Tournament: GSU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Towson HW | Judge: Mercer, Lynda
OUR OPTIMISTIC POLITICS EXPLICITLY BREAKS WITH THE INSISTENCE THAT BLACKNESS SIGNIFY OUTWARDS A TRUTH OF THE VIOLENCE OF SOCIETY. THIS REFUSES A TOTALIZING CONCEPTION OF BLACKNESS AND INSTEAD ASKS US TO READ BLACK LIFE DIFFERENTLY. WE AFFIRM AN AESTHETIC OF QUIET, WHICH MEANS NEVER GIVING UP AN INTERIORITY OF BLACK SOCIAL LIFE THAT ESCAPES SOCIAL DEATH
QUASHIE ‘12 (Kevin, Assoc. Prof. of Afro-American Studies @ Smith College, The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture, pp. 3-9)
This book explores what a ... This book is about quiet.

OUR ALTERNATIVE IS A FORM OF INVITATION FOR THE JUDGE TO IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITY OF A COMPLEX INNER LIFE – IF THIS POSSIBILITY REMAINS, YOU VOTE NEG
QUASHIE ‘12 (Kevin, Assoc. Prof. of Afro-American Studies @ Smith College, The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture, pp. 111-112)
Simpson's use of juxtaposition and ... the surrender that is expressive.11

POLITICS OF THE INVITATION IS GOOD
EPSTEIN ‘99 (Mikhail, Assoc. Prof. in the Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Emory University, Transcultural Experiments: Russian and American Models of Creative Communication, p. 166-168)
Though ethics is usually presented ... ourselves as possibilities for others.

Tournament: GSU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Towson HW | Judge: Mercer, Lynda
THE REDUCTION OF POLITICS TO A WHITE/BLACK BINARY MAKES IT HISTORICALLY NON-REFERENTIAL – THIS IS SPECULATIVE LEFTISM: THE POSITING OF OVERARCHING STRUCTURAL DETERMINATES THAT CANNOT BE EXPLAINED OR VERIFIED BY ANY SORT OF EXPERIENCE. THIS MODE OF THEORIZING CAN ONLY PRODUCE APOLITICAL, SPONTANEOUS ACTION – REINVIGORATING COMMUNISM SOLVES BETTER
BOSTEELS ’11 (Bruno, Prof. of Romance Studies @ Cornell U., Badiou and Politics, pp. 280-285)
MARXIST POLITICS We must conceive ... wholly other dimension beyond being.

OUR ETHICO-POLITICAL OBLIGATION IS TO ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR ACTIONS. IT IS ONLY OUR BELIEF IN THE BIG OTHER WHICH ALLOWS CAPITALISM TO NATURALIZE THE SUBJUGATION OF THE MILLIONS WHO ARE EXCLUDED FROM IT, AND THROUGH IDEOLOGY, ELIMINATE THEM.
ŽIŽEK and DALY ‘4 (Slavoj, Prof. of European Graduate School, Intl. Director of the Birkbeck Inst. for Humanities, U. of London, and Senior Researcher @ Inst. of Sociology, U. of Ljubljiana, and Glyn, Professor Intl. Studies @ Northampton U., “Risking the Impossible” http://www.lacan.com/zizek-daly.htm th)
It is in the light ... us to risk the impossible.

Tournament: GSU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Towson HW | Judge: Mercer, Lynda
OUR METHODOLOGY IS A SYMMETRICAL ANTHRPOLOGY THAT TAKES NETWORK ANALYSIS AS ITS FOCAL POINT AND SETS OUT TO REFUSE THE BRACKETING OFF OF NATURE. ONLY BEGINNING FROM THIS POINT ALLOWS US TO INTERROGATE BROADER STRUCTURES OF VIOLENCE
LATOUR ‘93 (Bruno, Prof. and vice-president for research @ Sciences Po Paris, We Have Never Been Modern, pp. 103-106)
Let us suppose that anthropology ... fall back on common sense.

THAT MEANS THEY MISUNDERSTAND THE PRODUCTION OF RACISM – IT IS NOT A UNIFIED PHENOMENON WITH EXPLANATORY POWER, BUT AN ASSEMBLAGE EMERGING FROM SPECIFIC MATERIAL CONDITIONS
Jason LIM ‘9 School of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London Environment and Planning A 2010, volume 42, pages 2393-2409
What might all this mean ... a dancing-drinking-desiring machine? 

Tournament: GSU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Samford AV | Judge: Strange, Ken
GRANTING THE PTC TO NATIVES IS A DEMONSTRATION OF STATE POWER AND GENEROSITY DESIGNED TO CEMENT MAJORITY CONTROL— IT IS A GIFT, BUT ONE THAT ONLY CEMENTS INHERENT POWER IMBALANCES
ARRIGO and WILLIAMS 2K (Bruce and Christopher, California School of Professional Psychology, Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, August)
Thus, the word community has ... which belongs to the self.

THIS CONCEPT OF DEBT UNDERPINS A GLOBAL SYSTEM OF NEGLECT, HUNGER, SICKNESS, AND WAR WHICH CAUSES INCALCULABLE DEATH
Derrida ‘92 (Jacques, decomposing deconstructionist, The Gift of Death, 84-87)
This applies all the more ... nothing more than a murderer?

WE AS ACADEMICS SHOULD EMBRACE A DISCURSIVE FRAMEWORK FOR THIS DEBATE—WE SHOULD REJECT THE LEGAL GIFT OF CONTROL OVER WIN POWER TO CLEAR THE PATH FOR ALTERNATIVE CONCEPTIONS OF JUSTICE
ARRIGO and WILLIAMS 2K (Bruce and Christopher, California School of Professional Psychology, Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, August)
With regard to the (im)possibility ... is decoded as a ruse.

Tournament: GSU | Round: 3 | Opponent: Samford AV | Judge: Strange, Ken
The United States federal government should use the precautionary principle as the criteria for establishing a transferable production tax credit available to American Indian tribes for wind energy projects.  

THE COUNTERPLAN IS mutually exclusive WITH THE AFF – IT doesn’t mandate THE PLAN, BUT IS AN OPEN ENDED PROCESS
MPPP 2K (Clean Water Fund, Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition, Science and Environmental Health Network, Massachusetts Precautionary Principle Project, “Putting Precaution into Practice: Implementing the Precautionary Principle”, http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/Precaution-into-Practice.htm)
The Precautionary Principle requires a ... to be primarily policy decisions.

THAT SOLVES THE AFF
BRYNER 2 (Gary C. Bryner, Research Professor of Law and Director of the Natural Resources Law Center at the University of Colorado School of Law, “THE NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY: ASSESSING ENERGY POLICY CHOICES”, 73 U. Colo. L. Rev. 341)
The compelling goals of energy ... consumption to long-term preservation.

NET BENEFIT IS IT TURNS THE CASE – US ENERGY POLICY USES A HEGEMONIC DECISIONMAKING METHOD – ONLY BY CREATING THE CONDITIONS FOR COMMUNICATIVE POSSIBILITY CAN WE SOLVE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Robyn ECKERSLEY, ‘4 (Professor and Head of Political Science in the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia, “The Green State: Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty”, p. 40-3)
Now a predictable objection might ... on ecoefficiency and ecological modernization.

Tournament: GSU | Round: 6 | Opponent: NYU AG | Judge: Hagwood
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS NATURE. THE AFFIRMATIVE IS PREMISED NOT ON A STATIC, BUT A TOTAL VIEW OF NATURE. NATURE IS A SYSTEM, ONE THING, WHICH CAN BE KNOWN AND EFFECTED, IGNORED AND DESTROYED. THIS MONONATURALISM IS BUILT ON TOP OF A ROMANTICIZATION OF PRE-MODERN CULTURAL FORMS THAT POSITS THE INVINCIBLE LAWS OF NATURE IN ORDER TO INSULATE ITS POLITICAL CHOICES FROM ALL CRITICISM

LATOUR, Professor, Center for the Study of Innovation at the School of Mines, Paris, 2004 [Bruno, Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences Into Democracy, p. 42-49]
The Fragile Aid of Comparative Anthropology
Political ecology has finally taken ... it were all there is."

THIS NATURALIPOLITIK ALSO DOOMS ECOLOGY—THE APPEAL TO NATURE AS THE ARBITER OF POLITICS ULTIMATELY SERVES TO DESTROY ALL DECISIONMAKING AND POLITICAL STRUGGLE
LATOUR, Professor, Center for the Study of Innovation at the School of Mines, Paris, 2004 [Bruno, Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences Into Democracy, p.18-20]
Ecological Crisis or Crisis of Objectivity? ... its theory about that practice.15

THEIR READING OF NATURE AS A PALPABLE, DISTINCT ENTITY WE CAN HAVE A RELATIONSHIP TO IS HISTORICALLY THE CAUSE OF RACIST AND SEXIST OPPRESSION, CULMINATING IN AN FASCISTIC POLITICS
MORTON 7 (Timothy Morton, Professor and Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University, 2007, “Ecology Without Nature”)
One of the ideas inhibiting genuinely ... like this, who needs enemies?

WE SHOULD STOP BELIEVING AN IDEAL, HARMONIOUS NATURE – ONLY BY REJECTING THE ESCHATOLOGICAL NARRATIVE OF THE AFFIRMATIVE CAN WE OPEN SPACE FOR TRUE CHANGE – WE WILL ENDORSE THE REST OF THEIR 1AC
ŽIŽEK ‘12 (Slavoj, Once met Brad Bolman, “Signs From The Future” from forthcoming book The Year of Dreaming Dangerously, http://www.odbor.org/signs-from-the-future/)
So what about apocalyptic tones ... ambiguous signs from the future.

Tournament: GSU | Round: 6 | Opponent: NYU AG | Judge: Hagwood
THE AFF’S CRITIQUE OF MODERN PROGRESS IS A FORM OF ANGELICISM – THE ONE WHO LOOKS BACK UPON A HISTORY OF UNFOLDING CATASTROPHE, WHAT THEY CALL “ROOTS IN CONTINUED CONSUMPTION.” CONTINUED FROM WHAT?
THIS PERSPECTIVE REVEALS A TRAJECTORY WHICH REIFIES THE QUEST FOR NEW, MORE WHOLE SUBJECTIVITIES – A MORE COHERENT RELATIONSHIP WITH CAPITAL-N “NATURE.” THIS CONSTANT NAVIGATION OF PAST FAILURES IGNORES THAT THE CLIMATE CRISIS REPRESENTS THE INABILITY TO THINK A SOLUTION TO MODERNIST PROBLEMS THAT WERE THEMSELVES THE RESULT OF MODERNIST SUBJECT POSITIONS.
THEIR ANGEL WANTS TO LOOK BACK AND RE-WRITE THE HISTORY OF CONSUMPTION AND CRUNCH, BUT CANNOT DO SO WITHOUT FIRST INTERROGATING WHAT MODES OF BEING WE HAVE ESTABLISHED THAT MAKE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS STRUCTURALLY INEVITABLE.
COHEN ‘12 (Tom, Prof of English and Co-Director for the Institute on Critical Climate Change at the University of Albany, “Murmurations—“Climate Change” and the Defacement of Theory” Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change Vol 1., Online)
Bruno Latour, as observed above ... adamantly, structurally, and violently unaware.

THEIR ATTEMPT TO NAVIGATE OUT OF ECOLOGICAL CRISIS THROUGH DOGMATIC SCIENTISM IS ITSELF PART AND PARCEL OF MODERNIST METAPHYSICS. THE FOCUS ON SCARCITY IS COVERT HOBBESIANISM – THAT WE ARE ALL VIOLENT, RATIONAL INDIVIDUALS WHO MAKE COMPACTS TO AVOID SCARCITY – AND INABILITY TO BREAK FROM THESE STRUCTURES GUARANTEES EXTINCTION
CLARK ‘8 (Timothy, Prof of English Studies, Durham University, “Towards a deconstructive environmental criticism”, Oxford Literary Review, 30 (1))
The environmental crisis is inherently ... more revolutionary and anarchist one? 

VOTE NEGATIVE TO DISOCCUPY THE POLITICAL SPACE OPENED BY THE AFFIRMATIVE AND REJECT THE QUEST TO THINK NOVEL SOLUTIONS TO THE CLIMATE CRISIS
THIS ACT OF DISIDENTIFICATION IS PREREQUISITE TO REVEALING THE VIOLENT IMPLICATIONS OF MODERN SUBJECTIVITY. WHEN THE AFF SAYS DEBATE IS TO CREATE “NEW POSSIBILITIES FOR PROGRESS,” THEY DIAGNOSE THE PROBLEM BUT ARE WRONG IN THE ANSWER: WE NEED TO GIVE UP ON PROGRESS BEFORE CONSUMPTION CAN DISAPPEAR
COHEN ‘12 (Tom, Prof of English and Co-Director for the Institute on Critical Climate Change at the University of Albany, “Murmurations—“Climate Change” and the Defacement of Theory” Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change Vol 1., Online)
At the moment of writing ... of sovereignty can be sustained.

Tournament: GSU | Round: 8 | Opponent: Wake HQ | Judge: Lundeen, S
THESIS: THE 1AC APPROACHES ENERGY PRODUCTION THROUGH THE LOGIC OF THE BUNKER
THE THREAT OF SOVIET NUCLEAR STRIKES IN THE COLD WAR LED TO A PROLIFERATION OF BUNKER SPACES IN AMERICA – EVEN IF THE BROADER ENVIRONMENT WAS UNLIVABLE, WE COULD CREATE ARCHIPELAGO ZONES FREE OF DANGER. KEEP THE GOOD MOVEMENTS IN, FORCE THE BAD ONES OUT.
THE 1AC EXPANDS THIS BEYOND THE MILITARY TO ENERGY ITSELF.
THIS LOGIC DIVIDES THE WORLD INTO A DEVELOPED/UN-DEVELOPED BINARY ENTRENCHING A PERMANENT, HIDDEN WAR AGAINST ALL THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO THREATEN THE SAFETY OF OUR CIRCULATIONS
DUFFIELD ‘11 (Mark, “Total War as Environmental Terror: 
Linking Liberalism, Resilience, and the Bunker” South Atlantic Quarterly, Against the Day, pp. 757-758)
Total war is usually understood ... need for negotiation or compromise.

ENERGY INSECURITY IS INEVITABLE, BELIEF IN PERFECTED ENERGY PRODUCTION MERELY ENFORCES A SERIES OF FAILED TECHNO-FIXES AND A CYCLE OF ESCALATING INSECURITY THAT CAN ONLY END IN DESTRUCTION
HILDYARD ET AL. ‘12 (Nicholas, founder and Director of The Corner House, Larry Lohmann, Energy Analyst @ Corner House, and Sarah Sexton, Research Analyst @ Corner House, “Energy Security For What? For Whom?” The Corner House, February, pp. 73-75)
One of the ironies of ... in upper-case Energy Security.

THE IMPACT IS EXTINCTION
DUFFIELD ‘11 (Mark, “Total War as Environmental Terror:
Linking Liberalism, Resilience, and the Bunker” South Atlantic Quarterly, Against the Day, pp. 766-768)
Global Civil War
A major consequence of liberal ... is more pressing than ever.

OUR ALTERNATIVE IS TO REFUSE THE BUNKER MENTALITY.
WE SHOULD CEASE BELIEVING IN THE APPROACH OF AN IDEAL FUTURE – THE WORLD IS COLLAPSING AROUND US AND ONLY MODERATE REJECTIONS OF THE MILITARIZED SQUO CAN CREATE CHANGE
ŽIŽEK ‘12 (Slavoj, Once met Brad Bolman, “Signs From The Future” from forthcoming book The Year of Dreaming Dangerously, http://www.odbor.org/signs-from-the-future/)
So what about apocalyptic tones ... ambiguous signs from the future.

Tournament: GSU | Round: Semifinals | Opponent: Georgetown AM | Judge: Miller, Buntin, Turner
1NC

GEOPOLITICAL BENEFITS ARE THE MACGUFFIN IN THE AFFIRMATIVE’S TALE. THEY DRIVE THE NARRATIVE, PROVIDE IT WITH A FALSE COHESION, AND KEEP OUR INTEREST. IN THE END, HOWEVER, THE REAL CHARACTER IS “WASTE,” THE KEY IS LOOKING THROUGH THE VIOLENCE THAT CONSTANTLY DISTRACT US.
VAN WYCK ‘4 (Peter C., Professor and Graduate Program Director of Comm. @ Concordia U., Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat, pp. x-xii)
As one brings a work ... is pointing the wrong way.

1NR

Far from “fixing” the waste problem, the 1AC invests it with desire, making it our objet petit a. That destroys our ability to have a true relationship to the world causes endless violence against the other, kills VTL
McGowan ‘5 (Todd, Prof. of Film Studies @ U. of Vermont, “The Obsolescence of Mystery and the Accumulation of Waste in Don DeLillo’s Underworld” Critique, Vol. 46.2, pp. 123-125)
In Americana, Don DeLillo’s first ... to terms with this shift.

The ever-present threat of war is just implacable nostalgia from the Cold War locking us in endless, nihilistic boredom
McGowan ‘5 (Todd, Prof. of Film Studies @ U. of Vermont, “The Obsolescence of Mystery and the Accumulation of Waste in Don DeLillo’s Underworld” Critique, Vol. 46.2, pp. 132-133)
Throughout Underworld, many characters attempt ... itself becomes absent—desire evanesces.

Tournament: GSU | Round: Semifinals | Opponent: Georgetown AM | Judge: Miller, Turner, Buntin
The conflation of natural and human sciences in the form of realism results in genocide
Burke 7 ( Anthony, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at UNSW, Sydney,  “Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence and Reason”, Theory and Event, 10.2, Muse)
We sense the rational policymaker's ... as much as its utilisation. 

Tournament: GSU | Round: Semifinals | Opponent: Georgetown AM | Judge: Miller, Turner, Buntin
Their realist IR is not empirically grounded and relies on a strategic silence on issues of knowledge production
HYNEK and TETI ‘10 (Nik, Institute of International Relations, Nerudova, and Andrea, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Aberdeen, “Saving identity from postmodernism? The normalization of constructivism in International Relations” pp. 183-194)
That Pragmatism was concerned with ... infra-disciplinary centre of intellectual gravity.

Tournament: GSU | Round: Semifinals | Opponent: Georgetown AM | Judge: Miller, Turner, Buntin
FORGETS THE HUMAN ELEMENT – REENFORCES SAFETY DANGERS, CAUSES FAILURES
GUSTERSON ‘11 (Hugh, professor of anthropology and sociology at George Mason University, “The Human Element” September 1, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/hugh-gusterson/the-human-element)
The discussions about the safety ... the rig were quickly overwhelmed.

Tournament: KY | Round: 4 | Opponent: Trinity | Judge: Hagwood, Ben
THE DELEUZIAN NOTION OF DESIRE AND DIFFERENCE AS DIFFERENT ASPECTS THAT MOVE BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN TRANSCENDTAL AND IMMANENT IGNORES THAT THE ONLY IMMANENT FORCE OF THINKING IS THE ONE
GRANCIEUSE ’12 (Marjorie, “Laruelle Facing Deleuze: Immanence, Resistance and Desire” Laruelle and Non-Philosophy, pp. 47-49)
Besides, hierarchy or difference is ... Other and identity always marginal.9

IT’S NOT TOO ABSTRACT – PHILOSOPHY ITSELF IS THE ULTIMATE FORM OF VIOLENCE TODAY, OUR ETHICO-POLITICAL IMPERATIVE IS TO RESIST IT.
GANGLE ’12 (Rocco, Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy @ Caldicott College, “Laruelle and Ordinary Life,” Laruelle and Non-Philosophy, pp. 60-63)
The formidable technicality and abstractness ... of what is thereby uncovered.

OUR ALTERNATIVE IS TO ENGAGE IN THE SCIENCE OF NON-PHILOSOPHY
NON-PHILOSOPHY INVOLVES A CONSTANT EFFORT TO EXTRACT THE TRANSCENDENCE FROM THEIR PHILOSOPHY WHICH ALWAYS THREATS TO DESTROY THE ONENESS OF BEING ITSELF
MULLARKEY and SMITH ’12 (John, and Anthony Paul, Profs, “Introduction: The Non-Philosophical Inversion: Laruelle's Knowledge Without Domination” Laruelle and Non-Philosophy, pp 2-3)
It is crucial in all ... all (non-summative) material parts.

Tournament: KY | Round: 4 | Opponent: Trinity | Judge: Hagwood, Ben
CAPITALISM IS ALREADY DETERRITORIALIZED TO THE FULLEST AND IT IS STILL REPRODUCING THE HARMS OF THE SYSTEM – THEIR METAPHYSICS OF DESIRE ERASES THIS TRUTH
ŽIŽEK, Institute for Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, ‘4 Slavoj, Appendix I: canis a non canendo, iraq the borrowed kettle pg.72-4
Todays anti-globalization movement seems ... is — or, rather, was — about).

CAPITALISM CAUSES EXTINCTION
Webb  ‘4 /Sam,  “War, Capitalism, and George W. Bush.” http://www.pww.org/article/view/ 4967/1/207/O/
Capitalism was never a warm ... the national and international level.  

OUR ALTERNATIVE IS TO REJECT THEIR ADVOCACY IN FAVOR OF AN ASSERTION OF THE COMMUNIST HYPOTHESIS.
THIS ROUND IS KEY – LET THE DISCUSSION BECOME A METAPHORIC CONDENSATION FOR COMMUNISM. VOTING NEGATIVE MEANS THE BATTLE IS ALREADY WON.
BADIOU ‘10 (Alain, Prof. @ European Graduate School, Former chair of Philosophy @ École Normale Supérieure, The Idea of Communism, pgs. 11-13 bb)
We will now ask: why ... We can, so we must.

Tournament: Clay | Round: 5 | Opponent: Mary Washington | Judge:
Thesis: Fracking is not simply a method of energy production, but a paradigmatic example of violent hydro-social subjectivities.
Fracking technologies are kept behind lock and key, privatizing other people’s land and water to provide fuel for the few. Fracking normalizes unequal distribution of the hydro-social, and only a prior discourse analysis allows us to unpack the secrets of fracking.
Michael H. Finewood and Laura J. Stroup, ‘12 (Finewood is an Assistant Professor of Sustainability at Chatham University’s School of Sustainability and the Environment in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Stroup is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at St. Michael’s College in Colchester, VT, “Fracking and the Neoliberalization of the Hydro-Social Cycle in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale”, Universities Council on Water Resources Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education Issue 147, Pages 72-79, March 2012)
Public and environmental health concerns about the natural . . . and to strive for a more equitable future. 

The impact is extinction – unfettered growth and geo-engineering technologies will sow the seeds of our own self-annihilation
Our alternative is to tell the story of the end of extreme energy
Only this mode of politics can break from a teleological relationship to history that inevitably recreate the problems it attempts to solve
Klein ‘11 (Naomi, Researcher and Columnist @ the Nation, “Addicted to Risk” TED Talk transcript)
Whether we actively believe them or consciously reject . . . any profit. Thank you. (Applause)

Tournament: Clay | Round: 5 | Opponent: Mary Washington | Judge: 

1nc

The 1ac’s call for further energy production amounts to a marketing plow designed to ensure that social libidinal energies remain firmly driven towards consumption. This reduces the world to a series of objects and reifies a modern subject devoid of care, causing extinction
Stiegler ‘12 (Bernard, is Director of the Institut de recherché et d’innovation (IRI) and founder of Ars Industrialis and the Ecole de Philosophe d’Epineuil-le-Fleuriel. “Care: Within the limits of Capitalism, economizing means taking care” Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change Vol 1., Online)
We all know that in no case will . . . an am- biguous expression, ascendant innovation.

Capitalism reduces reality to crude economism – this instrumentality precludes ethics and results in inevitable environmental destruction
Morgareidge ‘98 (Clayton, Prof of Philosophy at Lewis and Clark College, Why Capitalism is Evil 08/22 http://www.lclark.edu/~clayton/commentaries/evil.html)
Now none of these philosophers are naive: . . . in religious terms, capital is the devil.
To show why this is the case, . . . faces expressing them must be unrepresented or silenced.
Obviously what capitalist enterprises do have consequences for . . . will ethics have a seat at the table.

The alternative is to refuse institutional tinkering in favor of reinvesting decision-making with care
This debate represents a choice—reinscribing decision-making with care is a prerequisite to challenging the drive to consume and trend toward individuation that is preventing the Left from challenging mis-growth, extinction
Pettman ‘11 (Dominic, associate professor of culture and media at The New School , Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines, g. 174-177)
The issue is an urgent one because any . . . the public well rather than the private derrick.

2NC – Framework

This movement is terminally unsustainable and results in the extinction of both our social structures and cognition itself.
Stiegler ‘10 (Bernard, Philosopher @ Goldsmiths, U. of London, and Director of the Institut de recherché et d’innovation, Taking Care of Youth and the Generations, pp. 179-184)
In the current world, this metacare must . . . no “science” that is not ruinous.
Util Good
Technics and dis-individuation pre-determine our relation to temporality itself, which makes re-thinking the libidinal economy a prerequisite to both their predictions and calculations
Stiegler ‘10 (Bernard, Philosopher @ Goldsmiths, U. of London, and Director of the Institut de recherché et d’innovation, Taking Care of Youth and the Generations, pp. 185-184)
The question of what allows for and even . . . has from the outset circumvented the true problem.
This also converts politics to fear production, kills VTL and turns the case
Debrix and Barder ’12 (François, and Alexander, Beyond Biopolitics: Theory, violence, and horror in world politics, pp. 66)
Among other things, what Dillon's thought on . . . is indeed nothing to fear but fear itself.

Method Focus Bad

Technological thought uses an enframed historical narrative in order to project an epistemological horizon onto the future—our criticism is a prerequisite to any thinking outside of capital
Crogan ‘10 (Patrick, an Australian researcher who has worked in what has become the Department of Creative Industries at UWE since 2008 “Bernard Stiegler: Philosophy, technics, and activism”, Cultural Politics, vol. 6)
For Stiegler, Heidegger fails to follow his . . . that these problems can seek a viable resolution.

2NC – Perm Do Both

Care is an axiom, not an add-on. Technology controls the imagination and produces an ontological alienation which prevents collective action
Crogan ‘10 (Patrick, an Australian researcher who has worked in what has become the Department of Creative Industries at UWE since 2008 “Bernard Stiegler: Philosophy, technics, and activism”, Cultural Politics, vol. 6)
Stiegler will introduce his account of digital technologies . . . an increasingly global scale (2009a: 134).

Tournament: KY | Round: 1 | Opponent: Missouri State | Judge: Shook
ROLEPLAYING DA – REINFORCES BUNKER SECURITY, CULMINATES IN EXTINCTION, TEACHES BAD DECISIONMAKING
DUFFIELD ‘11 (Mark, “Total War as Environmental Terror:
Linking Liberalism, Resilience, and the Bunker” South Atlantic Quarterly, Against the Day, pp. 760-762)
Internalizing Environmental Terror
In the emergence of environmental … while still retaining system functionality.

IDEOLOGICAL CRITICISM MUST REJECT EVEN THE GIVENNESS OF THE FACTS AS PRESENTED – THEY CREATE THE PRACTICES WE ENGAGE IN
DIKEÇ ‘12 (Mustafa, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, “Immigrants, Banlieues, and Dangerous Things: Ideology as an Aesthetic Affair” Antipode, Early Release)
Hence the political import of … Cavafy’s barbarians at the gate.

3. DON’T PICK THE MIDDLE ROAD – WE HAVE TO MAKE AN EXISTENTIAL WAGER AGAINST THE STATUS QUO BEFORE OUR POLITICS CAN BE RADICALIZED
ŽIŽEK ‘12 (Slavoj, Once Met Brad Bolman, “Signs From The Future” from forthcoming book The Year of Dreaming Dangerously, http://www.odbor.org/signs-from-the-future/)
However, while one should learn … the path of this search:

THEIR PROLIFERATION STATISTICS ARE METHODOLOGICALLY FAILED BECAUSE OF THE BUNKER MENTALITY, THEY IGNORE DATA THAT DOESN’T CONFIRM CENTRAL TENETS, BAD VARIABLES
MONTGOMERY and SAGAN ‘9 (Carl, Department of Political Science Reed College, Portland, and Scott S., Department of Political Science Stanford University, “The Perils of Predicting Proliferation” Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 53.10, pp. 303-304)
These new studies of nuclear … Correlates of War (COW) or ICB databases.1

THEIR MODE OF CALCULATING LESSER EVILS IS THE MOST EXTREME FORM OF VIOLENCE TODAY, JUSTIFYING WARS AND INDEFINITE STATE OF EXCEPTION – WE NEED TO REFUSE THESE PRAGMATIC CALCULATIONS
WEIZMAN ‘11 (Eyal, Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures @ Goldsmiths, U. of London, The Least of All Possible Evils, pp. 8-10)
Lesser Evildoers
The theological origins of the … are grounded in this impossibility.17

Tournament: KY | Round: 5 | Opponent: Mary Wash MM | Judge: Pasquinelli
THIS ALSO CONVERTS POLITICS TO FEAR PRODUCTION, KILLS VTL AND TURNS THE CASE
DEBRIX and BARDER ’12 (François, and Alexander, Beyond Biopolitics: Theory, violence, and horror in world politics, pp. 66)
Among other things, what Dillon's … to fear but fear itself.

2. CARE ISN’T AN ADD-ON. TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS THE IMAGINATION AND PRODUCES AN ONTOLOGICAL ALIENATION WHICH PREVENTS COLLECTIVE ACTION
CROGAN ‘10 (Patrick, an Australian researcher who has worked in what has become the Department of Creative Industries at UWE since 2008 “Bernard Stiegler: Philosophy, technics, and activism”, Cultural Politics, vol. 6)
Stiegler will introduce his account … on an increasingly global scale (2009a: 134).

CREATES A COGNITIVE BIAS THAT MAKES SYSTEMIC VIOLENCE INVISIBLE, DEVALUES THE LIFE OF THOSE NOT IN DECISIONMAKING CIRCLES TO NOTHING. WE HAVE TO CHANGE OUR PERSPECTIVE TO FOREFRONT VIOLENCE RENDERED INVISIBLE
MIGNOLO ‘7 (Walter, argentinian semiotician and prof at Duke, “The De-Colonial Option and the Meaning of Identity in Politics” online)
The rhetoric of modernity (from … according to a racist classification.5

Tournament: KY | Round: 8 | Opponent: Michigan CM | Judge: McMc
THIS IS TERMINALLY UNSUSTAINABLE AND RESULTS IN THE EXTINCTION OF OUR SOCIAL STRUCTURES AND COGNITION ITSELF.
STIEGLER ‘10 (Bernard, Philosopher @ Goldsmiths, U. of London, and Director of the Institut de recherché et d’innovation, Taking Care of Youth and the Generations, pp. 179-184)
In the current world, this … “science” that is not ruinous.

TECHNICS AND DIS-INDIVIDUATION PRE-DETERMINE OUR RELATION TO TEMPORALITY ITSELF, WHICH MAKES RE-THINKING THE LIBIDINAL ECONOMY A PREREQUISITE TO BOTH THEIR PREDICTIONS AND CALCULATIONS
STIEGLER ‘10 (Bernard, Philosopher @ Goldsmiths, U. of London, and Director of the Institut de recherché et d’innovation, Taking Care of Youth and the Generations, pp. 185-184)
The question of what allows … outset circumvented the true problem.

INCENTIVE THEORY DOESN’T EXPLAIN WAR, CAUSES VIOLENCE
GOODMAN ‘5 (Ryan, Harvard Law School, “International Institutions and the Mechanisms of War” American Journal of International Law lexis)
John Norton Moore’s Solving the … enhance, the prospects of peace.

DPT CREATES VIOLENT POLICY – NEGATIVES OUTWEIGH ANY THEORETICAL GAINS
SMITH ’11 (Tony, Cornelia M. Jackson Prof. of Politics Science @ Tufts U., “Democratic Peace Theory: From Promising Theory to Dangerous Practice” International Relations, Vol. 25.2, pp. 151-156)
Its virtues recognized, the utility … forward for the common good.

Tournament: KY | Round: Octofinals | Opponent: West Georgia DF | Judge: Odekirk, Regnier, Weil
THE AFFIRMATIVE’S FOCUS ON THE PARTICULARITIES OF NUCLEAR WASTE FAIL TO GRASP WASTE AS A FUNDAMENTAL CONDITION OF LATE CAPITALISM
YATES, 11 (Michelle, University of California, “The Human-As-Waste, the Labor Theory of Value and Disposability in Contemporary Capitalism,” Antipode
Mike Davis argues that rapid … an immanent critique of capitalism.

WE SHOULD HAVE A MARXISM THAT REFUSES TO BE PRODUCTIVE BECAUSE ONLY THAT THEORY REFUSES PRODUCTIVITY AND EXCHANGE
GALLOWAY ’12 (Alexander R., “Laruelle, Anti-Capitalist” Laruelle and Non-Philosophy, pp. 201-204)
Perhaps a useful way to … perhaps for the first time.

2. IT’S AN AXIOM, NOT AN ADD-ON. WE HAVE TO COMPLETELY GIVE UP ON THE CONCEPT OF EXCHANGE IN ANTI-CAPITALIST THOUGHT
GALLOWAY ’12 (Alexander R., “Laruelle, Anti-Capitalist” Laruelle and Non-Philosophy, pp. 197-201)
This brings us to the … allow for exchange of forces. 23

Tournament: Wake | Round:  | Opponent: Michigan BJ | Judge: 

The 1AC’s metaphorical representations of climate change eradicate difference, entrench a violent eschatology, and depoliticize the climate

Methmann and Rothe ‘12 (Chris Paul, U. of Hamburg, and Delf, U. of Hamburg, “Politics for the Day After Tomorrow: The logic of apocalypse in global climate politics” Security Dialogue, Vol. 43, pp. 328-330)

As was shown in the previous section, the relationship between risk and security cannot

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result in exceptional measures but instead invokes micro-practices of governmental management.

Nuclear is a false solution – strengthens security state, racism, militarism

Parson ‘12 (Sean, Political Science Department @ U. of Alaska Fairbanks, “‘Climate First’? The Ethical and Political Implications of Pronuclear Policy in Addressing Climate Change” Ethics, Policy and Environment, Vol. 15.1)

In a Democracy Now debate on March 30, 2011 (Democracy Now, 2011

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destructive to both labor and the land, environmental racism, and militarism.

Sovereign power defines ecological crisis in order to re-entrench biopolitical violence and shut-down critique. All of your impacts are links.

Smith ‘11 (Mick, associate professor and Queen’s National Scholar in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Environmental Studies at Queen’s University, Against Ecological Sovereignty: Ethics, Biopolitics, and Saving the Natural World, “Introduction”)

And what of global warming and the melting ice caps, the increased severity and

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and nature to mere resource, and to stifle ecological politics as such.

Our alternative is to embrace the catstrophe.

We should cease believing in the approach of an ideal future – the world is collapsing around us and only moderate rejections of the militarized squo can create change

Žižek ‘12 (Slavoj, Once met Brad Bolman, “Signs From The Future” from forthcoming book The Year of Dreaming Dangerously, http://www.odbor.org/signs-from-the-future/)

So what about apocalyptic tones we often hear, especially after a catastrophe occurs?

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openness, guiding ourselves on nothing more than ambiguous signs from the future.

Tournament: Wake | Round:  | Opponent: Michigan BJ | Judge: 

Policy focus inevitably creates cycles of failure, reduces world to bare life, nature to standing reserve – a radical ethics is key

Smith ‘11 (Mick, associate professor and Queen’s National Scholar in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Environmental Studies at Queen’s University, Against Ecological Sovereignty: Ethics, Biopolitics, and Saving the Natural World, “In Relation to the Lack of Environmental Policy”)

THE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK is to open possibilities for rethinking and constituting ecological ethics

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short, they want a solution that maintains the claims of ecological sovereignty.

Tournament: Wake | Round:  | Opponent: Michigan BJ | Judge: 

The 1AC’s metaphorical representations of climate change eradicate difference, entrench a violent eschatology, and depoliticize the climate

Methmann and Rothe ‘12 (Chris Paul, U. of Hamburg, and Delf, U. of Hamburg, “Politics for the Day After Tomorrow: The logic of apocalypse in global climate politics” Security Dialogue, Vol. 43, pp. 328-330)

As was shown in the previous section, the relationship between risk and security cannot

AND

result in exceptional measures but instead invokes micro-practices of governmental management.

Nuclear is a false solution – strengthens security state, racism, militarism

Parson ‘12 (Sean, Political Science Department @ U. of Alaska Fairbanks, “‘Climate First’? The Ethical and Political Implications of Pronuclear Policy in Addressing Climate Change” Ethics, Policy and Environment, Vol. 15.1)

In a Democracy Now debate on March 30, 2011 (Democracy Now, 2011

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destructive to both labor and the land, environmental racism, and militarism.

Sovereign power defines ecological crisis in order to re-entrench biopolitical violence and shut-down critique. All of your impacts are links.

Smith ‘11 (Mick, associate professor and Queen’s National Scholar in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Environmental Studies at Queen’s University, Against Ecological Sovereignty: Ethics, Biopolitics, and Saving the Natural World, “Introduction”)

And what of global warming and the melting ice caps, the increased severity and

AND

and nature to mere resource, and to stifle ecological politics as such.

Our alternative is to embrace the catstrophe.

We should cease believing in the approach of an ideal future – the world is collapsing around us and only moderate rejections of the militarized squo can create change

Žižek ‘12 (Slavoj, Once met Brad Bolman, “Signs From The Future” from forthcoming book The Year of Dreaming Dangerously, http://www.odbor.org/signs-from-the-future/)

So what about apocalyptic tones we often hear, especially after a catastrophe occurs?

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openness, guiding ourselves on nothing more than ambiguous signs from the future.

1NR

They concede our impact – apocalyptic rhetoric is used by sovereign power to eradicate difference and entrench biopolitical violence – that leads to extinction, means it’s try or die for the negative – they also concede that turns the case – makes solutions to warming impossible because crisis rhetoric reproduces status quo politics

The threat of environmental apocalypse is central to a governance of permanent fear –its disciplining function allows techno-managerial decision-makers to avoid true action

Swyngedouw ‘10 (Erik, Professor of Geography at the University of Manchester in its School of Environment and Development, “Apocalypse Forever: Post-political Populism and the Spectre of Climate Change,” Theory Culture Society, Vol. 27, pp. 217-220)

We shall start from the attractions of the apocalyptic imaginaries that infuse the climate change

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that is, the techno-managerial machinery of post-democratic governing.

AT: rational decisionmaking Op cost

Perm

Group them, either do both or severance or intrinsic

Ideological criticism must reject even the givenness of the facts as presented – they create the practices we engage in

Dikeç ‘12 (Mustafa, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, “Immigrants, Banlieues, and Dangerous Things: Ideology as an Aesthetic Affair” Antipode, Early Release)

Hence the political import of an aesthetic approach: if sensus communis is post-

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necessary in order to protect the Republic from Cavafy’s barbarians at the gate.

Economic discourse hijacks climate policy, enforces bad solutions, limits political possibilities

Methmann ‘10 (Chris Paul, Prof. @ U. of Hamburg, “‘Climate Protection’ as Empty Signifier: A Discourse Theoretical Perspective on Climate Mainstreaming in World Politics” Millenium Journal of International Studies, Vol. 39, pp. 364-366)

As to the ethics of government, climate protection is justified by the logic of

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more complex articulations that include the status quo in the climate protection discourse.

Existential threats increase mortality salience – that triggers paralysis and out-group scapegoating globally

Fritsche and Häfner ‘12 (Immo, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, and Katrin, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, “The Malicious Effects of Existential Threat on Motivation to Protect the Natural Environment and the Role of Environmental Identity as a Moderator” Environment and Behavior, Vol. 44)

Interestingly, neither egoistic concern nor anthropocentric motivation of proenvironmental action was reduced under threat

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existential threat has on how people mentally rep- resent the environmental crisis.

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WASTE
WE START WITH A PASSAGE FROM DON DELILLO’S UNDERWORLD:
And Viktor Maltsev says, “Yes, it’s true that geography has moved inward and smallward. But we still have mass graves, I think.”
Viktor sits near Brian, a slim figure in a leather coat. We have to shout at each other to converse above the noise that drones and rattles through the hollowed-out interior of the massive transport. He tells us the plan was originally designed for mixed loads of cargo and troops. There are dangling wires, fixtures jutting from the bulkhead. The aircraft is all cylinder, all rids and slats and shaking parts.
“It’s a company plane, Viktor?”
“I buy it this morning,” he says. “And you will use it to ship material.”
“We fix it up good.”
His trading company is called Tchaika and they want to invite our participation in a
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in the ground and vaporize it. We will get a broker’s fee.
The plane comes into heavy weather.
“There’s some concern in Phoenix,” I tell him, “about the extent of your operating capital. The kind of safety equipment we’re talking about to move highly sensitive material can result, Viktor, in expenditures that are quite dizzying.”
“Yes yes yes yes. We have expertise.” He unzippers this word with a certain defensive zest as it if sums up all the insufficiencies that have mocked him until this point. “And we have the stacks of rubles that are also quite, I may say, dizzying. You didn’t read Financial Times? I will send you.”
Brian is lying on his side wearing his coat and gloves.
“I forget,” he says. “Where are we going exactly?”
I call across the heaving body of the plane. “The Kazakh Test Site.”
“Yeah but where’s that?”
I shout. “Where are we going, Viktor?”
“Very important place that’s not on the map. Near Semipatainsk. White space on map. No problem. They will meet us.”
“No problem,” I call across to Brian.
“Thank you both. Wake me when we land,” he says.
I look at him carefully. It’s cold and we’re dead tired and I look at Brian. The knowledge of what he’s been doing, the calculated breach of trust – I want to stay awake while he sleeps so I can watch him and fine-edge my feelings and wait for my moment.
Viktor takes a bottle of Chivas Regal out of his overnight bag. I do
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Viktor pours some scotch into the cap and I return to my seat.
We have no seat belts and the passage is growing rougher. I have the
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the hymnal of named flight. The scotch tastes faintly of gargled mint.
“What did you do before you joined Tchaika?”
“I tech history twenty years. Then no more. I look for a new life.”
“There are men like you in many American cities now. Russians, Ukrainians. Do you know what they do?”
“Drive taxi,” he says.
I notice the way his eyes leap to catch mine, slyly, a brief merged moment that allows him to mark my awareness of his superior status. He is drinking from the bottle.
I see the plan as if from some protected position in the sky. It is a swift shape hurtling through the dark – I felt sure it was dark by now. It is a mass of dark metal racing through the rain and wind as if in a swift scene from an old black-and-white movie, scored with urgent music.
Viktor asks me if I’ve ever witnessed a nuclear explosion. No. It is
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weight. They had to convince themselves with numbers and bulk and mass.
“And the U.S.?” I say.
Eyes flicking my way, happy as carnival lights. It was the U.S., Viktor says, that designed the neutron bomb. Many buzzing neutrons, very little blast. The perfect capitalist tool. Kill people, spare property.
I watch Brian sleep.
“You have your own capitalist tools now. Don’t you, Viktor?”
“You mean my company?”
“A small private army, I hear.”
“Also intelligence unit. To protect our assets.”
“And scare the hell out of the competition.”
He tells me that the name of the company was his idea. Tchaika means seagull and refers poetically to the fact that the company’s basic business waste. He likes the way seagulls swoop down on garbage mounds and trail after ships waiting for the glint of jettison at the bow. It is a nicer name, besides, than Rat or Pig.
I look at Brian. It’s better than sleeping. I don’t want to sleep
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in a cozy room somewhere. I see us hurtling through the dark.
I tell Viktor there is a curious connection between weapons and waste. I don’t
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sort of bone heap and broken tool, literally from under the ground.
All those decades, he says, when we thought about weapons all the time and never thought about the dark multiplying byproduct.
“And in this case,” I say. “In our case, in our age. What we excrete comes back to consume us.”
We don’t dig it up, he says. We try to bury it. But maybe this is not enough. That’s why we have this idea. Kill the devil. And he smiles from his steeple perch. The fusion of two streams of history, weapons and waste. We destroy contaminated nuclear waste by means of nuclear explosions.

FAR FROM “FIXING” THE WASTE PROBLEM, THE 1AC INVESTS IT WITH DESIRE, MAKING IT OUR OBJET PETIT A. THAT DESTROYS OUR ABILITY TO HAVE A TRUE RELATIONSHIP TO THE WORLD
MCGOWAN ‘5 (Todd, Prof. of Film Studies @ U. of Vermont, “The Obsolescence of Mystery and the Accumulation of Waste in Don DeLillo’s Underworld” Critique, Vol. 46.2, pp. 123-125)
In Americana, Don DeLillo’s first novel, one of the characters, Buford Long
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threatens to consume us but also occupies most of our time and energy.
We are producing more and more waste without anywhere to put it, and thus
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). In Underworld, waste is everywhere, and it has become holy.
DeLillo does not simply chronicle the proliferation of garbage and its apotheosis in contemporary American
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manifestation of self-absorption and a lack of contact with the Other.
In Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud discusses biology as a metaphor for the functioning
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an influx of new “vital differences” that can sustain the subject.
At this point, Freud’s often-condemned “biologism” and Lacan’s understanding of
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the Other has lost this mysterious object that it once seemed to contain.
In Underworld, DeLillo chronicles the disappearance of the objet petit a in the Other
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the novel consists in helping us to come to terms with this shift.

GEOPOLITICAL BENEFITS ARE THE MACGUFFIN IN THE AFFIRMATIVE’S TALE. THEY DRIVE THE NARRATIVE, PROVIDE IT WITH A FALSE COHESION, AND KEEP OUR INTEREST. IN THE END, HOWEVER, THE REAL CHARACTER IS “WASTE,” THE KEY IS LOOKING THROUGH THE VIOLENCE THAT CONSTANTLY DISTRACT US.
VAN WYCK ‘4 (Peter C., Professor and Graduate Program Director of Comm. @ Concordia U., Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat, pp. x-xii)
As one brings a work to its conclusion, it seems inevitable to wonder if
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wonder if it is possible that the angel is pointing the wrong way.

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OUR ACT OF CRITICISM REVEALS THIS DEBATE REPRESENTS A CHOICE—REINSCRIBING DECISION-MAKING WITH CARE IS A PREREQUISITE TO CHALLENGING THE DRIVE TO CONSUME AND TREND TOWARD INDIVIDUATION THAT IS PREVENTING THE LEFT FROM THINKING A CHALLENGE TO THE MIS-GROWTH OF CAPITALISM
BARKER ‘9 (Stephen, Professor and Head of Doctoral Studies at The Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California at Irvine. “Transformation as an ontological Imperative: The Human Future according to Bernard Stiegler”, Transformations, http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/issue_17/article_01.shtml)
Meta-transformation means that just as the ego/moi contains and conceals the
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sense, become a program for a future of the human in a world of psychotechnological mystifications.

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THEIR PASTORAL FANTASY OF AN OCEAN UNSTAINED BY HUMAN INTERACTION REPLICATES VIOLENT COLONIALISM. ONLY A CATASTROPHIC ECOLOGY SOLVES THE AFF AND MAKES OCEAN RELATIONSHIP POSSIBLE
MENTZ ’12 (Steve, professor of English at St. John’s University in New York City, “After Sustainability” PMLA, pp. 586-588)
IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA WHILE IT LASTED, BUT WE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN
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skin is disruptive. Our environment changes constantly, unexpectedly, often painfully.
Moving beyond happy fictions of sustainability need not mean consigning ourselves to an unintelligible ecosphere
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After sustainability, we need dynamic narratives about our relation to the biosphere.
The most forthright public declaration of the postsustainability world comes from Bill McKibben. McKibben’s
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experiences suggest that departures from stability—catastrophes—constitute the real normal.
Intellectual frameworks for postsustainability appear in the two modeling sciences whose names are built on
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we expect and encounter radical disruption in all natural systems at all times.
Recent efforts to bridge postmodern theory and environmental literary criticism address ecocriticism’s delay in following
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dynamic and painful environment. Large parts of this history involve salt water.
Moving beyond sustainability requires different models for thinking about nonstable systems. That’s where the
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requires ornate provisional systems and visionary narrative glimpses of being in the world.
Fortunately, the poets have been there before us.

WE DON’T STORE WASTE AT YUCCA
ENS 9 (Environment News Service, http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2009/2009-05-08-092.asp)
WASHINGTON, DC, May 8, 2009 (ENS) - The Obama administration
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the project, and there is currently no official date set for opening.

FUSION LONG TF IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE – THEIR AUTHORS DELUDE THEMSELVES
FINKBEINER 8 (Ann,of Johns Hopkins University science writing program in NYT,”No Light at the End of the Test Tube,” Book Review, December 12,
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/books/review/Finkbeiner-t.html?_r=1andpagewanted=print)
Science has a cure for wishful thinking. It goes like this: You have
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the last half-century and it hasn’t worked, then enough already. 

WE DON’T HAVE THE CAPACITY TO DEVELOP FUSION
SILVERSTEIN 12 (Ken, Contributor and Energy Central Editor, "The Tantalizing Promise and Peril of Nuclear fusion," Forbes, April 15, www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2012/04/15/nuclears-strongest-potential-weapon-fusion/2/)
But others are more tempered, if not outright cynical about fusion technology. The
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but when you get down to practicalities, it is beyond our capabilities.”

FOUR INDEPENDENT REASONS WHY FUSION WILL NEVER PRODUCE NET ENERGY
DITTMAR 9 (Michael, Institute of Particle Physics ETH (Switzerland), November 13, 2009, “The Future of Nuclear Energy: Facts and Fiction: Chapter IV: Energy From Breeder Reactors and From Fusion?”, paper available at http://arxiv.org/pdf/0911.2628v1.pdf)
Producing electricity from controlled nuclear fusion would require overcoming at least four major obstacles.
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, serious enough to raise doubts about the success of commercial fusion reactors. 

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AFF MAKES SCIENCE NATIONALIST, TOOL OF IMPERIALISM. REJECT IT.
Michael PETERS, College of Education, Univ. of Illinois (2006), The Rise of Global Science and the Emerging Political Economy of International Research Collaborations. European Journal of Education, 41: 225–244.
Increasingly, emphasis has fallen on the economics and productivity of science in both firms
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emphasise national competitive advantage and to encourage research collaboration in global science projects.
Indeed, it is the age of global science, but not primarily in the
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from which it can be read, free of charge, online’.4
Global science as a term to describe the emerging geography of scientific knowledge and collaboration
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, new global problems and an enhanced global network of science communicative practice.

SECURITIZATION OF FOOD IS PART OF THE MASTER NARRATIVE OF MODERNITY – INFINITE PROGRESS, MAN CONQUERS NATURE – THAT CAN ONLY RESULT IN VIOLENCE AND CAPITALIST DESTRUCTION
MCMURRY ’12 (Andrew, Assoc. Prof. of English @ U. of Waterloo, “Framing Emerson's “Farming”: Climate Change, Peak Oil, and the Rhetoric of Food Security in the Twenty-First Century” Interdiscip Stud Lit Environ (Summer 2012) Vol. 19.3)
None of the foregoing will come as news to ecocritics or environmental rhetoricians, and
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minimally necessary to critique the disabling rhetoric of the mainstream food security discourse.
Toward that goal, I examine one such struggle, that between what I'll call
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which two-thirds of the world's people are already engaged (17).
I am not going to track this dichotomy in the expected places: in the
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invisible, with the farmer as the indispensable first man yet effectively disposable.
Rhetorically, this tension translates into a food security discourse that launches, on the
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their very existence calls forth our better selves and propels us toward prosperity.
Note that I am not claiming that the FSC has zero interest in the welfare
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-term profits, inequitable North/South consumption, and biophysical drawdown. 

LEADS TO INFINITE GENOCIDE
MCMURRY ’12 (Andrew, Assoc. Prof. of English @ U. of Waterloo, “Framing Emerson's “Farming”: Climate Change, Peak Oil, and the Rhetoric of Food Security in the Twenty-First Century” Interdiscip Stud Lit Environ (Summer 2012) Vol. 19.3)
The likely response from Fortress North Americans about such scenarios will be calls for an
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international agricultural markets when policy-makers intervene to secure domestic food needs.
Their point is that implementing restrictive trade policies does not make a country more food secure, only more vulnerable when it suffers its own poor harvests. This continent, then, cannot afford to look away as other parts of the world struggle with food shortfalls, imagining that North America can pursue food autarky. The next disastrous heat wave may not be in Russia or China, but in Iowa or Saskatchewan.
Higher food prices are by no means the direst consequence for North Americans as global
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environmental threat, the mass killing of the last century could repeat itself.”

Science diplomacy fails – no evidence that it produces more cooperation – their explanations are backwards
Dickson ‘9 David - Director, Science and Development Network, June 2: http://scidevnet.wordpress.com/category/new-frontiers-in-science-diplomacy-2009/
 One of the frustrations of meetings at which scientists gather to discuss policy-
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rather than a mechanism for securing cooperation where the political will is lacking. 

THEIR ATTRIBUTION OF HYPER-REALISM TO NORTH KOREA IS RACIST AND WRONG
SEND 2002 – Prof of Security Studies @ IDSS Singapore (Tan See, IDSS Commentary No. 28, “What Fear Hath Wrought: Missile Hysteria and The Writing of America”, http://www.sipri.org/contents/library/0210.pdf)

Otherness, in Wolfowitz’s rendition, is also discursively constituted along a moral/immoral
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are as much a part of Self as it is of the Other. 

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PARTICULARLY TRUE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE AFF, THE ONLY QUESTION IS ECONOMICS HE SAYS, WE HAVE TO MAKE SOLVING WARMING CHEAPER. THEIR STRATEGY TRANSFORMS US INTO A REPUBLIC OF CONSULTANTS
KYSAR 8 (Douglas A. Kysar, Professor of Law, Yale University, June 1, 2008, “The Consultants' Republic”, Harvard Law Review, Vol. 121 Issue 8, p2041-2084, 44p)
Again, marketing of this sort is nothing new. What does appear novel about
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frames will actually sell or, if they do, at what cost.

THIS IS TERMINALLY UNSUSTAINABLE AND RESULTS IN THE EXTINCTION OF OUR SOCIAL STRUCTURES AND COGNITION ITSELF.
STIEGLER ‘10 (Bernard, Philosopher @ Goldsmiths, U. of London, and Director of the Institut de recherché et d’innovation, Taking Care of Youth and the Generations, pp. 179-184)
In the current world, this ... no “science” that is not ruinous.

DEATH 1ST
THEY’VE CONCEDED OUR THESIS ON SUBJECTIVITY – THERE’S NO INDIVIDUAL SUBJECT, MERELY PROCESSES OF BECOMING THAT OPERATE COLLECTIVELY EITHER TOWARDS TRANS-INDIVIDUATION OR DE-INDIVIDUATION. THEIR QUESTIONS OF INDIVIDUAL VALUATION ARE MOOT POINTS, THAT DESIRE IS DETERMINED IN REVERSE BY MUTUAL BECOMING. CAPITULATION LIBIDINAL CAPITALISM MAKES LIFE NOT WORTH LIVING – TURNS AND SOLVES EVERY IMPACT
STIEGLER ’11 (Bernard, “PHARMACOLOGY OF SPIRIT: And that which makes life worth living” pp. 308-309)
That the time of the ... and how life is worth living.

PERM
2. CARE IS AN AXIOM, NOT AN ADD-ON. TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS THE IMAGINATION AND PRODUCES AN ONTOLOGICAL ALIENATION WHICH PREVENTS COLLECTIVE ACTION
CROGAN ‘10 (Patrick, an Australian researcher who has worked in what has become the Department of Creative Industries at UWE since 2008 “Bernard Stiegler: Philosophy, technics, and activism”, Cultural Politics, vol. 6)
Stiegler will introduce his account of digital technologies by characterizing the contemporary era as one
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Stiegler names “calendarity” and “cardinality” (2009a: 120).
Drawing on other accounts of information such as those of Alain Mineand Simon Nora (
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present” is made on an increasingly global scale (2009a: 134).

CONSEQUENTIALISM
THEIR MODE OF CALCULATING LESSER EVILS IS THE MOST EXTREME FORM OF VIOLENCE TODAY, JUSTIFYING WARS AND INDEFINITE STATE OF EXCEPTION – WE NEED TO REFUSE THESE PRAGMATIC CALCULATIONS
WEIZMAN ‘11 (Eyal, Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures @ Goldsmiths, U. of London, The Least of All Possible Evils, pp. 8-10)
Lesser Evildoers
The theological origins of the lesser evil ... ethics are grounded in this impossibility.17

MARCUSE

KAHN 10 (Richard Kahn, Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations and Research at the University of North Dakota, Critical Pedagogy, Ecoliteracy, and Planetary Crisis: The Ecopedagogy Movement, 2010, pp. 132-134)

Herbert Marcuse wrote an important essay, “Repressive Tolerance” (1965), in
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(such as the environmental movement) across the whole spectrum of society.

THEORY GOOD
OUR ARGUMENT IS NOT THAT THE STATE IS INHERENTLY EVIL, BUT THERE MUST BE SPACE FOR CRITICISM OUTSIDE THE STATE – THEIR DEMAND FOR US TO READ POLICY ARGUMENTS IS DESTRUCTIVE PSEUDO-MATERIALISM
WOLFE 11 (Cary, Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Prof. of English @ Rice U., “THEORY AS A RESEARCH PROGRAMME – THE VERY IDEA” Theory After Theory, pp. 45-48)
In this light, the task of theory is made doubly formidable when the corporate
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wonder why the 'science' that it aspires to would ever take it seriously.

Tournament: Shirley | Round: 5 | Opponent: Gtown Am | Judge: Ryan Beiermeister

1NC Containment

The 1AC continues a logic of containment that has defined American life since Hiroshima: we demonstrated the destructive power of the atom and have spent the last sixty years trying to contain the atom inside a specific social imaginary. This effort will inevitably fail and creates violent politics

Jasanoff and Kim ‘9 (Sheila, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies @ Harvard U., served on the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and as President of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Guggenheim Fellowship Recipient, Ehrenkreuz from Austria, and Sang-Hyun, PhD Candidate in Science and Technology Studies, Kennedy School of Government @ Harvard U. “Containing the Atom: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Nuclear Power in the United States and South Korea,” Minerva, Vol. 47, pp. 119-122)

Work in science and technology studies (STS) has done … of risk and benefit, public good, and nationhood.

This cycle results in extinction—we become willing participants in a regime of nuclear threat and environmental destruction

CHERNUS ‘86 (Ira, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, UC Boulder, Dr. Strangegod: On the Symbolic Meaning of Nuclear Weapons, p 136-140)

The similarities between the Bomb and other religious … our commitment to the Bomb as God.

We have to engage social imaginations through critical lenses or something.

Kinsella ‘5 (William, Associate Professor of Communication and directs the Interdisciplinary Program in Science, Technology and Society at North Carolina State University, “One Hundred Years of Nuclear Discourse: Four Master Themes and Their Implications for Environmental Communication” Environmental Communication Yearbook, Vol. 2., p. 67)

The theme of nuclear entelechy provides a … how we might choose that endpoint more consciously.

STIEGS

The 1ac’s call for nuclear energy production amounts to a marketing plow designed to ensure that social libidinal energies remain firmly driven towards consumption. This reduces the world to a series of objects and reifies a modern subject devoid of care, causing extinction

Stiegler ‘12 (Bernard, is Director of the Institut de recherché et d’innovation (IRI) and founder of Ars Industrialis and the Ecole de Philosophe d’Epineuil-le-Fleuriel. “Care: Within the limits of Capitalism, economizing means taking care” Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change Vol 1., Online)

We all know that in no case will this new global … is today called, in an am- biguous expression, ascendant innovation.

Capitalism reduces reality to crude economism – this instrumentality precludes ethics and results in inevitable environmental destruction

Morgareidge ‘98 (Clayton, Prof of Philosophy at Lewis and Clark College, Why Capitalism is Evil 08/22 http://www.lclark.edu/~clayton/commentaries/evil.html)

Now none of these philosophers are naive: none of … is on the table will ethics have a seat at the table.

The alternative is to refuse institutional tinkering in favor of reinvesting decision-making with care

Our act of criticism reveals this debate represents a choice—reinscribing decision-making with care is a prerequisite to challenging the drive to consume and trend toward individuation that is preventing the Left from thinking a challenge to the mis-growth of capitalism

Barker ‘9 (Stephen, Professor and Head of Doctoral Studies at The Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California at Irvine. “Transformation as an ontological Imperative: The Human Future according to Bernard Stiegler”, Transformations, http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/issue_17/article_01.shtml)

Meta-transformation means that just as … of psychotechnological mystifications.

Grid

SMRs fail—still are vulnerable and cause blackouts

Baker 12 (Matthew, American Security Project, “Do Small Modular Reactors Present a Serious Option for the Military’s Energy Needs?” http://americansecurityproject.org/blog/2012/do-small-modular-reactors-present-a-serious-option-for-the-militarys-energy-needs/)

The speakers at the DESC briefing … of nuclear technology are more costly than its benefits.

Natural disasters can’t kill the grid

Farrell et al, 02 - research engineer in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and the executive director of the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center (Alexander, “Bolstering the Security of the Electric Power System,” Issues in Science and Technology, Spring, http://www.issues.org/18.3/farrell.html)

Turning out the lights

Many terrorism scenarios involve … create terror or significant loss of life.

Squo solves infrastructure

Michael Aimone 9-12, Director, Business Enterprise Integration, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Installations and Environment), 9/12/12, Statement Before the House Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Security Technologies, http://homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/Testimony%20-%20Aimone.pdf

DoD’s facility energy strategy is also focused … Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi, to support base recovery.  

Cyber attacks aren’t a thing

Rid 12 (Thomas Rid, Department of War Studies, King's College London, “Think Again: Cyberwar,” March 2012) http:~/~/www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/02/27/cyberwar?page=com/articles/2012/02/27/cyberwar?page=full

"Cyberwar Is Already Upon Us." No way. "Cyberwar is coming!" John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt predicted in a celebrated Rand paper back in 1993. Since then, it seems to have arrived -- at least by the account of the U.S. military establishment, which is busy competing over who … cyberwar they are fighting.

Heg doesn’t solve anything

Fettweis 11

Christopher, Professor of Political Science @ Tulane, Dangerous Times?: The International Politics of Great Power Peace, pg. 172-174

The primary attack on restraint, or justification of internationalism, … that the United States was no less safe.

Water

The causal link between a lack of water and the decision for warfare is the result of ideology

Trottier ‘4 (Julie, U of Oxford and contributor at UNESCO’s Int’l Hyrdrological Programme, “Water Wars: The Rise of a Hegemonic Concept”, Online)

A main achievement of state power in modern … majority of the water war   literature focused on the Middle East.

Caspian war scenarios are falsely framed in order to justified continued hegemonic expansion and violence – becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, creates balancing against US.

Labban ‘9 (Mazen, Department of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Miami, “The Struggle for the Heartland: Hybrid Geopolitics in the Transcaspian” Geopolitics, Vol. 14.1)

In the absence of a self-sufficient Indian defence industry, …, as traditional geopolitics would have it, but its necessary product.

No exports – regulations

Dolley 12 (Steven Dolley, Managing Editor, Inside NRC, Platts Nuclear, “Export reform needed to increase US nuclear market share: NEI,” 10/01/12, http://www.platts.com/RSSFeedDetailedNews/RSSFeed/ElectricPower/6666149)

Export controls on technology related to nuclear power should be reformed to allow US companies to capture a larger share of growing international markets, the Nuclear Energy Institute said Monday. The US Department of Commerce estimates the world market for nuclear power technology, fuel and related services and equipment at "upwards of" $750 billion over the next 10 years, Richard Myers, vice president for policy … because the buyer looks elsewhere, he said.                                 

2NC

FRAMEWORK CARDS

Particularly true in the context of the aff, the only question is functioning networks, their strategy transforms us into a republic of computer engineers which makes nuclear auto-apocalypse inevitable

Stiegler ’11 (Bernard, “PHARMACOLOGY OF SPIRIT: And that which makes life worth living” pp. 299-300)

Knowledge is always constituted in a pharmacological …way of Augustine, Kant, Husserl, Einstein, and Bergson. (Derrida 2007: 388)

As knowledge is off-loaded from the individual to economic structures, we lose attention which is the internal link to care. Education collapses and absence of care becomes our relation to the world.

This is terminally unsustainable and results in the extinction of our social structures and cognition itself.

Stiegler ‘10 (Bernard, Philosopher @ Goldsmiths, U. of London, and Director of the Institut de recherché et d’innovation, Taking Care of Youth and the Generations, pp. 179-184)

In the current world, this metacare must … be no “science” that is not ruinous.

Consequentialism

Their mode of calculating lesser evils is the most extreme form of violence today, justifying wars and indefinite state of exception – we need to refuse these pragmatic calculations

Weizman ‘11 (Eyal, Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures @ Goldsmiths, U. of London, The Least of All Possible Evils, pp. 8-10)

Lesser Evildoers

The theological origins of the lesser evil … are grounded in this impossibility.¹⁷

Perm

2. Care is an axiom, not an add-on. Technology controls the imagination and produces an ontological alienation which prevents collective action

Crogan ‘10 (Patrick, an Australian researcher who has worked in what has become the Department of Creative Industries at UWE since 2008 “Bernard Stiegler: Philosophy, technics, and activism”, Cultural Politics, vol. 6)

Stiegler will introduce his account … increasingly global scale (2009a: 134).

Psych

They’ve conceded our thesis on subjectivity – there’s no individual subject, merely processes of becoming that operate collectively either towards trans-individuation or de-individuation. Their questions of individual valuation are moot points, that desire is DETERMINED in reverse by mutual becoming. Capitulation libidinal capitalism makes life not worth living – turns and solves every impact

Stiegler ’11 (Bernard, “PHARMACOLOGY OF SPIRIT: And that which makes life worth living” pp. 308-309)

That the time of the apres-coup has come is … and how life is worth living.

Tournament: Wake | Round: 7 | Opponent: NU KM | Judge:
Harvard Brassier 2NC
Solar death means extinction has happened
Brassier ‘10 (Ray, Prof. of Philosophy @ American U. of Beirut, Nihil Unbound, pp. 223-230)
This latter question lies at the heart of Jean-François Lyotard’s ‘Can Thought
AND
, initiates and terminates, the life and death with which philosophers reckon.

Only beginning from the already-present nature of our extinction creates possibility of an ethic of care
Clark ’10 (Nigel, senior lecturer in Geography at the Open University, “Ex-orbitant Generosity: Gifts of Love in a Cold Cosmos,” Parallax, Vol. 16.1)
In the face of the other, in its exposure to the elements, we
AND
turning away has a defining quality. If not us, then who?

Tournament: Fullerton | Round: Semifinals | Opponent: Georgetown AM | Judge: Buntin, Heidt, Weil
DEBATES OVER NUCLEAR POWER IN THE WAKE OF FUKUSHIMA RELY ON A CYCLE OF ANXIETY AND LARGE-SCALE VIOLENCE—ONLY BASING OUR POLITICS ON AN AFFECTIVE POLITICS OF ANTI-CAPITALISM CENTERED ON A REJECTION OF NUCLEAR POWER PREVENTS DISASTER CAPITALISM FROM DESTROYING THE EARTH
MASSUMI ‘11 (Brian, prof of communication, U Montreal, “The half-life of disaster,” The Guardian, April 15, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/15/half-life-of-disaster)
The world watched in horror ... an alter-politics of affect.

WE SHOULD NOT DEBATE THE TECHNICAL DETAILS OF NUCLEAR POWER—FUKUSHIMA CREATES AN OPPORTUNITY TO QUESTION THE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES OF THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY AND FORM A NEW AFFECTIVE RELATIONSHIP TO UNCERTAINTY
RIEU ‘12 (Alain-Marc Rieu is professor of contemporary philosophy and Science Studies at the University of Lyon-Jean Moulin and senior researcher at the Institute of East-Asian Study at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, “Thinking after Fukushima Epistemic shift in social sciences,” March 14, http://hal-ens-lyon.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/70/17/44/PDF/Rieu_KS_after_Fukushima_14-3-12.pdf)
The Fukushima catastrophe is opening ... legacy of the 20th century. 

Tournament: Fullerton | Round: Semifinals | Opponent: Georgetown AM | Judge: Buntin, Heidt, Weil
PERM

AFFECTIVE CONFUSION DA – PERM TRIES TWO CONTRADICTORY MOVEMENTS SIMULTANEOUSLY, CREATES AFFECTIVE INCOHERENCE.
CHERNUS ‘91 (Ira, Prof. of Religious Studies @ U. of Colorado, Boulder, “Nuclear Madness: Religion and Psychology of the Nuclear Age”, pp. 40-43)
“It is not enough to ... anyone speaks up at all.

RAGE DA – RAGE THAT CANNOT BE INTEGRATED INTO A PRODUCTIVE POLITICS SO IT DESTROYS THE PSYCHE, LEADS TO RESSENTIMENT, CAUSES DEPOLITICIZATION
WINLOW and HALL ’12 (Simon, professor of criminology at Teesside University, and Steve, professor of criminology at Teesside University, “A PREDICTABLY OBEDIENT RIOT: POSTPOLITICS, CONSUMER CULTURE, and the ENGLISH RIOTS of 2011” CULTURAL POLITICS, Vol. 8.3, pp. 481-482)
Peter Sloterdijk (2010) has argued persuasively ... consumerism, and “permissiveness” (see Hayward 2004; Stiegler 2011).

FRAMEWORK

ONLY A POLITICS THAT PLACES AFFECT CENTRAL CAN ESTABLISH THE CONDITIONS FOR BREAKING FROM THIS VIOLENCE AND RE-ORIENTING US INTO A COLLECTIVE ALTER-POLITICS AGAINST GLOBALIZATION AND VIOLENCE
MASSUMI ‘12 (Brian, prof etc., “Affective Attunement in a Field of Catastrophe,” A conversation between Erin Manning, Brian Massumi, Jonas Fritsch and Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen, July 12, http://www.peripeti.dk/2012/06/06/affective-attunement-in-a-field-of-catastrophe/)
THOMSEN: Brian, we were reading ... in diagrammatic, or biogrammatic, terms.

THE AFFECTIVE IS KEY TO DECISIONMAKING, IT DETERMINES THE ABILITY FOR OUR DECISIONMAKING SKILLS TO BE DEPLOYED IN WAYS THAT WE FIND MEANINGFUL AND POSITIVELY IMPACT OTHERS.
Alice M. ISEN, 1 (Johnson Graduate School of Management and Department of Psychology, Cornell University, An Influence of Positive Affect on Decision Making in Complex Situations: Theoretical Issues With Practical Implications THEORETICAL ISSUES WITH PRACTICAL IMPLICATIOSENSN, JOURNAL OF CONSUMER PSYCHOLOGY, 11(2), 75–85)
Decision Making
The findings of our decision-making ... another topic for further research.

Tournament: Dartmouth RR | Round: 1 | Opponent: Wake LM | Judge: Brovero
NEOLIB
THE IMPACT IS EXTINCTION – MULTIPLE SCENARIOS – ONLY RADICAL REORIENTATION OF OUR POLITICS CAN SOLVE
PARR ’13 (Adrian, Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy and Environmental Studies @ U. of Cincinnati, THE WRATH OF CAPITAL: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics, pp. 145-147)
A quick snapshot of the … it may all be over.

A2 KUZNETS
THE WARRANT TO THIS IS KUZNETS CURVE: THEY DON’T READ ANY WARRANTS TO WHY THAT’S TRUE. BUT, IT’S WRONG AND ENTRENCHES MARKET NEOLIBERALISM, THE SYSTEM ISN’T SUSTAINABLE:
YORK ET AL. 3 (York et al.  Richard York, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon, Eugene A. Rosa is Professor of Sociology, the Edward R. Meyer Professor of Natural Resource and Environmental Policy, an Affiliated Professor of Environmental Science, and an Affiliated Professor of Fine Arts at Washington State University. Thomas Dietz is Professor of Sociology and Crop and Soil Science and Director of the Environmental Science and Policy Program at Michigan State University. “Footprints on the Earth: The Environmental Consequences of Modernity”, American Sociological Review, Vol. 68, No. 2 (Apr., 2003), pp. 279-300
Producers continually seek to reduce … expansion and toward ecological sustainability.

PERM
NEGOTIATION DA – NEOLIBERALISM SPLINTERS ALTER-POLITICAL RESISTANCE BY ACCEPTING SMALL DEMANDS WHILE LEAVING THE STRUCTURE OF THE ECONOMY ITSELF UNQUESTIONED CAUSING EXTINCTION VIA MULTIPLE SCENARIOS
PARR ’13 (Adrian, Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy and Environmental Studies @ U. of Cincinnati, THE WRATH OF CAPITAL: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics, pp. 5-6)
The contradiction of capitalism is … problems on a growing list.

WATER PRIVATIZATION LINK
NOT A DISAD BUT A LINK: WATER PRIVATIZATION AND MASSIVE INDUSTRIAL USAGE IS THE ROOT CAUSE OF SHORTAGES GLOBALLY. NEOLIBERALISM MAKES SOLVING WATER CRISIS IMPOSSIBLE WHICH MEANS THE K COMES FIRST
PARR ’13 (Adrian, Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy and Environmental Studies @ U. of Cincinnati, THE WRATH OF CAPITAL: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics, pp. 69-72)
Neither privatization nor vertical or … connected to the neoliberalization of life.

FRAMEWORK
UTOPIANISM GOOD
PARR ’13 (Adrian, Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy and Environmental Studies @ U. of Cincinnati, THE WRATH OF CAPITAL: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics, pp. 7)
Environmental change exposes problems inherent to the modern political order and presents that order with a crisis. Although this book is very … aspirations present lose their relevance.

THEY DON’T MAKE US POLICYMAKERS, THEY MAKE US CONSULTANTS: WE BECOME INTELLECTUAL GUNS FOR HIRE, IRRESONSIBLY CRAFTING MARKETING STRATEGIES, INCAPABLE OF ADVOCATING SOCIAL CHANGE WHILE ENTRENCHING ENERGY OLIGARCHY
MASON ’13 (Arthur, Assistant Professor, Justice and Social Inquiry, School of Social Transformation, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences @ Arizona State U., “Cartel Consciousness and Horizontal Integration in Energy Industry” Cultures of Energy: Power, Practices, Technologies, 2013, pp. 126-129)
The culture of power surrounding … is both believable and authoritative.
THEY’LL SAY WE’RE IVORY TOWER, BUT THEY’VE GOT IT BACKWARDS – THEY CONVERT DEBATE INTO AN ELITE CONSULTANTS’ SUMMIT WHICH TURNS THE AFF BY INCREASING ENERGY INSECURITY AND ENFORCING A CARTEL CONSCIOUSNESS BETWEEN COMPANIES CREATING OLIGOPOLY
MASON ’13 (Arthur, Assistant Professor, Justice and Social Inquiry, School of Social Transformation, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences @ Arizona State U., “Cartel Consciousness and Horizontal Integration in Energy Industry” Cultures of Energy: Power, Practices, Technologies, 2013, pp. 136)
Consulting firms, buoyed by venture … new world of energy insecurity.

Tournament: Dartmouth RR | Round: 4 | Opponent: Emory PS | Judge: Hester
SOLAR REITS LINKS
SOLAR IS NOT NEUTRAL, IT’S BECOMING AN INTERNATIONAL SPECULATIVE INDUSTRY, DESTROYS INNOVATION, CREATES HOMOGENIZATION
PARR ’13 (Adrian, Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy and Environmental Studies @ U. of Cincinnati, THE WRATH OF CAPITAL: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics, pp. 15-16)
A rising powerful transnational industry … ecological cycles, and future lives.

THE REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS REPRESENT THE MOVE TOWARDS SPECULATIVE CAPITAL IN WHICH CORPORATIONS ARE ABLE TO MANIPULATE TAX CODE IN ORDER TO MANUFACTURE ECONOMIC STATISTICS AND MAINTAIN A FUNDAMENTALLY UNFAIR ECONOMIC SYSTEM
HUDSON ‘10 (Michael, “The transition from industrial capitalism to a financialized bubble,” Working paper, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, http://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/56980/1/637223349.pdf)
Land is not depreciable. Being … against other sources of income.

Tournament: Dartmouth RR | Round: 7 | Opponent: Mary Washington MM | Judge: Hardy
Thesis: Oceanic drilling is not simply a form of energy production, but a continuation of violent neoliberal subjectivity.

Fracking technologies are kept behind lock and key, privatizing land and water to fuel the few. Paid-off experts lie to support it and evidence of its danger is hidden away, just like the plan text strategically hides the term. This is a priori unethical and must be rejected
Michael H. Finewood and Laura J. Stroup, ‘12 (Finewood is an Assistant Professor of Sustainability at Chatham University’s School of Sustainability and the Environment in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Stroup is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at St. Michael’s College in Colchester, VT, “Fracking and the Neoliberalization of the Hydro-Social Cycle in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale”, Universities Council on Water Resources Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education Issue 147, Pages 72-79, March 2012)
In the remainder of this ... for a more equitable future.

The impact to violent oceanic thinking is extinction
Brayton ’12 (Dan, associate professor in the Department of English and American Literatures and the Program in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, “Writ in Water: Far Tortuga and the Crisis of the Marine Environment,” PMLA, pp. 565-566)
ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE HAUNTS THE EARLY ... our current level of exploitation (53)?

Our alternative is to refuse the neoliberal enclosure of offshore rigs for the purpose of fracking. Instead, we imagine offshore rigs used otherwise

There are two ways of thinking the offshore platform: our way suggests that these become spaces for a reconceptualization of life away from neoliberal capitalism and resource extraction. However, far from a step toward sustainability, the aff’s retreat into the Ocean for drilling mimicks a history of science fictional yearning for an escape from the greed and corruption of Earth to an autonomous, isolated world re-entrenching market logic
Beal ‘6 (Justin, Artist and Social Theorist, MFA from USC, “Oil and Water: Offshore Architecture” Transportable Environments 3, pp. 37-38)
The megastructure
It could be that one ... no one finds oil on Mars.

Tournament: Dartmouth RR | Round: 7 | Opponent: Mary Washington MM | Judge: Hardy
ALTERNATIVE EXTENSION
THE METAPHOR OF ANTARCTICA IS USEFUL FOR THINKING ABOUT THE WAY THAT REGIONS LIKE THE US OCS BECOME POLARIZED, SPLIT BETWEEN A PURE LAND THAT BECOMES DEVASTATED AND A ZONE UNDER TOTAL PRESSURE. TURNS WARMING
GLASBERG ’13 (Elena, Lecturer in the Writing Program @ Princeton U., Antarctica as Cultural Critique: The Gendered Politics of Scientific Exploration and Climate Change, pp. 132-135)
Climate had functioned much like … overly secured, too-knowable past.

OCS BAD FOR OCEAN
OCS WRECKS OCEANS AND THE WILDLIFE
DOW ‘12 (DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE, "OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF DRILLING", https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=vandq=cache:0hRYuUTRu6wJ:www.defenders.org/publications/impacts_of_outer_continental_shelf_drilling.pdf+andhl=enandgl=usandpid=blandsrcid=ADGEESimvF33YzLvIENzYCceMo6rbZBgGL_qq52L3lPQbQp9oCH-vySHbDLITJDlQ61o__xCzITqYc56OWssn5OEjL5C7HATlZWYsBP4Ec9SoxALLnh9Rk0NY_ANjAdUgfb3vh0C-e31andsig=AHIEtbSgOUGu_Q4pEWJM2fsBDGMuNjtfvA
Ocean Floor. Drilling infrastructure permanently ... contaminants in fish we eat.

SPILLS AND ACCIDENTS DEVASTATES THE OCEAN AND THE ANIMALS
DOW ‘12 (DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE, "OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF DRILLING", https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=vandq=cache:0hRYuUTRu6wJ:www.defenders.org/publications/impacts_of_outer_continental_shelf_drilling.pdf+andhl=enandgl=usandpid=blandsrcid=ADGEESimvF33YzLvIENzYCceMo6rbZBgGL_qq52L3lPQbQp9oCH-vySHbDLITJDlQ61o__xCzITqYc56OWssn5OEjL5C7HATlZWYsBP4Ec9SoxALLnh9Rk0NY_ANjAdUgfb3vh0C-e31andsig=AHIEtbSgOUGu_Q4pEWJM2fsBDGMuNjtfvA
Spills, Leaks and Catastrophes. Even ... from debilitating illness and injury.

CAUSES AIR POLLUTION
DOW ‘12 (DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE, "OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF DRILLING", https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=vandq=cache:0hRYuUTRu6wJ:www.defenders.org/publications/impacts_of_outer_continental_shelf_drilling.pdf+andhl=enandgl=usandpid=blandsrcid=ADGEESimvF33YzLvIENzYCceMo6rbZBgGL_qq52L3lPQbQp9oCH-vySHbDLITJDlQ61o__xCzITqYc56OWssn5OEjL5C7HATlZWYsBP4Ec9SoxALLnh9Rk0NY_ANjAdUgfb3vh0C-e31andsig=AHIEtbSgOUGu_Q4pEWJM2fsBDGMuNjtfvA
A ir Pollution. A 2004 inventory ... and 66% of sulfur dioxide.

OCS CAUSES INVASIVE SPECIES
DOW ‘12 (DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE, "OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF DRILLING", https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=vandq=cache:0hRYuUTRu6wJ:www.defenders.org/publications/impacts_of_outer_continental_shelf_drilling.pdf+andhl=enandgl=usandpid=blandsrcid=ADGEESimvF33YzLvIENzYCceMo6rbZBgGL_qq52L3lPQbQp9oCH-vySHbDLITJDlQ61o__xCzITqYc56OWssn5OEjL5C7HATlZWYsBP4Ec9SoxALLnh9Rk0NY_ANjAdUgfb3vh0C-e31andsig=AHIEtbSgOUGu_Q4pEWJM2fsBDGMuNjtfvA
Invasive Species. Ships, drilling equipment ... be spread by drilling equipment.

THEY KILL THE BIRDS
DOW ‘12 (DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE, "OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF DRILLING", https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=vandq=cache:0hRYuUTRu6wJ:www.defenders.org/publications/impacts_of_outer_continental_shelf_drilling.pdf+andhl=enandgl=usandpid=blandsrcid=ADGEESimvF33YzLvIENzYCceMo6rbZBgGL_qq52L3lPQbQp9oCH-vySHbDLITJDlQ61o__xCzITqYc56OWssn5OEjL5C7HATlZWYsBP4Ec9SoxALLnh9Rk0NY_ANjAdUgfb3vh0C-e31andsig=AHIEtbSgOUGu_Q4pEWJM2fsBDGMuNjtfvA
Birds. Spills pose direct mortality ... sensitive coastal habitats and marshes.

CHINA
THE RHETORIC OF CHINA’S AGGRESSION IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA IS PART OF A LARGER DISCOURSE OF ECONOMIC SECURITIZATION – TURNS CASE
NILSSON ‘12 (Fredrik, Lund University Graduate School in Poly Sci, “Securitizing China’s ‘Peaceful Rise’ An Empirical Study of the U.S. Approach to Chinese Trade Practices, Military Modernization and Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea”, http://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFileandrecordOId=2740544andfileOId=2743569)
The main objective of this ... might result in increasing unpredictability.

Tournament: Northwestern | Round: 3 | Opponent: Georgia | Judge: Heather Walters
TRANSITION WAR INEVITABLE – CAPITAL ACCUMULATION AND SOCIAL PEACE ARE ZERO-SUM IN THE US AND GLOBALLY
LI ‘13 (Minqi, Former Neoliberal Economist, Now Socialist and Assist. Prof. in Dept. of Econ @ U. of Utah, “The 21st Century: Is There An Alternative (to Socialism)?” Science and Society, Vol. 77, No. 1, pp. 31-32)
Over the past century and ... the middle classes) at home.5

Tournament: Northwestern | Round: 3 | Opponent: Georgia | Judge: Heather Walters
THE ALTERNATIVE PLACES THE QUESTION OF TRUST FIRST: BUILDING NEW TECHNOLOGICAL MONUMENTS DOESN’T SOLVE IF THERE IS NO SYSTEM OF GLOBAL TRUST IN PLACE TO MAKE THOSE STRUCTURES WORK – THE IMPACT TO THIS IS APOCALYPTIC SOCIAL SUICIDE
STIEGLER ’13 (Bernard, Philosopher @ Goldsmiths, U. of London, and Director of the Institut de recherché et d’innovation, Uncontrollable Societies of Disaffected Individuals: Disbelief and Discredit, Volume 2, trans. Daniel Ross, p. 47-49)
It seems increasingly plausible that ... and before all other initiatives.

Tournament: Northwestern | Round: 3 | Opponent: Georgia | Judge: Heather Walters
GRAMMAR OF INCORPORATION – DEPOLITICIZES RIVAL IDEOLOGIES BY SELECTIVE INCORPORATION RENDERING THE ALT UNREADABLE WITHIN THE PERM
ANILI ‘13 (Bruno, Assist. Prof. @ Kalamazoo College, “Liberal incorporations: Kymlicka, Pettit and the grammar of hegemony” Journal of Political Ideologies, Vol. 18:1, pp. 17-19)
Here, Freeden points to liberalism’s ... content remains ineffable to liberalism.

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
LNG sustains fossil fuel capitalism by locking coastal regions into crony LNG capitalism, creates violent nationalistic politics
Zalik ‘8 (Anna, teaches in the Faculty of Environmental Studies @ York U. in Toronto, “Liquefied Natural Gas and Fossil Capitalism” Monthly Review, http://monthlyreview.org/2008/11/01/liquefied-natural-gas-and-fossil-capitalism)
Yet, the shifting of LNG ... increasing public scrutiny and critique.

DESIRE – THE 1AC UTILIZES THE ARCTIC AS AN EMPTY SPACE UPON WHICH TO PROJECT OUR DESIRES. THE 1AC REPLICATES COLONIAL HISTORY BY FAILING TO INTERROGATE THEIR UNWITTING ASSUMPTION OF THE MYSTERIOUSNESS OF THE ARCTIC
CRACIUN ’10 (Adriana, professor of English at the university of california, riverside, “The Frozen Ocean” PMLA, pp. 693-694)
“There is no sea with ... the elemental) with uncommon force.

Tournament: Northwestern | Round: 8 | Opponent: MSU BC | Judge: Nick Miller
THE IDEA THEY ELIMINATE WASTE IGNORES A BROADER STRUCTURING CLAIM: CAPITALISM FUNCTIONS BY CREATING WASTE, HUMAN AND OTHERWISE, THEY CAN’T ELIMINATE IT, THEY COMMODIFY IT
MCGOWAN ‘5 (Todd, Prof. of Film Studies @ U. of Vermont, “The Obsolescence of Mystery and the Accumulation of Waste in Don DeLillo’s Underworld” Critique, Vol. 46.2, pp. 139-140)
Because, as the refuse of ... the world of global capitalism.

THE IMPACT IS A GLOBAL HOLOCAUST – PARTICULARLY TRUE IN THE WAY THEY FIT SOCIETY TO FUSION
BOTTING and WILSON ‘97 (Fred, Prof. Institute for Cultural Research @ Lancaster U. and Scott, Prof. in School of Humanities @ Kingston U., London, “Introduction: From Experience to Economy,” The Bataille Reader, ed. Botting and Wilson, p. 31-32 rg)
Except unthinkable (non-commodifiable) modes ... malfunctioning, deformed bodies. The horror . . .

Tournament: Northwestern | Round: 8 | Opponent: MSU BC | Judge: Nick Miller
THEIR UNPROBLEMATIC AFFIRMATION OF DEMINING FOCUSED EXCLUSIVELY ON TECH AND NUMBERS ENTRENCHES VIOLENT DEVELOPMENT IDEOLOGY
MATHER ‘2 (Charles, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, Bernard Price Building, University of the Witwatersrand, “Maps, measurements, and landmines: the global landmines crisis and the politics of development” Environment and Planning A 2002, volume 34)
The analysis in the previous ... where it would be stored (IDRC, 1999).(6)

THEIR GENEVA CALL EVIDENCE IS THE NGO RHETORIC MATHER CRITICIZES, THOSE REPRESENTATIONS SHAPE REALITY IN THE CONTEXT OF LANDMINES. EXTINCTION
DUFFIELD ‘8 (Mark, Dept. of Politics, U. of Bristol, “Global Civil War: The Non-Insured, International Containment and Post-Interventionary Society,” Journal of Refugee Studies Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 161-162)
This essay began with the ... our own terms of engagement.

WE HAVE A SPECIFIC SCENARIO—THE FOCUS ON LANDMINES LEGITIMIZES PRECISION-GUIDED MUNITIONS
BEIER ‘7 (J. Marshall, Asst. Prof of PoliSci at McMaster University, “Disarming Politics: Arms, Agency, and the (Post)Politics of Disarmament Advocacy,” www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2007/Beier.pdf)
Pressing for a ban on ... ban landmines have been confined.

Tournament: Northwestern | Round: 8 | Opponent: MSU BC | Judge: Nick Miller
LIMITLESS FUSION CLAIMS ARE THE LINK, SPEEDING UP THE ECONOMY WITH MASSIVE RESOURCE INFUSIONS MISUNDERSTANDS THE SOCIAL ISSUE – IT’S NOT THE TYPE OF ENERGY, WE NEED TO SLOW IT DOWN
MIELE ‘8 (Mara, School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University, “CittàSlow: Producing Slowness against the Fast Life” Space and Polity, Vol. 12, No. 1)
However, the translation of Slowness ... tools and players are combined.

FAST CAPITALISM ENSURES ENVIRONMENTAL COLLAPSE, RESOURCE WARS, AND EXTINCTION
SIMONS ’10 (Petrus, Former Trader and Economist, PhD in Philosophy, Accelerate or Slow Down, Stimulus: The New Zealand Journal of Christian Thought and Practice, Vol. 18 (2010): 32-25)
Paul Virilio’s metaphor of a ... more painfully that speed kills.

Tournament: Northwestern | Round: Doubles | Opponent: WGA GM | Judge:
1NC CAP
THE CALL FOR PRODUCTION OF NEW FORMS OF ENERGY IS NOT NEUTRAL, IT’S BECOMING AN INTERNATIONAL SPECULATIVE INDUSTRY, WHICH ENTRENCHES TECHNOLOGICAL COLONIALISM BY CORPORATE POWERS
PARR ’13 (Adrian, Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy and Environmental Studies @ U. of Cincinnati, THE WRATH OF CAPITAL: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics, pp. 15-16)
A rising powerful transnational industry ... ecological cycles, and future lives.

THE RHETORIC OF INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY SPLINTERS MOVEMENTS AND DESTROYS EFFECTIVE CHALLENGES TO NEOLIBERALISM
BROWN ‘7 (Michael, Lambert Prof. of Anthropology and Latin American Studies at Williams College, “Sovereignty’s Betrayals”, Indigenous Experience Today 177-8)
Other critiques focus on the ... hierarchy with other subaltern groups” (2001: 44).

WE CANNOT SIMPLY FOOTNOTE THE CRITICISM OF CAPITALISM—ONLY A PRIORITIZATION OF CLASS STRUGGLE HAS THE POTENTIAL OF UNIVERSALIZING OUR FORM OF POLITICS
MCLAREN AND D’ANNIBALLE ‘4 (Peter, Professor at the Graduate School of Education at UCLA, and Valerie “Class Dismissed? Historical materialism and the politics of ‘difference’”, Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia)
In stating this, we need ... super-exploitation of women’s labor. (Kovel, 2002, pp. 123–124)

DE-REGULATED NEOLIBERAL CAPITALISM WILL CAUSE EXTINCTION – POVERTY, MASSIVE WARS, ECONOMIC DECLINES AND FINALLY THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION OF THE BIOSPHERE THROUGH WARMING.
 PARR ’13 (Adrian, Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy and Environmental Studies @ U. of Cincinnati, THE WRATH OF CAPITAL: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics, pp. 145-147)
A quick snapshot of the ... it may all be over.

OUR ALTERNATIVE IS UNCONDITIONALITY FIDELITY TO THE TRUTH EVENT OF COMMUNISM IN THE CONTEXT OF INDIGENOUS ECONOMIC CONCERNS
THIS ROUND IS KEY – LET THE DISCUSSION BECOME A METAPHORIC CONDENSATION FOR COMMUNISM. VOTING NEGATIVE MEANS THE BATTLE IS ALREADY WON.
BADIOU ‘10 (Alain, Prof. @ European Graduate School, Former chair of Philosophy @ École Normale Supérieure, The Idea of Communism, pgs. 11-13 bb)
We will now ask: why ... We can, so we must.

Tournament: Northwestern | Round: Doubles | Opponent: WGA GM | Judge:
THE AFFIRMATIVE’S AUTOETHNOGRAPHY ENDEAVOURS TO MAKE VISIBLE A NATIVE POPULATION DAMAGED BY THE GOVERNMENT, INCAPABLE OF PRODUCING ENERGY. THEY DO NOT JUST MAKE THE NATIVES VISIBLE, BUT THEMSELVES AS WELL, THE ETHNOGRAPHER BECOMES THE FOCUS AT THE EXCLUSION OF ITS OBJECT – THIS IS THE DESTINY OF ANTHROPOLOGY, MAKING THE NATIVE VISIBLE TO DESTROY THEM IN THE GLASS COFFIN OF OUR CULTURAL GAZE.
BAUDRILLARD ‘81 (Jean, Ask Ewing, Simulaca and Simulacrum, https://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/baudrillard-simulacra_and_simulation.pdf)
Ethnology brushed up against its ... extended to all Western societies.

2NC – BAUDRILLARD

RATHER THAN ATTEMPT TO INFUSE MODERNITY WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF RED PEDAGOGY, ONLY TURNING OUR BACKS TO THE NATIVE PREVENTS THIS ACT OF DOUBLING WHICH REDUCES THE INDIGENOUS EXPERIENCE TO A FROZEN MOMENT OF AUTHENTICY—THIS MUSEUMIFICATION DESTROYS THE POWER OF THE OBJECT TO FRUSTRATE AND HAUNT THE SOVEREIGN GAZE WHICH, IN ITS OPACITY, IS THE ONLY ETHICAL OPTION—ANYTHING ELSE PRODUCES FURTHER COMMODIFICATION
BAUDRILLARD ‘81 (Jean, Ask Ewing, Simulaca and Simulacrum, https://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/baudrillard-simulacra_and_simulation.pdf)
But in the same breath ... the faces in funeral homes.

Tournament: Northwestern | Round: Doubles | Opponent: WGA GM | Judge:
DISPROPORTIONATELY EFFECTS POOR AND COLONIZED POPULATIONS
PARR ’13 (Adrian, Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy and Environmental Studies @ U. of Cincinnati, THE WRATH OF CAPITAL: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics, pp. 13-14)
We must recognize that global ... era of climate change operates.21

THE AFFIRMATIVE’S ASSUMPTION THAT SIMPLY GIVING NATIVES CONTROL OVER THEIR ECONOMIC FUTURE LEADS TO GOOD CAUSES IS NAÏVETY THAT FORGETS THE VIOLENT DOMINATION OF CORPORATE POWERS IN AMERICA. GAMING SERVES AS A CRITICAL EXAMPLE.
BROWN ‘7 (Michael, Lambert Prof. of Anthropology and Latin American Studies at Williams College, “Sovereignty’s Betrayals”, Indigenous Experience Today p. 181-2)
Even if one is convinced ... of miles from their reservation.

ENERGY POLICY ACT OF ’05 IS A GOOD INDICATION OF THE WAY THE AFF PLAN WILL BE USED – THAT LAW CREATED UNPRECEDENTED POWER FOR THE USFG TO GRANT RIGHTS OF WAY THROUGH INDIAN LAND IF IT WAS IN THE INTEREST OF AN ENERGY RELATED PROJECT – THE SEEMING BOON TO TRIBES WAS REALLY A GUTTING OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND HISTORICAL PRESERVATION ACTS AND U.S. TRUST OBLIGATIONS
AWEHALI 6-5-06 (Brian, LiP Magazine, http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/featawehali_nativefutures.htm)
But there are a host ... than 500,000 Native American landholders.

Tournament: Northwestern | Round: Doubles | Opponent: WGA GM | Judge:
VIEW FROM NOWHERE PRESENTS A PARADOX – THEY SUGGEST WHITENESS HAS NO PERSPECTIVE BUT REQUIRE YOURS TO VALIDATE THEIR POLITICAL PROJECT. THIS CREATES A COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE POLITICS OF WHITENESS THAT TURNS THE CASE
SULLIVAN ‘12 (Shannon, Penn State U., “On the Need for a New Ethos of White Antiracism” philoSOPHIA, vol. 2, pp. 23-27)
Today, however, guilt and especially … people’s moral sense of goodness.

IMPERSONAL TONE IS NOT VIEW FROM NOWHERE, BUT KEY TO AVOID REIFYING WHITE DOMINANCE
ROELOFS ‘5 (Monique, Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy @ Hampshire College, “Racialization as an Aesthetic Production” White on White/Black on Black pp. 111-112)
My reason for adopting the … of individual selves, mine included.

Tournament: Northwestern | Round: Sems | Opponent: Emporia | Judge:
WE CANNOT ASSUME AN UNPROBLEMATIC TRUTH OF PERSONAL NARRATIVE AND DISCLOSURE, THOSE ARE ALWAYS MARKED AND DETERMINED BY FLOWS OF CAPITAL
MCLAREN AND D’ANNIBALLE ‘4 (Peter, Professor at the Graduate School of Education at UCLA, and Valerie “Class Dismissed? Historical materialism and the politics of ‘difference’”, Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia)
This framework must be further ... a broad class-based approach.

NARRATIVE IS ALWAYS A QUESTION OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, WE CAN NEVER COMPELTELY SEVER QUESTIONS OF SPEECH AND PERFORMANCE FROM THE UNIVERSAL ECONOMIC STURCTURES THAT CONNECT REGIONS OF THE GLOBE. THE ALTERNATIVE IS A PRECONDITION TO DISSOLVING FORCED CODESWITCHING
GAL ’88 (Susan, Mae and Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, of Linguistics, and of Social Sciences @ U. of Chicago, “The political economy of code choice” Codeswitching: Anthropological and Sociolinguistic Perspectives, pp. 246-248)
To reach an understanding of ... transformation of broader sociopolitical relations.

CLASS IS THE ROOT CAUSE OF THESE DIFFICULTIES
MCLAREN AND D’ANNIBALLE ‘4 (Peter, Professor at the Graduate School of Education at UCLA, and Valerie “Class Dismissed? Historical materialism and the politics of ‘difference’”, Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia)
For example, E. San Juan (2003) ... position of these “racial” solidarities’.

THE GOAL OF CRITICAL PEDAGOGY MUST PRIMARILY BE TO CRITICIZE THE MATERIAL CONDITIONS OF CAPITALISM.
MCLAREN ‘5  (Peter, Professor at the Graduate School of Education at UCLA, Teaching against global capitalism and the new imperialism: a critical pedagogy, pg. 6-11)
As U.S. imperialism sinks its ... and incarnations of imperialism worldwide.

Tournament: NDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: Emory DH | Judge: Murray, Meiches, Clark
Stiegler
The 1ac’s call for nuclear fusion amounts to a marketing plow designed to ensure that social libidinal energies remain firmly driven towards consumption. This reduces the world to a series of objects and reifies a modern subject devoid of care, causing extinction
Stiegler ‘12 (Bernard, is Director of the Institut de recherché et d’innovation (IRI) and founder of Ars Industrialis and the Ecole de Philosophe d’Epineuil-le-Fleuriel. “Care: Within the limits of Capitalism, economizing means taking care” Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change Vol 1., Online)
We all know that in no case will this new global capitalism be able to
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is today called, in an am- biguous expression, ascendant innovation.

Capitalism reduces reality to crude economism – this instrumentality precludes ethics and results in inevitable environmental destruction
Morgareidge ‘98 (Clayton, Prof of Philosophy at Lewis and Clark College, Why Capitalism is Evil 08/22 http://www.lclark.edu/~clayton/commentaries/evil.html)
Now none of these philosophers are naive: none of them thinks that sympathy,
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capitalism is on the table will ethics have a seat at the table.

The alternative is to refuse institutional tinkering in favor of reinvesting decision-making with care
Our act of criticism reveals this debate represents a choice—reinscribing decision-making with care is a prerequisite to challenging the drive to consume and trend toward individuation that is preventing the Left from thinking a challenge to the mis-growth of capitalism
Barker ‘9 (Stephen, Professor and Head of Doctoral Studies at The Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California at Irvine. “Transformation as an ontological Imperative: The Human Future according to Bernard Stiegler”, Transformations, http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/issue_17/article_01.shtml)
Meta-transformation means that just as the ego/moi contains and conceals the
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program for a future of the human in a world of psychotechnological mystifications.

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent: Emory DH | Judge: Clark, Murray, Meiches
Renewables are the new casinos. Unfortunately, the natives are losing. Just as casino profits didn’t usher in new sovereignty and radical politics, solar panels merely lock tribes into new dependence
Vizenor ‘9 (Gerald, Distingished Prof. of American Studies @ U. of New Mexico, Prof. Emeritus, U. of California, Berkeley, Native Liberty: Natural Reason and Cultural Survivance, pp. 121-124)
Indian casino regimes could have considered a more impressive demonstration of sovereignty, an investment
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what are the “relationships between truth, power, and self?”40

They don’t solve internationally – not a single card

Not too late – but we need radical changes
Levin 13 (Kelly Levin, ClimateProgress, “Developed Nations Must Cut Emissions In Half By 2020, Says New Study,” 3/7/13) http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/03/07/1685881/developed-nations-must-cut-emissions-in-half-by-2020-says-new-study/

One new study shows that we have to reduce emissions even more than scientists initially
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°C goal is still attainable — if we act ambitiously and immediately.

Can’t adapt, extinction, have to try, alt
Hansen 8 (James Hansen, directs the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies,  adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, “Tell Barack Obama the Truth – The Whole Truth,” Nov/Dec 2008, http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2008/20081121_Obama.pdf)

Embers of election night elation will glow longer than any prior election. Glowing even
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unless China and India have low- and no-CO2 energy options.

Adaptation discourse is violent
Methmann and Rothe ‘12 (Chris Paul, U. of Hamburg, and Delf, U. of Hamburg, “Politics for the Day After Tomorrow: The logic of apocalypse in global climate politics” Security Dialogue, Vol. 43, pp. 333-334)

A change occurs, however, in those documents that are mainly concerned with the
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flow of information. Radical contingency replaces planning as the logic of government.

The recourse to modern conception of rights ensures that the aff’s call for environmental justice obfuscates the problematic methodological frame and risks REIFYING systems of thought that make unfair environmental distribution thinkable
Clark ‘10 (Timothy, Prof of English Studies, Durham University, “Some Climate Change Ironies: Deconstruction, Environmental Politics and the Closure of Ecocriticism”, Oxford Literary Review, 32 (1))
(3) The outmoded quest for a ‘liberatory’ method. Environmental questions are
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grievances, eco-criticism thus becomes the covert legitimation of consumer democracy.

The securitization of the climate migrant has ceded debate over climate change to the Defense-Industrial complex who use fear as justification for foreign intervention.
Hartmann ‘10 (Betsy, Prof. @ CLPP Hampshire College, “RETHINKING CLIMATE REFUGEES AND CLIMATE CONFLICT: RHETORIC, REALITY AND THE POLITICS OF POLICY DISCOURSE” Journal of International Development, Vol. 22, pp )
WHOSE FUTURE? THE PENTAGON, CLIMATE CHANGE AND AFRICA In 2003, the Pentagon
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and threatening to militarise not only climate policy, but also development aid.

Zero risk of their south Asia impact
Butcher ’10 (Bill, “India, Pakistan, the Bomb, and ‘Limited War,’” June 25, http://subversify.com/2010/06/25/india-pakistan-the-bomb-and-limited-war/, Mike)
Then, secondly, a nuclear deterrent is only effective if there’s a real threat
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All in all, we can dismiss the possibility of a nuclear war. 

No Russia war
Weitz 11 (Richard, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a World Politics Review senior editor 9/27/2011, “Global Insights: Putin not a Game-Changer for U.S.-Russia Ties,” http://www.scribd.com/doc/66579517/Global-Insights-Putin-not-a-Game-Changer-for-U-S-Russia-Ties)

Fifth, there will inevitably be areas of conflict between Russia and the United States
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of social communication, that will constrain whoever is in charge of Russia.

No andes intervention, no escalation impact, it’s non unqiue

Climate summits theatrically stage fake controversies to depoliticize the climate, entrench domination, and create failure cycles
Death ‘11 (Carl, Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth U., “Summit theatre: exemplary governmentality and environmental diplomacy in Johannesburg and Copenhagen” Environmental Politics, pp. 13-16)

The forms of exemplary government evident at summits like Johannesburg and Copenhagen suggest an evolving
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a subversive theatre of disruption, contestation and dissent will take the stage.

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent: Emory DH | Judge: Meiches, Murray, Clark
Framework
Our interp: aff reads a topical plan and neg tests the plan or its psychopolitical commitments.
The role of the ballot is to analyze the place of desire. State politics have been replaced by economic agents defining our behavior and what counts as knowledge – this is psychopower. They are a marketing strategy, which make some drives seem more productive, and the advantages are diversions of our attention.
As knowledge is off-loaded from the individual to economic structures, we lose attention which is the internal link to trust. Education collapses and absence of care becomes our relation to the world.
This is terminally unsustainable and results in the extinction of our social structures and cognition itself.
Stiegler ‘10 (Bernard, Philosopher @ Goldsmiths, U. of London, and Director of the Institut de recherché et d’innovation, Taking Care of Youth and the Generations, pp. 179-184)
In the current world, this metacare must become a psychopolitics, an industrial politics of
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, which there can be no “science” that is not ruinous.
Aff framework evidence goes our way – they don’t make us policymakers, they make us consultants: irresonsibly crafting marketing strategies, incapable of advocating social change. Judge choice proves: consultants never responsible for suggestions, flips how you evaluate: if you think they’re irresponsible in their knowledge production, choose to vote against them for that
Mason ’13 (Arthur, Assistant Professor, Justice and Social Inquiry, School of Social Transformation, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences @ Arizona State U., “Cartel Consciousness and Horizontal Integration in Energy Industry” Cultures of Energy: Power, Practices, Technologies, 2013, pp. 126-129)
The culture of power surrounding large-scale energy systems over the past century can
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to replicate an image of the future that is both believable and authoritative.
Debate is “memory” where knowledge is collectively stored. Framework is the ultimate marketing strategy. We should envision a debate of care directed against the forces of capitalism eviscerating our capacity to think. They don’t get a plan because it reacts to a non-existent model of the world.
The only portable skill debate gives us is investing desire in politics. They render the activity unsustainable, converting debate into an elite consultants’ summit which enforces cartel consciousness between companies – plan in a vacuum is smooth consultant jive.
Mason ’13 (Arthur, Assistant Professor, Justice and Social Inquiry, School of Social Transformation, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences @ Arizona State U., “Cartel Consciousness and Horizontal Integration in Energy Industry” Cultures of Energy: Power, Practices, Technologies, 2013, pp. 136)
Consulting firms, buoyed by venture capital, operate like transnational entities in which their
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who remain vulnerable and at risk in the new world of energy insecurity.
It doesn’t matter what decisions they give the judge, politics will continue to reproduce status quo violence unless it starts from the individual’s ability to be invested in the question of the aff itself. Arguments about other actors miss the point: politics has failed and only youth can create an alternative future.

Overview
Capitalism is driven by mis-growth – drive-based, rather than desire-based, subjects endlessly consume objects without a relation of care. Infinite creation of industrial objects has out-paced our capacity for attention. There is too much happening, so we off-load our intelligence to machines and culture, that’s dis-individuation.  The 1AC doesn’t just export tech, it exports our drive economy globally makes collapse inevitable and administration impossible: we lose TRUST in capitalism. They’ve conceded extinction: speculation causes economic wars of infinite magnitude and global desert of being, their defense is only CAPITALISM, not the speculative version Stiegler says is collapsing.
We control the internal-link to every form of violence
Parr ’13 (Adrian, Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy and Environmental Studies @ U. of Cincinnati, THE WRATH OF CAPITAL: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics, pp. 145-147)
A quick snapshot of the twenty-first century so far: an economic meltdown
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Sounds like a ticking time bomb, doesn't it? Well it is.
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must start from the point that after 2050 it may all be over.

Morgareige card, they eviscerate possibility of ethics, things can only be valued economically which also means they’re permanently at risk of reduction to nothing, independent Ethics DA, you CANNOT VOTE for an unethical worldview even if it has positive aspects.
Perm
Grammar of Incorporation – depoliticizes rival ideologies by selective incorporation rendering the alt unreadable within the perm
Anili ‘13 (Bruno, Assist. Prof. @ Kalamazoo College, “Liberal incorporations: Kymlicka, Pettit and the grammar of hegemony” Journal of Political Ideologies, Vol. 18:1, pp. 17-19)
Here, Freeden points to liberalism’s peculiar ability to deal with ‘potentially unsettling processes’
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comes to absorb certain non-liberal themes from a position of dominance.
Unlike Chomsky’s ‘colorless green ideas’, in fact, the non-liberal ideas
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of the semantic dimension with a study of the syntax that underpins it.
That liberalism may exercise the versatility of its discursive infrastructure by incorporating non-liberal
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incorporation may be clearly exposed as some political content remains ineffable to liberalism.
Links

Securitization of food is part of the master narrative of Modernity – infinite progress, man conquers nature – that can only result in violence and capitalist destruction
McMurry ‘12 (Andrew, Assoc. Prof. of English @ U. of Waterloo, “Framing Emerson's “Farming”: Climate Change, Peak Oil, and the Rhetoric of Food Security in the Twenty-First Century” Interdiscip Stud Lit Environ (Summer 2012) Vol. 19.3)
None of the foregoing will come as news to ecocritics or environmental rhetoricians, and
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-term profits, inequitable North/South consumption, and biophysical drawdown. 

Neoliberalism makes solving water crisis impossible – K comes first
Parr ’13 (Adrian, Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy and Environmental Studies @ U. of Cincinnati, THE WRATH OF CAPITAL: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics, pp. 69-72)
Social relations (intersections of class, race, gender, and sexuality), material
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and to recognize that this relationship is connected to the neoliberalization of life.

Gratton evidence concludes neg, here’s the bottom, it’s also a reason we win framework:
Gratton ‘10 (Peter, University of San Diego, “Bernard Stiegler: Taking Care of Youth and the Generations” Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/24441-taking-care-of-youth-and-the-generations/)
The point is not to dismiss Stiegler's approach, but to show attention to the
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can take care of ourselves and generate change than returning to old Europe.
Not conservative – t/ only way to solve war of all against all
Stiegler ‘10 (Bernard, is Director of the Institut de recherché et d’innovation (IRI) and founder of Ars Industrialis and the Ecole de Philosophe d’Epineuil-le-Fleuriel, “Knowledge, Care, and Trans-Individuation: An Interview with Bernard Stiegler”, Cultural Politics, http://culturalpolitics.dukejournals.org/content/6/2/157.full)
This is a radical revolution, in the sense that it necessitates starting again at
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just because the Right concerns itself with them doesn't mean they aren't problems.
The question that interests me above all is: why doesn't the Left concern itself
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all. We are very close to the war of each against all.

Iveson
Links more to aff, progress/modernity are violent
Iveson ’11 (Richard, PhD from the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London
Taking the multiply-penetrated bodies of nonhuman animals as an example, I aim
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technologies of power become once again economically profitable and politically useful.v
In other words, it is only at the intersection of security’s reactivation of disciplinarity
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, that is, for the “civilised” citizens of the North.

Can’t Change Consumption
99.9% of human history lived with 0 growth, myth of growth-based human nature causes extinction
Rees 10 (William, Prof. of Community and Regional Planning @ U. of British Columbia, 2010, “Whats blocking sustainability? Human nature, cognition, and denial”, Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy vol. 6 no. 2)
Humans are not only biological entities, but also social and cultural beings. Much
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have helped boost the human enterprise beyond long-term global carrying capacity.

Growth Good
Transition war inevitable – capital accumulation and social peace are zero-sum in the US and globally
Li ‘13 (Minqi, Former Neoliberal Economist, Now Socialist and Assist. Prof. in Dept. of Econ @ U. of Utah, “The 21st Century: Is There An Alternative (to Socialism)?” Science and Society, Vol. 77, No. 1, pp. 31-32)
Over the past century and a half, the long-term tendency towards rising
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 “social peace” (that is, to secure the political loyalty of the middle classes) at home.5

We’re not going for war, however capitalism doesn’t solve it. Solving climate change impossible inside capitalism – cites all their authors
Li ‘13 (Minqi, Former Neoliberal Economist, Now Socialist and Assist. Prof. in Dept. of Econ @ U. of Utah, “The 21st Century: Is There An Alternative (to Socialism)?” Science and Society, Vol. 77, No. 1, pp. 33-37)
Historically, the core states (Western Europe and North America) have been responsible
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this would only reduce the world average emission intensity by 2.5%.
Imagine that in the future the emission intensity reduction rate can be increased to three percent a year; then to achieve a four percent annual reduction of carbon dioxide emissions, the world economy still needs to contract at an annual rate of one percent.6

No War !
The climate = conflict metaphor is violent, silences alternative modes of thinking, creates a self-fulfilling prophecy, ignores already existing violence
Mayer ‘12 (Maximilien, U. of Bonn, “Chaotic Climate Change and Security” International Political Sociology, Vol. 6.2)
Naturalizing Climate Conflicts
Another practice that underpins the stability of the assemblage is the manner in which
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absence of quantifiable indicators, elaborated computer-simulations, and uncontested knowledge.

The alternative places the question of trust first: building new technological monuments doesn’t solve if there is no system of global trust in place to make those structures work – the impact to this is a social suicide
Stiegler ’13 (Bernard, Philosopher @ Goldsmiths, U. of London, and Director of the Institut de recherché et d’innovation, Uncontrollable Societies of Disaffected Individuals: Disbelief and Discredit, Volume 2, trans. Daniel Ross, p. 47-49)
It seems increasingly plausible that it will soon no longer be possible to speak of
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themselves), and in strongly demanding them, and before all other initiatives.

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Pettman K 1NC
THE AFFIRMATIVE’S EMPHATIC DEPLOYMENT OF DRILLING AIMS AT A REPRESSION OF THEIR OWN SEXUAL IMPULSES BY CALLING ON THE BIG OTHER OF THE MARKET TO REGULATE IMPOSSIBLE GEOPOLITICS. EVISCERATES VALUE TO LIFE, CAUSES EXTINCTION
Pettman ‘11 (Dominic, associate professor of culture and media at The New School, Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines, p. 182-8)
Not content with Utopian images of reconciliation or redemption, Lyotard thus talks of ^
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to escape the terrifying duplicity of surfaces pervaded with pulsions" (256).

OUR ALTERNATIVE IS TO TAP THE COLLECTIVE ASS
WE HAVE TO BEGIN FROM THE MICROPOLITICAL QUESTION OF DESIRE IN ORDER TO REASSEMBLE A RHIZOMATIC DEMOCRACY
Pettman ‘11 (Dominic, associate professor of culture and media at The New School, Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines, p. 189-90)
Later still, in another watershed year—1989—Guattari published The Three Ecologies
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be familiar to us, under the alternative name of "epiphylogenetic memory."

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge: 

Lazzarato K
1NC
CONTEMPORARY GOVERNMENTALITY FUNCTIONS BY EXPANDING STATE CONTROL OF ENERGY RESOURCES AND SYSTEMS OF SUBJECTIVITY FORMATION WHERE HUMANS ARE PUSHED TO CONDUCT THEMSELVES IN WAYS THAT ARE PURELY RATIONAL AND CALCULATIVE – THIS IS MONO-POLITICS
Joronen ‘13 (Mikko, Department of Geography and Geology, Geography Section, University of Turku, Finland, “Conceptualising New Modes of State Governmentality: Power, Violence and the Ontological Mono-politics of Neoliberalism” Geopolitics, 00:1–15, pp. 7-9)
Heidegger’s notion of massive and gigantic spread of enframing as a particular ontological assembling of
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but instead to explore the complex ways of their “demonic combination”.43

A POLICY MAKING ROOTED IN THESE STRUCTURES OF GOVERNMENTALITY CAN ONLY MANIFEST IN VIOLENT POLICIES
Burke ‘7 (Anthony, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at UNSW, Sydney,  “Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence and Reason”, Theory and Event, 10.2, Muse)
My argument here, whilst normatively sympathetic to Kant’s moral demand for the eventual abolition
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to end the global rule of insecurity and violence? Will our thought?

VOTE NEGATIVE TO AFFIRM A CORPOREAL CONDUCT AWAY FROM GOVERNMENTALITY.
OUR EPISTEMIC BREAK IS A PREREQUISITE TO THINKING OUTSIDE OF MONO-POLITICS BECAUSE REPRESENTATIONS OF THE WORLD DO NOT MERELY SPEAK ABOUT IT BUT DELIMIT SOCIAL ACTION
Lazzarato ‘3 (Maurizio, a Paris-based sociologist, a member of the editorial group of the journal Multitudes and the author of the influential essay Immaterial labour. “Struggle, Event, Media”, in Makeworlds. Google)
Why can the paradigm of representation not function in politics, nor in artistic modes
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, languages and signs are constitutive of reality and not of its representation.
2NC

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FRAMEWORK ENFRAMES DEBATE SUCH THAT ITS VALUES ARE COOPTED BY TECHNOLOGY—THIS PRODUCES MORE UNPREDICTABILITY WHEN CONFRONTED WITH ITS INHERENT ONTOLOGICAL FINITUDE
Joronen ‘10  (Mikko, Dept of Geography and Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, U of Turku, The Age of Planetary Space: On Heidegger, Being, and Metaphysics of Globalization, pg 183-84)
It is interesting that, even though the intensification of planetary development took  place centuries
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explicates the spatial characteristics of the rise of such calculative ordering of things.
OV
DESTROYS VALUE TO LIFE BY SACRIFICING ETHICS IN THE NAME OF PROTECTING INSTRUMENTAL VALUE
Mitchell ‘5 (Andrew J., Stanford University, “Heidegger and Terrorism”, Research in Phenomenology, 35)
The elimination of difference in the standing-reserve along with the elimination of national
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has already taken place. Human resources do not die, they perish.

Perm
4. DIALECTICISM – THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF DIALECTICAL CONFLICT AND SYNTHESIS EXTENDS NEOLIBERALISM’S ATTEMPT AT TOTAL INCLUSION OF EARTH AND ARGUMENT AS CALCULABLE MATERIALS. ONTOLOGICAL RESISTANCE HAS TO PRECEDE THE POLITICAL, OTHERWISE EXTINCTION
Joronen ‘13 (Mikko, Department of Geography and Geology, Geography Section, University of Turku, Finland, “Conceptualising New Modes of State Governmentality: Power, Violence and the Ontological Mono-politics of Neoliberalism” Geopolitics, 00:1–15, pp. 12-13)
It is important to notice that the aim of the Heideggerian reading here is not
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What creative participation changes is first and foremost our existential relation to things.
Links
THEIR CHINA ADVANTAGE ITSELF IS INCOHERENT BECAUSE THE INTERNAL LINKS ARE ABOUT CHINA-INDIA CONFLICT WHILE THE KLARE CARD IS ABOUT A US INTERVENTION INTO A CHINA-JAPAN WAR WHICH DEMONSTRATES THE DEEP LOGICAL GAPS IN THEIR ARGUMENT WHICH TURNS THE AFF BECAUSE IT MEANS COUNTRIES WON’T MEET OUR EXPECTATIONS. IT’S PART OF A BROADER STRATEGY OF STABILIZING THE SITUATION – SECURITIZATION IS A DISAVOWAL OF THE INEVITABLE ANTAGONISMS PRODUCED BY CAPITAL—INSECURITY IS INEVITABLE IN A WORLD OF CAPITALISM
Taylor ‘9 (Marcus, Dept of Dev. Studies, Queen’s University, “Displacing Insecurity in a Divided World”, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 1)
Sandwiched between a gourmet buffet lunch and an eight-course, 19-dish
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however, is whether this process is reaching its social and ecological limits.

THEIR OWN AUTHOR DOESN’T OCS SOLVES
Klare ’12 (Michael T., Five Colleges professor of Peace and World Security Studies @ Hampshire College, “The New "Golden Age of Oil" That Wasn't: Forecasts of Abundance Collide with Planetary Realities” http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/Michael-Klare-Extreme-Ene-by-Tom-Engelhardt-121004-567.html)
It turns out, however, that
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- all promising that "golden age" -- ran into serious trouble.
Guilt
NEOLIBERAL MONO-POLITICS BECOMES COLLECTIVE SUPER-EGO: FORCED ENJOYMENT ENSURES ANY ACTION TAKEN ONLY CREATES SURPLUS VALUE INCAPABLE OF SUSTAINING DESIRE, ENTRENCHES GUILT
Bryant ‘8 (Levi, Collin College, Texas, “Zizek’s New Universe of Discourse: Politics and the Discourse of the Capitalist”, International Journal of Zizek Studies, Vol. 2, No. 4)
However, while Žižek often comments on this obscene shadow law that always accompanies the
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account for the comparative rise in depressive and anxiety disorders in recent history.

Extinction
. ONTOLOGICAL QUESTIONING IS A PREREQUISITE TO AN AUTHENTIC RELATIONSHIP TO THE TRUTH HIDDEN BEHIND THE AFFIRMATIVES TECHNO-SCIENTIFIC NARRATIVE—A POLITICS ROOTED IN THE SOVEREIGN EGO IS INCAPABLE OF ARRIVING AT MEANING IN THE WORLD AND INEVITABLY RECREATES THE SAME POLITICAL SCHEMA THAT RENDERS A SOLUTION TO WARMING UNTHINKABLE IN THE FIRST PLACE
Wiseman ‘13 (Wendy A., Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Ozyegin University, Kuşbakışı, “Nothing Is Without Reason: Climate Change and the Global Future as Saturated Phenomena,” Phenomenology and the Human Positioning in the Cosmos: The Life-world, Nature, Earth: Book Two, Analecta Husserliana 114)
Glickson, like nearly all climate scientists, both describes the processes by which an
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to the mental contents of an anonymous, but wholly sovereign, ego. 

prag
. SPATIALIZE THE POLITICAL – ASSUMES WE’RE PURELY NATIONAL SUBJECTS, KEEPS US FROM LEGITIMATELY ACTING. THE DOUBLE MOVE IS ALWAYS TO PRETEND YOU AFFECT GRANDIOSE THINGS, WHILE OPPONENTS NEVER EVEN ACCESS GLOBAL POLITICS. THIS POLICING OF ROLES ISOLATES AND ENFRAMES INDIVIDUALS VIOLENTLY
Joronen ‘13 (Mikko, Department of Geography and Geology, Geography Section, University of Turku, Finland, “Conceptualising New Modes of State Governmentality: Power, Violence and the Ontological Mono-politics of Neoliberalism” Geopolitics, 00:1–15, pp. 9-)
The violence intrinsic to the neoliberal state, to its ways of economising nature and
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of life and power are framed through the different ontological monopolisations of revealing.

Human nature
2. ECONOMIC THEORY CAN’T COME TO TERMS WITH ONTOLOGICAL SHIFT IN SOCIETY FROM DISCIPLINE TO CONTROL—SIGNS, IMAGES, AND WORDS THAT MODIFY BODIES AND BRAINS PRECONDITION PRODUCTION. ANY ARGUMENT ABOUT IGNORING REPRESENTATIONS DEMONSTRATES THAT THEIR FAILURE TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF DISCOURSE LIES AT THE ROOT OF THEIR POLITICS
Lazzarato ‘3 (Maurizio, a Paris-based sociologist, a member of the editorial group of the journal Multitudes and the author of the influential essay Immaterial labour, “Struggle, Event, Media”, in Makeworlds. Google)
The paradigmatic body of Western control societies is no longer represented by the imprisoned body
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They contribute to the metamorphoses of subjectivity, not to their representation. "

Transition Wars
NEOLIBERALISM MASKS ITS OWN FINITUDE THROUGH ABSOLUTE ENFRAMING OF THE GLOBE – THEIR CLAIMS ABOUT THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE SYSTEM CANNOT BE EVALUATED WITHOUT THE ALTERNATIVE BECAUSE THEY RELY ON NEOLIBERAL CONFIRMATION BIAS. NEOLIBERALISM IS ALREADY COLLAPSING, THE TRANSITION IS NOW.
Joronen ‘13 (Mikko, Department of Geography and Geology, Geography Section, University of Turku, Finland, “Conceptualising New Modes of State Governmentality: Power, Violence and the Ontological Mono-politics of Neoliberalism” Geopolitics, 00:1–15, pp. 10-11)
As I have suggested,52 ontological monopolisations constitute violence through two reciprocally conditioning mechanisms
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openness of being and its finite Event (Ereignis) to the background.

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1NC Case
SCS
No SCS war – energy makes cooperation more likely
Creehan 12 (Sean Creehan is the Senior Editor of the SAIS Review of International Affairs, “Assessing the Risks of Conflict in the South China Sea”, SAIS Review Volume 32, Number 1, Winter-Spring 2012

Regarding Secretary Clinton’s first requirement, the risk of actual closure of the South China
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signed in 1982 but has yet to ratify some 30 years later.10

United States aggressive posture in the Pacific is the root cause
Buszynski 12 (Leszek Buszynski, Visiting Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, 19 Mar 2012, “The South China Sea: Oil, Maritime Claims, and U.S.–China Strategic Rivalry”, The Washington Quarterly Volume 35, Issue 2, 2012 DOI:10.1080/0163660X.2012.666495

Energy and fishing are not the only factors in this dispute. The South China
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with the dominant naval power in the Western Pacific—the United States.

Exports take decades, can’t solve
Gustke 12 (Constance Gustke, staff writer CNBC, "Domestic Critics Slow Potential LNG Export Boom," 20 Jun 2012, www.cnbc.com/id/47279981)

Natural Gas Some experts say the regulatory slowdown is almost certain to dampen pricing. "It isn’t feasible for eight projects to hit the market fast," says Charles Ebinger, director of the Brookings Institution Energy Security Initiative. "So there is less market impact." Guy Caruso, a senior adviser in energy and national security at the nonpartisan Center for Strategic and International Studies, estimates it could take five to 10 more years to achieve even modest amounts of natural gas exports. 

China wants OIL not natural gas, their cards that say “energy” generically are hackish oversimplification
Owen 12 (Nick Owen, Visiting Research Fellow at Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security at the University of Wollongong, Clive Schofield, Director of Research and ARC Future Fellow at Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security at the University of Wollongong, “Disputed South China Sea hydrocarbons in perspective”, Marine Policy Volume 36, Issue 3, May 2012, Pages 809–822, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2011.11.010

All of the parties to the South China Sea maritime and territorial disputes face present
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to increase at a growing rate in their 2035 reference scenario 26.

Double bind – either China is calm in which case no war will escalate
Carlson 2/21 (Allen, Associate Professor in the Government Department of Cornell University, 2/21/13, “China Keeps the Peace at Sea: Why the Dragon Doesn't Want War,” Foreign Affairs, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/139024/allen-carlson/china-keeps-the-peace-at-sea?page=2)

It is not that China believes it would lose such a spat; the country
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thus little reason to think that China is readying for war with Japan.

Or they are so crazy that war is inevitable
Klare their author 13 (Michael Klare is a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College, January 23, 2013, “The Next War”, http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2013/01/23/the_next_war_100500-2.html

Far more is, of course, at stake than just the ownership of a
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not bending on the island disputes is an essential expression of their nationhood.

The rhetoric of China’s aggression in the South China Sea is part of a larger discourse of economic securitization – turns case
Nilsson ‘12 (Fredrik, Lund University Graduate School in Poly Sci, “Securitizing China’s ‘Peaceful Rise’ An Empirical Study of the U.S. Approach to Chinese Trade Practices, Military Modernization and Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea”, http://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFileandrecordOId=2740544andfileOId=2743569)
The main objective of this study was to investigate how the United States has approached
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Asia Pacific is not becoming stronger, but might result in increasing unpredictability.

SCS No War
If we win there are large political-economic forces stabilizing the region, that FILTERS specific flashpoints because leaders will work to resolve them, here’s theoretical support
Trachtenberg 2k (Marc Trachtenberg, Professor of International Relations at UC Berkeley, February 14, 2000, “The "Accidental War" Question”, http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/trachtenberg/cv/inadvertent.pdf

You have the sense that people argue along these lines because this is what they
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it pulls us away from the questions we should really be concentrating on.

Last 500 years of history prove – not a single case of accidental war
Hirsch 10 (Alexander V. Hirsch, Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, “Deterrence with a Self-Enforcing Threat”, April 11, 2010, http://psmethods.polisci.ucla.edu/talks-papers/spring-2010/GurantzHirsch_Deterrence_MPSA.pdf

However, we question the commitment assumption underlying the premise of probabilistic threats, and
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to find them," and Trachtenberg (2000) express a similar skepticism.

Proven by recent events – China is pragmatic even if the face of flashpoints. Even if they win that institutions don’t solve the larger issues, they can still mediate on LOCALIZED disputes and ACCIDENTS
Yahuda 13 (Michael Yahuda is a Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, visiting scholar at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, the Elliott School, George Washington University. He has been a visiting professor at the Australian National University, Adelaide University (S. Australia), the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and the Woodrow Wilson Center, DC, as well as being an affiliate at the Fairbank Center, Harvard. More recently he was a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Singaporean Institute for South East Asian Studies and a Visiting Professor at China's Foreign Affairs University, 02 Jan 2013, “China's New Assertiveness in the South China Sea”, Journal of Contemporary China Volume 22 Issue 81, DOI:10.1080/10670564.2012.748964

In conclusion it will be suggested that the prospects for reconciliation, let alone for
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the parties need to enhance the means for avoiding accidental conflict at sea.

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IPI
No exports – other countries will build supply and LNG is too expensive
Plumer 12 (Brad Plumer is a reporter focusing on energy and environmental issues. He was previously an associate editor at The New Republic. December 6, 2012. “Natural gas exports could boost U.S. economy — but will anyone buy the stuff?”, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/06/natural-gas-exports-could-boost-u-s-economy-but-will-anyone-even-buy-the-stuff/

There’s a growing debate about whether the United States should start exporting some of its
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market with their own gas supplies. There are a lot of variables.

IPI, which is dead no matter what
Daily Times Pakistan, 10 – editorial (“Many a slip”, 12/13, http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\12\13\story_13-12-2010_pg3_1)

If wishes were horses and we lived in an ideal world, the TAPI gas
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circumstances, it would be a mammoth task for Pakistan to fund TAPI.
TAPI is a good project but unless and until all these questions are addressed, it seems more like a pipedream than a pipeline. 

Australia fills demand
The Economist 10 (Mar 11th 2010, “An unconventional glut”, http://www.economist.com/node/15661889

China offers some hope for ambitious exporters, but even there the outlook has become
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China to reach its natural-gas consumption targets without pricey Siberian supplies.

IPI is unreliable anyways – Iran is running out of oil
Cohen et. al, 08 - Senior Research Fellow, The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies and the Heritage Foundation, Ph.D. from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Massachusetts (5/30/08 Ariel, Lisa Curtis, Owen Graham, Backgrounder: “The Proposed Iran–Pakistan–India Gas Pipeline: An Unacceptable Risk to Regional Security” The Heritage Foundation”

Iran is an important economic power in the nat¬ural gas and petroleum industry, but
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incapable of supplying gas to Pakistan and India through the IPI.[39] 

No impact to economic collapse
Barnett 2009 – senior managing director of Enterra Solutions LLC and a contributing editor/online columnist for Esquire magazine, columnist for World Politics Review (8/25, Thomas P.M. “The New Rules: Security Remains Stable Amid Financial Crisis,” World Politics Review, http://www.aprodex.com/the-new-rules--security-remains-stable-amid-financial-crisis-398-bl.aspx, WEA)
When the global financial crisis struck roughly a year ago, the blogosphere was ablaze
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fear-mongering to proceed apace. That's what the Internet is for.

The 1AC impact claims are not neutral – the US is waging an ideological war against Iran, painting it as a threat to justify militarism and oil-snatching.
Barzegar ’11 (Kayhan, Director of the Institute for Middle East Strategic Studies and Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, “The Terror Plot: An Ideological War for Geopolitical Interests” http://en.merc.ir/View/tabid/98/ArticleId/305/The-Terror-Plot-An-Ideological-War-for-Geopolitical-Interests.aspx)
The U.S. alleged terror plot against Iran can be viewed as the
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the present juncture this is the last thing that the Middle East needs.
Read the rest of the Aff through the Iran advantage: narratives of Iranian aggression are fuel for the neo-conservative war machine running a Fourth World War – exaggeration of Iran’s threat is lynchpin for catastrophic predictions which make violence inevitbale.
Adib-Moghaddam ‘7 (Arshin, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, “Manufacturing war: Iran in the neo- conservative imagination” Third World Quarterly, Vol. 28.3, pp. 647-650)
In conclusion, I would like to discuss at least three central concerns with regard
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is that it makes us think that it serves the liberation of mankind.

No Israel strike – Israeli politics
Levy 3/2 (Daniel Levy, New America Foundation, Foreign Policy, “Netanyahu Won't Attack Iran,” 3/2/12) http://middleeast.newamerica.net/publications/articles/2012/netanyahu_wont_attack_iran_64983
The case for the likelihood of an Israeli strike on Iran largely rests on these
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precipitous Israeli disarmament, but unwanted, unpleasant, and unpredictable, nonetheless.

India dropped out years ago
Singh 3/14 (Shubha Singh, foreign affairs correspondent for Financial Chronicle, Criss-crossing politics of pipeline could end up releasing lot of hot air By Shubha Singh Mar 14 2013 http://www.mydigitalfc.com/opinion/criss-crossing-politics-pipeline-could-end-releasing-lot-hot-air-481

The project has been in the planning since the mid-1990s when the
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India) gas pipeline project, despite the unstable security situation in Afghanistan. 

1NR AT: China-Japan
No Senkaku conflict
Manicom 2/18 (James Manicom is a research fellow for Global Security at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, 18 Feb 2013, “Wary optimism in South China Sea”, http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/336417/wary-optimism-in-south-china-sea

There has recently been a flurry of diplomatic activity between China and Japan that reflects
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This speaks to the capacity of both Beijing and Tokyo to be pragmatic.

Exports 1NR
Framing argument – we are the only ones with evidence about FUTURE market conditions – their exports advantage assumes that the CURRENT market – that outweighs, companies enter into gas contracts based off LONG-RUN equilibrium price differentials, here’s ev, epic quals
Medlock 12 (Kenneth B. Medlock III, Ph.D., is the James A. Baker, III, and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics at the Baker Institute and an adjunct professor and lecturer in the Department of Economics at Rice University, heads the Baker Institute Energy Forum’s natural gas program and is a principal in the development of the Rice World Natural Gas Trade Model, council member of the International Association for Energy Economics, Vice President for Academic Affairs of the United States Association for Energy Economics, member of the American Economic Association and the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, adviser to the U.S. Department of Energy and the California Energy Commission in their respective energy modeling efforts. He was the lead modeler of the Modeling Subgroup of the 2003 National Petroleum Council (NPC) study of long-term natural gas markets in North America, August 10, 2012, “U.S. LNG Exports: Truth and Consequence”, http://bakerinstitute.org/publications/US%20LNG%20Exports%20-%20Truth%20and%20Consequence%20Final_Aug12-1.pdf

The Viability of U.S. LNG Exports The prospect of exporting LNG from
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diagram will require very little traded volume to see the price difference collapse.

Terminal solvency defense – the problem with exports is not SUPPLY but DEMAND – the reason we’re not exporting isn’t because we’re uncertain about future supplies, it’s because it’s NOT PROFITABLE – even if the plan opens up more gas, the rest of the world has way more – that’s Plumer. Long-run supply elasticity in Asia crushes US exports, especially true of China, takes out their SCS impact
Medlock 12 (Kenneth B. Medlock III, Ph.D., is the James A. Baker, III, and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics at the Baker Institute and an adjunct professor and lecturer in the Department of Economics at Rice University, heads the Baker Institute Energy Forum’s natural gas program and is a principal in the development of the Rice World Natural Gas Trade Model, council member of the International Association for Energy Economics, Vice President for Academic Affairs of the United States Association for Energy Economics, member of the American Economic Association and the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, adviser to the U.S. Department of Energy and the California Energy Commission in their respective energy modeling efforts. He was the lead modeler of the Modeling Subgroup of the 2003 National Petroleum Council (NPC) study of long-term natural gas markets in North America, August 10, 2012, “U.S. LNG Exports: Truth and Consequence”, http://bakerinstitute.org/publications/US%20LNG%20Exports%20-%20Truth%20and%20Consequence%20Final_Aug12-1.pdf

Given the short-run nature of the supply constraint in Asia, one should
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ill-conceived investments due to U.S. domestic supply response.

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1NC K

The 1AC’s insistence upon re-energizing debate ignores a few truths about theory and debate – the movement toward the body, toward affirming energy and human potentiality is not a NEW mode of praxis but the subject of countless academic debates, conferences, books, etc. Policy debates over identity, bodies, social location have been around for roughly a decade, they’ve caused people to change how they relate to issues of race, identity, sexuality.

However, today theory is running into a wall: what do these important investigations mean for a world dangerously out of sync due to global climate change which is challenging everything we know about where we’re from, who we are, and where we’re going. Perhaps a decentering away from the human is a necessary first step

Colebrook ’11 (Claire, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English @ Penn State U., "Extinct Theory" Theory After Theory, pp. 64-67)
Theory ’today’ is not an acceptance that we . . . not immediately present to a subject of action.

This is a derangement of scale – their attempt to empower agency ignores that climate change is nonhuman to begin with – at the individual level scale effects are invisible – their understanding of the body produces a politics that destroys the biosphere

Clark 12 (Timothy Clark is Professor of English at the University of Durham, 2012, "Scale" in Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change, Vol. 1, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/p/pod/dod-idx/telemorphosis-theory-in-the-era-of-climate-change-vol-1.pdf?c=ohp;idno=10539563.0001.001-http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/p/pod/dod-idx/telemorphosis-theory-in-the-era-of-climate-change-vol-1.pdf?c=ohp;idno=10539563.0001.001)

Introduction: Scale Effects You are lost in . . . with a well aimed brick"? ~1~

The new normal is catastrophe: fracking, drilling, warming, sovereign debt, inequality, hyper-consumption, planetary extinction – their nostalgic agenda for a praxis of bodies and genuine feeling only accelerates this.

Cohen 12 (Tom Cohen, Professor of Literary, Cultural, and Media Studies at University at Albany, State University of New York, Ph.D., from Yale University, 2012, "Introduction: Murmurations—"Climate Change" and the Defacement of Theory" in Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change, Vol. 1, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/p/pod/dod-idx/telemorphosis-theory-in-the-era-of-climate-change-vol-1.pdf?c=ohp;idno=10539563.0001.001)

The point is, today everyone can see . . . all the ruses that maintain that spurious home.

Vote negative to disoccupy the political and theoretical space opened by the affirmative – this act of disidentification is a prerequisite to revealing the violent implications of all forms of subjectivity formation in the context of climate change

Cohen ’12 (Tom, Prof of English and Co-Director for the Institute on Critical Climate Change at the University of Albany, "Murmurations—"Climate Change" and the Defacement of Theory" Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change Vol 1., Online)
At the moment of writing it is common . . . which no model of sovereignty can be sustained.

2NC

Guilt – By forcing you to decide the level of competition between the two positions, they re-introduce the question of subjective responsibility into the decision calculus which causes an internalization of guilt by all the white judges who think they are pushing debate in a progressive direction only to find that next time you debate Emporia it hasn’t gotten any better.

Sullivan ’12 (Shannon, Penn State U., "On the Need for a New Ethos of White Antiracism" philoSOPHIA, vol. 2, pp. 23-27)
Today, however, guilt and especially shame. . . to generate white people’s moral sense of goodness.

Forced Choice – The permutation is just a more insidious formulation of the same forced choice that the affirmative relies upon – AFFIRMATIVE OR FULL EXCLUSION%21 Rather than a tool for inclusion or community creation, it destroys any freedom the judge actually possesses. The point is that they won’t be fully excluded just by a loss, but phrasing it in such a way can only create a community that is founded at the out-set by

Zupančič ’8 (Alenka, researcher @ Institute of Philosophy of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Artsand a Visiting Prof. @ European Graduate School, Why Psychoanalysis? Three Interventions, "Intervention 2: Freedom and Choice" pp. 28-30)
When speaking about the philosophical and, more . . . other, but emerges only against its background.

Personal Narrative – The politics of personal investment and disclosure isn’t always possible, and to force people to disclose is both violent to their identity and dangerous to their livelihood—they ignore the privilege of disclosing itself. Ryan’s narrative is brave but some individuals cannot be so brave without putting their out of debate identity at absolute risk.

Vila ’5 (Pablo, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at San Antonio, "Border Ethnographies," Ethnography at the Border, Ed. Pablo Vila, p. xxviii-xxxiii)
At the same time, some of the . . . ) and can intertwine them with their ethnographies.

2. Their community is auto-immunity – a collection of individuals bound together with rational ties and the work of debate. Any attempt at creating a coherent and full community creates a system of auto-immunity in which we give up the things which we attempt to protect—the aff’s repression of the auto-immune condition produces repression which makes all catastrophe worse

Miller ’12 (J. Hillis, UCI Distinguished Research Prof. @ U. of California at Irvine."Ecotechnics: Ecotechnological Odradek", Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change Vol 1.)
The third such system is a community or . . . will remain blindly bent on self-destruction.

Disidentification is the OPPOSITE of their aff – it requires letting go of the body and subjectivity as a foundation of identity. Alt is a prerequisite to this argument

Ruffolo ’9 (David, lectures at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Post-Queer Politics, pg. 27-30)
In the preceding sections I have situated post. . . could exist. (Massumi 1992, 7)

The alternative’s focus on representation abstracts the material conditions of ecological catastrophe – destroys any ability to change and promotes worse alternatives

Kidner 1 (Kidner, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Nottingham Trent University, 2001 ~David, Nature and Psyche, p. 64-67)
One of the advantages claimed for a social . . . "natural" and abandons nature to industrialism.

Those who live, work, exist in a zone a sacrifice are the WORST affected

Morello-Frosch et al. ’9 (Rachel, Ph.D., MPH   |   Manuel Pastor, Ph.D.   |  James Sadd, Ph.D.   |  Seth B. Shonkoff, MPH, The Climate Gap, http://dornsife.usc.edu/pere/documents/The_Climate_Gap_Full_Report_FINAL.pdf)
Climate change is real. The climate gap . . . insuring that climate solutions don’t leave anyone behind. 

1NR

Their act of challenging debate is a means of taking a little enjoyment back from the structures of oppression—this dynamic of enjoyment is what keeps the system running
Žižek, Institute for Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, 1997 ~Slavoj, The Plague of Fantasies, 32-34~
Fantasy, desire, drive  Desire emerges . . . underlying conflict might emerge.34

The struggle for recognition within the debate community maintains the object over which they struggle as a fantasmatic entity rather than a subjective actor. This reinscribes their political goals into the realm of passivity, necessitating their continued domination because it maintains their enjoyment

Žižek, Director of Humanities at the Birkbeck Institute, 97 ~Slavoj, The Plague of Fantasies, p. 8-10~
The second feature concerns the . . . located within the field of intersubjectivity.

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Gates

The affirmative stands at the gates of debate. The gates are wide open but they are incapable of entering. So insistent upon finding acceptance in debate’s symbolic order, they miss the forest for the trees:

Standing before debate we are always inside it, subjects to its sovereignty. If judges are really gatekeepers, you should shut the door in front of them. True liberation comes from not from access but realizing that the object of their desires is a false one that has blocked them from their true capacities

Dolar ’6 (Mladen, Advising Researcher in theory at the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, A Voice and Nothing More, pp. 167-169)
The immediate connection between "animality" and . . . —precisely as a point of a paradox.

The 1AC was haunting but it couldn’t stop there – it had to be confirmed. Again, after the CEDA finals.

It’s not enough to perform: it has to be interpreted, confirmed by the big Other of debate and legitimized through the ballot. To prove what? Inclusion in an activity that none of us believe is revolutionary?

Like Warhol and Pollock, hanging in the museum of debate means death, not change. Institutionalizing their criticism destroys its radicality by making them "debate" high schoolers throw around in framework debates. Debate is their mousetrap.

The ballot doesn’t push them through the gates: it lodges them more firmly then ever under debate’s violent sovereignty

Dolar ’6 (Mladen, Advising Researcher in theory at the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, A Voice and Nothing More, pp. 176-179)
But in her role as artist she is . . . out to accommodate the continuity all too well.

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Case

The aff’s challenge to debate prefigures us as subjects dependent on oppression as the condition of possibility for our identity – this renders transformation impossible
LUNDBERG 2012 (Chris, comm studies prof at UNC, Lacan in Public) 

The demands of student revolutionaries and antiglobalization protestors . . . that alone by which they are satisfied."46

The desire to fix identity in the body reproduces the worst forms of violence—by definition, all difference becomes a threat to be exterminated when identity becomes inevitable and material

Paul Gilroy, 2000, Professor at London School of Economics, Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line, 102-106

We will explore below ultranationalist and fascist movements . . . of this dismal logic: separation and slaughter.

Use of narrative plays into a romance of authenticity that effaces the fact that these narratives are always already mediated – leads to cooption

Chicago Cultural Studies Group, 1992 ~"Critical Multiculturalism," Critical Inquiry 18 (Spring 1992), JSTOR, Lauren Berlant, David Bunn, Vinay Dharwadker, Norma Field, Dilip Gaonkar, Marilyn Ivy, Benjamin Lee, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Xinmin Liu, Mathew Roberts, Sharon Stephens, Katie Trumpener, Greg Urban, Michael Warner, Jianyang Zha, and Jueliang Zhou, p. 541-544~
Much of the utopian project of multiculturalism lies . . . which intellectuals’ work is one intervention among others.

Tournament: ndt | Round: 8 | Opponent: Okla LM | Judge: Mabrey, Rollins, VanLuv
See NDT rd 5

Tournament: ndt | Round: 8 | Opponent: Okla LM | Judge: Mabrey, Rollins, VanLuv
The aff’s critique of modern progress is a form of Angelicism – the one who looks back upon a history of unfolding catastrophe, which they link to uranium and call a war on Natives. 

This constant navigation of past failures – with keywords like frontiers, rurality, spatial inequality, etc – ignore how the climate crisis demonstrates that modernist problems were themselves the result of modernist subject positions. 

Their angel wants to look back and re-write the history of uranium and imperialism, but it is not to correct that history. Instead the Angel looks back because he knows we want him to; knows that the modern needs reassurance of our chosen path.
Cohen ‘12 (Tom, Prof of English and Co-Director for the Institute on Critical Climate Change at the University of Albany, “Murmurations—“Climate Change” and the Defacement of Theory” Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change Vol 1., Online)
Bruno Latour, as observed above, offered a curious fable in which he identifies
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evil of which it is, adamantly, structurally, and violently unaware.

More Modern, More Problems – the aff’s call to raise the banner of sustainability in response to a socio-cultural war against Appalachian populations locks them firmly inside Modern structures of thought – Marxist organization, critiques of subjectivity – which have been rendered dangerous and unsustainable by climate change
Clark ‘8 (Timothy, Prof of English Studies, Durham University, “Towards a deconstructive environmental criticism”, Oxford Literary Review, 30 (1))
The environmental crisis is inherently deconstructive, viciously so, of current modes of thought
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itself pushed from a reformist agenda towards a more revolutionary and anarchist one? 

Vote negative to disoccupy the political space opened by the affirmative and reject the quest to think novel solutions to nuclear crisis

This act of disidentification is a prerequisite to revealing the violent implications of modern subjectivity. When the aff says debate is to create “openness to the other,” they diagnose the problem but are wrong in the answer: we need to give up on progress before the war can disappear
Cohen ‘12 (Tom, Prof of English and Co-Director for the Institute on Critical Climate Change at the University of Albany, “Murmurations—“Climate Change” and the Defacement of Theory” Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change Vol 1., Online)
At the moment of writing it is common to point to the 2011 “occupy
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to, a violence before which no model of sovereignty can be sustained.

Tournament: ndt | Round: 8 | Opponent: Okl LM | Judge: Mabrey, Rollins, VanLuv
Their attempt to resituate ourselves in the context of the mountain is a particular manifestation of a fantasy that attempts to extirpate evil from good – it imagines a natural balance free of mountaintop removal and civilizational growth. Humanity sees itself as responsible for all environemntal destruction, producing guilt and ressentiment directed at the self, producing a will to self-annihilation
Jean Baudrillard, Professor of Sociology and Philosophy @ Multiple universities, 2007, “Darwin’s Artificial Ancestors and the Terroristic Dream of the Transparency of the Good” International Journal of Baudrillard Studies Volume 4, number 2
All this has been brought about by the highly dubious way in which the concept
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has already won out, the sacrificing of the species to boundless experimentation.

The 1AC foregrounds the natural environment of the Appalachian mountains – this creates an aesthetics of nature that is fundamentally anti-ecological
Morton 7 (Timothy Morton, Professor and Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University, 2007, “Toward a Theory of Ecological Criticism” in Ecology Without Nature)

Nobody likes it when you mention the unconscious, and nowadays, hardly anybody likes
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think through an argument about what we mean by the word environment itself.

This fuels the exact same system of capitalist relations they attempt to solve
Morton 7 (Timothy Morton, Professor and Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University, 2007, “Ecology Without Nature”)

One of the ideas inhibiting genuinely ecological politics, ethics, philosophy, and art
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and “them.” With ecological friends like this, who needs enemies?

The alternative is to reject their foregrounding of nature in favor of a theory of environment-as-background.
Morton 7 (Timothy Morton, Professor and Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University, 2007, “Imagining Ecology without Nature” in Ecology Without Nature)

Place, even according to this Edwardian miniature, is radically indeterminate—it is
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but it is also the message of Lacan’s sustained reading of Descartes’ cogito.

Their call for solidarity commodifies Otherness into of calcified systems of thought that are incapable of coming to terms with the radical otherness of climate crisis.
Cohen ‘12 (Tom, Prof of English and Co-Director fo the Institute on Critical Climate Change at the University of Albany, “Murmurations—“Climate Change” and the Defacement of Theory” Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change Vol 1., Online)

Judith Butler’s Precarious Life 2005 redressed the defaced “other” of the
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which we retroactively domesticate as that which served to open up our home.