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Ableism
Tournament: NA | Round: 1 | Opponent: NA | Judge: NA Their use of the metaphor is not benign wordplay but violent language that misinterprets the experiences of persons with disabilities and appropriates that identity to show deficiency. That’s a voter because it maintains power relationships that render persons with disabilities invisible. Ben-Moshe 2005 (Liat, Ph.D student in Sociology at Syracuse). ““Lame Idea”: Disabling Language in the Classroom,” in Building Pedagogical Curb Cuts: Incorporating Disability into the University Classroom and Curriculum.” http://www.syr.edu/gradschool/pdf/resourcebooksvideos/Pedagogical20Curb20Cuts.pdf. ZDS When we use ... as lived experiences?
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Case Defense
Tournament: NA | Round: 1 | Opponent: NA | Judge: NA We have read situational solvency and advantage defense against affirmatives. Please consult Wayne State JS's page (they're open source) for citations. If this is pre-round, feel free to ask us for the deets or cites or whatever. We don't bite.
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Edelman
Tournament: NA | Round: 1 | Opponent: NA | Judge: NA Notions of preserving some sort of future for our species valorize reproductive, heterogenital sex, while subordinating queer sex to nothing more than “meaningless acrobatics.” This impregnates heterosexuality with the future of signification, necessitating violence against queerness. Edelman 2004 (Lee Edelman, Prof. English at Tufts University, “No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive,” 2004, pp. 11-13) nagel So, for example, when … despite itself, means. ? Queerness can never be the site of a positive political project, since that is the foundation of reproductive futurism’s call for survival that justifies untold brutality and endless violence – the queer becomes socially placed as the nonhuman Other Fontenot 2006 (Andrea, Professor at UC-Santa Barbara, “No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (review)”. Modern Fiction Studies. 52:1. (Spring) 2006. pp. 254-255) nagel We disagree with the gendered language used. Edelman is careful, … the recognizably human" (101). ? This is a coupling of Lacan’s notion of the synthome, the small slice of abject failure in the knot holding the Symbolic, the Imaginary, and the Real together, along with the body of the queer, figured under heteronormativity. Sinthomosexuality lays bare reproductive futurism through the continual projection and ascription of the negativity associated with the queer as the death knell of the future. Giffney 2008 (Noreen Giffney, Professor at University College Dublin Ireland, “Queer Apocal(o)ptic/ism: The Death Drive and the Human,” Published in “Queering the Non/Human, 2008, pp 65) nagel The sinthomosexual represents, … out as Queer.
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Invisible Resistance
Tournament: NA | Round: 1 | Opponent: NA | Judge: NA Government has reached the absurd as the Republic demands our citizenship through classification of the outside through new forms of subjective liberalism The Invisible Committee 2007 (France’s Premier Terrorist Organization, “The Coming Insurrection”. Semiotext(e) Intervention Series. pg. 35-38) nagel Edited for gendered language.. It is a product of the translation, not the authors. A government that … render this institution suspect.2 ? Modernity is essentially biopolitical – it can only construct security through ongoing war – unity through inclusion and exclusion – this politics is actually anti-political violence that designates the very chains of life and death that it actually made in the first place – extermination becomes inevitable as modernity chases its own tail. Balibar 2004 (Professor of Philosophy, Etienne, We, The People of Europe? p.125-30) In such conditions, … horizon of political action. ? Politics is fear, endlessly describing the disaster while managing all resistance. Anything less than revolting against modern civilization is accepts endless war. The Invisible Committee 2007, insurrectionary communists, Call, p. 3-7 MRL Proposition I: The triumph … only makes it harsher.
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Legality
Tournament: NA | Round: 1 | Opponent: NA | Judge: NA The affirmative re-inscribes the primacy of liberal legalism as a method of restraint—that paradoxically collapses resistance to Executive excesses. Margulies ‘11 Joseph, Joseph Margulies is a Clinical Professor, Northwestern University School of Law. He was counsel of record for the petitioners in Rasul v. Bush and Munaf v. Geren. He now is counsel of record for Abu Zubaydah, for whose torture (termed harsh interrogation by some) Bush Administration officials John Yoo and Jay Bybee wrote authorizing legal opinions. Earlier versions of this paper were presented at workshops at the American Bar Foundation and the 2010 Law and Society Association Conference in Chicago., Hope Metcalf is a Lecturer, Yale Law School. Metcalf is co-counsel for the plaintiffs/petitioners in Padilla v. Rumsfeld, Padilla v. Yoo, Jeppesen v. Mohammed, and Maqaleh v. Obama. She has written numerous amicus briefs in support of petitioners in suits against the government arising out of counterterrorism policies, including in Munaf v. Geren and Boumediene v. Bush., “Terrorizing Academia,” http://www.swlaw.edu/pdfs/jle/jle603jmarguilies.pdf In an observation ... a permanent emergency. ? Legalism underpins the violence of empire and creates the conditions of possibility for liberal violence. Dossa ’99 Shiraz, Department of Political Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, “Liberal Legalism: Law, Culture and Identity,” The European Legacy, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 73-87,1 No discipline in ... the perpetual foreigner.
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Puar
Tournament: NA | Round: 1 | Opponent: NA | Judge: NA The 1ACs call to repair exceptionalism places the outside as radical other. This legitimizes queer violence and a sexualized understanding of the brown body. Puar 2007 Jasbir, Professor of women's and gender studies at Rutgers University, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times Awirth Hate crimes against … with one another. US imperialism is rooted in asserted universality to interpolate the outside and reinforce heteronormative practice – this creates states of exception that justify continued violence against the Other. Puar 2007 Jasbir, Professor of women's and gender studies at Rutgers University, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times Awirth Reflecting upon contemporary … and sexual acts. The hyper-masculinization of the president frames the War on Terror in absolutist aggression that is the root of indefinite detention and torture – creates a frame of exceptionalism that allows infinite violence against the Other Athanassiou 2012 Cerelia, PhD candidate at the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS) at the University of Bristol, ‘Gutsy’ Decisions and Passive Processes, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2012 iFirst article, 1–20 Awirth We disagree with the gendered language used. The GWOT represents, … and militarized ‘exceptional’.? Solves Puar 2007 Jasbir, Professor of women's and gender studies at Rutgers University, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times Awirth Identity is one … or without being. 32
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QUESTIONS COMMENTS CONCERNS
Tournament: NA | Round: 1 | Opponent: NA | Judge: NA Please email hedgie82(at)gmail(dot)com for any of the above, or if you'd just like to chat. Preferred topics include the Cincinnati Reds, Law and Order (#BenStone4lyfe) and why TNG OS. kthnxbi.
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TT
Tournament: NA | Round: 1 | Opponent: NA | Judge: NA Terrorist rhetoric reinforces a binary that pits the good in an endless war against the other Kellner, ’07 (Douglas, Chair of Philosophy @ UCLA, Presidential Studies Quarterly. Vol. 37 (4), 2007, pg. 622+) On the day ... response and war. ? Terrorist rhetoric shuts off solutions to terrorism, necessitates eradication of those who it’s applied to, and incites racist violence Kapitan and Schulte, ’02 (Tomis and Erich, Thomas – Prof of Philosophy @ N Illionois U, and Erich – , Journal of Political and Military Sociology Vol. 30 Iss. 1, 2002, pp. 172+, Questia) Given that a ... anti-Moslem violence" (Said 1988:157).17