Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Emporia BW | Judge: Clay Crockett

Moral discourse is a link – it reaffirms power over the Earth and people! It forces a technological mindset because we try to calculate morals and ethics and everything, in the process, becomes a standing reserve.

McWhorter '92 [Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northeast Missouri State University (Ladelle, Heidegger and the Earth, ed. by Ladelle McWhorter)JRC]
The first essay, "Guilt as Management Technology: A Call to Heideggerian Reflection
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a change of heart but is rather a perpetuation of human domination.'

The affirmative relies on metaphysical Western thought – having as its goal the pacification and colonization of all Beings, standing above the world, attempting to reduce everything into objects, like pieces on a game board, rendering them an exploitable standing reserve.

Spanos 2000 [William, Prof of English, America’s Shadow: An Anatomy of Empire, p. 9-11]
Metaphysics, therefore, in its post-Greek, that is, Roman,
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hegemonic) discourse of the dominant, that is, Western, order.

Specific issue criticisms of higher education fail to recognize the interlocking nature of the underlying ontological problem.  Only by embracing a Heideggerian pedagogy of ontological education are we capable of directly challenging the technological understanding of being responsible for the current crisis in education.

Thomson 2001 (Ian, Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico.  Heidegger on Ontological Education, or; How We Become What We Are.  Inquiry, 44, 243–68, March 2001)
Heidegger presciently diagnosed the current crisis in higher education. Contemporary theorists like Bill Readings
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teaching to research and, ultimately, reunify and revitalize the university itself.

A world subsumed by calculative technological thought destroys our ontological relationship with Being. Our instant access to everything as a tool for use obliterates the essential being of all things making even total planetary destruction a radically less important issue and a likely inevitability.
gender paraphrased

Caputo 93 (john, Demythologizing Heidegger, p. 136-41)
The essence of technology is nothing technological; the essence of language is nothing linguistic
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to a more inward, profound, essential, authentic, ontological destruction.

Our alternative is to embrace gelassenheit.

The first step is “Releasement towards things” – this will allow us to become aware that technology is useful, but shackles us. Awareness can break the shackles, denying technology the right to dominate our existence.

The second step is “openness to the mystery.”  This is a “higher action” that means we do not demand answers – we wait. This is how we transform our thinking from calculative to meditative. We have to wait to allow Being to reveal itself to us.

Dalle pezze 2006 (Barbara, PhD in Philosophy U of Hong Kong, “Heidegger on Gelassenheit”, Minerva 10:94-122)
When we think meditatively we do not project an idea, planning a goal towards
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What we need to do is ‘just’ wait, wait without expecting.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Emporia BW | Judge: Clay Crockett

Their focus on signifiers and localized resistance is rooted in a fear of power-it disables all political stances and allows the hegemonic forces of elites to expand unchecked.  Resistance will fail until it is focused on a positive exercise of power

Bertens in 95
 (Johannes and Willem, the idea of postmodernism: a history, pg 197-199)
Postmodernism, however, repeats the defeatist gestures of modernism, although admittedly on another
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that has kept feminists on their guard vis a vis most postmodern theory. 

The aff’s project of preserving Native culture merely preserves capitalism – “difference” as such is already subordinated to capital’s global homogeneity, turning case.

Slavoj Zizek, Senior Researcher, Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, 1997, “Multiculturalism, or, the Cultural Logic of Multinational Capitalism.
And, mutatis mutandis, the same goes for today’s capitalist who still clings to
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people, despised for being caught in their narrow ethnic or community confines.

Our capitalist, excessive consumption trends aren’t sustainable – they are going to end everything on earth.

Trainer, 07 (Ted Trainer, Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Work at the University of New South Wales. “Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society” p. 128-29)
It is of the utmost importance to recognize that whether or not renewable energy can
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the basic cause of the many alarming sustainability problems now threatening our survival.   

Capitalism’s preoccupation with endless accumulation will result in total ecological destruction and extinction

Foster 11,[John Bellamy ] Dec. 2011, Capitalism and the Accumulation of Catastrophe, Monthly Review, Vol. 63 Issue 07, http://monthlyreview.org/2011/12/01/capitalism-and-the-accumulation-of-catastrophe (Aug 2012)
Yet, the continued pursuit of Keynes’s convenient lie over the last eight decades has
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and sustainable human development; a socialism for the twenty-first century.

Our alternative is to reject the affirmative. Vote neg—It’s try or die for the revolution. The capitalism is unsustainable and reforms only ensure the crash is worse—this makes total rejection key

Magdoff and Foster, 2010
(Fred and John Belamy, professor of sociology at the University of Oregon, “What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism”, Monthly Review, Volume 61, Issue 10) NG
The foregoing analysis, if correct, points to the fact that the ecological crisis
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of and by, and not just ostensibly for, the people.57

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 3 | Opponent: KCKCC JM | Judge: Heather Woods

Appeals to guilt and lifestyle changes or morality are the link – they seek to accomplish the perfect life and are the ultimate form of managerial control

McWhorter '92 [Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northeast Missouri State University (Ladelle, Heidegger and the Earth, ed. by Ladelle McWhorter)JRC]
Some men feel guilty about sexism; many white people feel guilty about racism
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event of thinking, even if what is shattered eventually is ourselves.

Thinking as representation, as is that of calculative thought, belongs to the realm of willing where all is subordinated in the name of the subject

Pezze 2006 (Barbara Dalle , PhD in Philosophy by the University of Hong.  Heidegger on Gelassenheit, ISSN 1393-614X, Minerva - An Internet Journal of Philosophy 10 (2006): 94-122 )
As Heidegger states, the traditional concept of thinking intends thinking
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a question about the essence of thinking as a “non-willing” [Nicht-Wollen]:

Guilt paralyzes reform – reinstating racism and sexism, it protects the guilty and reinstates managerial control

McWhorter 92
[Ladelle: Professor in Philosophy, Environmental Studies, Women, Gender, and Sexualities Studies - University of Richmond. PhD Philosophy – Vanderbilt, Heidegger scholar extraordinaire “Guilt as Management Technology: A Call to Heideggerian Reflection” Heidegger and the Earth: Essays in Environmental Philosophy 1992 p. 7-8]f
Those configurations of force s will resist this thinking.
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politically correct position or some privileged ethical stance.  

A world subsumed by calculative technological thought destroys our ontological relationship with Being. Our instant access to everything as a tool for use obliterates the essential being of all things making even total planetary destruction a radically less important issue and a likely inevitability. gender paraphrased

Caputo 93 (john, Demythologizing Heidegger, p. 136-41)
The essence of technology is nothing technological; the essence of language
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to a more inward, profound, essential, authentic, ontological destruction.

Our alternative is to embrace gelassenheit. The first step is “Releasement towards things” – this will allow us to become aware that technology is useful, but shackles us. Awareness can break the shackles, denying technology the right to dominate our existence. The second step is “openness to the mystery.”  This is a “higher action” that means we do not demand answers – we wait. This is how we transform our thinking from calculative to meditative. We have to wait to allow Being to reveal itself to us.

Dalle pezze 2006 (Barbara, PhD in Philosophy U of Hong Kong, “Heidegger on Gelassenheit”, Minerva 10:94-122)
When we think meditatively we do not project an idea, planning a goal
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we need to do is ‘just’ wait, wait without expecting.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 3 | Opponent: KCKCC JM | Judge: Heather Woods

Welcome to the theater of intellectual warfare. Current modes of critical inquiry focus themselves towards isolating a symptom of the overarching system of domination and control. War Talk, like ethics talk, like critical talk is caught in archaic means of fighting, which technocrats have moved away from.

Paul Mann, January 1996. ""The Nine Grounds of Intellectual Warfare" Postmodern Culture 6.2. Found online at pmc.iath.virginia.edu/text-only/issue.196/mann.196
Perhaps this imminent frenzy of production will open another front
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for our facile analogies between video games and smart bombs. 

The affirmatives obsession with the statement and defense of a static position reflects an outmoded form of war fighting that certifies its own failure.  For resistance to become effective it must break with the logic of the position and embrace other tactics.

Paul Mann, January 1996. ""The Nine Grounds of Intellectual Warfare" Postmodern Culture 6.2. Found online at pmc.iath.virginia.edu/text-only/issue.196/mann.196
Nothing is more important to the intellectual than a position.
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other positions, other cities of words, are doubtless already under way. 

this attachment to a position makes the affirmative a slave to ideology.  this role does not come from an external or superficial infatuation but from a need to obey rooted in the human psyche.  this process is the result of a cycle that culminates in and results from the fear of death.

Paul Mann, January 1996. ""The Nine Grounds of Intellectual Warfare" Postmodern Culture 6.2. Found online at pmc.iath.virginia.edu/text-only/issue.196/mann.196
The quasi-conflictual structure of the colloquium; the nationalization
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ever mattered, can we say that the dialectic ever occurred at all? 

Our criticism details a mode of resistance that abandons the archaic attachment to entrenched positions and instead embraces the tactics of stealth and secrecy.  We in effect become a nomadic war machine that is capable of affirming a concept without becoming attached to it.

Paul Mann, January 1996. ""The Nine Grounds of Intellectual Warfare" Postmodern Culture 6.2. Found online at pmc.iath.virginia.edu/text-only/issue.196/mann.196
The standpoint, identification with and defense of one's own
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nomadism as a response to this challenge. (TP 363, 380-81)

Tournament: Wake | Round: 2 | Opponent:  | Judge:
Nuclear technology is the archetype and culmination of western metaphysical tradition and enframing of life worlds
Dr. William J. Kinsella 2007 (Heidegger and Being at the Hanford Reservation: Standing Reserve, Enframing, and Environmental Communication Theory; Environmental Communication Vol. 1, No. 2, November 2007, pp.194-217 Dr. William J. Kinsella is an associate professor at North Carolina State University. His work on nuclear energy communication has encompassed the areas of nuclear fusion, environmental cleanup across the US nuclear weapons complex, and commercial nuclear energy in US and global contexts.)
A world To further illustrate the
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As Luhmann (1989) observes, ‘‘system rationality’’ replaces ‘‘world rationality.’’

The affirmative paints the world with destruction, catastrophe, inevitable doom, water is going to cause wars and we’re all gonna die! This logic is one that is purely technological and forecloses all possibilities of other types of thought.
Shrader-Frechette '97 O’Neill Family Professor at Department of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame; Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Windsor. Technology and Values, Rowman and Littlefield Publishing.
As his thinking develops, however,
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calculative thinking may someday come to be accepted and practiced as the only way of thinking.”

Attempts to reduce global warming are futile – The quick fix action of the aff – SMRs can solve ALL the problems - is rooted in the technological mindset which initially produced the problem.
Hill '07 Glenn,“DESIGN WITHOUT CAUSALITY: HEIDEGGER’S IMPOSSIBLE CHALLENGE FOR ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE”, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/handle/2100/474
At this point, the implications for ecological sustainability
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believe we can understand, but have the hubris to believe that we can control.

A world subsumed by calculative technological thought destroys our ontological relationship with Being. Our instant access to everything as a tool for use obliterates the essential being of all things making even total planetary destruction a radically less important issue and a likely inevitability.
gender paraphrased
Caputo 93 (john, Demythologizing Heidegger, p. 136-41)
The essence of technology is nothing technological;
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would be but a follow-up, another afterthought, a less subtle counterpart to a more inward, profound, essential, authentic, ontological destruction.

Our alternative is to embrace gelassenheit. “Releasement towards things” and “openness to the mystery” is a higher action that means we do not demand answers – we wait.  We must will to not will – this is a reorientation of our comportment toward the world.
Dalle pezze 2006 (Barbara, PhD in Philosophy U of Hong Kong, “Heidegger on Gelassenheit”, Minerva 10:94-122)
When we think meditatively we do
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something opens. What we need to do is ‘just’ wait, wait without expecting.

Tournament: Wake | Round: 2 | Opponent:  | Judge:
Trying to stop pollution is a construct that does violence to queer bodies by constructing a world where all things must be pure and “normal”
Polk PhD Cantidate in Philosophy @ Villanova University 2003  (Danne, “Ecologically Queer: Preliminaries For A Queer Ecofeminist Identity Theory” , The Journal of Women and Religion  Volume 19/20  2003, pages 72-89 DS)
In The Social Creation of Nature, Neil Evernden analyzes the concept of pollution. In his text, he cites Mary Douglas Purity and Danger, in which she claims that the concept of
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legitimate subjects, but as superfluous and disposable objects, disposable bodies.

B. Compulsory Heterosexuality is the logic of discrimination which materializes into violence against everyone who is incompatible with their world view. Everyone is at risk.
Gómez, Political theorist on Hate Crimes, 2005 (María Mercedes, On Prejudice, Violence, and Democracy, la-buena-vida.info, ongoing project from 2005 until 2008, pp. 2-3)
The logic of
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gay, lesbian, and transgender.

Fuck the 1AC. Queers must resist all manifestations of social order by actively expressing that which is queer.
Edelman 04 Lee: Professor of English at Tufts University, PhD from Yale, queer theory scholar, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, 2004 Duke University Press, page 28-29
Bernard Law, the former cardinal of Boston, mistaking (or maybe
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that serves as its prop. 

Tournament: Wake  | Round: 2 | Opponent:  | Judge:
The threat of nuclear war is only a pretext designed for a system of control that blackmails us into submission
Baudrillard 1994 Jean, Prof of Sociology, Simulacra and Simulation, p. 32-3
The apotheosis of simulation: the nuclear. However, the balance of
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logic because it risks annihilation. 

The threat of apocalypse legitimates any use of force not short of annihilation.
Coviello 2k Coviello, PhD in English from Cornell, Queer Frontiers, 2000 p 40-41
Perhaps. But to claim that American culture is at present decisively postnuclear
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a civic initiative that can scarcely be done without 

You should be skeptical of their ev -- SMR designs are untested on a commercial scale -- tons of technical details could hinder effectiveness.
Szondy, ’12 David, freelance writer -- Gizmag, 2-16, “Feature: Small modular nuclear reactors - the future of energy?” http://www.gizmag.com/small-modular-nuclear-reactors/20860/
As impressive as many of
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coverage or security standards need to be altered? What about regulations regarding earthquakes?

Decades to operational readiness.
ITA, 11  International Trade Administration -- U.S. Department of Commerce, February, “The Commercial Outlook for U.S. Small Modular Nuclear Reactors,” http://trade.gov/mas/ian/build/groups/public/@tg_ian/@nuclear/documents/webcontent/tg_ian_003185.pdf
Although SMRs have significant
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completed an NRC preapplication review for its PRISM reactor in 1994, plans to submit its PRISM design for certification in 2012.

Seeing war as a single event masks over the continued legacy of state-sponsored violence going on everyday - this ethic prevents mobilization against structural forms of violence that make the outbreak of war inevitable.
Cuomo 96 (Christine, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati, “War Is Not Just an Event: Reflections on the Significance of Everyday Violence”, Hypatia, Vol. 11, Iss. 4, Fall, Proquest)
Theory that does not investigate
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and other state-funded militaristic campaigns.

‘Extinction’ can only be conceptualized when the world is understood as a totality. This representational focus on extinction ignores the violence carried out against Indigenous Peoples and is indicative of the techno-strategic implementation of the plan.  
Kato 1993
Masahide (Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii)  “Nuclear Globalism: Traversing Rockets, Satellites, and Nuclear War via the Strategic Gaze “ Alternatives i8 1993 339-360
Nuclear criticism finds the likelihood of "extinction"
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a meaning-generating machine. 

Apocalyptic framing of climate change eliminates political response in favor technological management. Their framing prevents changes in distribution and consumption required to cope with climate change.
Erik Swyngedouw Geography @ Manchester ’10 “Apocalypse Forever?: Post-political populism and the spectre of climate change” Theory, Culture, and Society 27 (2-3) p. 216-219
The Desire for the Apocalypse and the Fetishization of CO2 It is easier to
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‘the partition of the sensible’ in Rancière’s (1998) words, so that nothing really has to change. 

_Even if making people afraid of environmental collapse is good in the abstract, we still win
It’s not credible—people won’t believe of trust your depictions of ecological disaster
Landy and Rubin in 2001 (Marc and Charles, , George Marshall Institute “Civil Environmentalism” December, www.marshall.org/pdf/materials/87.pdf
For decades now, global environmental
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sustainable in the long term precisely because communities “own” them.

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Modernity is the foundation upon which the ontological relationship of master/ slave is set in place. It is one thing to notice that the experience of the slave isn’t unique to the black body or black flesh, but this misunderstands slavery as an ontological category that informs western thought.

Frank B. Wilderson III, 2010, He graduated from Dartmouth College, Columbia University with an MFA, and University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Film Studies. He teaches African American studies and drama at the University of California, Irvine Red, White and Black; Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonism. P14-15

It would be reassuring to 
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 (or, more correctly, banishment from) ontology.

Struggles to end suffering ignore the original marker of human value in modernity. The ontological category of the slave is ignored and gratuitous violence enacted. ‘the slave has no place in this world.’

Frank B. Wilderson III, 2010, He graduated from Dartmouth College, Columbia University with an MFA, and University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Film Studies. He teaches African American studies and drama at the University of California, Irvine Red, White and Black; Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonism. P19-21

It is highly conceivable that the discourse
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 social death of Blacks.

There is no place for the Slave in the state apparatus. Anti-blackness permeates every sphere of policy and public debates. The affirmative’s call for Supreme Court action only compounds the problem of anti-blackness by erasing its existence. An explanation of how the Slave is of this world is a prerequisite (Hint: That’s the Alt).

Wilderson, award-winning author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid. He is one of two Americans to hold elected office in the African National Congress and is a former insurgent in the ANC’s armed wing, 2010  (Frank B. III “Introduction: Unspeakable Ethics” Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, Pg 15-16)

Regarding the Black position, some
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 when, and where did such a split occur? The woman at the gates of Columbia University awaits an answer.

Psychoanalysis offers no cure for the emancipation of the Black body –the human community relies on borders between inside and outside, without Blacks, there would be no outside, thus, the category would fall apart – the human race’s struggles are conflictual and can only be resolved because they are of this world but the problems of the Black are antagonisms which can only be solved through the obliteration of one or both parties.
Howard and Wilderson 10

Percy Howard and Frank Wilderson “Frank B. Wilderson, “Wallowing in the contradictions”, Part 1” Interview, July 9, 2010 http://percy3.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/frank-b-wilderson-%E2%80%9Cwallowing-in-the-contradictions%E2%80%9D-part-1/
 PH As a Psychotherapist, I was very interested to see
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(as I have done in my book, and as Fanon does), but it won’t lead us to a cure.

The black body has no ontological resistance. Structured by the machinations of society, those in the non-human positionality are relegated to the outside of the periphery – that means there’s no room on the couch for the positionality of blackness… the black body is on the floor scrubbing the floor.

Wilderson, award-winning author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid. He is one of two Americans to hold elected office in the African National Congress and is a former insurgent in the ANC’s armed wing, 2010  (Frank B. III “Chapter One: The Ruse of Analogy” Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms,)

Two tensions are at work here.
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 precisely, in the eyes of Humanity

The judges should vote negative to deny their capacity to act as subjects.

While the actual completion of the act is structurally impossible, the contemplation of questions it presents are the only way to situate debate on true questions of ethics. Rejection of this call manifests the fundamental disavow of black suffering that affirms the capacity and ethicalility of the neg team while black suffering that makes that capacity intelligible in the first place. This mediation is precursor to all legal interrogations, for only here can the epistemological blindness of white academia be confronted with the fundamental ethic truth that turns assumptive logic of all their scholarship on its head; for it is Incapacity, not Agency, that is the only ethic stance. In a world of SLAVES it is UNETHICAL TO BE FREE. It is only in moments of Incapacity, can ethics and thus all subsequent legal questions become coherent

Frank B. Wilderson III, 2010, He graduated from Dartmouth College, Columbia University with an MFA, and University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Film Studies. He teaches African American studies and drama at the University of California, Irvine Red, White and Black; Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonism. P44-45

Due to the presence of prior existing relations
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Without the Negro, capacity itself is incoherent, uncertain at best.

Wilderson Concludes p49

Again, if accumulation and fungibility 
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 by an a priori violence of genocide.

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The affirmative’s understanding of desire and lacanian psychoanalysis demands an end point to desire – this creates a teleology that allows violence against excluded bodies.
Shannon Winnubst 2007 Professor of Philosophy at Southwestern University  Bataille’s Queer Pleasures: The Universe as Spider or Spit Found in Reading Bataille Now P 79-80

An attempt to problematize the political and
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deeply in the bastion of identity. But the thought that we might never know what we want?  That is unthinkable 

Psychoanalysis wrongly assumes that the observer can objectively analyze a subject creating hidden forms of psychic domination and taint alternative solvency
Celia Brickman (is a clinical, faculty and research member of the Center for Religion and Psychotherapy of Chicago) 2003 “Aboriginal Populations in the Mind: Race and Primitivity in Psychoanalysis” p. 192-193.
The authority of early anthropologists and psychoanalysts
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as the raw material, rather than part of the final product, of the investigation. 

Psychoanalysis is impossible and can’t translate into actual social change – if anything it glorifies mass murder and conflict
Andrew Robinson and Simon Tormey (University of Nottingham) 2003 “Zizek is not a Radical” http://homepage.ntlworld.com/simon.tormey/articles/Zizeknotradical.pdf
Zizek does not offer much
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truth can cover the disavowal of desire and the Real.22

They might have persuasive descriptions of Lacan’s theory but nothing that applies to the status quo .
Robinson (PhD Political Theory, University of Nottingham) 05 (Theory and Event, Andrew, 8:1, The Political Theory of Constitutive Lack: A Critique).
One of the functions of
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singular to the universal', without reference to particular contexts.  

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In the face of an accelerating radiation crisis, the aff has decided to advocate a strategy of expansionism – increasing infrastructure over the natural world for the sole purpose of human interest. This ignores the importance of environmental ethics and is violently anthropocentric.
Sivil, 2000 (Richard Sivil studied at the University of Durban Westville, and at the University of Natal, Durban. He has been lecturing philosophy since 1996. “WHY WE NEED A NEW ETHIC FOR THE ENVIRONMENT”, 2000, http://www.crvp.org/book/Series02/II-7/chapter_vii.htm)

 Three most significant and … of an environmental ethic.
The impact is an unending political genocide which captures the apparatus of life and death
Kochi and Ordan 8 (Tarik, lecturer in the School of Law, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Noam, linguist and translator, conducts research in Translation Studies at Bar Ilan University, Israel, 'An argument for the global suicide of humanity', Borderlands, December)

Within the picture many ….  Treblinka" (Singer, 1968, p.750). 

Our alternative is to imagine global suicide—this throws into question the ideology of humanist value systems.
Kochi and Ordan 8 (Tarik, lecturer in the School of Law, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Noam, linguist and translator, conducts research in Translation Studies at Bar Ilan University, Israel, 'An argument for the global suicide of humanity', Borderlands, December)

The version of progress …. global suicide of humanity.