Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: 3 | Opponent: Gonzaga Gonzaga MO | Judge: Izak Dunn

Capitalism Debate

2AC AT: Capitalism Top Level/Flavor Core

The affirmative is a link turn to the criticism: we are a better method of solving capitalism – capitalism exists only in a world where units of capital are commodified and distributed – the 1AC reverses this trend. Cross apply Hampton from the 1AC.

Link Debate

1.They can’t escape from the link turn on the criticism – stick them to their argument or hold them to a higher standard to get out of it – few reasons

Framing: they’re conceding a top-level indict of their impact construction which means you have no choice but to view the round through our framework – but EVEN if you don’t buy our argument, at the very least we’re indicting their internal link chains. Our framing arguments which means that their link isn’t only bad, but it’s wrong. Their framework for the debate is bad because ~~

The new flesh is the welding of technology with biology – this creates a type of individual that necessitates the continuation of accumulation of capital  — not voting aff would make the harms worse.

cooper 8 (Melinda, Australian Researhc Council Future Fellow, BA (Hons) Sydney, DEA, PhD Paris VIII, "Life As Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era. USA: University of Washington Press. 2008 P.125-8)IAA
The medical anthropologist M argaret Lock (2001, 291-94) has com
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erative labor in the emerging tissue economies of the twenty-first century?

Impact Debate

Trash Can Turn— extend Hampton from the case debate. Hampton says that the reconfiguration of social life through the use of technologized warfare dissolves the divisions between war and common day to day life – voting negative is the final seal of approval for a world where atrocities become pleasure.

This is also a double bind – either

Our impacts outweigh because they are happening already and this is a try or die for the AFF or

The uniqueness overwhelms the link on the impact and it either is inevitable or doesn’t happen in the status quo.

Tournament: USC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Georgetown BL | Judge: Bato

Framework – Flavor Core

2AC AT: Framework – Top Level

The role of the ballot for this debate should be that whoever best explores the wound should win the round. You should frame your decision-making as a critic in search of drawing parallels between the past and the present. Hayes/hernandez evidence

Fearatino DA

Binaries DA

Their framework arguments construct citizen-subject binaries that create colonial violence through political activity seeking to transform the meanings of categories so that they fit within the constructs of ideal divisions.

Sandoval ’00 (Chela, Assistant Professor of Critical and Cultural Theory for the Department of Chicano Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, ... p.  18.)
True, it is the violence of colonial invasion and subjugation by race that opens
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which is required in order to both understand and to enact these meanings.

Violent State Making DA

The root of the creation of law that governs a nature is violence therefore law itself is violence in order to prevent violence

Vaughan-Williams 8  (Nick Vaughan-Williams, ph.d  Assistant Professor of International Security  , 2008, Borders, Territory, Law, University of Exeter, International Political Sociology (2008) 2, 322–338, Accessed: 7/27/13,)
In his essay Critique of Violence (1927), Walter Benjamin considers the relationship between
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borders, territory, law triad, is that given by Jacques Derrida.

Interpretations

"Should"

The dominant order only serves to recreate itself.

Freire 70 (Paulo, Brazilian educator and influential theorist of education, "Pedagogy of the oppressed." P. 78)
Populist manifestations perhaps best exemplify this type of behav¬ ior by the oppressed,
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in the same breath to use violence in putting down the strike."7

Policy making framework makes a commodity of violence – ensures its continuance – and is unethical

Makau 96 (Josina., Ph.D.  in Rhetoric at the University of California-Berkeley, Responsible Communication, Argumentation Instruction in the Face of Global Perils)
Weisel’s critique of German education prior to world war II points to another danger of
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feminist and others critics would write so harshly of traditional argumentation of debate. 

AT: simulations

AT: Debating Laws Good

AT: Institutions Good

Policy making will always fail; plans will always fail; planners will always fail – no clear understanding of the future – short term prescription changes.

Moten and Harney 13 (Frank Moten – Professor of English at Duke University – and Stefano Harney – Professor of Education at Singapore Management University and a Co-Founder of the School for Study, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study)IAA
To get these planners out of this problem of essentialism, this choreographic fixity and
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endless war but also in the brutal processes and perpetual processing of peace.  

Kayse

Literacy performances, like the affirmatives poetry, serve as a powerful means of social change. Vote aff to support a medium that works for the marginalized.

Blackburn 2 (Mollie V., Journal of Adolescent 26 Adult Literacy, "Disrupting the (Hetero)normative: Exploring Literacy Performances and Identity Work with Queer Youth This Article Explores Literacy Performances as a Way for Students to Empower Themselves and Effect Social Change", Volume: 46, Issue: 4, questia)IAA
Literacy performances—not just as a near synonym for events or practices but distinctly
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a way into opportunities for social change for any marginalized reader and writer.

Policy is bad – reductionist methods means no solvency.

Moten and Harney 13 (Frank Moten – Professor of English at Duke University – and Stefano Harney – Professor of Education at Singapore Management University and a Co-Founder of the School for Study, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study)IAA
Policy is not the one against the many, the cynical against the romantic,
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policy can’t read it, but it’s intelligible if you got a plan.

Col K

Link Top Level

Argument k

Nayar D/T

Nayar criticizes the notion that violence is external to the self and something that we shouldn’t reform ourselves about—double turns their FW arguments
Nayar 99 – Jayan, school of law at the University of Warwick, 9
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all emancipations. This is, perhaps, the essential message of Mahatmas.

Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: 3 | Opponent: Gonzaga Gonzaga MO | Judge: Izak Dunn

2AC AT: Framework – Top Level/Flavor Core

Debate should be about who affirms the old flesh the best rather than embrace the logic of the new flesh – this becomes a question of how we consume techno-visual war and war itself in the community through the normalization of videodrome logic. Exchange of visuals within the community comes first: understanding how the virtualization of war is fetishized, commodified, and distributed with each other through the drone and the structuring of the topic shapes the way we relate to each other, technology, and the world and what practices we deem as acceptable or not. The entire case Is an impact turn to the way they deploy their interpretation and argumentation in debate that glorify the reduction of war to a pixel and the creation of the new flesh; their intellectual justifications are enough for them to lose, we have a few net benefits:

Media Wars DA

Dr. Oblivion says that the battle for the minds of North America in the 21^st century will be in the video arena where real life is reduced to the visual which is less than television. Their interpretation is Max Renn making appearances on television shows making prescriptions for future entertainment by marketing the videodrome through the illusion that the videodrome is fake. This means their framework could never solve the AFF because they recreate the media psychosis that leads to the metaphorical brain tumor that causes the blending to begin in the first place – that’s roth from the 1AC.

Patchwork/Prosthetics DA

Their interpretation is an attempt to patch us back into the new flesh – attempts to include USFG action is the same type of patchwork that the oracle engages in to tune television fiends back into the visual arena. This patchwork creates the visual world made flesh. this results in the blurring of lines between war and reality, dethatching us from real world implications through the process of technological dehumanization whereby we become nothing more than pixels on a screen, an assembly line of annihilation. That’s Pugliese and Hampton from the 1AC .

2AC AT: Framework – Education/Look At The Topic

We link turn their education claims – few reasons.

Their framework’s education is authoritarian insofar as it prevents critical thought on the social relations defining our understanding of democracy.  Our framework provides the best education because it affirms our autonomy, embracing democracy as practice.

Giroux 08 (a professor in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University ,Henry Giroux,: Rethinking the Promise of Critical Education Under an Obama Regime Tuesday 02 December 2008, Chronis Polychroniou, t r u t h o u t | Interview http://www.truthout.org/120208R)
What separates an authoritarian from an emancipatory notion of education is whether or not education
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and what knowledge and subjectivities are produced within particular sets of social relations.

Education is best when it critically challenges our conventional boundaries on legitimated knowledge and practices.

Giroux 08  (a professor in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University ,Henry Giroux,: Rethinking the Promise of Critical Education Under an Obama Regime Tuesday 02 December 2008, Chronis Polychroniou, t r u t h o u t | Interview http://www.truthout.org/120208R)
 In the most general sense, I understand education as a moral and political
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these forms. For what ends and to what purposes do they endure?

We cannot divorce debate education from the larger sociopolitical contexts that shape our world.
Giroux 08 (a professor in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University ,Henry Giroux,: Rethinking the Promise of Critical Education Under an Obama Regime Tuesday 02 December 2008, Chronis Polychroniou, t r u t h o u t | Interview )
Learning environments cannot be removed from the larger political, economic and social forces that
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- that something else is possible, but not that everything is possible."

2AC AT: Framework – Roleplaying Good

Roleplaying produces a spectator mentality, short-circuiting political action and crippling our ability to affirm personal engagement with social structures.

Mitchell 98 (Gordon R., Associate Professor of Communication and Director of the William Pitt Debating Union at the University of Pittsburgh. "Pedagogical possibilities for argumentative agency in academic debate". Argumentation and Advocacy, Volume 35, Issue 2. Fall 1998.  http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6699/is_2_35/ai_n28720712/)
As two prominent teachers of argumentation point out, "Many scholars and educators term
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in the drama of political life" (1991, p. 8) 

Roleplaying conceals the values laden in the political system and diffuses criticism.

Gehrke 98 ( Pat J., Associate Professor of Communication 26 Rhetoric at University of South Carolina, 1998,"CRITIQUE ARGUMENTS AS POLICY ANALYSIS: POLICY DEBATE BEYOND THE RATIONALIST PERSPECTIVE" CONTEMPORARY ARGUMENTATION AND DEBATE 19 p. 18-39)
Once debaters and critics recognize themselves as real citizen/policy makers rather than imagined
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to place the competing values in the debate in relation to one another.

2AC AT: Framework – Ground/Predictability/Fairness

They have plenty of ground: Political method disad’s, strong democracy and state disads, postmodernism bad turns, cap, psychoanalysis, cyberfem and gender, representations k’s and counter advocacies.

The ground the desire and find predictable is based on a certain starting point that glorifies the new flesh: that’s above.

The standards of fairness re-enforce status quo power and privilege

Delgado 92 (Delgado, Law Prof at U. of Colorado, 1992 ~Richard, "Shadowboxing: An Essay On Power," In Cornell Law Review, May~)
The debate on objective and subjective standards touches on these issues of world-making
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relationships more closely are paternalistic, and verge on (shhh21) socialism).

There are no presumed rules in discourse. Their attempt to impose predetermined definitions for predictability, ground, fairness, forcloses any political potential that eradicates those considered marginal in society.

Portis, Gundersen Shively 2k ( Political Theory and Partisan PoliticsEdward Bryan Portis, Adolf G. Gundersen, Ruth Lessl Shively
State University of New York Press (June 2000)
That is to say, purely technical concepts would be irrelevant unless the social scientist
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criteria by which some can be singled out as politically marginal or deviant.

Fairness and education produced are not value-neutral.  The procedural "bracketing out" of our politics safeguards conservative ideology.

Meszaros ’89 (Istvan, Chair of philosophy @ U. of Sussex, The Power of Ideology, p. 232-23)IAA
6.1.1 Nowhere is the myth of ideological neutrality – the self
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exercise their apologetic function in the guise of neutral methodology are doubly mystifying.

They’ve got the link wrong – the state uses virtual drone warfare to wage wars. Our delineation solves their impact.

Pugliese 11 (Joseph Pugliese Research Director of the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies Macquarie University  "Prosthetics of Law and the Anomic Violence of Drones."  20 Griffeth L. Rev. 931 2011)
In the course of this article, I have attempted to delineate the mutating terrain
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enormous scale of human damage that was inflicted by new technologies.""’¶ 

Your conception of politics is bankrupt and is always already on the wrong side, creating the impacts of the k —- we need a new conception of politics.

Degenhardt 13 (Teresa, Lecturer in Criminology. Law Degree, 1st class, "The Overlap between war and crime: unpacking Foucault and Agamben’s studies within the context of the war on terror," Queen’s University, Belfast, Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology Between war and crime Vol. 5(2), 2013)IAA
Notions of war and crime are used to define violence in the international sphere,
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the state of the international in the context of the war on terror.

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 2 | Opponent: Baylor BB | Judge: Lucas-Bolin, Alyssa

Indefinite Detention Borderlands

Contention 1: The Status Quo

First, the USFG’s alarming push for prison privatization has now extended over into immigration policy as a tool to be used for the continued criminalization and creation of immigrant detention centers.

Ackerman 26 Furman 13 (Alissa, Ph.D., Criminology 26 Deviance, The City University of New York (CUNY), Rich, Ph.D., Social Welfare, Yeshiva University. "The criminalization of immigration and the privatization of the immigration detention: implications for justice", Contemporary Justice Review, 16(2), 2013)IAA
Over the past several decades, the prison industrial complex has expanded to include undocumented
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the American border to the free ?ow of labor (Sassen, 2002).

And, this perpetuation of immigrant criminalization and detainment is protected by Federal Laws put in place by the USFG in order to justify the rapid expansion of incarceration/prolonged detention of immigrants and the maintainance of border logic.

Ackerman 26 Furman 13 (Alissa, Ph.D., Criminology 26 Deviance, The City University of New York (CUNY), Rich, Ph.D., Social Welfare, Yeshiva University. "The criminalization of immigration and the privatization of the immigration detention: implications for justice", Contemporary Justice Review, 16(2), 2013)IAA
Historically, the federal government has been viewed as responsible for the main- tenance
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immigration detention centers, which are proliferating to meet the increase in demand.

Contention 2: The Borderlands

First, immigrant detainment centers create borderlands through the reduction of detainees to policed bodies in service of maintaining borderlands.

Dudziak 26 Volpp 5 (Mary L. Dudziak is the Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law, History, and Political Science at the USC, and a visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School. Leti Volpp professor of law -UC Berkeley) American Quarterly (57.3 593-610)IAA
The shackled foot on the back cover of this volume, belonging to a woman
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, as it "binds us as a nation in a multiracial hierarchy." 

This is the very manifestation of legalized borderlands (created by American Border Policy) which make the worst forms of violence and oppression possible in the name of "American" ideals.

Dudziak 26 Volpp 5 (Mary L. Dudziak is the Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law, History, and Political Science at the USC, and a visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School. Leti Volpp professor of law -UC Berkeley) American Quarterly (57.3 593-610)IAA
Legal borderlands can be understood as physical zones where, as Andrew Hebard writes,
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America itself and its commitment to the rule of law and individual rights. 

We’ll control the impact on multiple levels—

First, In gross violation of democratic and human rights, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency routinely tortures and detains tens of thousands of immigrants indefinitely every year.

Williamson in 2013¶ (Niles, "US authorities detain immigrants in solitary confinement", World Socialist Web Site, https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/03/27/iced-m27.html, rcheek)
The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), in gross violation of
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utilized by the federal government to pressure immigrants into voluntarily signing deportation papers.

Second, people living within the borderland become unintelligible and disposable, effectively allowing any and all atrocity to be committed towards them.

Hames-Garcia, ’00 (Michael, Department Head and Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies Education, "How to Tell a Mestizo from an Enchirito: Colonialism and National Culture in the Borderlands," Diacritics, Volume: 30(4), p. 119. )IAA
In closing, I want to offer an answer to the question my title asks
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harm and is future-oriented, anticipating liberating possibilities in a nonindividualized manner

And, bounding nation-states through the enclosure of borders is the control of territory through violence. This production of the space of the state obfuscates always on-going non-state violence and legitimates wars and genocides in the name of state-making.

Neocleous 3 (Mark Neocleous is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Brunel University, "Off the Map: On Violence and Cartography", European Journal of Social Theory 2003 6: 409)
Thus in the modern state system the overlapping frontier is as anathema as the idea
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) state’s violence. Alternately, they are simply ’off the map’. 

This construction of civilization around state borders is a colonial artifact. It undergirds the justification for the government’s intervention into Mexico to stabilize, develop and extract resources from the barbaric other.

Slater, 4
Slater, Professor of Social and Political Geography at Loughborough University, in ’4 ~David, Geopolitics and the Post-colonial Rethinking North–South Relations~
The interweavings of geopolitical power, knowledge and subordinating¶ representations of the other have
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political processes it is possible to highlight a number of different¶ tendencies.

Therefore we affirm Mestiza Consciousness as a method of resistance to status quo indefinite detention policies.

The mestiza consciousness is the only way to solve – it breaks down current modes of thought and creates the conditions necessary for a value system of harmony while also making a move for collective consciousness.

Pérez 5 (Emma, Assoc. Prof. of history at the University of Texas, El Paso, NWSA Journal 17.2 (2005) 1-10)
Decades ago Gloria Anzaldúa comprehended what many of us spend our lives attempting to grasp
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, the crossbreeding of cultures occurs, for Gloria, in the borderlands. 

Our role of the ballot is that whoever best creates a new form of ethical-political praxis should win the debate – you should view your ballot through the framing of those who live within the borderlands and frame your decision as a critical interrogator of border politics.

Vaughn-Williams 9 (Nick, IR MA @ university of Warwick IR PhD @ Aberystwyth, "Border Politics: The Limits of Sovereign Power" pg 166-70)
This is no easy task because many of the theories, categories and (p
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what is enabled by, and who benefits from, diverse border politics.

The 1AC advocacy is a prior step – a conscious understanding of the USFG and the private industries relationship holistically is the only internal link to actually solving.

Ackerman 26 Furman 13 (Alissa, Ph.D., Criminology 26 Deviance, The City University of New York (CUNY), Rich, Ph.D., Social Welfare, Yeshiva University. "The criminalization of immigration and the privatization of the immigration detention: implications for justice", Contemporary Justice Review, 16(2), 2013)IAA
The relationship between the private prison industry and the government, at both the state
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generate revenue, the next domain to increase market shares is immigrant detention.

Their framework will inevitably reproduce the same types of atrocities inherent in the USFG’s indefinite detention policies, our analysis is key.

Hernandez 11 (Nicole M. Guidotti- Hernandez, Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, 2011, Unspeakable Violence, p. 4.)IAA
The materials I work with convey a sense of immediacy about dealings¶ with dissident
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violence as a response to that insurgency and function to silence that violence.

Tournament: Wake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Binghamton GE | Judge: Aaron Weathers

Segue 1: The Interface

Anzaldua 87 (former professor at SFSU, 87 Gloria Anzaldua, former Professor at San Francisco State University and leading scholar in Chicano cultural theory and Queer theory. (1987) Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza pg. 170)IAA

Poem

Status Quo indefinite detention policy has led to the criminalization of the immigrant. Protected by federal law, immigrant indefinite detentions centers are exponentially rising in number.

Ackerman and Furman 13 (Alissa, Ph.D., Criminology 26 Deviance, The City University of New York (CUNY), Rich, Ph.D., Social Welfare, Yeshiva University. "The criminalization of immigration and the privatization of the immigration detention: implications for justice", Contemporary Justice Review, 16(2), 2013)IAA
Historically, the federal government has been viewed as responsible for the main- tenance
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immigration detention centers, which are proliferating to meet the increase in demand.

Segue 2: To Live Within the Borderlands

Anzaldua 87 (former professor at SFSU, 87 Gloria Anzaldua, former Professor at San Francisco State University and leading scholar in Chicano cultural theory and Queer theory. (1987) Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza pg 194-95)IAA

Poem

The necessitation of immigrant detention centers and the existence of borders are not simply a tragic coincidence – the indefinite detention of the immigrant is essential In the creation and perpetuation of the borderlands.

Dudziak and Volpp 5 (Mary L. Dudziak is the Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law, History, and Political Science at the USC, and a visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School. Leti Volpp professor of law -UC Berkeley) American Quarterly (57.3 593-610)IAA
The shackled foot on the back cover of this volume, belonging to a woman
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, as it "binds us as a nation in a multiracial hierarchy." 

The border also creates a third country, filled with ten million human lives that are faceless, nameless, invisible, and taunted, this is the borderland, were its thought of nothing more than a war zone.

Anzaldua 87 (former professor at SFSU, 87 Gloria Anzaldua, former Professor at San Francisco State University and leading scholar in Chicano cultural theory and Queer theory. (1987) Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza) IAA
We have a tradition of migration, a tradition of long walks. Today we
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culture, a border culture, a third country, a closed country.

Specifically, In gross violation of democratic and human rights, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency routinely tortures and detains tens of thousands of immigrants indefinitely every year.

Williamson in 13 (Niles, "US authorities detain immigrants in solitary confinement", World Socialist Web Site, https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/03/27/iced-m27.html, rcheek)
The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), in gross violation of
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utilized by the federal government to pressure immigrants into voluntarily signing deportation papers.

Segue 3: They Told Me, They Told Us

De La Tierra No Date (Tatiana, Lesbian Latina Feminist. "They Told Me, They told Us")IAA

Poem

Foreign policy is entrenched in the fear of the Latina/o—the foreigner is constructed as the radical Other we must exclude at all costs, and this culminates in violence and discrimination.

Hayes 1 (Enid Trucio, Professor of Law at University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, 1 "Why ’Race Matters:’ LatCrit Theory and Latina/o Racial Identity," http://homepage.smc.edu/preciado_christina/Current/Sociology2031/Readings/Why20Race20Matters20LatCrit.pdf,)
A Latina/o indeterminate group racial identity facilitates the manipulation of the Latina/
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the White population of the United States could become a racial minority.177

Therefore we affirm a discussion of the immigrant’s memory as a method of resistance to status quo’s indefinite detention policies.

Discussion of immigrant memory and the wounds it leaves behind comes first – the past leaves us all riddled with wounds that help filter our being. Discussion and sharing of immigrant memory allows us to understand our existence and create meaning for ourselves through the exploration of the wound – making us agents of transformation.

Ortega 08 (Mariana, Professor of Philosophy at John Carroll University, "Wounds of Self: Experience, Word, Image, and Identity," The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol 22, Number 4)IAA
The wound in words may give us a clue here. The question is whether
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hope of communication and possibility of transformation—for both you and me.

The immigrants memory is one of deportation, detention, torture, violence and exclusion within the borderland. There can be no discussion of presidential war powers without first discussing memory – a failure to do so masks over these realities and perpetuates them.

Hernandez 11 (Nicole M. Guidotti- Hernandez, Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, 2011, Unspeakable Violence, p. 239.)IAA
The title of the chapter, "stripping the Body of Flesh and Memory,"
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they have played in intracultural, intranational, and transnational violence and genocide.

Tournament: Val RR | Round: 3 | Opponent: Wichita State MO | Judge: Dunn

1AC—Val RR

My mom was a disco queen DJ, in sparkly heels, stepping out of an old Corvette. She got down with the ladies around town in Ogden (or so I’m led to believe). She used to spin records. She met my father, who was spinning records somewhere, maybe at a place called Roosters on 25^th, in a neighborhood that was long ago yuppified into bland land. The last hooker bar is being turned into a church. Maybe the left-over vibes of high heels and hustling will inspire immoral and desperate touching in the confession booth, even though the church won’t be Catholic.

My dad was probably partaking in most of this, with a Cape Cod in his hand—alcohol fever forever flowing from the bar-heavens, a waterfall. Later he would throw equipment across the DJ booth, as everyone would tell him to calm down.

It was a time when the freedom of sex was worn like a crown. You could lean in for blow jobs and drugs without being told to keep it in the dark. Or so I’ve been told. It was a brief moment in time before the day my parents looked around them from the middle of a sad battle, wondering why all their friends were dying. And not just their friends, but a whole group of people who were hit the hardest: the freaks, the revolutionaries, the artists, the visionaries, a generation of radical queers who were supposed to be my elders.

I was born in a house in Ogden, in 1979. I was told that before my birth my dad and our midwife helped themselves to pre-birth drinks, vodka on the rocks. A great reason to celebrate. I can swear that at the time of my birth, the spirit of a fag who died too young jumped into my crying and resistant skin.

As I grew older, I looked for a generation ahead of me still immersed in everything queer and political, loud, and bitchy, witchy and trippy. I mean, I read David Wojnaroqickz and Cookie Mueller. I saw that cakes-da-killa documentary that recently came out. But only in my head can I have the conversations I want with this generation of lost voices. My mother’s midwife passed weeks after my baptism, a sacrificial introduction into the arms of a god that will never love me. There are VHS copies of my baptism—my mother’s midwife’s last name was Munoz I think. Somewhere in the VHS copy of my death as a heathen, Munoz said:

Muñoz 99 (José Estabon, Professor of Performance arts at NYU, Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics, p. 31, )IAA
By "limits" I mean something other than failures. Instead, I want
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subjectivity that do not conform or respond to narratives of universalization and normalization.

In Ogden, platform leather goth boots, stolen packs of cigarettes, and some obscure industrial band t-shirt wasn’t seen as proper P.E. attire.  Punishing my queerness, P.E. teachers made me run laps of misery in the hot Ogden sun while my dad ran away from his queer path and became a policy maker. You know, those paper mercenaries that sign away the death of millions of people half way across the world for a discount handjob at some obscure Washington harlot house courtesy of some big shot Republican oil tycoon. I’ve always thought oil wars were a bit of a dick measuring contest.

At times, in pining away for freakish camaraderie, I reached to my parents for some sort of knowledge. But my father, preaching the word of godfather Grossberg, reminds me that the only knowledge that is important is that which washes the feet of the state with the tears of the oppressed. My mother let the moths build dens in her gold lame. She put women’s lib and her queer fun in a photo book under heavy encyclopedias in dusty boxes next to a sad specter of her rebellious college years, a box full of radical feminist expandos, her answers to some college debate thing called framework, and t is genocide cards. She picked, with almost traditional values, a love for plan texts carved into my back with rusty needles, muscle men on motorbikes—and weed—over pursuing a perverse life, in an attempt to look at her history as something casual. What I admired in my father, in looking for answers—or at least scouting out my options OTHER than business, college, consumerism, straight-norm hell, hollow eyes, forced smiles, strip malls, bland boring and beige, conversations that never REALLY talk about ANYTHING—is that, well, for ones, he wasn’t going to sell him-self out for a nicer home, nicer clothes, or even nicer drugs. He was still a DJ, albeit in L.A. gaystream clubs, but he loved music and he loved making people dance. I remember him saying it didn’t matter, the money, or what people thought, as long as you were true to what you believe in. (I remember him saying this at a time when he hid his queerness from his girlfriend)—a queer revolutionary lost in the shuffle of suits and ties, board meetings, congressional bills, and politically impractical spending of capital.

Today my parents disown me over the phone. A cut-all-ties-conversation. They tell me why they are disconnected from my life. Averting success is throwing away good talent21 Why haven’t I finished college?21 Why don’t I go to grad school at Wichita State, why don’t I become a lawyer, or a politician? Not killing off the worlds disenfranchised isn’t chic.  I should learn how to move myself into the marketplace21 A life of politics still carries with it the queer decadence I crave, they tell me. You’d be surprised that the thickest crack rocks aren’t found in some dark alley in South Central Los Angeles, but in the boardrooms and front left drawers of every politician north of the Mexico border. My mother, crying the tears of a fallen feminist revolutionary tells me if only I’d go back to debate, if only I’d learn that framework debates aren’t as exclusionary as she thought they were in college, maybe I’d win the NDT. Maybe they’re right, maybe a dirt brown trans woman with lip piercings and a buzzcut could potentially walk into a law firm, or a government building with a government issued ID that doesn’t reflect the person handing it to them  and actually get a job. Maybe ENDA and the Human Rights Campaign haven’t always severed ties with the trans community in order to serve up an easy to consume gaystream culture for the subordinate masses. Or maybe It is sad that the reasons I have admired them are the same birds of prey they scorn in me.

So I am left with no choice but to keep pushing forward. Unable to sit down and catch the prime-time airing of your contemporary socio-political state of existence talk show because of the ever present normative drone in my shadow, waiting, savoring, watching for my guard to fall so it can swoop in and annihilate me.

Or how gaystream television protestors and internet activists can never welcome me into their movement without simultaneously introducing me into an armed hostility—the barriers between us are forever maintained by our acceptance of the roles others choose to define and unintelligibility is just as dangerous as blatant acts of outward aggression.

Like those who came before me, my time begins to count-down its final seconds and as an act of revolutionary liberation, I stand atop a bench on my own, always on the outside looking in, begin to perform my recital of Munoz’s words for an audience of no-one:

Muñoz 99 (José Estabon, Professor of Performance arts at NYU, Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics, p. 97)
Disidentification is a performative mode of tactical recognition that vari-ous minoritarian subjects employ
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did you acquire the name Vaginal Davis?" with a particularly elucidating ran.

Tournament: Mukai | Round: 6 | Opponent: CSUF XX | Judge: NA

2AC AT: Framework – Top Level

The role of the ballot for this debate is as follows: the ballot should go to whoever best turns the walls of debate sideways as bridges. You should frame your decision-making as a critic in search of drawing parallels between the past and the present.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: ASU MY | Judge: Travis Cram

New Flesh 1AC

In 1983, David Cronenberg directed the film "Videodrome," a chilling body horror film that painted a picture of a world where cyber-ality and real life become welded together into actuality:

Max Renn, CEO of Civic TV – a television station specializing in peddling TV Sensationalism, being informed by his assistant, discovers a pirate television station broadcasting a show titled "Videodrome". Establishing its niche within the confines of gratuitous violence, Videodrome was composed of scenes detailing an anonymous individual subjecting individuals to extreme acts of sadist torture and ultimately murder.

Renn’s belief that the future of television entertainment lies in the fetishization and commodification of violence through the video arena in readily available video images prompts him to begin pirating the show and broadcasting it on his own television station – as a result, he begins touring daytime talk shows, defending his vision of what at the time he believed to be a staged show being broadcast out of a remote region in Malaysia.

Obsessed with the visuals birthed from the Videodrome, Renn finds himself rapidly transformed into a devout drone, a deep obsession and need for videodrome pulsing through his entire body. Before long, this obsession brings Renn to the realization that Videodrome is both real, and is actually being broadcast from within his own country in his own environment.

As time goes on and his dependence on the consumption of vivid visuals of violent torture and murder becomes exponentially severe,  leading to an encounter with Professor Oblivion. Renn’s encounter with Oblivion happens through a television set, a direct communication through the virtual world and the actual world. Professor Oblivion tells Renn:

"The battle for the mind of North America will be fought in the Video arena: the Videodrome. The television screen is the retina of the minds eye, therefore the television is part of the physical structure of the brain, therefore whatever appears on the television screen emerges as a raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore, television is reality and reality is less than television. "

Before long, his reality and videodrome become meshed together, hallucinations begin taking over his everyday life.

Renn soon finds himself becoming fused with the technology. His torso becomes an organic VCR. His face melts into a television screen – in a world where individuals have to be patched back into reality through mediated opiate-esque doses of television, the video world is made flesh.

This is the status-quo war powers authority – targeted killings and the use of predator drones have created a virtual-actualized logic of war and violence. War is reduced to a video simulation.

Holmqvist, 2013. (Caroline, Holmqvist. Centre for International Studies, London School of Economics, UK Swedish National Defense College, Sweden. Undoing War: War Ontologies and the Materiality of Drone Warfare. May 1, 2013. http://mil.sagepub.com/content/early  /2013/04/30/0305829813483350. P. 5-6) IAA
An intuitive response to news about the increased reliance on technologies that allow for ’
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on the drone operator – they produce the same ’reality-effect’.

This reduction of war to virtualization is highlighted in videodrome. We become lost in a world of static in the lingering Reagan construction of terror and violence. Every facet of life is infiltrated by the videodrome, in a dehumanizing back and forth, complete and total annihilation becomes a click of a remote away.
Hampton 93 (Howard, Critical Film Theorist, Author, Film Critic. "When In Videodrome: Travels In the New Flesh," Artforum International Magazine, Inc. Issn: 1086-7058, February 1st, 1993)IAA
As Ronald Reagan’s project of managed alienation found its hidden voice and set about infiltrating
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like Sade when his nihilism was available to anyone with a remote control.

Drones are prosthetic technologies that have become interwoven into every facet of our every day lives. Just like the gun that is melts and  morphs itself into Renn’s hand, becoming part of his flesh, drone warfare has become an extension of ourselves. This is the new flesh.

Pugliese 11 (Joseph Pugliese Research Director of the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies Macquarie University  "Prosthetics of Law and the Anomic Violence of Drones."  20 Griffeth L. Rev. 931 2011)IAA
This seemingly indivisible prosthetic relation between drones and their human operators evidences, in effect
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personified so that it ’is seen to have a will of its own’."

Thus Irvin and I affirm the old flesh as a rejection of targeted killings through the use of drone technology in the status quo.

While the new flesh is the blending of war and every day life and a creation of a new violent reality, the old flesh is the repudiation of the two and functions as a return to a world where perpetual war is no longer inevitable.  A fabric of reality where its threads are not marred by the logic of war.

We believe the ballot should go to the person who best affirms the old flesh. Our methodology rejects modernist understandings of reality. Our application of videodrome is the only KEY INTERNAL LINK to solving the impacts of the aff.

Roth 97 (Marty, "Videodrome and the revenge of representation," Cineaction ISSN:0826-9866, Published January 1, 1997)IAA
The "videodrome" of my title has several referents: It is a special
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conventions and a sense of spiritual regeneration" (Sharrett 1986:¶ 112).