Tournament: Shirley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Central Oklahoma Botkin-Hamm | Judge: Green
Brief explanation of the argument from Toya Green:
First Link – the affirmative constructs themselves as the savior of the indefinitely detained. This creates ressentiment and allows them to commodify experiments
Second Link – dead object is used to construct enjoyment through process of death making and exploitation
Abbas 2010
/Asma, Professor and Division Head in Social Studies, Political Science, Philosophy at the Liebowitz Center for International Studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Liberalism and Human Suffering: Materialist Reflections on Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pg. Pg. 68-71/

Third Link – aff uses images of suffering to sustain ego
Berlant 1999
/Lauren, George M. Pullman Professor, Department of English, University of Chicago, “The Subject of True Feeling: Pain, Privacy and Politics” in Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics and the Law ed. Sarat and Kearns, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, Pg. 49-54/

Giroux 2012
/Henry A., One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory. In 2002 Routledge named Giroux as one of the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern period, A high-school social studies teacher in Barrington, Rhode Island for six years,2 Giroux has held positions at Boston University, Miami University, and Penn State University. In 2005, Giroux began serving as the Global TV Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University “Disturbing Pleasures: Murderous Images and the Aesthetics of Depravity” Third Text, 26:3, 259-273, DOI: 10.1080/09528822.2012.679036/

Fourth Link – 1ACs narrative is a process of colonial domination because it appropriates suffering for political purposes
Nayar 2013
/Jayan Nayar, PhD from the University of Cambridge, Department of Law at the University of Warwick, February 2013, “The Politics of Hope and the Other-in-The-World: Thinking Exteriority,” Law and Critique Volume 24 Issue 1, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2001975/

Alternative is to reject the 1ACs advocacy – empathetic identity is a poor approach to politics
Waldenfels 1995
/Bernhard, professor of philosophy at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, “Response to the Other,” in The Psychology of Human Possibility and Constraint: Studies in Literature, History, and Culture, google books, 37-8/

Tournament: Ndt | Round: 6 | Opponent: Wayne State Justice-Slaw | Judge: Hall, Shook, Vint

Black Framework

Interpretation - You have to simulate via plan action or perform the politics of 1AC philosophy.  In the context of the 1AC they need a performance which answers the resolutional question by fiating a plan action as example.  This is not a question of topicality, this is a question of whether or not there is a doing of the 1AC with an effect that we can debate.

Violation – The AFF says that deliberation is key to good politics and civic culture, yet they do not offer a stasis point of deliberation or argumentative praxis.  The revelation that there is a cult of the presidency that is bad is not performance or simulation.

Stasis Point is Key to Deliberation – We need a clear action of the affirmative to serve as the stasis point of the debate.

Debate over a controversial point of action creates argumentative stasis—that’s key to avoid a devolution of debate into competing truth claims, which destroys the decision-making benefits of the activity
Steinberg and Freeley ’13
David Director of Debate at U Miami, Former President of CEDA, officer, American Forensic Association and National Communication Association. Lecturer in Communication studies and rhetoric. Advisor to Miami Urban Debate League, Masters in Communication, and Austin, JD, Suffolk University, attorney who focuses on criminal, personal injury and civil rights law, Argumentation and Debate Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making, Thirteen Edition

Debate is a means of settling differences, so there must be a controversy,
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particular point of difference, which will be outlined in the following discussion.

Roleplaying Good card

Thomas A. Spragens, Professor of Polisci at Duke, 2K Political Theory and Partisan Politics p. 86-8

The strong form of the thesis is more interesting but also more problematic. Indeed
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Rousseau A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality; and Connolly 1991).

That destroys the effectiveness of advocacy and causes violence
Thomas A. Spragens, Professor of Polisci at Duke, 2K Political Theory and Partisan Politics p. 80-1

On the other hand, it also follows from my basic thesis that the bargaining
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an incipient war of all against all viewed through rose-tinted spectacles.

Performance attached to criticism is key to education.  We agree that there are problems that require new formulations of politics, the question is of how we get there.

Utopian Politics Bad for Debate - In debate where there is a utopian politics or truth claim, performance is the only way to ensure competitive equity, otherwise we the affirmative can defend any politics.  The negative can’t prove that the AFF is a bad idea.

Not performing your politics is whiteness - The affirmative demarcates the body from politics. Embodiment and its disavowal lie at the heart of conceptions of freedom and political power. The disavowal of embodiment is what grants whiteness the power to perpetrate racial and sexual violence.

It is particularly within discursive spaces such as debate that whiteness operates to ensure the continuation the fascination with the bodies of other granting it mastery over those particular bodies while allowing whiteness to operate as the universal turning case. We must start at the level of the body.

Winnubst, Associate Prof. of Race, Queer, and Feminist theory @ Ohio State University, 2006
Shannon; "Queering freedom pp. 45-47
How does the white male propertied Christian (straight) body circulate as this unmarked
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a primary site of this veiling is its ontological denial of embodiment itself.
She continues:
We have already encountered the ways that whiteness gains its hegemonic power through its disavowal
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never where it appears: it is somewhere else, veiled beyond capture.

Performance is subversive.  Failure to ground discourse in materiality privileges those with power.

EPJ 05 ~E. Patrick Johnson, "Quare" Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know about Queer Studies I learned from my Grandmother" In Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology, 138-39~
Theories of performance, as opposed to theories of performativity, also take into account
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a racial identity at a moment when their subjectivity is already under erasure.  

Performance offers both a way of knowing and showing that reconfigures the relationship between knowledge and power
Conquergood 02 ~Dwight, Late Prof. Communication and Performance Studies @ Northwestern, The Drama Review https://sremote.pitt.edu/journals/the_drama_review/v046/,DanaInfo=muse.jhu.edu+46.2conquergood.html~
The performance studies project makes its most radical intervention, I believe,¶ by embracing
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move is to turn, and return, insistently, to the crossroads.

Speaking is not enough - It is not enough to simply recognize that speech is material.  The AFF focus on the content rather than the form of the politic assimilates the performance into the economy of signs.  (Yes you are "performing" in the sense that all language is material, but you produce that material as a sign rather than as a performance)

Fischer-Lichte 08 ~Erika, Prof. Theater @ Freie Universitaet Berlin and Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies on the Interweaving of Theatre Cultures. She was President of the German Association for Theatre Studies and of the International Federation for Theatre Research, The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics, 17-8~
The transformation of the subject–object relationship is closely connected to
the change in the relationship between materiality and semioticity, signifier and
signified. For hermeneutic as well as semiotic aesthetics, every aspect of a work
of art is seen as a sign. This does not imply that they overlook the materiality of a
work of art. On the contrary, every detail of the material is given closest attention.
Yet, everything perceptible about the material is defined and interpreted as a sign:
the layers of paint and the specific nuance of color in a painting as much as the tone, rhyme, and meter in a poem. Thus, every element becomes a signifier to
which meanings can be attributed. All aspects of a work of art are incorporated
into this signifier-signified relationship, while any number of meanings could be
assigned to the same signifier.

Existential ethics – The affirmative interpretation of political change replicates the Eurocentric notion of ethics as a way of thinking, or conceptual ethics, versus ethic as action, or existential ethics.  This means that Western imperialism can be perpetually justified.

Marimba Ani. Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior. March 1994 Pg.329-331

It  has  been part of  the posture of  the  moral  philosophers of  European culture to  
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"rhetorical ethic." In the statement  that follows,  taken from  the concluding

Tournament: NDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: UNT AK | Judge: Ortiz, Kozak and Regnier
The 1ac is based upon a politics of recognition that seeks to reify the academy
Tuck and Yang 2014 Eve, and K.W., “R-Words: Refusing Research.” In n D. Paris and M. T. Winn (Eds.) Humanizing research: Decolonizing qualitative inquiry with youth and communities (pp. 223-248). Thousand Oakes, CA: Sage Publications. Pp. 228

The academy voyeurisitcally includes the voice of the other and creates an economy of pain by folding in the narratives of the oppressed
Tuck and Yang 2014 Eve, and K.W., “R-Words: Refusing Research.” In n D. Paris and M. T. Winn (Eds.) Humanizing research: Decolonizing qualitative inquiry with youth and communities (pp. 223-248). Thousand Oakes, CA: Sage Publications. Pp. 228

The alternative is to refuse the scholarship of the affirmative - whiteness is reproduced by the academy through the will to know. The 1ac is a fetishization of suffering that attempts to make sense of civil society.

Offering native knowledge to the academy is hopeless - it only serves to interpolate those experiences replicating whiteness
Kuokkanen- 2003
Kuokkanen, Rauna.- Assistant Professor in Political Science and Aboriginal Studies at the University of Toronto - Toward a New Relation of Hospitality in the Academy- The American Indian Quarterly, Volume 27, Number 1and2, Winter/Spring- 2003

We should not offer knowledge up to the academy rather we should be criminals to the academy
Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, The University and the Undercommons, SEVEN THESES Social Text 79, Vol. 22, No. 2, Summer 2004. Copyright © 2004 by Duke University Press.

1ac attempts to connect with the university only serve to reproduce the violence of the status quo
Gumbs 10
Alexis P. Gumbs, 2010;“We Can Learn to Mother Ourselves: The Queer Survival of Black Feminism 1968-1996,” p13-16

Social sciences are vampiric reproducing tropes of passivity and victimhood
Tuck and Yang 2014 Eve, and K.W., “R-Words: Refusing Research.” In n D. Paris and M. T. Winn (Eds.) Humanizing research: Decolonizing qualitative inquiry with youth and communities (pp. 223-248). Thousand Oakes, CA: Sage Publications. Pp. 228

The aff is a fetishization of woundedness
Tuck and Yang 2014 Eve, and K.W., “R-Words: Refusing Research.” In n D. Paris and M. T. Winn (Eds.) Humanizing research: Decolonizing qualitative inquiry with youth and communities (pp. 223-248). Thousand Oakes, CA: Sage Publications. Pp. 228

Tournament: NDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: UNT AK | Judge: Ortiz, Kozak and Regnier
2NC Card

Choosing when and where to produce certain knowledge is a matter of survival pedagogy. Gumbs explains...
Gumbs 10
Alexis P. Gumbs, 2010;“We Can Learn to Mother Ourselves: The Queer Survival of Black Feminism 1968-1996,” p13-16

1NR Cards

University is bankrupt
Occupied UC Berkeley 09 “The Necrosocial: Civic Life, Social Death, and the UC. http://anticapitalprojects.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/the-necrosocial/

AT Permutation
Institutional values bad
Shaffer, Butler 2012 B.S., Law, 1958 and B.A., Arts and Sciences, 1959, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; J.D., 1961, University of Chicago; Member, Colorado and Nebraska State Bars) The Wizards of Ozymandias

Permutation is linguistic violence - supercharges the link
Gumbs 10
Alexis P. Gumbs, 2010;“We Can Learn to Mother Ourselves: The Queer Survival of Black Feminism 1968-1996,” p13-16

Tournament: Ndt | Round: 4 | Opponent: Wake Forest Duff-Langr | Judge: Glass, Godbey, Weitz
Warren and Fassett, 2004 The Johns Hopkins University Press. All rights reserved Theatre Topics 14.2 (2004) 411-430John T. Warren is an assistant professor in the School of Communication Studies at Bowling Green State University, where he teaches courses in performance, culture, identity, and power. Deanna L. Fassett is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at San José State University, where she teaches courses in instructional communication and critical, feminist, and performative pedagogies.

Ahmed 2007 Sara, “A Phenomenology of Whiteness” 150-1

Tuck and Yang 2014 Eve, and K.W., “R-Words: Refusing Research.” In n D. Paris and M. T. Winn (Eds.) Humanizing research: Decolonizing qualitative inquiry with youth and communities (pp. 223-248). Thousand Oakes, CA: Sage Publications. Pp. 228

Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, The University and the Undercommons, SEVEN THESES Social Text 79, Vol. 22, No. 2, Summer 2004. Copyright © 2004 by Duke University Press.

Halberstam 13 Jack, Prof. English @ USC, “The Wild Beyond: With and For the Undercommons” in The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study, p. 8-9

Brown 1996 Wendy, Prof. Political Science, Prof. Rhetoric, Prof. Critical Theory @ UC-Berkeley, “In the ‘folds of our own discourse’: The Pleasures and Freedoms of Silence,” 3 U. Chi. L. Sch. Roundtable, 193-4

Gumbs 2010- (Alexis Gumbs; Ph. D. Duke University, “We can learn to mother ourselves, the queer survival of black feminism 1968-1996”) 

Shaffer 2012- (B.S. Law, 1958, and B.A., Arts and Sciences, 1959, UNiveristy of Nebraska, Lincoln; J.D.., 1961, University of Chicago; Member, Colorado and Nebraska State Bars-from the Wizards of Ozymandias-http://www.lewrockwell.com/ozymandias/)

Broeck 08 (Sabine; University of Bremen, Germany; Gender Forum Issue 22}

Tournament: Ndt | Round: 4 | Opponent: Wake Forest Duff-Langr | Judge: Glass, Godbey, Weitz
Warren and Fassett, 2004 The Johns Hopkins University Press. All rights reserved Theatre Topics 14.2 (2004) 411-430John T. Warren is an assistant professor in the School of Communication Studies at Bowling Green State University, where he teaches courses in performance, culture, identity, and power. Deanna L. Fassett is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at San José State University, where she teaches courses in instructional communication and critical, feminist, and performative pedagogies.

Ahmed 2007 Sara, “A Phenomenology of Whiteness” 150-1

Tuck and Yang 2014 Eve, and K.W., “R-Words: Refusing Research.” In n D. Paris and M. T. Winn (Eds.) Humanizing research: Decolonizing qualitative inquiry with youth and communities (pp. 223-248). Thousand Oakes, CA: Sage Publications. Pp. 228

Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, The University and the Undercommons, SEVEN THESES Social Text 79, Vol. 22, No. 2, Summer 2004. Copyright © 2004 by Duke University Press.

Halberstam 13 Jack, Prof. English @ USC, “The Wild Beyond: With and For the Undercommons” in The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study, p. 8-9

Brown 1996 Wendy, Prof. Political Science, Prof. Rhetoric, Prof. Critical Theory @ UC-Berkeley, “In the ‘folds of our own discourse’: The Pleasures and Freedoms of Silence,” 3 U. Chi. L. Sch. Roundtable, 193-4

Gumbs 2010- (Alexis Gumbs; Ph. D. Duke University, “We can learn to mother ourselves, the queer survival of black feminism 1968-1996”) 

Shaffer 2012- (B.S. Law, 1958, and B.A., Arts and Sciences, 1959, UNiveristy of Nebraska, Lincoln; J.D.., 1961, University of Chicago; Member, Colorado and Nebraska State Bars-from the Wizards of Ozymandias-http://www.lewrockwell.com/ozymandias/)

Broeck 08 (Sabine; University of Bremen, Germany; Gender Forum Issue 22}