Tournament: West Point | Round: 1 | Opponent: Vanderbilt BM | Judge: Josh Turnage

1NC v Policy affs

The deployment of statutory/legal restrictions relies upon the fantasy of the law as the universal solution to socio-political issues – this legal injunction to justify political acts obfuscates the structural causes of war and conflict – violence becomes encoded within the law itself, justifying ever increasing cycles of violence – this turns case

"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 .

There is, however, an even wider argument to be made. The idea
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of everyday class power and the bourgeois ¶ world of the rule of law

And, if we did ever overcome the impacts the 1AC outlines, 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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to admit; it is easier to attribute all negativity to the Jew:
All that is bad in society (crises, wars, famines, upheavals,
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of the universe in the Jews (Sartre, 1995: 40)12
As Jerrold Post has pointed out, we are always bound to those we hate
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as negating it. The result of this dialectic is always the same:
The tragic paradox of utopianism has been that instead of bringing about, as it promised, a system of final and permanent stability, it gave rise to utter restlessness, and in place of a reconciliation between human freedom and social cohesion, it brought totalitarian coercion. (Talmon, 1971: 95)
In that sense, as it was implicitly argued in Chapter 2, the notion
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have recourse to its other dark dimension in order to explain their failure:
the foreclosed obverse of the Nazi harmonious Volksgemeinschaft returned in their paranoiac obsession with ’the Jewish plot’. Similarly, the Stalinists compulsive discovery of ever-new enemies of socialism was the inescapable obverse of their pretending to realise the idea of the ’New Socialist Man’. (Zizek, 1996a: 116)
For Zizek, these two dimensions ’are like front and back of the same
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maintain its hold’ (ibid.). Utopia is not that far from dystopia.
What is at stake in the Lacanian conception of fantasy is, as we have
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stake here is not rational argumentation but the organisation and administration of enjoyment:
The impotence of the attitude of traditional Enlightenment is best exemplified by the anti-racist who, at the level of rational argumentation, produces a series of convincing reasons against the racist Other, but is nonetheless clearly fascinated by the object of his critique – and consequently, all his defence disintegrates in the moment of real crisis (when ’the fatherland is in danger’ for example). (Sloterdijk, 1988: 3)

====Thus the alternative – vote negative to do nothing in the face of the 1AC to actively oppose desire.====

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: West Point | Round: 1 | Opponent: Vanderbilt BM | Judge: Josh Turnage
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. 

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.