Tournament: seriously | Round: 3 | Opponent: what | Judge: no
The affirmative is interpassivity – not an attempt to break down the capitalist system but to challenge it while maintaining it. Reform and resistance is tolerated and co-opted by capitalism, leaving us disempowered.
Zizek 02 (Slavoj, professor of philosophy at the Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana, Revolution at the Gates, pg 167-172)
The problem lies in the further...of the global market.

Poverty in society is intimately linked with capitalism through its ‘reserve army of labor,’ which is the world’s poor. Having a market of under-employed individuals is a necessity to the capitalists profit accumulation.
Magdoff 2005 (Harry  held several administrative positions in government during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt and later became co-editor of the Monthly Review. http://www.monthlyreview.org/0705magdoffs1.htm Approaching Socialism The Monthly Review Volume 57 Number 3)
There is a logical ... echelons of workers. 

OUR ALTERNATIVE IS TO WITHDRAWL FROM CAPITALIST RELATIONS- DON’T VOTE AFF - VOTE NEG TO REJECT CAPITALISM- EVERY REJECTION IS KEY- IT HOLLOWS OUT THE STRUCTURE OF CAPITALISM.
HEROD, 04 (James, Getting Free, Jan., http://site.www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/Strate/GetFre/index.htm )
It is time to try to describe ... not to live another way. 

And, We have an ethical obligation to reject the violence of global capitalism- pure body count utilitarian decisions are based on economic rationale that cannot account for the degraded life chances of billions of people all over the world.
Daly and Zizek 2k4 Conversations with Zizek pg 14-16
For Zizek it is imperative ... otherwise sound matrix.

Tournament: whatever | Round: 4 | Opponent: no | Judge: no
UNDERSTANDING INSTABILITY AS ONLY SOLVED BY STABLE STATE FRAMEWORK IS BASED ON MASCULINE ASSUMPTIONS THAT OBSCURE INTERRELATIONSHIPS OF VIOLENCE IN ALL LEVELS OF SOCIETY
Tickner 92 Ann, Professor @ the School of International Relations USC, B.A. in History, U London, M.A. in IR, Yale, PhD in pol science, “GENDER IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS—FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON ACHIEVING GLOBAL SECURITY”
Realist models of international ... into thinking about the international system. 

International relations are deeply gendered—the aff’s discourse of security is based on a flawed epistemological understanding of the world that makes their methodology suspect
Tickner, 1 IR prof, —professor at the School of International Relations, USC. B.A. in History, U London. M.A. in IR, Yale. PhD in pol sci, Brandeis U (Ann, Gendering World Politics: Issues and Approaches in the Post-Cold War Era, 44-47 , KD)
New issues and new definitions ... —are beginning to undertake such reanalyses.

You cannot understand war without first engaging the question of gender – masculine domination is deeply embedded in militarism and structural violence, making war inevitable
Sjoberg ’11 Laura, assistant professor of political science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Gender, the State, and War Redux : Feminist International Relations across the 'Levels of Analysis', International Relations 2011 25: 108, SAGE
Feminists have argued that ... makes gender inequality

Reject the affirmative’s gendered lens—rethinking gender may seem irrelevant to the affirmative, but its critical to disrupt the foundations of traditional knowledge
Peterson 4 pol sci prof, —associate professor in the Department of Political Science with courtesy appointments in Women’s Studies, Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies, and International Studies at the University of Arizona (V Spike, Feminist Theories Within, Invisible To, and Beyond IR, Winter/Spring 2004, http://www.watsoninstitute.org/bjwa/archive/10.2/Feminist20Theory/Peterson.pdf, KD)
Moreover, the theory ... remain invisible within IR.

Ignorance of gender makes their methodology and arguments suspect—only by investigating the lenses we use to create reality can we develop a basis for action and avoid error replication.
Peterson and Runyan 1999 (V. Spike, professor of political science at the University of Arizona and Anne, professor of women’s studies at Wright State University, 1999, Global Gender Issues, 2nd edition, p. 1-3)
Whenever we study a topic ...  are inadequate, and potentially disastrous, guides.

Tournament: Binghamton | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Cornell PW | Judge: look at tabroom
The 1ac attention to the processes of dehumanization do not challenge, but instead, reinforce the binary between the human and non-human.
Deckha 2010
Maneesha, Assc professor of law at the U of Victoria. “The Subhuman as a Cultural Agent of Violence” Journal for Critical Animal Studies 8.3 http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/JCAS-Special-Issue-Women-of-Color-November-FINAL-20101.doc
One of the organizing narratives ... ) the laws of war.

Humanity is a performative product constantly produced and refashioned by the anthropological machine. The animal remnant of the process becomes a space of limitless violence.
Wolf-Meyer 2004
Matthew, Asst Prof of Anthropology at the UC, Santa Cruz “The Open: Man and Animal.” http://reconstruction.eserver.org/BReviews/revTheOpen.htm
With no mention of his prior ... and the simplicity of "letting be."

Anthropocentrism is the original and foundational hierarchy that structures all other forms of oppression and violence.
Best 2007
Steven, Asst Phil Prof at UT El Paso “Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust, by Charles Patterson (2002)” Journal for Critical Animal Studies, 5.2 http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/Issue_7/bestpatterson.pdf
While a welcome advance over ... gas chamber and the incinerator.

The alternative is an identification with species-being—disrupting the ethical exceptionalism of humanism.
Hudson 2008
Laura, Grad student in Cultural Studies at UC-Davis “The Political Animal: Species-Being and Bare Life” Mediations Spring 23.2: http://www.mediationsjournal.org/articles/the-political-animal
In his discussion of religion ... future of politics and society?