Tournament: UCO | Round: 2 | Opponent: Baylor | Judge: Maurer
The status quo view of ‘Nature’ is grounded in our changing conception of ‘Wilderness.’ What used to be a site in need of violent domination is now a pristine park in need of protection. However, this historical view of Nature as an object through which we can restore, protect and be redeemed through is based in a transcendental ethical truth and value which not only doesn’t exist—but distances us from reality and ourselves.
Cronon 95, President of the American Society for Environmental History; “Vilus” Research Professor at UW-Madison, the university’s most distinguished chaired professorship. He has been elected President of the American Historical Association for 2011-12.; .A. (1979), M.Phil. (1980), and Ph.D. (1990) from Yale, and a D.Phil. (1981) from Oxford University. Cronon has been a Rhodes Scholar, Danforth Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, and MacArthur Fellow; has won prizes for his teaching at both Yale and Wisconsin; in 1999 was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society (William Cronon, ed., “The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature” Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1995, 69-90e) JTC

But by the end … be an American. 

In fact, ‘Nature’ is chaos— it lies outside of our ability to interpret and understand it. The meaning we attach to nature is an arbitrary moral framework that excludes the parts we don’t value.

Drenthen 05, Martin, Philosophy and Science Studies U. Nijmegen (“Wildness as a Critical Border Concept: Nietzsche and the Debate on Wilderness Restoration,” Environmental Values, Volume 14, Number 3) JTC

Underneath Nietzscheʼs critique … with wild ¶ nature. ¶ 

This view of ‘Nature’ is a closing off of the chaotic aspects of the environment, opposing the world as it exists. It is a Will to Truth that produces a quest for order that inevitably will fail and breed ressentiment. This framework for life destroys all value in conditions outside of the ideal.

Saurette 1996
 (Paul, Prof of Political Studies @ UOttawa, “I Mistrust All Systematizers and Avoid Them: Nietzsche, Arendt, and the Crisis of the Will to Order in International Relations Theory” Millenium 25.1)
According to Nietzsche, … principle of modernity.

Within this politics, there will always be a population that needs to be eliminated
Stavrakakis 99 – department of government at the University of Essex, director of ideology and discourse analysis program (Yannis, Lacan and the Political, p.99-105)

What I will … a realm without suffering or sin.  (Cohn, 1993c:14-15)  

Nothing has changed—The contemporary approach to ecological management through energy policy attempts to create a perfect image of ‘Nature’ and sustainability that orders our response to environmental destruction. This view of ‘Nature' as understandable and sustainable forecloses political engagement with our current crisis.

Swyngedouw 06, Dept of Geography, School of Environment and Development, Manchester University, 2006.  Eirk, “Impossible “Sustainability” and the Post-Political Condition,”  Forthcoming in: David Gibbs and Rob Krueger (Eds.) Sustainable Development, http://www.liv.ac.uk/geography/seminars/Sustainabilitypaper.doc

Slavoj Žižek suggests … possible socio-environmental becomings. 

Nature is not some subject that we need a good relationship with. This attempt to reconcile ourselves with our vision of Nature is at the heart of the bad conscience, the impact is suicidal violence in the name of redemption, ecological destruction and extinction.

Baudrillard 94, Sociology—Université de Paris-IX Dauphine, 1994
The Illusion of the End p. 80-84

Hence the recent … to boundless experimentation.

We affirm the idea that there is no “Nature.” 

This affirmation moves beyond the self-defeating and life denying framework of ecology that amounts to mere projection of ourselves and what we would like to be
Zizek 91, Slavoj professor of philosophy at the university of Ljubljana, Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture, 1991, pg. 37-38
The basic weakness … directing chaos itself.

Rejecting a unifying symbol of Nature is critical to moving beyond a politics that demands a scapegoat in the name of uncertainty and failure
Stavrakakis 99—Ideology and Discourse, U Essex. (Yannis, Encircling the Political, from Lacan and the Political, 284-5)

288¶ However, Butler's …in Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy, 1997:157-8) 

Rejecting a unified symbolization of “Nature” leads to a respect and openness for parts of life which we have closed ourselves off to, the alternative is alienation from the object we defined.
Drenthen 05, Martin, Philosophy and Science Studies U. Nijmegen (“Wildness as a Critical Border Concept: Nietzsche and the Debate on Wilderness Restoration,” Environmental Values, Volume 14, Number 3) JTC

This post-modern awareness … in resisting appropriation. 

Our politicization of ‘Nature’ breaks us out of the trap of post-politics— Only moving away from our singular conception of ‘Nature’ can we create space for alternative modes of engagement.

Swyngedouw, '6
Erik Swyngedouw, Professor of Geography at the University of Manchester in its School of Environment and Development. “Impossible 'Sustainability' and the Post-Political Condition.” Forthcoming in: Sustainable Development. Eds. David Gibbs and Rob Krueger. Sep. 2006. New York: Guilford Press, 2007. http://www.liv.ac.uk/geography/seminars/Sustainabilitypaper.doc.
Undesirable sustainability: Environmental Politics as Post-politics

The popular response … turn to next.

Tournament: UCO | Round: Varies | Opponent: Varies | Judge:
We don't read all these cards in every round. it depends upon what they were reading.

their limits arguments are artificial
Zagorin 9
(Edmund, Former debater for the University of Michigan, “Constructing the Ethical Limits of Play in Policy Debates”, Symploke Vol. 17, N 1-2, 2009, pg. 190, peer reviewed and published by University of Nebraska Press, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/symploke/summary/v017/17.1-2.zagorin.html, CL)

This understanding of ...with creative experimentation.

AT Shively
Hicks ‘2 Darrin Hicks is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado. “The Promise(s) of Deliberative Democracy Rhetoric and Public Affairs 5.2 (2002) 223-260 Project Muse
The very possibility ... the opponents' line. 

AT Engagement
Kappeler 95
(Susanne, The Will to Violence: The politics of personal behavior, Pg. 10-11)

Yet our insight .... war and violence.

AT Switch-Side
ANTONIO IN 1995  Robert Antonio; Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas; “Nietzsche’s Antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History” ; American Journal of Sociology , Volume 101, No. 1; July 1995
According to Nietzsche, … type of tyrant  

Key to politics
McGowan, 2004, Todd Associate Professor of Film Studies at Vermont, “Fighting our fantasies: Dark Cities and the politics of psychoanalysis”, Lacan and Contemporary Film, 145-147, 166-169
At the 1999 inaugural meeting of the American-Lacanian Link, Fredric Jameson, in his response ... a radical break

State-centric discourse is obsolete – effaces agency and ignores transversal struggle
Bleiker 0
(Ph.D. visiting research and teaching affiliations at Harvard, Cambridge, Humboldt, Tampere, Yonsei and Pusan National University as well as the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague,(Roland, Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics, Cambridge University Press)

While opening up ... the global scene'.19

Tournament: UTD | Round: 1 | Opponent: Wake Forest DL | Judge: Phil Samuels
Modern society’s fascination regarding “Nature” is revealing. It is an attempt to create an idealized aesthetic reality. It is the secularized Metaphysics which undergirds civilization altogether – A closer examination shows that we cling to “Nature” so much because without it, the values we hold so dear might mean nothing at all.
Matts and Tynan ’12 Tim, Aidan; Doctors in Philosophy @ Cardiff U. “Geotrauma and the Eco-Clinic: Nature, Violence, and Ideology”  symploke JTC 

This is why … some human context. 

The Ideology of nature foregrounds a naturalistic aesthetic which precludes certain forms of environmental becoming over others, this is particularly true in the context of energy production
Morton 12 Timothy, litandenvironment prof, ucdavis, http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/98/peak-nature.html
In Lakewood, Colorado, … distance and coolness.
This view of ‘Nature’ is a closing off of the chaotic aspects of the environment, opposing the world as it exists. It is a Will to Truth that produces a quest for order that inevitably will fail and breed ressentiment. This framework for life is a negation of what makes life worth living, and guarantees the destruction of individuals who do not fit

Saurette 1996
 (Paul, Prof of Political Studies @ UOttawa, “I Mistrust All Systematizers and Avoid Them: Nietzsche, Arendt, and the Crisis of the Will to Order in International Relations Theory” Millenium 25.1)
According to Nietzsche, … principle of modernity.

This is because ‘Nature’ is chaos— it lies outside of our ability to interpret and understand it. The meaning we attach to nature is an arbitrary moral framework that excludes the parts we don’t value. Basic natural processes are cast out as undesirable.
Drenthen 05, Martin, Philosophy and Science Studies U. Nijmegen (“Wildness as a Critical Border Concept: Nietzsche and the Debate on Wilderness Restoration,” Environmental Values, Volume 14, Number 3) JTC

Underneath Nietzscheʼs critique … with wild ¶ nature. ¶ 

Nature is not some subject that we need a good relationship with. This attempt to reconcile ourselves with our vision of Nature is at the heart of the bad conscience, the impact is ecological destruction and suicidal violence in the name of redemption
Baudrillard 94, Sociology—Université de Paris-IX Dauphine, 1994
The Illusion of the End p. 80-84

Hence the recent … to boundless experimentation.

The contemporary “ecological crisis” is only a symptom of the ideology nurtured by the epistemology endorsed by “Nature,” any answer must come from a different  trajectory of politics which doesn’t preclude new socio-environmental political becomings  
Swyngedouw 06, Dept of Geography, School of Environment and Development, Manchester University, 2006.  Eirk, “Impossible “Sustainability” and the Post-Political Condition,”  Forthcoming in: David Gibbs and Rob Krueger (Eds.) Sustainable Development, http://www.liv.ac.uk/geography/seminars/Sustainabilitypaper.doc

Slavoj Žižek suggests … possible socio-environmental becomings. 

We affirm the idea that there is no “Nature.” 

This affirmation moves beyond the self-defeating and life denying framework of ecology that amounts to mere projection of ourselves and what we would like to be
Zizek 91, Slavoj professor of philosophy at the university of Ljubljana, Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture, 1991, pg. 37-38
The basic weakness … directing chaos itself.

James and I believe this orientation to be productive;
Matts and Tynan say:
Matts and Tynan ’12 Tim, Aidan; Doctors in Philosophy @ Cardiff U. “Geotrauma and the Eco-Clinic: Nature, Violence, and Ideology”  symploke JTC 

Morton’s work seeks …, the product, of it. 

Without a transcendental truth used to judge the round with, the role of the ballot is to vote for the team who best affirms life
SMITH 2K7
daniel w., “deleuze and the question of desire: toward an immanent theory of ethics”, parrhesia, number 2, 66-78
Now according to … affections, in Spinoza). 

The ideology that produced a singular understanding of “Nature” also closes off the possibility for alternative modes of politics, this is particularly true of the debate space.
Swyngedouw, '6
Erik Swyngedouw, Professor of Geography at the University of Manchester in its School of Environment and Development. “Impossible 'Sustainability' and the Post-Political Condition.” Forthcoming in: Sustainable Development. Eds. David Gibbs and Rob Krueger. Sep. 2006. New York: Guilford Press, 2007. http://www.liv.ac.uk/geography/seminars/Sustainabilitypaper.doc
Undesirable sustainability: Environmental Politics as Post-politics

The popular response … turn to next.

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
We did not read taglines, only poetry that we wrote before the round. 

Joey Comeau, time traveler, “Art vs Life! TITLE BOUT”, http://www.asofterworld.com/oq-display.php?id=17

Vladimir Nabokov, Despair, Chapter Three
And speaking of literature, there is not a thing … in the orchard, and whistle and dream.

Joey Comeau, time traveler, “Utopia awaits!” http://www.asofterworld.com/oq-display.php?id=68

Nathan Gorelick, “Life in Excess: Insurrection and Expenditure in Antonin Artaud's Theater of Cruelty” JTC
In his slightly …energy, its cruelty.

In 1996 Paul Saurette winds back the clock to when:
(Paul Saurette, Prof of Political Studies @ UOttawa, “I Mistrust All Systematizers and Avoid Them: Nietzsche, Arendt, and the Crisis of the Will to Order in International Relations Theory” Millenium 25.1)
According to Nietzsche… principle of modernity.

(Daniel Chapelle; MD in Clinical Psychology; “Nietzsche and Psychoanalysis”) rsw
Tragedy arises from … never being identical.

SMITH 2K7
daniel w., “deleuze and the question of desire: toward an immanent theory of ethics”, parrhesia, number 2, 66-78
Now according to …, in Spinoza). 

No being behind the doing
Antonio ’95, Nietzsche’s antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History”; American Journal of Sociology; Volume 101, No. 1; July 1995
According to Nietzsche, … type of tyrant

Tournament: UTD/UNT | Round: all of them / varies | Opponent:  | Judge:
Our relationship to the topic is offense – dissensus is key to create agonistic politics at every level of the social, traditional politics are a dead end – their politics internalize subordination
Pierre-Félix Guattari was a French militant, institutional psychotherapist and philosopher, a founder of both schizoanalysis and ecosophy. "The Three Ecologies" 1989, pp. 48-53

One of the … Integrated World Capitalism.

We are education about the process which goes into policymaking
Van Oenen 6
(Van Oenen, professor of ethics, legal philosophy and social philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of Erasmus University, Rotterdam. 2006 Gijs “A Machine That Would Go of Itself: Interpassivity and Its Impact on Political Life” Theory and Event

The most important … is involvement with itself.

Actually, no:
Edelman 92 Murray, Ph.D Political Science Illinois, yes that Edelman; “Constructing the Political Spectacle” JTC
Explanations for the … upon its outcomes

Tournament: UTD/UNT | Round: Too many | Opponent: more than I thought | Judge:
Will to Power precedes Sexual difference
Aydin 07, Ciano (lecturer in philosophy at Radbound University).  “Nietzsche on Reality as Will to Power: Toward and 'Organization-Struggle' Model.”  The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 33.  Spring 2007.

We can begin … always remain possible. 

Self-overcoming is accessible to the feminine, here is the process:
Helm ‘4 Barbara Helm ¶ Institute for Philosophy, University of Tübingen, ¶ and Max-Planck Research Centre for Ornithology, Andechs, Germany “Combating Misogyny? Responses to Nietzsche by Turn-of-the-Century German Feminists” The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 27 (2004) 64-84 Project Muse
To several feminists, … of a overwoman." 89

Their epistemology is structured by the impossibility of neutrality – this is a negative orientation towards otherness
Elden 2000 (Stuart “Derrida, Irigaray, Nietzsche and Heidegger” http://mail.an-archos.com/pipermail/heidegger_an-archos.com/2000-June/010346.html ) JTC

According to … her true being.

That turns the K
Stringer 2k0 Rebecca, “A Nietzschean Breed”, p.25-26
Ressentiment gives birth … simply a “condition.” 

Placing the locus of liberation in control of the body and sexuality doesn’t challenge normalization and maintains the status quo
Irene Diamond 94 – professor of political science and women’s studies at University of Oregon – 1994 Fertile Ground: Women, Earth, and the Limits of Control. Beacon Press p. 41-43
In light of … the human sciences.

Feminist critique fails because of its ground in identity – rather we must focus on alternating intensity in order to create the positive difference.
Claire Colebrook 2002 (Understanding Deleuze) Page 45

By contrast, Deleuze …governs the intensities.

The attempt to gain entry to the symbolic without acknowledging other categories of difference repeats the repression and power structures that they criticize
Flax 4 Dep’t of Poli Sci Howard University Jane Signs Chicago Journals
To theorize entrance … postcoloniality as well.

Slave morality is bad
Willmott ‘1 Glenn Willmott is Associate Professor of English at Queen's University in Canada. “Canadian Ressentiment” New Literary History 32.1 (2001) 133-156 Project Muse 7/25/10
Slave morality is…tendentially cynical, vitalism. 31

Tournament: UTD/UNT | Round: More often than not. | Opponent: The overwhelming majority | Judge:
Marxism is a life-denying, ascetic ideology--even if the alt succeeds, it would reduce both life and earth to a standing reserve
Love 87 Nancy S. Love Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Program
Professor, Government and Justice Studies @ Appalachian State University “Epistemology and Exchange: Marx, Nietzsche, and Critical Theory” New German Critique No. 41, Special Issue on the Critiques of the Enlightenment pg 79-80 JSTOR
Although Marx rejects … idealism, even barbarism.35

Their interpretation of capitalism is too closed, epistemologically bankrupt, and makes resistance to capitalism impossible
Connolly 2011  review quotes of his book “a world of becoming”, http://marxclub.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/william-connolly-a-world-of-becoming/
To me, a … apolitical orientation to it.

Depoliticization is the root cause of capitalism’s dominance, not the other way around. The depoliticization of society causes the naturalization of capitalism alongside the populist politics of the 1AC. Universalizing the claims of the K only delegitimizes alternate forms of resistance, meaning the alt can never solve the aff.
Swyngedouw 8 (Erik, “Depoliticized Environments: The End of Nature, Climate Change and the Post-Political Condition”, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement / Volume 69 / October 2011, pp 253-274)
In sum, postpolitical … of the final section.

Marxism centers itself around a fantasy of a perfect revolutionary subject. This means that Marxism will always disregard subjects that could actually challenge capital in order to maintain their social position as revolutionary intellectuals and justify inaction.
Zizek 2009 New Left Review http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=articleandview=2779
But how? The …rationalizing our inactivity.

And, status quo solves material struggles
Sewell 8
(Sewell writer for In Defense of Marxism 9/22/08 Rob http://www.marxist.com/capitalism-has-failed-period.htm)

The present crisis … as butter prices.”

Total rejection of capitalism fragments resistance – the perm solves best
Gibson and Graham 96, Senior Fellow of Human Geography at the Australian National University, Profesor of Geography at the University of Massachusetts, (Katherine and Julie, The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It)
One of our … diversity and change.

Universal politics are the ultimate form of violence – exclusion of particular struggles assures literal death for persons who do not join the negatives struggle
Butler 2k Professor of Rhetoric at Berkeley Judith, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality, page 21-22
Although the individual … mouthful of water’ (para. 590).

Universality only exists when particular struggles lay claim to universal politics – This means that we must reclaim the already depoliticized sphere, takes out their links, and proves that the permutation solves
Butler 4, Professor of Rhetoric at Berkeley, Judith The Judith Butler Reader, page 339-340
My sense is that … let it be settled. 

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge: 

Tournament: WSU | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
We do not result in passivity, because we still allow the assertion that our values are the greatest.
SOLOMON 99 ROBERT C. SOLOMON “Nietzsche ad hominem:Perspectivism, personality and ressentiment” in The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche 198-99
Would it be reasonable to suggest...may perhaps say of themselves."

Tournament: WSU | Round: 6 | Opponent: UTS ACR | Judge: Joel rollins

McGowan 4
(Todd McGowan, Assistant professor of film and history @ University of Vermont, 2004, Lacan and Contemporary Film Pgs. 168-171)

It is at … way for politics. 

Your evidence isn’t descriptive of psychoanalysis – you’re talking about intrapsychic theory. Psychoanalysis is explicitly political.
Žižek 1
(Slavoj, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, president of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, Interview with Christopher Hanlon, Ph.D. from UMass-Amherst, “Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political: An Interview with Slavoj Žižek,” New Literary History, 32.1, 1-21, Project Muse). 

CH: I want to … in institutional practices. 

We don’t even need to win a universal defense of Zizek’s writing style – they have to counter-factually refute the claims in our evidence. This is the equivalent of calling Heidegger a Nazi; it’s not an argument.
Lacanian theory dismantles the division between the individual and society, introducing a new, more dynamic conception of the interplay between subjectivity and the social—that’s critical to any meaningful analysis of political life.
Stavrakakis 99
(Stavrakakis, department of government at the University of Essex, director of ideology and discourse analysis program 1999 Yannis, Lacan and the Political, p.5

Tournament: WSU | Round: 6 | Opponent: UTSA CR | Judge: Joel Rollins
Aesthetics come first
Doran '00 robert, assistnat professor of french and comparative literature at Rocest "Nietzsche: Utility, Aesthetics, History" Comparative literature studies 37.3 (2000_ 321-343)
Nietzsche often decires ... "Bohrer's "surplus value").

Tournament: Wichita | Round: 1 | Opponent: UTD LV | Judge:
Strategies like the alt reinscribe what it opposes because it continues to think from a human subject-centered perspective under the guise of a change—The affs method far superior because it is able to displace the subject’s meaning making at the heart of Anthrocentrism
Zizek '92 Slavoj, Doesn't like sharing Chinese food, Enjoy Your Symptom! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out, New York City: Routledge, 1992, 185-6 JTC
*NOTE: “die Versagung” translates from German to “The Disallowance”

All this has …  of Cartesian subjectivity.

Their epistemology is undergirded by Ressentiment that only maintains the dualism between the human and non-human
Callicott 92, J. Baird Philosophy and Religion at UNT,
(“La Nature Est Morte, Vive la Nature!,” The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 22) JTC

But to many …. aboriginal Homo sapiens.

Everything translates everything else into its own terms.  Only denying this is anthro because it assumes only humans can shape thing towards their own ends.
Morton Prof of Lit and the Environment in the English Dep’t @ UC-Davis 2012 Timothy An Object Oriented Defense of Poetry New Literary History  http://fracturedpolitics.com/files/4/5/7/0/5/160332-150754/43_2_morton.pdf
I anthropomorphize. It’s …  the same thing.