Tournament: ESU | Round: 2 | Opponent:  | Judge:
_. Marxism as they advocate it would do more to subordinate the individual to utility than capitalism does. The aff is the only effective resistance.

Baudrillard, 1998. (Jean, Prof of Sociology at Université de Paris). “When Bataille Attacked the Metaphysical Principle of Economy.” Bataille: A Critical Reader. ZDS

The central idea is that ... is more radical than it is. 

_. Capital is separate from existence. Only way to return to an ontology free of capitalism is to embrace the glorious expenditure of capitalism by playing the “game” of free energy.

Hochroth 1995
Lysa Hochroth,  has taught in the French Departments at Columbia University and at the University of the District of Columbia. She received her Ph.D. in 1991 from Columbia University"The Scientific Imperative: Improductive Expenditure and Energeticism"The Johns Hopkins University Press and the Society for Literature and Science. Configurations 3.1 (1995) 47-77

Bataille spent time formulating ... doit être liée au sens de la mort. 79

_. The alt cannot solve. Reconception of subjectivity is a prior condition to meaningful revolution.

Wendling, 2006. (Amy, Assistant Prof. of Philosophy at Creighton University). “Sovereign Consumption as a Species of Communist Theory: Reconceptualizing Energy.” Reading Bataille Now. Ed. Shannon Winnubst. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. Pg. 46. ZDS

The problem of consumption ... proletarian revolution altogether.

_. Revolution is a bourgeois concept.
Wendling, 2006. (Amy, Assistant Prof. of Philosophy at Creighton University). “Sovereign Consumption as a Species of Communist Theory: Reconceptualizing Energy.” Reading Bataille Now. Ed. Shannon Winnubst. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. Pg. 47. ZDS

For Bataille, the bourgeois ... use-value itself, by right of birth.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent:  | Judge:
Open Source below.

Tournament: ESU | Round: 2 | Opponent:  | Judge:
_. We meet—We recognize their limits, however limits exist to be transcended for the sake of sacred expenditure.

Stoekl, 2007. (Allan, professor of French and comparative literature at Penn State). Bataille’s Peak: Energy, Religion and Postsustainability. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 49-50

By expending we conserve ... of development and knowledge).

_. Counter-interpretation: Energy production includes expenditure, the aff gets both sides of the yield ratio.

Stacey 2011. Andrew Stacey, "Energy return on energy invested"November 7, 2011, http://www.azimuthproject.org/azimuth/show/Energy+return+on+energy+invested  

Energy Returned On Energy Invested ... useful” inputs, e.g., photovoltaic cells).

_. Roleplaying destroys any relationship to authenticity, we become nothing but actors.

Antonio 1995 (Robert, PhD Notre Dame,   Nietzsche's Antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History, American Journal of Sociology Vol. 101 No. 1, The  University of Chicago Press http://www.jstor.org/stable/2782505) 

According to Nietzsche, the "subject ... type of tyrant (Nietzsche 1986, pp. 137, 168; 1974, pp. 117-18, 213, 288-89, 303-4).

_. Framing to produce a particular outcome creates a system of knowledge production that allows debaters to understand education only as they see it. Switch side debate relies upon a view from nowhere that makes all arguments equivalent and ignores real world power relations.

Spanos, 2011 (William, “William V. Spanos,” Interview between Christopher Spurlock and Spanos, Summer/Fall, Online: http://kdebate.com/spanos.html) 

CS: When we had our discussion in Binghamton ... quantitative system of binaries.

Tournament: KCKK | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
_. Kritik of language fails and is counterproductive because they ignore language’s structural involvement with the construction of ideology—violence isnt caused by any specific word, it is constructed to be violent by dominant discourses. 

Zizek ’99 Slavoj, Steelers Linebacker, The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Center of Political Ontology, New York: Verso, 1999, 332-3uwyo-ajl

In all these domains, the difJerend .... direct and posit a limitation to.

_. Turn- voting on this limits political opposition to hate speech. The other team’s position is not representative of a politically libratory act, but, instead diverts all resistance to the mere act of prosecution-asking you to vote us guilty.

Butler, 97 (Judith, Chancellor’s professor in the department of rhetoric and comparative literature at the U of California Berkeley in 1997. Excitable Speech)

That words wound seems ... reduced to the act of prosecution.

_. Turn- forcing silence locks the power of the speech into place. The terms must be used if we are to resist them.

Butler, 97 (Judith, Chancellor’s professor in the department of rhetoric and comparative literature at the U of California Berkeley in 1997. Excitable Speech)

This story underscores the ... that actually commit violence

Butler, Professor of Rhetoric at Berkeley, 2004 (Judith, Judith Butler Reader, page 353)

So, when we’re thinking ... struggle at stake.

_. Permutation – do both – their criticism is not a reason to banish our language – the most radical alternative is to use concepts and put them under erasure at the same time.
Butler, 2000. Professor of Rhetoric at Berkeley,  (Judith, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality, page 263-264)

In my view, an understanding ... feminist, and cultural studies.