Tournament: NA | Round: 1 | Opponent: NA | Judge: 

Cap – 1NC

The logic of capitalism results in extinction through the creation of ecological catastrophe and violent imperialist wars that will turn nuclear
Foster 5 ~John Bellamy, Monthly Review, September, Vol. 57, Issue 4, "Naked Imperialism", http://www.monthlyreview.org/0905jbf.htm-http://www.monthlyreview.org/0905jbf.htm~~

From the longer view offered by a historical-materialist critique of capitalism, the
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needs—by organizing a global resistance movement against the new naked imperialism.
The history of slavery proves that race is merely a symptom of capital—any discussion of racism must first start at the violent history of capital accumulation.
Keefer 3 (Tom, member of Facing Reality, New Socialist Magazine, January 2003, "Constructs of Capitalism: Slavery and the Development of Racism",
http://www.newsocialist.org/magazine/39/article03.html-http://www.newsocialist.org/magazine/39/article03.html, RSR)

The brutality and viciousness of capitalism is well known to the oppressed and exploited of
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and exploitation came into being before we can hope to successfully overthrow them.

Race and class are reproduced within capitalist relations – capitalism racializes subjects to force competition and divides social groups by obfuscating labor consciousness – this is a way to mask contradiction and maintain capital accumulation
San Juan 3 (E, Fullbright lecturer @ U of Leuven, Belgium, "Marxism and the Race/Class Problematic: A Re-Articulation", http://clogic.eserver.org/2003/sanjuan.html-http://clogic.eserver.org/2003/sanjuan.html)

It seems obvious that racism cannot be dissolved by instances of status mobility when sociohistorical
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capitalism based on historically changing structures and retooled practices of domination and subordination.

Vote negative to adopt the historical material criticism of the 1NC - historical analysis of the material conditions of capital is the only way to break free from is contradictions and social inequalities it causes
Tumino 1 (Steven, teaches at the City University of New York, Spring, What is Orthodox Marxism and Why it Matters Now More Than Ever Before)

Any effective political theory will have to do at least two things: it will
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determinism of corporate theory ("knowledge work") that masquerades as social theory.
Historical materialism must come first - it predetermines consciousness and the very possibilities of reflective thinking
Marx 1859 (Karl, a pretty important dude. "A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy: Preface" http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/preface.htm) JM
edited for gendered language

In the social production of their existence, ~people~ inevitably enter into definite
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conditions for their existence have matured within the framework of the old society.

Tournament: NA | Round: 1 | Opponent: NA | Judge: 

1NC

Interpretation: The aff should defend an explicit advocacy of topical change in state policy.  The aff should win if the plan and its defense is preferable to negative advocacy. This is best:

There is nothing subversive about the aff’s transgression of debate norms.  Resistance to the rules serve to engrain the very rules that are resisted, thus as we move further away from obedience, our desire to break free only grows.  
Zizek, 2000 (Slavoj Zizek, Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana University, 2000, The Fragile Absolute, p. 23-25
This example brings home the inherent link between three notions: that of Marxist surplus
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its shock value and is fully integrated into the established artistic market."’

Rules rock.  They provide the subjective with an alibi as to how we can never achieve our desires.  That’s good because the demands of the super ego are otherwise impossible and torturous.
Dean, 2004 (Jodi Dean, Department of Political Science Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 2004, Law and Critique, Vol. 15, p. 11-12)

But, there is a twist. The liberating aspect of law is both a
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section, I explore this aspect of law and superego in more detail.  

Sovereignty might get a bad rap from the aff but it isn’t nearly as bad as they make it out to be. Discourses of the law’s violent underside obscures its potential to get stuff done.  Making the trains run on time is how we get to go to debate tournaments.  Recognition of this fact means that we don’t have to resist—we can see rules as strategic.
Derrida, 2004 (Jacques Derrida, Directeur d’Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and Professor of Philosophy, French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, 2004, For What Tomorrow? A Dialogue With Elisabeth Roudinesco, p. 91-92)

J.D.: A moment ago you spoke of regicide as the necessity of
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it seems impossible, and not sovereignty, even when it seems possible.          

Our contest should be over demands on the state.  Legal institutions allow us to enforce our will while demands and right claims are the ultimate act of agonism.  This is the best way to affirm human living
Hatab, 2002 (Lawrence J. Hatab ~philosophy prof somewhere~ "Prospects For A Democratic Agon: Why We Can Still Be Nietzscheans"  The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 24 (2002) 132-147, on muse)

Moreover, the structure of an agon conceived as a contest can readily under write
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race, gender, class, role, character, and so on.
Nonfoundational challenges to "identity" may seem unsettling, but if we consider how
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to defend rights simply in terms of the human capacity to say No.

Tournament: NA | Round: 1 | Opponent: NA | Judge: 

1NC

The affirmative is an attempt to understand the consequence of the gift; however, this offer is not one that can ever be understood. Knowing the effects destroy that very ethical act – reject their continuation of exchange for accepting the ultimate responsibility
Fernando 2k10 ~Jeremy. Jean Baudrillard Fellow at the European Graduate School. The Suicide Bomber; and her gift of death. Atropos Press January 29, 2010. Pg 148-151.~
For a gift must be active—she must offer it—but it is
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is a mistake — it is to provide meaning for that which has none

Importantly, this ethical impulse comes from a narcissistic desire for a unified self that
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subjects—but this humanistic atheism results in assimilation and extermination of otherness.
Taylor ’84 ~Mark C. Taylor. Erring:. A Postmodern A/Theology,. Pg. 25-29~
The psychology of mastery realizes itself in an economy of domination, which grows out
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sovereign subjects feel thoroughly satisfied with themselves and at home in the world. 

We are constantly hailed by the other and as such we are always in the
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should do the plan minus the justifications/ advantages/ ethics/ calculation.
Fernando 10 ~Jeremy. Jean Baudrillard Fellow at the European Graduate School, Research Fellow at the Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. The Suicide Bomber; and her gift of death. New York, Dresden, pg. 51-53.~
Of course, once the instant of decision has occurred, there is a consequence
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to everything—is blind to everything—except the ability to respond.

Tournament: NA | Round: 1 | Opponent: NA | Judge: 

Solvency – 1NC

Butler’s notion of vulnerability is inherently a violent encounter with the other that legitimates and triggers violent revenge once we are potentially injured by an(o)ther. Forgiveness is a more productive reading of butler
Oliver 2k7 ~Kelly. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt. Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex, and the Media. pg. 136-37~
The innocence of civilians is associated with their vulnerability. Children are especially innocent and
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of its power to wound but in terms of its power to heal.

THEIR VISION OF ACADEMIC POLITICAL AGENCY IS DOOMED TO INEVITABLE FRUSTRATION PRODUCING SERIAL EPISTEMIC FAILURES – EVERY INSTANCE OF A LINK IS A REASON TO CAST ANNIHILATORY DOUBT ON THEIR SOLVENCY CLAIMS – BY LOGICAL NECESSITY, THEIR ACADEMIC KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IS UTTERLY INCONSEQUENTIAL GIVEN THAT THE 1AC IS AN EMPTY REPETITION OF THE SPECTRE OF POLITICAL AGENCY.

Welsch 12
~scott, "coming to terms with the antagonism between rhetorical reflection and political agency", vol 45., no. 1, 1-23, prof. communications, appallacia state university~

Similarly, Henry Giroux concludes¶ his argument about the "responsibility of intellectuals"
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resist¶ political embeddedness, even if such a distinction is unavoidably tenuous. 

THEIR SOLVENCY CLAIMS PERFORMATIVELY REDUCES SCHOLARSHIP TO POLITICAL AGENCY. THIS PRODUCES OBLIVIOUSNESS AS TO THE STRUCTURAL ANTAGONISMS WHICH CONSTITUTE ACADEMIC WORK MEANING THEIR ATTEMPTS TO TRANSCEND THE QUAGMIRE OF THEORY AND PRAXIS ARE LINKS TO OUR CRITICISM.

Welsch 12
~scott, "coming to terms with the antagonism between rhetorical reflection and political agency", vol 45., no. 1, 1-23, prof. communications, appallacia state university~
What does it mean to say rhetoric scholarship should be relevant to democratic¶ practice
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practical wisdom in democratic¶ publics without absolving scholars of responsibility to them. 

THE AFFIRMATIVE’S ATTEMPTS TO EXTERNALIZE DEBATE’S FOCUS AND TO POLITICIZE ACADEMIC PURSUITS INSIDE OF DEBATE IS EXTERNALIZED AS AN INTRACTABLE CONFLICT BETWEEN IVORY TOWER INTELLECTUALS AND "REAL ACTIVISTS" – INSTEAD OF SUCCUMBING TO THE BROW-BEATEN OFFENSE/DEFENSE EVALUATION OF THE AFF’S NON-EXTENT CHANCE OF EFFECTUATING CHANGE ON THE THOUGHT OF OTHERS, YOU SHOULD INSTEAD ACCEPT THAT DEBATE WANTS NOTHING FROM YOU AS EITHER JUDGE OR PARTICIPANT.
Welsch 12
~scott, "coming to terms with the antagonism between rhetorical reflection and political agency", vol 45., no. 1, 1-23, prof. communications, appallacia state university~

In the work of scholars, like McGee, who implicitly or explicitly construe¶
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terms with¶ the equally incommensurable and inseparable claims each makes on them.

THE AFFIRMATIVE’S FRAMEWORK FOR DEBATE REDUCES SCHOLARLY REFLECTION FO POLITICAL AGENCY WHICH TRAPS ALL OF THEIR SOLVENCY AND CRITICISM CLAIMS WITHIN THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL OF ACADEMICS SPEAKING "TRUTH TO POWER".

Welsch 12
~scott, "coming to terms with the antagonism between rhetorical reflection and political agency", vol 45., no. 1, 1-23, prof. communications, appallacia state university~
Klump and Hollihan also show how complete separation between¶ scholarly reflection and political agency
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any¶ responsibility for their ideas" (2006, 151, 49).

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1NC CP

COUNTERPLAN: The President of the United States should issue an Executive Order committing the executive branch to Solicitor General representation and advance consultation with the Office of Legal Counsel over decisions regarding ~TOPIC AREA~.  The Department of Justice officials involved should state that the President of the United States lacks authority to ~plan~.  The Executive Order should also require written publication of Office of Legal Counsel opinions.
The counterplan solves through DOJ adjudication—pre-commitment gives it precedent
Pillard 2005 – JD from Harvard, Faculty Director of Supreme Court Institute at Georgetown University Law Center, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the DOJ (February, Cornelia T., Michigan Law Review, 103.4, "The Unfulfilled Promise of the Constitution in Executive Hands", 103 Mich. L. Rev. 676-758, http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/189/)

V. ENABLING EXECUTIVE CONSTITUTIONALISM
The courts indisputably do not and cannot fully assure our enjoyment of our constitutional rights, and it is equally clear that the federal executive has an independent constitutional duty to fulfill the Constitution’s promise. Executive constitutionalism seems ripe with promise. Yet, it is striking how limited and court-centered the executive’s normative and institutional approaches to constitutional questions remain.
One conceivable way to avoid the pitfalls of court-centric executive lawyering on one
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administration likely would be less amenable to guidance from such unaccountable lawyers.208
The challenge, rather, is to draw forth from the executive a constitutional consciousness
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not worked-out proposals, but are meant to be merely suggestive.
A. Correcting the Bias Against Constitutional Constraint
As we have seen, the SG’s and OLC’s default interpretive approach to individual rights and other forms of constitutional constraints on government is to follow what clear judicial precedents there are and, where precedents are not squarely to the contrary, to favor interpretations that minimize constitutional rights or other constitutional obligations on federal actors. Those court-centered and narrowly self-serving executive traditions produce a systematic skew against individual rights.

1. Encourage Express Presidential Articulation of Commitment to Constitutional Rights
   To the extent that a president articulates his own rights-protective constitutional vision with
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   , even if it requires extra executive effort or restraint to do so.
   If presented in a concrete setting with a choice between interpreting and applying the Constitution
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   constitutional rights is part of the executive’s interest, not counter to it.
   Presumptively binding opinions maintain OLC cred without hurting flexibility
   Morrison 2011 – Professor of Law, Columbia University (Trevor W., Harvard Law Review, ""Hostilities," the Office of Legal Counsel, and the Process of Executive Branch Legal Interpretation", 124 HARV. L. REV.F. 62, http://web.law.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/microsites/constitutional-governance/files/Libya-Hostilities-Office-of-Legal-Counsel.pdf)

Once OLC arrived at its conclusion, it should have been clearly conveyed to the
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the law. If the former is weakened, the latter is jeopardized.

Tournament: Urbradsmith | Round: 4 | Opponent: Vermont Brough-Broughton | Judge: Weddington

1NC (SHORT)

Good News21  Politics are dead21
Baudrillard 1993 (Transparency of Evil, pages 39-40)

Once upon a time there was much talk of the apathy of the masses.
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to look, in clandestine fashion, to the interests of statistical disorder.

 Hence, the aff’s methodology is mistaken in assuming that their emphasis on local experience can translate into political change. Their aff merely establishes political redistributions onto others, maintaining the system
Katz 2000 (Adam Katz, English Instructor at Onodaga Community College. 2000. Postmodernism and the Politics of "Culture." Pg. 146-147)

"Habermas’s understanding of undistorted communication is situated within the same problematic as the postmodernism
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alliance in the contradictions of the formation of the cultural studies public intellectual.

In fact, today no one can be expected to be entirely responsible for their own life, answerable to every aspect of their current situation or social location – this is a utopian hoax21  Yet the affirmative continues to call for such impossibility, chaining all under its method to a truly unheard of form of self-servitude and management
Baudrillard 1993 (Jean, The Transparency of evil: essays on extreme phenomena / Jean Baudrillard; translated by James Benedict.  London: New York: Verso, 1993 Page 165)

"We live in a culture which strives to return to each of us full
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within his genes, nerves or thought: a truly unheard of servitude."

This can best be witnessed in the affirmatives call for dialogical "self-expression" – one the likes of which even Foucault himself would be proud - such a methodology institutes the ultimate form of violence to singularity and obscenity; a most degraded form of existence
Baudrillard 2001 (Jean, "Dust Breeding" Ctheory.)

"Foucault used to refer to self-expression as the ultimate form of confession
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humanity’s own destruction becomes a first rate aesthetic sensation" (Walter Benjamin)." 

This is because the movement for liberation and emancipation itself serves as an expression of modern capital – a world where we ourselves are free-floating capital to be exchanged on the freedom market of modern debate.  The affirmative’s demand for a responsible, aligned subject creates an indescribable debt in humanity’s symbolic stock – more violent than the history of capital.
This is Baudrillard ’05 (The Intelligence of Evil)

    
"Freedom?  A dream21    Everyone aspires to it, or at least gives
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of law. Nore of duty, nor of moral and psychological law."  

Instead, Prefer the strategy of the masses (this card is really long)
Baudrillard 1983 (Jean, In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities or The End of the Social and Other Essays.  Pages 30-48)

"The mass realizes that the paradox of being both an object of simulation (
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sphere also only survives by a credibility hypothesis, namely that the masses are
permeable to action and to discourse, that they hold an opinion, that they
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it is with consumption itself.  To their amazement. economist have never been
able to rationalize consumption.  The seriousness of their "theory of need" and
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always more, and anything whatsoever; for any useless and absurd purpose." 

The alternative alone is key to accessing their historitization, the 1AC absorbs itself in globalization’s infinite exchange.  We must resist differentiation and specificity in order to rescusiate the universal, key to solve
Baudrillard, 2002 (Jean, The Violence of the Global, http://www.egs.edu/faculty/jean-baudrillard/articles/the-violence-of-the-global/,NG)

The passage from the universal to the global has given rise to a constant homogenization
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from within, which in fact produces a wide variety of inhuman metastases.  

The space delineated by the 1AC has already been absorbed into the symbolic "gift" of the capitalist system, to which the affirmative must respond with obedience and dissolution.  Locating our revolution outside of the plane of revolution denies the system its symbolic "other"- only risk of solving case
Baudrillard, 1976 (Jean, French Philosopher, Symbolic Exchange and Death, 35-37) NG

In the immense polymorphous machine of contemporary capital , the symbolic (gift and counter
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itself commit suicide in resp onse to the multiplied challenge of death and suicide 

The Debate space suffocates their activism in the mode of communication, there is no uniqueness to any of their offense because their speech merely replicates the logic of consumption at the root cause of their harms.
Baudrillard, 2008 (Jean,  Jean Baudrillard: Theory’s Destiny, pp. 15-16, NG)

There are objects about which we can speak no longer, or cannot yet speak
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a great tautological operation, as a great self-fulfilling prophecy.