Tournament: GSU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Emory GoLo | Judge: Hester
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Tournament: GSU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Emory GoLo | Judge: Hester
Politics is disappearing – the acceleration of social temporality has been matched by the emergence of pure war: a cult that denies democracy in favor of fascistic messianism
Hutchings 8 (Kimberly Hutchings, Professor and Department Head of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, 2008, “Apocalyptic times” in Time and world politics: thinking the present, Manchester University Press)

Modernist narratives of the development of world politics . . . the former might control or direct the latter.

This acceleration has eroded the very conditions of possibility for liberal democracy – the traditional mechanisms of civic life have been rendered obsolete by the instability of time itself
Scheuerman 1 (William E. Scheuerman, professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. “Liberal Democracy and the Empire of Speed.” Polity, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Autumn, 2001), pp. 41-67

II. The Space and Time Horizons of . . . between past and future is eerily reduced.67

In this uncertain, high-speed world, liberal democracy has sold its soul to maintain the relevance of its political body – we imbue the executive with ever greater authority to maintain stability in face of nebulous threats
Glezos 11 (Simon Glezos, Lecturer of Political Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, “The ticking bomb: Speed, liberalism and ressentiment against the future”, Contemporary Political Theory 10.2 (May 2011): 147-165. doi:10.1057/cpt.2010.6

This article uses the and#39;Ticking Bomb Scenarioand#39; as . . . when things do reach such a terminal velocity.

But in our struggle to find stability, we replace the executive with the bedrock of technology itself, a totalitarian robot that embodies our obsession with speed and our desire to harness it
Adams 3 (Jason Adams, M.A. candidate in political science at Simon Fraser University, 2003, “Popular Defense in the Empire of Speed: Paul Virilio and the Phenomenology of the Political Body,” Thesis, http://www.academia.edu/attachments/2058093/download_file

As we saw in the last chapter, . . . transformation is being enforced on a global scale. 

Cyberwar is the apotheosis of this quest for control – the locus of our deterrent is transferred from the atom to the electron, fulfilling our dreams of instantaneous and absolute response. With the culmination of pure war comes the specter of the integral accident: global in scope and generalized in nature
Virilio 6 (Paul Virilio. 2006. The Information Bomb. pp. 131-145

With the end of the twentieth century, . . . held in suspension in the ether of telecommunications.

This new stage of politics creates first a global concentration camp, then nuclear annihilation – all in the name of Progress
Hutchings 8 (Kimberly Hutchings, Professor and Department Head of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, 2008, “Apocalyptic times” in Time and world politics: thinking the present, Manchester University Press)

Virilio develops an extensive vocabulary to capture his . . . 11 in these terms (2005: 74).

Our advocacy begins with an ontology of speed – it’s not simply the linear compression of time, but a rift: the irruption of the New into the present, an absolute futurity that lays bare the impossibility of liberal telos
Glezos 11 (Simon Glezos, Lecturer of Political Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, “The ticking bomb: Speed, liberalism and ressentiment against the future”, Contemporary Political Theory 10.2 (May 2011): 147-165. doi:10.1057/cpt.2010.6

What is more, by pursuing a purely . . . at both the individual and the social level. 

The unitary executive is the ultimate manifestation of liberal ressentiment toward an ateleological future – a failed attempt to secure a coherent political identity in an uncertain world.

Voting aff endorses a radical embrace of that uncertainty. Liberalism closes off deliberation because it’s afraid where true democracy will take us, instead investing the executive with the authority to narrate the present into the future. Vote aff to open debate to futurity.
Glezos 11 (Simon Glezos, Lecturer of Political Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, “The ticking bomb: Speed, liberalism and ressentiment against the future”, Contemporary Political Theory 10.2 (May 2011): 147-165. doi:10.1057/cpt.2010.6

Speed and Ressentiment Now that we have developed . . . means an established fact or a foregone conclusion.

Tournament: GSU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Emory GoLo | Judge: Hester
2AC Interps
Counterinterp: speed is affirmation

Resolved is to reduce by mental analysis, Random House 11 (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/resolve)

Should indicates futurity, OED 11 (http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/should?region=us)

USFG = the people
Howard, 2005 (Adam, “Jeffersonian Democracy: Of the People, By the People, For the People,” http://www.byzantinecommunications.com/adamhoward/homework/highschool/jeffersonian.html, 5/27)

Ideally, then, under Jeffersonian Democracy, . . . using the power they get from the people.

Prefer substantive impacts – process vs. product – even if they win they perfect the techne of debate it doesn’t matter if we win that their framework is violent and exclusionary. Debate is not just a meaningless game, but how we form our political subjectivity.

Reasonability – voting aff doesn’t eradicate policy debate – the role of the judge should be to determine whether we made a good contribution to the larger body of debate

2AC Predictability/Limits
Limits are impossible
De Cock 1 (Christian De Cock, Professor of Organizational behaviour, change management, creative problem solving, 2001, “Of Philip K. Dick, reflexivity and shifting realities Organizing (writing) in our post-industrial society” in the book “Science Fiction and Organization”)

and#39;As Marx might have said more generally, . . . (McCloskey, 1994, p. 166).
2AC Decisionmaking
Their instrumentalization of speed denies absolute futurity in favor of an infinite extension of the present – crushes our ability to cope with social acceleration critically
Hassan 9 (Robert Hassan, ARC Senior Research Fellow, Media and Communications at University of Melbourne, “Pathologies of Speed” in Empires of Speed: Time and the Acceleration of Politics and Society, pub. BRILL, 2009)

Critical thinking, or critical reason, functions . . . , the less we are aware of it.

That strips our decisiomaking of any ethical value
Clegg 10 (Sue Clegg, Professor of Higher Educational Research and Head of the Centre for Research into Higher Education, “Time future – the dominant discourse of higher education”, Time and Society 19(3) 345–364, 2010)

This paper explores the ways in which the . . . basis of social life (Archer, 2003).

Tournament: GSU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Emory GoLo | Judge: Hester
2AC Interps
Counterinterp: speed is affirmation

Resolved is to reduce by mental analysis, Random House 11 (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/resolve)

Should indicates futurity, OED 11 (http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/should?region=us)

USFG = the people
Howard, 2005 (Adam, “Jeffersonian Democracy: Of the People, By the People, For the People,” http://www.byzantinecommunications.com/adamhoward/homework/highschool/jeffersonian.html, 5/27)

Ideally, then, under Jeffersonian Democracy, . . . using the power they get from the people.

Prefer substantive impacts – process vs. product – even if they win they perfect the techne of debate it doesn’t matter if we win that their framework is violent and exclusionary. Debate is not just a meaningless game, but how we form our political subjectivity.

Reasonability – voting aff doesn’t eradicate policy debate – the role of the judge should be to determine whether we made a good contribution to the larger body of debate

2AC Predictability/Limits
Limits are impossible
De Cock 1 (Christian De Cock, Professor of Organizational behaviour, change management, creative problem solving, 2001, “Of Philip K. Dick, reflexivity and shifting realities Organizing (writing) in our post-industrial society” in the book “Science Fiction and Organization”)

and#39;As Marx might have said more generally, . . . (McCloskey, 1994, p. 166).
2AC Decisionmaking
Their instrumentalization of speed denies absolute futurity in favor of an infinite extension of the present – crushes our ability to cope with social acceleration critically
Hassan 9 (Robert Hassan, ARC Senior Research Fellow, Media and Communications at University of Melbourne, “Pathologies of Speed” in Empires of Speed: Time and the Acceleration of Politics and Society, pub. BRILL, 2009)

Critical thinking, or critical reason, functions . . . , the less we are aware of it.

That strips our decisiomaking of any ethical value
Clegg 10 (Sue Clegg, Professor of Higher Educational Research and Head of the Centre for Research into Higher Education, “Time future – the dominant discourse of higher education”, Time and Society 19(3) 345–364, 2010)

This paper explores the ways in which the . . . basis of social life (Archer, 2003).

Tournament: Ndt | Round: 6 | Opponent: Texas Fitz-Makuch | Judge: Roberts, Taylor, Tomik

The aff’s non-unitary subjectivity creates the conditions of possibility for interconnection with non-human others. The alternative shifts our perspective but not the cartography.

Bradiotti, Humanities, Utrecht, 2005 (Rosi, Rhizomes » Issue 11/12 (Fall 2005/Spring 2006))

~36~ A non-unitary vision of the subject endorses a radical ethics
AND
time-sequences and temporality of nomadic subjectivity need to be accounted for.

Grey ecology

Adams 3 (Jason Adams, M.A. candidate in political science at Simon Fraser University, 2003, "Popular Defense in the Empire of Speed: Paul Virilio and the Phenomenology of the Political Body," Thesis, http://www.academia.edu/attachments/2058093/download_file

As noted earlier, the territorial is probably the most important of the three bodies
AND
the organic body of the earth, through methods which we explore below.

Ontology is a prerequisite to value. Affirm life

Younkins 2004 Edward, Professor of Accountancy and Business Administration at Wheeling Jesuit University in West Virginia, "THE FLAWED DOCTRINE OF NATURE’S INTRINSIC VALUE" October 15, 2004  /  No 147 Le Quebecois Libre http://www.quebecoislibre.org/04/041015-17.htm
Many environmentalists contend that nature has an intrinsic value, in and of itself,
AND
there are no grounds for recognizing a profound difference between man and animals.

If there is no distinction between natural and unnatural, there is NO reason to prefer the neg – presumption flips aff

Orr 8 (Kaitlyn, "Ethical Sustainability", http://www.goucher.edu/documents/verge/papers6/phl003.pdf)

A problematic connection in our understanding of the current environmental crisis   is that nature is
AND
, is a question of good or bad, is an ethical question. 

The alternative ignores the unique epistemology of living matter—the perm challenges humanism without abandoning the project of knowledge knowledge

Schwartz and Wiggins, , 2k10 (Michael A., Dept of Psychiatry, U of Hawaii and Osborne P., Dept of Philosophy, U of Louisville, "Psychosomatic medicine and the philosophy of life", http://www.peh-med.com/content/5/1/2)

This universalizing of scientific conceptualization seemed to betoken the victory of metaphysical materialism. If
AND
shall now attempt to describe some of these vital polarities ~4~ .

The separation between life and non-life is necessary for understanding the unique experience of organic matter

Schwartz and Wiggins 2k10 (Michael A., Dept of Psychiatry, U of Hawaii and Osborne P., Dept of Philosophy, U of Louisville, "Psychosomatic medicine and the philosophy of life", http://www.peh-med.com/content/5/1/2)

The existence of every living being is sustained through metabolism. Unlike inorganic matter,
AND
~7~ . This polarity is found even in the single cell.

The critique is obsessed with the politics of purity – that creates fascism

Staudenmeir 5 (Peter Staudenmeir, human rights advocate and philospher, "THE AMBIGUITIES OF ANIMAL RIGHTS", January 1, 2005, http://www.social-ecology.org/2005/01/ambiguities-of-animal-rights/)

The unexamined cultural prejudices embedded deep within animal rights thinking carry political implications that are
AND
same rancid antihumanism that has always turned radical hopes into their reactionary opposite.

Tournament: Ndt | Round: 6 | Opponent: Texas Fitz-Makuch | Judge: Roberts, Taylor, Tomik

1AC

Politics is disappearing – the acceleration of social temporality has been matched by the emergence of pure war: a cult that denies democracy in favor of violent militarism

Hutchings 8 (Kimberly Hutchings, Professor and Department Head of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, 2008, "Apocalyptic times" in Time and world politics: thinking the present, Manchester University Press)

Modernist narratives of the development of world politics subordinate chronos to kairos, but also
AND
up on the possibility that the former might control or direct the latter.

This acceleration has eroded the very conditions of possibility for liberal democracy – the traditional mechanisms of civic life have been rendered obsolete by the instability of time itself

Scheuerman 1 (William E. Scheuerman, professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. "Liberal Democracy and the Empire of Speed." Polity, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Autumn, 2001), pp. 41-67

II. The Space and Time Horizons of Traditional Liberal Democracy Assumptions about space and
AND
condition: the temporal gap between past and future is eerily reduced.67

In this uncertain, high-speed world, the executive is imbued with ever greater authority to maintain stability in face of nebulous threats

Glezos 11 (Simon Glezos, Lecturer of Political Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, "The ticking bomb: Speed, liberalism and ressentiment against the future", Contemporary Political Theory 10.2 (May 2011): 147-165. doi:10.1057/cpt.2010.6

This article uses the ’Ticking Bomb Scenario’ as a starting point for a broader discussion
AND
the problem of what happens when things do reach such a terminal velocity.

In a struggle to find stability, the executive is replaced by the bedrock of technology itself, a totalitarian robot that embodies an obsession with speed and a desire to harness it

Adams 3 (Jason Adams, M.A. candidate in political science at Simon Fraser University, 2003, "Popular Defense in the Empire of Speed: Paul Virilio and the Phenomenology of the Political Body," Thesis, http://www.academia.edu/attachments/2058093/download_file

As we saw in the last chapter, Virilio’s critique of the mass mediatization that
AND
ecological warfare by which this transformation is being enforced on a global scale. 

Cyberwar is the apotheosis of this quest for control – the locus of the deterrent is transferred from the atom to the electron, fulfilling dreams of instantaneous and absolute response. With the culmination of pure war comes the specter of the integral accident: global in scope, generalized in nature

Virilio 6 (Paul Virilio. 2006. The Information Bomb. pp. 131-145

With the end of the twentieth century, it is not merely the second millennium
AND
pollution of a small planet held in suspension in the ether of telecommunications.

This new politics of acceleration enforces a global state of exception, unstable economic systems, and the accident to end all accidents

Hutchings 8 (Kimberly Hutchings, Professor and Department Head of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, 2008, "Apocalyptic times" in Time and world politics: thinking the present, Manchester University Press)

Virilio develops an extensive vocabulary to capture his vision of chronopolitics (2000: 109
AND
the events of 9/11 in these terms (2005: 74).

Our advocacy begins with an ontology of speed – it’s not simply the linear compression of time, but a rift: the irruption of the New into the present, an absolute futurity that lays bare the impossibility of the liberal dream

Glezos 11 (Simon Glezos, Lecturer of Political Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, "The ticking bomb: Speed, liberalism and ressentiment against the future", Contemporary Political Theory 10.2 (May 2011): 147-165. doi:10.1057/cpt.2010.6

What is more, by pursuing a purely exogenous critique, I feel that Scheuerman
AND
of radical, creative novelty at both the individual and the social level. 

The unitary executive is the ultimate manifestation of liberal ressentiment toward an unpredictable future – a failed attempt to secure a coherent political identity in an uncertain world.

Voting aff endorses a radical embrace of that uncertainty. Liberalism closes off deliberation because it’s afraid where true democracy will take us, instead investing the executive with the authority to narrate the present into the future. Vote aff to open debate to futurity.

Glezos 11 (Simon, Lecturer of Political Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, "The ticking bomb: Speed, liberalism and ressentiment against the future", Contemporary Political Theory 10.2 (May 2011): 147-165. doi:10.1057/cpt.2010.6

Speed and Ressentiment Now that we have developed an ontology of speed, we can
AND
deliberation, is by no means an established fact or a foregone conclusion.

Absent an analysis of temporality, any project to resuscitate politics will fail. We must begin with the question of speed.

Scheuerman 9 (William E. Scheuerman, professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, "Citizenship and Speed" in High-Speed Society: Social Acceleration, Power, and Modernity, 2009. pub. The Pennsylvania State University Press, eds. Hartmut Rosa and William E. Scheuerman, pp. 292-296

Much of modern democratic theory could be appropriately compared to the high school civics or
AND
an actor—typically the executive—who promises quick and decisive action.

The answer is not a reactionary rejection of speed, but a communicative intervention to embrace rifts in temporality.

Connolly 2 (William E. Connolly, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, July 24, 2002, "Time and Democracy" in Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed)

In a brilliant little essay titled "What Time Is It?" Sheldon Wolin contends
AND
so fast that the promise of democracy becomes translated into fascist becoming machines.

Tournament: Ndt | Round: 6 | Opponent: Texas Fitz-Makuch | Judge: Roberts, Taylor, Tomik
Permutation – confronting problems is necessary to prevent total undeciadbility and takes responsibility to act regardless of the objectivity of ethics
Pavlich, 2k5 (George, Dept Sociology, U of Alberta, "Experiencing Critique", Law and Critique (2005) 16: 95-112)
In this respect, a grammar of critique could be seen as a welcoming  encounter
AND
on ?nite terrains by naming the  threshold and welcoming other ways of being.

Affect based politics fail and will be manipulated by cultural elites

Amitsrai, 2k10 ("The Politics of Affect: Berlant on Affect and Austerity", http://mediaecologiesresonate.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/politics-of-affect/)

This is from the introductory comment to "Affect 26 the Politics of Austerity:
AND
matter, and deterritorialized capital is rendered as a map with specific symptoms.

We must investigate extinction—anxiety is good because it has the potential to destroy the social world—being-towards-extinction fails

Kennedy, 2k7 (Greg, PhD U of Ottowa, An Ontology of Trash, pg. 170-1)
The phenomenon of extinction is the technological ersatz for death. But our being-
AND
time, the extermination, that is, the detemporalization of human being.

Tournament: NDT | Round: 7 | Opponent: Georgetown EM | Judge: short, patrice, barouch

1AC

Politics is disappearing – the acceleration of social temporality has been matched by the emergence of pure war: a cult that denies democracy in favor of violent militarism

Hutchings 8 (Kimberly Hutchings, Professor and Department Head of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, 2008, "Apocalyptic times" in Time and world politics: thinking the present, Manchester University Press)

Modernist narratives of the development of world politics subordinate chronos to kairos, but also
AND
up on the possibility that the former might control or direct the latter.

This acceleration has eroded the very conditions of possibility for liberal democracy – the traditional mechanisms of civic life have been rendered obsolete by the instability of time itself

Scheuerman 1 (William E. Scheuerman, professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. "Liberal Democracy and the Empire of Speed." Polity, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Autumn, 2001), pp. 41-67

II. The Space and Time Horizons of Traditional Liberal Democracy Assumptions about space and
AND
condition: the temporal gap between past and future is eerily reduced.67

In this uncertain, high-speed world, the executive is imbued with ever greater authority to maintain stability in face of nebulous threats

Glezos 11 (Simon Glezos, Lecturer of Political Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, "The ticking bomb: Speed, liberalism and ressentiment against the future", Contemporary Political Theory 10.2 (May 2011): 147-165. doi:10.1057/cpt.2010.6

This article uses the ’Ticking Bomb Scenario’ as a starting point for a broader discussion
AND
the problem of what happens when things do reach such a terminal velocity.

In a struggle to find stability, the executive is replaced by the bedrock of technology itself, a totalitarian robot that embodies an obsession with speed and a desire to harness it

Adams 3 (Jason Adams, M.A. candidate in political science at Simon Fraser University, 2003, "Popular Defense in the Empire of Speed: Paul Virilio and the Phenomenology of the Political Body," Thesis, http://www.academia.edu/attachments/2058093/download_file

As we saw in the last chapter, Virilio’s critique of the mass mediatization that
AND
ecological warfare by which this transformation is being enforced on a global scale. 

Cyberwar is the apotheosis of this quest for control – the locus of the deterrent is transferred from the atom to the electron, fulfilling dreams of instantaneous and absolute response. With the culmination of pure war comes the specter of the integral accident: global in scope, generalized in nature

Virilio 6 (Paul Virilio. 2006. The Information Bomb. pp. 131-145

With the end of the twentieth century, it is not merely the second millennium
AND
pollution of a small planet held in suspension in the ether of telecommunications.

This new politics of acceleration enforces a global state of exception, unstable economic systems, and the accident to end all accidents

Hutchings 8 (Kimberly Hutchings, Professor and Department Head of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, 2008, "Apocalyptic times" in Time and world politics: thinking the present, Manchester University Press)

Virilio develops an extensive vocabulary to capture his vision of chronopolitics (2000: 109
AND
the events of 9/11 in these terms (2005: 74).

Our advocacy begins with an ontology of speed – it’s not simply the linear compression of time, but a rift: the irruption of the New into the present, an absolute futurity that lays bare the impossibility of the liberal dream

Glezos 11 (Simon Glezos, Lecturer of Political Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, "The ticking bomb: Speed, liberalism and ressentiment against the future", Contemporary Political Theory 10.2 (May 2011): 147-165. doi:10.1057/cpt.2010.6

What is more, by pursuing a purely exogenous critique, I feel that Scheuerman
AND
of radical, creative novelty at both the individual and the social level. 

The unitary executive is the ultimate manifestation of liberal ressentiment toward an unpredictable future – a failed attempt to secure a coherent political identity in an uncertain world.

Voting aff endorses a radical embrace of that uncertainty. Liberalism closes off deliberation because it’s afraid where true democracy will take us, instead investing the executive with the authority to narrate the present into the future. Vote aff to open debate to futurity.

Glezos 11 (Simon, Lecturer of Political Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, "The ticking bomb: Speed, liberalism and ressentiment against the future", Contemporary Political Theory 10.2 (May 2011): 147-165. doi:10.1057/cpt.2010.6

Speed and Ressentiment Now that we have developed an ontology of speed, we can
AND
deliberation, is by no means an established fact or a foregone conclusion.

Absent an analysis of temporality, any project to resuscitate politics will fail. We must begin with the question of speed.

Scheuerman 9 (William E. Scheuerman, professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, "Citizenship and Speed" in High-Speed Society: Social Acceleration, Power, and Modernity, 2009. pub. The Pennsylvania State University Press, eds. Hartmut Rosa and William E. Scheuerman, pp. 292-296

Much of modern democratic theory could be appropriately compared to the high school civics or
AND
an actor—typically the executive—who promises quick and decisive action.

The answer is not a reactionary rejection of speed, but a communicative intervention to embrace rifts in temporality.

Connolly 2 (William E. Connolly, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, July 24, 2002, "Time and Democracy" in Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed)

In a brilliant little essay titled "What Time Is It?" Sheldon Wolin contends
AND
so fast that the promise of democracy becomes translated into fascist becoming machines.

Tournament: NDT | Round: 7 | Opponent: Georgetown EM | Judge: short, patrice, barouch

Derrida says framework is the absolute worst

Biesta 8 (Gert Biesta, Professor of Education and Director of Research at the School of Education, University of Stirling, December 4, 2008, "Education After Deconstruction: Between Event and Invention" in Derrida, Deconstruction and the Politics of Pedagogy, eds. Michael A. Peters and Gert Biesta, pp. 98-103)

Although a lot has been said about the problems of a transmission view of education
AND
the order or "economy" of the present and the same. 

Their conception of decisionmaking is the calculative basis for injustice and violence – only the aff thinks through aporia

Caputo 97 (John D. Caputo, Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion Emeritus at Syracuse University and the David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Villanova University, 1997, Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida, pp. 121-124)

This notion of justice and singularity is articulated by Derrida in what he calls the
AND
performative than constative, if that distinction would hold up—than knowledge.

Alt doesn’t solve

Connolly 1 (William E. Connolly, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, 2001, "Politics and Vision" in Democracy and Vision: Sheldon Wolin and the Vicissitudes of the Political, pp. 15-18

Wolin’s anxiety is that the postmodern focus on "difference" adds another obstacle to
AND
as constitutive elements of democracy standing in a relation of interdependence and tension.

Tournament: NDT | Round: 7 | Opponent: Georgetown EM | Judge: short, patrice, barouch

No impact to warfighting

Fettweis 11 Christopher, Professor of Political Science @ Tulane, Dangerous Times?: The International Politics of Great Power Peace, pg. 168

Today’s security debate seems driven less by actual threats than by vague, unnamed dangers
AND
. And elective surgery, as everyone knows, often makes problems worse.

Terrorism doesn’t require rapid decision-making

Holmes 9 (Stephen, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law, New York University School of Law 97 Calif. L. Rev. 301, "In Case of Emergency: Misunderstanding Tradeoffs in the War on Terror", lexis)
  ~*310~  Emergency-room emergencies are urgent even when they are perfectly
AND
the war on terror seems that much more tenuous and open to question.

No risk of nuclear terrorism—-too many obstacles
Mearsheimer 14 (R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, "America Unhinged", January 2, nationalinterest.org/article/america-unhinged-9639?page=show)
Am I overlooking the obvious threat that strikes fear into the hearts of so many
AND
encourage and help other states to place nuclear materials in highly secure custody.

Small impact to nuke terror, artificially inflating threat is dangerous

Mueller 9 (John Mueller is Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies, Mershon Center, Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University, and Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, 2009, Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda, pub. Oxford University Press.

Many (though not all) of those proclaiming the struggle against, and
AND
recruiting agent by suggesting that they have the slightest potential for success."45

The re-orientation of enmity towards cynegetic power converts contemporary governance into infinite hunting – endlessly piling up bodies, killing beyond the point of death

Debrix 26 Barder ’12 (François, Professor of Political Science @ Virginia Tech, Director of the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought, and Alexander, Dept. of Political Science @ American U. of Beirut, Beyond Biopolitics: Theory, violence, and horror in world politics, pp. 107-109)
Massumi notes that "~t~he enemy question is not who, where,
AND
of "the scattered" (l’epars), as Chamayou puts it.70

Tournament: NDT | Round: 7 | Opponent: Georgetown EM | Judge: short, patrice, barouch
Counterinterp: speed is affirmation

Resolved is to have reduced by mental analysis, Random House 11 (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/resolve)

Should indicates futurity, OED 11 (http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/should?region=us)

USFG

 the people====
Howard, 2005 (Adam, "Jeffersonian Democracy: Of the People, By the People, For the People," http://www.byzantinecommunications.com/adamhoward/homework/highschool/jeffersonian.html, 5/27)

Ideally, then, under Jeffersonian Democracy, the government is the people, and people is the government. Therefore, if a particular government ceases to work for the good of the people, the people may and ought to change that government or replace it. Governments are established to protect the people’s rights using the power they get from the people.

Judicial means characterized by or expressing judgment, American Heritage 2k http://www.thefreedictionary.com/judicial

Our aff is a precondition to their framework arguments. Speed kills decision-making, cedes the public sphere to the M.I.C, kills precision in deliberation, and destroys possibilities for meaningful democratic debate. We are internal-link turning all their offense, because only a critique of speed can rescue debate—and there are no turns, because speeding up decision-making destroys the possibility of coming to meaningful conclusions about policy questions

Wood 13 (Phil Wood, lecturer in education at the University of Leicester. 11 April 2013, "Should education policy have a speed limit? Slowing down the process of change," http://www.consider-ed.org.uk/should-education-policy-have-a-speed-limit/)

"The acceleration of speed has had largely detrimental consequences with the decline of the
AND
Fullan (2012) describe as the ’business capital’ model of education.

2AC Simulations

They are simulation fever – obsession with the construction of a model without a referent.

Hoofd ’9 Ingrid M. Hoofd, National University of Singapore, Singapore, The Neoliberal Consolidation of Play and Speed: Ethical Issues in Serious Gaming, 2009, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.134.536526rep=rep126type=pdf
I would claim that Armitage’s assessment of accelerated circulation, and the way ¶ new
AND
these statements ¶ spell out exactly the function and logic of serious gaming.

Hoofd ’9
Ingrid M. Hoofd, National University of Singapore, Singapore, The Neoliberal Consolidation of Play and Speed: Ethical Issues in Serious Gaming, 2009, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.134.536526rep=rep126type=pdf
This ’virtual empathy’ that new simulation technologies endow, which sadly works ¶ in
AND
into an instantaneous technocratic ¶ violence that effectively ’plays with lives.’

2AC Predictability/Limits

The drive for predictability is a weak form of the will to power, negating the vitality of life on their quest for stasis they end up mummifying existence and cutting off the flow of change which is our life blood.

Grimm 77 (Ruediger Hermann, art historian and Goethe scholar, Nietzsche’s Theory of Knowledge, ed. M. Montinari, W. Miiller-Lauter 26 H. Wenzel, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, pg. 30-33, Gender modified

Western logic and metaphysics have been traditionally founded upon a handful of principles which were
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ein Feststellen von Gradund Kraftverhaltnissen, als ein Kampf . . .0 0

Limits are impossible

De Cock 1 (Christian De Cock, Professor of Organizational behaviour, change management, creative problem solving, 2001, "Of Philip K. Dick, reflexivity and shifting realities Organizing (writing) in our post-industrial society" in the book "Science Fiction and Organization")

’As Marx might have said more generally, ’all that is built or all that
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some hell to break loose’ (McCloskey, 1994, p. 166). 

2AC Decisionmaking

Their instrumentalization of speed denies absolute futurity in favor of an infinite extension of the present – crushes our ability to cope with social acceleration critically

Hassan 9 (Robert Hassan, ARC Senior Research Fellow, Media and Communications at University of Melbourne, "Pathologies of Speed" in Empires of Speed: Time and the Acceleration of Politics and Society, pub. BRILL, 2009)

Critical thinking, or critical reason, functions dialectically and is able not only to
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the worse it gets, the less we are aware of it.

That strips our decisiomaking of any ethical value

Clegg 10 (Sue Clegg, Professor of Higher Educational Research and Head of the Centre for Research into Higher Education, "Time future – the dominant discourse of higher education", Time and Society 19(3) 345–364, 2010)

This paper explores the ways in which the dominant modality of pedagogical discourses in higher
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’internal conversation’ as the basis of social life (Archer, 2003).