Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: Octas | Opponent: Texas Chowdhury-Malone | Judge: Casey, Cooper, Dunn
1NC Otherness
Their conception of the drone is a simulation.  It is a destruction of the distance that exists between us and the imaginary of the killer robot.  This collapsing of distance cedes the power of the imaginary to the projective hypostasis of the robot model, disavowing fiction in favor of a desperate rehallucinating of the past.
Baudrillard 91 (Jean, Frenchie, “Simulacra and Science Fiction”, http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/55/baudrillard55art.htm, translated by Arthur B. Evans)RW

There is no real and no imaginary except at a certain distance. What happens
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held to the future, but rather a desperate rehallucinating of the past.
The 1AC’s calls for inclusion and accessibility are nothing more than the production and assimilation of otherness.  This creates a violent form of identification whereby the other becomes an object of manipulation, another commodity in the economy of symbolic change.
Baudrillard 02 (Jean, Professor of Philosophy @ European Graduate School, Screened Out, pg.  51-56)
With modernity, we enter the age of the production of the Other. The
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goes for women too). Therein lies the secret of a strange attraction.
The destruction of otherness results in the destruction of our own identities and oppositional violence.
Woodward 2k10 (Ashley Woodward is a member of the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, Australia. Baudrillard Dictionary. 2010. Edinburgh university press Pg. 147-150)
Baudrillard sees the erasure of otherness as a deeply destructive process. One way in
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in Baudrillard’s thought, such as seduction, impossible exchange and so on.
Alt: Our alternative is that of the suicide bomber.
Fernando 10 (The suicide bomber and her gift of death)
At the risk of banality… dogma and orthodoxy.

Tournament: Shirley | Round: 2 | Opponent: West Georgia Ard-Muhammad | Judge: Pasquinelli
"The alternative is lingering on the horror of death. It produces anguish which is a key prerequisite to action. The 1AC is a banishment from death, sometimes death is good for the individual subject." 

Links 

1)They banish death- Death good sometimes, must constantly negotiate

2) Friend/Enemy distinction is false bs

"The profane world has rendered experience apathetic"

"PERMUTATION-You don’t get one. It’s a question of methods. Methodologies are lived experiences."

"We’re not your typical white philosophers: Biblical narratives may or may not be true, but we can use them as dividing points. It’s the value of theology. I have good knowledge to contribute."

"The Parable of Moses we read-It’s a manifestation of lingering on death. We need empathy"

CASE 

"They tie their project to the ballot. The speaking of the 1AC produces the product that is the ballot. It’s a commodification"

"Islamic radicalism is described through it’s shapeshifting and shit"

"Their white philosophy arguments are an essentialization of all thought"

"We should morph our social location, we have insight."

"The ballot slows and destroys the 1AC’s politics"

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 4 | Opponent: Missouri State Bess-Rumbaugh | Judge: Gonzalez
The affirmative’s depiction of the inherent instability of the world is a surrendering of being to an epistemology of violence.  War becomes the ontological linkage between anxiety and knowledge production, rendering humanity essenceless.
Burke, 07 (Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2 Anthony, Johns Hopkins University Press, Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence and Reason, page @ http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/v010/10.2burke.html//RSW
The epistemology of violence I describe here (strategic science and foreign policy doctrine)
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more sustainable, peaceful and non-violent global rule of the political.

Ontological insecurity blurs the lines between epistemology and nationalism which collapses politics into violence for violence’ sake.
Burke 7 - Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at UNSW, Sydney, and author of many books (Anthony, “Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence and Reason”, Truth and Existence, 10:2,)RSW

This essay describes firstly the ontology of the national security state (by way of
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being) has analytical value, it tends to break down in action. 

Alternative text: Suspend calculative thought. The affirmative’s emphasis on quick-fix solutions ignores the root cause of their harms and ensures error replication – temporarily suspending our calculative thought is critical to re-engaging the ontological question
Korous, 97 (Copeland winner, all around bad ass, Yale JD, Emory BA Philosophy, Become What you Are  1997 22-25)
The thought that inhabits critique is not bent on achieving quick and efficient solutions.
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that rivers are not primarily stockpiles of potential energy waiting to be unleashed.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 4 | Opponent: Missouri State Bess-Rumbaugh | Judge: Gonzalez
Nuclear discourse reinforces geopolitical hierarchies that posit nature as a Standing Reserve.
Kinsella 05 (William J., Director of North Carolina State University’s interdisciplinary program in Science, Technology and Society, “One hundred years of nuclear discourse: Four master themes and their implications for environmental communication”, EBSCO)RSW 

In the preceding quote, Chernus called attention to the deification of "the Bomb
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an examination of that discursive potency and its relationship to potent nuclear materialities.

Nuclear-enframed policy-making blankets existence with calculation, annihilates difference and can only end in total, technological rule over the earth.  We control root cause because predictions of military threats are self-fulfilling prophesies.
Kinsella 07 (William J., Director of North Carolina State University’s interdisciplinary program in Science, Technology and Society, “Heidegger and Being at the Hanford
Reservation: Standing Reserve, Enframing, and Environmental Communication Theory”, Environmental Communication, EBSCO)RSW 

Projecting the enframing principle onto emerging geopolitical concerns, officials appropriated the nuclear system as
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, nature, and culture are revealed together and constituted in mutual relation.

Bare life- Enframing reduces humanity to the orderer of the standing-reserve which outweighs extinction.
Athanasiou, 03 (Athena Athanasiou, Professor of social anthropology at the University of Thessaly, "Technologies of Humanness, Aporias of Biopolitics, and the Cut Body of Humanity," Differences: Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 14.1, p.125-162, Muse)RSW

In Heidegger's questioning (understood as a will to essence), edibility and extermination are
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from the realm of humanness and, as such, put to death.

The nuclear predicament can only be understood in terms of ontology – it’s a necessary prerequisite to any understanding of the current condition
Santoni Prof of Philosophy Denison 1985 Ronald Nuclear War Philosophical Perspectives p 153-154
In contrast, Zimmerman, who essentially restates the position of the German existentialist Martin
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resort to psychological maneuvers which Fox discusses, not the other way round.
Given this analysis, what is needed to liberate us from the spiral of the
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”; only then will we be more open to serve than to dominate.
I agree with Zimmerman that the underlying causes of the arms race are deeper than
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“ends” even if that process means the extinction of all life.

Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: Octas | Opponent: Texas Chowdhury-Malone | Judge: Casey, Cooper, Dunn
Policymaking has become part of a development machine that makes environmental destruction and oppression inevitable.  We must reject any learning within this framework
Ling 11 April 30, 2011 Andre Ling activist “Learning and the Development Project (part 1)” http://andreling.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/learning-and-the-development-project-part-1/
I decided to try posting ... is suicidal and more than a little problematic.

The affirmatives focus on epistemology ? exclusion of the object and anthropocentrism – ontology must precede concerns with epistemology
Bryant Professor of Philosophy at Collin College 2011 Levi Democracy of Objects http://quod.lib.umich.edu/o/ohp/9750134.0001.001/1:4/~-~-democracy-of-objects?rgn=div1;view=fulltext
Yet in all of the heated debates ... specific powers and capacities.

Their philosophical endeavor cannot address ecological catastrophe and ? correlationism
Bryant Professor of Philosophy at Collin College Srnicek PhD candidate in IR - London School of Economics and Harman professor of philosophy at the American University in Cairo 2011 Levi, Nick and Graham “Towards a Speculative Philosophy” The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism pg 2-3
It has long been commonplace ... philosophy in our time.

Correlationism is an ontotheology – makes equal ontological footing impossible
Bryant Professor of Philosophy at Collin College 2011 Levi Democracy of Objects http://quod.lib.umich.edu/o/ohp/9750134.0001.001/1:5/~-~-democracy-of-objects?rgn=div1;view=fulltext
With correlationism, the ... the human in the place of God.

A democracy of objects demands a flattened ontology - its necessary to solve anthropocentrism  
Bryant Professor of Philosophy at Collin College 2011 Levi Democracy of Objects http://quod.lib.umich.edu/o/ohp/9750134.0001.001/1:10/~-~-democracy-of-objects?rgn=div1;view=fulltext
Onticology proposes what ... culture or orientation of theory.

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 4 | Opponent: Gonzaga Bauer-Johnson | Judge: Dunn
Selective engagement with intl norms doesnt solve legitimacy.  Only overhaul is sustainable.
Cottrell 11 (M. Patrick "Hope or Hype? Legitimacy and US leadership in a global age" Foreign Policy Analysis 7.3)
While bolton views are.... entirely or sustainably.

No extinction
Postern 5 (Richard, Catastrophe, http://goliath.exnect.com/coms2/gi_0199-4150331/Catastrophe-the-dozen-most-significant.html)

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 4 | Opponent: Gonzaga Bauer-Johnson | Judge: Dunn
You attempt to pathologize the accident of death because it is the event which ruptures your simulation.   Don’t be fooled by their images of the apocalypse—this is textbook Cold War necromancy.
Bishop 09 (Ryan, Professor at the National University of Singapore, “Baudrillard Now: Baudrillard, Death and Cold War Theory”)RW

Although death is pivotal to many whose work falls within the domain of critical theory
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to prevent the accident (or the event) — to prevent Death itself

This turns us into zombies—unable to live and already dead, cocooned in the hermetic embrace of the global, consuming anything that is put in front of our faces
Bishop 09 (Ryan, Professor at the National University of Singapore, “Baudrillard Now: Baudrillard, Death and Cold War Theory”)RW

In an important sense, Baudrillard posits that Death is the salvation of theory while
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, the subject, the object, thought, and theory as simulation.
No impact—Death is always present.  You were dead before and will die again an innumerable amount of times
Baudrillard 05 (Jean, “The intelligence of evil or the lucidity pact”)RW

All identity problems run up against this parallax of death - this parallel axis of
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our current technologies do, to eradicate death in favour of life alone.

Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 7 | Opponent: Stanford Gulati-Rosenthal | Judge: Haley-Hill
Predominance theory fails to explain the post-world war II era – history proves
Human Security Report Project 2011 Human Security Report Project is an independent research centre affiliated with Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Vancouver, Canada, Human Security Report 2009/2010: The Causes of Peace and the Shrinking Costs of War
http://hsrgroup.org/docs/Publications/HSR20092010/20092010HumanSecurityReport-Part1-CausesOfPeace.pdf
As with other realist claims, ... in national liberation wars.

Hegemony doesn’t solve global conflicts
Mearsheimer 2011 (John J., R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, The National Interest, Imperial by Design, lexis)
One year later, Charles ...given way to a pronounced pessimism.

US leadership is unsustainable and ? mass suffering, militarism and conflict
Boggs 2005 (Carl, Professor of Social Science at National University, Imperial Delusions p. x-xiii)
As, the United States moves ... global system it aspires to dominate.

Imperialism necessitates endless systems of war and global inequality
Foster research at the North South Institute 2003 John Imperial America and War, Monthly Review, May 28 http://www.monthlyreview.org/0503jbf.htm
At present, ...and hence the entire system.

Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 6 | Opponent: Concordia College Bosch-Snelling | Judge: Montano
The focus on policy solutions to structural inequality is the focus of the deliberative democrat – this stance can never challenge injustice – we must instead embrace the ethos of the activist – a simple refusal to engage in any system founded on structural inequality
Young Professor of Political Science at The University of Chicago 2001 Iris Marion Activist Challenges to Deliberative Democracy Political Theory 29.5 Sage Publishing
As I construct the character ... blocking entrances, for example.

Reject their institutional focus – truly democratic theory must be created outside of the inequalities of the current system
Young Professor of Political Science at The University of Chicago 2001 Iris Marion Activist Challenges to Deliberative Democracy Political Theory 29.5 Sage Publishing
First, democratic theory ... the environment of everyday practice.

This argument entirely misses the point – even if legislation can be productive – deliberative policymaking relies on structural inequality – it must be rejected
Young Professor of Political Science at The University of Chicago 2001 Iris Marion Activist Challenges to Deliberative Democracy Political Theory 29.5 Sage Publishing
The deliberative democrat finds ... likely to reinforce injustice as to undermine it.

Externalizing ethics onto institutions is the worst form of violence because it exonerates individuals of responsibility for their relationship with the other which allows institutional violence across the board. This orientation makes ethics impossible and violence inevitable
Rozo, MA in philosophy and Cultural Analysis, 2004 Diego, Forgiving the Unforgivable: On Violence, Power, and the Possibility of Justice  p 19-21
Within the legal order the relations...rule our most private conflicts.

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Tournament: Shirley | Round: 7 | Opponent: Michigan Colella-Hirn | Judge: Matheson
Your search for a transcendently ordered world opposes the world as it exists.  This produces a violent will to order that attempts to eliminate chaos but will inevitably fail, breeding ressentiment.
Saurette 1996
 (Paul, Prof of Political Studies @ UOttawa, "I Mistrust All Systematizers and Avoid Them: Nietzsche, Arendt, and the Crisis of the Will to Order in International Relations Theory" Millenium 25.1)
According to Nietzsche, the philosophical foundation of a society is the set of ideas
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transformation, the Will to Order becomes the fundamental philosophical principle of modernity.

Security is founded on the ressentment of difference which strikes away at all that makes life worthwhile.  Only through an embracement of the inevitability of difference and insecurity can we affirm life
Der Derian 98 James Der Derian Research Professor of International Studies at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University "2. The Value of Security: Hobbes, Marx, Nietzsche, and Baudrillard *" On Security CIAO
One must begin with Nietzsche’s idea of the will to power, which he clearly
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new and hitherto unexperienced: the most habitual  explanations. 38  A safe life
requires safe truths. The strange and the alien remain unexamined, the unknown becomes
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would then be unsuited to forming an alliance with them in opposition to a
hostile third power. Then : by donation and cession. 45  The point of
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canalized into a cautious identity constructed from the calculation of risks and benefits. 

In answer to the affirmative’s call to action, our alternative is to *Do nothing in the instance of the plan*
Friedrich Nietzsche, not a man but dynamite, 1879, Human, All Too Human Second Sequel:
The Wanderer and His Shadow, numb 284

The means to real peace.— No government admits any more that it keeps an
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indeed you know, comes from a cloud—and from up high.

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 4 | Opponent: Gonzaga Bauer-Johnson | Judge: Dunn
The 1AC’s simulation of violence is not benign.  War is waged through these simulations, forming an always-present network of deterrence designed to terrorize us under the banner of security
Baudrillard 05 (Jean, “The intelligence of evil or the lucidity pact”)RW

At this present stage of a networking of all functions- of the body,
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power exerting it ends up exerting on itself under the banner of security.

Simulation politics are founded on the disavowal of the world-as-is.  This is sine qua non of ressentiment.
Baudrillard 05 (Jean, “The intelligence of evil or the lucidity pact”)RW

Thinking based on evil is not pessimistic; it is the thinking based on misfortune
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whole culture of misfortune, of recrimination, repentance, compassion and victimhood.

We need to refuse the demand of constituting ourselves as subjects of the political. When the masses passively resist the construction of political meaning, we can be liberated. (Prefer this evidence's specificity to speech and voting when determining the role of the ballot.)

Baudrillard, ‘81 (Jean, Simulacra and Simulation, p. 84-86 MRL)

With one caution. We are face to face with this system in a double
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imperative today is precisely the overproduction and regeneration of meaning and of speech.

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 4 | Opponent: Gonzaga Bauer-Johnson | Judge: Dunn
The task of philosophy is to unmask the illusion of objective reality.  Absent an epistemic reframing, knowledge will always fall prey to circularity.
Baudrillard 05 (Jean, “The intelligence of evil or the lucidity pact”)RW

The invention of Reality, unknown to other cultures, is the work of modern
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nor any original identity - there is only an inextricable reciprocity' (Lichtenberg).

The perm is impossible—politics will never go beyond the desire of a better world which makes the alt mutually exclusive
Baudrillard 05 (Jean, “The intelligence of evil or the lucidity pact”)RW

It is the secret failing of politics that it is no longer able to think
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should compete to take power, but that they should not want it.

Debate and your arguments are structured based on accumulation and acceleration. The amassing of evidence, info, and truth only makes the world more unreal and dissuasive. The excess of all systems only paves the world to violent reversion
Baudrillard 05 (Jean, “The intelligence of evil or the lucidity pact”)RW

Every process growing exponentially generates a barrier: the speed barrier, the heat barrier
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limit, its negative horizon, and beyond which it cancels itself out.

Status quo politics breed disengaged passivity – turns their offense
Antonio ’95, Nietzsche’s antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History”; American Journal of Sociology; Volume 101, No. 1; July 1995 RW

According to Nietzsche, the "subject" is Socratic culture's most central, durable
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and overreaching and untrammeled ressentiment paves the way for a new type of tyrant

Predictions of violence come from simulations that rely on violent conflicts to survive, creating a totalizing system of deterrence where war is always, already happening
Bishop 09 (Ryan, Professor at the National University of Singapore, “Baudrillard Now: Baudrillard, Death and Cold War Theory”)RW

This interaction birthed the heyday of the cognitive sciences and the era of social science
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virtuality must be deployed as simulation paves the way for pre-emption.

Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 7 | Opponent: Stanford Gulati-Rosenthal | Judge: Haley-Hill
Their calculations are not objective – there is no mechanism to predict or prepare for terrorism – reject all of their claims to knowledge
Kessler Sociology at Beilefeld and Daase Poli  Sci at U of Munich 2008 Oliver and Christopher Alternatives p EBSCOhost
The objective is to develop ... dilemma fails to capture the basic uncertainties.

A problem-solution framework to terrorism is academically irresponsible ? stagnation and state-violence
Jarvis Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Swansea University 2009 Lee “The Spaces and Faces of Critical Terrorism Studies” Security Dialogue 40.5 sage publishing
Given the above preference ... of a critical terrorism studies agenda.

The threat of terrorism creates an Outsider Enemy which justifies a permanent state of emergency ? preemptive strikes
Zizek 2005 Slavoj, In These Times, August 11, http://www.lacan.com/zizekiranian.htm
Every power structure has to rely ... Jean Charles de Menezes).

The war on terrorism cannot be proven effective – there’s insufficient data  
Washington Post 9/11/2013 “Twelve years after 9/11, we still have no idea how to fight terrorism” http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/11/twelve-years-after-911-we-still-have-no-idea-how-to-fight-terrorism-2/
Counterterrorism may be the ... comfort about our strategy:

War on terrorism ? ressentiment and preemptive war
Zizek in 2005 (Slavoj, In These Times, August 11, http://www.lacan.com/zizekiranian.htm)
Classic power functioned ... self-defense just as completely as the desire for conquests.

The affirmative only attempts to make the war on terror more effective this denies the bodies they sacrifice in the name of fighting terrorism
Butler Maxine Elliot Professor in Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at UC-Berkeley 2004 Judith Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence page 5-7
Our own acts of violence do not receive graphic coverage ... possibility of global cooperation. 

This ideology ? infinite war
Butler Maxine Elliot Professor in Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at UC-Berkeley 2004 Judith Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence page 28-29
Mourning, fear, anxiety, rage. ... devastating exposure to this condition?

The war on terror relies on redemptive violence ? militarism
Dalby CIGI Chair in the Political Economy of Climate Change and Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University 2011 Simon “Peace and Geopolitics: Imaging Peaceful Geographies” Paper for presentation to the University of Newcastle symposium on “Peace in Geography and Politics”  http://http-server.carleton.ca/~sdalby/papers/PEACEFUL_GEOGRAPHIES.pdf
In the Anglosphere in particular... to maintain their privileges.

Militarism ? environmental destruction and extinction
Sanders professor of History of Ideas and English at Pitzer College 2009 Barry Online Excerpt from The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism
http://www.revolutionbythebook.akpress.org/book-excerpt-from-the-green-zone-the-environmental-costs-of-militarism/
In a nation like ours, ...it will continue to work its evil.