Lowenthal-Trevett Aff

Contention 1- The Problem of the Problem

The resolution poses a problem of whether or not a domestic energy production should be increased or not.
This ignores the problem of energy itself and the way it functions. This is what Deleuze, following Bergson,
says is a false problem.
This has two implications.

Method
It is not about solving a problem, but how we understand the constitution of the problem.
Deleuze contextualizes the issue by helping us to understand how it arises, “Moreover, this prejudice goes back
to childhood, to the classroom: It is the school teacher who ‘poses’ the problems; the pupil’s task is to discover the
solutions. In this way we are kept in a kind of slavery. True freedom lies in a power to decide, to constitute problems
themselves.” 1
Deleuze continues, quoting Bergson “…it is a question of finding the problem and consequently of positing it,
even more than of solving it. For a speculative problem is solved as soon as it is properly stated. By that I mean that
its solution exists then, although it may remain hidden and, so to speak, covered up: The only thing left to do is to
uncover it. But stating the problem is not simply uncovering, it is inventing.” 1
This element of invention is opposed to the simple answering of the question of the resolution. It binds us
into a binary where we only have two options instead of having any ability to create our own path. This is the
heart of energy as we will see later.

2. Education.
The kind of education this produces and our ability to actually think freely must be questioned. The impact of
this is freedom itself.
Semetsky 03 indicates that…
Deleuze’s New Image of Thought, or Dewey Revisited, Inna Semetsky. Educational Philosophy and Theory, Vol.
35, No. 1, 2003. Pg. 24-25.

Acknowledging a particularly narrow approach… such relations is to think’

In the debate space this deprivation of freedom in education turns into a narrow-mindedness which
unthinkingly neglects the material world. This recreates the figure of Eichmann within the policymaking
sphere.
Spanos 11
William V. professor of English and Comparative Literature at the SUNY Binghamton, interview with Chris Spurlock, http://www.kdebate.com/spanos.html

Many of the most charged criticisms...change the world rather than to reproduce it

3. Role of the Ballot:
The ballot is recognition and endorsement of our affirmation. We create a change in the debate space and the notion of energy. Your ballot affirms that.  None of these impacts leave the room. Weigh the impacts on the level of what we create in this round before their out of round impacts. We claim that the nuke wars and destruction that they are asserting is nothing that we can change, but it is a sequencing issue. You should prefer our type of education that will allow for real world change in a better and more productive way. Any Disad we win to the status quo type of education is a reason to prefer our advocacy. Even if they win that spillover happens, we should hold the community responsible for the kind of education that is produced. 

Contention 2- Energy

Subpoint A—General Energy

The resolution forces us to understand energy under the categories of coal, crude oil, natural gas, nuclear
power, solar power, wind power.

Our definition of energy understands that there is a human element to it, not just a natural resource.
Deleuze 94. Difference and Repetition. Columbia University Press. Pg. 240-241

We asked how a transcendental principle… transcendental or the volcanic spatium.

Because energy is to be understood as part of the human experience and intensities, then the production of
energy must come from the human as well. The human being is artificial. It generates energy and converts it
into activity. We use this activity to produce knowledge for a new kind of energy. This creation provides us a
way to understand our artificiality.
Schirmacher and Lyotard 05

Schirmacher, Wolfgang. "Homo Generator in the Postmodern Discussion. From a Conversation with Jean-François
Lyotard." In: Stephen K. Levine (editor.) Poiesis. A Journal of the Arts & Communication. EGS Press. Toronto.
Volume 7. 2005. Pages 86-99. ISSN 1492-4986/2005. http://www.egs.edu/faculty/wolfgang-schirmacher/articles/
homo-generator-in-the-postmodern-discussion/

Lyotard: It is certainly possible… successful way of dealing with it.

Thus our advocacy: We should embrace ourselves as Homo Generators, as generating our own worlds,
producing energy.

This concerns the whole of person and is characterized by openness. This is the one true energy production
that allows the question of subjectivity to be at the forefront.
Schirmacher and Lyotard 05
Schirmacher, Wolfgang. "Homo Generator in the Postmodern Discussion. From a Conversation with Jean-François
Lyotard." In: Stephen K. Levine (editor.) Poiesis. A Journal of the Arts & Communication. EGS Press. Toronto.
Volume 7. 2005. Pages 86-99. ISSN 1492-4986/2005. http://www.egs.edu/faculty/wolfgang-schirmacher/articles/
homo-generator-in-the-postmodern-discussion/

Schirmacher: My phenomenological demonstration… Arendt, Foucault, Lacan, Levinas, and Deleuze.

What we do in this round matters insofar as our actions are micropolitical and are constitutive of the macropolitical situation. This lends an importance to the discursive structures we build within the round. Insofar as this is true, weigh the affirmative on our micropoltical impacts, of the production of a subjectivity characterized by openness.
Deleuze and Guattari in 87 (A Thousand Plateaus, pp.222-223)

The task of the historian is to designate...that makes it or breaks it

Subpoint B- Nuclear Energy

Nuclear energy is the energy of the family. The nuclear family shapes our world in a very dangerous way that
has disastrous impacts on our notions of subjectivity and how we exist in the world. Even if you don’t buy the
subjective type of energy we affirm, we also affirm a reduction in the restrictions on nuclear energy, namely,
the Oedipal triangle. This is supported by the definition of nuclear and Deleuze’s notion of the family.
First, Nuclear: 5. of, pertaining to, or like the nuclear family: nuclear bonds. Dictionary.com 12.

Oedipus is the structure of the family. This is the opposite of the schizophrenic.
Deleuze and Guatarri 72. Anti-Oedipus. Deleuze and Guttari. Penguin Classics. 2009. Pg. 51-52.

Oedipus restrained is the figure… its object, and the law.

This has two impacts:
Capitalism-

The daddy-mommy-me triangle is the heart of capitalism as Deleuze explains…
“Oedipus is this displaced or internalized limit where desire lets itself be caught. The Oedipal triangle is the personal
and private territoriality that corresponds to all of capitalism’s efforts at social reterritorialization.” (Deleuze and
Guatarri 72. Anti-Oedipus. Deleuze and Guattari. Penguin Classics. 2009. Pg. 266.)

He continues…
“It is not via a flow of shit or a wave of incest that Oedipus arrives, but via the decoded flows of capital-money.”
(Deleuze and Guatarri 72. Anti-Oedipus. Deleuze and Guttari. Penguin Classics. 2009. Pg. 267.)

Lambert in 10 frames this discussion in terms of the kind of death that capitalism produces.
Gregg Lambert. "The War-Machine and “a people who revolt”." Theory & Event 13.3 (2010)

In conclusion, I will risk providing… adapted to that machine.”42

2. Subjectivity-

The family structure is a form of colonization and ethnocide that euthanizes the individual. It exists on a level
of individual colonization and outward colonization. Only breaking away from this triangle can we stop the
violence of rigid and predefined subjecthood. This is Deleuze and Guattari in 77.

Gilles Deleuze. Smart French Guy. Felix Guattari. Also smart, questionably French. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism
and Schizophrenia Volume 1. Originally published in French in 1972. Translated Edition published in 1977.
University of Minnesota Press 1983. Thirteenth Edition. ISBN: 978-0-8166-1225-3. Pg. 168-169  M.E.

We said that the point of departure… whose agent is Oedipus.

Contention 3- Science

The State dominates citizenship and the coordinates of despotism move from the figure of the despot to the despot of the father over the family, whose law creates lack which transforms into a constant desire for capital. Our embracing of ourselves as homo generators signals the possibility for a new form of political community which is productive rather than lacking. This is specifically enacted here as our engagement with the debate community as a whole. This can take the form of actual resistance movements that articulate a new form of life within and outside of capital. This replaces the single allegiance and desire for Capital and its corresponding State with the multifarious allegiances of productive citizenships. 

Holland 11’ (Eugene, Nomad Citizenship, Free-market Communism, and Slow-motion General Strike pgs. 84-85)

Now if Schmitt's transcendent...widely distributed nomad citizenship.