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Browning | 1 | Kansas State Mays-Klucas | Bausch |
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Browning | 4 | Wyoming Pauli-Marcum | Kuswa |
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Browning | 6 | Stanford Gulati-Rosenthal | Pointer |
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Soul | 2 | Lindenwood Nave-Wingo | McGrew-Bryant |
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Soul | 3 | Kansas State Karimi-Stebbins | Fifelski |
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Browning | 1 | Opponent: Kansas State Mays-Klucas | Judge: Bausch 1NC - 2NR - |
Browning | 4 | Opponent: Wyoming Pauli-Marcum | Judge: Kuswa Marx vs DronesTech aff |
Browning | 6 | Opponent: Stanford Gulati-Rosenthal | Judge: Pointer 1NC - 2NR - |
Soul | 2 | Opponent: Lindenwood Nave-Wingo | Judge: McGrew-Bryant AFF - Personal experienceAndazulaBrown Fem |
Soul | 3 | Opponent: Kansas State Karimi-Stebbins | Judge: Fifelski 1AC - Anarchy |
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Soul - R2 - 1NC VS Lindenwood NWTournament: Soul | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lindenwood Nave-Wingo | Judge: McGrew-Bryant Throughout the mid-1970s … property relations and legitimate capitalism. Anzaldua’s borderlands is not a form of dialects but rather a form of “cultural schizophrenia” used in bourgeois discourse to mask the material effects of capitalism Consider, for example, Gloria Anzaldúa’s … rather than figuring out ways of overcoming alienation. The cultural turn that focuses on ‘lived experiences’ and social conditions confuses phenomenological changes with an ontological transformation of capitalism – capitalism hasn’t changed, it still relies on the exploitation of surplus labor. The turn to culture represents culture … time when causal relations are, like class itself, declared dead. The aff is too micropolitical to achieve change – only by recognizing economic totality can we ever break the ideological chains that capitalism has put us in resolving the need for securitization – their focus on securitization links ‘I have … ordered that the full resources of the … state, the hunting will never end. The naturalizing process of capitalism masks its role in ensuring subjugation on a global scale. Our primary ethico-political responsibility is to challenge the organizing principles which found this system Capitalist exploitation culminates in the destruction of all life on earth The alternative is a pedagogy of historical materialism- all examination of social problems must begin at the socio-economic level- only an understanding of politics that recognizes economics as the base that structures societal interactions can provide us with the education necessary to enact real world alternative resistance to capitalism. Can we do otherwise? … of class struggle on a global scale. Case A politics of symbolism prevents collective action-this removes constraints on state power and fails to initiate material change | 2/15/14 |
Soul - R3 - 1NC VS KState KSTournament: Soul | Round: 3 | Opponent: Kansas State Karimi-Stebbins | Judge: Fifelski Throughout the mid-1970s … property relations and legitimate capitalism. The affirmatives emphasis on micro-politics is in line with the goals of capitalism- their focus on individualistic forms of resistance fragments and directly trades off with collective macro-level challenges to the global capitalism Here, we map some processes that …critical organizational communication theory and research. The rejection of super-structures and grand narratives leaves us with no tools to fight capitalism. The local resistance they offer is nothing more than the weak democracy that has allowed the rampant expansion of capital. While the defeat of Stalinism …, is characteristic of capitalism. The naturalizing process of capitalism masks its role in ensuring subjugation on a global scale. Our primary ethico-political responsibility is to challenge the organizing principles which found this system Capitalist exploitation culminates in the destruction of all life on earth Class antagonisms subvert all democratic principles – it creates a formal equality before the law while conditioning all access on profit The alternative is a pedagogy of historical materialism- all examination of social problems must begin at the socio-economic level- only an understanding of politics that recognizes economics as the base that structures societal interactions can provide us with the education necessary to enact real world alternative resistance to capitalism. Can we do otherwise? … of class struggle on a global scale. Case A politics of symbolism prevents collective action-this removes constraints on state power and fails to initiate material change Challenging the state is insufficient to solve capitalism – Russian revolution proves that the dispersal of capital outweighs the existence of any singular or collective of states – only a collective class struggle can use the state as a transition to a new society. John said we have a … fissures, in the existing system is enough to destroy it. | 2/15/14 |
Weber RR - R1 - 1NC VS KStateTournament: Browning | Round: 1 | Opponent: Kansas State Mays-Klucas | Judge: Bausch This essay develops a … but their own substance'. 21 Representations of cyberspace as lawless new frontier is the unfounded projection of old forms of deviance into a new realm whose dangerousness depends on the social priorities rather than their probability. Socio-political threats … justifying political action. The epistemological and ontological assumptions of state security perpetuate never ending violence-the assumption that the state has a given identity that must be protected at all costs can only result in the eradication of anything in its way-this is the ultimate form of calculability. What I am trying to describe … will continue to be made. The alternative is to recover the political – the status quo’s depolitzation of subjectivities that fall outside of dominate discourses forces violent managerialism to confront difference – only by taking a leap of faith in the face of uncertainty can we reclaim the obligatory freedom that arises from the uncertainty of the human condition. Heidegger consequently not only … we need to be moved. ¶ P52-53 Solvency -~-- Cosmopolitan approaches to universal … that continue to define the modern condition. Secrecy means Congress would be ineffective—no solvency The National Security Act … any reporting might be delayed indefinitely.37 Military procedures means cyber operations wouldn’t be reported—kills solvency Advantage ---- First, estimating the likelihood … —the actual source of the 2009 pandemic.140 End Page 125 Cyberattacks won’t result in nuclear war -~-- airgapping solves There's just one problem: There is no such … was how strongly it focused on protecting information systems. Zero impact to cyber arms race -~-- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: … absurd to merit much concern. Diminishing marginal returns means there’s no impact Strategic Cyberwar Is Unlikely to Be … to further coercion. Apocalyptic viral mutations are super unlikely. I think the answer has to lie in the fact that … aspects of viral disease. If they happen, they burn out. The toll of the fourteenth-century … scale ecological upsets. Method -~-- This brings us directly to the problem … little story attached. 80 Seriously – their risk framing destroys politics. While all modern political communities … variable exposure to contingency." | 2/2/14 |
Weber RR - R4 - 1NC VS Wyoming MPTournament: Browning | Round: 4 | Opponent: Wyoming Pauli-Marcum | Judge: Kuswa The discursive focus of the aff is a means of erasing objective knowledge – this erasure only serves to justify neoliberal politics while ignoring true revolutionary politics capable of change Throughout the mid-1970s and 80s, … relations and legitimate capitalism. Their historical analysis is not complete – by positioning one single solution to an entire history of violence is the logic of bourgeois politics that seeks to blur the capitalist system of oppression – Drones are not the first of a history of exploitation The "post" in deconstructive … representation across the ages----no age is immune to it. The biopolitical turn embraced by the affirmative does the work of capitalism – positioning power as biopower forgets that true power is controlling the means of production As class contradictions have grown … power relations without fundamentally transforming them. The naturalizing process of capitalism masks its role in ensuring subjugation on a global scale. Our primary ethico-political responsibility is to challenge the organizing principles which found this system For Zizek it is imperative that we … an otherwise sound matrix. Capitalist exploitation culminates in the destruction of all life on earth The capitalist system … a minute to spare. The alternative is a pedagogy of historical materialism- all examination of social problems must begin at the socio-economic level- only an understanding of politics that recognizes economics as the base that structures societal interactions can provide us with the education necessary to enact real world alternative resistance to capitalism. *The alternative provides an effective starting point for global revolution – our use of the university as an organizing space for anti-capitalist knowledge is able to produce global change – you should reject any permutation as it forfeits totality in favor of diluted knowledge incapable of achieving revolution Can we do otherwise? Other, that is, … possibility for a heightening and waging of class struggle on a global scale. ‘I have … ordered that the full resources … , the hunting will never end. Only through historical materialism can we understand how the material structures in which action occurs shapes our subjectivity. The practical danger of every … the movement as a whole" 23-24 1NC - Case --- Their refusal of instrumentality in favor of symbolic resistance is anti political. It ignores the material realities of those oppressed by the state and fosters a hyper individualist politics that reifies oppression For radical activists – … 'self-satisfied West' (O'Keefe 2002; Chandler 2003). A politics of symbolism prevents collective action-this removes constraints on state power and fails to initiate material change This disjunction between … protest is immediately apparent. | 2/2/14 |
Weber RR - R6 - 1NC VS Stanford GRTournament: Browning | Round: 6 | Opponent: Stanford Gulati-Rosenthal | Judge: Pointer War Powers Authority of the President is the delegation of authority to enter conflict. This basic structural framework … to congressional¶ authorization. B. The aff restricts the president’s parameters for determining who is targeted– that’s commander in chief power. Tactical Command – The … on collective judgment in the decision for war. C. Vote Neg: Security K --- This essay develops a theory … not only commitments but their own substance'. 21 The Global War on Terror marks an ontological reorientation of discourses and truth in international relations that necessitate the use of drone warfare to secure the Northern liberal subject from the space and bodies of the Global South. In a 2005 study of the “logos, … and the savagery of a backward foe.” The need to assassinate and detain someone is socially constructed based on difference – the state contantly reinterprets its profile of danger. Targeted killing is a nodal … the practice policy traction (Lamb, 2007). The epistemological and ontological assumptions of state security perpetuate never ending violence-the assumption that the state has a given identity that must be protected at all costs can only result in the eradication of anything in its way-this is the ultimate form of calculability. What I am trying to describe in this … -- tragically violent 'choices' will continue to be made. The alternative is to recover the political – the status quo’s depolitzation of subjectivities that fall outside of dominate discourses forces violent managerialism to confront difference – only by taking a leap of faith in the face of uncertainty can we reclaim the obligatory freedom that arises from the uncertainty of the human condition. Heidegger consequently … way we need to be moved. ¶ P52-53 Only the alternative’s questioning of status quo politics allows for a new conception of politics In this light, post structural … may be considered as ontology. Their call politics of the state only reinforces the logic of nationalism and sovereignty that make violence inevitable – only recognizing politics outside the state can solve. A vote for the alternative repoliticizes pedagogy and divorces knowledge production from the security apparatus. The central political … to critical security studies. 1NC - Twilight Advantage --- Heg doesn’t deter conflict – post-war strategy shift makes preponderance useless As with other realist claims, there are … of militarily weak insurgents in national liberation wars. Quantitative structural research fails at predicting the onset of conflict – only the alternative’s qualitative interrogation can incorporate agency and affect into IR theory. Uncovering statistically significant … researchers employ.89 1NC - Self Defense --- In the 18 May 2008 issue of … its reason, and the freedom of the individual. Liberalism is messed up Despite the conceptual and … for emancipation, might be achieved. | 2/2/14 |
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