Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: UMKC JW | Judge: Dunn

Framework 1NC 

Interpretation- the judge is not an armchair analyst, but rather a democratic life coach. This means policy making is key 

Figuring politics as therapy undermines public deliberation and critical thinking  in the name of fascist compulsion for war.  We understand trauma as tragic lack which must be consoled to fashion an national identity.
Cloud 03 Dana, Prof Comm @ UT-Austin, “Therapy, Silence, War: Consolation and the end of Deliberation in the ‘Affected’ Public” 126-7
What is striking about … knowledge and critical thinking.

They explode limits- allowing debate to be about things like personal feelings means anything is topical.
And only switch side debate creates portable policy and ideological change necessary to solve the 1AC by promoting reflexive critical thinking. We have to be able to separate our feelings from the consequences of our actions
English 7 (Eric, M.A. Pitt, http://globaldebateblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/from-httpwww.html.)JFS
It is our position, …  “weapon of mass destruction.”

CP- PIC OUT OF THE STATE

Shell

Advocacy: We believe in the disarticulation of terrorist danger and nuclear power
Individual action sans the state solves nuclear imaginaries best

Net benefit—disarmament
Cooper, dept. of Peace Studies @ Bradford U, 2006
(Neil, “Putting Disarmament Back in the Frame” Review of International Studies 32)

This article will … both necessary and achievable.  

Turns the case—refusing to discharge responsibilities onto the nuclear state is key to solve
Kovel, psychoanalyst @ Einstein College of Medicine, 1983 p. xi-xii
(Joel, Against the State of Nuclear Terror)

 Nuclear war will … direction of our history. 

INDICT OF LACANIAN PYSCHOANALYSIS K + CP 

Your approach to psychoanalysis and trauma is fundamentally Lacanian and Zizekian
Ali 2005 (Harris, Environmental Studies Prof. at York, “Review of Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat” http://www.cjsonline.ca/pdf/signsofdanger.pdf)
The final substantive … they proceed as it were possible)

A strict Lacanian model results in a fundamentally tragic affect: all disagreement is understood as failure
Fraser 1990, American critical theorist, currently the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and professor of philosophy (Nancy, “The Uses and Abuses of French Discourse Theories for Feminist Politics,” Boundary 2 17 p. JStor)
The combination of … as inherently tragic.

Your tragic frame is the ULTIMATE form of groupthink, a predetermined consensus that the politics of here and now is defined by nothing more or less than human failure
Critchley, very trendy postmodernist, 1999  p. 110-111 (Simon, “Comedy and Finitude..” in Constellations)
Moving from the … example of Lacan’s Ethics seminar. 

We’ll outline several implications:

A) their tragic frame operates as a total solvency takeout to the affirmative—their aff is premised on productively sublimating affects through confrontations with trauma—but they don’t meet their own standard—for a tragedian only an epochal and apolcayptic confrontation with the root of trauma can solve—by only addressing one specific instance of hyperarousal they fail to clear their own bar for encountering the root cause of trauma rather than a single proximate cause

B) Magnifies all alternate causality arguments into solvency turns rather than solvency takeouts—any alternate causality for hyperarousal is framed by the aff as a fundamentally tragic encounter with a fixed truth of political reality—this means the return of hyperarousal is not taken as a temporary attitudinal or political mistake but instead as an absolute enunciation of the death drive

C) Tragic framing results in scapegoating and mass violence- comic framing solves by sublimating the system as weak and sensiting the people to its fragility
Carlson, Assist. Comm Prof @ Maryland, 1986 p. EBSCO (Cheree, in Quarterly Journal of Speech “Ghandi and the Comic Frame”)
Recognizing the …  populace to deal with them.

B. A small act of scapegoating is complicit with genocide
Staub, PHD of Trauma @ UMASS, 1989 p. 17 (Ervin, The Roots of Evil)
Blaming others, scapegoating, …  Rouge to power in Cambodia.

CP TEXT:
Thus we advocate that United States Supreme Court should affirm the Third Circuit Court decision in New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection v. United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. This endorsement should be taken as an act of comic democratic enunciation.
This competes:

A) It's a fundamentally different plan—your entire 1AC is dedicated to framing arguments about how we need to take up the position of the analyst—our argument is not that you should take the position of the tragic psychoanalyst but instead you should take the role of democratic life coach, endorsing the plan—cx of the 1AC demonstrates that their framework arguments are the intrinsic focus of the debate—how the affirmative is framed and endorsed matters

B) We fundamentally do not agree that despair is foundational—there is no mythic or totally successful political act, but the result of this reasoning should not be to describe despair, but instead to advocate a politics of comic possibility—we are essentially PIC-ing out of the way you foreground the importance of your affirmative—understanding the aff as part of a continuing political project of democratic possibility rather than an epic break with previous political failures

C) At worst you can just reject the do the plan part of our advocacy but still embrace a comic frame to adjudicate the debate—their solvency evidence is terrible, and specific to terrorism but not specific to the relationship between terrorism and trauma—we’d still win the debate

D) We advocate roleplaying an ascent into politics instead of a descent into catastrophe—this PICs out of the framing of the aff—because the plan can’t solve the root cause identified by the 1AC, better to positions ourselves to politics with an attitude that there is more to be done rather than regarding a single Supreme Court decision as messianic
And our comic frame solves all your affect and trauma arguments

Tragic orientation is inferior—story of trauma’s inevitability limits politics to a melancholic search for a pure space outside trauma—embrace the affirmative through a lens of comedy to enable democratic sublimation and avoid ritualistic scapegoating
McDaniel 2000 (James, former associate Professor of Rhetoric at UC-Boulder, “Fantasm: The Triumph of Form” Quarterly Journal of Speech 86.1)
This joke inverts the …  to be lost in the first place.

CASE

Your pessimistic take on modern democracy destroys sociality and politics—your tragic apprehensions destroy politics and your theory of “hyperarousal” participates in the worst sort of reductionist affective work—you reduce all democracy to trauma
McDaniel 2000 (James, former associate Professor of Rhetoric at UC-Boulder, “Fantasm: The Triumph of Form” Quarterly Journal of Speech 86.1)
I wish to argue … how this may be so.

And radical democracy requires engagement, not melancholy—this evidence is SPECIFIC to how our Critchley evidence says they eliminate finitude
Dalton 2006 (John, professor of philosophy, “Interview with Wendy Brown” Contretemps 6, http://sydney.edu.au/contretemps/6January2006/brown.pdf)
JD: The place of …l adventure of globalization?

Affirmative claim to transcend and confront the wound annihilates radically democratic possibilities—locates harmony in the transcendence of violence
MOUFFE AND LACLAU 2K (CHANTAL,ERNESTO) “HEGEMONY AND SOCIALIST STRATEGY” PG. XVII
There are, however, … very condition of possibility. 

Collapse of democratic project ensures annihilation
Boggs ’97
(CARL BOGGS – Professor and Ph.D. Political Science, National University, Los Angeles  Theory and Society 26: 741-780)
Postmodernism and its …  of a profoundly depoliticized culture. 

Persistence of trauma is about gender not fear of terrorism
McDaniel 2000 (James, former associate Professor of Rhetoric at UC-Boulder, “Fantasm: The Triumph of Form” Quarterly Journal of Speech 86.1)
American fragmentation  …, like FDR's, a splendid one? 39

Psychoanalysis wrong

A) Studies disprove
Fraser, political theorist at the New School, 1990 p. JStor
(Nancy, “The Uses and Abuses..” boundary 2)
This discussion shows, … construct their experience.

B) System entirely non-falsifiable—creates a self-fulfilling prophecy
Fraser, political theorist at the New School, 1990 p. JStor
(Nancy, “The Uses and Abuses..” boundary 2)
However, these apparent …  destiny of civilization.

Turn—strong theories of trauma naturalize violence and excuse structural and political suffering
Fromm , foundational psychoanalytic theorist, 73 “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness p. 2-3
All these work’s … everything had to happen as it did.

Turn—capFocus on trauma and founding violence locates conditions for psychic suffering in metaphysical rather than material causes—enables excusing capitalism
Robinson, PhD in political theory at the University of Nottingham, 2005
(Andrew, “The Political Theory of Constitutive Lack: A Critique,” Theory and Event, Vol. 8 no. 1, project muse)
The idea of "…  a starting-point of contingency.

Capitalism results in ecological annihilation
Foster 11,John Bellamy  Dec. 2011, Capitalism and the Accumulation of Catastrophe, Monthly Review, Vol. 63 Issue 07, http://monthlyreview.org/2011/12/01/capitalism-and-the-accumulation-of-catastrophe (Aug 2012)
Yet, the continued …  socialism for the twenty-first century.

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STATES CP
States have authority over the majority of restrictions and financial incentives given to the energy industry
DOE 09 (Department of Energy “State Policy”
http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/states/state_policy.cfm )
Under the U.S.- related environmental goals.
State action is key to causing change on energy issues
Behr and Marshall 10 (Peter – lawyer and conservationist in Florida Christa – energy reporter for climatewire “Regional and State Interests May Dominate Future Climate and Energy Policy” 07/26/10, http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/07/26/26climatewire-regional-and-state-interests-may-dominate-fu-43090.html?pagewanted=all )
The failure of- the Great Plains.
States have and do offer incentives for nuclear power and state regulation is key to success
MarketWatch 07 (“States Maneuver to Lure New Nuclear Power Plants” 5/21/07 http://energyjustice.net/pipermail/nukenet_energyjustice.net/2007-May/002037.html )
In a positive-increase nuclear generation 

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ELECTIONS DISAD
A. Uniqueness – Polls show Obama will win
Fiscal Times, Sept. 20 – 2012.  (“Polls show growing edge for Obama and Senate Dems.”  www.thefiscaltimes.com)
Political winds are- o f the world.”
B. Plan flips the election: Obama is promoting an “all of the above” strategy to appease both dirty and clean energy – passing legislation either way is politically devastating due to the politicized nature of energy during campaign season
New York Times, Sept. 13 – 2012.  (“Fossil Fuel Industry Ads Dominate TV Campaign.”  www.nytimes.com)
With nearly two- of the world
C. Impact –
Romney victory leads to China bashing over multiple issues – causes sanctions
Gerstein 11 (Josh – Politico, “The GOP's China syndrome”, 11/22/2011, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68952.html)
Mitt Romney says-is “good politics.”
2. That collapses relations and causes a US-China war, collapsing global trade
Droke 10 (Clif, Editor – Momentum Strategies Report, “America and the Next Major War’, Green Faucet, 3-29, http://www.greenfaucet.com/technical-analysis/america-and-the-next-major-war/79314)
In the current-suffer," writes Barker.
3. US-Sino war goes nuclear
Johnson 1 (Chalmers, President – Japan Policy Research Institute, “Time to Bring the Troops Home”, The Nation, 4-26, http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/k12/girling_troops.doc)
In East Asia

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HEIDEGGER
The harms presented by the AFF are selected and framed in order to justify a modern mode of technical control, and they make sense only insofar as we think of life as instrumental.  The techno-instrumental ordering in the 1AC can only result in one conclusion: eclipse of being in the name of curbing the undesirable effects of technology.  The AFF totalizes instrumentality as the only acceptable mode of political intervention.  This is ontological genocide.  
Dreyfus and Spinosa 03 (Herbert L. Dreyfus – teaches Philosophy at UC Berkeley Charles Spinosa – teaches English at Miami University “Further Reflections on Heidegger, Technology, and the Everyday” Page 340-341
http://bst.sagepub.com/content/23/5/339 )
Seeing our situation as … mode of revealing things and people.
The ontological destruction of the relation of human being to itself outweighs nuclear war.  Even if we survive nuclear war, we will still be closed off to the world.
Zimmerman ’97 (Michael – Professor of Biology at CU Boulder “Contesting Earth's Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity” Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press, 1997. pg. 119-120)
Heidegger asserted … they were never "disclosed" by humanity.
Our alt is to reject the calculative thought of the 1ac – we must rethink our will to act within the world
McWhorter ‘92(Ladelle McWhorter - Professor of Philosophy, Northeast Missouri State, “Heidegger and the Earth”, ed. McWhorter.)
When we attempt to think …  to thinking without provision or predetermined aim.
Being is fundamental to and shapes politics, serial policy failure is inevitable absent reflection
Dillon ‘99 (Michael Dillon - Prof of Politics at the University of Lancaster “Moral Spaces” p. 97-98)
Heirs to all this, we find ourselves …  only to be technocrats of decision making.
And thus our alt, a poem by Holderlin:
When I was a boy
A god often rescued me
From the shouts and the rods of men
And I played among trees and flowers
Secure in their kindness
And the breezes of heaven
Were playing there too.
And as you delight
The hearts of plants
When they stretch towards you
With little strength
So you delighted the heart in me
Father Helios, and like Endymion
I was your favourite,
Moon. 0 all
You friendly
And faithful gods
I wish you could know
How my soul has loved you.
Even though when I called to you then
It was not yet with names, and you
Never named me as people do
As though they knew one another
I knew you better
Than I have ever known them.
I understood the stillness above the sky
But never the words of men.
Trees were my teachers
Melodious trees
And I learned to love
Among flowers.
I grew up in the arms of the gods.
- Holderlin, Da ich ein Knabe war
Poetry functions to open up space for dwelling by returning us to our question of being outside the rational calculation of technology
Ennis 07 (Paul Ennis –PhD in Phil from University College, Dublin. “Toward a Heideggerean Eco-Phenomenology” https://sremote.pitt.edu/ps/,DanaInfo=go.galegroup.com+i.do?action=interpretandid=GALE%7CA194474070andv=2.1andu=upitt_mainandit=randp=AONEandsw=wandauthCount=1 )
Bate views our current position … with its tendency toward gathering information about language.

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Framework –
A. Our interpretation is that the Affirmative must have an advocacy statement that defends topical action
Contention 1: Resolutional Focus
Subpoint A - Theory
1) Predictability: non-literal interpretations of the topic make the resolution functionally meaningless.  The resolution loses its ability to serve as a guide for neg research.  
2) Kills neg ground- lack of plan makes it impossible to have competitive counterplans or test the merits of the particular outcome of the aff advocacy.  Absent resolutional action the only way for fair neg ground would be to frame the debate as a question of competing methodologies
3) Moving target- without a stable plan text, the affirmative can dodge our 1nc by reinterpreting what their advocacy is, plan focus is essential for stable and fair division of ground.
4) Topical version – they could have given incentives to natives for wind power and then reinterpret wind according to the position of indigenous peoples. Solvency advocates do exist, Mark Shahinian, and argue this is key to native sovereignty
4) This isn’t a policy good argument, this is a debate good argument. Their advocacy destroys debate.
Subpoint B – Tyranny of the Self 
TYRANNY OF THE SELF- RATHER THAN RISK INSERTING ONESSELF INTO THE LIBERATORY STRUCTURE ONLY TO BE OPPRESSED BY ONES OWN FAILURE, WE MUST ACCEPT THE STRATEGY OF THE MASSES. THE TYRANNY OF THE SELF THEIR PROJECT ESTABLISHES IS QUALITATIVELY WORSE THAN BEING OPPRESSED BY THE POWERS THAT BE.
Baudrillard 1993 (Jean, The transparency of evil : essays on extreme phenomena / Jean Baudrillard ; translated by James Benedict.  London : New York : Verso, 1993.  P. 167-168)
At all events, it is better … which we have to seduce.
2. Performance arguments require a unique amount of judge intervention as they revolve around things like racism which are uniquely personal issue
Patrick Speice and Jim Lyle 2003 “traditional policy debate: now more than ever” Oceans Policy Adrift http://www.wfu.edu/Student-organizations/debate/MiscSites/DRGArticles/SpeiceLyle2003htm.htm
Without clearly defined …  any given round, despite the quality of their debating.
3. Switch sides debating lets them run this on the negative.  Switch side debating is uniquely valuable, ignoring switch side debate breeds ignorance in the face of advocacies.
Kristin Chisolm Dybvig and Joel Iverson, no date (http://debate.uvm.edu/dybvigiverson1000.html)
Not all debate research appears …  position. Learning and the intricate nature of various
4. The fragility of late capitalism calls for theoretical experimental action – this can destroy structures of power where they seem impenetrable
Connolly ’12 ( William E. Connolly, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, “Steps toward an Ecology of Late Capitalism,” Theory and Event, Vol. 15, Issue 1, 2012, Muse )
A philosophy attending to the acceleration, .. with it. The following tentative judgments and sites of action may be pertinent.
3. Even if fiat is illusory, it contextualizes the plan and status quo such that arguments can be had about the desirability of policy implementations.
Patrick Speice and Jim Lyle 2003 “traditional policy debate: now more than ever” Oceans Policy Adrift http://www.wfu.edu/Student-organizations/debate/MiscSites/DRGArticles/SpeiceLyle2003htm.htm
There are several …  the competing options vis-à-vis one another.
4. Role playing is key to finding alternative modes of acting and being – this is the only forum that allows us to effectively theorize outcomes of decisions
Hanghøj ‘8 ( Thorkild Hanghøj, Since this PhD project began in 2004, the present author has been affiliated with DREAM (Danish Research Centre on Education and Advanced Media Materials), which is located at the Institute of Literature, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. Research visits have taken place at the Centre for Learning, Knowledge, and Interactive Technologies (L-KIT), the Institute of Education at the University of Bristol and the institute formerly known as Learning Lab Denmark at the School of Education, University of Aarhus, where he currently works as an assistant Professor, “Playful Knowledge: An Explorative Study of Educational Gaming,” PhD Dissertation in the Institute of Literature, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Southern Denmark, 2008, http://static.sdu.dk/mediafiles/Files/Information_til/Studerende_ved_SDU/Din_uddannelse/phd_hum/afhandlinger/2009/ThorkilHanghoej.pdf )
Joas’ re-interpretation of Dewey’s pragmatism as a …  processes of problem-based scenarios.
5. Role playing alternative energy policies is key to sparking an informed public key towards large scale climate change – absent this deliberation extinction is inevitable
Herbick and Isham ’10 ( Marian Herbick, senior at the University of Vermont, where she is studying natural resource planning and wildlife biology and where she is a member of the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and the Honors College, and Jon Isham, professor of economics and environmental studies at Middlebury College, “The Promise of Deliberative Democracy,” Solutions, Vol. 1, Issue 5, pp. 25-27, October 2010, http://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/node/775 )
Getting to 350 parts per …  polls in their decision-making process.
6. Cede the political – absent material analysis’s combination with ideology people will fall prey to the conservativism of their local communities
Bryant ’12 (Levi Bryant, teaches philosophy at Collin College, “RSI, Discursivity, Critique, and Politics,” Larval Subjects, 7/18/2012, http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/rsi-discursivity-critique-and-politics/ )
If I get worked up about these issues… , hitching everything on psychology, attachment, and identification. Well done!

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We disagree that the starting point to liberation ought to be centered around reorinting our view towards the wind. The notion of utility underwrites western conceptions of energy as limited to such. The sun is the center. Not the wind. The sun shits energy in all directions, but contemporary modes of thought wish to restrict its flows to serve the regime of utility. Restricted economics prevail. For now.
Igrek 9 (Apple, prof of Philosophy @ Seattle University) “Modes of Luxurious Walking”  Postmodern Culture v. 20 #1 Sept. 2009. Project Muse.
Any discussion of Bataillean waste, … but as exemplary instances of expenditure" (53).
The refusal to conceptualize of energy as overflowing and without limits constitutes an attitudinal restriction on the production and use of solar energy in the status quo contingent on white western notions of utility
Stoekl 2007 (Allan, Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Penn State University. “Bataille’s Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability.” P. 148-149)
Bataille’s energy is inseparable …  loss of group and individual identity—sacrifice.
Energy is best understood in opposition to this closed economy. Understanding the relation between human activity and the biosphere is a prerequisite to challenging utility
Vanderburg 8 (Willem, prof of Civil/Environmental Engineering @ U of Toronto) “The Most Economically Viable, and Environmentally Sustainable Alternative Energy” pg. 99-100
The successes and failures of current …  turn was enhanced by inefficient energy end-use.
In response to this potentially catastrophic situation constructed by our own hubris and chosen ignorance of the universe, Georges Bataille presents us with two modes of expenditure to choose from in exerting our excess- the glorious and the catastrophic. Glorious expenditure entails things like art, music, sex, dancing, all activities not considered productive by utility based dogmatism. Catastrophic expenditure includes weapons buildup and environmental destruction. Action NOT reorientation or thinking is the key to make change in the world.
Bataille 91 (Georges. The Accursed Share. P. 21. Translated by Robert Hurley)
Human's disregard for the material basis of … This evidence gender modified
The exploitation and dislocation of native peoples is contingent on the notion of utility. Native peoples were seen as not using the land properly. It hadn’t been industrialized or made to serve humanity by creating giant farms and western societies. Only the aff challenges the root cause of that oppression
Shannon Winnubst 2006 Queering Freedom, p 26-7
My approach to Locke’s text, …  process of delimitation, the logic of the limit.
Case can’t solve absent the counterplan. NO one will listen to or value the opinions of native peoples in the Squo. The notion of utility dominates the purview of the societal elite. Only an assault on the notion of utility can solve.
Bosworth 10 (Kai A., Graduate student, U. of Minnesota, B.A. in Environmental Studies from Macalester College, "Straws in the Wind: Race, Nature and Technoscience in Postcolonial South Dakotan Wind Power Development", http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/envi_honors/7, Acc: 7/13/12, og)
Chapter 5 has examined …  were made available.
Eliminating the theoretical restriction on energy begins the process of glorious expenditure that allows us to reclaim our lives from focusing on working jobs we hate to buy shit we don’t need and instead allowing our creative energies to overflow and consume us. This type of expenditure is necessary in the process of confronting our own death. Reconciling our existence as limited to being carriers of energy is key to value to life.
Sørensen 1/27 (Asger, prof @ U of Aarhus, Denmark)  “On a Universal Scale: Economy in Bataille’s General Economy” Philosophy and Social Criticism 2012: 38(2) pg. 180
If economy is our search for what we are …  radiation of energy from the sun.
William Blake’s marriage of heaven and hell provides the optimal text for an assault on the divine.
He champions the exuberance of the body and his own notion of intimate expenditure that preferred “sensual happiness” to an austere subject.  This sensual happiness violates the taboos of a closed economy of morality. Blake’s equation of Energy with Evil gives us an opportunity to understand a Bataillean Ethic- we should not Turn away from Evil-we should rather look it in the face.
Bataille 57 (Georges, French pervert) Literature and Evil pg. 70-72
Chaos can be one means …  Evil to be.  *This evidence gender modified
The marriage of heaven and hell provides the optimal metaphor for putting the shit back in the sacred as a challenge to the scientific rationality that rules society at large and the debate space. Blake challenges the separation of the natural body from the rational part of existence and glorifies the ecstatic use of energy instead of its conservation
All Bibles or sacred codes have been the causes of the following Errors.
Man has two real existing principles Viz: a Body and a Soul.
2. That Energy, call'd Evil, is alone from the Body, and that Reason, call'd Good, is alone from the Soul.
3. That God will torment Man in Eternity for following his Energies.
But the following Contraries to these are True
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that call'd Body is a portion of Soul discern'd by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age
2. Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.
3 ENERGY IS ETERNAL DELIGHT
Blake explores the notion of duality in The Argument. He challenges the passivity associated with the obsession with reason, productivity and divinity.
Without contraries, is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence.
 From these contraries spring what the religious call Good and Evil. Good is the passive that obeys Reason. Evil is the Active springing from Energy.
 Good is Heaven. Evil is Hell…

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CP- PIC OUT OF THE STATE
Shell
Advocacy: We believe in the disarticulation of terrorist danger and nuclear power
Individual action sans the state solves nuclear imaginaries best
Net benefit—disarmament
Cooper, dept. of Peace Studies @ Bradford U, 2006
(Neil, “Putting Disarmament Back in the Frame” Review of International Studies 32)
This article will … both necessary and achievable.  
Turns the case—refusing to discharge responsibilities onto the nuclear state is key to solve
Kovel, psychoanalyst @ Einstein College of Medicine, 1983 p. xi-xii
(Joel, Against the State of Nuclear Terror)
 Nuclear war will … direction of our history. 

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INDICT OF LACANIAN PYSCHOANALYSIS K + CP
Your approach to psychoanalysis and trauma is fundamentally Lacanian and Zizekian
Ali 2005 (Harris, Environmental Studies Prof. at York, “Review of Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat” http://www.cjsonline.ca/pdf/signsofdanger.pdf)
The final substantive … they proceed as it were possible)
A strict Lacanian model results in a fundamentally tragic affect: all disagreement is understood as failure
Fraser 1990, American critical theorist, currently the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and professor of philosophy (Nancy, “The Uses and Abuses of French Discourse Theories for Feminist Politics,” Boundary 2 17 p. JStor)
The combination of … as inherently tragic.
Your tragic frame is the ULTIMATE form of groupthink, a predetermined consensus that the politics of here and now is defined by nothing more or less than human failure
Critchley, very trendy postmodernist, 1999  p. 110-111 (Simon, “Comedy and Finitude..” in Constellations)
Moving from the … example of Lacan’s Ethics seminar.
We’ll outline several implications:
A) their tragic frame operates as a total solvency takeout to the affirmative—their aff is premised on productively sublimating affects through confrontations with trauma—but they don’t meet their own standard—for a tragedian only an epochal and apolcayptic confrontation with the root of trauma can solve—by only addressing one specific instance of hyperarousal they fail to clear their own bar for encountering the root cause of trauma rather than a single proximate cause
B) Magnifies all alternate causality arguments into solvency turns rather than solvency takeouts—any alternate causality for hyperarousal is framed by the aff as a fundamentally tragic encounter with a fixed truth of political reality—this means the return of hyperarousal is not taken as a temporary attitudinal or political mistake but instead as an absolute enunciation of the death drive
C) Tragic framing results in scapegoating and mass violence- comic framing solves by sublimating the system as weak and sensiting the people to its fragility
Carlson, Assist. Comm Prof @ Maryland, 1986 p. EBSCO (Cheree, in Quarterly Journal of Speech “Ghandi and the Comic Frame”)
Recognizing the …  populace to deal with them.
B. A small act of scapegoating is complicit with genocide
Staub, PHD of Trauma @ UMASS, 1989 p. 17 (Ervin, The Roots of Evil)
Blaming others, scapegoating, …  Rouge to power in Cambodia.
CP TEXT:
Thus we advocate that United States Supreme Court should affirm the Third Circuit Court decision in New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection v. United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. This endorsement should be taken as an act of comic democratic enunciation.
This competes:
A) It's a fundamentally different plan—your entire 1AC is dedicated to framing arguments about how we need to take up the position of the analyst—our argument is not that you should take the position of the tragic psychoanalyst but instead you should take the role of democratic life coach, endorsing the plan—cx of the 1AC demonstrates that their framework arguments are the intrinsic focus of the debate—how the affirmative is framed and endorsed matters
B) We fundamentally do not agree that despair is foundational—there is no mythic or totally successful political act, but the result of this reasoning should not be to describe despair, but instead to advocate a politics of comic possibility—we are essentially PIC-ing out of the way you foreground the importance of your affirmative—understanding the aff as part of a continuing political project of democratic possibility rather than an epic break with previous political failures
C) At worst you can just reject the do the plan part of our advocacy but still embrace a comic frame to adjudicate the debate—their solvency evidence is terrible, and specific to terrorism but not specific to the relationship between terrorism and trauma—we’d still win the debate
D) We advocate roleplaying an ascent into politics instead of a descent into catastrophe—this PICs out of the framing of the aff—because the plan can’t solve the root cause identified by the 1AC, better to positions ourselves to politics with an attitude that there is more to be done rather than regarding a single Supreme Court decision as messianic
And our comic frame solves all your affect and trauma arguments
Tragic orientation is inferior—story of trauma’s inevitability limits politics to a melancholic search for a pure space outside trauma—embrace the affirmative through a lens of comedy to enable democratic sublimation and avoid ritualistic scapegoating
McDaniel 2000 (James, former associate Professor of Rhetoric at UC-Boulder, “Fantasm: The Triumph of Form” Quarterly Journal of Speech 86.1)
This joke inverts the …  to be lost in the first place.

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Attempts to alleviate environmental, social, and economic injustices through state action and non-violent modes of resistance privileges hegemonic control. Only by opening ourselves to diverse modes of engagement may, we fight all forms of otherization and exploitation
Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of CUNY, 96
(David, Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference, 341-346)
According to the most … or indict the responsible parties.

This acceptance of hegemony is nothing more than complacency – these modes of engagement perpetuate genocide and make harms inevitible
Robert L. Phillips, professor of philosophy, War and Justice, 1984, p. 102-3
Narveson argues that what …  briefly in Nazi-occupied Norway.

Therefore, we advocate an ethic of liberating tolerance, working in solidarity with those subjugated by systems of power.
Marcuse, 65
(Herbert, Repressive Tolerance, http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/60spubs/65repressivetolerance.htm)
With respect to historical …  old but also of their new masters.

Only liberating tolerance can solve – failure to explicitly embrace all forms of resistance cedes violence to the state
Jensen, 06
(Derrick, Endgame Vol. 2: Resistance, p. 676-8)
It has always seemed …  to dismantle the master’s dam.

The ballot functions are an endorsement of liberating tolerance, permeating both the debate community and society at large
Marcuse, 65
(Herbert, Repressive Tolerance, http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/60spubs/65repressivetolerance.htm)
The forces of emancipation …  is still to be created.

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The struggles for ecological protection have been co-opted – violent refusal of the establishment’s subjectification of nature is key for a new ecological politics
Kahn 06 (Richard – Ph.D., Social Sciences and Comparative Education
University of California, Los Angeles “The Educative Potential of Ecological Militancy in an Age of Big Oil: towards a Marcusean ecopedagogy” Policy Futures in Education Volume 4 Number 1 Pp 11-13 http://richardkahn.org/writings/ecopedagogy/frommarcusetoelf2.pdf )
Herbert Marcuse wrote an …  focus should not itself be tolerated.

Destruction of the planet is inevitable absent a violent revolution – we must become eco-radicals
Kahn 06 (Richard – Ph.D., Social Sciences and Comparative Education
University of California, Los Angeles “The Educative Potential of Ecological Militancy in an Age of Big Oil: towards a Marcusean ecopedagogy” Policy Futures in Education Volume 4 Number 1 Pp 14-18 http://richardkahn.org/writings/ecopedagogy/frommarcusetoelf2.pdf )
Since the first Earth Day, …  to prove Marcuse right.

Therefore, we advocate an ethic of liberating tolerance, working in solidarity with those subjugated by systems of power.
Marcuse, 65
(Herbert, Repressive Tolerance, http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/60spubs/65repressivetolerance.htm)
With respect to historical violence … also of their new masters.

Our critique creates a radical ecological pedagogy in debate necessary to fight the power of corporate capitalism
Kahn 06 (Richard – Ph.D., Social Sciences and Comparative Education
University of California, Los Angeles “The Educative Potential of Ecological Militancy in an Age of Big Oil: towards a Marcusean ecopedagogy” Policy Futures in Education Volume 4 Number 1 Pp 18-20 http://richardkahn.org/writings/ecopedagogy/frommarcusetoelf2.pdf )
To my mind, Marcuse is one …  of social engineering” (Marcuse, 2005, p. 85).

Any alternative to a liberating tolerance in fighting ecological destruction is co-opted and bolsters the state’s destructive power
Marcuse 72 (Herbert – “Ecology and Revolution” Pp 53-54
http://www.vedegylet.hu/okopolitika/Marcuse%20-%20Ecology%20and%20Revolution.pdf)
In this highly political sense, …  consciousness of individuals.