Tournament: ceda | Round: 1 | Opponent: kckcc fg | Judge: henning
It is in vain that we say what we see in the law; what we see never resides in what we say… There is never just one law—it is a mixture of forms of expression (such as delinquency) and forms of content, (such as prisons), in reciprocal presupposition
Deleuze and Guattari ’80. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 10,000 B.C.: THE GEOLOGY OF MORALS
Signifier enthusiasts take an oversimplified situation as their implicit model: word and thing.
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relative expressions). We are never signifier or signified. We are stratified.
We are speaking of a new regime of control, one that relies on rendering all politics open and comprehensible based on a segmented Cartesian subject: you will be subjectified or else. We propose a model of thinking judging that is de-personalized, de-subjectified…an asubjective affect. Voting aff is an experiment with subjectivity: Know neither where you start nor where you end.
Deleuze and Guattari ’80. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 587 B.C.-A.D. 70: ON SEVERAL REGIMES OF SIGNS
Things are even more complicated than we have let on. Subjectification assigns the line
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attracted by a black hole, and all the black holes resonate together.
Thus subjectification imposes on the line of flight a segmentarity that is forever repudiating that line, and upon absolute deterritorialization a point of abolition that is forever blocking that deterritorialization or diverting it. The reason for this is simple: forms of expression and regimes of signs are still strata (even considered in themselves, after abstracting forms of content); subjectification is no less a stratum than signifiance.
The principal strata binding human beings are the organism, signifiance and interpretation, and
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a rhizome? Stammer language, be a foreigner in one’s own tongue:
do domi not passi do not dominate
do not dominate your passive passions not
do devouring not not dominate
your rats your rations your rats rations not not. . .32
This process is enacted through power centers, social organs which turn lines into segements: the way the prison first and foremost indefinitely detains the body’s flows by writing identity onto it, scripting its content by erecting violent regimes of form: you must signify as a subject or else.
Deleuze and Guattari ’80. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 1933: MICROPOLITICS AND SEGMENTARITY 208-231
This is not surprising since the texture lies between the line of overcoding with rigid
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dominated seg- ments. Much perverse invention can enter into the adaptations.
This is the sense in which we would speak, for example, of banking
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the third by the abstract machine of mutation, flows, and quanta.
We have mapped four dangers of the status quo and current resistance activity: Fear—the loss of organization systems we cling to. Clarity—we are the knights; we have a mission. Power—the end of mutations, the overcoding of lines of flight. Disgust—the longing to kill and to die, the Passion of abolition in which suicide is presented as the greatest goal, total and final death.
Deleuze and Guattari ’80. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 1933: MICROPOLITICS AND SEGMENTARITY 208-231
We cannot say that one of these three lines is bad and another good,
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fear is, and how it makes us retreat into the first line.
The second danger, Clarity, seems less obvious. Clarity, in effect,
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, and mission even more disturbing than the certitudes of the first line.
Power (Pouvoir) is the third danger, because it is on both lines
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takes place in the artificial conditions of totalitarianism or the "closed vessel."
But there is a fourth danger as well, and this is the one that
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way out that turns the line of flight into a line of death.
We are not invoking any kind of death drive. There are no internal drives
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a theory of the complex relation between the war machine and war.)31
This brings us back to the paradox of fascism, and the way in which
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the destruction. All the dangers of the other lines pale by comparison.
For this reason you ought to be ready to destroy everything, or as Bill Burroughs explains,
Burroughs 88. William S. Burroughs, Western Lands 1988
Scientists always said there is no such thing as a soul. Now they are in a position to prove it. Total Death.Soul Death. It’s what the Egyptians called the Second and Final Death. This awesome power to destroy souls forever is now vested in farsighted and responsible men ~people~ in the State Department, the CIA, and the Pentagon.
Governments fall from sheer indifference. Authority figures, deprived of the vampiric energy they
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now a Death Camp. Place of the Second and Final Death.
We are the movement of metamorphoses come to sweep up assemblages: we are only substance, we are never formed. Metamorphoses is a never ending process of constant flux that ebbs and flows, never allowing itself to be rendered concrete.
Deleuze and Guattari ’80. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus. NOVEMBER 20, 1923: POSTULATES OF LINGUISTICS p 108-9
If we consider the other aspect of the order-word, flight rather than
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to maintain or draw out the revolutionary potentiality of the order-word.
The battle for the public sphere is over—we lost. Formal politics are dead, strategies for liberation NEVER BEAT the subliminal seduction of the contemporary political. Perceptibility precedes destruction
The Invisible Committee, ’7 ~an anonymous group of French professors, phd candidates, and intellectuals, in the book "The Coming Insurrection" published by Semiotext(e) (attributed to the Tarnac Nine by the French police), http://tarnac9.noblogs.org/gallery/5188/insurrection_english.pdf~~
Whatever angle you look at it from, there’s no escape from the present.
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we can see and not avoid the conclusions to be drawn from it.
To make micropolitics visible is to coopt it by giving resistance an object – this understanding allows resistance to be framed, to be declared a failure and prevents the immanence of imperceptible politics from coalescing around mundane practices and habitudes of existence
Tsianos et al. ’8 Vassilis, teaches sociology at the University of Hamburg, Germany, Dimitris Papadopoulos teaches social theory at Cardiff University, Niamh Stephenson teaches social science at the University of New South Wales. "Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the 21st Century" Pluto Press
In this sense imperceptible politics does not necessarily differ from or oppose other prevalent forms
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this void into everyday politics that becomes the vital force for imperceptible politics.
The 1AC activist stance commodifies the experiences of the oppressed they claim to speak for — this renders their political act meaningless and creates a destructive model of dissent that depends upon authoritarian institutions and imprisons the rhetorical value of the 1AC via commodification that denies the dignity of the represented
James ’3 Joy, Professor of Africana Studies @ Brown "Academia, activism, and imprisoned intellectuals." http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Academia,+activism,+and+imprisoned+intellectuals.-a0133368005
Activism is as multidimensional in its appearances as the academy; as academia’s alter ego
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communicate with political prisoners, as openly as possible given the structural disparities.
Their arguments about personal agency are ultimately conservative and de-politicizing – arguments for localizing activism within the purview of social location are the equivalent of privatizing social change, creating us as dependent on the necessity of their advocacy. The more successful their strategy is the more damage it does by making institutions necessary to our understanding of social change
Hershock ’99, East-West Center, 1999. ~"Changing the way society changes", Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 6, 154; http://jbe.gold.ac.uk/6/hershock991.html~~
The trouble is that, like other technologies biased toward control, the more successful
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depletion of our resources for meaningfully improvised and liberating intimacy with all things.