Tournament: Cedanats | Round: 5 | Opponent: Wyoming Dilldine-McFarland | Judge: Topp

The aff’s focus on war powers glosses over how historically emergency powers have been used to regulate the economy for the benefit of the ruling elite class

"The Problem with Normality: Taking Exception to "Permanent Emergency"¶ Author(s): Mark Neocleous¶ Source: Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Apr.-June 2006), pp. 191-213¶ Published by: Sage Publications, Inc.¶ Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40645181 .

The real story of emergency powers is much less a story of ¶ wartime responses
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Kikuyu required to work unpaid ¶ ninety days a year on "communal projec
ts." The emergence of new ¶ nations from colonialism to independence did little to
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also sheds some ¶ light on current debates about the war on terror.

====The materialism of society produces the conditions for every political act – the alienation of labor is founded upon unique gender discrimination that allows for the praxis of capitalism by alienating women from their reproductive labor – this means there is no value to life ====
Mitchell and Zimmerman 13 ~Eve and Tyler, "For Herself, and Therefore, for the Class: Toward a Methodological Feminism", Kasama Project, http://kasamaproject.org/feminism-sexuality/4416-eve-mitchell-and-tyler-zimmerman-respond-to-not-by-herself-alone-http://kasamaproject.org/feminism-sexuality/4416-eve-mitchell-and-tyler-zimmerman-respond-to-not-by-herself-alone~~
The methodology of orthodox Marxism, whereby the subject and object are split into a
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) because it has never had popular currency with women engaged in struggle. 

Thus the alternative: Vote negative to endorse a revolutionary politics of objective materiality.

Grounding politics in an objective analysis of labor and alienation is a prerequisite to change –the revolutionary class politics of the alternative is the only way of destroying capitalism

Ebert 96 ~Teresa L., For a Red Pedagogy: Feminist, Desire, and Need College English, Vol. 58, No. 7 (Nov., 1996), pp. 795-819~
In other words, a corporeal knowledge that "traces the libidinal pathway," "
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, in short, the means for producing politically effective and transformative knowledges.

Tournament: Cedanats | Round: 2 | Opponent: NYU Zhan-DeJohn | Judge: Revelins

Legislative restrictions decrease deterrence credibility, escalates crises

Matthew Waxman 8/25/13, Professor of Law @ Columbia and Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and Foreign Policy @ CFR, "The Constitutional Power to Threaten War," Forthcoming in Yale Law Journal, vol. 123, August 25, 2013, SSRN
A claim previously advanced from a presidentialist perspective is that stronger legislative checks on war
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to use force in order to prevent a confrontation which might escalate.179

Two scenarios:

NoKo—OCO cred gives us leverage to deescalate conflict—speed key

Martin C. Libicki 13, Senior Management Scientist @ RAND and adjunct fellow @ Georgetown’s Center for Security Studies, "Brandishing Cyberattack Capabilities," RAND, http://www.rand.org/pub-http://www.rand.org/pub s/research_reports/RR175.html
Our inquiry is therefore more humble. Could a U.S. threat that
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up tensions in advance of the U.S. crossing red lines.

Senkaku—credible OCO threat prevents US-China-Japan escalatory war

Leigh Drogen 13, founder and chief investment officer of Surfview Capital, LLC, a New York based investment management firm, "Why Cyber Weapons Will Make The World Even Safer," 3/4, http://www.leighdrogen.com/why-cyber-weapons-will-make-the-world-even-safer/
Scene: China has just exchanged fire with Japan over the East China Sea Islands
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believe cyber weapons will add to global security as they become more pervasive.

Tournament: Cedanats | Round: 5 | Opponent: Wyoming Dilldine-McFarland | Judge: Topp

The legal "constraint" proposed by the affirmative constrains nothing. We know that policy remedies to war powers will inevitably fail – presidents have and will continue to exploit loopholes inherent in law to continue warmaking unabated – so why do we continue to place faith in the law? Because such faith justifies our political and ideological ambitions within the imperial imaginary, allowing us to say we’ve practiced self-restraint according to liberal ideals like democracy and justice, all while expanding global war.

Ansah 10
"Lawfare: a rhetorical analysis" Author(s):Tawia Ansah. Professor of Law at Florida International University. Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law. 43.1-2 (Spring-Fall 2010): p87

Daniel Williams, however, critiques this Rationalist or Enlightenment view of law as repository
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legitimating the desire for expansion (the law-as-war model).

The political goal of the 1AC is symptomatic of how they construct reality – a political fantasy sustained by an enemy figure which has to be eliminated to maintain coherence of their worldview. If we did ever overcome the impacts of the 1AC, we would just recreate them to regain the enjoyment of the fight, perpetuating cycles of violence.

Stavrakakis 99 ~Yannis, Teaching Fellow in the Dept of Govt at the Univ of Essex 26 Dir of the MA Prog in Ideology and Discourse Analysis, Lacan and the Political, 107-108~¶ 

In the light of our theoretical framework, fantasy can only exist as the negation
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fatherland is in danger’ for example). (Sloterdijk, 1988: 3)

====Thus the alternative – vote negative to traverse the 1AC’s fantasy of solving for univer.====

Radical negativity is the only way to create a new positive politics – we must declare that there are no solutions within the current political order. This pure withdrawal from the current ideological coordinates forces us to reinvent politics anew.

Van Munster 4 ~Rens, Department of International Politics, University of Wales, "The Desecuritization of Illegal Migration: The Case for a European Belonging without Community", Marie Curie Working Papers, no. 7~
To face nothingness behind every attempt to articulate a social order thus requires that one
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problem, perhaps makes it impossible" (Kristeva, 1991: 1).
However, not everyone is convinced about the usefulness of an approach that considers the
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may entail more concretely within the context of illegal migration and European belonging.

Prefer our method—it’s historically accurate in the context of politics—analyzing the social without desire can’t account for ethical modes of violence

McGowan ’4 (Todd, Assoc Prof in Film Studies @ UVM, "The End of Dissatisfaction?" p 4-6)
Psychoanalysis, however, calls into question the idea that we primarily act on behalf
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past, to traditional values, will necessarily be mediated by the present.

Tournament: Cedanats | Round: 3 | Opponent: Appalachian State Bass-Anderson | Judge: Elliott
The good traveler has no fixed plans.  The joy of life comes spontaneously in accepting things as they are—the 1AC’s social engineering destroys us spiritually.

Slabbert 1, (Jos, Taoist teacher, "Tao Te Ching: How to Deal With Suffering," http://www.taoism.net/theway/suffer.htm-http://www.taoism.net/theway/suffer.htm shree, ev under erasure)

If you open yourself to loss, you are at one with loss and you
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the more we tamper with it, the more damage we will do. 

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Vote negative to forgo the 1AC’s intent to effect desired ends.

Kirkland 96 (Russel, prof of Asian religions at UGA, "The Book of the Way," Great Literature of the Eastern World, http://kirkland.myweb.uga.edu/rk/pdf/pubs/DAODE.pdf-http://kirkland.myweb.uga.edu/rk/pdf/pubs/DAODE.pdf shree)

Specifically, the Tao is humble, yielding, and non-assertive. Like
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most powerful force in existence, and nothing can thwart its unceasing operation.