Tournament: CEDA 2014 | Round: 2 | Opponent: NA | Judge: NA
Hauntology K SITES

1NC Hauntology K 

1NC Hauntology K – Ideology Deconstruction 

1 Restrictions on War Powers advances a distorted logic perpetuated by the programmatic technological media. The western political process, war-powers, and the public space of speech are haunted by the logic of spectral de-politicizing ideology. Instead of paying head to the Ghost the AFF represses the Hauntological leading to a return of the repressed in the form of totalitarianism. 

Derrida 1994, Jacques Derrida, professor of philosophy at the Ecole Des Hauts Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, is the author of, among other works, Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference, Margins of Philosophy, and Dissemination, Specters of Marx, 98-100

Provisionally and for the sake of convenience, let us rely on the outdated opposition between civil war and international war. Under the heading of civil war, is it still necessary to point out that liberal democracy of the parliamentary form has never been so much in the minority and so isolated in the world? That it has never been in such a state of dysfunction in what we call the Western democracies? Electoral representativity or parliamentary life is not only distorted, as was always the case, by a great number of socio-economic mechanisms, …  of the "new world order" in a ten-word telegram, one might perhaps choose the following ten words. 

2 War-Power-Authority Deconstruction – The Affirmatives restriction of War Authority strengthens the Power of the sovereign. Limiting presidential authority reduces the relation of sovereign and subject to an arbitrary exercise of power. Rejecting the temporal framing of the resolutions injunction is essential to recognizing ones responsibility.

Žižek 2003, Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian Philosopher, Psychoanalyst and Social Theorist at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London, Author, Heiner Mueller Out of Joint, http://www.lacan.com/mueller.htm

A complaint constantly made by the female character …  goes against their Sollen, their social obligations.

3 “Governmentality” Deconstruction – The AFF is symptomatic of a regulatory and corrective force of the state apparatus – The AFF management of the arraignment of the state re-affirms the states exercise of power-knowledge and death-politics. 

Huang 2010, Han-yu Huang is currently associate professor in Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University. His research interests include Žižek, ethics of psychoanalysis, radical politics, and horror. He has published Horror and Evil in the Name of Enjoyment in 2007 with Peter Lang and other essays on a variety of topics in some most prestigious journals in Taiwan including Concentric and NTU Studies in Language and Literature. He is now working on a project about the theological turn of contemporary theory Huang / Risk, Fear and Immunity, .concentric-literature.url.tw/issues/Bios/2.pdf 

If the last observation is an adequate summation of the current academic  discourse of the biopolitical, it indicates above all the enormous and continuing  influence of Foucault’s notions of governmentality, discipline and … the state’s central power for various  

4 Symbolic Racism Deconstruction – Restrictions on the first black president are Racist Ideology that obliterates the symbolic meaning of the first black president – Reject ideology and the symbolic instrumental enframing and castration of blackness 

Žižek 7-21-2013, Some Bewildered Clarification, Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian Philosopher, Psychoanalyst and Social Theorist at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London, http://jdeanicite.typepad.com/i_cite/zizek/index.html

Since Noam Chomsky’s “Fantasies” (Sunday, July 21, 2013, http://www.zcommunications.org/fantasies-by-noam-chomsky) present themselves as a reaction to my reply to his interview with a critical dismissal of my work, a brief clarification is needed. What … because the message is unpalatable.«

5 Racism, in its essence, is the most nihilistic radical evil in the history of man. Practices of state racism displace black people to ontological concentration camps. Discursive and symbolic acts of racist violence are codified within the legal system which naturalizes the monstrosity of racism as the normal and natural state of affairs 

The practice of state racism is part of the occidental history of the west, which expresses the politico-military thinking that reduces black people to calculable objects. Racism, in the form of state simulation, obliterates conceptions of law, history, and justice. Racism relies on miscalculation which historically has resulted in genocide and war.

Derrida 1982, Jacques Derrida, professor of philosophy at the Ecole Des Hauts Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, is the author of, among other works, Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference, Margins of Philosophy, and Dissemination. His most recent contribution to Critical Inquiry, "The Linguistic Circle of Geneva," appeared in the Summer 1982 issue. Peggy Kamuf teaches French at Miami University, Ohio. She is the author of Fictions of Feminine Desire, Racism's Last Word, Jacques Derrida, Translated by Peggy Kamuf, http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/uploads/pdf/13434721.pdf

THE LAST: or le dernier … ." It points out that "Scripture and History each demonstrate that God requires Christian States."•

6 The distortion or rationality, maintained by ideology and metaphysics, make the annihilation of all life on the planet inevitable. Only the Negatieves Hauntological technique can interrogate the conscious and unconscious machinations of thinking and being. 

Cook 2006, Deborah, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Windsor, Staying Alive: Adorno and Habermas on Self-Preservation under Late Capitalism, Rethinking Marxism, 18(3):433-447, electronic

In the passage in Negative Dialectics where he warns against self-preservation gone wild, … untamed survival instincts that could well end up destroying not just the entire species, but all life on the planet.

1NC Hauntology K – Hauntological Technique  

Contention Two – Hauntological Technique

1 Ethics of the Real Deconstruction – Repressing the Hauntological is un-real of the logo-centrism that does not render visible the horrific real. In the current moment in history the Medias/Symbolic representation of history is mediated by the big other. The AFF is grounded in a false epistemology and history that sustains and is sustained by an ideological fantasy. 

Žižek  and Daly 2004, Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian Philosopher, Psychoanalyst and Social Theorist at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London. Author, Conversations with Ziziek, Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly, http://m.friendfeed-media.com/6f8c13dee87a632985bd870c748419227a5967f6

This notion of the imaginary Real is something that you also … This idea of de facto closure would seem to run counter to the celebrationist view of cyberspace.

2 Alternative TEXT – Reject the Affirmative.

The current post-political order disavows political transformation and entrenches the logic of xenophobic violence because of a repression of death and reality.

The sublimation of death and reality return as fantasy and specter of ideology which Haunt the present from the past causing perpetual failure of policies. 

Rejecting the AFF is not a passive action but rather an active refusal of the system of false choices. Our critique of ideology dispersed the specter and reconfigures politics concerning the ethical reality.

Huang 2010, Han-yu Huang is currently associate professor in Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University. His research interests include Žižek, ethics of psychoanalysis, radical politics, and horror. He has published Horror and Evil in the Name of Enjoyment in 2007 with Peter Lang and other essays on a variety of topics in some most prestigious journals in Taiwan including Concentric and NTU Studies in Language and Literature. He is now working on a project about the theological turn of contemporary theory Huang / Risk, Fear and Immunity, wwwwww.concentric-literature.url.tw/issues/Bios/2.pdf 

Risking Risks, Fearing Fears     To recapitulate: this paper offers a critical survey of contemporary biopolitics,  risk society and culture of fear within the context of postpolitics, where the  Symbolic has come to its demise, … subtracts the  subject from self-indulgent fantasy and interpassive choices, Bartleby as a  living-dead Neighbor-Thing who is deprived of all cultural, ethnic identitarian  registers and who cannot be counted, administered by consensus, multiculturalist  biopolitics.10  Who could be our choicest heroes worthy of such ethical potentialities? 

3 Hauntology proceeds, and is essential to determine ethical evaluations – The negatives messianic deconstruction is in the spirit of Marxian responsibility and is socially transformative even without engaging the state.

Abbinett 2006, Ross, Journal for Cultural Research Volume 10 Number 1 (January 2006), Spectres of Class: Marxism, Deconstruction and the Politics of Affiliation, ISSN 1479–7585 print/1740–1666 online/06/010001–22 © 2006 Taylor and Francis DOI: 10.1080/14797580500422109, http://www3.amherst.edu/~pmachala/endnotelibs/Endnote20Bibliography/MarxSeminar/Marx20for200720students/Marxcourse-general-archive.Data/PDF/Abbinnett,20Specters20of20Class20-20Marxism,20Deconstrunction20and20-1351316992/ABBINN1.PDF

This brings me to the second point of encounter between Marxism and deconstruction: the supposed complicity of Derrida’s critique of metaphysics with the ideological and technological regimes of liberal capitalism.6 Let me give a brief summary of the arguments presented by Ahmad and Lewis in Ghostly Demarcations. Lewis’s article claims that deconstruction, conceived …  effects which includes technological prosthesis, genetic manipulation, and informatic transformation of public space (Derrida 2000, p. 45).

4 Anti-Blackness Deconstruction – Hauntological Deconstruction is essential to confront ones being-toward-death, to address the racist construction of the black body as threatening presence, and the construction of spectral other that generates racism and otherization. 

Peterson 2007, Christopher  Peterson is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature, Claremont McKenna College, California, Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data, Kindred specters: death, mourning, and American affinity, Page 10, http://books.google.com/booksid=VHNcmA7ZhAgCandpg=PA10andlpg=PA10anddq=hauntology+and+abjectionandsource=blandots=zpk6Y_sGWpandsig=7m5ysXs2Kuk2ZY736j2XcfYvDOAandhl=enandsa=Xandei=yjucUo3pJcnwkQeFuIC4Agandved=0CFYQ6AEwBQ#v=onepageandqandf=false

I barrow the term “hauntology” from Derrida, …  white eyes of Mrs. Dalton, eyes that, in their very blindness, can only see the black male body as a threatening presence.

5 Ideology and Fantasy Deconstruction – Hauntological framing is essential to effectively critique, and decompose, ideology which sustains fantasy and the repressed elements of reality.

Žižek 2012, Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian Philosopher, Psychoanalyst and Social Theorist at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London, Author, http://www.aeogea.com/pdf_library/books/415_Mapping20Ideology20-20Slavoj20Zizek.pdf

In his recent book on Marx, Jacques Derrida brought into play the term 'spectre' in …  lies in re- establishing the equilibrium of the two principles . . .

6 A historical memory of the past tragedies and injustices is key to facilitate real change; legal struggles do not solve these issues. 

Agengthou 2009, Anna Agthangelou is a Political Science Professor at York University, "Imperial (Re)assemblages and Reconstructions: Intimate Terrors and Ontological Possibilities", Intensions, 6-15

Many of the sacred places remind one of those violences … , it is our making sure that we hear in the night the drums of those whose death make this land calling us: “to hear mornings among hapu'u: a purity of cardinals, cunning bees in shell-covered sleeves of honeysuckle, ...the aqua undertone of cooing doves” (Trask 2002).

1NC H¶ PIK

Advocacy TEXT – We Affirm the AFF without the AFFs endorsement of Utopian/Experimental State Action
The Negatives Advocacy is essential to de-construct one’s own attachment to the haunted state apparatus and structure and the– ideological injustice it has historically built upon. Reject the injustice and embracing hauntology is the role of the ballot and an ethical imperative.  
Only Hauntology can provide solutions to excessive state authority – The alternative de-limits thinking about problems by locating ethics outside of symbolic formalization. The alternative and AFF Plan are mutually exclusive –  The ethical mode of the alternative allows for an ethical relation to the spectral other that the AFF forecloses with limiting ideological thinking.  

Žižek 2012, Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian Philosopher, Psychoanalyst and Social Theorist at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London, Author, http://www.aeogea.com/pdf_library/books/415_Mapping20Ideology20-20Slavoj20Zizek.pdf

Such a reading of spectrality as that which fills out the unrepresentable abyss of antagonism, of the non-symbolized real, also enables us to assume a precise distance from Derrida, for whom spectrality, the apparition of the Other, provides the ultimate horizon of ethics. … We are dealing here with the paradoxical topology in which the surface ('mere ideology') is directly linked to -- occupies the place of, stands in for -what is 'deeper than depth itself, more real than reality itself.  

H¶  K FW
Frame-Work Deconstruction –
1 Interpretation – Debate is a game of competing rational processes – The ALT is a rational process – the Links to the AFF indicts the rational process of the AFF’s ideological Frame.
2 Our Interpretation Solves the AFFs education offense and advances justice which is portable education and portable fairness concerning legal pedagogy.
3 Ideology distorts rational argumentation and political agency – NEG’S Framework is a prerequisite to AFF’s education and solvency claims
Žižek 2012, Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian Philosopher, Psychoanalyst and Social Theorist at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London, Author, http://www.aeogea.com/pdf_library/books/415_Mapping20Ideology20-20Slavoj20Zizek.pdf

III The Spectre and the Real of Antagonism Is our final outcome, therefore, the inherent impossibility of isolating a reality …  is ultimately the opposition between State and Market, between the external superior agency that organizes society 'from above' and society's 'spontaneous' self-organization.

4 The AFF’s framework necessitates the discourse of the ideological philosophical scholarship who reifies injustices of the state apparatus. There framework exemplifies intellectual scholarship that represses death by connecting itself to the haunted state apparatus – that reifies ideology and imperial injustice. 

Additionally, the frameworks logic disavows the question of death and spectral existence. The link threshold is low because complete radical consciousness of death, in terms of Hauntology, is essential to social transformation. 

Derrida 1994, Jacques Derrida, professor of philosophy at the Ecole Des Hauts Etudes en Sciences Aociales in Paris, is the author of, among other works, Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference, Margins of Philosophy, and Dissemination, Specters of Marx, 66-69

c. There is finally scholarly or academic culture, notably that of historians, sociologists and politologists, theoreticians of literature, anthropologists, philosophers, in particular political philosophers, whose discourse is itself relayed by the academic and commercial press… . As for Holderlin, he calls this language, "the most dangerous of goods, given to man "so that he bears witness to having inherited/what he is damit er zeuge, was er seil geerbt zu haben." 

5 Frame-Work Deconstruction – A Deconstruction Executes The Most Rational Process – Deconstruction superior rational process utilizes computational techniques which trace the limits of a system suspending tautological and circular systems of thinking – in order to illuminate the distorted reasoning and un-ethicality of ideology/metaphysics. 

Livingston 2010, Paul, Derrida Today, Volume 3, Page 221-239 DOI 10.3366/drt.2010.0205, ISSN 1754-8500, Derrida and Formal Logic: Formalizing the Undecidable, Page 5-6, http://www.unm.edu/~pmliving/Derrida20and20Formal20Logic.pdf

Given this, it is possible to specify the analogy between Gödel’s result and deconstructive undecidability  on at least two significant points. First, both trade decisively on the capacity of a total system of signs,  directed to the establishment of truth or the maintenance of presence… ; the sentence is itself generated by means of reasoning about what must escape these rules.  Most, if not all, instances of diagonalization depend on just such an intervention on syntax

Frame-Work is within the context of academia is haunted by ideology and reproduced systematic violence 

Vos 2010, Jan De Vos – Ghent University, Belgium, Hauntology or the Return of the Real Man: Edging the Žižek-Laclau controversy on populism, International Journal For Zizek Studies, ISSN 1751- 8229 Volume Four, Number Three, zizekstudies.org/index.php/ijzs/article/view/273/347

What are we then to do with Žižek’s paradoxical sticking to the concept of, or the real of class strugle? Where does Žižek exactly leaves us in his critique that Laclau misses how capitalism feeds itself like a gigantic parasite on “real people and natural objects…maybe  this will be the only way to escape the deadlock of contemporary conceptualisations of class  struggle. 

Symbolic Exchange Deconstruction – The Specter is the radical other that is excluded from contemporary culture. The exclusion of death forms the foundation for the exlusion of the racial, gender, and all “others”

Cholodenko 2014, Dr. Alan Cholodenko (Honorary Associate, Department of Art History and Film Studies, University of Sydney, Australia), International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, ISSN: 1705-6411 Volume 11, Number 1 (January, 2014) (The) Death (of) The Animator, or: The Felicity of Felix1 (Part III: Death and the Death of Death)2 www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol11_1/v11-1-cholodenko.html

I. Death I see dead people (Sear, 1999). In undertaking an articulation of the relation of such a sight of death to animation, and animation to it, let me begin by asserting something whose nature is for me inextricably imbricated …  And so long as both persist, the illusion of life persists. And so long as death the animatic animator persists, the illusion of life death and the life death of illusion persist.  
Impact Calculus is Haunted – Structural Violence as a result of Spectral Capitalism is an evil that outweighs every impact because it generates complete nihilism, devalues all meaning value, and results in systematic anonymous violence. 

Zizek 2000, Slavoj, Philosopher and psychoanalyst, is a senior researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, in Essen, Germany, The Fragile Absolute, p. 11-15

So where are we, today, with regard to ghosts? … That is the fundamental systemic violence of capitalism, which is much more uncanny than direct pre-capitalist socio-ideological violence:  this violence is no longer attributable to concrete individuals and their ‘evil’ intentions; it is purely ‘objective’, systemic, anonymous.

2NC H¶  K – KRITICAL
Overview –
The ballot is a decision that should endorse the most just political advocacy. The Debate should be evaluated in a rational framework – More in the 1NR.

 2 Hauntological deconstruction is a historical technique that re-politicizes the public space so that it can be transformed by emancipatory politics. The Alternative appropriates the responsible ethical spirit of Marxian critique and gestures to a messianic attitude toward the future which generates hope. The Affirmatives onto-logic emphasizes presence, is fearful, teleological, and programmatic. The logic of the Hauntic traces, disarticulates de-crypts, de-distorts and critiques the annihilation of the “other” of western metaphysical discourse and ideology. 

Derrida 1994, Jacques Derrida, professor of philosophy at the Ecole Des Hauts Etudes en Sciences Aociales in Paris, is the author of, among other works, Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference, Margins of Philosophy, and Dissemination, Specters of Marx, 93-95

(Permit me to recall very briefly that a certain deconstructive procedure, at least the one in which I thought I had to engage, consisted from the outset in putting into question the ontotheo- but also archeo-teleological concept of history-… certain spirit of Marxism, to at least one of its spirits for. and this can never be repeated too often, there is more than one of them and they are heterogeneous.) 

2NC H¶ K Link – EXT Kritical

 5 Symbolic Castration Deconstruction – Reducing the president’s authority to exercise his power is a symbolic act to castrate that which threatens one’s stability and security. The control of the president’s Authority is symptomatic of the suppression of death that remains within the constellation of patriarchal symbolic matrix.

Žižek 2012, Slavoj Žižek is a Philosopher, Psychoanalyst and Social Theorist. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism, 433-437

This brings us to the paradox of how sexual difference relates to the phallic signifier: the moment we conceive the phallus as signifier and not only as an image (“symbol”) of potency, … what happens in what he calls separation, the separation of the object from the signifier, which renders visible the utter contingency of their link.

2NC H¶ K – AT Perm: Both
 3 The Negatives and Affirmatives strategies are mutually exclusive. The permutation links more. It is procrastination that reduces all politics to bio–politics. The choice between the alternative and the plan must be yes or no.

Zizek 2002, Slavoj, Philosopher and psychoanalyst, Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian Philosopher, Psychoanalyst and Social Theorist at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London. Author, Welcome to the desert of the real. '4. from homo sucker to homo sacer'. p100–2.

There is no place in Agamben for the 'democratic' project of 'renegotiating' the limit which separates full citizens from Homo sacer by gradually allowing their voices to be heard; … a cut like that of the proverbial Gordian knot: the magical moment when the infinite pondering crystallized itself into a simple 'yes' or 'no.
2NC H¶ K Link – Haunted Law
Legal System Deconstruction – The scientific military force of war powers are haunted by the ideology – The AFF’s use of the legal system entrenches spectral state capitalism which is uniquely results in ruthless world-war.

Derrida 1994, Jacques Derrida, professor of philosophy at the Ecole Des Hauts Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, is the author of, among other works, Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference, Margins of Philosophy, and Dissemination, Specters of Marx, 62-63

(We are thus going to underscore it, as well as the figure of the Promised Land, which is at once close to it and dissociated  from it for two reasons that we can only indicate here in parentheses.  …   capitalisms plural-whether State or private, real or symbolic,  always linked to spectral forces-or rather capitalizations whose  antagonisms are irreducible.  

2NC H¶ K Link – Law/Ideology
Using the law masks over the structural violence, racism, and exclusion of the other that is part or every activity of the ideological legal system 

Cohen 2001, Tom Cohen is Professor in the Department of English at the State University of New York, Albany. He is the author of Anti-Mimesis (Cambridge) and Ideology and Inscription (Cambridge). He is also contributing editor of Material Events: Paul de Man and the Afterlife of Theory(????)., Cambridge University Press, JACQUES DERRIDA AND THE HUMANITIES A Critical Reader EDITED BY TOM COHEN, .JACQUES DERRIDA AND THE HUMANITIES, 233 www.armario.cl/2dat/3Apuntes/1Autores/Derrida/Jacques20Derrida20And20The20Humanities20-20A20Critical20Reader20(Cambridge20Companions20To20Literature)202002.pdf

Thus law is the calculable, and justice is incalculable. What does this mean? To summarize a complex and detailed argument, justice is what takes place in the gaps or aporia of law …  like deconstruction, justice is of the law, but not reducible to law

2NC H¶ K Link – Ontology
Ontology Deconstruction – Hauntology is a critique of the logic of ontology which presumes presence and the capacity to determine ones being. The specter concerns the return of the dead in consciousness, which were unjustly exterminated in the past. We have an ethical responsibility to do justice to the “other” in histories past 

Derrida 1994, Jacques Derrida, professor of philosophy at the Ecole Des Hauts Etudes en Sciences Aociales in Paris, is the author of, among other works, Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference, Margins of Philosophy, and Dissemination, Specters of Marx, 10

Repetition and first time: this is perhaps the question of the event  as question of the ghost. What is a ghost? What is the effectivity or  the presence of a specter, …  it figures both a dead man who comes back and a  ghost whose expected return repeats itself, again and again.  
2NC H¶ K Link – Haunted Scholarship

The AFF’s framework necessitates the discourse of the ideological philosophical scholarship who reifies injustices of the state apparatus. 

There framework exemplifies intellectual scholarship that represses death by connecting itself to the haunted state apparatus – that reifies ideology and imperial injustice. 

Additionally, the frameworks logic disavows the question of death and spectral existence. The link threshold is low because complete radical consciousness of death, in terms of Hauntology, is essential to social transformation. 

Derrida 1994, Jacques Derrida, professor of philosophy at the Ecole Des Hauts Etudes en Sciences Aociales in Paris, is the author of, among other works, Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference, Margins of Philosophy, and Dissemination, Specters of Marx, 66-69

c. There is finally scholarly or academic culture, notably that of historians, sociologists and politologists, theoreticians of literature, anthropologists, philosophers, in particular political philosophers, whose discourse is itself relayed by the academic and commercial press, …  allows  us to bear witness to it. As for Holderlin, he calls this language, "the most dangerous of goods, given to man "so that he bears witness to having inherited/what he is damit er zeuge, was er seil geerbt zu haben."
2NC H¶ K – AT AFF O.W./DA – KRITICAL

Symbolic Exchange Deconstruction – Root Cause flows negative – The Specter is the radical other that is excluded from contemporary culture. The exclusion of death forms the foundation for the exlusion of the racial, gender, and all “others”

Cholodenko 2014, Dr. Alan Cholodenko (Honorary Associate, Department of Art History and Film Studies, University of Sydney, Australia), International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, ISSN: 1705-6411 Volume 11, Number 1 (January, 2014) (The) Death (of) The Animator, or: The Felicity of Felix1 (Part III: Death and the Death of Death)2 www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol11_1/v11-1-cholodenko.html

I. Death I see dead people (Sear, 1999). In undertaking an articulation of the relation of such a sight of death to animation, and animation to it, let me begin by asserting something whose nature is … . And so long as death the animatic animator persists, the illusion of life death and the life death of illusion persist.  
2NC H¶ K – AT State Good/Bad
State Deconstruction – Practical engagement with the state academic structure, in terms of their rationality debate scholarship framework, is essential to dissipate the ghosts of ideology located within the state structure.

Derrida 1994, Jacques Derrida, professor of philosophy at the Ecole Des Hauts Etudes en Sciences Aociales in Paris, is the author of, among other works, Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference, Margins of Philosophy, and Dissemination, Specters of Marx, 182-183

prosthesis and delegation, repetition, differance. The living ego is auto-immune, which is what they do not want to know.  To protect its life, to constitute itself as unique living ego, to  relate, as the same, to itsel( it is necessarily led to welcome  the other within (so many figures of death: differance of the  technical apparatus, … , the reality  of the State, Emperor, Nation, Fatherland, and so on. But obviously, for the time of this detour, you must accept to take into  account the autonomous, relatively autonomous body of ghostly  reality.183

2NC H¶ K ALT – EXT

Our Alternative TEXT is to reject the AFF – Rejecting the AFF is a gesture that opens up political space for emancipatory transformation that’s Huang – The AFFs repression of death frames politics as mere management of life that is already robbed of inherent meaning and value.

Deconstruction is an operator that functions like a critique that exceeds, and supersedes, the context of the debate round. Hauntology interrogates the larger context which permeates the specific insular context

Only the Alternative actuates an ethical responsibility. Upon tracing the grammatical structure of insular debate space the authentic ethical moment makes a leap of faith to locate the “other” outside of the system’s capacity to conceive. 

Livingston 2010, Paul, Derrida Today, Volume 3, Page 221-239 DOI 10.3366/drt.2010.0205, ISSN 1754-8500, Derrida and Formal Logic: Formalizing the Undecidable, Page 10-14, http://www.unm.edu/~pmliving/Derrida20and20Formal20Logic.pdf

III  So far, I have argued, by way of the close analogy to Gödel’s result and to diagonalization more  generally, for three claims about Derrida’s undecidables. First, I have argued that they are always the result of a reflective intervention on syntax, by means of which the constitutive rules governing a system are problematically ‘represented’ within that system itself… but in the problematic moment of reflection whereby the total logic of the system is reflected back into one of its members, producing the diagonal and the undecidable as such. In a strange and even surprising way, then, we might see Derrida’s ethics as the radical practice of reflection on the paradoxical topology of syntactic totality; in this specific sense, it is coextensive with the practical formalization of formalization, or the writing of writing, as such. 

2NC H¶ K ALT – DeKon De-Distorts
Hauntology is a “Real” mode of being in the world that corrects and frees ones perception from flawed and distorted epistemologies and ontologies of the socio-symbolic matrix

Žižek 2012, Slavoj Žižek is a Philosopher, Psychoanalyst and Social Theorist. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism, 469 – 471

Why this primordial loss, why this constitutive withdrawal from reality of a part of the Real? Precisely because the subject is a part of reality, because it emerges out of it… what “objectively exists” is the entire field of interaction between subject and object as part of the Real. 

2NC H¶ K FW – Link Violence
Frame-Work is within the context of academia is haunted by ideology and reproduced systematic violence 

Vos 2010, Jan De Vos – Ghent University, Belgium, Hauntology or the Return of the Real Man: Edging the Žižek-Laclau controversy on populism, International Journal For Zizek Studies, ISSN 1751- 8229 Volume Four, Number Three, zizekstudies.org/index.php/ijzs/article/view/273/347

What are we then to do with Žižek’s paradoxical sticking to the concept of, or the real of class strugle? Where does Žižek exactly leaves us in his critique that Laclau misses how capitalism feeds itself like a gigantic parasite on “real people and natural objects”? For does not these real people and natural objects constitute the point where Žižek’s hauntology … challenge for both psychoanalysis and contemporary Left is to re-appropriate this legacy exactly trough untying the false knot of psychoanalysis with politics, maybe  this will be the only way to escape the deadlock of contemporary conceptualisations of class  struggle.

2NC H¶ K ALT – DeKon Anthro

Anthropocentrism Deconstruction – The ethical gesture of deconstruction levels the Human-non-human divide and advances humanity toward animal rights. The animal has been in subjugated, subject to genocide, and cruelly obliterated because of the ideological underlying groundwork of philosophy that deconstruction reconfigures. 

Derrida 2002, Jacques Derrida, professor of philosophy at the Ecole Des Hauts Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, is the author of, among other works, Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference, Margins of Philosophy, and Dissemination, The Animal That Therefore I Am, Critical Inquiry, vol. 28, No. 2; www.jstor.org/stable/1344276

All that is well known; we have no need to dwell on it. However  one  interprets  it, whatever  practical, technical,  scientific, juridical,  ethical,  or  political  …)  of the  philosophical  problematic  of the animal. 

2NC H¶ K Link – K Logo-Centric
Critiques of war powers, utilize the logo-centric legal structure to restrict the sovereign, reduce the law to a passive instrument of change that forecloses the possibility to radically critique the injustice of the political field.

Shershow 2011, Scott, Cutler, Derrida Today, Edinburg University Press, ‘A Triangle Open on its Fourth Side’: On the Strategy, Protocol, and ‘Justice’ of Deconstruction Scott Cutler Shershow Citation Information. Derrida Today. Volume 4, Page 59-85 DOI 10.3366/drt.2011.0006, ISSN 1754-8500, Available Online May 2011 .www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/drt.2011.0006

Apart from such hints, however, Derrida does not always make it easy to see the continuity between his early texts and the more explicitly political arguments of his later career. In ‘Force of … Sovereignty too, then, is compromised essentially by its exposure to the spacing of time in a manner precisely analogous to the interruption of speech by writing.

2NC H¶ K – AT Post-Structural Bad

Reification Deconstruction – Deconstruction is Not Post Structuralism – The Western Academic space has misinterpreted to appropriate deconstruction for injustice. 

Žižek 2012, Slavoj Žižek is a Philosopher, Psychoanalyst and Social Theorist. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism, 157-159

One of the standard procedures of de?fetishizing/de?reifying critique is to denounce (what appears as) a direct property of the perceived object as the subject’s (the observer’s) “…  reasons is never complete and “sufficient,” since the past reasons are retroactively activated by what is, within the linear order, their effect.
2NC H¶ K Link – WPA Restrictions

War Power Deconstruction – restrictions are symptomatic of auto-immunity – Distributing state power only fragments state control into multiple managerial bureaucratic components and authorities.  The post-political frame of the AFF’s bureaucratic gesture is the rational of the holocaust.  

Huang 2010, Han-yu Huang is currently associate professor in Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University. His research interests include Žižek, ethics of psychoanalysis, radical politics, and horror. He has published Horror and Evil in the Name of Enjoyment in 2007 with Peter Lang and other essays on a variety of topics in some most prestigious journals in Taiwan including Concentric and NTU Studies in Language and Literature. He is now working on a project about the theological turn of contemporary theory Huang / Risk, Fear and Immunity, www.concentric-literature.url.tw/issues/Bios/2.pdf    

The immunitary turn of modern biopolitics in question attests to a crucial  historical transformation in modernity. When the traditional natural defense,  symbolic shield, and theologico-transcendental matrix lose their solid grounds, the  biopolitical defense mechanism … . The social origins of suffering and  distress, including poverty and discrimination, even if fleetingly  recognized, are set aside, while effort is experienced in controlling  disease and averting death through biomedical manipulations. (219,  qtd. from Cohen 272)

Tournament: MAC | Round: 3 | Opponent:  | Judge:
2NC Hauntology K Impact – Ethics of the Real
Hauntology Key to Authentic Criticism – Hauntology is a gate-way issue to Real Ethics, and anti-ideological, radical, deconstructive Criticism.  Only Hauntology is accurately Historical.
Sequence is essential – Repressing the Hauntological is the un-real of the logo-centric criticism that does not render visible the horrific real. In the current moment in history the Medias representation of history is mediated by the big other. We are a more radical Hauntology that critiques the current representation of history, that actually is a counter and alternative history, that sustains and is sustained by an ideological fantasy. 

Žižek  and Daily 2004, Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian Philosopher, Psychoanalyst and Social Theorist at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London. Author, Conversations with Ziziek, Slavoj Žižek  and Glyn Daly, http://m.friendfeed-media.com/6f8c13dee87a632985bd870c748419227a5967f6

This notion of the imaginary Real is something that you also explore in a recent text on the events of 11 September 2001, the title of which, Welcome to the Desert of the Real… This idea of de facto closure would seem to run counter to the celebrationist view of cyberspace.

Ethics of the real is essential to authentic ethics – that deconstructs micro-fascism, and re-configures possibilities, past the possible horizon, and politicizes de-politicized capitalist space.

Žižek and Daily 2004, Conversations with Ziziek, Slavoj Žižek  and Glyn Daly, http://m.friendfeed-media.com/6f8c13dee87a632985bd870c748419227a5967f6

For Žižek , a confrontation with the obscenities … , exhorts us to risk the impossible.

2NC Hauntology K Frame-Work

1. Interpretation – Debate is a game of competing rational processes – The AFF’s critique indicts the rational process of the Resolutions and the Negatives ideological Frame.
   2. Ideology distorts rational argumentation and political agency – AFF’s Framework is a prerequisite to NEG’s education and solvency claims

Žižek 2012, Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian Philosopher, Psychoanalyst and Social Theorist at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London, Author, http://www.aeogea.com/pdf_library/books/415_Mapping20Ideology20-20Slavoj20Zizek.pdf

III The Spectre and the Real of Antagonism … and society's 'spontaneous' self-organization

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Deconstruction is essential to an authentic mode of policy-making – Deconstructive critique is critical of the injustice of the western, logo-centric world-views of policy making that produce policies that pre-specify, and programmer the future. 

Politics is not reducible to policymaking – The world-view (metaphysics) of policy making eradicates the non-western other. Adhering to policy making – already pre-specifies, naturalizes, entrenches, and solidifies a political order – Reducing politics to management. 

McQuillan 2008, Martin McQuillan is a Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, London, where he is also Co-Director of The London Graduate School. He was previously Pro-Dean of Research (2005-09) for the Faculty of Performance, Visual Arts and Communications at the University of Leeds, where he was also Head of the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies(2001–2005). Before that he was a Lecturer in English at Staffordshire University, Derrida Today 5 (1):119-130 (2008), Derrida and Policy: Is Deconstruction Really a Social Science?, http://www.gorgangli.com/article/Martin20McQuillan.pdf

2. Justice Again to be for Justice … a reader-theoretician-philosopher-deconstructor-political-citizen comes forward and says, ‘I would like to learn to live ?nally’. 

1. Liberal democracy de-authenticates and distorts democracy so that it no longer represents the will of the people. Appeals to the intrinsic value of democracy fetishizes the democratic process and prevents global solutions to world problems and strengthens the anti-democratic element of elitist control.

The Fiat framework disavows individual’s ethical reasonability regarding decisions. By displacing reasonability onto the transcendent “big other” fiat pre-specifies all decisions. This forecloses of authentic choices stifles thinking in debates. The NEG’s use of the state deploys legalistic thinking that entrenches oppressive domination and elitism.

Žižek 2003, Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian Philosopher, Psychoanalyst and Social Theorist at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London. AuthorHeiner Mueller Out Of Joint, http://www.lacan.com/mueller.htm

But should we still call it "democracy"? …  can only be enacted by non-democratic means.

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2NC Hauntology THEORY
Justice is portable education Our Theory is Unique – Deconstruction is essential to appropriate psychoanalysis for justice – Deconstruction advances the future of psychoanalysis in w ay that is open and hospitable to the other – instead of the usual psychoanalytic practices which programs and pre-specify the future at the expense of the other. 

McQuillan 1-8-2013, Martin McQuillan is a Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, London, where he is also Co-Director of The London Graduate School. He was previously Pro-Dean of Research (2005-09) for the Faculty of Performance, Visual Arts and Communications at the University of Leeds, where he was also Head of the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies(2001–2005). Before that he was a Lecturer in English at Staffordshire University, 2013 Departures: the American future of psychoanalysis. In: Senatore, Mauro, (ed.) Performatives After Deconstruction. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. (Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy) ISBN 9781441123466 (In Press), Southern Journal of Philosophy Special Issue: Spindel Supplement: Freudian Futures Volume 51, Issue Supplement S1, pages 142–157, September 2013 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sjp.12025/full

 
The United States, or Americanness, is also a performance. … , you will know that the “us” no longer has proprietorial rights over psychoanalysis.

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2NC Hauntology THEORY – Prodigt/Anti-Cruel

Deconstruction is rigorous and against cruelty and is– Deconstruction is essential to transform psychoanalyses to counter the cruelty of American academia. The rejection of theory, and the other-ization and banality of the theorist, is an intense cruelty that is worse than death.

McQuillan 1-8-2013, Martin McQuillan is a Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, London, where he is also Co-Director of The London Graduate School. He was previously Pro-Dean of Research (2005-09) for the Faculty of Performance, Visual Arts and Communications at the University of Leeds, where he was also Head of the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies(2001–2005). Before that he was a Lecturer in English at Staffordshire University, 2013 Departures: the American future of psychoanalysis. In: Senatore, Mauro, (ed.) Performatives After Deconstruction. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. (Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy) ISBN 9781441123466 (In Press), Southern Journal of Philosophy Special Issue: Spindel Supplement: Freudian Futures Volume 51, Issue Supplement S1, pages 142–157, September 2013onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sjp.12025/full

When Derrida discusses psychoanalysis in The Post …  produce in a sovereign manner.17

Tournament: MAC | Round: 4 | Opponent:  | Judge:
2NC Hauntology FW – Deconstructive Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis Deconstruction – Group There Deconstruction Turns – Derrida argues for New Psychoanalytic Graphology. Writing and difference. There Post-structuralism and or Postmodernism reading of Derrida is less effective.

Deconstructive Graphology Psychoanalysis is trans-formative – The Negatives psychoanalytic theoretical model allows for an understanding of anxiety and fantasies while deconstructing and overcoming the traditional protocols of psychoanalysis 

Derrida 2005, Jacques Derrida, professor of philosophy at the Ecole Des Hauts Etudes en Sciences Aociales in Paris, is the author of, among other works, Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference, Margins of Philosophy, and Dissemination. His most recent contribution to Critical Inquiry, "The Linguistic Circle of Geneva," Paper Machine, Translated by Rachel Bowlby, Stanford University Press Stanford, California, http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/burt/Derridapaperorme.pdf 

A language might also be compared to a sheet of paper. …-here we are back again with Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety.

Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 2 | Opponent: Rochester CM | Judge: Amber Kelsie
Ghosts of War-Powers 1NDeonstructive

Scene One – Hauntology

Ghosts are not metaphorical. The Dead inhabit our unconscious by way of memory. It is important to pay head to the figure of the specter because of the power that horrors possess over societies collective unconscious.
Anachronism and spectrally are not merely literary tools. The Negatives philosophical concepts destabilize violent binaries that emphasis present suffering and embrace a-historical thinking and being.

The specter of Slavery haunts this debate round – Those denied access to democratic consideration haunt the debate community just as they haunt American society. The Affirmatives framing of this round is one of Hauntological Politics 

War powers are haunted. Black debaters are haunted by the notion that a choice was made to have them imagine restricting their first black president. The very capacity for four debaters to speak in this place is a product of the indefinite detention of red, brown, and black bodies. 

Hauntology is a deconstruction of the ontology of presence in favor an anachronistic and spectral conception of time and being. Time is out of Joint – Slavery outweighs every negative “implications”. The Affirmative’s historical framing is essential to Justice – Debate is haunted. This place is haunted. 

We must come to grips with the ghosts, of history, that haunt us at the conscious and unconscious level or the repressed will forever return.

Johnson 2007, URRICULUM VITA LEIGH M. JOHNSON Assistant Professor of Philosophy Rhodes College 2000 North Parkway Memphis, TN 38104 johnsonl@rhodes.edu EDUCATION B.A., Philosophy, University of Memphis, 2000 M.A., Philosophy, Villanova University, 2003 Ph.D., Philosophy, The Pennsylvania State University, 2007 Doctoral Minor, African and African-American Studies, The Pennsylvania State University The Graduate School College of the Liberal Arts HAUNTED DEMOCRACIES AND THE POLITICS OF POSSIBILITY:  A DECONSTRUCTIVE ANALYSIS OF TRUTH COMMISSIONS A Thesis in Philosophy by Leigh M. Johnson © 2007, 

 Derrida’s “hauntology” When Derrida asks, at the outset of Specters of Marx, “what does it mean to live finally …  At stake in these processes are simultaneously a politics of memory and a politics of possibility, both of which are but variations on a political hauntology. 

Hauntology is the negatives approach to the death drive – The ideology of the 1AC fills the void of the death drive with a fantasy of truth and goodness. Endorse the strategy of Hauntology which authentically confront the psychic death drive. Repression, and sublimation, of the death drive results in genocidal disaster. 

Zizek 1999, Slavoj, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, The Ticklish Subject, page 160-161

In Lacanese, the subject prior to subjectivization is the pure negativity of the death drive prior to its reversal into the identification … (from the Holocaust to the Stalinist desastre) are not the result of our succumbing to the morbid attraction of this Beyond but, on the contrary, the result of our endeavour to avoid confronting it and to impose the direct rule of the Truth and/or Goodness.

The primary question of this round is Ethics of hospitality. Our argument is that far too much of the status quo is dominated by a conditional form of hospitality. The ethical decision the ballot should reflect is the best strategy and enactment of unconditional hospitality.

An ethical relation to the other is a fundamental question in this debate– the other of American history, or the indefinitely detained other of war powers of the presidency. This is the most important mode of ethics.

Mules 2010, Warwick, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Central Queensland University and Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland 2010 Warwick Derrida Today 3.1http:www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdfplus/10.3366/drt.2010.0007

To be virtuous … colonisation by the logic of efficiency and calculation.

At the end of the process of utilitarian risk calculus; we find racist ghettoization, concentration camps, and refugee camps, at the end of these ethical decisions.

Žižek 2002, Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, in Essen, Germany, Are we in a war? Do we have an enemy? London Review of Books, Vol 24. No 10. May-23-2002, www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n10/slavoj-zizek/are-we-in-a-war-do-we-have-an-enemy

When Donald Rumsfeld designated the imprisoned Taliban fighters ‘unlawful combatants’ (as opposed to ‘regular’ prisoners of war…has already assumed the role of the Red Cross, in that it does not perceive itself as one of the warring sides, but as a mediating agent of peace and global order, crushing rebellion and, simultaneously, providing humanitarian aid to the ‘local population’.

Scene Two – Deconstructive Critique 

We must pay head to the Ghost in this moment in debate history. We are all haunted by the ghosts of our community.

Our Alternative TEXT is to reject the affirmative.

Rejecting the affirmative is a rejection of calculations/advocacy within the state structure that opens space to head the figure of the specter. The Negative FRAMES there advocacy as an ethical gesture. The strategy of the K is distinct from the AFF’s strategy which maintains the status quo organization of sovereign power and domination – The AFFS liberal idealism and attachment to utopian state action further inscribes war authority because the ability to use force is built within the structure of the law that the affirmative legitimizes - Rejecting the plans implementation and calculations is essential to subvert control over life and actuate justice.

Shershow 2011, Scott, Cutler, Derrida Today, Edinburg University Press, ‘A Triangle Open on its Fourth Side’: On the Strategy, Protocol, and ‘Justice’ of Deconstruction Scott Cutler Shershow Citation Information. Derrida Today. Volume 4, Page 59-85 DOI 10.3366/drt.2011.0006, ISSN 1754-8500, Available Online May 2011 .www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/drt.2011.0006

One is all the more persuaded to adapt such a protocol and follow this strategy in that the opposition of force and law, when understood like this, parallels that of speech and writing. Speech, as envisioned in logocentric ... the accused ‘appears only to testify (without testifying) of his opposition to the law’ (Derrida 2002, 267).

This 1NC is our response to the question posed by the ghosts of the topic and debate – it takes our social positions as black men and applies them to both literature, debate, and the topic.

Abbinett 2006, Ross, Journal for Cultural Research Volume 10 Number 1 (January 2006), Spectres of Class: Marxism, Deconstruction and the Politics of Affiliation, ISSN 1479–7585 print/1740–1666 online/06/010001–22 © 2006 Taylor and Francis DOI: 10.1080/14797580500422109, http://www3.amherst.edu/~pmachala/endnotelibs/Endnote20Bibliography/MarxSeminar/Marx20for200720students/Marxcourse-general-archive.Data/PDF/Abbinnett,20Specters20of20Class20-20Marxism,20Deconstrunction20and20-1351316992/ABBINN1.PDF

So how can such questions become socially transformative? … material dynamics of historical transformation (Callinicos, 1996: 40).

Scene 3 – Framing 

Role of the Ballot – The judge’s decision should remember to reflect an unconditional ethical relation to the other. The negatives deconstructive conception of hauntology, justice, and ethico-political responsibility, precede the question of the implementation of the plan. 

The 1NC is a hauntology prefiguring of ethics. Our unconditional hospitality takes responsibility for the past’s prefiguring of present and attempts a deconstructive strategy against them. 

Abbinett 2006, Ross, Journal for Cultural Research Volume 10 Number 1 (January 2006), Spectres of Class: Marxism, Deconstruction and the Politics of Affiliation, http://www3.amherst.edu/~pmachala/endnotelibs/Endnote20Bibliography/MarxSeminar/Marx20for200720students/Marxcourse-general-archive.Data/PDF/Abbinnett,20Specters20of20Class20-20Marxism,20Deconstrunction20and20-1351316992/ABBINN1.PDF

In the introduction I identified three themes through which the encounter between Marxism and deconstruction has been played out:  … In the end we must take responsibility for the unforeseeable effects which their manifestations produce in the temporal economy of the present.5 

Racism, in its essence, is the most radical evil in the history of man. Practices of state racism displace black people to ontological concentration camps. Discursive and symbolic acts of racist violence are codified within the legal system which naturalizes the monstrosity of racism as the normal and natural state of affairs 

The practice of state racism is part of the occidental history of the west, which expresses the politico-military thinking that reduces black people to calculable objects. Racism, in the form of state simulation, obliterates conceptions of law, history, and justice. Racism relies on miscalculation which historically has resulted in genocide and war.

Derrida 1982, Jacques Derrida, professor of philosophy at the Ecole Des Hauts Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, is the author of, among other works, Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference, Margins of Philosophy, and Dissemination. His most recent contribution to Critical Inquiry, "The Linguistic Circle of Geneva," appeared in the Summer 1982 issue. Peggy Kamuf teaches French at Miami University, Ohio. She is the author of Fictions of Feminine Desire, Racism's Last Word, Jacques Derrida, Translated by Peggy Kamuf, http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/uploads/pdf/13434721.pdf

THE LAST: or le dernier … God requires Christian States."•

Tournament: MAC Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent:  | Judge:
1NC T
1NC T – “Restrictions” “Authority” “In the area”

Interpretation – restriction requires prohibition of an entire topic list area
Restriction means prohibition
Corpus Juris Secundum 31
Volume 54, p. 735

RESTRICT:  To … bounds.
Authority is power delegated to an agent
Kelly 3 - judge for the State of Michigan
(JOSEPH ELEZOVIC, Plaintiff, and LULA ELEZOVIC, Plaintiff-Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY and DANIEL P. BENNETT, Defendants-Appellees/Cross-Appellants., No. 236749, COURT OF APPEALS OF MICHIGAN, 259 Mich. App. 187; 673 N.W.2d 776; 2003 Mich. App. LEXIS 2649; 93 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 244; 92 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 1557, Lexis)

Applying … principal's business." Id. at 1348.
“In the area” means all of the activities
United Nations 13 (United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty, http://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/part1.htm)
PART I¶ INTRODUCTION¶ Article 1

Use of terms … of the Area;
Violations – the affirmative doesn’t prohibit – it either it sets conditions that can be met, or just limits the scope
Voting issue –
Limits – absent prohibition of an area, every single condition or regulation acts as a functional restriction on some single process of war powers authority – dozens of tiny mechanisms and small subsets of areas create an infinite number of affs that core lit doesn’t check
Bidirectionality – absent a prohibition, the aff can create meaningless “conditions” that EXPAND presidential power – commission consultation proves
Wilson Center 2008 (War Powers Proposal Gives the President Even More Authority, http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/war-powers-proposal-gives-the-president-even-more-authority)

A privately organized … briefings and documents.

1NC K
1NC Hauntology K Link – WPA Restrictions

The Affirmatives restriction of War Authority strengthens the Power of the sovereign. Limiting presidential authority reduces the relation of sovereign and subject to an arbitrary exercise of power. Rejecting the temporal framing of the resolutions injunction is essential to recognizing ones responsibility.

Additionally, the Affirmatives formal democratic “Resolved” framework entrenches distorted rationality, oppression, restricts thinking, and only recognizes a responsibility to the present

Žižek 2003, Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian Philosopher, Psychoanalyst and Social Theorist at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London, Author, Heiner Mueller Out of Joint, http://www.lacan.com/mueller.htm

This inherent crisis of democracy …, their social obligations.

2NC Hauntology K Link – Restricting Black President Link
Restrictions on the first black president are Racist Ideology that obliterates the symbolic meaning of the first black president – Reject ideology and the symbolic castration of blackness 

Žižek 7-21-2013, Some Bewildered Clarification, Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian Philosopher, Psychoanalyst and Social Theorist at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London, http://jdeanicite.typepad.com/i_cite/zizek/index.html

Since Noam Chomsky’s “Fantasies” (… not on the basis of truthfulness or scholarship but because the message is unpalatable.«

1NC Hauntology K – Framing – Political Hauntology

Ghosts are not metaphorical. The Dead inhabit our unconscious by way of memory. It is important to pay head to the figure of the specter because of the power that horrors possess over societies collective unconscious.
Anachronism and spectrally are not merely literary tools. The Negatives philosophical concepts destabilize violent binaries that emphasis present suffering and embrace a-historical thinking and being.

The specter of Slavery haunts this debate round – Those denied access to democratic consideration haunt the debate community just as they haunt American society. The Affirmatives framing of this round is one of Hauntological Politics 

Hauntology is a deconstruction of the ontology of presence in favor an anachronistic and spectral conception of time and being. Time is out of Joint – Slavery outweighs every Affirmative “implication”. The Affirmative’s historical framing is essential to Justice.

We must come to grips with the ghosts, of history, that haunt us at the conscious and unconscious level or the repressed will forever return.

Johnson 2007, URRICULUM VITA LEIGH M. JOHNSON Assistant Professor of Philosophy Rhodes College 2000 North Parkway Memphis, TN 38104 johnsonl@rhodes.edu EDUCATION B.A., Philosophy, University of Memphis, 2000 M.A., Philosophy, Villanova University, 2003 Ph.D., Philosophy, The Pennsylvania State University, 2007 Doctoral Minor, African and African-American Studies, The Pennsylvania State University The Graduate School College of the Liberal Arts HAUNTED DEMOCRACIES AND THE POLITICS OF POSSIBILITY:  A DECONSTRUCTIVE ANALYSIS OF TRUTH COMMISSIONS A Thesis in Philosophy by Leigh M. Johnson © 2007, 

 Derrida’s “hauntology” When Derrida asks, at the outset of Specters of Marx, “what does it mean to live finally?,” … politics of possibility, both of which are but variations on a political hauntology. 

1NC Hauntology K Link – Risk

At the end of the process of utilitarian risk calculus; we find racist ghettoization, concentration camps, and refugee camps, at the end of these ethical decisions.

Žižek 2002, Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian Philosopher, Psychoanalyst and Social Theorist at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London. AuthorAre we in a war? Do we have an enemy? London Review of Books, Vol 24. No 10. May-23-2002, www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n10/slavoj-Žižek /are-we-in-a-war-do-we-have-an-enemy

When Donald Rumsfeld … the ‘local population’.

1NC Hauntology K Impact – Ethics

The primary question of this round is Ethics of hospitality. Our argument is that far too much of the status quo is dominated by a conditional form of hospitality. The ethical decision the ballot should reflect is the best strategy and enactment of unconditional hospitality.

An ethical relation to the other is a fundamental question in this debate– the other of American history, or the indefinitely detained other of war powers of the presidency. This is the most important mode of ethics.

Mules 2010, Warwick, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Central Queensland University and Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland 2010 Warwick Derrida Today 3.1http:www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdfplus/10.3366/drt.2010.0007

To be virtuous … the logic of efficiency and calculation.

Racism, in its essence, is the most nihilistic radical evil in the history of man. Practices of state racism displace black people to ontological concentration camps. Discursive and symbolic acts of racist violence are codified within the legal system which naturalizes the monstrosity of racism as the normal and natural state of affairs 

The practice of state racism is part of the occidental history of the west, which expresses the politico-military thinking that reduces black people to calculable objects. Racism, in the form of state simulation, obliterates conceptions of law, history, and justice. Racism relies on miscalculation which historically has resulted in genocide and war.

Derrida 1982, Jacques Derrida, professor of philosophy at the Ecole Des Hauts Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, is the author of, among other works, Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference, Margins of Philosophy, and Dissemination. His most recent contribution to Critical Inquiry, "The Linguistic Circle of Geneva," appeared in the Summer 1982 issue. Peggy Kamuf teaches French at Miami University, Ohio. She is the author of Fictions of Feminine Desire, Racism's Last Word, Jacques Derrida, Translated by Peggy Kamuf, http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/uploads/pdf/13434721.pdf

THE LAST: or le dernier … God requires Christian States."•

1NC Hauntology K Impact – Planetary Annihilation R/C
Only the Negatives Hauntological strategy, and critique of the approach to terrorism, can interrogate the conscious and unconscious modes of thinking and being that make annihilation of all life on the planet inevitable. – Deconstructive Psychoanalysis is essential to confront the distortion of natural human instincts that surrenders self-preservation to economic and political systems. 

Cook 2006, Deborah, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Windsor, Staying Alive: Adorno and Habermas on Self-Preservation under Late Capitalism, Rethinking Marxism, 18(3):433-447, electronic

In the passage in Negative Dialectics … , but all life on the planet.
1NC Hauntology K – ALT – Social Transform

We must pay head to the Ghost in this moment in debate history. We are all haunted by the ghosts of our community.

Role of the Ballot – The judge’s decision should remember to reflect an unconditional ethical relation to the other. The negatives deconstructive conception of hauntology, justice, and ethico-political responsibility, precede the question of the implementation of the plan. 

Alternative TEXT – Reject the Affirmative.

Rejecting the affirmative is a rejection of calculations/advocacy within the state structure that opens space to head the figure of the specter. The Negative FRAMES there advocacy as an ethical gesture. The strategy of the K is distinct from the AFF’s strategy which maintains the status quo organization of sovereign power and domination –

Hauntology proceeds, and is essential to, any ethical evaluation – The negatives messianic deconstruction is socially transformative even without engaging the state.

Abbinett 2006, Ross, Journal for Cultural Research Volume 10 Number 1 (January 2006), Spectres of Class: Marxism, Deconstruction and the Politics of Affiliation, ISSN 1479–7585 print/1740–1666 online/06/010001–22 © 2006 Taylor and Francis DOI: 10.1080/14797580500422109, http://www3.amherst.edu/~pmachala/endnotelibs/Endnote20Bibliography/MarxSeminar/Marx20for200720students/Marxcourse-general-archive.Data/PDF/Abbinnett,20Specters20of20Class20-20Marxism,20Deconstrunction20and20-1351316992/ABBINN1.PDF

This brings me to the second point …  transformation of public space (Derrida 2000, p. 45).

1NC Hauntology K Link – Liberal Legalism

There is no permutation rejection is key –
Utilizing the law to re-strict the sovereign entrenches the legal systems authority to use force. The AFFS liberal legalism, and attachment to utopian state action, forecloses justice and further inscribes war authority because it is the structure of the law itself that authorizes the use of force – Rejecting the AFFs logo-centrism, and plan imagination/implementation is essential to subvert control over life and affirm in-calculable justice

Shershow 2011, Scott, Cutler, Derrida Today, Edinburg University Press, ‘A Triangle Open on its Fourth Side’: On the Strategy, Protocol, and ‘Justice’ of Deconstruction Scott Cutler Shershow Citation Information. Derrida Today. Volume 4, Page 59-85 DOI 10.3366/drt.2011.0006, ISSN 1754-8500, Available Online May 2011 .www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/drt.2011.0006

One is all the … to the law’ (Derrida 2002, 267).

2NC K
2NC Hauntology K Link – AT Utilit + Realism + Risk 

The combination of utilitarianism, risk calculus, and realism are particularly problematic and symptomatic of a genocidal auto-immunity  thinking

Huang 2010, Han-yu Huang is currently associate professor in Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University. His research interests include Žižek, ethics of psychoanalysis, radical politics, and horror. He has published Horror and Evil in the Name of Enjoyment in 2007 with Peter Lang and other essays on a variety of topics in some most prestigious journals in Taiwan including Concentric and NTU Studies in Language and Literature. He is now working on a project about the theological turn of contemporary theory Huang / Risk, Fear and Immunity, .concentric-literature.url.tw/issues/Bios/2.pdf 

The uncanny logic of doubling and inversion … secular bliss (at least for some)”  (Beck 77, emphasis mine).  ?
2NC Hauntology K Link – Restricting Black President Link 

Restrictions on the first black president are Racist Ideology that obliterates the symbolic meaning of the first black president – Reject ideology and the symbolic instrumental enframing and castration of blackness 

Žižek 7-21-2013, Some Bewildered Clarification, Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian Philosopher, Psychoanalyst and Social Theorist at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London, http://jdeanicite.typepad.com/i_cite/zizek/index.html

Since Noam Chomsky’s “Fantasies” … not on the basis of truthfulness or scholarship but because the message is unpalatable.«

2NC Hauntology K Perm Eve

1. The Negatives and Affirmatives strategies are mutually exclusive. The permutation links more. It is procrastination that reduces all politics to bio–politics. The choice between the alternative and the plan must be yes or no.

Zizek 2002, Slavoj, Philosopher and psychoanalyst, Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian Philosopher, Psychoanalyst and Social Theorist at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London. Author, Welcome to the desert of the real. '4. from homo sucker to homo sacer'. p100–2.

There is no place in Agamben for … a simple 'yes' or 'no.
2NC Hauntology K OV – Deconstruction Definition (0:45)

Deconstruction is a specific critique that utilizes a strategic reading, that acts as an ethical intervention, that demonstrates the lack of internal cohesion, destabilizing binaries, metaphysical presuppositions like linear, A-historical, understanding of time, prejudices, and unconscious ideological attachments, that undermine the meaning and political-ethical possibilities of a text. Deconstruction is a twofold activity that un-builds and destroys historical techniques while simultaneously creating new conceptual strategies.  

Lucy 2004, A Derrida Dictionary Niall Lucy, A Derrida Dictionary, Blackwell Publishing,  59.67.71.236/download/7B21DEF27E-75E1-4CAA-B769-D8783F038DC87D.?????????.pdf

deconstruction If I paint a milk bottle red, I won’t have ‘deconstructed’ it. …  deconstruction is a happening thing! (See also aporia, dissemination, logocentrism, metaphysics, origin, phonocentrism.)

2NC Hauntology K Link – Governmentality 

“Governmentality” deconstruction – The AFF is symptomatic of a regulatory and corrective force of the state apparatus – The AFF management of the arraignment of the state re-affirms the states exercise of power-knowledge and death-politics. 

Huang 2010, Han-yu Huang is currently associate professor in Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University. His research interests include Žižek, ethics of psychoanalysis, radical politics, and horror. He has published Horror and Evil in the Name of Enjoyment in 2007 with Peter Lang and other essays on a variety of topics in some most prestigious journals in Taiwan including Concentric and NTU Studies in Language and Literature. He is now working on a project about the theological turn of contemporary theory Huang / Risk, Fear and Immunity, .concentric-literature.url.tw/issues/Bios/2.pdf 

If the last observation is an adequate summation … our  understanding of power to its capillary or rhizomic deployments, and he may be  right as well in seeing the resistance to the state’s central power for various  

2NC Hauntology K Link – WPA Restrictions

War Power restrictions are symptomatic of auto-immunity – Distributing state power only fragments state control into multiple managerial bureaucratic components and authorities.  The post-political frame of the AFF’s bureaucratic gesture is the rational of the holocaust.  

Huang 2010, Han-yu Huang is currently associate professor in Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University. His research interests include Žižek, ethics of psychoanalysis, radical politics, and horror. He has published Horror and Evil in the Name of Enjoyment in 2007 with Peter Lang and other essays on a variety of topics in some most prestigious journals in Taiwan including Concentric and NTU Studies in Language and Literature. He is now working on a project about the theological turn of contemporary theory Huang / Risk, Fear and Immunity, .concentric-literature.url.tw/issues/Bios/2.pdf    

The immunitary turn of modern biopolitics … biomedical manipulations. (219,  qtd. from Cohen 272)    
?
2NC Hauntology K – Nuclear War is Textual

Nuclear War is textual – The process of imagining nuclear extinction is, and has always been, a historical myth that sustains psychological trauma

Halden 11-22-2013,   Grace, Birkbeck College, University of London, Textual Nuclear War based on the Memory of Hiroshima, http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_279209_en.pdf      

Apocalypse and the ‘Non-event’  …  apocalypse does not  become a reality.   
2NC Hauntology K – AT Ontology/Epistemology Not 1st 

Hauntology Deconstruction – Our Affirmative Deconstructs the metaphysics of ontology and epistemology which is a product of western metaphysics.  Hauntology is an understanding of being that presents an ethical relation to recognition and relation to the other while rejection a linear understanding of time and embracing an anachronistic conception of time and reasonability – That’s Johnson 

Hauntology determines ethics – We have an ethical imperative to deconstruct the binary between the philosophical and pragmatic conceptions of politics – The traditional ethical position of the west engages in silencing, obliteration, and violence against the “Other”. The essential ethical question of deconstruction precedes and structures political decision-making like the DA.

Morton 2003, Stephen Morton is Lecturer in English at Tampere University, Finland and has been a research fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York City. He has published work on critical and cultural theory, twentieth-century literature and visual culture., Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, www.talmidim.cz/filosofie/Gayatri20Chakravorty20Spivak20(Routledge20Critical20Thinkers)20-20Stephen20Morton.pdf

DECONSTRUCTION AND ETHICS …  condition of possibility.
2NC Hauntology K ALT – Messianic
Utopianism Deconstruction – The alternative embraces a messianic attitude toward the future that does not pre-specify a teleological interpretation of history. The negatives historical critique transforms the future minded, utopian frantic activity of the west, and embraces the messianic ethos of reflection of that which is to come.
The messianism, and the theatralization, of the alternative is essential to re-energize the political. Refusing the frenetic activity of the affirmative and embracing the spectacle of politics is necessary to re-politicize history and actuate social transformation. 

Žižek 2003, Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian Philosopher, Psychoanalyst and Social Theorist at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London. Author Heiner Mueller Out of Joint, http://www.lacan.com/mueller.htm

The point of this Messianic attitude … life is being transformed into the theatrical."4
2NC Hauntology K L/Impact – I-LAW Authority 

The Affirmative’s call to reform war powers determines at the national level that which is ONLY within the jurisdiction of the international order. The AFF presumption of U.S. authority, and the de-politicized expert administration of policy, utilizing economic thinking, results in a negating human rights. 

Žižek 2003, Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, in Essen, Germany Columbia University - Too Much Democracy?, http://www.lacan.com/toomuch.htm

As for the US themselves, Zakaria's diagnosis is … a new Dark Age is descending upon the human race. 

The denial of human rights is the right to interfere. The status quos denial is depoliticizing and necessitates western interventions; economically, politically, and militarily. This post-ethical process negates democracy and concludes in genocide.

Žižek 2005, Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian Philosopher, Psychoanalyst and Social Theorist at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London. AuthorThe Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom, space, © lacan.com 2005, www.lacan.com/zizviol.htm 

We thus arrived at a standard "postmodern," "anti-essentialist" position, … already ensnared in the biopolitical trap." 11

Tournament: MAC Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent:  | Judge:
1NC T
1NC T – “Restrictions” “Authority” “In the area”

Interpretation – restriction requires prohibition of an entire topic list area
Restriction means prohibition
Corpus Juris Secundum 31
Volume 54, p. 735

RESTRICT:  To … bounds.
Authority is power delegated to an agent
Kelly 3 - judge for the State of Michigan
(JOSEPH ELEZOVIC, Plaintiff, and LULA ELEZOVIC, Plaintiff-Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY and DANIEL P. BENNETT, Defendants-Appellees/Cross-Appellants., No. 236749, COURT OF APPEALS OF MICHIGAN, 259 Mich. App. 187; 673 N.W.2d 776; 2003 Mich. App. LEXIS 2649; 93 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 244; 92 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 1557, Lexis)

Applying … principal's business." Id. at 1348.
“In the area” means all of the activities
United Nations 13 (United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty, http://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/part1.htm)
PART I¶ INTRODUCTION¶ Article 1

Use of terms … of the Area;
Violations – the affirmative doesn’t prohibit – it either it sets conditions that can be met, or just limits the scope
Voting issue –
Limits – absent prohibition of an area, every single condition or regulation acts as a functional restriction on some single process of war powers authority – dozens of tiny mechanisms and small subsets of areas create an infinite number of affs that core lit doesn’t check
Bidirectionality – absent a prohibition, the aff can create meaningless “conditions” that EXPAND presidential power – commission consultation proves
Wilson Center 2008 (War Powers Proposal Gives the President Even More Authority, http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/war-powers-proposal-gives-the-president-even-more-authority)

A privately organized … briefings and documents.

1NC K
1NC Hauntology K Link – WPA Restrictions

The Affirmatives restriction of War Authority strengthens the Power of the sovereign. Limiting presidential authority reduces the relation of sovereign and subject to an arbitrary exercise of power. Rejecting the temporal framing of the resolutions injunction is essential to recognizing ones responsibility.

Additionally, the Affirmatives formal democratic “Resolved” framework entrenches distorted rationality, oppression, restricts thinking, and only recognizes a responsibility to the present

Žižek 2003, Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian Philosopher, Psychoanalyst and Social Theorist at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London, Author, Heiner Mueller Out of Joint, http://www.lacan.com/mueller.htm

This inherent crisis of democracy …, their social obligations.

2NC Hauntology K Link – Restricting Black President Link
Restrictions on the first black president are Racist Ideology that obliterates the symbolic meaning of the first black president – Reject ideology and the symbolic castration of blackness 

Žižek 7-21-2013, Some Bewildered Clarification, Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian Philosopher, Psychoanalyst and Social Theorist at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London, http://jdeanicite.typepad.com/i_cite/zizek/index.html

Since Noam Chomsky’s “Fantasies” (… not on the basis of truthfulness or scholarship but because the message is unpalatable.«

1NC Hauntology K – Framing – Political Hauntology

Ghosts are not metaphorical. The Dead inhabit our unconscious by way of memory. It is important to pay head to the figure of the specter because of the power that horrors possess over societies collective unconscious.
Anachronism and spectrally are not merely literary tools. The Negatives philosophical concepts destabilize violent binaries that emphasis present suffering and embrace a-historical thinking and being.

The specter of Slavery haunts this debate round – Those denied access to democratic consideration haunt the debate community just as they haunt American society. The Affirmatives framing of this round is one of Hauntological Politics 

Hauntology is a deconstruction of the ontology of presence in favor an anachronistic and spectral conception of time and being. Time is out of Joint – Slavery outweighs every Affirmative “implication”. The Affirmative’s historical framing is essential to Justice.

We must come to grips with the ghosts, of history, that haunt us at the conscious and unconscious level or the repressed will forever return.

Johnson 2007, URRICULUM VITA LEIGH M. JOHNSON Assistant Professor of Philosophy Rhodes College 2000 North Parkway Memphis, TN 38104 johnsonl@rhodes.edu EDUCATION B.A., Philosophy, University of Memphis, 2000 M.A., Philosophy, Villanova University, 2003 Ph.D., Philosophy, The Pennsylvania State University, 2007 Doctoral Minor, African and African-American Studies, The Pennsylvania State University The Graduate School College of the Liberal Arts HAUNTED DEMOCRACIES AND THE POLITICS OF POSSIBILITY:  A DECONSTRUCTIVE ANALYSIS OF TRUTH COMMISSIONS A Thesis in Philosophy by Leigh M. Johnson © 2007, 

 Derrida’s “hauntology” When Derrida asks, at the outset of Specters of Marx, “what does it mean to live finally?,” … politics of possibility, both of which are but variations on a political hauntology. 

1NC Hauntology K Link – Risk

At the end of the process of utilitarian risk calculus; we find racist ghettoization, concentration camps, and refugee camps, at the end of these ethical decisions.

Žižek 2002, Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian Philosopher, Psychoanalyst and Social Theorist at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London. AuthorAre we in a war? Do we have an enemy? London Review of Books, Vol 24. No 10. May-23-2002, www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n10/slavoj-Žižek /are-we-in-a-war-do-we-have-an-enemy

When Donald Rumsfeld … the ‘local population’.

1NC Hauntology K Impact – Ethics

The primary question of this round is Ethics of hospitality. Our argument is that far too much of the status quo is dominated by a conditional form of hospitality. The ethical decision the ballot should reflect is the best strategy and enactment of unconditional hospitality.

An ethical relation to the other is a fundamental question in this debate– the other of American history, or the indefinitely detained other of war powers of the presidency. This is the most important mode of ethics.

Mules 2010, Warwick, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Central Queensland University and Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland 2010 Warwick Derrida Today 3.1http:www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdfplus/10.3366/drt.2010.0007

To be virtuous … the logic of efficiency and calculation.

Racism, in its essence, is the most nihilistic radical evil in the history of man. Practices of state racism displace black people to ontological concentration camps. Discursive and symbolic acts of racist violence are codified within the legal system which naturalizes the monstrosity of racism as the normal and natural state of affairs 

The practice of state racism is part of the occidental history of the west, which expresses the politico-military thinking that reduces black people to calculable objects. Racism, in the form of state simulation, obliterates conceptions of law, history, and justice. Racism relies on miscalculation which historically has resulted in genocide and war.

Derrida 1982, Jacques Derrida, professor of philosophy at the Ecole Des Hauts Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, is the author of, among other works, Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference, Margins of Philosophy, and Dissemination. His most recent contribution to Critical Inquiry, "The Linguistic Circle of Geneva," appeared in the Summer 1982 issue. Peggy Kamuf teaches French at Miami University, Ohio. She is the author of Fictions of Feminine Desire, Racism's Last Word, Jacques Derrida, Translated by Peggy Kamuf, http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/uploads/pdf/13434721.pdf

THE LAST: or le dernier … God requires Christian States."•

1NC Hauntology K Impact – Planetary Annihilation R/C
Only the Negatives Hauntological strategy, and critique of the approach to terrorism, can interrogate the conscious and unconscious modes of thinking and being that make annihilation of all life on the planet inevitable. – Deconstructive Psychoanalysis is essential to confront the distortion of natural human instincts that surrenders self-preservation to economic and political systems. 

Cook 2006, Deborah, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Windsor, Staying Alive: Adorno and Habermas on Self-Preservation under Late Capitalism, Rethinking Marxism, 18(3):433-447, electronic

In the passage in Negative Dialectics … , but all life on the planet.
1NC Hauntology K – ALT – Social Transform

We must pay head to the Ghost in this moment in debate history. We are all haunted by the ghosts of our community.

Role of the Ballot – The judge’s decision should remember to reflect an unconditional ethical relation to the other. The negatives deconstructive conception of hauntology, justice, and ethico-political responsibility, precede the question of the implementation of the plan. 

Alternative TEXT – Reject the Affirmative.

Rejecting the affirmative is a rejection of calculations/advocacy within the state structure that opens space to head the figure of the specter. The Negative FRAMES there advocacy as an ethical gesture. The strategy of the K is distinct from the AFF’s strategy which maintains the status quo organization of sovereign power and domination –

Hauntology proceeds, and is essential to, any ethical evaluation – The negatives messianic deconstruction is socially transformative even without engaging the state.

Abbinett 2006, Ross, Journal for Cultural Research Volume 10 Number 1 (January 2006), Spectres of Class: Marxism, Deconstruction and the Politics of Affiliation, ISSN 1479–7585 print/1740–1666 online/06/010001–22 © 2006 Taylor and Francis DOI: 10.1080/14797580500422109, http://www3.amherst.edu/~pmachala/endnotelibs/Endnote20Bibliography/MarxSeminar/Marx20for200720students/Marxcourse-general-archive.Data/PDF/Abbinnett,20Specters20of20Class20-20Marxism,20Deconstrunction20and20-1351316992/ABBINN1.PDF

This brings me to the second point …  transformation of public space (Derrida 2000, p. 45).

1NC Hauntology K Link – Liberal Legalism

There is no permutation rejection is key –
Utilizing the law to re-strict the sovereign entrenches the legal systems authority to use force. The AFFS liberal legalism, and attachment to utopian state action, forecloses justice and further inscribes war authority because it is the structure of the law itself that authorizes the use of force – Rejecting the AFFs logo-centrism, and plan imagination/implementation is essential to subvert control over life and affirm in-calculable justice

Shershow 2011, Scott, Cutler, Derrida Today, Edinburg University Press, ‘A Triangle Open on its Fourth Side’: On the Strategy, Protocol, and ‘Justice’ of Deconstruction Scott Cutler Shershow Citation Information. Derrida Today. Volume 4, Page 59-85 DOI 10.3366/drt.2011.0006, ISSN 1754-8500, Available Online May 2011 .www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/drt.2011.0006

One is all the … to the law’ (Derrida 2002, 267).

2NC K
2NC Hauntology K Link – AT Utilit + Realism + Risk 

The combination of utilitarianism, risk calculus, and realism are particularly problematic and symptomatic of a genocidal auto-immunity  thinking

Huang 2010, Han-yu Huang is currently associate professor in Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University. His research interests include Žižek, ethics of psychoanalysis, radical politics, and horror. He has published Horror and Evil in the Name of Enjoyment in 2007 with Peter Lang and other essays on a variety of topics in some most prestigious journals in Taiwan including Concentric and NTU Studies in Language and Literature. He is now working on a project about the theological turn of contemporary theory Huang / Risk, Fear and Immunity, .concentric-literature.url.tw/issues/Bios/2.pdf 

The uncanny logic of doubling and inversion … secular bliss (at least for some)”  (Beck 77, emphasis mine).  ?
2NC Hauntology K Link – Restricting Black President Link 

Restrictions on the first black president are Racist Ideology that obliterates the symbolic meaning of the first black president – Reject ideology and the symbolic instrumental enframing and castration of blackness 

Žižek 7-21-2013, Some Bewildered Clarification, Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian Philosopher, Psychoanalyst and Social Theorist at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London, http://jdeanicite.typepad.com/i_cite/zizek/index.html

Since Noam Chomsky’s “Fantasies” … not on the basis of truthfulness or scholarship but because the message is unpalatable.«

2NC Hauntology K Perm Eve

1. The Negatives and Affirmatives strategies are mutually exclusive. The permutation links more. It is procrastination that reduces all politics to bio–politics. The choice between the alternative and the plan must be yes or no.

Zizek 2002, Slavoj, Philosopher and psychoanalyst, Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian Philosopher, Psychoanalyst and Social Theorist at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London. Author, Welcome to the desert of the real. '4. from homo sucker to homo sacer'. p100–2.

There is no place in Agamben for … a simple 'yes' or 'no.
2NC Hauntology K OV – Deconstruction Definition (0:45)

Deconstruction is a specific critique that utilizes a strategic reading, that acts as an ethical intervention, that demonstrates the lack of internal cohesion, destabilizing binaries, metaphysical presuppositions like linear, A-historical, understanding of time, prejudices, and unconscious ideological attachments, that undermine the meaning and political-ethical possibilities of a text. Deconstruction is a twofold activity that un-builds and destroys historical techniques while simultaneously creating new conceptual strategies.  

Lucy 2004, A Derrida Dictionary Niall Lucy, A Derrida Dictionary, Blackwell Publishing,  59.67.71.236/download/7B21DEF27E-75E1-4CAA-B769-D8783F038DC87D.?????????.pdf

deconstruction If I paint a milk bottle red, I won’t have ‘deconstructed’ it. …  deconstruction is a happening thing! (See also aporia, dissemination, logocentrism, metaphysics, origin, phonocentrism.)

2NC Hauntology K Link – Governmentality 

“Governmentality” deconstruction – The AFF is symptomatic of a regulatory and corrective force of the state apparatus – The AFF management of the arraignment of the state re-affirms the states exercise of power-knowledge and death-politics. 

Huang 2010, Han-yu Huang is currently associate professor in Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University. His research interests include Žižek, ethics of psychoanalysis, radical politics, and horror. He has published Horror and Evil in the Name of Enjoyment in 2007 with Peter Lang and other essays on a variety of topics in some most prestigious journals in Taiwan including Concentric and NTU Studies in Language and Literature. He is now working on a project about the theological turn of contemporary theory Huang / Risk, Fear and Immunity, .concentric-literature.url.tw/issues/Bios/2.pdf 

If the last observation is an adequate summation … our  understanding of power to its capillary or rhizomic deployments, and he may be  right as well in seeing the resistance to the state’s central power for various  

2NC Hauntology K Link – WPA Restrictions

War Power restrictions are symptomatic of auto-immunity – Distributing state power only fragments state control into multiple managerial bureaucratic components and authorities.  The post-political frame of the AFF’s bureaucratic gesture is the rational of the holocaust.  

Huang 2010, Han-yu Huang is currently associate professor in Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University. His research interests include Žižek, ethics of psychoanalysis, radical politics, and horror. He has published Horror and Evil in the Name of Enjoyment in 2007 with Peter Lang and other essays on a variety of topics in some most prestigious journals in Taiwan including Concentric and NTU Studies in Language and Literature. He is now working on a project about the theological turn of contemporary theory Huang / Risk, Fear and Immunity, .concentric-literature.url.tw/issues/Bios/2.pdf    

The immunitary turn of modern biopolitics … biomedical manipulations. (219,  qtd. from Cohen 272)    
?
2NC Hauntology K – Nuclear War is Textual

Nuclear War is textual – The process of imagining nuclear extinction is, and has always been, a historical myth that sustains psychological trauma

Halden 11-22-2013,   Grace, Birkbeck College, University of London, Textual Nuclear War based on the Memory of Hiroshima, http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_279209_en.pdf      

Apocalypse and the ‘Non-event’  …  apocalypse does not  become a reality.   
2NC Hauntology K – AT Ontology/Epistemology Not 1st 

Hauntology Deconstruction – Our Affirmative Deconstructs the metaphysics of ontology and epistemology which is a product of western metaphysics.  Hauntology is an understanding of being that presents an ethical relation to recognition and relation to the other while rejection a linear understanding of time and embracing an anachronistic conception of time and reasonability – That’s Johnson 

Hauntology determines ethics – We have an ethical imperative to deconstruct the binary between the philosophical and pragmatic conceptions of politics – The traditional ethical position of the west engages in silencing, obliteration, and violence against the “Other”. The essential ethical question of deconstruction precedes and structures political decision-making like the DA.

Morton 2003, Stephen Morton is Lecturer in English at Tampere University, Finland and has been a research fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York City. He has published work on critical and cultural theory, twentieth-century literature and visual culture., Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, www.talmidim.cz/filosofie/Gayatri20Chakravorty20Spivak20(Routledge20Critical20Thinkers)20-20Stephen20Morton.pdf

DECONSTRUCTION AND ETHICS …  condition of possibility.
2NC Hauntology K ALT – Messianic
Utopianism Deconstruction – The alternative embraces a messianic attitude toward the future that does not pre-specify a teleological interpretation of history. The negatives historical critique transforms the future minded, utopian frantic activity of the west, and embraces the messianic ethos of reflection of that which is to come.
The messianism, and the theatralization, of the alternative is essential to re-energize the political. Refusing the frenetic activity of the affirmative and embracing the spectacle of politics is necessary to re-politicize history and actuate social transformation. 

Žižek 2003, Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian Philosopher, Psychoanalyst and Social Theorist at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London. Author Heiner Mueller Out of Joint, http://www.lacan.com/mueller.htm

The point of this Messianic attitude … life is being transformed into the theatrical."4
2NC Hauntology K L/Impact – I-LAW Authority 

The Affirmative’s call to reform war powers determines at the national level that which is ONLY within the jurisdiction of the international order. The AFF presumption of U.S. authority, and the de-politicized expert administration of policy, utilizing economic thinking, results in a negating human rights. 

Žižek 2003, Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, in Essen, Germany Columbia University - Too Much Democracy?, http://www.lacan.com/toomuch.htm

As for the US themselves, Zakaria's diagnosis is … a new Dark Age is descending upon the human race. 

The denial of human rights is the right to interfere. The status quos denial is depoliticizing and necessitates western interventions; economically, politically, and militarily. This post-ethical process negates democracy and concludes in genocide.

Žižek 2005, Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian Philosopher, Psychoanalyst and Social Theorist at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London. AuthorThe Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom, space, © lacan.com 2005, www.lacan.com/zizviol.htm 

We thus arrived at a standard "postmodern," "anti-essentialist" position, … already ensnared in the biopolitical trap." 11