Payne-Wu Aff

1ac

Contention One: Nuclear Head Games

9/11 represents a traumatic rupture in narratives of US omniscience. Trauma has been predominantly disavowed in favor of the re-assertion of US primacy that collapses political time to repeat terrorist threat ad infinitum
Nichols 07 [Bill, Professor of Literature at San Francisco State University, “The Terrorist Event,” Comparative Literature and Culture 9.1; 2007. Scholar. uo-tjs]

What happened on September 11 began  [...] to fit their adaptation here).

Nuclear power and terrorism have become conceptually linked – this traumatic affect determines public reaction to nuclear power
Slovic ‘06 [Peter, Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon, “What’s Fear Got to Do with It? It’s Affect We Need to Worry About,” MISSOURI LAW REVIEW Vol 69, LN. uo-tjs]

Imagery associated with a given risk  [...] societal behavior over the next century.

Nuclear disaster heralds an array of threats outside the descriptive powers of language and prediction—We compulsively look to precursor events to avoid the deadlock. The unspeakable horror of radioactivity has reduced us to a state of living death.
Van Wyck 05 [Peter C., Professor of Communications and Media Studies at Concordia University, Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat, University of Minnesota Press. 2005. p.105-107. uo-tjs]

So to all of the other  [...] began, and when it ended.

Contention Two: Confronting Trauma

There are three different reactions to foundational despair hailed by the traumatic event of nuclear disaster: one either disavows the significance of the event, obsesses over the threats associated with it, or works through the trauma by developing a system of meaning around it
Van Wyck 05 [Peter C., Professor of Communications and Media Studies at Concordia University, Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat, University of Minnesota Press. 2005. p.116-119. uo-tjs]

The real's relationship to ecological threat  [...] , "Mother" earth.

Disavowal of the trauma of modernity ensures continued brutal warfare—realpolitik is outmoded as conflict is increasingly enacted irrationally outside of self interest—only the Aff gives proper explanation
McAfee 08 [Noelle, Associate Research Professor of Philosophy and Conflict Analysis at Emory University, Democracy and the Political Unconscious (New Directions in Critical Theory), 2008. Columbia University Press. p. 28-30. uo-tjs] 

Modernity's traumas are many, more  [...] . <28-30>

Hyperarousal is predicated on chronic presentation of threats – this ushers in authoritarianism and makes policy failure inevitable.
Bloom 09 [Sandra, M.D. and Practicing Psychiatrist, “An Elephant in the Room: The Impact of Traumatic Stress on Individuals and Groups,” in The Trauma Controversy: Philosophical And Interdisciplinary Dialogues, Eds. Kristen Golden & Bettina Bergo, State University of New York Press. p. 155-156. uo-tjs]

Group responses to stress are measures  [...] punished. <155-156>

Hyperarousal is exemplified by a dispute over whether Environmental Impact Statements should include a successful terrorist attack on nuclear power. This default to “worst case” scenario analysis forces the NRC and the Courts to consider every theoretical threat a real danger and prevents nuclear power licensing and relicensing.
Briggs 11 [Alexander T; J.D. Candidate 2012, Seton Hall University School of Law; “Managing the Line Between Nuclear Power and Nuclear Terror: Considering the Threat of Terrorism as an Environmental Impact,” Seton Hall Circuit Review; 8 Seton Hall Cir. Rev. 223; Lexis. uo-tjs]

The NRC first rejected the requirement  [...] the NRC and plant operators.

Thus, the plan: The United States Supreme Court should affirm the Third Circuit Court decision in New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection v. United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

AND, Supreme Court ruling against the inclusion of terrorism is critical to confronting nuclear hyperarousal in the case of energy policy
Briggs concludes…

Until this problem is resolved,  [...] and its citizens to unnecessary threats.

Part Three – The Analyst’s Couch

You should take up the position of the analyst and put the debaters on the couch – this allows us to question dominant discourses that actively produce threat and produce policy failure.
Bracher 94 [Mark, Associate Professor of English and associate director of the Center for Literature and Psychoanalysis at Kent State University, “On the Psychological and Social Functions of Language: Lacan's Theory of the Four Discourses,” Lacanian Theory of Discourse Subject, Structure, and Society Edited by Mark Bracher et al, 123-128. uo-tjs]
The Discourse of the Analyst It  [...] currents of which we are ignorant.

Debate is an imaginary space that enables a homeopathic repetition of and confrontation with trauma in an analytical state. The 1AC is an act of letting go of our fear and openness to our nightmares – this is key to sublimate trauma – otherwise that trauma will re-emerge in violent and uncontrollable impulses of drive.
Van Wyck 05 [Peter C., Professor of Communications and Media Studies at Concordia University, Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat, University of Minnesota Press. 2005. p.133-135. uo-tjs]

If we are to say that  [...] clean and safe nuclear future).

Our discursive commitments are paramount – sublimation of trauma can only occur through the articulation of intersubjective spaces that refigure the public sphere as a collective and therapeutic space.
McAfee 08 [Noelle, Associate Research Professor of Philosophy and Conflict Analysis at Emory University, Democracy and the Political Unconscious (New Directions in Critical Theory), 2008. Columbia University Press. p. 22-24. uo-tjs]
One of my central premises is  [...] . <pg 22-24>

This has several implications for impact evaluation – 

First, you should frame this debate through the understanding that despair is foundational. The only relevant question is how you respond to trauma.
Pollock 09 [Griselda, Professor of the Social & Critical Histories of Art at the University of Leeds, “Art/Trauma/Representation”, Parallax Vol 15 No 1; pp. 40-54. uo-tjs]

To proceed into this terrain [...] sharing the events and encounters.12

Second, we should roleplay our descent into catastrophe – this act mediates and transforms our relationship with trauma.
Van Wyck 05 [Peter C., Professor of Communications and Media Studies at Concordia University, Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat, University of Minnesota Press. 2005. p. 137-138. uo-tjs]

The virtual is just the shifter  [...] and therefore perhaps even more faithful.

Third, embracing our vulnerability to imagined horror and violence creates narratives that reformulate community on the basis of ethical precariousness
Kohlke 11 [Marie-Luise, “Sublime Violations: Trauma Literature and the Search for Transcendence through Violence” Creating Destruction: Constructing Images of Violence and Genocide, p. 149-151. uo-tjs]

The traumatic sublime offers its readers  [...] us. <149-151>

Last, affirming negativity is key – no large-scale political change can happen without a confrontation with trauma
Sjöholm 05 [Cecilia, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Sodertorn University College, Sweden, Kristeva and the Political, 2005. uo-tjs] 

The sémanalyse is aiming to distil  [...] term negativity will be elucidated. 

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Extend the Perm- they do not
Critique must engage the state.  Failure to do so guarantees that the alternative will fail, no coalitions will be formed, and politics will be ceded to authoritarian Right-wing groups.  Only engaging the institutions of the state can transform them.  And the permutation solves all of these problems.

Mouffe 2009
(Chantal Mouffe is Professor of Political Theory at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, “The Importance of Engaging the State”, What is Radical Politics Today?, Edited by Jonathan Pugh, pp. 233-7)

In both Hardt and Negri [...] conceive the nature of radical politics. 

In a nuclear world we have to weigh consequence
Bok 88 [Sissela Bok, Professor of Philosophy, Brandeis, Applied Ethics and Ethical Theory, Ed. David Rosenthal and Fudlou Shehadi, 1988]

The same argument can be  [...] order that the world not perish.

The kritik is is a form of projective imagintion that inverts the relationship of genocide making the ultimate forms of violence possible.

Meister /Department of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz/ 2005
/Robert, "Never Again": The Ethics of the Neighbor and the Logic of Genocide, Postmodern Culture, 15.2, muse/
Lévinas's critique of totalization is an  [...] kill is based on proximity alone.

And, the desire to make genocide unthinkable is the exact form of totalization that makes genocide possible in the name of progress.

Meister, Department of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz, in 5
Robert, "Never Again": The Ethics of the Neighbor and the Logic of Genocide, Postmodern Culture, 15.2, muse
The presumed unthinkability of genocide [...] conscious return to civilized values.23

Specifically, the Kritik’s connection of ethnicity to Land reproduces the conditions for genocidal violence

Meister, Department of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz, in ‘5
Robert, "Never Again": The Ethics of the Neighbor and the Logic of Genocide, Postmodern Culture, 15.2, muse
The imaginability of genocide arises from  [...] own original feelings projected onto others.

Counter-interp: nuclear power restrictions are only the standards for licenses pursuant to 10 CFR part 50 – only contextual legal definition for a restriction on nuclear production

NRC ‘12 [Nuclear Regulatory Commission: NRC Regulations Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, PART 50—DOMESTIC LICENSING OF PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION FACILITIES; http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part050/full-text.html, uo-tjs]

(a) Each license will  [...] part 50 license for the facility.

3. Net-benefits to our interp: 

a) Key to aff ground and most predictable—licensing standards are one of the largest barriers to nuclear energy production

US DoE ‘12. [“A Strategic Framework for SMR Deployment,” United States Department of Energy, Nuclear Energy. February 24, 2012 http://www.ne.doe.gov/smrsubcommittee/documents/SMR%20Strategic%20Framework.pdf, uo-tjs]

The licensing challenge for new nuclear  [...] model may be useful.

A2 “Restriction =/= Regulation

“Restrictions” means “regulations” – this evidence is energy specific

Davies ‘30 [Major George, “CLAUSE 1.—(Scheme regulating production, supply and sale of coal.),” February 27, 1930, vol 235 cc2453-558, http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1930/feb/27/clause-1-scheme-regulating-production, uo-tjs]

Major GEORGE DAVIES The hon [...] not able to receive it.

Your role is a political theorist not a policy maker – the task of the theorist is not to provide security but to expose and mark trauma in politics.

Edkins, Professor of International Politics, University of Wales, 1999. Jenny, Poststructuralism & International Relations, pg.142. uo-tjs

The remembering involved is the drive  [...] we are not lulled into forgetfulness.

The subject does not exist – we can only think ourselves in relation to a social network that is always other to us so meaning and interpretation must be intersubjectively constituted rather than internally created

Hoedemaekers ‘07 [Casper, Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) at Erasmus University Rotterdam, “Performance, Pinned Down: A Lacanian analysis of subjectivity at work,” 2007. p. 37. uo-tjs]

We have to engage not retreat from the social world that founds us – atomistic agency does not exist – thought is located outside the individual – in order for us to break we must directly confront the narratives in social structure that have determined the subject. We carry civilization with us always.
Hoedemaekers ‘07 [Casper; Performance, Pinned Down: A Lacanian analysis of subjectivity at work; p. 37.]

Cognitive psychology, for instance,  [...] will return to this in chapter 4

They’ve missed the point the issue is hardly who enforces the plan but how we orient ourselves toward the institutions in the first place. The aff is less about court action and more about our confrontation with trauma—the CP is a political gesture par excellence. The calculated attempt to avoid disaster and “solve” better effaces the act of its sponteniet and radical nature making it only another symbolic compromise
Tuhkanen ‘03 [Mikko, “Review: Antigones Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death by Judith Butler,” UMBR(a): A Journal of the Unconscious, pp. 140-4. uo-tjs]

To that of the real,  [...] , it is somewhat problematic.

Particularity: Their reduction of the plan to its particular content denies its universal dimension—this leads to violent outbursts in an effort to reclaim universal politics

Žižek ‘99 [Slavoj, Senior Researcher at Institute for Social Studies, Ljubliana and Badass, The Ticklish Subject: the absent centre of political ontology, New York: Verso, 1999, 203-5. uo-tjs]

Let us recall the standard example  [...] to the dimension beyond particularity.

Perm: Do both—plan and counterplan deliver a double blow to the symbolic order.

The logic of the neg dodges political responsibility and authorizes mass violence
Gourevitch ’07 [Alex, Ph.D in Political Science from Columbia University and postdoctoral research associate at Brown University's Political Theory Project, “Review: Welcome to the Desert of the Real by Slavoj Zizek,” Culture Wars, January 11, 2007. http://www.culturewars.org.uk/2007-01/zizekdesert.htm, uo-tjs]

Zizek's critique is more pointed  [...] a fear of political risk itself.

No deal – GOP will only obstruct
Jonathan Chait, chief Washington correspondent, 10-14-2012, “November 7th,” NY Magazine, http://nymag.com/news/politics/elections-2012/obama-romney-economic-plans-2012-10/

Obama tends to leave the contours  [...] and thus reduces theirs.

Turn: Fiscal cliff compromise collapses the economy—4 reasons
Morici 11/16 [“Off the fiscal cliff and into the abyss,” 11/16/2012. TribLive. http://triblive.com/opinion/featuredcommentary/2963740-74/spending-deficit-billion-budget-recession-republicans-tax-americans-annual-cuts#ixzz2CTGtLYRO, uo-tjs]

Efforts to avert the fiscal cliff  [...] up the budget gap again.

Econ decline doesn’t cause war
Daniel W. Drezner, Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, October 2012, “The Irony of Global Economic Governance: The System Worked” http://www.cfr.org/international-organizations/irony-global-economic-governance-system-worked/p29101

The final outcome addresses a dog  [...] not been reversed.21

The alternative is a proper principled approach to politics but must give way to strategic political interventions or risk holocaust

Slavoj Žižek Senior Researcher at Institute for Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, 2001, lacan.com 1997/2001. http://www.lacan.com/replenin.htm, Accessed: 8/26/10. uo-tjs

So how are we to respond  [...] , limitation of child labor...

Perm: Endorse the affirmation of the topic as an opportunity to interrogate trauma and their alternative. 

And, the permutation’s turn toward reflexive subjectivity in the context of the 1AC gives us ideological tipping point that spills over to the ideology of the kritik
Mertz ‘99 [David; THE SPECULUM AND THE SCALPEL: THE POLITICS OF IMPOTENT REPRESENTATION AND NON-REPRESENTATIONAL TERRORISM; dissertation for PhD Philo @ U Mass Amherst; Scholar. uo-tjs]

Ideologies sometimes become pinned down with  [...] larger ideology. <107>

We aren’t melancholia—we are mourning.
LaCapra 1999 [Dominick LaCapra, Professor of Humanistic Studies, Cornell University, “Trauma, Absence, Loss”]

I would also distinguish in nonbinary  [...] to different subject-positions.32

Aff is a radical act—this demolishes the symbolic order, changes systems of meaning

Glyn Daly, Senior Lecturer in Politics in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at University College, Northampton, author, and writer for lacan.com, 2004. “Slavoj Zizek: A Primer,” Lacan.com, http://lacan.com/zizek-primer.htm, Accessed: 8/26/10. uo-tjs

Zizek's thought is concerned crucially to  [...] nihilo and the political itself.

Baudrillard Ans: Alt Offense—Nominalism 2AC

Baudrillard reduces existence and politics to signs. This erases distinctions between suffering and happiness, and radically devalues life.

Kellner, Philosophy Chair @ UCLA,  89 (Douglas, Jean Baudrillard, P. 107-8) 

Yet does the sort of symbolic  [...] of the postmodern carnival. 

Fear of Co-optation Turn: 2AC

Fear of co-optation leads to passive acceptance of oppression – the better alternative is to engage in politics while acknowledging their incompletion – that very failure spurs more radical transformation of the system’s unconscious coordinates
Zizek ‘04 [Slavoj, BET Rap Battle Champion, “Liberation Hurts: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek,” The Electronic Book Review, July 1, 2004, www.electronicbookreview.com/v3/servlet/ebr?comman=view_essay&essay_id=rasmussen, Acc. 10-20-12. uo-tjs]

Zizek: I’m trying to avoid  [...] a much more radical process.