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Sovereignty Insulates Itself By Pointing To A Constant Economic Collapse

Agamben 2K, philosopher and professor of aesthetics at University of Verona Italy, Means Without End: Notes on Politics, 2000, pg. 133

Nothing is more nauseating than the … in such a massive production of human misery.

Their Impact Scenarios Allow For The Extension Of Sovereign Power And Instituting The State Of Exception

Thacker 2005- Associate Professor of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Institute of Technology(Eugene “Nomos, Nosos and Bios” http:~/~/www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/article/view/25/32url:http://www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/article/view/25/32

There must be some set of principles for allowing, …, is always what is fundamentally at stake in the body politic.

ALTERNATIVE SOLVENCY: “Whatever Being” Creates An Environment Of “A-Sovereign” In Which The Sovereign Cannot Create Its Binary Of Inclusion/ Exclusion And Thus Dissolves

Caldwell 04 – Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Louisville

(Anne, “Bio-Sovereignty and the Emergence of Humanity,” Theory and Event, Volume 7, Issue 2, Project Muse)

Indifferent to any distinction between a ground and .. of whatever life, appears.

NO PERM- Transcending the state of exception through better laws and policies is impossible—only a fundamental reconsideration of politics can solve.
Prozorov, 9 – Professor of Political Science at the University of Helenski

(Sergie, “The Appropriation of Abandonment: Girgio Agamben on the State of Nature and the Political”, February 15^th, International Studies Association, http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p313215_index.html)

Agamben’s understanding of the state of nature .. already immanent to it (Agamben 2005a, 87).

Sovereignty Is Not Inevitable, Individual Resistance Is The Starting Point For Emancipatory Poltiics

Hardt and Dumm, 2K – Professor in the Literature Program and Romance Studies Department at Duke University, Professor at Amherst College

(Michael and Thomas, "Sovereignty, Multitudes, Absolute Democracy: A Discussion between Michael Hardt and Thomas Dumm about Hardt and Negri's Empire,” Harvard University Press, 2000, Theory and Event, Volume 4, Issue 3, Project Muse)

TD: How are people to be convinced that the relevant …. sovereignty as a way to name the generality of all these activities.

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Their “Experts” On The Environment Uphold This Form Of Scapegoating Through Their Creation Of Self-Reflecting Narratives, Giving The People What They Want To Hear And Allowing Us To Shift The Blame

Bobertz 95 (Bradley Assistant Professor of Law, University of Nebraska College of Law. A.B. 1983, Grinnell College; J.D. 1988, SUNY Buffalo Law School “Legitimizing Pollution Through Pollution Control Laws: Reflections on Scapegoating Theory” 1995 Texas Law Review)

The idea that the media simply reports news . ..reports of groundwater contamination, largely out