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Derrida K – Read against Louieville

We call our argument The Chinese Finger Trap.

There is no outside of power, oppression or the resolution. The aff’s attempt at rejection of  puts on blindfolds while traversing a minefield. The aff’s theoretical clean conscience inevitably creates a return of the repressed  —  will return over and over to blow up in the aff’s face when it least expects it.
Derrida 95
(The Gift of Death p. 25-7)
On two or three occasions Patocka denounces the persistence of a type of Platonism—
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also goes, for the same reasons, for freedom and for decision.

Will-to-science – The aff’s discourse of standpoint and social location requires a will to science that replicates the violence of abstract positivism. The aff believes to understand someone’s experience, you simply have to ask them when the truth is they don’t and can’t know who or what they are. Actual experience becomes the golden ticket to political legitimacy drawing circles of political exclusion while foreclosing the question of the ideological and textual basis of the experience of life.
Patricia T. Clough, Fordham Univeristy. The Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Spring, 1993), pp. 169-182
Thus, while Smith has gone a long way in reading out the ordinary features
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can the social scientist know the difference between actual activities and ideological practices.

Purity and identity end the possibility of the political.
Derrida 95
(The Gift of Death p. 19-22)
War is a further experience of the gift of death ~la mort donnée
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unconsciousness, something PatoEcka will later call "orgiastic irresponsibility" (112).

The logic of a pure rejection is secretly reliant on Platonism and western metaphysics, where mystery and hesitation can be completely consumed by untainted certainty – the theoretical embodiment of totalitarianism.
Derrida 95
(The Gift of Death p. 35)
The question of
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. The consequences will be most serious; they deserve a second look.

It’s impossible to present a new origin – historicity is inescapable and reemerges in the aff’s attempt to theorize history.
Derrida 95
(The Gift of Death p. 22-25)

1. One must never forget, and precisely for political reasons, that the
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   the mysterium tremendum the ontological content that Heidegger attempts to remove from it.

The question of this debate is not what the 1ac should have done. Instead we should ask what the affirmative foreclosed.
By relating to the resolution and _ in terms of purity and identity, the aff renders invisible other readings of the resolution and their terms, other identities of the text. This turns the case – the aff burns the roads leading away from the harms they identify.
Derrida 64
(Jacques, Violence and Metaphysics)
That philosophy died yesterday, since Hegel or Marx, Nietzsche; or Heidegger—
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and huddle lazily in the depths of childhood, but precisely the opposite.

Other readings of texts are necessarily always possible because of how language functions – every linguistic organization must be able to be ripped from its context while remaining intelligible or else language would not exist or function communicatively across context.
Derrida 72
(Signature, Event, Context)
In effect, what are the essential predicates in a minimal determination of the classical concept of writing?
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is no experience of pure presence, but only chains of differential marks.

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There is nothing abstract about the violence of standpoint epistemology – it makes the identification of race traitors and inauthentic persons possible and ensures their violent exodus from the political. The moving goalpost of authentic experience makes violence structurally endless.
Wendy Brown 1996, Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Constitutions and ’Survivor Stories’: In the ’folds of our own discourse’ The Pleasures and Freedoms of Silence, 3 U Chi L Sch Roundtable 185
If, taken together, the two passages from Foucault we have been considering call
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this vein, that there is so little feminist writing on heterosexual pleasure?)

The aff’s naievete is proven by the organization and language of the 1ac. That the aff rejects Western enlightenment logic yet the 1ac is a rational case for an advocacy that is expressed in English within a framework of liberal debate – the belief that Western metaphysics can be stepped outside of is the precise move of western metaphysics.
Derrida 78
"Cogito and the History of Madness" in Writing and Difference.

In writing a history of madness, Foucault has attempted—and this is the
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history" could not be contained within the metaphysical closure of an archaeology.

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Nuclear authoritarianism K – Read against Michigan

Nuclear authoritarianism –the Modern authoritarian state was founded on nuclear power because its high risk legitimated vast antidemocratic emergency powers. Increasing the number of nuclear plants expands the necessity and the value of nuclear authoritarianism such that alternative social visions will be met with tear gas and riot shields because they threaten the stability of the nuclear regime.

Kaur 11
(Raminder, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology @ University of Sussex, London. TAJA: Australian journal of anthropology accessible at http://www.dianuke.org/a-%E2%80%98nuclear-renaissance%E2%80%99-climate-change-and-the-state-of-exception/)

Whilst the ’carbon lobby’, including the fossil-fuels industries, stand to
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vindication of the saying, ’out of sight, out of mind’.

Assume the worst about nuclear – institutionalized gatekeeping stops opposition to the nuclear regime.

Andrew ZIMMERMAN Researcher Center for Energy and Environmental Policy AND Kenneth BERGERON Physicist Former Safety Expert @ Sandia Nat’l Laboratory ’6 in Transforming Power eds. Byrne, Toly, %26 Glover p. 114-116

Nuclear Power as a Source of Governing Power Marone and Woodhouse (1989: 29
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, it has progressively destabilized U.S. and international geopolitical security.

Nuclear authoritarianism makes nuclear conflict likely b/c its science worship forecloses textual and discursive analysis of nuclear apocalypse necessary to understand and interrupt the rush to collective annihilation.

Derrida 84
"Not Apocalypse, Not Now"
Second reason. So we are not experts in strategy, in diplomacy, or
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do without a sophistry of belief and the rhetorical simulation of a text.

Prolif imperialism – The US spread nuclear weapons everywhere and now it wants to be a global savior – us nuclear leadership erases the history of violent models of imperial and social relations and makes opposition to nuclear authoritarianism impossible.
Andreas Behnke, Prof. of Poli Sci @ Towson, 2K ~January, International Journal of Peace Studies 5.1, "Inscriptions of the Imperial Order,"http://www.gmu.edu/academic/ijps/vol5_1/behnke.htm-http://www.gmu.edu/academic/ijps/vol5_1/behnke.htm~~

David Mutimer… AND
to conduct a ’dialogue’ with an other it is unwilling to listen to.

Realism Fuel– Energy competition produces an intoxicating fantasy of energy independence that leads to realist brinkmanship and nuclear war.
Klare 12
(Michael, Five Colleges professor of Peace and World Security Studies, whose department is located at Hampshire College, defense correspondent of The Nation magazine, "Is Barack Obama Morphing Into Dick Cheney?" June 21^st,  http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175560/tomgram%3A_michael_klare%2C_the_cheney_effect_%28in_the_obama_administration%29_)
In virtually every respect, then… bound to produce the exact opposite.

Cold war 2.0 – The aff’s positioning of China as a cipher for US interests makes conlflict escalation inevitable because it disqualifies the legitimacy of the Chinese Other – don’t trust the aff’s knowledge production.
Chengxin Pan, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Faculty of Arts, Australian National University. Alternatives 29 (2004), 305-3

What does this U.S. self-knowledge have to do with the 

The C subpoint is the Impact: Consumerism makes extinction inevitable. Patterns of consumption and social exclusion create nuclear genocide and collapse the biosphere.

Guattari 88
(The Three Ecologies 27-1)
The Earth is undergoing a period of intense techno-scientific transformations. If
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to make them work.

D. Alternative – Vote negative to refuse the consumer brain in favor of the ecological brain. Instead of producing more energy for a structurally violent subjectivity, we must develop ecological modes of subjectivity. Individual choice doesn’t exist – consumerist lifestyle is a product of social and political broadcasting like the aff – refusing the aff is a way to create humans otherwise.

Guattari 95
(Felix, Chaosmosis, P. 20-2)
Beyond the poetic function. the question of the apparatuses of subjectivation presents itself.
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its greyness, the faintest traces and last recesses of the planet’s mysteries.

E. Framework – our framework is Policy Design Theory.

Policy design is not reducible to the plan. The 1AC advocacy is inscribed in the implementation, institutional precedents, and the feed-forward effects of discursive constructions of what and who matters for policy.

Schneider and Varda 2009

Anne Schneider is Prof of Poli Sci @ Arizona State AND Danielle M. Varda Associate Prof of Poli Sci @ Rutgers "What Is Next for Policy Design and Social Construction Theory?" Policy Studies Journal Volume 37, Issue 1, pages 103–119, February 2009

Policy design theory posits that the characteristics of design emerge from a political and social
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and normative goals, is well positioned to move policy studies significantly forward.

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Creating a positive trend requires definitional cheating on what violence is – so correlation is dubious, causation is problematized by our link claims and correlation doesn’t prove causation. Quantification cannot authorize the aff’s consumptive violence.
Carson 12
~R, contributor at Posthuman Destinies "http://www.sciy.org/2012/09/10/pinkers-blind-spot-a-review-of-the-better-angels-of-our-nature-by-r-carlson/-http://www.sciy.org/2012/09/10/pinkers-blind-spot-a-review-of-the-better-angels-of-our-nature-by-r-carlson/~~
Pinker’s linear narrative of… undermines the peaceful coexistence of humanity with itself and with nature .

The institutional culture of scientific authoritarianism is intrinsic to the fantasy of large-scale nuclear generation.  We cannot detach the power plant from the expert imaginary.

Brian WYNNE Science Studies and Research Director of the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change @ Lancaster (UK) ’11 Rationality and Ritual 2^nd Edition p. 8

Nuclear emotions and imagined publics materialized In his survey of 20th-century nuclear imagery
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key tension which I posed in the final chapter. It remains salient. 

Productivist valuation of nature is anti-pragmatic because it annihilates plurality of decision frameworks.  Indigenous, social or ecological universes of value must assimilate or destroy no cooperation is possible.
Guattari 95
(Felix, Chaosmosis, P. 55-6)
Nevertheless. these constellations of Universes of value do not constitute Universals. The fact
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contradistinction, an untiring renewal of the consistency of machinic assemblages of valorisation.

Their realism arguments are a commitment to a history we don’t have to continue. Utopian imagination allows us to push the domains of the possible.

Brincat 9
Shannon "Reclaiming the Utopian Imaginary in IR theory." Volume 35 Issue 3. Review of International Studies.
As we have seen from the above discussion, the case against utopianism in both
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in the dialectical process of emancipation and augment the conditions of human freedom.

There’s no escaping the problem of knowledge production because the facts don’t speak for themselves – ignoring value analysis is scientifically counterproductive.

Brian WYNNE Science Studies and Research Director of the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change @ Lancaster (UK) ’11 Rationality and Ritual 2^nd Edition p. 146-150

Empiricism and competing versions of reality The judicial ideology of certainty is bound up with
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examination would be lost. Parker is an advocate of this view.49