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Race as a system perpetuates itself on the basis of racial identification. This method of purging racism ignores the broader desire for Whiteness and a separation from it.  Such an investment of power relations leads to inevitable violence and disastrous politics.

Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks, assistant professor of English at Boston College, Desiring Whiteness: A Lacanian analysis of race, 2000, p. 8-9
My contention that the category of race is inherently a discourse of supremacy may seem
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of power in order to mine the depth of subjective investment in it.

Feminism’s revisitation of the evils of patriarchy constitutes a moralizing impulse that maintains monopoly on the good through counter-order.  

Stringer 2K  (Rebecca, Prof of Gender Studies at the Univ of Otago,
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"condition of possibility" and ceases to be simply a "condition."

====The affirmative is arm chair activism at its best – they demand action like radicals yet they let others do the real work for them. This interpassivity is enjoyment over the suffering of others and the rejection of ethical responsibility====
Zizek 97 ~ŽIŽEK, INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA, 1997 ~SLAVOJ, THE PLAGUE OF FANTASIES,P. 111-113~
Interpassivity Against this background, one is tempted to supplement the fashionable notion of ’interactivity’
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Yugo-nostalgic attitude was dismissed as a proto-Fascist nationalist.’

This moralization is sustained by asceticism, which internalizes suffering by masking it with surplus enjoyment.  This feeds the cycle of the superego and conquers the Real of human experience.

Zupančič ’3 (Alenka, Philosopher at the University of Ljubljana, "The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Two," p 47-52, evidence under erasure shree)

It might seem that the notion of the ascetic ideal, as well as Nietzsche’s
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neurosis, in which Freud recognizes the paradigm of "religious" thinking. 

The excitations sustained by the surplus enjoyment of asceticism culminate in ressentiment which holds life in contempt, making it something to take revenge upon

Deleuze ’6 (ex-professor of phil at Vincennes, Translation by Tomlinson, Nietzsche and Philosophy P 108, gendered language under erasure)

As a result of his type the man of ressentiment does not react: his
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it is realized, remains "spiritual", imaginary and symbolic in principle.

The alternative is to actively forget the 1AC.  Forgetting is a positive faculty which allows us to achieve ourselves outside of asceticism’s deathgrip.

Zupančič ’3 (Alenka, Philosopher at the U of Ljubljana, "The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Two," p 57-60, evidence under erasure shree)

This is perhaps the moment to examine in more detail what Nietzschean "forgetting"
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—precisely through its "closure"—the possibility of a new one.

Desire shapes the operation of the social and the direction of their offense.  Linguistic articulation isn’t perfect, something is always left out of what is being described—this is called the Real.  Since the thing we desire is impossible in perfection, we are locked into a cycle of desire that endlessly tries to re-capture the lacking object of our desire.

Stavrakakis 99 (Yannis, Teaching Fellow at the Dept of Gov’t at Essex, Lacan and the Political, p 34shree)

What should be stressed at this point is that what is at stake here
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what we were promised but that’s exactly why we keep longing for it.

Prefer our method—it’s historically accurate in the context of politics—analyzing the social without desire can’t account for ethical modes of violence

McGowan ’4 (Todd, Assoc Prof in Film Studies @ UVM, "The End of Dissatisfaction?" p 4-6)
Psychoanalysis, however, calls into question the idea that we primarily act on behalf
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past, to traditional values, will necessarily be mediated by the present.

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Audacity of Nope 1NC

The good traveler has no fixed plans.  The joy of life comes spontaneously in accepting things as they are—the 1AC’s social engineering destroys us spiritually.

Slabbert 1, (Jos, Taoist teacher, "Tao Te Ching: How to Deal With Suffering," http://www.taoism.net/theway/suffer.htm-http://www.taoism.net/theway/suffer.htm shree, ev under erasure)

If you open yourself to loss, you are at one with loss and you
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the more we tamper with it, the more damage we will do. 

Vote negative to forgo the 1AC’s intent to effect desired ends.

Kirkland 96 (Russel, prof of Asian religions at UGA, "The Book of the Way," Great Literature of the Eastern World, http://kirkland.myweb.uga.edu/rk/pdf/pubs/DAODE.pdf-http://kirkland.myweb.uga.edu/rk/pdf/pubs/DAODE.pdf shree)

Specifically, the Tao is humble, yielding, and non-assertive. Like
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most powerful force in existence, and nothing can thwart its unceasing operation.

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K1

====The aff’s belief in the ability for more energy production to solve their security problems is a fantasy which locks them into a cycle of escalating security threats. There will always be yet another problem that needs a quick fix, because energy insecurity is inevitable.====
HILDYARD ET AL. ’12 (Nicholas, founder and Director of The Corner House, Larry Lohmann, Energy Analyst @ Corner House, and Sarah Sexton, Research Analyst @ Corner House, "Energy Security For What? For Whom?" The Corner House, February, pp. 73-75)

One of the ironies of upper-case Energy Security is that it is unavoidably
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rather than challenges¶ the commitments encapsulated in upper-case Energy Security.

The attempt to make nature and the environment a political issue ignores the social coordinates that have created the dangers of environmental catastrophe, and birthed the prevalence of the "green" governmental discourse. The politicization of nature ignores the socio-political circumstances that allow massive disasters. The discussion of Katrina as a political issue of climate change ignores the failure to rebuild levees around the ninth ward, and effectively glosses over the racism implicit in the destruction of New Orleans.

Swyngedouw, 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~~

Although there may be no Nature, there certainly is a politics of nature or a politics of the environment. The collages of apparently contradictory and overlapping vignettes of the environmental conditions outlined above share one common threat that many of us, Bush and Blair, my son and Greenpeace, Oxfam and the World Bank, agree on. The world is in environmental trouble. And we need to act politically now.
Both the 2004 Tsunami and New Orleans’s Katrina brought the politicisation of Nature home with
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, rich, conservative, and neo-liberal (Davis, 2006).
The popular response to Katrina, the barrage of apocalyptic warnings of the pending catastrophes
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current Western socio-environmental politics is what we shall turn to next.

Disease threats are used to control the social order and the self

Heather Schell, Phd Candidate at Stanford University, 1997, Configurations 5.1
Although I like the implications of Haraway’s and Martin’s analyses, an examination of immune
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prey interactions; anything that we cannot kill is ipso facto a competitor. 

And, if we did ever overcome the impacts the 1AC outlines, we would just recreate them to regain the enjoyment of the fight, perpetuating cycles of violence.

Stavrakakis 99 ~Yannis, Teaching Fellow in the Dept of Govt at the Univ of Essex %26 Dir of the MA Prog in Ideology and Discourse Analysis, Lacan and the Political, 107-108~
In the light of our theoretical framework, fantasy can only exist as the negation
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to admit; it is easier to attribute all negativity to the Jew:
All that is bad in society (crises, wars, famines, upheavals,
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of the universe in the Jews (Sartre, 1995: 40)12
As Jerrold Post has pointed out, we are always bound to those we hate
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as negating it. The result of this dialectic is always the same:
The tragic paradox of utopianism has been that instead of bringing about, as it promised, a system of final and permanent stability, it gave rise to utter restlessness, and in place of a reconciliation between human freedom and social cohesion, it brought totalitarian coercion. (Talmon, 1971: 95)
In that sense, as it was implicitly argued in Chapter 2, the notion
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have recourse to its other dark dimension in order to explain their failure:
the foreclosed obverse of the Nazi harmonious Volksgemeinschaft returned in their paranoiac obsession with ’the Jewish plot’. Similarly, the Stalinists compulsive discovery of ever-new enemies of socialism was the inescapable obverse of their pretending to realise the idea of the ’New Socialist Man’. (Zizek, 1996a: 116)
For Zizek, these two dimensions ’are like front and back of the same
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maintain its hold’ (ibid.). Utopia is not that far from dystopia.
What is at stake in the Lacanian conception of fantasy is, as we have
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stake here is not rational argumentation but the organisation and administration of enjoyment:
The impotence of the attitude of traditional Enlightenment is best exemplified by the anti-racist who, at the level of rational argumentation, produces a series of convincing reasons against the racist Other, but is nonetheless clearly fascinated by the object of his critique – and consequently, all his defence disintegrates in the moment of real crisis (when ’the fatherland is in danger’ for example). (Sloterdijk, 1988: 3)

This moralization is sustained by asceticism, which internalizes suffering by masking it with surplus enjoyment.  This feeds the cycle of the superego and conquers the Real of human experience.

Zupančič ’3 (Alenka, Philosopher at the University of Ljubljana, "The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Two," p 47-52, evidence under erasure shree)

It might seem that the notion of the ascetic ideal, as well as Nietzsche’s
AND
neurosis, in which Freud recognizes the paradigm of "religious" thinking. 

The excitations sustained by the surplus enjoyment of asceticism culminate in ressentiment which holds life in contempt, making it something to take revenge upon

Deleuze ’6 (ex-professor of phil at Vincennes, Translation by Tomlinson, Nietzsche and Philosophy P 108, gendered language under erasure)

As a result of his type the man of ressentiment does not react: his
AND
it is realized, remains "spiritual", imaginary and symbolic in principle.

The alternative is to actively forget the 1AC.  Forgetting is a positive faculty which allows us to achieve ourselves outside of asceticism’s deathgrip.

Zupančič ’3 (Alenka, Philosopher at the U of Ljubljana, "The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Two," p 57-60, evidence under erasure shree)

This is perhaps the moment to examine in more detail what Nietzschean "forgetting"
AND
—precisely through its "closure"—the possibility of a new one.

Desire shapes the operation of the social and the direction of their offense.  Linguistic articulation isn’t perfect, something is always left out of what is being described—this is called the Real.  Since the thing we desire is impossible in perfection, we are locked into a cycle of desire that endlessly tries to re-capture the lacking object of our desire.

Stavrakakis 99 (Yannis, Teaching Fellow at the Dept of Gov’t at Essex, Lacan and the Political, p 34shree)

What should be stressed at this point is that what is at stake here
AND
what we were promised but that’s exactly why we keep longing for it.

2NC

Framework

(2)  Prior question—framing is inextricable from policy formulation.  

Frameworks Institute ’5 ~"Strategic Frame Analysis"; http://www.frameworksinstitute.org/strategicanalysis/perspective.shtml-http://www.frameworksinstitute.org/strategicanalysis/perspective.shtml shree~

But what many social policy practitioners have overlooked in their quests to formulate effective strategies
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intellect and study that these other areas of nonprofit practice have been accorded. 

(3)  The affirmative chooses its ground—they have infinite prep time to select the best justifications for the plan and the last decade of debates show they can adapt them to accommodate particular teams.  Our interp checks infinite regression—our interpretation prevents negatives from stealing the whole 1AC minus one word, the alternative must interrogate the justifications of the aff holistically.

(4)  Predictability—Framing is a central question in the literature

Frameworks Institute ’5 ~"Strategic Frame Analysis"; http://www.frameworksinstitute.org/strategicanalysis/perspective.shtml ~

This interdisciplinary work is made possible by the fact that the concept of framing is
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efficiently interpreted in relationship to existing beliefs or ideas. Frames trigger meaning.

VTL

Attempts to secure our experience of existence – physically or psychologically – suppress and internalize paranoic fear. This produces life as a managerial project where we constantly struggle to perfect it through security. This fuels a ressentiment that negates beauty and life.

Der Derian 95 ~James, "On Security", p. 29~
The will to power, then, should not be confused with a Hobbesian perpetual
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this artificial strength to the illusion of being protected by a god."40

1NR

Predication

We’ll straight turn—their invocation of predictions is an independent reason to vote aff—The neg’s disaster gaming locks us into states of permanent war and makes catastrophes inevitable

Der Derian, IR Prof, 5 ~James Der Derian is a Watson Institute research professor of international studies and professor of political science at Brown University HIR, http://www.harvardir.org/articles/1430/2/~~
It often takes a catastrophe to reveal the illusory beliefs we continue to harbor in
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-scale accident is now the prolongation of total war by other means."

Their predictions are doomed to failure:

Studies prove

Menand 5 ~Louis, Former Professor of Political Science at MIT, December 5, "Everybody’s and Expert," http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/12/05/051205crbo_books1?printable=true~~

"Expert Political Judgment" is not a work of media criticism. Tetlock is
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throwing monkeys, who would have distributed their picks evenly over the three choices

Extinction

Terminal Defense:  From an ecological perspective, their impact is at best a different rearrangement of matter—there’s no metaphysical reason why you should reject this.

de Landa 96
(Manuel, Adjunct Associate Professor at Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University (New York), the Gilles Deleuze Chair of Contemporary Philosophy and Science at the European Graduate School, "An Interview with Manuel de Landa," with Konrad Becker and Miss M. at VirtualFutures, Warwick/ http://www.t0.or.at/delanda/intdelanda.htm)

Philosophically, it is a terrible mistake. It is a terrible mistake precisely in
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, that non-organic life has this breathing rhythm all to itself.

Death is the Birth of Potentiality.  Death is inevitable—choosing to accept this eventuality affirms the freedom of different forms of becoming and arrangements of matter

Faulkner 8 (Joanne, ARC Research Fellow, School of History and Philosophy @ the University of New South Wales, 2008, "The Innocence of Victimhood Versus the Innocence of Becoming," Muse )

Most significantly, for the purposes of this essay, we can perhaps see now
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be out in the air … it must have felt like flying." 33

(B)  Quantum Physics—Consciousness won’t end even if we’re disembodied

Lanza 10 (Robert, one of the leading scientists in the world, Chief Scientific Officer at Advanced Cell Technology, and professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. "Does Death Exist?: Life Is Forever, Says Theory." January 4. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/does-death-exist-life-is_b_410306.html-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/does-death-exist-life-is_b_410306.html))

In the cartoon, Bugs Bunny swallows nitroglycerine and gunpowder, and springs back to
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All songs exist simultaneously, although we only experience them piece by piece.

Fear of death is a function of the ego’s separation from externality; death is an illusion because our bodies are always already dead and dying—surrender is key to transcendence.  
Chopra ’5 (Deepak, M.D. Chairman and co-founder of the chopra center for wellbeing, The Absolute Break Between Life and Death Is an Illusion, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/the-absolute-break-betwee_b_4843.html-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/the-absolute-break-betwee_b_4843.html)

What bothers people about losing the body is that it seems like a terrible break
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The circle closes, and the mystic experiences himself as the one reality.

Linearity is a myth – time and space are constructions of perception.  Death doesn’t really exist because the physical world is an illusion—immortal life is consciousness and it exists outside of time.
Lanza 2009 (Robert Lanza is considered one of the leading scientists in the world. He is currently Chief Scientific Officer at Advanced Cell Technology, and a professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. "Does Death Exist? New Theory Says ’No’", http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/does-death-exist-new-theo_b_384515.html-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/does-death-exist-new-theo_b_384515.html)

Consider an experiment that was recently published in the journal Science showing that scientists could
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existence in time without end, but rather resides outside of time altogether. 

Fear of Death Good

Fear of death is a function of the ego’s separation from externality; death is an illusion because our bodies are always already dead and dying—surrender is key to transcendence.  
Chopra ’5 (Deepak, M.D. Chairman and co-founder of the chopra center for wellbeing, The Absolute Break Between Life and Death Is an Illusion, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/the-absolute-break-betwee_b_4843.html-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/the-absolute-break-betwee_b_4843.html)

What bothers people about losing the body is that it seems like a terrible break
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The circle closes, and the mystic experiences himself as the one reality.

Linearity is a myth – time and space are constructions of perception.  Death doesn’t really exist because the physical world is an illusion—immortal life is consciousness and it exists outside of time.
Lanza 2009 (Robert Lanza is considered one of the leading scientists in the world. He is currently Chief Scientific Officer at Advanced Cell Technology, and a professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. "Does Death Exist? New Theory Says ’No’", http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/does-death-exist-new-theo_b_384515.html-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/does-death-exist-new-theo_b_384515.html)

Consider an experiment that was recently published in the journal Science showing that scientists could
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existence in time without end, but rather resides outside of time altogether.