1AC Cherry Trees 1NC Framework Welsh K 2NR Welsh K
UNLV
6
Opponent: UTD OV | Judge: Odekirk, Desaray
1AC Conspiracy theory 1NC T - War Powers Wilderson K 2NR Wilderson K
UNLV
7
Opponent: Weber St AH | Judge: Aaron Weathers
1AC Cherry trees 1NC Buddhism K Unabomber K 2NR Unabomber K
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2ac Vs ISU DI
Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: 6 | Opponent: ISU ID | Judge: Izak Dunn Epistemic commitments determine ontological outlooks and predictive results—prior critique is necessary to stave off banal instrumentality and institutional bias Stanley ’12 Liam Stanley, “Rethinking the Definition and Role of Ontology in Political Science,” Politics, Vol. 32 (2), p. 93-99, 2012 The literature says very little directly on the subject of how ontological assumptions emerge ( AND factors including the (perceived) epistemological biases of regulatory and funding bodies.
Disad to the alt--Encourages human rights abuses and terrorism Pigden 7 professor of philosophy at the University of Otago, New Zealand and is the editor of Russell on Ethics (2007, Charles, “Conspiracy Theories and the Conventional Wisdom”, Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology 4.2, 219-232, Project Muse) AMB Most political crimes, from disappearances and illegal bombing campaigns down to breaking peaceniksand#39; AND this is a thesis you that should reject. End Page 227
Real violence disad—bad epistemology, you are complacent with the worst forms of state violence Pigden 7professor of philosophy at the University of Otago, New Zealand and is the editor of Russell on Ethics (2007, Charles, “Conspiracy Theories and the Conventional Wisdom”, Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology 4.2, 219-232, Project Muse) AMB
The absolute version of this strategy would be less bizarre but more catastrophic: AND as such are intellectually suspect is a superstition that can be safely dismissed. ?
Disad--Rejecting conspiracy theories destroys education and history as an academic discipline, means we can’t understand the history of oppression in debate Pigden 7professor of philosophy at the University of Otago, New Zealand and is the editor of Russell on Ethics (2007, Charles, “Conspiracy Theories and the Conventional Wisdom”, Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology 4.2, 219-232, Project Muse) AMB History, as we know it, both from documentary evidence and the best AND and conspiracy theories need not be rejected simply because they are conspiracy theories. ?
Holo triv disad--The term Holocaust is anti-semetic in both semantic origin and historical use—the term So’ah better encapsulates the horror of the Nazi final solution without carrying the racist baggage Agamben ’99 Giorgio Agamben, professor of philosophy at the university of Verona, Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive, 1999, pg. 28-31 1.10 The history of an incorrect term can also prove instructive. “ AND Semitic. This is why we will never make use of this term.
Case solves the alt You presume the principle of “resistance” can be cleanly applied all the time – this displaces ethical attention to the specificity of every encounter and the way we can and should change from new experiences Deleuze and Foucault ’72 Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault, “Intellectuals and Power,” Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: selected essays and interviews by Michel Foucault, ed. Donald F. Bouchard, recorded March 4, 1972, http://libcom.org/library/intellectuals-power-a-conversation-between-michel-foucault-and-gilles-deleuze yeah i edited this for some gendered language that was messed up - jss GILLES DELEUZE: Possibly weand#39;re in the process of experiencing a new relationship between theory AND distance. A and#34;theory and#34; is the regional system of this struggle. Link Link turn--Conspiracy theory can be used to explain why white government has historically oppressed the Black Body Husting 13 Ginna Husting. and#34;Once More, With Feeling: Conspiracy Theories, Contempt, and Affective Governmentality (forthcoming)and#34; Ethical Theory and Practice. Ed. Olli Loukola. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi Press, 2013. AMB By far the largest area of current work is the study of the hidden causes AND “crazy” but legitimate attempts to understand a confusing and difficult phenomenon.
No link, racism may explain a particular conspiracy but not all, means it’s a faulty epistemology and can’t solve the aff Uscinksi and Parent 11 Uscinski, Joseph E., and Joseph M. Parent. and#34;Conspiracy Theories Are for Losers.and#34; American Political Science Association Annual Conference (2011): n. pag. Print. AMB
Nonetheless, scholars have a poor understanding of the conditions under which conspiracies ¶ resonate AND thinking. In consequence, policymakers have been ¶ largely left in the dark
10/4/13
Cherry Trees 1AC - Lewis Clark
Tournament: Lewis and Clark | Round: 2 | Opponent: Gonzaga DE | Judge: Dave Matthews I’m gonna tell you why the University of Puget Sound has 20 cherry trees planted in front of our Student Union Building. In 1942, when the racist imperial projects of the United States federal government called for the removal of Japanese-American citizens the University of Puget Sound was complicit in the forced relocation of thirty of their students of Japanese descent. Those students were forcibly relocated to the Pinedale Assembly Center in Fresno, California, where they joined 4800 other Japanese bodies who were marked and targeted by the forces of national security which conspire and collude to achieve a total dominance over national life. Over 100,000 total bodies were incarcerated in makeshift prison work camps; the project of securitized mastery regulates an internal political order only on the basis of identifying, locating and incarcerating each and every subject that appears out of place. The Puget Sound Trail 2013 (Vonnie Keatsguts, anonymous/pseudonymous collective writing for the University of Puget Sound Trail Student Newspaper, "The Cherry Tree Signs," http://trail.pugetsound.edu/2013/03/the-cherry-tree-signs/)CJQ In a deviation from the kind of stories that we usually publish at The Combat AND of Fresno, California, they ceremonially planted 20 cherry trees on campus.
On May 15, 1942, before being forced to leave, Shigeo Wakamatsu read an address on behalf of the other Japanese students to the student body.
"We hope that each spring you will watch the cherry trees bloom and grow AND a far cry from their (and our) sheltered North Tacoma home. Our proximity to these atrocities as students who learn from an institution complicit with the cultural genocide of all minority bodies only exposes that there are other types of disciplinary networks at play; the school-to-prison pipeline, border controls, neo-Nazi anti-immigration legislation, institutionalized homelessness for queer youths and the daily extermination of thousands of the poor reveal themselves as one grand network of white supremacy, pursuing both a domestic and international project of nation-building. Rodriguez 2010 (Dylan, Prof. Ethnic Studies at UC-Riverside, "The Terms of Engagement: Warfare, White Locality, and Abolition," Critical Sociology 2010 36: 151)CJQ How is it that a national project so consistently and openly reproduced through technologies of AND conventional academic essay that moves from the pretenses of objectivity or scientific disinterest. And, the Department of Homeland Security calcifies these subterranean racial antagonisms into a national agency with strategically deploys state violence and coercion against deviant bodies who are rendered potential terrorists—DHS regulates the American "homeland" as a white local space that needs to be protected "out there" in the Middle East, East and South Asia, not to mention the Latin and South Americas. Domestic warfare in our immediate communities is the precondition for war deployed as a tool of governance elsewhere. Rodriguez 2010 (Dylan, Prof. Ethnic Studies at UC-Riverside, "The Terms of Engagement: Warfare, White Locality, and Abolition," Critical Sociology 2010 36: 151)CJQ The rubric of ’Homeland Security’ is a weaponry that deploys within and beyond the AND -juridical order of protection against that imminent danger it cannot do without. Dylan Rodriguez goes on to quote the text of the Executive Order creating the Department of Homeland Security, materializing the authorities of the United States President in the form of a massive federal bureaucracy to target black, brown, red and yellow bodies with a persistent and aggressive strategy of assimilation and extermination: (Dylan, Prof. Ethnic Studies at UC-Riverside, "The Terms of Engagement: Warfare, White Locality, and Abolition," Critical Sociology 2010 36: 151)CJQ
Executive Order Establishing Office of Homeland Security
George W. Bush The White House October 8, 2001. By the authority AND the United States. (Office of the White House Press Secretary 2001) The materialization of the Department of Homeland Security represents the continuation of a history of domestic policing efforts, where warfare abroad and police efforts in local neighborhoods become increasingly indistinct. White subjectivities are ultimately deputized as little police operatives by the homeland security apparatus conducting a war against racially marked Others. Rodriguez 2010 (Dylan, Prof. Ethnic Studies at UC-Riverside, "The Terms of Engagement: Warfare, White Locality, and Abolition," Critical Sociology 2010 36: 151)CJQ To follow the social logic and political genealogy of this Executive Order is to strip AND white supremacist globality that have defined historical epochs from the conquest era forward. Our proximities to these sites of white supremacist violence, to the kinds of unmarked and yet highly racialized spaces like Puget Sound’s own Lawrence Plaza, where the 1942 cherry trees are planted, are the only sites where we can meaningfully resist the technologies of white supremacy. The campus is an activist space where we can engage in anti-racist, anti-heterosexist, and anti-capitalist struggles that intertwine in resistance to the globalization of white subjectivities through international wars on terror. Rodriguez 2010 (Dylan, Prof. Ethnic Studies at UC-Riverside, "The Terms of Engagement: Warfare, White Locality, and Abolition," Critical Sociology 2010 36: 151)CJQ The ascendance of the Obama administration signifies this complex tension between universal (white) AND incorporation and inclusion become crucial to the historical project of white supremacist globality.
10/14/13
Cherry Trees 2AC Case
Tournament: Lewis and Clark | Round: 4 | Opponent: Whitman LT | Judge: Van Luvanee
Root Cause
Indefinite detention and the prison-industrial complex are the latest materialization of antiblackness directly traceable to institution of slavery—specifically, the failure to appreciate our everyday instances with legacies of racial violence perpetuate the psychological geography that makes possible the white supremacist carceral order in the first place. Rodriguez 2006 (Dylan, Prof. Ethnic Studies at UC-Riverside, "(Non)Scenes of Captivity: The Common Sense of Punishment and Death," Radical History Review Issue 96 (Fall 2006))CJQ The racialized bodily dominance so excruciatingly rendered in the photos is neither unique nor unprecedented AND as its terrain of influence, occupation, and, ultimately, dominion.
10/14/13
Cherry Trees AT Buddhism K
Tournament: UNLV | Round: 7 | Opponent: Weber St AH | Judge: Aaron Weathers Buddhism claims to be redemptive by transforming us and allowing us to reach a state of inner peace. This desperate critique of ancient traditions renders irrelevant the challenges to reality. The indifference generated by Buddhism leads to violent eclipse of the entire world. Slavoj Zizek, senior researcher for the institute of advanced studies in humanities essen, germany, "Revenge of Global Finance," In These Times, 5-21, 2005, pg. http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2122/ What this means is that the Buddhist all-encompassing Compassion has to be opposed AND to the Christian legacy of separation, of elevating some principles above others.
Ultimately, the Buddhist understanding of life as empty portrays the world as a valueless endless place, which cannot ascribe a distinct value that makes life worth living and assisted in the development of war machines. Erik Davis, "Cross Purposes: A Review of Slavoj Zizek’s The Puppet and the Dwarf," Bookforum, 2003, http://www.techgnosis.com/zizek.html In secular Europe, a dalliance with Christian ideas can provide a much-needed AND occurs in an absolute Present, in the unconditional urgency of a Now."
10/21/13
Cherry Trees AT Capitalism K
Tournament: Lewis and Clark | Round: 2 | Opponent: Gonzaga DE | Judge: Dave Matthews Marxism relies on a construction of the human which is always-already a white proletarian worker; this distances political subjects from their proximity to systems of racial domination. The affirmative draws connections between systems of class and racial authority which are inextricably linked. Rodriguez 2010 (Dylan, Prof. Ethnic Studies at UC-Riverside, "The Terms of Engagement: Warfare, White Locality, and Abolition," Critical Sociology 2010 36: 151)CJQ To revise the classical Marxist formulation, the sustenance of white bodily integrity is the AND a normalized condition of ’warfare in the homeland’ (James 2007) ? 1AC case outweighs—the worker retains asymmetrical exchange and labor value while the slave is overcome by relations of force which means it can never enter into any kind of transaction value—the demand of the body incarcerated by its very blackness is uniquely powerful against capitalism. Professor Frank Wilderson 2003 (Prof. at University of California at Berkeley, "Gramsci’s Black Marx: Whither the Slave in Civil Society? FRANK WILDERSON," in Social Identities, Vol. 9 No. 2, 2003)CJQ What I am saying is that the insatiability of the slave demand upon existing structures AND the record — which means they contain the seeds of anti-blackness.
Their Marxism doesn’t go far enough—failure to recognize white supremacy as a structural base of civil society would realize socialism merely as the democratization of production. Our genealogy of incarceration calls for the abolition of productivity itself. Professor Frank Wilderson 2003 (Prof. at University of California at Berkeley, "Gramsci’s Black Marx: Whither the Slave in Civil Society? FRANK WILDERSON," in Social Identities, Vol. 9 No. 2, 2003)CJQ The worker demands that productivity be fair and democratic (Gramsci’s new hegemony, Lenin’s AND ontology, what we are calling a scandal at the level of discourse. Their Marxism is methodologically unable to account for the antagonism of race—only the permutation can resist domestic warfare at the intersection of both capital and racial oppression—white supremacy is the way capital unleashes violence. Professor Frank Wilderson 2003 (Prof. at University of California at Berkeley, "Gramsci’s Black Marx: Whither the Slave in Civil Society? FRANK WILDERSON," in Social Identities, Vol. 9 No. 2, 2003)CJQ Any serious consideration of the question of antagonistic identity formation — a formation, the AND of, the Reformation and Enlightenment ’foundational’ values of productivity and progress.
Fear of death is a contingent ontological mood which props up capitalism and whiteness producing violence against deviant bodies. You link to yourself which justifies a perm differential Winnubst 2006 (Shannon, Asst. Prof. Women’s Studies, "Queering Freedom," 2006 Pp. 184)CJQ While death is unarguably a part of the human condition, for Bataille the fear AND composure of a cook" (1988–91, 2:83).
10/14/13
Cherry Trees AT Framework
Tournament: Lewis and Clark | Round: 2 | Opponent: Gonzaga DE | Judge: Dave Matthews Standards don’t arise in a vacuum—their educational practices reproduce heterosexist ideologies and are incapable of addressing foundational antagonisms within academic communities. Kumashiro 2003 (Kevin, Center for Anti-Oppressive Education, "Queer Ideals in Education." Kumashiro, Kevin K. Co-published simultaneously in Journal of Homosexuality Vol. 45, No. 2/3/4, 2003, pp. 365-367)CJQ Troubling movements are underway in U.S. schools. At both local and AND change the fields of educational research and practice in our movements toward social justice The contradictions within the state organization make institutional politics unable to address the unquestioned antagonisms of society—the left is structurally unable to accommodate anti-racist critique. Rodriguez 2010 (Dylan, Prof. Ethnic Studies at UC-Riverside, "The Terms of Engagement: Warfare, White Locality, and Abolition," Critical Sociology 2010 36: 151)CJQ Thus, behind the din of progressive and liberal reformist struggles over public policy, AND has so openly and repeatedly declared as the premises of its own coherence. Institutional politics are institutionalized racism: Deliberate disobedience to structures of privilege is direct action against racism—their right-wing takeover disad already happened. Holmes 2005 (Brian, Prof. Philosophy at European Graduate School, "Transparency to Exodus: On political process in the mediated democracies" http://org.noemalab.eu/sections/ideas/ideas_articles/pdf/holmes_transparency_exodus.pdf)CJQ By the end of Clinton’s imperial mandate, the need for direct action became obvious AND , but also by the more intangible, almost mythical theme of exodus.
VI A fag is bashed because his gender presentation is far too femme.
A poor transman can’t afford his life-saving hormones.
A sex worker is murdered by their client.
A genderqueer persyn is raped because ze just needed to be "fucked straight".
Four black lesbians are sent to prison for daring to defend themselves against a straight-male attacker.1
Cops beat us on the streets and our bodies are being destroyed by pharmaceutical AND we see only one solution: every nation and border reduced to rubble.
10/21/13
Cherry Trees AT Welsh K
Tournament: UNLV | Round: 3 | Opponent: USC PV | Judge: John Cook Disad to the alt—Truth production as good qua itself produces white guilt because they merely describe oppression, not combat it Winnubst 2006 (Shannon, Asst. Prof. Women’s Studies, "Queering Freedom," 2006 Pp. 166)CJQ This discourse of white guilt may be one of the most pernicious psychic dynamics in AND a plane that sustains itself in a complicated enactment of phallicized whiteness’s temporalities.
The Lacanian-Marxist’s assertion of a constitutive lack plays nicely into the hands of a capitalism which needs new consumers to sustain its expansion. The principle of the unconscious as a theater is a tool to produce ideal workers and buyers whose creative capacities are stifled and commensurated to fiat currency. Deleuze and Guattari ’77 Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen R. Lane, Penguin: London, 1977, p. 27-29 The real is not impossible; on the contrary, within the real everything is AND of the desire of the masses that needs to be accounted for.31
This year’s topic invites us to reflect on the meaning of presidential actions—who, what, where, when, why, but also HOW, through what WAYS OF THINKING did we allow for the authorities and powers of the presidency so unrestrained that we can only grasp their expression in fiction. The war camp is not just an isolated act of war—it represents not only the mass executions by Germany in World War II or the parallel detention of thousands of Asian-American persons by the U.S. government, but stands for the entire governmental paradigm of modernity. The idea of isolating spaces as inside or outside the law, tying certain bodies to varying legal rights based on their spatial location, is a crucial component of the larger framework of disciplinary authority and exceptional violence which characterizes contemporary governmental practice. Agamben 2000 (Giorgio Agamben, professor of philosophy at the College International de Philosophie in Paris, Means Without End: Notes on Politics, 2000, p. 40-41) One ought to reflect on the paradoxical status of the camp as space of exception AND (at this point, in fact, truly anything had become possible). The U.S. response to security threats is identical in form to the National Socialist reaction against otherness—the passage of the NDAA signifies a panicked response to a borderless and faceless enemy, internalizing security protocols as the very precondition for existence. Kamalnath 2013 (Anthea, Law Graduate at University College London, and#34;United States of Exeption,and#34; http://antheakamalnath.wordpress.com/tag/agamben/-http://antheakamalnath.wordpress.com/tag/agamben/, 30 April 2013)CJQ The only explanation for the sheer lack of discourse, let alone intelligent discourse, AND , the lawyers will legislate, but the people should always pay attention. But the NDAA was not passed in isolation—for decades, FEMA has colluded with the US Armed Forces to plan and execute a massive national securitization of life. The Army and FEMA created the Civilian Inmate Labor Program to create the very prison camps which are the materialization of violent sovereignty—the entire nation is now a concentration camp. Bourbaki 2013 (Nicole, blogger, and#34;FEMA’s Mass Fatality Planning,and#34; http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com/2013/05/femas-mass-fatality-planning.html-http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com/2013/05/femas-mass-fatality-planning.html)CJQ Since the Reagan administration, REX-84 U.S. Civilian Inmate Labor AND used the old Sand Point naval brig to detain hundreds of American citizens. And, these camps aren’t far-away or on remote off-shore locations; they are in every state and every territory. In Washington alone there are at least four capable of holdings hundreds of thousands of prisoners and have been used in the past to illegally imprison activists during the Seattle 1999 WTO protests. Gibson 2013 (Dave, blogger, and#34;Find the FEMA Camp Nearest You,and#34; http://intellihub.com/2013/06/13/find-the-fema-camp-nearest-you/-http://intellihub.com/2013/06/13/find-the-fema-camp-nearest-you/)CJQ WASHINGTON Seattle/Tacoma – SeaTac Airport: fully operational federal transfer center
Okanogan County – Borders Canada and is a site for a massive concentration camp capable of holding hundreds of thousands of people for slave labor. This is probably one of the locations that will be used to hold hard core patriots who will be held captive for the rest of their lives.
Sand Point Naval Station – Seattle – FEMA detention center used actively during the 1999 WTO protests to classify prisoners.
Ft. Lewis / McChord AFB – near Tacoma – This is one of several sites that may be used to ship prisoners overseas for slave labor. Biopolitics now collapses into the project of an unending genocide on deviant bodies in the name of survival. Not only the camp, but massive international wars become possible when sovereignty reacts to national emergencies by disposing of those bodies who refuse to conform—Nuclear extermination is the final expression of FEMA ideology. Foucault
10/8/13
Conspiracy AT Capitalism K
Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: 2 | Opponent: UMKC DW | Judge: Sam Mauer Revolutionary subjectivity is a conservative structure—the restrictions of articulating a unified leftist group results in chaotic clearings of what has been, like Stalinism and Jacobinism, in favor of a limitless tyranny of the majority which reproduces fascism’s constraints of desire Tampio ’9 Nicholas Tampio, Fordham University, "Assemblages and the Multitude: Deleuze, Hardt, Negri, and the Postmodern Left," European Journal of Political Theory 8 (3), 2009, 383-400, Sage In his 1990 interview with Negri, Deleuze refutes the Leninist assumptions embedded in Negri’s AND armory that is not tied to the Marxist-Leninist image of politics. Permutation is essential for the communist idea—responsible politics requires strategic specificity and experimental optimism—practicality must be balanced next to theory Wall ’13 Derek Wall, "TURNING DEFEAT INTO VICTORY," Climate 26 Capitalism, 1/29/2013, http://climateandcapitalism.com/2013/01/29/how-can-the-divided-left-move-forward/?utm_source=rss26utm_medium=rss26utm_campaign=how-can-the-divided-left-move-forward In Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot two tramps wait in a bleak landscape for a AND only can we fail better but if we organise strategically we can win. Conspirimutation: Capitalism uses conspiracies to justify itself Subhendu 10 ~Das, Works for Computer Controlled Syst Inc, has published multiple papers on analytical math, abstract math, reincarnation and quantum mechanics in multiple academic journals, "Capitalism: A System of Conspiracy," Munich Personal RePEc Archive, PP. 1-56 AMB~ -http://www.manta.com/c/mm4b6wm/computer-controlled-syst-inc In this paper we present a view of capitalism that is normally not discussed in AND that this example matches the items in the definition of the conspiracy theory. People are always conspiring for capitalism Subhendu 10 ~Das, Works for Computer Controlled Syst Inc, has published multiple papers on analytical math, abstract math, reincarnation and quantum mechanics in multiple academic journals, "Capitalism: A System of Conspiracy," Munich Personal RePEc Archive, PP. 1-56 AMB~ -http://www.manta.com/c/mm4b6wm/computer-controlled-syst-inc Suppose I am a capitalist and that I manufacture writing pens. Let us assume AND you should not blow the whistle. And thus we all become cheaters. The whole point of emancipatory philosophy is not to impose a timeless, rigid map for radical politics—rather, we should affirm the Marxist spirit of emancipation in small resistances to the supposed totality of capitalism through the aff Lloyd ’11 Chris Lloyd, "Heirs of Marx," Critical Legal Thinking, 10/24/2011, http://www.criticallegalthinking.com/?p=4538 The 1996 book The End of Capitalism (as we knew it): A Feminist AND mean that ruptures are not possible.’ ~31~ Marxism indeed.
10/8/13
Conspiracy AT Wilderson K
Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: 6 | Opponent: ISU ID | Judge: Izak Dunn
Encourages human rights abuses and terrorism Pigden 7 ~professor of philosophy at the University of Otago, New Zealand and is the editor of Russell on Ethics (2007, Charles, "Conspiracy Theories and the Conventional Wisdom", Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology 4.2, 219-232, Project Muse) AMB Most political crimes, from disappearances and illegal bombing campaigns down to breaking peaceniks’ AND this is a thesis you that should reject. ~End Page 227~
2. Real violence disad—bad epistemology, you are complacent with the worst forms of state violence Pigden 7~professor of philosophy at the University of Otago, New Zealand and is the editor of Russell on Ethics (2007, Charles, "Conspiracy Theories and the Conventional Wisdom", Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology 4.2, 219-232, Project Muse) AMB~
The absolute version of this strategy would be less bizarre but more catastrophic: AND as such are intellectually suspect is a superstition that can be safely dismissed. ?
3. Rejecting conspiracy theories destroys education and history as an academic discipline, means we can’t understand the history of oppression in debate Pigden 7~professor of philosophy at the University of Otago, New Zealand and is the editor of Russell on Ethics (2007, Charles, "Conspiracy Theories and the Conventional Wisdom", Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology 4.2, 219-232, Project Muse) AMB~ History, as we know it, both from documentary evidence and the best AND and conspiracy theories need not be rejected simply because they are conspiracy theories. ?
4. Holo triv disad—The term Holocaust is anti-semetic in both semantic origin and historical use—the term So’ah better encapsulates the horror of the Nazi final solution without carrying the racist baggage Agamben ’99 Giorgio Agamben, professor of philosophy at the university of Verona, Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive, 1999, pg. 28-31 1.10 The history of an incorrect term can also prove instructive. " AND Semitic. This is why we will never make use of this term. You presume the principle of "resistance" can be cleanly applied all the time – this displaces ethical attention to the specificity of every encounter and the way we can and should change from new experiences Deleuze and Foucault ’72 Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault, "Intellectuals and Power," Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: selected essays and interviews by Michel Foucault, ed. Donald F. Bouchard, recorded March 4, 1972, http://libcom.org/library/intellectuals-power-a-conversation-between-michel-foucault-and-gilles-deleuze-http://libcom.org/library/intellectuals-power-a-conversation-between-michel-foucault-and-gilles-deleuze yeah i edited this for some gendered language that was messed up - jss GILLES DELEUZE: Possibly we’re in the process of experiencing a new relationship between theory AND distance. A "theory " is the regional system of this struggle. Link turn—Conspiracy theory can be used to explain why white government has historically oppressed the Black Body Husting 13 ~Ginna Husting. "Once More, With Feeling: Conspiracy Theories, Contempt, and Affective Governmentality (forthcoming)" Ethical Theory and Practice. Ed. Olli Loukola. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi Press, 2013. AMB~ By far the largest area of current work is the study of the hidden causes AND "crazy" but legitimate attempts to understand a confusing and difficult phenomenon.
No link, racism may explain a particular conspiracy but not all, means it’s a faulty epistemology and can’t solve the aff Uscinksi and Parent 11 ~Uscinski, Joseph E., and Joseph M. Parent. "Conspiracy Theories Are for Losers." American Political Science Association Annual Conference (2011): n. pag. Print. AMB~
Nonetheless, scholars have a poor understanding of the conditions under which conspiracies ¶ resonate AND thinking. In consequence, policymakers have been ¶ largely left in the dark
Link turn—Conspiracy theory can be used to explain why white government has historically oppressed the Black Body Husting 13 ~Ginna Husting. "Once More, With Feeling: Conspiracy Theories, Contempt, and Affective Governmentality (forthcoming)" Ethical Theory and Practice. Ed. Olli Loukola. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi Press, 2013. AMB~ By far the largest area of current work is the study of the hidden causes AND "crazy" but legitimate attempts to understand a confusing and difficult phenomenon.
No link, racism may explain a particular conspiracy but not all, means it’s a faulty epistemology and can’t solve the aff Uscinksi and Parent 11 ~Uscinski, Joseph E., and Joseph M. Parent. "Conspiracy Theories Are for Losers." American Political Science Association Annual Conference (2011): n. pag. Print. AMB~
Nonetheless, scholars have a poor understanding of the conditions under which conspiracies ¶ resonate AND thinking. In consequence, policymakers have been ¶ largely left in the dark
Disad—without conspiracy the sovergin controls who talks and when Hustin and Orr 07 ~Husting, Ginna, and Martin Orr. "Dangerous Machinery: "Conspiracy Theorist" as a Transpersonal Strategy of Exclusion." Symbolic Interaction 30.2 (2007): 127-50. Print. AMB~ ¶ An apt description of the start of the twenty-first century, if AND not conspiracy theorists, but we believe that this machinery¶ weakens public spaces
Conspiracy disad—k2 public deliberation and education. Means it’s a preqe to the alt Pigden 7~professor of philosophy at the University of Otago, New Zealand and is the editor of Russell on Ethics (2007, Charles, "Conspiracy Theories and the Conventional Wisdom", Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology 4.2, 219-232, Project Muse) AMB~
So what do Blair and the pundits mean, when they state or imply that AND to solve a problem if you are duty-bound to ignore it.
Epistemology disad—Rejecting conspiracy theories destroys education and history as an academic discipline Pigden 7~professor of philosophy at the University of Otago, New Zealand and is the editor of Russell on Ethics (2007, Charles, "Conspiracy Theories and the Conventional Wisdom", Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology 4.2, 219-232, Project Muse) AMB~ History, as we know it, both from documentary evidence and the best AND and conspiracy theories need not be rejected simply because they are conspiracy theories. ?
Epistemology disad—kill rational epistemology and politics, encourages human rights abuses and terrorism Pigden 7 ~professor of philosophy at the University of Otago, New Zealand and is the editor of Russell on Ethics (2007, Charles, "Conspiracy Theories and the Conventional Wisdom", Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology 4.2, 219-232, Project Muse) AMB Most political crimes, from disappearances and illegal bombing campaigns down to breaking peaceniks’ AND this is a thesis you that should reject. ~End Page 227~
Real violence disad—Impacts outside of epistemology, you are complacent with the worst forms of state violence Pigden 7~professor of philosophy at the University of Otago, New Zealand and is the editor of Russell on Ethics (2007, Charles, "Conspiracy Theories and the Conventional Wisdom", Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology 4.2, 219-232, Project Muse) AMB~
The absolute version of this strategy would be less bizarre but more catastrophic: AND as such are intellectually suspect is a superstition that can be safely dismissed.
Epistemic commitments determine ontological outlooks and predictive results—prior critique is necessary to stave off banal instrumentality and institutional bias Stanley ’12 Liam Stanley, "Rethinking the Definition and Role of Ontology in Political Science," Politics, Vol. 32 (2), p. 93-99, 2012 The literature says very little directly on the subject of how ontological assumptions emerge ( AND factors including the (perceived) epistemological biases of regulatory and funding bodies. And our framework is necessary to counter apathetic and docile citizenry Jessica J. Kulynych, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Winthrop University, Winter 1997, "Performing Politics: Foucault, Habermas, and Postmodern Participation," Polity, Vol. 30 No. 2, pg 315 Such a concept of political participation allows us to see action where it was previously AND power relationships are "not altogether successful in shaping universal acquiescence."(74) The colon does not merely represent a pause in a sentence like a coma, nor unify two things like a hyphen—it signifies the radical immanence of the terms in question—means colon creates a disconnect between resolved and the resolution Agamben 2001 (Giorgio, Prof. Phil at European Graduate School, "Absolute Immanence" in Introduction to the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze Pp. 153-154)CJQ In treatises on punctuation, the function of the colon is generally defined in terms AND is, the movement that Deleuze, playing on Neoplatonic emanation, calls immanation Desire for "fairness" presupposes a liberal division between legitimate and off-limits exercises of freedom. The a-priori individuation behind fairness and equality becomes homogenizing, exclusionary, and fascist. Foucault ’77 Michel Foucault, preface to Anti-Oedipus, Penguin: London, 1977, p. xl-xiv During the years 1945-1965 (I am referring to Europe), there was AND constant generator of de-individualization. Do not become enamored of power.
10/8/13
Conspiracy Theory Good
Tournament: Lewis and Clark | Round: 6 | Opponent: Gonzaga BJ | Judge: Kuswa Biopower disad—Dismissing warrants as conspiracy theory is a violent discourse that constitutes who gets to speak and when Hustin and Orr 07 ~Husting, Ginna, and Martin Orr. "Dangerous Machinery: "Conspiracy Theorist" as a Transpersonal Strategy of Exclusion." Symbolic Interaction 30.2 (2007): 127-50. Print. AMB~ ¶ An apt description of the start of the twenty-first century, if AND not conspiracy theorists, but we believe that this machinery¶ weakens public spaces
You perform what we critique. You only frame out conspiracies which critique the government or you view as subversive which is a bad epistemology and kills public engagement Pigden 7~professor of philosophy at the University of Otago, New Zealand and is the editor of Russell on Ethics (2007, Charles, "Conspiracy Theories and the Conventional Wisdom", Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology 4.2, 219-232, Project Muse) AMB~
So what do Blair and the pundits mean, when they state or imply that AND to solve a problem if you are duty-bound to ignore it.
Epistemology disad—Rejecting conspiracy theories destroys education and history as an academic discipline Pigden 7~professor of philosophy at the University of Otago, New Zealand and is the editor of Russell on Ethics (2007, Charles, "Conspiracy Theories and the Conventional Wisdom", Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology 4.2, 219-232, Project Muse) AMB~ History, as we know it, both from documentary evidence and the best AND and conspiracy theories need not be rejected simply because they are conspiracy theories. ?
Epistemology disad—kill rational epistemology and politics, encourages human rights abuses and terrorism Pigden 7 ~professor of philosophy at the University of Otago, New Zealand and is the editor of Russell on Ethics (2007, Charles, "Conspiracy Theories and the Conventional Wisdom", Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology 4.2, 219-232, Project Muse) AMB Most political crimes, from disappearances and illegal bombing campaigns down to breaking peaceniks’ AND this is a thesis you that should reject. ~End Page 227~
Real violence disad—Impacts outside of epistemology, you are complacent with the worst forms of state violence Pigden 7~professor of philosophy at the University of Otago, New Zealand and is the editor of Russell on Ethics (2007, Charles, "Conspiracy Theories and the Conventional Wisdom", Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology 4.2, 219-232, Project Muse) AMB~
The absolute version of this strategy would be less bizarre but more catastrophic: AND as such are intellectually suspect is a superstition that can be safely dismissed.
Kiki Mason, a member of the New York AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power wrote the following declaration in July of 1996:
"I am someone with AIDS and I want to live by any means necessary.
I am not dying: I am being murdered. Just as surely as if my body was being tossed into a gas chamber, I am being sold down the river by people within this community who claim to be helping people with AIDS. Hang your heads in shame while I point my finger at you.
’Activists’ now negotiate with drug companies just as the Jewish councils in the Warsaw ghettos AND community boards and advisory councils while we’re left to die on the streets.
Our service organizations are a joke. Gay Men’s Health Crisis: With all their money and clout, all you get is a free lunch, group therapy and free counseling via my favorite question, ’Have you made out your will yet?’ AmFAR? It hasn’t funded clinical trials in two years, and when it did, the studies were pathetic. AmFAIL is more like it. Or, how about the AIDS Inaction Council?
Jewish leaders established organizations to run their ghettos—and we do the same—in a desperate attempt to gain some control over a living nightmare. Everyone is selling you out. We refuse to plead with the U.S. government or negotiate with the entire medical-industrial complex for your lives. We have to get what we need by any means necessary.
A wealthy, well-connected hetero friend recently said to me, "I’m amazed that you guys haven’t turned to terrorism-everybody’s afraid of you anyway. Why not use that fear to save yourselves?"
Make no mistake. This is what we’re left with. If you choose to AND it so they’ll know what it’s like to have your life ripped apart.
Unfortunately, we are a ’gentle, loving people.’ Many of us lack the strength and conviction required for these brave actions. A friend of mine said the other day that as long as we were threatening a drug company, get him into its compassionate-use drug trial: ’I’m so tired of what we have to do to stay alive.’ Me, too, baby. Me, too. But do it we must.
To all you supportive HIV-negatives: I call on you to make this sacrifice as well. This is not just tough talk. I truly believe that the current state of AIDS will not change unless radical steps are taken immediately. If you don’t believe me, then take a good, hard look at the war on cancer.
Creating terror is not just screaming, making an artistic statement or getting in touch AND . But remember, I want to live. By any means necessary."
The AIDS epidemic is NOT over and it is NOT an accidental infection brought over from an African green monkey virus: it is a human-made BIOLOGICAL WARFARE WEAPON designed to ensure the extermination of ALL QUEER PEOPLE from this planet. Str8 male scientists have created a drug-resistant virus capable of DESTROYING the human immune system to KILL US because they HATE US and want us PERMANENTLY REMOVED FROM THIS EARTH.
The United States Federal Government established a medical-industrial complex with financial incentives to target queers for infection with this plague and has a monetary interest in preventing the discovery of a cure.
There is a reason that AIDS appeared right at the height of the gay liberationist movement: to prevent the rise of queer power and to stop the sexual revolution against straight supremacy. While heteros have been infected they have not been targeted for extermination: antiqueerness and gross capitalist profit incentives make clear that AIDS is a governmental weapon used to ensure the continuation of mass queer death.
Vito Russo, one of the leading gay members of ACT-UP, gave the following speech in 1988:
So, if I’m dying from anything, I’m dying from homophobia. If I’m AND be a helpless victim, but not if I’m fighting for my life.
If I’m dying from anything — I’m dying from the fact that not enough rich AND and their cries for help. No one else seems to be noticing.
And it’s worse than a war, because during a war people are united in a shared experience. This war has not united us, it’s divided us. It’s separated those of us with AIDS and those of us who fight for people with AIDS from the rest of the population.
Two and a half years ago, I picked up Life Magazine, and I AND , and until it does, we don’t have to give a shit.
And the days, and the months, and the years pass by, and AND Because it isn’t happening to them, so they don’t give a shit.
The Department of Defense uses Congressional funds to prop up a biowarfare industry founded on queer death. First President Reagan, then President Bush I, then Clinton and Bush II and now President Barack Obama have CHOSEN TO IGNORE the ONGIONG AIDS GENOCIDE against queers in this country THAT THEY HAVE MADE POSSIBLE by approving legislation that gives funding to a military-industrial complex with incentives to exterminate each and every queer person. Their willful ignorance is an ACTIVE COMPLICITY with the extermination of queer people ACROSS THE GLOBE. Massive corporate interests guarantee that Congress will never do anything to end the government’s program of queer extermination. We are under attack and nobody gives a shit about it.
Cantwell 1997 (Alan, Dr., The Secret AIDS Genocide Plot, http://www.whale.to/b/cantwell19.html-http://www.whale.to/b/cantwell19.html)CJQ Is AIDS merely a freak accident of nature caused by an African green monkey virus AND Information Act have revealed over 200 experiments directed against civilians and military personnel.
Antiqueerness is an irreducible antagonism of straight civil society—the queer exists in a non-relation with heterosexuality. Occupying the position of the nothing allows for the queer to be bashed, beaten, bruised and killed not only in the moment of queer bashing but also in the systemic and structural types of violence revealed as AIDS is used as a weapon of queer genocide.
Stanley 2011 (Eric, "Near Life, Queer Death Overkill and Ontological Capture," Social Text 107 s Vol. 29, No. 2 s Summer 2011)CJQ If for Agamben bare life expresses a kind of stripped- down sociality or a AND quite alive, what form might redress take, if any at all?
Failure to remember the genocidal program of AIDS erases antiqueerness beneath a veneer of accidental discrimination that fails to explain the mass killing of the queer population. Str8 society treats infection as the justified punishment that comes with being queer. Only returning to the lost pasts of AIDS allows for us to fight the global epidemic that is made possible by the weapon of Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
Winnubst 2006 (Shannon, Asst. Prof. Women’s Studies, "Queering Freedom," 2006 Pp. 196-197)CJQ It is not coincidental that David Wojnarowicz died of AIDS. This epidemic, which AND of sexual acts as they are conjoined to a different disposition toward death.
While targeted for killing, queers are also made the object of overkill: queers must not only be killed but are pushed beyond death, corpses mutilated and made unrecognizable—whether a broken skull or a pile of AIDS infected corpses, the marks of queer death reveal antiqueer violence as a form of overkill.
Overkill is ontologically different from other types of violence: the law protects and sustains these forms of violence by treating them as criminal aberrations or as individual homophobia, failing to conceptualize the possibility that heterosexual society founds itself through a bargain bought at the price of queer life. The first question for this debate must be "what does it mean to do violence to what is nothing," and until that question has been answered we can have no further impact calculus.
Stanley 2011 (Eric, "Near Life, Queer Death Overkill and Ontological Capture," Social Text 107 s Vol. 29, No. 2 s Summer 2011)CJQ Overkill is a term used to indicate such excessive violence that it pushes a body AND , what it must mean, to do violence to what is nothing.
1/8/14
Queer Blood AT Ableism K
Tournament: CSUF | Round: 5 | Opponent: CSUF BS | Judge: Simran Maker Permutation is the best method – incorporating a queer/disability perspective into AIDS activism is critical to meaningful activism. Failure to incorporate both perspectives ensures that ideological constructions of disability use AIDS as a new tool of regulation. McRuer 2002 (Robert, Prof. English, George Washington University, "Critical Investments: AIDS, Christopher Reeve, and Queer/Disability Studies" Journal of Medical Humanities, Vol. 23, Nos. 3/4, Winter 2002)CJQ Queer cultural theory has positioned us as activists and theorists to make these points about AND AIDS to be deployed to secure ideological understandings of disability and vice versa.
Coalition building between persons with AIDS and the broader disability movement is a unique net benefit Tataryn ’4 Myroslava Tataryn, "Bridging the gap: a call for cooperation between HIV/AIDS activists and the global disability movement." Presented at the inaugural meeting of The Canadian Disability Studies Association May, 2004 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada jss Is someone who is HIV positive disabled? Most people who fight for the rights AND on the cause of HIV/AIDS activists is more urgent than ever. The perm solves. PWD’s are at a greater risk of aids precisely because disability politics is seen as asexual. Recognizing matrices of capitalism, homophobia, heterosexism, racism, and xenophobia must be joined with ability to help queers and pwd’s Tataryn ’4 Myroslava Tataryn, "Bridging the gap: a call for cooperation between HIV/AIDS activists and the global disability movement." Presented at the inaugural meeting of The Canadian Disability Studies Association May, 2004 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada amb Despite the very real risks facing a potential alliance between PWA and PWD, I AND ), we must be ready to acknowledge the role that ableism also plays. Also, and perhaps most urgently, PWDs need to take on HIV/AIDS AND are simply perceived as asexual. This attitude has profound consequences on PWDs:
Perm solves best, best political strategy—in the context of aids we have to queer disability. It’s the most productive political strategy Tataryn ’4 Myroslava Tataryn, "Bridging the gap: a call for cooperation between HIV/AIDS activists and the global disability movement." Presented at the inaugural meeting of The Canadian Disability Studies Association May, 2004 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada amb Many social groups face oppressive assumptions about their sexuality…but we would argue that stereotypes of disabled people are among the most deep-seated and debilitating. Just as public displays of same-sex love are strongly discouraged, so two disabled people being intimate in public will experience social disapproval" (Shakespeare et al. p. 10) Perhaps the source of the deepest oppression and pain felt by disabled people is our AND numerous combinations each resulting in its own set of combined struggles and challenges. We will win specificity. Even if you in a link, the politics of AIDS must momentarily be combined with queerness. The politics of disability must be brought under the fold Tataryn ’4 Myroslava Tataryn, "Bridging the gap: a call for cooperation between HIV/AIDS activists and the global disability movement." Presented at the inaugural meeting of The Canadian Disability Studies Association May, 2004 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada amb There is a definite lack of accessible HIV/AIDS prevention, support and treatment AND . These significant shortcomings must be addressed both by PWA and PWD together. As for the disability movement taking on HIV/AIDS issues themselves, considering the AND this admission of increased risk, before the medical profession uses the link between HIV and disability as a reason for renewed censorship, abuse and suppression of disabled sexual identities. And, antiqueerness produces an idealized straight-male machismo that metastasizes into militaristic expansionary policies: failure to account for the homo-social hetero-patriarchy that grounds American exceptionalism ensures a return of antiqueer warfare. Hope 1994 (Trevor, PhD Comp. Lit at Cornell, "Melancholic Modernity: The Hom(m)osexual Symptom and the Homosocial Corpse," in Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Volume 6, Numbers 2+3 PP 174-198)CJQ The fetishistic operations of the epistemology of the closet - an epistemology which maintains this AND at the end offinger, only where a policing gaze has already entrapped it
This round is key – we control uniqueness – AIDS has been silenced and ignored by both queer communities and societies at large. Do not let their K be an excuse to bracket yourself from material violence. Butler ’4 Paul Butler, "Embracing AIDS: History, Identity, and Post-AIDS Discourse," JAC vol 24 no 1 2004 pp 93-111 jss In many ways, I have been searching for Dallas now for thirteen years, AND linking a context of shame, fear, and horror with queer identity.
The whole point of emancipatory philosophy is not to impose a timeless, rigid map for radical politics—rather, we should affirm the Marxist spirit of emancipation in small resistances to the supposed totality of capitalism through the aff Lloyd ’11 Chris Lloyd, "Heirs of Marx," Critical Legal Thinking, 10/24/2011, http://www.criticallegalthinking.com/?p=4538 The 1996 book The End of Capitalism (as we knew it): A Feminist AND mean that ruptures are not possible.’ ~31~ Marxism indeed. And you link to the aff—Fear of death is a contingent ontological mood which props up capitalism and whiteness producing violence against deviant bodies. Our aff is a suicide politic which lives in the present without fear of the future Winnubst 2006 (Shannon, Asst. Prof. Women’s Studies, "Queering Freedom," 2006 Pp. 184)CJQ While death is unarguably a part of the human condition, for Bataille the fear AND composure of a cook" (1988–91, 2:83). Cap isn’t root cause—they have it backwards Yep ’03 ~Gust A., Professor at San Francisco State University, "The Making of Heteronormativity in Communication Studies: Notes on Injury, Healing, and Queer World-Making," Journal of Homosexuality, Volume 45, Issue 2-4 September, pages 11-59. tjs~
By reinscribing the male/female division as fundamental and producing a gender hierarchy at AND oppression rather than on one of the symptoms" (p. 187)
