the flow of militarism that threatens existence
- Democracy itself is the product of searching for peaceful solutions Demenchonok 9 – Worked as a senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the AND Economics and Sociology, Volume 68, Issue 1, Pages 9-49 Where, then, does the future lie? Unilateralism, hegemonic political anarchy, AND also of the extent, quality, and urgency of our present choices.
Roll of the ballot – the way we discuss and represent war should come first – the language surrounding violence has direct, concrete effects
Collins 26 Glover 2 (John, Assistant Prof. of Global Studies at St. Lawrence University, Ross, Visiting Professor of Sociology at St. Lawrence University, Collateral Language, p. 6-7) As any university student knows, theories about the "social con¬struction" and social AND less likely to avert our mental gaze from the physical effects of violence.
Throughout this paper, we have seen cases of how national security is an antonym AND , which can be utilized as a philosophical anchorage for tactical goal setting.
Debate = Who We Are Bjork 93 (Rebecca. Former college debater and former associate professor at the University of Utah, where she taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Communication and Women in Debate, Reflections on the Ongoing Struggle, Debater’s Research Guide 1992-1993: Wake Forest University.Symposium, web.archive.org/web/20011012220529/members.aol.com/womynindebate/article3.htm)
While reflecting on my experiences as a woman in academic debate in preparation for this AND do so, we give up the only real power that we have.
10/6/13
Poetry K 1nc
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: University of Chicago BP | Judge: Jack Ewing
K
To call for a ballot is to breathe life into the system, a system content on devouring and consuming all beings and potentialities for the sake of dead labor which is turned on its head for more and more production - resistance is a sight for power to exert itself. To vote aff is to vote for production, prefer exhaustion. Bifo 11 – Whit Whitmore’s pen name (Franco "Bifo" Berardi, After the Future pg 106-108 (of my copy), dml) Nothing, not even the system, can avoid the symbolic obligation, and it AND new concatenation, where collective intelligence is only subjected to the common good.
Trying to create change is bad—traps us within capitalist systems and is depression Genosko and thoburn 11—philosophers (Gary and Nick, After the Future pg 6-7, dml)
Activism, Bifo argues, is the narcissistic response of the subject to the infinite AND future, and after the redundant subjective forms of which it was made.
Vote negative on presumption - the poem has already been introduced into the word. The artist has no tie to the poem. Bryant 12 - Professor of Philosophy at Collin College (Levi R., Author of a number of articles on Deleuze, Badiou, Zizek, Lacan, and political theory, July 22nd, 2012, http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/machinic-art-the-matter-of-contradiction/) An artist friend of mine asked me what I’ll be discussing at The Matter of AND sense, and creates an affect for the slaughter of the innocents everywhere.
If they win some model of subjectivity in relation to the artistic piece is good, it would be better to vote negative anyway. Make the aff a suicide bomber. Fernando 10 (Jeremy Fernando, The Suicide Bomber and her gift of death, 2010, pg 213 - _, DA: 1/24/12) The poet, irremediably split between exaltation and vulgarity, between the autonomy that produces AND nothing we can say of her except the fact that she is dead.
10/5/13
Poetry K 2nc
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: University of Chicago BP | Judge: Jack Ewing The 1AC is an object that speaks for ITSELF - voting for the affirmative is NOT voting for the 1ac, vote negative on presumption. Bryant 12 - Professor of Philosophy at Collin College (Levi R., Author of a number of articles on Deleuze, Badiou, Zizek, Lacan, and political theory, July 24th, 2012, http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/radical-ethnography-or-situated-knowledge-a-response-to-a-friend/) Your tone here sounds a bit irritated. I hope I didn’t provoke that as AND that matter –can be reduced to what it is for another entity.
Congressional restrictions cause adversaries to doubt the resolve of U.S. deterrence – causes crisis escalation.
Waxman 8/25 ~Matthew Waxman 8/25/13, Professor of Law – Columbia and Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and Foreign Policy – CFR, "The Constitutional Power to Threaten War," Forthcoming in Yale Law Journal, vol. 123, August 25, 2013, SSRN~ A claim previously advanced from a presidentialist perspective is that stronger legislative checks on war AND to use force in order to prevent a confrontation which might escalate.179
Gerson 09 MICHAEL S. GERSON, research analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses, Policy Fellow with the ONE Campaign, a visiting fellow with the Center for Public Justice, and a former senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations,"Conventional Deterrence in the Second Nuclear Age", Strategic Studies Institute, Autumn 2009 jchen Although implicit or explicit nuclear threats may lack credibili- ty against non-WMD regimes, many potential adversaries believe that the United States will use conventional firepower, especially because America has conventional superiority and a demonstrated willingness to use it. Consequently, when dealing with non-WMD-related threats, conventional deterrence will be the most likely mechanism for deterring hostile actions. According to Admiral Michael Mullen, the current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "A big part of credibility, of course, lies in our convention- al capability. The capability to project power globally and conduct effective theater-level operations . . . remains essential to deterrence effectiveness."14 Conventional deterrence also plays an important role in preventing nonnuclear aggression by nuclear-armed AND and perhaps coali- tion partners) would choose not to get involved. In this context, conventional deterrence can be an important mech- anism to limit AND regimes from believing that nuclear possession provides opportunities for conventional aggression and coercion.
Foreign policy resolve’s key to prevent a host of impacts—-now’s key
Chapin and Hanson 9 – Bernard Chapin- interviewer, and Victor Davis Hanson, the Martin and Illie Anderson senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, December 7, 2009, "Change, weakness, disaster," online: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/change-weakness-disaster-obama-answers-from-victor-davis-hanson/ BC: Are we currently sending a message of weakness to our foes and allies AND tiger and now no one quite knows whom it will bite or when.
10/14/13
Sacrifice K
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: University of Chicago BP | Judge: Jack Ewing
K
They deify sacrifice. Valorization of the act makes sacrifice ITSELF the one thing that stands beyond critique. The endless reintroduction of meaning through the affirmation of sacrifice as an act of defiance is itself the essence of the modern world.
Our alternative is to sacrifice the sacrifice, to demonstrate the impossibility of sacrifice Elisabeth Arnould, lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, "The Impossible Sacrifice of Poetry: Bataille and the Nancian Critique of Sacrifice," Diacritics 26.2, 1996 Sacrifice is unquestionably the most prominent model in Bataille’s thinking of finitude. But it AND ," then we must also call it "unsacrificeable" ~Nancy 30~.
10/5/13
Sacrifice K 1nr
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: University of Chicago BP | Judge: Jack Ewing
They are ontologically backward. Their desire to dissolve the self is grounded in a fundamental fear of non-being. Every piece of the 1ac makes this clear in its attempt to run from meaning, to run from the pain of selfhood. Make your meaning anyway. At best, even if they choose to dissolve themselves, there is no reason they should force that onto you.
Stevenson No Date Herb, some guy writing about Tillich; "The Courage To Be" Natural Passages; http://www.natural-passages.com/articles/courage-to-be.htm** To take a stand, alone, is to acknowledge that, in terms of AND beyond the manifold threat of nonbeing." (Tillich, p. 155)
Their focus on the sacred and ateleological expenditure results in fascism
Bell, M.A. Thesis in the Theory, Culture and Politics Program at Trent University, 2008 ~Jeremy, "Bataille, the Economic, and the Sacred: Working through the accursed share," January, proquest, 91-96~
At the same time however, we need not apologize for the irrefutable problems with AND childish economy of play, could lapse into the bloodshed of primitive war.
10/5/13
Security K 1nc Kentucky round 8
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 8 | Opponent: Kansas Reed-Goh | Judge: Miller Their attempt to order the world through multilateralism ignores the inherently chaotic nature of politics – destroys all that makes life valuable and makes the aff fail Der Derian 98 (James, Professor of International Studies at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University "The Value of Security: Hobbes, Marx, Nietzsche, and Baudrillard", On Security, CIAO) The will to power, then, should not be confused with a Hobbesian perpetual AND with a fictional sovereignty, are all effects of this suppression of fear. The desire for security is manifested as a collective resentment of difference—that which AND knowledge not the jubilation over the restoration of a sense of security?" 37 The fear of the unknown and the desire for certainty combine to produce a domesticated AND elucidates the nature of this generative relationship in The Twilight of the Idols : The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of AND the strange, new and hitherto unexperienced: the most habitual explanations. 38 A safe life requires safe truths. The strange and the alien remain unexamined, the unknown becomes identified as evil, and evil provokes hostility—recycling the desire for security. The "influence of timidity," as Nietzsche puts it, creates a people who are willing to subordinate affirmative values to the "necessities" of security: "they fear change, transitoriness: this expresses a straitened soul, full of mistrust and evil experiences." 39 The unknowable which cannot be contained by force or explained by reason is relegated to AND true; or a state of consciousness is confused with its causes." 41 Nietzsche’s interpretation of the origins of religion can shed some light on this paradoxical origin and transvaluation of security. In The Genealogy of Morals , Nietzsche sees religion arising from a sense of fear and indebtedness to one’s ancestors: The conviction reigns that it is only through the sacrifices and accomplishments of the ancestors that the tribe exists —and that one has to pay them back with sacrifices and accomplishments: one thus recognizes a debt that constantly grows greater, since these forebears never cease, in their continued existence as powerful spirits, to accord the tribe new advantages and new strength. 42 Sacrifices, honors, obedience are given but it is never enough, for The ancestors of the most powerful tribes are bound eventually to grow to monstrous dimensions through the imagination of growing fear and to recede into the darkness of the divinely uncanny and unimaginable: in the end the ancestor must necessarily be transfigured into a god . 43 As the ancestor’s debt becomes embedded in institutions, the community takes on the role of creditor. Nietzsche mocks this originary, Hobbesian moment: to rely upon an "artificial strength": "the feeling One lives in a community, one enjoys the advantages of communality (oh what advantages21 we sometimes underrate them today), one dwells protected, cared for, in peace and trustfulness, without fear of certain injuries and hostile acts to which the man outside , the "man without peace," is exposed . . . since one has bound and pledged oneself to the community precisely with a view to injury and hostile acts. 44 The establishment of the community is dependent upon, indeed it feeds upon, this AND internalization and legitimation of a fear that lost its original source long ago. This powerful nexus of fear, of external and internal otherness, generates the values which uphold the security imperative. Indeed, Nietzsche locates the genealogy of even individual rights, such as freedom, in the calculus of maintaining security: - My rights - are that part of my power which others not merely conceded AND to a hostile third power. Then : by donation and cession. 45 The point of Nietzsche’s critical genealogy is to show that the perilous conditions that created AND captured at the end of Daybreak in a series of rhetorical questions: Of future virtues—How comes it that the more comprehensible the world has grown AND own dignity and solemnity, our own fearsomeness , not also diminished? 47 It is of course in Nietzsche’s lament, in his deepest pessimism for the last AND that incorporates the notion of "indifference to and contempt for security." 48 It is perhaps too much to expect Nietzsche’s message to resonate in late modern times AND canalized into a cautious identity constructed from the calculation of risks and benefits.
Apocalyptic representations of climate change are an ineffective rhetorical strategy that produces a self-fulfilling prophecy Hulme (Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, and Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research) 6 (Mike, Chaotic world of climate truth, 4 November, http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6115644.stm)
The language of catastrophe is not the language of science. It will not be AND in danger of tipping society onto a negative, depressive and reactionary trajectory.
Security logic has become a system of future predicting and pre-programing of response priori to a authentic engagement. The orientation precludes a ethical engagement with others and makes it impossible to have a objective perspective. Do nothing is a policy of resistance that changes the very concept of policy making. Mcquillan 08 (Derrida and Policy: Is Deconstruction Really a Social Science? Derrida Today) One might think that Derrida’s invocation of International Law in his later writings would represent AND be of no use to anyone, except as a policy of resistance. Here is the rub, the moment that one begins to attempt a thought experiment AND as such is on the side of the unconditional rather than the sovereign.
10/14/13
Security K 2nc Kentucky round 8
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 8 | Opponent: Kansas Reed-Goh | Judge: Miller Tag Baudrillard, 94 (Jean, The Illusion of the End, p. 71)
Artificial catastrophes, like the beneficial aspects of civilization, progress much more quickly than AND fate, it will prefer to stage its own death as a species.
Throughout this paper, we have seen cases of how national security is an antonym AND , which can be utilized as a philosophical anchorage for tactical goal setting.
Global solutions to climate change lock in structural inequalities that prevent action
Kythreotis (Global Change Institute and School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management, University of Queensland) 11 (Andrew Paul, Progress in global climate change politics? Reasserting national state territoriality in a ’post-political’ world, Prog Hum Geogr, 7 December 2011)
This is because a (global) politics of climate change is secondary to the AND , but the political solution may not actually reside solely at this scale.
And, if successful, apocalyptic representations of climate change lead to great power war – regional interventions and arms races Brzoska (Inst. for Peace Research and Security Policy @ Hamburg) 8 (Micahel, "The Securitization of climate change and the power of conceptions of security" ISA Convention Paper)
In the literature on securitization it is implied that when a problem is securitized it AND for climate change, both policy areas are in competition for scarce resources.
US militarism will destroys the biosphere even if every other issue were solved Kim Scipes, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Purdue University North Central in Westville, Indiana, 2009, http://countercurrents.org/scipes291209.htm
As a US military veteran—USMC, 1969-73, who turned around AND , animals and vegetation on the planet. Your move, good people.
The medicalization of political discourses directly underwrites a reproduction of security discourse to eliminate the diseases and the filthy
Campbell, 2008 (David, Prof. of International Politics @ the University of Newcastle, Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity, Revised Edition, University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 0-8166-3144-1, Pg. 81-82)
However one might begin to fathom the many issues located within those challenges, our AND of representations of disease to act as discourses of danger to the social. In France, a number of notions that would be fundamental to the medicalization of AND now functioned as a trope for the pathological in opposition to the normal. While the bipolarity of normal/pathological appears to derive its authority as a regulative AND Canguilhem: "Pathological constants have a repulsive and strictly conservative value."40
Chinese threat mentality is racist and causes serial policy failure and war Wei (Master’s at Dartmouth College) 12 (Li Juan, THE AMERICAN CHINA THREAT MENTALITY, Master’s Thesis in Liberal Studies, March 2012, pg. 77-79)
The American China threat mentality has become an effective tool that perpetuates American exceptionalist practice in respect to U.S. relations with China and their dichotomous view of the world. It also helps shape the future trajectory of China U.S. relations. The American China threat mentality basically evolved from three major trends including racial nativism in AND enhanced Americans’ misperceptions of China and further contributed to this China threat mentality. Grounded on the friend or foe rationale and exceptionalist norm, the American AND government and therefore accentuate the enemy image of the Chinese government and communism. In a bigger picture, the American China threat mentality followed a zigzag pattern similar to Galtung’s oscillation model. This pattern featured alternating periods of the waxing and waning of the China threat mentality, corresponding to the fluctuation of American public opinion on China. To be specific, the waxing of this China threat mentality was parallel to the 9 year distribution period and the waning to the 9 year growth period. In a similar fashion, China U.S. relations showed a curvy AND U.S. relations will continue to fluctuate the conceivable future. With growing interdependence and interweaving economies, America can no longer operate its relations with AND Buddhism and Taoism will only misguide America and create more problems than solve. Additionally, the misperception of Americans in viewing all Communism as the same lacks the AND of American politics, which will only perpetuate actual conflicts or even wars.
The aff’’s binary between the US and Russia leads to endless war
Øyvind Jæger, @ Norweigian Institute of International Affairs and the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute, 2k ~Peace and Conflict Studies 7.2, "Securitizing Russia: Discoursive Practice of the Baltic States," http://shss.nova.edu/pcs/journalsPDF/V7N2.pdf~~23page=18~~ The Russian war on Chechnya is one event that was widely interpreted in the Baltic AND the privileged identity as the subversive errand boys of the prime external enemy.
10/14/13
State PIC 1nc
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 4 | Opponent: Louisville Kettle-Tolbert | Judge: Ewald We affirm the revolutionary politics of the 1AC as part of a larger political strategy but reject their inclusion of a specific ~government-based~ plan of action.
The affirmative defends governmental action as part and parcel of their bottom-up movement – this goals-based politics limits potentiality and guarantees state cooption – turns case. We instead advocate their bottom-up movement as part of a larger politics similar in form to the Occupy movement – shifting in goals and demands, never entirely clear, and rejecting the kind of binary structures they reinforce. Paul 10/20/11 (Ian Alan Paul is a writer, artist and programmer living in the Bay Area of California. He is currently entangled with investigations of Prefigurative Politics, Antifascist Aesthetics, Network Collectivity/Ethics, and Horizontal Social Movements. He received his MFA and MA at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2011 is in the process of completing his PhD studies in UC Santa Cruz’s Film and Digital Media program, "On Immanence and Occupations," http://www.ianalanpaul.com/occupy/-http://www.ianalanpaul.com/occupy/, dml)
The occupations’ power has largely rested in their newness. This is not to say AND rupture – let’s follow it and see how far the tear will go.
10/6/13
State PIC 2nc
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 4 | Opponent: Louisville Kettle-Tolbert | Judge: Ewald We cannot begin our engagement with politics via a pre-determined plan of action. This guts solvency and leaves us powerless to adapt to specific situations, turns the case Gilbert Et Al 2008 (Jeremy Gilbert, Éric Alliez, Claire Colebrook, Peter Hallward, Nicholas Thoburn - all have PhDs and whatever; "Deleuzian Politics? A Roundtable Discussion"; New Formations)
Claire: If you think about contemporary politics: all we have to do is AND to work is if it has a notion of redefinition that is inbuilt.
Second is visibility – once the state knows your plan of attack cooption is an inevitability. The Invisible Committee 2009 (an anonymous group of French intellectuals. The coming insurrection.)
In a demonstration, a union member tears the mask off of an anonymous person AND some of this society’s somebodies illustrates why there’s such joy in being nobody.
THE AFFIRMATIVE IS ONLY MORE OF THE SAME—CONFRONTING ACADEMIC CLOSURE AND OUR SENSE OF ACTION AS INSIDERS AGAINST THE VIOLENCE OF THE WORLD MUST PRECEDE SOLVENCY.
NAYAR, 1999 (Jayan, Department of Law @ Warwick University, Dr. Nayar obtained his AND FRAMING INTERNATIONAL LAW FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: Orders of Inhumanity," Lexis)
The description of the continuities of violence in Section II in many ways is familiar AND their integrity as constituting a self-contained universe of and for imagination.
The plan is not a restriction on introducing armed force —Armed forces applies only to troops, not weapons Lorber 13 Eric Lorber, J.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Ph.D Candidate, Duke University Department of Political Science. University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law January, 2013 15 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 961 COMMENT: Executive Warmaking Authority and Offensive Cyber Operations: Can Existing Legislation Successfully Constrain Presidential Power? DEBATER NOTE: SHORT FORM OF THE CARD IS JUST THE BOXED C. The War Powers Resolution as Applied to Offensive Cyber Operations As discussed above, critical to the application of the War Powers Resolution - especially AND be-comes important if "armed forces" exist in the situation. As is evident from a textual analysis, n177 an examination of the legislative history AND human members of the armed forces, such a conclusion is not determinative. An examination of the legislative history also suggests that Congress clearly conceptualized "armed forces AND conceptualized "armed forces" to mean U.S. combat troops. The broad purpose of the Resolution aimed to prevent the large-scale but unauthorized AND deployment of U.S. personnel, not weapons, into hostilities. This analysis suggests that, when defining the term "armed forces," Congress meant AND is highly unlikely - such operations will not trigger the War Powers Resolution.
2. the weapons are not introduced into hostilities – space weapons are pre-positioned prior to hostilities
USCode defines hostilities as conflict in war
LII 13 Legal Information Institute 2013 http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/948a 10 USC § 948a - Definitions (9) Hostilities.— The term "hostilities" means any conflict subject to the laws of war.
3. not restrict presidential authority – creating the military and deciding which weapons are available is Congressional authority. The president’s authority to conduct war remains the same, just with different weapons
Yoo 02 GW Bush’s Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, US Justice Department (John, Applying the War Powers Resolution to the War on Terrorism, Senate Judiciary Comm, April 17, 2002, S. HRG. 107–892 http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-107shrg85888/pdf/CHRG-107shrg85888.pdf, p. 11) Of course, as the President has the constitutional authority to engage U.S AND the power of the sword, Congress has the power of the purse.
Restrictions on war powers could include restrictions on any weapons system – nuclear weapons, land mine bans, cluster bombs, chemical weapons – it’s why we need a ’human’ limit
The third theory—based on the distinction between general rules and specific tactics— AND real problem of determining the respective powers of Congress and the President.43
Links to our limits offense – their evidence concedes that the plan is "other forces" not, forces and that it includes stuff like satellites – creates a whole new topic
US Defense Report 3 (RESOURCES ALLOCATED TO MISSION AND SUPPORT ACTIVITIES, http://www.iwar.org.uk/military/resources/us-defense-report/2003/14_Appendix_Resources_Allocated.pdf) Section 113(l) of Title 10, United States Code, requires the Department of Defense¶ (DoD) to identify resources allocated to mission and support activities in each of the five¶ preceding fiscal years. In response to that requirement, Appendix C provides year-byyear comparisons of: ¶ • DoD funding (in constant dollars) allocated to forces and infrastructure (Table ¶ C-1).1¶ *footnote inserted*
FORCE CATEGORIES¶ • Expeditionary Forces. Operating forces designed primarily for nonnuclear ¶ operations AND such as cryptologic activities, satellite ¶ communications, and airborne command posts.
Also includes cyberspace which proves a topic coherence da if their interpretation is correct, then including ’offensive cyber operations’ in the topic would be redundant and unnecessary, since cyber command falls under the uniformed services – this means their interpretation isn’t predictable
USSTRATCOM, 13 ("U.S. Cyber Command" current as of August, http://www.stratcom.mil/factsheets/Cyber_Command/) USCYBERCOM is a sub-unified command subordinate to U. S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM). Service elements include: Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER); Air Forces Cyber (AFCYBER); Fleet Cyber Command (FLTCYBERCOM); and Marine Forces Cyber Command (MARFORCYBER). The Command is also standing up dedicated Cyber Mission Teams to accomplish the three elements of our mission.
Text: The President of the United States should issue an executive order mandating the restriction of the war powers authority of the president to introduce space armed forces into hostilities.
Executive self-restraint is key to preserve the ability to respond to crises.
Pildes 12 ~Richard H., Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law, NYU School of Law and Co-Director, NYU Center on Law and Security. 2/27/12 BOOK REVIEWS LAW AND THE PRESIDENT THE EXECUTIVE UNBOUND: AFTER THE MADISONIAN REPUBLIC. By Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press. 2010. Pp. 249. 2429.95. New York University Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers~ First, they argue, a President unbound can produce better outcomes than a President AND , in the President’s best judgment, doing so will produce better outcomes.
