Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 1 | Opponent:  | Judge:
Dr. Shanara Reid-Brinkley ’8 (Dr. Shanara Reid-Brinkley, Rhetoric PhD 26 Prof @ Pitt, THE HARSH REALITIES OF "ACTING BLACK": HOW AFRICAN-AMERICAN POLICY DEBATERS NEGOTIATE REPRESENTATION THROUGH RACIAL PERFORMANCE AND STYLE)

Mitchell observes that the stance of the policymaker in debate comes with a "sense
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of the "policymaker" and require their opponents to do the same.

USFG "Pax Americana" is bad

Boggs ’5 (Carl, Professor of Social Science at National University, Imperial Delusions, 2005, p. x-xiii)

As, the United States moves to reshape the geopolitical terrain of the world,
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already contributed to destabilization of the same global system it aspires to dominate.

Vote negative – de-linking is awesome

Mignolo ’7 (Walter, semiologist and professor of Humanities at Duke University, "DELINKING: THE RHETORIC OF MODERNITY, THE LOGIC OF COLONIALITY AND THE GRAMMAR OF DE-COLONIALITY" http://www.ceapedi.com.ar/imagenes/biblioteca/libros/20.pdf)

If modernity is understood essentially as a European phenomenon, then the "emancipation"
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-logical to¶ the Ego-logical politics of knowledge and understanding.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 1 | Opponent:  | Judge:
Baudrillard

Reversibility Shell

Symbolic exchange haunts everything --- we should accelerate the system

Baudrillard ’93 (Jean, Symbolic Exchange and Death, 1993, Sage, Originally Published 1976, p. 1-5, endnotes included inline) ~m leap~

Symbolic exchange is no longer the organising principle of modern society. Of course,
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must be possible to extract them, one by one, from discourse.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 1 | Opponent:  | Judge: 

Colonialism 1NC

the aff speaks from a colonial position

Mignolo ’9 (Walter, Professor of Humanities at Duke, Theory, Culture, 26 Society 26.7/8, "Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and De-Colonial Freedom," 2009)

The introduction of geo-historical and bio-graphical configurations in processes of knowing
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and puts himself or herself in a privileged position to evaluate and dictate.

Tournament: NDT | Round: 5 | Opponent: Liberty CE | Judge: Evans, Ignacio Weitz, Mike Shooter Cook, John

The aff’s re(appropriation) of the feminine creates woman as a counterfeit coin in the phallo-libidinal exchange economy of man – they construct woman as an exchange object that is only liberated under the name of the Father, the phallogocentric narrative paradigm of propriety (legitimacy/decorum) and the metaphysics of presence (liberation/representation) – vote negative to reject their coherent, cause/effect, Aristotelian narrative of history – vote negative to interrogate the violence inherent to their method of narration

Get hooks cards about language being patriarchical
Michelle Ballif University of Texas at Arlington Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 1 Feminist Rereadings in the History of Rhetoric (Winter, 1992), pp. 91-98 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3885657 Accessed: 11/06/2013 19:19

"Women21 This coin which men find counterfeit21"laments Euripedes’ Hippolytus.’
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accordance with a phallo-libidinal economy. Legitimate histories construct legitimate subjects.

You must ask yourself: who is the subjective ’We’ that the affirmative constructs their narrative around?  Whose notion of unity, coherence, and reason is assumed to legitimate their narrative?  You should reject their Aristotelian preference for grammars of hierarchy and their prejudice against episodic, incongruent forms of narration.   The 1AC, at a fundamental level, assumes a master-narrative of modern phallogocentric reason that is organized around ordered, linear progression, a supposedly universal subject, and cause-and-effect logic.

Michelle Ballif University of Texas at Arlington Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 1 Feminist Rereadings in the History of Rhetoric (Winter, 1992), pp. 91-98 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3885657 Accessed: 11/06/2013 19:19

Not all stories, Socrates tells us, are good, true, and acceptable
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the state of Manhood-of autonomy, courage, maturation, selfhood.

The alternative, or lack thereof, is to unthink the phallogocentric economy and history of the 1AC – this is done, or undone, through a paradigm of feminist counter-history – this counter-history is a genealogy based on local, discontinuous, illegitimate, unthought, or de-thought knowledges and discourses – you must reject the Aff’s narration based on the grand meta-narrative of history – you must dispense with the truth and ask yourself: what if truth had no universal criteria?  What if truth had no proper identity except as a counterfeit coin?  What if there was no cure? What if Truth were a Woman?

Michelle Ballif University of Texas at Arlington Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 1 Feminist Rereadings in the History of Rhetoric (Winter, 1992), pp. 91-98 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3885657 Accessed: 11/06/2013 19:19

And herein lies my argument with attempts to construct the history of women. Efforts
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, will transform the functioning of all society. ("Sorties" 93)

Tournament: NDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harvard DT | Judge: S Lundeen, Hingstman, Friend

Security is blackmail and locks us in a glass sarcophagus – the aff just puts a few more bandages on the sarcophagus to maintain social control and the industrial reproduction and prolongation of frozen, banal death – character armor DA – obsessional neurosis and bad object impacts – security doesn’t actually prevent death, it just makes it into a Mobius strip – we must reclaim the social.

Baudrillard ’93 (Jean, the holographic 2pac of philosophy, Symbolic Exchange and Death, SAGE Pub 1993, First Published 1976, p. 177-179, endnote inserted inline) ~m leap~

Security is another form of social control, in the form of life blackmailed with
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internal regulating procedure for systems that have reached a certain point of complexity.

The Accident and the Catastrophe are inevitable – we should accelerate them to unravel the rational political order

Baudrillard ’93 (Jean, the holographic 2pac of philosophy, Symbolic Exchange and Death, SAGE Pub 1993, First Published 1976, p. 160-161) ~m leap~

There is a paradox of modern bourgeois rationality concerning death. To conceive of it
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. Octavio Paz has analysed this brilliantly in his theory of the Accident:
Modern science has eliminated epidemics and has given us plausible explanations of other natural catastrophes
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, may be unleashed on this occasion and turn against the political order.

Tournament: NDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harvard DT | Judge: S Lundeen, Hingstman, Friend

A2 Death is individual/Autonomy/"Good Death" or "quality of life and death" – against the neurotic subject’s accumulation of pre-programmed death, the only alternative is to set death against death through destruction

Baudrillard ’93 (Jean, the holographic 2pac of philosophy, Symbolic Exchange and Death, SAGE Pub 1993, First Published 1976, p. 176-177) ~m leap~

The property system is so absurd that it leads people to demand their death as
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meticulously regulated universe, the only temptation is to normalise everything by destruction.

A2 Autonomy/Right to life/security

 natural – the Aff protects autonomy as long as its people’s right to choose life and security… never suicide or murder – this is because the real agenda is to eliminate the accursed share in order to complete the system’s domination of the symbolic exchange between life and death ====
Baudrillard ’93 (Jean, the holographic 2pac of philosophy, Symbolic Exchange and Death, SAGE Pub 1993, First Published 1976, p. 179-180) ~m leap~

After having exalted production, today we must therefore make security heroic. ’At a
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it: its only real adversary, the only one it must exterminate.

The affirmative approaches the world with the tautological rationality of viviocentrism – that is life-centeredness.  Viviocentrism is a noble lie that informs all aspects of their advocacy and it is the same binary logic of natural mastery that justifies racism, sexism, anthropomorphism, etc. Opening our minds to death allows a transcendence of the tyranny of life and creates the conditions for the ultimate erosion of all borders and conceptions of the natural – put the burden on them to justify physical existence as a roll for the ballot

Mitchell Heisman (The opposite of a bullshitter, suicide practitioner, 26 University at Albany bachelor’s degree in psychology) 2010
~Suicide Note, online @ http://www.suicidenote.info/, loghry~

There is a very popular opinion that choosing life is inherently superior to choosing death
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free to acknowledge that reason itself does not dictate a bias towards life. 

A2 Science, biology, and living/non-living binary

Baudrillard ’93 (Jean, the holographic 2pac of philosophy,  Symbolic Exchange and Death, SAGE Pub 1993, First Published 1976, p. 152-153) ~m leap~

Eros in the service of death, all cultural sublimation as a long detour to
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Chance and Necessity ~tr Austyn Wainhouse, London: Collins, 1970~).

The unconditional affirmation of human life is a violent form of oppression. People become slaves, shackled to the tautological cycle of positivity: survival and labor.

Baudrillard ’2 (Jean, "The Spirit of Terrorism: Hypotheses on Terrorism", Verso 2002, translated by Chris Turner, pp. 68-70) 

All the same, we should try to get beyond the moral imperative of unconditional
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aim, are the ones who today symbolically occupy the position of master. 

K of Death as absolute evil

Baudrillard ’93 (Jean, the holographic 2pac of philosophy, Symbolic Exchange and Death, SAGE Pub 1993, First Published 1976, p. 172) ~m leap~

But this analysis remains totally insufficient, since it merely substitutes an economic for a
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, typical of thought bending over backwards to satisfy its rejection of death.

Accumulation of life is really a worse form of death invested inside of fake life – it is an invested economic death that is actually a nightmare of complete obliteration – excessive and useless death is the only alternative to this accumulation of utility and value because it reverses the symbolic economy of life as calculated survival – vote negative to avoid the mournful nothingness of an Aff ballot

Baudrillard ’93 (Jean, the holographic 2pac of philosophy, Symbolic Exchange and Death, SAGE Pub 1993, First Published 1976, p. 154-156) ~m leap~

Despite its radicality, the psychoanalytic vision of death remains an insufficient vision: the
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is neither resolution nor involution, but a reversal and a symbolic challenge.

Tournament: NDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harvard DT | Judge: S Lundeen, Hingstman, Friend

The presidency has been and continues to be a masculine and racist office—the 1ac is premised on continual institutional paternalism and masculine norms

Stuckey 2010 ~Mary, Professor of Communication and Political Science at Georgia State University, Rethinking the Rhetorical Presidency and Presidential Rhetoric, The Review of Communication, Vol. 10, No. 1, January 2010, pp. 38-52~

The presidency is a paternalistic office, and has been so ever since George Washington
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maintain and challenge similar structures of power and privilege throughout our national politics.

The AUMF states:

Authorization for Use of Military Force (Enrolled Bill) 2001 http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/sjres23.enr.html

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES.¶ (a) IN GENERAL- That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.

The aff’s re(appropriation) of the feminine creates woman as a counterfeit coin in the phallo-libidinal exchange economy of man – they construct woman as an exchange object that is only liberated under the name of the Father, the phallogocentric narrative paradigm of propriety (legitimacy/decorum) and the metaphysics of presence (liberation/representation) – vote negative to reject their coherent, cause/effect, Aristotelian narrative of history – vote negative to interrogate the violence inherent to their method of narration

Get hooks cards about language being patriarchical
Michelle Ballif University of Texas at Arlington Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 1 Feminist Rereadings in the History of Rhetoric (Winter, 1992), pp. 91-98 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3885657 Accessed: 11/06/2013 19:19

"Women21 This coin which men find counterfeit21"laments Euripedes’ Hippolytus.’
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accordance with a phallo-libidinal economy. Legitimate histories construct legitimate subjects.

The alternative, or lack thereof, is to unthink the phallogocentric economy and history of the 1AC – this is done, or undone, through a paradigm of feminist counter-history – this counter-history is a genealogy based on local, discontinuous, illegitimate, unthought, or de-thought knowledges and discourses – you must reject the Aff’s narration based on the grand meta-narrative of history – you must dispense with the truth and ask yourself: what if truth had no universal criteria?  What if truth had no proper identity except as a counterfeit coin?  What if there was no cure? What if Truth were a Woman?

Michelle Ballif University of Texas at Arlington Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 1 Feminist Rereadings in the History of Rhetoric (Winter, 1992), pp. 91-98 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3885657 Accessed: 11/06/2013 19:19

And herein lies my argument with attempts to construct the history of women. Efforts
AND
, will transform the functioning of all society. ("Sorties" 93)

Tournament: NDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harvard DT | Judge: S Lundeen, Hingstman, Friend

You must ask yourself: who is the subjective ’We’ that the affirmative constructs their narrative around?  Whose notion of unity, coherence, and reason is assumed to legitimate their narrative?  You should reject their Aristotelian preference for grammars of hierarchy and their prejudice against episodic, incongruent forms of narration.   The 1AC, at a fundamental level, assumes a master-narrative of modern phallogocentric reason that is organized around ordered, linear progression, a supposedly universal subject, and cause-and-effect logic.

Michelle Ballif University of Texas at Arlington Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 1 Feminist Rereadings in the History of Rhetoric (Winter, 1992), pp. 91-98 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3885657 Accessed: 11/06/2013 19:19

Not all stories, Socrates tells us, are good, true, and acceptable
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the state of Manhood-of autonomy, courage, maturation, selfhood.

Do not accept the aff’s version of history – patriarchy deceptively morphs every new policy to further masculine privileging. The aff’s patriarchal knowledge production should be rejected.

Enloe 04 Professor of Women’s Studies at Clark University, 2004 Cynthia, The Curious Feminist, page 4-7

Patriarchy—patriarchy is the structural and ideological system that perpetuates the privileging of masculinity
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much of that privileging depends on controlling women or drawing them into complicity. 

Granting of some freedom is a new expression on control

McRobbie, Angela. 2011. "Beyond post-feminism." Public Policy Research 18, no. 3: 179-184. Business Source Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed March 27, 2014).

Similarly, it could be argued that through sheer force of struggle, the women’s
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sense of equality’, as the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy has described.

Aff ignores every day war—proves the link

Sjoberg, Laura. "Viewing peace through gender lenses." Ethics 26 International Affairs 27.2 (2013): 175+. Academic OneFile. Web. 23 Mar. 2014.

Chris Cuomo has argued that "many of the questions about war that are of
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is a sharp distinction between the public and private spheres. (26)

Tournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: USC PV | Judge: Albiniak, Morgan, Paone
1NC (short)
The presidency has been and continues to be a masculine and racist office—the 1ac is premised on continual institutional paternalism and masculine norms
Stuckey 2010 Mary, Professor of Communication and Political Science at Georgia State University, Rethinking the Rhetorical Presidency and Presidential Rhetoric, The Review of Communication, Vol. 10, No. 1, January 2010, pp. 38-52
The AUMF states:
Authorization for Use of Military Force (Enrolled Bill) 2001 http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/sjres23.enr.html

The aff’s re(appropriation) of the feminine creates woman as a counterfeit coin in the phallo-libidinal exchange economy of man – they construct woman as an exchange object that is only liberated under the name of the Father, the phallogocentric narrative paradigm of propriety (legitimacy/decorum) and the metaphysics of presence (liberation/representation) – vote negative to reject their coherent, cause/effect, Aristotelian narrative of history – vote negative to interrogate the violence inherent to their method of narration
Get hooks cards about language being patriarchical
Michelle Ballif University of Texas at Arlington Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 1 Feminist Rereadings in the History of Rhetoric (Winter, 1992), pp. 91-98 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3885657 Accessed: 11/06/2013 19:19

The alternative, or lack thereof, is to unthink the phallogocentric economy and history of the 1AC – this is done, or undone, through a paradigm of feminist counter-history – this counter-history is a genealogy based on local, discontinuous, illegitimate, unthought, or de-thought knowledges and discourses – you must reject the Aff’s narration based on the grand meta-narrative of history – you must dispense with the truth and ask yourself: what if truth had no universal criteria?  What if truth had no proper identity except as a counterfeit coin?  What if there was no cure? What if Truth were a Woman?
Michelle Ballif University of Texas at Arlington Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 1 Feminist Rereadings in the History of Rhetoric (Winter, 1992), pp. 91-98 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3885657 Accessed: 11/06/2013 19:19
Grave-Robbers Shell

Academic debate and civic life are social death – plugging meaning into the university factory just increases the management of our social death and neutralizes all resistance – instead, we should try to rupture academic debate
Occupied UC Berkeley ‘9 (“The Necrosocial – Civic Life, Social Death, and the University of California,” November 2009, Craccum Magazine – University of Auckland Student Magazine. Iss. 4, 2012. http://craccum.ausa.auckland.ac.nz/?p=286) m leap

All that the Aff’s critical education does is act to insulate the university as a constituent part of the colonial USFG by denying and appropriating the undercommons.
Moten and Harney ‘13 (Stefano Harney, Professor of Strategic Management Education at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University and a co-founder of the School for Study and Fred Moten, Helen L. Bevington Professor of Modern Poetry at Duke, “The University and the Undercommons,” The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study, pg. 29-32) m leap

A way to think about our alternative would be to “steal the 1ac away from the affirmative” – our relationship to the Aff and the academy is a criminal one – vote negative to abuse the university and steal labor back to the clandestine, the undercommons – the Aff must allow their very subjectivity to be ruptured by us — this is the only way to break open the auto-encyclopedic circle of the university itself
Moten and Harney ‘13 (Stefano Harney, Professor of Strategic Management Education at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University and a co-founder of the School for Study and Fred Moten, Helen L. Bevington Professor of Modern Poetry at Duke, “The University and the Undercommons,” The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study, pg. 26-28) m leap

Only voting negative to trigger a symbolic collapse of meaning can reverse the metastasis of debate and blast open the gates of hell, i.e. the cemetery-university
Anonymous UC Berkeley Graduate Student ‘10 (“The University, Social Death, and the Inside Joke,” http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20100220181610620) m leap

Tournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: USC PV | Judge: Albiniak, Morgan, Paone
You must ask yourself: who is the subjective ‘We’ that the affirmative constructs their narrative around?  Whose notion of unity, coherence, and reason is assumed to legitimate their narrative?  You should reject their Aristotelian preference for grammars of hierarchy and their prejudice against episodic, incongruent forms of narration.   The 1AC, at a fundamental level, assumes a master-narrative of modern phallogocentric reason that is organized around ordered, linear progression, a supposedly universal subject, and cause-and-effect logic.  
Michelle Ballif University of Texas at Arlington Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 1 Feminist Rereadings in the History of Rhetoric (Winter, 1992), pp. 91-98 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3885657 Accessed: 11/06/2013 19:19

USFG DA
Calls for “USFG,” action are complicit in its colonialist legacy and their refusal to acknowledge that link is itself a perpetuation of the contemporary practices of hegemonic power that produce and maintain networks of oppression
Dr. Shanara Reid-Brinkley ‘8 (Dr. Shanara Reid-Brinkley, Rhetoric PhD and Prof @ Pitt, THE HARSH REALITIES OF “ACTING BLACK”: HOW AFRICAN-AMERICAN POLICY DEBATERS NEGOTIATE REPRESENTATION THROUGH RACIAL PERFORMANCE AND STYLE)
, Jones and Green choose to perform themselves in debate, violating the more “objective” stance of the “policymaker” and require their opponents to do the same.

Link
tag
Oliver, Kelly. 2008. "Women: The Secret Weapon of Modern Warfare?." Hypatia 23, no. 2: 1-16. OmniFile Full Text Select (H.W. Wilson), EBSCOhost (accessed March 23, 2014).

Link-State
All facets of the state are patriarchal
Brown, Wendy. "Finding the Man in the State." Feminist Studies 18.1 (1992): 7. ProQuest. Web. 13 Oct. 2013.

Tournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: USC PV | Judge: Albiniak, Morgan, Paone
Now, a meta-level claim: ontologically, academic debate and civil society have made us into managed, socially dead zombies – that’s the Occupied UC Berkeley and Anonymous UC Berkeley Student cards – in some ways, we are socially dead, but, honestly, we are the life within that death, i.e. an antagonistic dead that is ontologically framed outside of humanity and civil society – “zombie survival” skills are key to living life in this social death
Sexton ‘11 (Jared, “The Social Life of Social Death: On Afro-Pessimism and Black Optimism” http://www.yorku.ca/intent/issue5/articles/pdfs/jaredsextonarticle.pdf) M Leap

A way to think about our alternative would be to “steal the 1ac away from the affirmative” – our relationship to the Aff and the academy is a criminal one – that’s Moten and Harney –  vote negative to abuse the university and steal labor back to the clandestine, the undercommons – the Aff must allow their very subjectivity to be ruptured by us — this is the only way to break open the auto-encyclopedic circle of the university itself
Moten and Harney ‘13 (Stefano Harney, Professor of Strategic Management Education at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University and a co-founder of the School for Study and Fred Moten, Helen L. Bevington Professor of Modern Poetry at Duke, “The University and the Undercommons,” The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study, pg. 26-28) m leap

Thus, we steal – property can’t steal property, so voting negative to steal away the 1AC back for the undercommons plays on the paradox of property as theft in order to collapse the university debate space and call its entire system of meaning into question – we steal away the hegemonic knowledge that dominates the academic debate community – we steal away because the politics of fugitivity allows for an impossible survival method to bear life within social death – instead of being “good” citizens, stealing away allows for students to appropriate dominant spaces in acts of defiance  
Hartman ‘97 (Saidiya, Scenes of Subjection, p. 65-7) m leap

The Undercommons is a secret solidarity that disturbs the academic, critical work of the affirmative that goes on above it – the Undercommons is the uncanny nonplace of a prophetic organization that works for red and black abolition
Moten and Harney ‘13 (Stefano Harney, Professor of Strategic Management Education at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University and a co-founder of the School for Study and Fred Moten, Helen L. Bevington Professor of Modern Poetry at Duke, “The University and the Undercommons,” The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study, pg. 42-43) m leap

Ballot as Commodity 

The Aff makes the ballot into an academic commodity, which makes social transformation impossible
Bryant ‘13—philosophy prof at Collin College (Levi, The Paradox of Emancipatory Political Theory, http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/the-paradox-of-emancipatory-political-theory/)

Interrogate our Privilege

Your role as a judge is to interrogate how we should deal with our privileged positions which allow us to speak in the first place.
Chow ‘93 (Rey, Professor Comparative Lit at Brown, “Writing Diaspora,” 1993, p 15-17, google books)

Translation

The 1AC’s translation colonializes the testimony by only understanding the affect once it has been actively translated to a Westernized cultural interpretation – the affirmative’s deployment of a translated narrative permits biopolitical management of the population subject to translation by institutionalizing a practice of linguistic encounters between subjects who operate within the debate space now constituted as a field of colonial encounter.
Solomon 7 (Jon, assistant professor in the Graduate Institute of Futures Studies and the French Program, Tamkang University (Taiwan), “Translation, Violence, and the Heterolingual Intimacy,” Transversal, November, http://eipcp.net/transversal/1107/solomon/en)

Civil Society

The Aff conflation of human experience with black and red experience turns their arguments and cements the gratuitous anti-black violence of civil society – the 1AC is phrased in the universal grammar of an assumed neutral human subject position that (1) whitewashes (2) assimilates and (3) does violence directly to the black body – they should lose the debate for phrasing their arguments in the ethics and grammar of the white civil society
Wilderson ‘3 (Frank B. Wilderson III, “The Prison Slave as Hegemony's (Silent) Scandal,” Social Justice, Vol. 30, No. 2 (92), War, Dissent, and Justice: A Dialogue (2003), pp. 18- 27, Social Justice/Global Options, http://www.jstor.org/stable/29768181, Accessed: 21/10/2012 04:09) m leap

Civil society’s demand of coherence and stability is an ongoing state of emergency for black and red bodies – the Aff academic discourse mystifies the ontological, structural antagonism between the being of the Human and the being of the Red or Black – vote negative to uncover the grammars of suffering and subject positions upon which the coherence of the 1AC is predicated
Wilderson ’10 (Frank B., Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, “Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms,” Pages 6-7. pdf, Written in 2010, Accessed 02-22-13) M Leap

Compassion/Empathy as Colonialism Link

This process of appropriation through empathetic identification with the other causes colonial violence.
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/

*Commodification of Suffering Link* 

Grounding the ballot as a tool for redeeming suffering creates a political economy of victimhood which is invested in its own subjection---the ballot is not a tool of emancipation, it serves as a palliative that attempts to deny their investment in oppression as a means by which to claim the power of victory. This mode of politics results in passivity and is teeming in ressentiment and guilt
Enns 12—Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University (Dianne, The Violence of Victimhood, 28-30)

*Ascetic Theater Link*

The AFF is a story of their ability to speak for and the redeem the suffering victim through a performance of ascetic theater. Their call for action is a form of escapism and amnesia colonized by liberal idealism. The AFF reduces suffering to the epistemological and ontological field of liberal capitalism.
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. 54-55)

Tournament: GSU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Wake Forest CrHa | Judge: Marty, Jillian
Openness
Liberal society pursues openness that is instrumentalized through political and economic exchange value – the 1AC affirmation is a regulated open-ness that is based on continual operation within structures of the institutional status quo – vote negative to sacrifice their openness to the radically open danger of the Outside
Negarestani ‘8 (Reza, philosopher, artist, “cyclonopedia: complicity with anonymous materials” p.195-199)

In the mid-eighties, before … guarantees survival.

To be pro-life is to be anti-survival – life itself is exterior to the act of surviving – the only ethical goal of life is not just survival for the sake of holding back inevitable death – the goal of life is to endure in communion with radical openness –vote neg to rethink survival as being opened up by the un-life that is outside one’s self
Negarestani ‘8 (Reza, philosopher, artist “cyclonopedia: complicity with anonymous materials” p. 210-213)
The problematic of …religiously conscious of its own repression and the exteriority of life. 

The alternative is a call for radical openness – only voting negative can traverse and lacerate liberal openness and avoid appropriation by economic affordance
Negarestani ‘3 (Reza Negarestani, Iranian artist and writer, “Death as a Perversion: Openness and Germinal Death,” Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, Editors, 10/15/2003, www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=396) m leap

From pre-Islamic Zoroastrian mages …y coming from the compositional depths of life.

Charismatic Violence
Restrictions like the Aff function within the lexicon of exceptional violence – voting aff only serves to make the sovereign more charismatic and mask its bureaucratic liberal governmentality.  The alternative is to step back from the Aff and reject their direct and immediate confrontation with exceptional violence in order to do rhetorical analysis and perform a broader critique of the system
Saas ‘12 (William O. Saas, Pennsylvania State University, “Critique of Charismatic Violence,” symploke, Vol. 20, Nos. 1-2 (2012), p. 65-67, Project Muse, Access Provided by Wayne State University at 02/28/13) m leap

The September 11, …, namely, relentless publicity.

Restricting executive war powers is merely the next step in the state bureaucracy’s violent scheme to permanently institute its own hegemony through charismatic exception – a world post aff makes oppression, violence and catastrophe become worse and more routine – vote negative to prevent the sovereign from ethically absorbing and rebirthing its own exception
Saas ‘12 (William O. Saas, Pennsylvania State University, “Critique of Charismatic Violence,” symploke, Vol. 20, Nos. 1-2 (2012), p. 79-80, Project Muse, Access Provided by Wayne State University at 02/28/13) m leap

I have argued above that … from our charismatic leaders?

Bureaucratic violence becomes disseminated through the aff’s speech act
Saas ‘12 (William O. Saas, Pennsylvania State University, “Critique of Charismatic Violence,” symploke, Vol. 20, Nos. 1-2 (2012), p. 71-73, Project Muse, Access Provided by Wayne State University at 02/28/13) m leap

The foundations of … has not been the case.

Genealogy of CIA drones and Targeted killing – also end of the card is a pretty sweet answer to plans that use the law –
Shaw, I. (2013). Predator Empire: The Geopoltics of US Drone Warfare. Geopolitics. 00, 1-24, doi:10.1080/14650045.2012.749241

The CIA’s drone … hut from the courts”.’

Calls for oversight over targeted killing is the exact rhetoric that Obama Uses to justify his charismatic violence –
Obama ’13 (President, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/23/obama-drones-guantanamo-speech-text)
¶ For this reason, … from a swat team
More evidence about how the courts create beaurcracy –
Obama ’13 (President, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/23/obama-drones-guantanamo-speech-text)
Going forward, … – and other – options for increased oversight
the shift and roll-back disad – there is a popular and bipartisan outcry for extra-legal use of war powers now – the Aff’s method of sovereign restriction is reversible and impotent – it enables the bureaucratic state to institute charismatic power in the state of exception worse than ever before – even if they win 100 solvency, then proxies carry out the violence instead – more evidence:
Saas ‘12 (William O. Saas, Pennsylvania State University, “Critique of Charismatic Violence,” symploke, Vol. 20, Nos. 1-2 (2012), p. 68-69, Project Muse, Access Provided by Wayne State University at 02/28/13) m leap

The extra-legal condemnation … he has in fact enhanced them.
*In order to restrict war powers one must understand the relationship between language and violence – Organizations are speech acts and thus fundamentally rhetorical – The Rhetorical analysis done by the affirmative will provide a way out of the organizational violence of modern bureaucracy -
Saas, W. (2012). Critique of Charismatic Violence. Symploke,  20 (1-2), 65-82.

In The Language of War… be a way out.

Tournament: NDT | Round: 5 | Opponent: Liberty CE | Judge: Evans, Ignacio Weitz, Mike Shooter Cook, John

Academic debate and civic life are social death – plugging meaning into the university factory just increases the management of our social death and neutralizes all resistance – instead, we should try to rupture academic debate

Occupied UC Berkeley ’9 ("The Necrosocial – Civic Life, Social Death, and the University of California," November 2009, Craccum Magazine – University of Auckland Student Magazine. Iss. 4, 2012. http://craccum.ausa.auckland.ac.nz/?p=286) ~m leap~

Yes, very much a cemetery. Only here there are no dirges, no
AND
. We need, we desire occupations. We are an antagonistic dead.

Only voting negative to trigger a symbolic collapse of meaning can reverse the metastasis of debate and blast open the gates of hell, i.e. the cemetery-university

Anonymous UC Berkeley Graduate Student ’10 ("The University, Social Death, and the Inside Joke," http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20100220181610620) ~m leap~

Universities may serve as progressive sites of inquiry in some cases, yet this does
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interpretation and every connotation, no longer denoting anyone or anything."~56~