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The university becomes the advertising banner for civil society, and in the background, or the underground, is the management of social death. This means that an aff ballot would only uphold the institutions that put a happy face on structural violence.
Yudof 09
The Necrosocial Civic Life, Social Death, and the UC. Occupied UC Berkeley, 18 November 2009.
Being president of the University of California is like being manager of a cemetery…
discourse designed to make our very moments here together into a set of legible and fruitless demands.

Attempts to change the content of the debate space becomes the façade by which the structure of social death within the university becomes sanitized.
Yudof 09
The Necrosocial Civic Life, Social Death, and the UC. Occupied UC Berkeley, 18 November 2009.
Totally managed death. A machine for administering death, …
we are so morbidly aware, we are so practiced at stomaching horror that the horror is thoughtless.

The university lets us play with revolution so that we can never commit to revolution, and contributes more to the values of domination.
Yudof 09
The Necrosocial Civic Life, Social Death, and the UC. Occupied UC Berkeley, 18 November 2009.
In this graveyard our actions will never touch, …
  They sell the practice through the image.  We’re taught we’ll live the images once we accept the practice.

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There is sunshine in this pile of cigarette butts,
without the sun, there would be no daylight,
and without tobacco leaves, we cannot make cigarettes.
The sun is essential for the cigarettes to exist.

If we venture into these plastic wraps we can notice crude oil in it.
We can witness the invasion, occupation, commercialization, and extraction
which is brought upon the plant operators and debt enslaved camp workers
who processed the oil that fueled the truck driver
who brought it to the factory to make plastic.

And there is wheat!
We know that the truck driver can’t survive without their daily bread,
and therefore the wheat that became the bread is also in this pile of trash.

The fact is that this pile of trash is made up only of ‘non-trash’ elements,
and if we return these non-trash elements to their sources,
this trash would not exist.
Without non-trash elements, like
 the sun, wind, coal, crude oil, natural gas, and nuclear power,
there will be no trash.

As small as this pile of trash may be,
it contains everything in the universe in it.
(Inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace is Every Step (New York: Bantam, 1991) Pg. 91) 

Trash is the background, the flesh and blood, of the resolution. If consumption is the byproduct of energy production, then trash is the final product to roll off the assembly line of our global industrial-military complex. The increase in energy production and technology will only forget the old trash while continuously adding new trash that are hidden in landfills away from perceptual reality. Trash is the invisible repository of our infinite consumption, objectless objects that are ontologically dematerialized by the resolution.
Kennedy 07
An Ontology of Trash, Greg Kennedy State Univ of New York Pr (January 11, 2007) Pg. 52-53
“Technology effaces the body by externalizing its somatic functions and faculties… Trash is the paradoxical phenomenon of this unique ontological mode.”

Energy production maintains institutional hierarchies that are willing to sacrifice moral and material standards to keep the global industrial complex rolling. With no social precedent for public participation, the people who are most affected by the decision making process of energy production are the ones who are discarded and excluded from energy discourse, pushed into political absence.
Burch 76
WHO  PARTICIPATES: A  SOCIOLOGICAL  INTERPRETATION OF  NATURAL  RESOURCE  DECISIONS WILLIAM  R. BURCH JR.* NATURAL  RESOURCES  JOURNAL 51-54
"Energy systems other than the calories from food and their expenditure... the most effective way for giving power to the people."

Neglecting the ontological questioning of trash is the precondition to the systemic suffering of others. Denying trash also denies ethical care, and becomes the impetus to exploit and annihilate other beings.
Kennedy 07
An Ontology of Trash, Greg Kennedy State Univ of New York Pr (January 11, 2007) 154-155
"By failing to realize the universal breadth of care... do not let it be as it is in the open truth of worldly disclosure."

“We’ve got a disposable mind-set: disposable products, disposable species, and disposable people.”
- Van Jones
The politics of disposability allows beings to be exterminated for our immediate pleasure or convenience. This permeates all dominant social and discursive phenomena—as long as disposability is unchallenged, then the global-industrial military prison complex will prevail.
Giroux 06
Giroux, Henry A. "Reading Hurricane Katrina: Race, Class, and the Biopolitics of Disposability."College Literature 33.3 (2006): 171-196. Project MUSE. Web. 31 Aug. 2012. http://muse.jhu.edu/.
"Under the logic of modernization, neoliberalism, and militarization...part of the emergence of a contemporary and savage authoritarianism."

Trash, and those who are categorized as disposable, are absent from ontological recognition and presence. This creates the paradigmatic conditions for violence against all beings. So before a debate about energy production can be had, we must first:

Affirm trash as the resolution

If trash is the background of the resolution, then to affirm this trash as the resolution will be to recognize our interdependent relationship with trash and those who have been positioned in systemic states of poverty, marginalization, and social death due to the United States’ energy production and consumption. The 1ac performance is both a recognition of how trash reveals both our complicity to the monumental violence that our consumption produces, and it is a repudiation of our attempt to become immortal technological gods at the expense of the rest of the world.
To affirm trash may sound oxymoronic, as how can you affirm something that is ontologically negated?
However, it is the affirmation of this oxymoronic logic, to allow trash to capture our ontological reality, that will empower the connective power of relationality and affectivity between us, material relations, and other beings.
Hawkins 06
The Ethics of Waste: How We Relate to Rubbish Gay Hawkins 2006  Rowman and Littlefield Publisher Pg 121-122
"How then to nurture a micropolitics of the self that is aware... between ethics and morality in relation to waste:"

Without comprehending the ontological and existential failure embodied in trash, any scientific or rational endeavor will only exacerbate ecological destruction and global systemic violence.
Kennedy 07
An Ontology of Trash, Greg Kennedy State Univ of New York Pr (January 11, 2007) 185-186
"If psychoanalysis accomplishes any good in a person’s life... glimpse of our own insensitive rejection of ourselves."

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The earth shakes: the Mexica ~Aztec~ begins his song:
He makes the Eagles and Ocelots dance with him%21
Come to see the Huexotzinca:
On the dais of the Eagle he shouts out,
Loudly cries the Mexica.
The battlefield is the place: where one toasts the divine liquor in war,
where are stained red the divine eagles,
where the tigers howl,
where all kinds of precious stones rain from ornaments,
where wave headdresses rich with fine plumes,
where princes are smashed to bits.
There is nothing like death in war,
nothing like the flowery death
so precious to Him who gives life:
far off I see it: my heart yearns for it%21
And they called it Teotihulcan
because it was the place
where the lords were buried.
Thus they said:
’When we die,
truly we die not,
because we will live, we will rise,
we will continue living, we will awaken
This will make us happy.’

Thus the dead one was directed,
when he died:
’Awaken, already the sky is rosy,
already dawn has come,
already sing the flame-coloured guans,
the fire-coloured swallows,
already the butterflies fly.’
Thus the old ones said
that who has died has become a god,
they said: ’He has been made a god there,
meaning ’He has died.’
Even jade is shattered,
Even gold is crushed,
Even quetzal plume are torn . . .
One does not live forever on this earth:
We endure only for an instant%21
Will flowers be carried to the Kingdom of Death:
Is it true that we are going, we are going?
Where are we going, ay, where are we going?
Will we be dead there or will we live yet?
Does one exist again?
Perhaps we will live a second time?
Thy heart knows:
Just once do we live%21
Like a quetzal plume, a fragrant flower,
friendship sparkles:
like heron plumes, it weaves itself into finery.
Our song is a bird calling out like a jingle:
how beautiful you make it sound%21
Here, among flowers that enclose us,
among flowery boughs you are singing.
  

Considered half beast half human.  Europe’s projection onto the native peoples created a fantasy project of conversion into the "New World" – a Western image of self.  The Spanish king called for a debate about the lawfulness of waging war on Indians.  Some argued about Indian inferiority to whites and others argued that Indians met the prerequisite to being considered a civil society

Carrasco, 90
Carrasco, David. Religions of Mesoamerica: Cosmovision and Ceremonial Centers San Francisco: Harper, 1990 Pg 6-7 http://phoenixandturtle.net/excerptmill/carrasco.htm)
A related belief, sometimes preached from pulpits in Mexico…
and that the Indians were in some ways superior to the Spaniards.
 

The formulation of the humanist bloc created hegemony and isolated the slave away from humanity and formulated the subaltern positionality of the savage.

Wilderson 2010 (Frank B. III, Red, White, %26 Black:
AND
a Winner of Hurston/Wright legacy Award and the American Book Award)
"The moment in Western history when…
all the more nonrecuperable and all the more isolated.
 

As the Slave the "Savage" co-exist in a state of emergency the resolution becomes predicated on the stable lifeworld.  The resolution seeks to create harmony in an imbalanced world as it feeds off the blood of the Slave and the "Savage"

Wilderson 2010 (Frank B. III, Red, White, %26 Black:
AND
a Winner of Hurston/Wright legacy Award and the American Book Award)

As noted above, before the "healthy" rancor and repartee that represent the cornerstone…
deputized in the face of Black people, whether they know it (consciously) or not.
 

The Slave and "Savage" are the sacrificial lambs of civil society through liminally distinct modes of social death

Jared Sexton 2010 ("’The Curtain of the Sky’: An Introduction" in Critical Sociology 36; 11. Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African-American studied and Critical Theory at the UC-Irvine.)
To suffer the loss of political sovereignty, the exploitation of labor,…
in which bodies are rendered as flesh to be accumulated and exchanged.
 
It was called the Jaguar Sun
Then it happened
that the sky was crushed,
the Sun did not follow its course.
When the Sun arrived at midday,
immediately it was night;
and when it became dark,
jaguars ate the people.
In this Sun giants lived.
The old ones said
the giants greeted each other thus:
"Do not fall down," for whoever falls.
he falls forever." 

Aztec cosmology believed that the world moved in cycles: world making, world centering, and world renewal.
In its present context, world making was when white civil society was developing, world centering was when he ascertained its hegemony, and world renewal is the world after the destruction of our current world.
In order to renew the world, sacrifices must be made.
Aztec epistemology argues that in states of emergencies, like droughts, storms, earthquakes, tsunamis, asteroids, or eternal night time, there needs to be a sacrifice made in order to appease the Gods, so as to relieve us of these disasters. When never know if the Gods would actually relieve us from disaster, but it is a leap of faith worth taking.
The Aztecs believed that those who die become Gods, so in this context the Gods are the socially dead. In the status quo civil society the slave and savage are in a state of emergency, and so the sacrifice of white humanity  is needed to appease the Gods.
We never know if the Gods will relieve us of the state of emergency of slavery colonialism and social death, but it is a leap of faith worth taking.

Carrasco, 90
Carrasco, David. Religions of Mesoamerica: Cosmovision and Ceremonial Centers San Francisco: Harper, 1990 http://phoenixandturtle.net/excerptmill/carrasco.htm

Let’s return to the myth of the creation of the Fifth Age. How did the cosmos become "centered"?...
Mesoameri¬can religions in order to view its chronology and creative periods.
 

Advocacy: Affirm the sacrifice of white humanity to appease the Gods

The Role of the ballot is who creates the best inroads in route to the destruction of Antiblackness

Because of the incoherence between the black and red positionality and the world writ large our advocacy functions as a way to reorient ourselves towards the end of the world.

Wilderson  2010 (Frank B. III, Red, White, %26 Black:
AND
a Winner of Hurston/Wright legacy Award and the American Book Award)

It is customary for a book like this to end with a prescriptive gesture…
while admitting to knowledge of no other source of breath, is what I have tried to do here.

2AC stuff

We meet. Our interpretation of energy is Tonalli.

Pettifor 1996 (Eric, An Offer You Can’t Refuse Human Sacrifice and Aztec State (With special emphasis on Tenochtitlan) www.wynja.com/arch/aztec.html-http://www.wynja.com/arch/aztec.html)**

The existential crisis of the 1AC and the ontological transition is the lighting of the fire – through the Aztec Epistemology world renewal is possible

Carrasco, 90. (Carrasco, David. Riligions of Mesoamerica: Cosmovision and Ceremonial Centers San Francisco: Harper 1990 185-186)

====As the Slave the "Savage" co-exist in a state of emergency the resolution becomes predicated on the stable lifeworld. The resolution seeks to create harmony in an imbalanced world as it feeds off the blood of the Slave and the "Savage"====
Wilderson 2010 (Frank B. Wilderson III, Red, White, %26 Black
AND
a winner of Hurston/Wright legacy Award and the American Book Award)

The Slave and "Savage are the sacrificial lambs of civil society through liminally distinct modes of social death

Sexton 2010 ("The Curtain of the Sky: An introduction: in Critical Sociology 36; 11. Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African-American studied and Critical Theory at the UC-Irvine.)

Social life and Social Death are not mutually exclusive of one another and should not be theorized as either/or but rather both/and.

Sexton 2012 (Jared, ante-ante-Blackness: Afterthoughts. http://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/lateral/issue1/sexton.html-http://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/lateral/issue1/sexton.html African American Studies. University of California, Irvine)

1AR stuff

Communication and full speech is impossible for the slave because communication requires an ontological status

Brady 12 (Nicholas, Louder than the Dark: Toward an Acoustics of Suffering. http://thefeministwire.com/2012/10/louder-than-the-dark-towards-an-acoustics-of-suffering/-http://thefeministwire.com/2012/10/louder-than-the-dark-towards-an-acoustics-of-suffering/ Brady is an activist-scholar from Baltimore, Maryland. Executive board member of Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle. Graduate of Johns Hopkins University with a Bachelors in Philosophy and is currently a doctoral student in the University of California – Irvine Culture and Theory Program)

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Considered half beast half human.  Europe’s projection onto the native peoples created a fantasy project of conversion into the "New World" – a Western image of self.  The Spanish king called for a debate about the lawfulness of waging war on Indians.  Some argued about Indian inferiority to whites and others argued that Indians met the prerequisite to being considered a civil society
Carrasco, 90
Carrasco, David. Religions of Mesoamerica: Cosmovision and Ceremonial Centers San Francisco: Harper, 1990 Pg 6-7 http://phoenixandturtle.net/excerptmill/carrasco.htm)
A related belief, sometimes preached from pulpits in Mexico…
and that the Indians were in some ways superior to the Spaniards.
 

The formulation of the humanist bloc created hegemony and isolated the slave away from humanity and formulated the subaltern positionality of the savage.
Wilderson 2010 (Frank B. III, Red, White, %26 Black:
AND
a Winner of Hurston/Wright legacy Award and the American Book Award)
"The moment in Western history when…
all the more nonrecuperable and all the more isolated.
 

As the Slave the "Savage" co-exist in a state of emergency the resolution becomes predicated on the stable lifeworld.  The resolution seeks to create harmony in an imbalanced world as it feeds off the blood of the Slave and the "Savage"
Wilderson 2010 (Frank B. III, Red, White, %26 Black:
AND
a Winner of Hurston/Wright legacy Award and the American Book Award)

As noted above, before the "healthy" rancor and repartee that represent the cornerstone…
deputized in the face of Black people, whether they know it (consciously) or not.
 

The Slave and "Savage" are the sacrificial lambs of civil society through liminally distinct modes of social death
Jared Sexton 2010 ("’The Curtain of the Sky’: An Introduction" in Critical Sociology 36; 11. Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African-American studied and Critical Theory at the UC-Irvine.)
To suffer the loss of political sovereignty, the exploitation of labor,…
in which bodies are rendered as flesh to be accumulated and exchanged.
 
It was called the Jaguar Sun
Then it happened
that the sky was crushed,
the Sun did not follow its course.
When the Sun arrived at midday,
immediately it was night;
and when it became dark,
jaguars ate the people.
In this Sun giants lived.
The old ones said
the giants greeted each other thus:
"Do not fall down," for whoever falls.
he falls forever." 

Aztec cosmology believed that the world moved in cycles: world making, world centering, and world renewal.
In its present context, world making was when white civil society was developing, world centering was when he ascertained its hegemony, and world renewal is the world after the destruction of our current world.
In order to renew the world, sacrifices must be made.
Aztec epistemology argues that in states of emergencies, like droughts, storms, earthquakes, tsunamis, asteroids, or eternal night time, there needs to be a sacrifice made in order to appease the Gods, so as to relieve us of these disasters. When never know if the Gods would actually relieve us from disaster, but it is a leap of faith worth taking.
The Aztecs believed that those who die become Gods, so in this context the Gods are the socially dead. In the status quo civil society the slave and savage are in a state of emergency, and so the sacrifice of white humanity  is needed to appease the Gods.
We never know if the Gods will relieve us of the state of emergency of slavery colonialism and social death, but it is a leap of faith worth taking.

Carrasco, 90
Carrasco, David. Religions of Mesoamerica: Cosmovision and Ceremonial Centers San Francisco: Harper, 1990 http://phoenixandturtle.net/excerptmill/carrasco.htm

Let’s return to the myth of the creation of the Fifth Age. How did the cosmos become "centered"?...
Mesoameri¬can religions in order to view its chronology and creative periods.
 

Advocacy: Affirm the sacrifice of white humanity to appease the Gods
The Role of the ballot is who creates the best inroads in route to the destruction of Antiblackness
Because of the incoherence between the black and red positionality and the world writ large our advocacy functions as a way to reorient ourselves towards the end of the world.
Wilderson  2010 (Frank B. III, Red, White, %26 Black:
AND
a Winner of Hurston/Wright legacy Award and the American Book Award)

It is customary for a book like this to end with a prescriptive gesture…
while admitting to knowledge of no other source of breath, is what I have tried to do here.

Tournament: NDT | Round: 6 | Opponent: Harvard HT | Judge: 

This is mostly the same as the Antiblackness 1AC on the Fullerton BS caselist.  The only difference I know of is a few Wilderson '13 cards that were mainly violence impacts

Environmental antiblack racism is poisoning people of color – the environmental policies are influenced by antiblack logic

Bullard 02 (Robert D Bullard Ph.D, Poverty, Pollution, and Environmental Racism: Strategies for Building Healthy and Sustainable Communities,Environmental Justice Center, Clark Atlanta University, http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/PovpolEj.html)
The United States is the dominant economic and military force in the world today. The American economic engine has generated massive wealth…  racism combines with public policies and industry practices to provide benefits for the countries in the North while shifting costs to countries in the South. 4

The demand for oil and energy production has put minority communities in constant danger.

Bullard 02 (Robert D Bullard Ph.D, Poverty, Pollution, and Environmental Racism: Strategies for Building Healthy and Sustainable Communities,Environmental Justice Center, Clark Atlanta University, http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/PovpolEj.html)
Environmental racism also operates in the international arena between nations and between transnational corporations. Increased globalization of the world's economy … only 20% of the region's population.

Antiblack Racism within civil society has relegated black bodies to the periphery. The Slave is the figure upon which all other subjects take their being.  The ontological death of the slave has given rise to the vestibule of the human. The consumption of the black body through slavery and its surrogate institutions has given rise to the debasement of all other grievances.

Jared Sexton 2010 (“‘The Curtain of the Sky’: An Introduction” in Critical Sociology 36; 11. Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African-American studied and Critical Theory at the UC-Irvine.)
To suffer the loss of political sovereignty… rendered as flesh to be accumulated and exchanged.

Antiblack logic makes the black body disposable and the site of waste justifying race as the organizing spatial principle for toxic waste sites

Mills 2001 (Charles W. Mills, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Chicago, 2001, “Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice (2nd ed.,), p. 84-89)
Segregation by law is the clearest … waste products of industrialization should be directed toward them. Like seeks like—throwaways on a throwaway population, dumping on the white body’s dumpsite.

However in contrast to demands the coordinates of state and civil society are not elastic enough to welcome or even conceptualize subjective claims made by the slave.  The slave is not present on either the affirmative or negative side: we must abolish this topic altogether and start with the question of the slave and create an epistemic break as the current episteme which influences policymaking as whole is antiblack

Frank B. Wilderson III 2010 (Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms. (pp.   ) Wilderson is an award-winning writer, poet, scholar, activist and emerging filmmaker. Dr. Wilderson spent five years in South Africa as an elected official in the African National Congress during the country’s transition from apartheid and was a member of the ANC’s armed wing Umkhonto We Sizwe. He has taught Rhetoric/Film Studies University of California, Berkeley. And is an Assoc. Prof. of African American Studies and Film UC Irvine and  a Winner of Hurston/Wright legacy Award and the American Book Award. )
Regarding the Black … The woman at the gates of Columbia University awaits an answer.

Advocacy: Affirm the end of the world

Because of the incoherence between the black positionality and the world itself at large our advocacy functions as a way to reorient ourselves towards the end of the world.

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 5-6) GG
It is customary for a book … is what I have tried to do here.

Power to Post the question is the greatest power of all

Frank B. Wilderson III 2010  Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms. (pp. 3-4) Wilderson is an award-winning writer, poet, scholar, activist and emerging filmmaker. Dr. Wilderson spent five years in South Africa as an elected official in the African National Congress during the country’s transition from apartheid and was a member of the ANC’s armed wing Umkhonto We Sizwe. He has taught Rhetoric/Film Studies University of California, Berkeley. And is an Assoc. Prof. of African American Studies and Film UC Irvine and  a Winner of Hurston/Wright legacy Award and the American Book Award.
Soon it will be forty years since … then certainly by a revolutionary zeitgeist.