Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Indiana | Judge: Cheek
Decisions about energy begin with knowledge production – Policy is generated through frames and paradigms, NOT instrumental analysis of isolated policies.
Vote negative: A vision of energy as a social-ecological project begins with a refusal of the 1AC’s commodification of our common world.
Yu ‘9 [Jung-Min, PhD Candidate at the University of Delaware, “POLITICAL ECONOMY OF POWER LIBERALIZATION AND POWER TRANSFORMATION”, dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the University of Delaware in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Energy and Environmental Policy, ProQuest, pp. 103-110]

In sum, the expansion of the market mechanism cannot be dissociated with environmental and
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will be explored consequently when a new energy paradigm displaces the old one.     
The social and ecological dimensions of solar power come first – their futurist techno-optimism is a Trojan horse sustaining the systems of perpetual violence engendered by the modern energy regime
Byrne and Toly ‘6 [John, Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy (CEEP) and Distinguished Professor of Energy and Climate Policy at the University of Delaware, and Noah, research associate and Ph.D. candidate in the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of Delaware, Energy as a Social Project: Recovering a Discourse, in Transforming Power: Energy, Environment, and Society in Conflict, pp. 1-8]

From climate change to acid rain, contaminated landscapes, mercury pollution, and biodiversity
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or disturbing the goal of endless economic growth and its attendant social relations.  

[CONTINUED 8 PAGES LATER] 

The problems of the conventional energy order have led some to regard reinforcement of the
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sustainable energy initiative with social movements to address a comprehensive agenda of change.

[CONTINUES 4 PAGES LATER]

Perhaps because PV has, so far, found wider social usage in rural contexts
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capitalism, although with cleaner inputs (and possibly throughputs) than before.  
These systems of globalized violence and dispossession threaten an emerging apocalypse that demands challenging short term catastrophe focus – visible violence develops from subterranean structures of inequity and is intimately intertwined with power-knowledge formations
Nixon ‘9 [Rob, Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “NEOLIBERALISM, SLOW VIOLENCE, AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL PICARESQUE”, MFS Modern Fiction Studies, Volume 55 number 3, Fall 2009, http://sustainabilityparadox.commons.gc.cuny.edu/files/2010/09/Nixon-Neoliberalism2.pdf]   

The picaresque proves uncannily effective at dramatizing another critical dimension to the environmentalism of the
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casualties claimed, as at Bhopal, by the forces of slow violence.  

Tournament: Above | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
PRIOR QUESTION: Can they justify how the 1AC constitutes policy relevant scholarship?
In particular, the 1AC appeals to a chain of internal-links— But is their way of connecting causal claims good predictive policymaking?
For example, their [   ] Advantage says… 

[insert examples]

This paves over clashes of context and assumptions, transforming 1AC research into vacuous mush.
David M. Berube 2000 [Associate Professor of Speech Communication and Director of Debate at the University of South Carolina. Contemporary Argumentation and Debate 21: 53-73 http://www.cedadebate.org/CAD/index.php/CAD/article/viewFile/248/232]

The dead ends checked …with a critical lens.  
This is a Voting Issue.
First, Their bankrupt research practice makes evidence-based energy policy debate impossible.
Stevens 2007 [Alex Stevens, Senior Researcher-European Institute of Social Services, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, Keynes College, University of Kent, “Survival of the Ideas that Fit: An Evolutionary Analogy for the Use of Evidence in Policy” Social Policy and Society 6:1, 25–35]

The proposed evolutionary …processes of selection \

Second, The PARADOX OF RISK makes this issue NOT resolvable by weighing the plan.
If impact is calculated by multiplying probability and magnitude, any probability of an infinite impact irrationally registers as infinite

As Oliver Kessler writes:
even the most absurd scenarios can gain plausibility. By construct-  ing a chain of potentialities, improbable events are linked

Kessler continues in 2008
 [Oliver Kessler, Sociology at University of Bielefeld,   “From Insecurity to Uncertainty:  Risk and the Paradox of Security Politics” Alternatives  33 (2008), 211-232] 

The problem of the … with relative certainty. 

Tournament: Above | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
The 1ac’s linear reductionist method undermines the reflexive resilience necessary for meaningful energy planning—False certainty brackets the complex systematic interactions between their predictions.
Snyder and Schwab 2012 [Neil Snyder-National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Amy Schwab-National Renewable Energy Laboratory APPROACHES FOR PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING SUSTAINABLE ENERGY GROWTH IN A COMPLEX WORLD This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC36-08-G028308 with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/54506.pdf]

 5. EXPLORING OUR ANALYTICAL TOOL … global energy systems.  

The 1AC maps a linear path from A to B to C to D, paving over interactions between dozens of predictions—But THE WHOLE IS MORE THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS
Ramalingam et al 2008 [Ben, Senior Research Associate at the Overseas Development Institute,  and Harry jones at ODI, "Exploring the science of complexity: Ideas and Implications for development and humanitarian efforts" http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/docs/833.pdf ]

Concept 4: Nonlinearity5 ‘... the darkest corner of science [is] … specific, measurable outcomes’ (Westley et al., 2006).  

The impact is existential risk is systemic, not a flash of instability to be predicted and controlled. The 1AC brackets the full complexity of crisis and the value questions behind their scenarios—Preventing the ADAPTATION and RESILIENCE necessary for a viable future.  
Mangalagiu 2011 [Diana Mangalagiu, Prof of Strategy at Smith School of Enterprise and Environment-University of Oxford “Risk and resilience in times of globalization” An emerging research program for Global Systems Science: Assessing the state of the art, 10/4/11, http://www.gsdp.eu/] Mangalagiu 1

The recent financial crisis … as manifested by Beck. 8   

Continued… 

In contrast to … ambiguity and ignorance.  
 

Instead of weighing plan in a vacuum, reflect on the 1AC as a Flow of Communication–Meaning resonates through interactive processes of knowledge and value.

Their reductionist framework of policy communication backfires, undermining political responsibility in the face of threat.

Voting negative constitutes a framework adaptive to the complex interactions between assembled predictive claims.
Kinsella 2010 [William J. Kinsella, Assoc Prof Communication at NC State University,
“Risk communication, phenomenology, and the limits of representation” Catalan Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies 2 (2) pp. 267–276]  

Despite movements towards … and bear risks.   

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 4 | Opponent: OU CO | Judge: Dunn
Begin Your Deliberation With an Ethical Connection to More Than Human Others. The 1AC’s Protests Exploitation Within Human Societies—This Reinforces Anthropocentric Separation At The Root of Otherization.
Rebecca Rose, Lecturer in Literature for Trinity College Foundation Studies, The University of Melbourne, 2006 [COLLOQUY text theory critique  12 (2006)] 

In recent decades concern for the human-human relationship has  brought attention to the
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to a design that has been billions of years in the making.29 

The Role of Your Ballot Is Liberatory Scholarship Towards the Standpoint of the Nonhuman Oppression
Anthropocentrism is THE Foundational Hierarchy that structures all others—Their Humanist Politics Dooms Us To a Future That Endlessly Repeats the Oppression of the Status Quo.
Steven Best, Chair of Philosophy at UT-EP, 2007 [JCAS 5.2]

While a welcome advance over the anthropocentric conceit that only humans shape human actions,
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and stewardship, which however was Judaic moral baggage official Chistianithy left behind.  

[CONTINUES]

Too many people with pretences to ethics, compassion, decency, justice, love
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drive us ever-deeper into an evolutionary cul-de-sac.

Your ethical imperative is Political Scholarship and Speech Against the Oppression Of Humanism.
Rather than produce the slaughterhouse of a so-called “radical” and more perfect humanity, vote negative to disrupt and revolutionize your humanist identity
Best No Date [Steven, Chair of Philosophy at UT-EP, “Animal Rights and the New Enlightenment”, http://www.drstevebest.org/AnimalRightsandtheNewEnlightenment.htm] 

Western society has made rapid moral progress since the 1960s. The student, black
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change; we must. The message of nature is evolve or die.    

Tournament: Above | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Maggie McLure describes what she calls “a wider lexicon of uncertainty and disappointment”:
…
failure entanglement disconcertion getting stuck unintelligibility getting lost
bafflement abjection stuttering rupture haunting trouble mourning discomfort
As a result, she writes:
“We have also seen a cast of postmodern characters, lurking, strolling or dancing in the
ruins of research – the trickster, nomad, joker”
If this is what the affirmative promised us, then WE are disappointed.
Interpretation: Work through the ruins of the resolution
MacLure 2010
[Maggie MacLure,  Manchester Metropolitan University, “Qualitative inquire: where are the ruins?” http://www.esri.mmu.ac.uk/respapers/nzareRuins.pdf]
I want to use the notion of ruins as a way of opening up some
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clears a space for the voice of the authentic subject to be heard.
 
And, they have FAILED to work through the ruins
First, Decorating the edifice
The 1AC offers a series of anecdotes explained by a theory that “slide[s] home like a bolt.” This tames the unruly reality unleashed by the resolution, generating the comforts of understanding.
MacLure 2010 [Maggie MacLure, Manchester Metropolitan University, “Qualitative inquire: where are the ruins?” http://www.esri.mmu.ac.uk/respapers/nzareRuins.pdf] 

We have tried, then, in Patti Lather’s words, to refuse ‘textual
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walls of common sense or received practice. It has not been ruinous.

Second, Never-never Land
The affirmative might insist that they are not a master narrative—They are just playing with resolutional overcoding to undermine the false certainties of over-interpretation.
But are they fighting the wrong war?
Bruno Latour calls attention to the strategic advice Frank Luntz gave to Republicans when talking about global warming:
“you need to continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue.”
Has the suspicion of ideological certainties itself become the new certainty limiting our research?
Is the 1AC exploring the ruins, or lost in the “neverland many of the weapons of social critique”?

Latour continues in 2004
[Bruno, Professor at Sociology Science at Science Po Paris, “Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern” Critical Inquiry 30 (Winter 2004)]

Wars. So many wars.Wars outside and wars inside. Cultural wars,
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guard, or maybe lumped with the baggage train.1 We are still
able to go through the motions of a critical avant-garde, but is
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just that sin. Still, I’d like to believe that, on the
 [LATOUR CONTINUED]
contrary, I intended to emancipate the public fromprematurely
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, still burnt in the steel, our trademark: Made in Criticalland.
 
This is a reason to vote negative – Rather than destabilize meaning, their tidy theory generates a stable judgment against the status quo. Vote negative to DISCERN this implicit double turn. If they have potential, send them back to write a more ruinous 1AC.
Hogeven 2006
[Bryan, Sociology at U of Alberta with Andrew Woolford Sociology at U of Manitoba “Critical Criminology and Possibility in the Neo-liberal Ethos” Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice 48.5]

Thus, it is first imperative that criminologists reflect on the powers of, and
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of the most powerful from the courtroom - other than as officials whose 696
 
Voting for reassemblage moves beyond the 1AC’s mix of  suspicion and TRIMPHALISM
NISHANT SHAHANI, PhD UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, 2006
[QUEER PEDAGOGY AND AMERICAN STUDIES: A REPARATIVE RE-THINKING]
In her essay “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or  You’re So Paranoid,
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historical contingencies that enable and foreclose a more  performative understanding of knowledge production.  
Such an epistemology is enabled  through a shift from paranoid reading practices to what Sedgwick
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could have  happened differently from the way it actually did” (146).   

Tournament: Above | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Their knowledge-production about networks of resistance is redeployed for crackdowns on dissent—Zero risk their academic elaboration challenges the status quo
Forte in 2010 [Maximilian C., Professor of Anthropology Montreal, Ethnographies of Resistance Movements: Legible to the Authorities, ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY, http://zeroanthropology.net/2010/10/11/ethnographies-of-resistance-movements-legibile-to-the-authorities/#print ]
About 739 posts ago, I published “Exposing the Network,” wherein I expressed
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from Peter Gelderloos’ “The Difference Between Anarchy and Academics” (2007):
 “A serious danger posed to and by social scientists is the question of
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engaged in any political actions to directly spread that awareness to the people.”
Extraction Disad
They tap the particularities of oppression resources for their prior political project—This short-circuits the solidarity of even radical research methods
Forte 2009 [Maximilian C., Professor of Anthropology Montreal, Terms of Incorporation, Concepts of Domination, Novermber 8, http://zeroanthropology.net/2009/11/08/0-185-terms-of-incorporation-concepts-of-domination/
Today, in fact, it might appear less liberal, with the revival of
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omit the discussions to follow, which should deepen this discussion much further.

The 1AC structures of intelligibility only confirm what we already know—Reinforcing  us/them binaries and blocks our capacity to RESPOND
Farley ‘4 [Lisa, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, “Useless Suffering: Learning From the Unintelligible and the Re-Formation of Community”, Interchange, Vol 35/3,325-336, 2004]
Maria's testimony thus interrupts the smooth consumption of the visual narrative as an unmediated source
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terms wherein inter-human identifications might be re-thought and transformed.

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent: Baylor HK | Judge: Roark
3 – Fairness impacts are a TROJAN HORSE for substantive agendas.
All interpretations both create and destroy ground— For example, instrumental fiat makes kritiks impossible because nuclear war always outweighs rethinking – the race to the middle is a ruse
Olson 2k2. (Gary A. Olson, Professor of English @ University of South Florida. “Justifying Belief: Stanley Fish and the Work of Rhetoric” p. 51-52, p. 64-65]
In intractable policy debates, invoking the principle of fairness will not advance these debates
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can to implement them in the world” (8-9).  […]
continued…
Fish, of course, insists that no such independent position is possible, that
AND
). Fish in effect re-describes how formalism operates within legal discourse.  

AND, our Complexity arguments mean knowledge production comes FIRST – building energy RESILIENCE requires empowering local knowledge and communities over their reductionist impact scenarios – this is also a DA to framework
Hayward 8 [Bronwyn, a senior lecturer in political science at the University of
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Number 3, Summer 2008, pp. 79-98 (Article)]

In this paper, I continue a conversation with young and pay tribute to her
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had taken to address a shared concern with the limits of local deliberation.

CONTINUED SEVERAL PAGES LATER…

Local conversations about climate change are important. But arguing for local deliberation is different
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of wider, ongoing structural injustices for which we all share some responsibility.  

Second – the two paradigms are MUTALLY EXCLUSIVE – nuclear power’s focus on efficiency, centralization, and commodification is STRUCTURALLY opposed to energy as commons
Byrne et. al 2000 [John, Director of the Center for Energy and
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PAPER PRESENTED AT THE SIXTH SESSION OF THE UNFCCC CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES]

Fourth, the most tragic consequence of playing the ‘nuclear card’ to avert global
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wealthiest nations to evade obligations to alter their own production and consumption appetites. 

SMRs do not escape the link – the promise of a “new” reactor that solves nuclear power’s oppressive nature is a tired and failed tactic – unforeseen externalities are never considered
Lovins ‘9 [Amory, Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, Nuclear and Energy Activist since the 1960s, has ten honorary doctorates and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1984, of the World Academy of Art and Science in 1988, and of the World Business Academy in 2001, ““New” nuclear reactors, same old story”, Rocky Mountain Institute, 21 March, http://www.rmi.org/Knowledge-Center/Library/2009-07_NuclearSameOldStory]

No new kind of reactor is likely to be much, if at all,
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and exploit it (via turbine cycles) are inherently unable to scale down
as well as technologies whose different principles avoid these issues. • By the time
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energy, climate, and proliferation problems, led by business for profit. 

Tournament: Above | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Three, FRAMEWORK LOCK-IN—They imagine risk as scenarios resolved through a ‘quick fix.’
This FUTURE PROOFING ACTIVELY BLOCKS broader visions of transformation away from an UNSUSTAINABLE status quo
Mangalagiu 2011
[Diana Mangalagiu, Prof of Strategy at Smith School of Enterprise and Environment-University of Oxford “Risk and resilience in times of globalization” An emerging research program for Global Systems Science: Assessing the state of the art, 10/4/11, http://www.gsdp.eu/] Mangalagiu 4

The resilience frame … and resilience approaches.

Fifth, This is OFFENSE because they TRADE-OFF with addressing the systemic factors driving catastrophe
Tverbert 2011 [Gail Tverbert, M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois-Chicago; Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries. Much of her early career was spent with CNA Insurance Companies in Chicago, Illinois. There she was involved in both pricing and reserving of casualty insurance coverages. Since March 1, 2007, Ms. Tverberg has been working for Tverberg Actuarial Services on finite world issues. She is also a frequent contributor to the TheOilDrum.com website, under the name "Gail the Actuary". Her web articles have been published by TheOilDrum.com andEnergyBulletin.net. 9/12/11 “European Debt Crisis and Sustainability” http://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/09/12/european-debt-crisis-and-sustainability/]
I’ll also talk about … … the situation worse. 

Tournament: Harvard | Round: 7 | Opponent: Iowa DH | Judge: Bankey
Vote negative because 1AC risk communication short-circuits rational response.

We have three scenarios. 

First, The PARADOX OF RISK. As Oliver Kessler writes:

If the risk of
…
 endeavor breaks down *

Kessler continues in 2008
 Oliver Kessler, Sociology at University of Bielefeld,   “From Insecurity to Uncertainty:  Risk and the Paradox of Security Politics” Alternatives  33 (2008), 211-232 

The problem of the
 …
 assessed with relative certainty. 

Scenario Two, Research Blender.
If stringing together internal-links yields an infinite impact, policy debate becomes a race to the bottom—Paving over clashes of context and assumptions transforms predictions into vacuous mush. 

David M. Berube 2000
 Associate Professor of Speech Communication and Director of Debate at the University of South Carolina. Contemporary Argumentation and Debate 21: 53-73 http://www.cedadebate.org/CAD/index.php/CAD/article/viewFile/248/232

The dead ends checked … with a critical lens.

Scenario Three, TRUTH-I-NESS, aka, Bullshit Mountain
The threshold for solvency disappears when it’s “try or die” against an awful status quo—Like the media, debate judges are faced with an avalanche of misleading information.
As Zehner puts it
objectivity is not so much a rendering of  truth as much  as it is an attempt to accurately convey  what others believe to be true.-
End quote. Clinging to objectivity tilts the energy debate gameboard toward self-serving hype. 

Zehner 2012
Ozzie, visiting scholar at the UC-Berkeley Science, Technology, and Society Center Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism p. 159-160

Boardrooms don’t send edicts …  with the topic. 

Impact Calculus: Reflect on the 1AC as a Flow of Communication–Meaning resonates through interactive processes of knowledge and value.
Their reductionist framework backfires, undermining political responsibility in the face of threat.

Kinsella 2010
William J. Kinsella, Assoc Prof Communication at NC State University,
“Risk communication, phenomenology, and the limits of representation” Catalan Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies 2 (2) pp. 267–276

  Despite movements towards … take and bear risks.  

Tournament: See Above | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
AND, the CYNICISM DISAD—Extend Zehner
Subpoint A: Plan is a disad to the perm—Hyping plan as a silver bullet destroys the credibility of 1AC advocacy
Subpoint B: The perm links more— Trying to sever advantages proves they are cynical about their impacts—Sustaining a split between gullible publics versus elites who are “in the know”
Subpoint C: PORTABLE EDUCATION flows negative—They trains us to be future energy lobbyists
Zehner 2012
Ozzie, visiting scholar at the UC-Berkeley Science, Technology, and Society Center Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism p. 59-60

The third problem is … this simple reality.

Interrupting their silver-bullet frame is a prerequisite to rational deliberation on energy—In the race to solving the biggest impact, good ideas are buried in an avalanche of polarized cynical knowledge

Hritcko 2012
John Hritcko, Jr. is an experienced energy executive, skilled in formulating innovative strategies to seize new business opportunities and develop large energy infrastructure projects.
Mr. Hritcko developed his professional competence through a full and wide-ranging career in the natural gas sector of the energy industry spanning technical and commercial disciplines within pipeline, midstream, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) companies. He played a key role while with Columbia Gas in implementing the turn around of the idle Cove Point business, devising the marketing and regulatory affairs strategy and managing the joint venture.
Serving as Vice President, LNG Strategy and Development for Shell US Gas and Power, Mr. Hritcko’s primary responsibility was to build Shell’s capability to import LNG into the U.S. He also managed Shell’s capacity interests at existing US import terminals.
Mr. Hritcko graduated with an Associate Degree in Engineering Sciences from Broome Community College in Binghamton, NY. He holds Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.  He later earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the College of Business at the University of Houston.
“Searching for a Silver Bullet-Never Firing the Gun”
http://johnhritcko.com/2012/01/29/searching-for-a-silver-bullet-never-firing-the-gun/

‘Unfortunately, it’s clear … hit the target.

Tournament: See Above | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge: 

We have one role of the ballot for both kritiks

Vote negative for a moment of DISSENSUS—Instead of weighing plan, hold the 1AC accountable for how they communicate topical knowledge.

This is not a wholesale rejection of democratic politics, but a MOMENT of interruption— Our kritiks cannot be contested in the 1AC’s framework—Metzger demands:   
This might play out as a renewed interest in the facilitation of `court' institutions within planning processes, that is, the provision of spaces where policy decisions might be challenged, but will hopefully also entail experimentation with new methods to accommodate fruitfully dissensus already at an early stage within the planning process where the `opening out' of issues through the articulation of opposing value systems might take place*

End Quote. Planning becomes ANTI-POLITICAL if we cannot debate the terms of our debates

Metzger continues in 2011 Metzger J, 2011, "Neither revolution, nor resignation: (re)democratizing contemporary planning praxis: a commentary on Allmendinger and Haughton's "Spatial planning, devolution, and new planning spaces"" Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 29(2) 191 – 196, JP Miller

The building of such … dominant corporatist interests.

How we frame our knowledge is the first and only method question for evidence based policymaking—Shoddy research practices skew energy debates in favor of corporate propaganda—Reproducing the cynical impact calculus of the Iraq War.
Stevens 2007
Alex Stevens, Senior Researcher-European Institute of Social Services, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, Keynes College, University of Kent, “Survival of the Ideas that Fit: An Evolutionary Analogy for the Use of Evidence in Policy” Social Policy and Society 6:1, 25–35 Stevens 2

The proposed evolutionary … by processes of selection \

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent: Kentucky GS | Judge:
Cites attached below

Doubles 1NC (CFIUS)
T - Restrictions
Energy Justice
Paradox of Risk
Role of the Ballot
Paths of Glory

Octos (SMRs)
Energy Justice
Paradox of Risk
Role of the Ballot
Paths of Glory
Case

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
The 1ac’s celebration of participatory democracy is grossly inadequate to theorize the singularity of antiblackness. Civil society is founded upon the murder of Black and Red bodies.
Wilderson 2010
Frank, Associate Professor at UC Irvine’s Department of Drama and African American Studies, Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, 3-12, 23-4 J.Liu)
What are we to make .... films in parts 2, 3, and 4.

White supremacy is a global modality of genocidal violence—slavery may have ended in name, but its operational logic continues to fester. Reformist measures simply fuel the unending violence of antiblackness.
Rodriguez 2011
Dylan, PhD in Ethnic Studies Program of the University of California Berkeley and Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at University of California Riverside, “The Black Presidential Non-Slave: Genocide and the Present Tense of Racial Slavery”, Political Power and Social Theory Vol. 22, pp. 38-43 J.Liu) 

To crystallize what I hope to be the potentially…. overwhelming consent of white/multiculturalist civil society.

The alternative is to engage in an unflinching paradigmatic analysis of antiblackness.
The power to post the question is the greater power of all. Political ontology is a scandal which cannot and will not account for the gratuitous violence of slavery. Only the alternative engages in the call for total abolition.
Wilderson 2010
Frank, Associate Professor at UC Irvine’s Department of Drama and African American Studies, Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, ix-x, 54-9 J.Liu)
Strange as it might seem ...  ontological status of the Black.

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
The 1AC impact calculus is contemptible—Promises of abundant energy cater to base demands for MORE MORE MORE —The human animal can do better prosperity, security, and a long life—This reduces even the survival into a glorified game of King of the Hill

Rowe 2009
 Rowe, James. Assistant Professor, School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria,""Love The Earth:" Nietzschean Pathways for Progressive Politics" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the WPSA ANNUAL MEETING "Ideas, Interests and Institutions", Hyatt Regency Vancouver, BC Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Mar 19, 2009 Not Available. 2012-06-21 http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p317501_index.html

A market … can do better. 

Appeals to a state governed by utilitarian reason denies ecstatic energies bursting out as Wars of Annihilation 

Wendy C. Hamblet 2005
Canadian philosopher with a specialization in ethics and violence. She teaches
Ethics and Morality, and Political and Social Philosophy at Adelphi University
Peace Review 17:39-45 “mono-cephalic” means “one-headed”

But, at this evolutionary …self-annihilation is imminent. 

The suicidal nihilism fostered by all-too-careful utilitarianism makes their impacts meaningless. 

Owen and Ridley, 2K gender modified*
David, assistant director of the Centre for Post-Analytic Philosophy at the University of Southampton, Aaron, senior lecture and associate director of the Centre for Post-Analytic Philosophy at the University of Southampton, “Dramatis Personae,” in Why Nietzsche Still? ed. Alan Schrift, pp. 149-151
The modern condition … destruction desirable" (BGE 225).

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Round 1: Vs. Emporia SW, with Johnathan Paul as the Judge
1NC Positions: Opacity K, Anthro
1NC On Case Args: community focused on reinvigorating itself props up neolib. confessional discourse gets co-opted by the State
2NC Extended Args: Opacity K
New 2NC Impacts or Args:
1NR Args: Anthro
2NR Strat: Opacity K

Round 3: Vs. Michigan AP, with Sam Maurer as the Judge
1NC Positions:Paradox of Risk, Role of the Ballot, Energy Justice, Path of Glory
1NC On Case Args:Economic predictions are wrong (neolib), no link to actual geopolitics
2NC Extended Args:Role of the Ballot, Energy Justice, Case
New 2NC Impacts or Args:
1NR Args:Risk
2NR Strat:Role of the Ballot, Paradox of Risk, EJ

Round 6: Vs. Missouri State BR, with Jarrod Atchison as the Judge
1NC Positions:
1NC On Case Args:
2NC Extended Args:
New 2NC Impacts or Args:
1NR Args:
2NR Strat:

Tournament: Pitt RR | Round: 1 | Opponent: Emporia SW | Judge: JP
1NC—Opacity Module

If a performance falls in the forest but nobody hears it, does it make a sound?
Their political strategy relies on implicit norms of recognition – What makes their aesthetic intervention subversive? Is the debate master watching, displeased by their self-expression?
They only produce a confessional discourse that disavows an understanding of agency as driven by material forces and acts that work THROUGH the subject, rather than the object of conscious manipulation
Grosz 2000 Elizabeth Grosz, Professor of Comparative Literature at the City University of New York http://web.gc.cuny.edu/csctw/found_object/text/grosz.htm
Elizabeth It is not mediated … a mimicking denaturalization. 

The 1AC presumption that we can re-energize debate by starting with ourselves is a fantasy that covers over the way our identities are coded and ordered by larger structures of power.
Panu, Assistant Professor at Laurier, 2009
Mihnea, Contextualizing Family Planning: Truth, Subject, and the Other in the U.S. Government, p.194-195

More generally, the political … the natural subject) (Foucault 2003, 40). 

Radical strategies of visibility are part of sovereign violence. Their call for “dialogue” will be co-toped.
Forte in 2009 Maximilian C., Professor of Anthropology Montreal, May 22, “Useless Anthropology”: Strategies for Dealing with the Militarization of the Academy « ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY, http://zeroanthropology.net/2009/05/22/%e2%80%9cuseless-anthropology%e2%80%9d-strategies-for-dealing-with-the-militarization-of-the-academy/#print

One does not … to conduct business as usual. 

Instead of trying to re-energize the public sphere, our alternative is to go off the grid. Becoming unintelligible is a more radical challenge to the historical formation of power.
Britton 99 Celia, Professor of French teaches French Caribbean literature and thought, postcolonial theory; surrealism in the Caribbean; psychoanalysis and colonialism; literature and ideology; images of community; the Nouveau Roman, Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance, pgs. 18-25

The forest provided invisibility…, that it is trying to suppress.
2NC

encrypted messages  in african american quilt pattemrns used in the underground railroad show how communication can take place in public that also carries a deeper under-ground meaning
Sound - no date (Owen, "Owen Sound's Black History", http://www.osblackhistory.com/quilts.php)

Secret messages in … task fell to the females.

The ability to obscure knowledge or meaning is a communication skill. In African arts liberal exposure of knowledge is considered irresponsible because it can be dangerous in the wrong hands, used for personal gain or to harm social order.
Secrecy through coding, ambiguity and obscurity allows secrets to be hidden in art-work and known only to the maker or user.
Nooter, Museum for African Art, ‘93
(Mary H., “Secrecy: African Art that Conceals and Reveals”, Source: African Arts, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Jan., 1993), pp. 54-69+102 Published by: UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3337109 .
Accessed: 24/01/2013 14:39 )

During my fieldwork … differ from another’s. 

Guerilla Solar
Laurie Guevara-Stone ‘1 Mother Earth News, Guerrilla Solar,  http://www.motherearthnews.com/print-article.aspx?id=78348

A term coined by Richard … It is unknown how many guerrilla solar grid-tied systems exist, but a dozen of the systems are documented by Home Power (homeowners' names omitted, of course).

EXTEND OUR CONFESSIONS BAD TURNS: 

Their call for us to confess our social location fetishizes the private and emboldens rather than challenges domination. This turns their pedagogy in two ways:

A) Confession grounds political identity in suffering, providing new information for a data-hungry State to categorize and otherize us, while trapping us in the past.
Wendy Brown 1996, Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Constitutions and 'Survivor Stories': In the 'folds of our own discourse' The Pleasures and Freedoms of Silence, 3 U Chi L Sch Roundtable 185
But if the silences … depoliticizing their conditions.

Instead of understanding identity through structures of recognition, the alternative gestures subjectivity as a radical futurity of becoming, constituted through the material forces that open up the possibilities of agency
Grosz 2005 Elizabeth A. Grosz is an Australian feminist academic living and working in the USA. She is known for philosophical interpretations of the work of French philosophers Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, as well as her readings of the works of French feminists, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva and Michele Le Doeuff. She has mainly written on questions of corporeality and their relations to the sciences and the arts. She has held tenured positions at The University of Sydney, Monash University, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Rutgers University and Duke University.
Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power p. 83-89 Grosz A5

And if so, why …of all types.

Tournament: Pitt RR | Round: 1 | Opponent:  | Judge: JP
TURN NEOLIBERALISM:
A) 1AC focus on community-driven “speaking for oneself” historically been used to fuel neo-liberal redevelopment efforts. 

Holifeld ‘4 Ryan, assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, “Neoliberalism and environmental justice in the United States environmental protection agency: Translating policy into managerial practice in hazardous waste remediation”, Geoforum Volume 35, Issue 3, May 2004, Pages 285–297

Brenner and Theodore (2002) identify … to prospective developers.  

A) NEW EXCLUSIONS: Confessional discourse is co-opted by the State and creates exclusionary notions of authenticity that must be rejected.
Wendy Brown 1996, Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Constitutions and 'Survivor Stories': In the 'folds of our own discourse' The Pleasures and Freedoms of Silence, 3 U Chi L Sch Roundtable 185
If, taken together, … heterosexual pleasure?)

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge: 

1nr Risk

AND – We do NOT make action impossible, but the OPPOSITE –In a world of excess info, the disad to OVERSIMPLIFICATION outweighs the good findings in the 1AC—They create “knowledge creep” that makes evidence-based-policy impossible

Birnbaum, Professor of Higher Education at the University of Maryland, College Park, 2K

Robert, “Policy Scholars Are from Venus; Policy Makers Are from Mars,” Review of Higher Education, 23.2 p.119-132

Perhaps a stronger argument is that policy scholars may not always focus on the problems

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of its quality but because of its rhetoric? End Page 124   

B – PORTABLE decision-making education outweighs—BLOCKBUSTER scholarship is the PROXIMATE CAUSE of existentially catastrophic foreign policy  —1AC hype  creates THE WORST OF BOTH WORLDS, both COMPLACENCY towards genuine threat—AND irrational OVERREACTIONS like Vietnam

Krepon 2009 Michael, co-founder of Stimson, and director of the South Asia and Space Security programs “The Mushroom Cloud That Wasn't: Why Inflating Threats Won't Reduce Them” 88 Foreign Aff. 2 2009 p2-6

At the height of the Cold War, almost no one was bold enough or

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.S. agencies and between the United States and foreign intelligence services.

2NC Role of the Ballot

4 – Prefer our offense to fairness – Fairness impacts are a TROJAN HORSE for substantive agendas.  All interpretations both create and destroy ground—objectivity is an illusion

Olson 2k2.(Gary A. Olson, Professor of English @ University of South Florida. “Justifying Belief: Stanley Fish and the Work of Rhetoric” p. 51-52, p. 64-65

In intractable policy debates, invoking the principle of fairness will not advance these debates

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can to implement them in the world” (8-9).  …

continued…

Fish, of course, insists that no such independent position is possible, that

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). Fish in effect re-describes how formalism operates within legal discourse. 

2NC Case

PINKER concludes NEG on hegemony

Pinker 2011Steven, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Google Books

In fact, the Democratic Peace theory did even better than its advocates hoped.

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one might have expected from the plethora of 19th-century counterexamples.232

2NC EJ

Increased gas production leads to coal exports globally

Forbes 12-10-12Jeff McMahon, “Surprise Side Effect Of Shale Gas Boom: Coal Boom Overseas”, http:~/~/www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2012/12/10/surprise-side-effect-of-shale-gas-boom-coal-boom-overseas/print/http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2012/12/10/surprise-side-effect-of-shale-gas-boom-coal-boom-overseas/print/(%%)

But the side effects of fracking look less rosy from the global perspective. America

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importer, and it will project even greater demand for coal in India.

AND, Wecontrol uniqueness and the alt solves – declining demand in the US means coal will just be exported to the third world – but global environmental justice movements are the key to stopping them

Guay11-20-12 Justin, leads the Sierra Club’s International Program, Worldwide, Local Communities Are Defying King Coal’s Global Expansion,

http:~/~/thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/11/20/1223121/worldwide-local-communities-are-defying-king-coals-global-expansion/http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/11/20/1223121/worldwide-local-communities-are-defying-king-coals-global-expansion/

For the past few years, the Beyond Coal campaign has been working with local

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— showing the world that coal is the problem, not the solution.

Environmental justice is not incidental to OCS but is inherent in the siting assessment process – its done on a playing field rigged for corporate interests at the expense of the public

Shrader-Frechette ‘2 Kriston Sharon, O'Neill Professor of Philosophy and Concurrent Professor of Biological Science, University of Notre Dame, “Environmental Justice: Creating Equity, Reclaiming Democracy”, pp.41-47

Often, however, the substance of environment-related decisions, and the federal

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EPA justification for the assessment conclusions in favor of offshore oil development.162

CONTINUED 2 PAGES LATER

If this chapter is correct in arguing that failure to assess local inequalities in environmental

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strategies to help overcome the way such bias often results in environmental injustice.

2 - They’re a bridge fuel to nowhere – the aff only diverts attention and skews the market against ecologically-just technology

EJN No DateEnergy Justice Network, grassroots energy network that advocates environmental justice and clean energy, “No Such Thing as "Transition" Fuels”, http://www.energyjustice.net/solutions/transition.html

Natural gas, nuclear power, biomass, ethanol, hydrogen and other false solutions

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shift reliance once more -- onto the clean technologies we're ultimately aiming for.   

They overdetermine technological content over the FORM of the alt – but logistical concerns follow political will and NOT vice versa

Glover ‘6 Leigh, policy fellow and assistant professor in the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of Delaware, “From Love-ins to Logos: Charting the Demise ofRenewable Energy as a Social Movement”, pp. 260-262

Third is the issue of the falling social barriers, particularly that of cost (

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a passive economy that serves to disguise an active set of political decisions.

BOOMERANG DA – Increased production only spurs increased demand that boomerangs back to create ever-escalating energy crises – turns the aff

Zehner ’12Ozzie, visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism, pp. 167-175

In fact, since the 1960s, humanity has become quite adept at intensifying large

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And researchers know little about it. This phantom goes by many names.  

The global gas industry is complicit in human rights abuses in the global South

Darley ‘4Julian, founder of Global Public Media and Post Carbon Institute, and writer and speaker on policy responses to global environmental degradation, High Noon for Natural Gas: the new energy crisis, pg. 89

In another tragic sense, natural gas is no cleaner than oil. The same

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massive shift to truly renewable energy and a  contraction of the world economy.%

Offshore drilling hurts indigenous subsistence and violates human rights

NRDC ’12 Jeff Goodyear Ph.D. Aurora Environmental Research, “Environmental Risks with Proposed Offshore Oil and Gas Development off Alaska’s North Slope”, August, http:~/~/www.nrdc.org/land/alaska/files/pdf(%%)

For more than a millennium, Inupiat and other Alaska Natives living along the coast

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reduce Alaskan Natives’ access to subsistence resources and ultimately violate their human rights.

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent: Wyoming | Judge: 

Recognition 2NC

Secrecy is good

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AND

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when Anglo ethnographers began working in the Southwest.

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Their construction of a transcendental subject able to overthrow the shackles of power reinstates  the violence of enlightenment rationality

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Queer theory and Native studies often do not intersect

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positions Native peoples at the “horizon of death.”

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The permutation fails—it’s impossible to create change from within the tropes and culture of western politics.

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Stop talking—refusing to produce academic knowledge exposes the limits of colonial violence

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The work of Indigenous scholars rests upon Empire

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that can both refuse and also take up refusal in generative ways.

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The affirmative’s politics of recognition renders the colonized subject visible to sovereign violence—their reformism merely smooths the functioning of the settler-state.

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they are not supposed to define the terms of the discourse itself.

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent: Wyoming MP | Judge:
Natives Case 1NC
Turn commodification-

1ac’s  incorporation of native rituals is a coping mechanism for underlying guilt about western thought this is a false redemption that further destroys Indian culture.
Johnson, Unitarian universalist parish minister, 2008 myke, “wanting to be indian: when spiritual searching turns into cultural theft,” http://anti-politics.net/distro/2009/wantingtobeNDN-read.pdf
One of these traps I refer to as
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as they now claim to own our land and resources.
Turn-essentialism-

1ac’s construction of a native consensus on wind used to wrest tribal sovereignty
Bosworth 2010 kai A, researcher at mcalaster university, “Straws in the Wind: race, nature, and technoscience in Postcolonial south Dakotan wind power development” Publication of the Macalester digital commons
Difference is enacted between
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Individuals, Corporations, or other institutions 

The 1AC’s changing of authority over native energy decisions re-confirms sovereign power and status of Natives as a state of exception.
Rifkin, 2009
Mark, “Indigenizing Agamben: Rethinking Sovereignty in Light of the "Peculiar" Status of Native Peoples,” Cultural Critique, Number 73, Fall 2009, pp. 88-124 (Project Muse)

While the decisions seem to be grasping to find language adequate to the disturbing legal
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, and dependent on, the “peculiar”-ization of Native peoples. 

Limiting their politics to a mere disruption of western cosmology betrays a political grammar that mystifies the semiotics of genocide. They structurally crowd out an understanding of Savage Dereliction
WIlderson 2010 Frank B., Assc Prof Drama and African-American studies at UC-Irvine, Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, 179-187
The meditations on “Savage” ontology which are weighted heavily
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the “like” makes the Settler/”Savage” struggle legible in the discourse of postcolonial theory.

Tournament: ndt | Round: 3 | Opponent: msu hr | Judge: dheidt, short, feldman
1NC Paradox of Risk
THE PARADOX OF RISK
If impacts are calculated by multiplying probability times magnitude, then every absurd probability of an infinite impact register as infinite – breaking down rational risk calculus
Kessler ‘8  Oliver Kessler, Sociology at University of Bielefeld,   “From Insecurity to Uncertainty:  Risk and the Paradox of Security Politics” Alternatives  33 (2008), 211-232 

The problem of the … with relative certainty.   
1NC Paradox of Risk—2
Fiat Debate Has Become Like “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”
Every Round Brings a New Extinction Event.
This Endless Repetition of Banal Apocalypse  Increases Public Cynicism and Elite Control.
Randals, 2k9.
Samuel, Department of Geography at the University College London  with Marieke de Goede, Department of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam and “Precaution, preemption: arts and technologies of the actionable future.”  Environment and Planning. 27: . pp.  859-878

Politics We have … from media sensationalism. 

1NC Paradox of Risk—3

Impact Calculus: Reflect on the 1AC as a Flow of Communication, meaning RESONATING through flows of affect and knowledge
Their abstract risk calculus backfires, undermining political responsibility in the face of threat.
Kinsella 2010 William J. Kinsella, Assoc Prof Communication at NC State University,
“Risk communication, phenomenology, and the limits of representation” Catalan Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies 2 (2) pp. 267–276

 Despite movements towards … and bear risks.   
  
1NC Paradox of Risk—5

Voting negative explores the gaps in 1AC knowledge.
Learning to respond to uncertainty is a prerequisite to policy deliberation that RESONATES as engagement

Hart, 2k7. Reciprocal Revelation: Toward a Pedagogy of Interiority, Tobin Hart, Professor of Psychology Co-founder and President of the Child Spirit Institute University of West Georgia, Journal of Cognitive Affective Learning, 3(2) (Spring 2007), 1-10. Oxford College of Emory University. 1549-695 https://www.jcal.emory.edu//viewarticle.php?id=83andlayout=html, JP Miller

With most topics, …, appreciated, and genuinely met today?

*gender modified 

1NC Paradox of Risk—7

Affective orientations controls our capacities to transform energy politics—Disenchantment drains the energies making democratic engagement possible
Bennett 2010
Jane, Chair Polsci at John Hopkins, 11.3 “Agency Nature and Emergent Properties” Interviewed by Gulshan Khan http://neodoxa.wordpress.com/2010/11/03/agency-nature-and-emergent-properties/ Bennett 6
KHAN: In The Enchantment …for the satisfaction of desires.

2nc  AT: Method Focus Bad

Two, Our method question is key – Stringing together internal-links to an infinite impact paves over clashes of context and assumptions— Even if some 1AC claims are true, they transform predictions into vacuous mush.
David M. Berube 2000
 Associate Professor of Speech Communication and Director of Debate at the University of South Carolina. Contemporary Argumentation and Debate 21: 53-73 http://www.cedadebate.org/CAD/index.php/CAD/article/viewFile/248/232

The dead ends checked … be scrutinized with a critical lens. 

1NR AT: Perm—1  

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BACKWASH DISAD
The perm does NOT overcome the link because every increment of link BACKWASHES to the erosion of politics 

David Altheide, School of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University, 2010
“Risk communication and the discourse of fear” Catalan Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies 2 (2) pp. 145–158
We become accustomed …  the discourse of fear. 

1NR Risk A2… Fear/Predictions Good (near top)—1

The overview proves they don’t solve their fear good offense—The 1AC resonates as BANAL rather than genuine threat—Even if the plan is a good idea, 1AC communication makes plan LESS LIKELY to pass

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The Berube RESEARCH BLENDER from the 2NC internal-link turns their “extinction/fear good” offense—Prefer our link in the debate context in which extinction impacts are selling like hotcakes

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This outweighs any offense from plan being a “good idea”— Extend Bennett
Affect comes before rational predictions in the energy context—Linking plan to banal apocalypse drains debates of the vitality that makes us care about an energy future—Their method encourages disaffection

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This is a sequencing argument, NOT a complete rejection of predictions— Extend Kinsella Hart and Metzger
A Subpoint: Interrupting the 1AC acts as a PALATE CLEANSER—We break debate’s addiction to vacuous impact calculus that shuts down democratic deliberation before it can start

B Subpoint: Our moment of Dissent gives our turns uniqueness by Exploring gaps in 1AC knowledge—This cultivates the enchantment and care necessary to MOTIVATE existential struggle
1NR Risk A2… Fear/Predictions Good (near top)—2
Their attempt to instrumentalize fear backfires in a world saturated by routinized threat—Instead of mobilizing rational politics, grooves of BANAL affect are carved onto a passified subject
McManus 2011
Susan, Lecturer in Political Theory at Queens U, “Hope, Fear, and the Politics of Affective Agency” Theory and Event 14.4 9

An instrumentalization of …individual's nervous system,' (Massumi, 2006: 1).
1NR Alternative/Cede the Political—1 

The ALTERNATIVE internal-link turns policy education—We are a SEQUENCING ARGUMENT, not a wholesale rejection of policy— Voting for a moment of DISSENT solves their framework offense better
A Subpoint: Holding planners accountable requires debating the terms of our debates—Their false consensus short-circuits democratic planning, trapping us in Kafka’s maze of irresponsible politics—That’s METZGER
B Subpoint: Affective mobilization precedes political mobilization—That’s Hart Randalls and Bennett explained on the predictions debate.

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1AC makes democratic politics impossible—We control the direction of the link because info overload ensures political disaffection
Offe, 2k6. (Claus Offe. “Political Disaffection as an Outcome of Institutional Practices?” in Torcal, Mariano, and J.R. Montero (Eds). Political Disaffection in Contemporary Democracies. London Routledge. 2006: 23-45. Online. KevC)
If we speak of … on which we all depend.
*1nr AT: Case Outweighs—1 *

B – PORTABLE decision-making education outweighs—BLOCKBUSTER scholarship is the PROXIMATE CAUSE of existentially catastrophic foreign policy  —1AC hype  creates THE WORST OF BOTH WORLDS, both COMPLACENCY towards genuine threat—AND irrational OVERREACTIONS like Vietnam
Krepon 2009 Michael, co-founder of Stimson, and director of the South Asia and Space Security programs “The Mushroom Cloud That Wasn't: Why Inflating Threats Won't Reduce Them” 88 Foreign Aff. 2 2009 p2-6

At the height of the …s and foreign intelligence services. 

Tournament: ndt | Round: 5 | Opponent: okla lm | Judge: butler, evans, morgan
Rendering nature comprehensible is a pre-requisite to domination and violence.
Erasing the distinction between humanity and nature throws out the baby with the bathwater, opening the floodgates to the elimination of nonhuman difference.

Keekok Lee, Visiting Chair in Philosophy at Lancaster University, 1999
The Natural and the Artefactual p. 181

Modem science and its technology are predicated upon nature as the dualized other. Its
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ontological impoverishment. Such impoverishment is thus an inevitable part of modern anthropocentrism.
Dualism--and hence the scientific/technological program based on it--is un¬acceptable
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be based on the recognition of relevant differences, not necessarily of similarities."
Respect for nature in this deep sense requires two distinct ontological categories, the nonhuman
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become the artefactual, thereby imperiling the very existence of what is nonhuman.

Preserving a nature culture divide is a prerequisite to interdependence with nature
Katz 97
Eric Katz, Director of Science, Technology, and Society Program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1997 Nature as Subject p. 137

But this raises a second objection: the idea that "nature" and "
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distinct elements forms a harmonious unity, one element can dominate the whole.

Their vision of a harmonious relation with nature creates total exploitation

Erik Swyngedouw, Department Geography Environment and Development at Manchester University, 2006
http://www.liv.ac.uk/geography/seminars/Sustainabilitypaper.doc.

The inability to take ‘natures’ seriously is dramatically illustrated by the controversy over the
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current Western socio-environmental politics is what we shall turn to next.

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3 – Ethical Priority – Modernity can only be a secondary category in explaining violence – it emerges and is inextricable from the incessant desire to secure human identity from animality – takes out any of the root cause arguments their Jacques mimpact makes
Anderson ‘2 Kay, Professor of Geography at Durham University, “The Racialization of Difference: Enlarging the Story Field”, The Professional Geographer, 54(1) 2002, pages 25–30

However, my interest here is not in the suggestive interactions between the classificatory systems
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falsely essentialized) nonhuman world have shaped ideas of hierarchy about human groups.  

AT: Perm

First – Their starting point means no solvency for the perm – Extend Wadiwel
Subjugation of the nonhuman is the zero point upon which civil society is built – all inclusive struggles within the plane of civil society already depend on this division as a principle of their very operation
Second – They do NOT get to sever any of the 1AC – Bad perms are bad substance – severing or adding extra bits moots the education of the criticism itself
Third – The question of the animal must interrupt the pluralist move of the permutation and upset the refashioned human subject.
Wolfe 2009 Cary Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Prof of English at Rice University, “Human, All Too Human: “Animal Studies” and the Humanities” 124.2: March MLA pp. 564–575 

As I have argued elsewhere, this suggests two important things about animal studies:
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“benevolence” wholly characteristic of liberal humanism (Animal 29–30). 

THE END OF THEIR ATALAY ARTICLE SAYS THAT DECENTERING TAKES PLACE ONLY IN THE NAME OF THE HUMAN
Atalay 6
(Sonya, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University Bloomington. "Indigenous Archaeology as Decolonizing Practice", American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 3/4, Special Issue: Decolonizing Archaeology (Summer - Autumn 2006), pp. 280-310. JSTOR.)
“Part of the practice of decolonizing archaeology is to research Indigenous traditional knowledge and
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producing models that those working with descendent groups around the globe can follow.”

Tournament: ndt | Round: 5 | Opponent: okla lm | Judge: morgan, evans, butler
The alt is a rejection of the western gaze’s will to know – endorsement of the alt is an endorsement of a politics that frustrates and dissolves the white epistemic regime
Medina, Associate Pf of Philosophy @ Vanderbilt,’08 (Jose, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, New Series, Volume 22, Number 4, 2008, pp. 313-316, DOI: 10.1353/jsp.0.0052

While the essays …demise of epistemology. 

Translating native uniqueness bad
Rifkin, 2009
Mark, “Indigenizing Agamben: Rethinking Sovereignty in Light of the "Peculiar" Status of Native Peoples,” Cultural Critique, Number 73, Fall 2009, pp. 88-124 (Project Muse)

While the decisions … of Native peoples.

Tournament: ndt | Round: 5 | Opponent: okla lm | Judge: morgan, evans, butler
Opacity
1NC—Opacity Module

If a performance falls in the forest but nobody hears it, does it make a sound?
Their political strategy relies on implicit norms of recognition – What makes their aesthetic intervention subversive? Is the debate master watching, displeased by their self-expression?
They only produce a confessional discourse that disavows an understanding of agency as driven by material forces and acts that work THROUGH the subject, rather than the object of conscious manipulation
Grosz 2000 Elizabeth Grosz, Professor of Comparative Literature at the City University of New York http://web.gc.cuny.edu/csctw/found_object/text/grosz.htm
Elizabeth It is not mediated … a mimicking denaturalization. 

The 1AC presumption that we can re-energize debate by starting with ourselves is a fantasy that covers over the way our identities are coded and ordered by larger structures of power.
Panu, Assistant Professor at Laurier, 2009
Mihnea, Contextualizing Family Planning: Truth, Subject, and the Other in the U.S. Government, p.194-195

More generally, the political … the natural subject) (Foucault 2003, 40). 

Tournament: NDT | Round: 7 | Opponent: Louisville VW | Judge: Hagwood, Odekirk, Dunn

If a performance falls in the forest but nobody hears it, does it make a sound? Their political strategy relies on implicit norms of recognition – What makes their aesthetic intervention subversive? Is the debate master watching, displeased by their self-expression?

They only produce a confessional discourse that disavows an understanding of agency as driven by material forces and acts that work THROUGH the subject, rather than the object of conscious manipulation

Grosz 2000 Elizabeth Grosz, Professor of Comparative Literature at the City University of New York http://web.gc.cuny.edu/csctw/found_object/text/grosz.htm
Elizabeth It is not mediated … a mimicking denaturalization. 

The 1AC presumption that we can re-energize debate by starting with ourselves is a fantasy that covers over the way our identities are coded and ordered by larger structures of power.

Panu, Assistant Professor at Laurier, 2009
Mihnea, Contextualizing Family Planning: Truth, Subject, and the Other in the U.S. Government, p.194-195

More generally, the political … the natural subject) (Foucault 2003, 40).

Radical strategies of visibility are part of sovereign violence. Their call for “dialogue” will be co-opted.

Forte in 2009 Maximilian C., Professor of Anthropology Montreal, May 22, “Useless Anthropology”: Strategies for Dealing with the Militarization of the Academy « ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY, http://zeroanthropology.net/2009/05/22/%e2%80%9cuseless-anthropology%e2%80%9d-strategies-for-dealing-with-the-militarization-of-the-academy/#print

One does not … to conduct business as usual. 

Instead of trying to re-energize the public sphere, our alternative is to go off the grid. Becoming unintelligible is a more radical challenge to the historical formation of power.

Britton 99 Celia, Professor of French teaches French Caribbean literature and thought, postcolonial theory; surrealism in the Caribbean; psychoanalysis and colonialism; literature and ideology; images of community; the Nouveau Roman, Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance, pgs. 18-25

The forest provided invisibility…, that it is trying to suppress.

Tournament: NDT | Round: 7 | Opponent: Louisville VW | Judge: Hagwood, Odekirk, Dunn

AT Perm

the question of the animal must interrupt the pluralist move of the perm - it only refashions the humanist subject in a more hidden form - inclusive strategies like the aff and perm already depend on this division as a principle of their very operation

Wolf 9 (Cary, Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Prof of English at Rice University, "Human, All Too Human: 'Animal Studies' and the Humanities", 124.2: march MLA pp. 564-575)

As I have argued elsewhere
AND
liberal humanism (Animal 29-30).

their weak perm is offense for us - challenging anthropocentrism as an "after thought" makes it an "extrinsic" token - that reinforces unconscious anthropocentric bias

Perlo 7 (Katherine, "Extrinsic and Intrinsic Arguments: Strategies for Promoting Animal Rights", Journal of Critical Animal Studies 5.1)

While there is, of course
AND
part of the animal rights case.

AT K is Privileged

This obscures the way anthropocentric practices lie at the heart of interlocking systems of oppression

Bailey 7 (Cathryn, professor and chair of philosophy @ Minnesota State University-Mankato, "We Are What We Eat: Feminist Vegetarianism and the Reproduction of Racial Identity", Hypatia 22.2, pp. 39-59)

One of the problems with George's argument
AND
they have been all along - on our plates.

Tournament: NDT | Round: 7 | Opponent: Louisville VW | Judge: Hagwood, Odekirk, Dunn

Steven Best writes

Amidst the violence, racism, war
AND
variations and permutations.

the affirmative calls for a more inclusive and participatory public space, but this inclusive gesture cannot escape its foundational abjection of animality. instead, it enacts a more insidious separation - it is the divide that filters intra-'human' violence

Wadiwel 8 (Dinesh, Adj researcher at Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies Social Policy research Group, "Three Fragments from a Biopolitical History of Animals: Questions of Body, Soul, and the Body Politic in Homer, Plato, and Aristotle", Journal for Critical Animal Studies 6.1, www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/Issue_8/Wadiwel17_31.pdf)

Not only does Agamben identify
AND
into the sphere of politics?

and, their appeal to social location as the starting point and imperative for ethics traps us in a circle of self questioning and self regard. begin ethics through encountering difference - our bodies are interconnected with more than human systems

Davy 3 (Barbara jane, Ph.D at Concordia University, Montreal, and currently serves as President of the Environmental Studies Association of Canaada, The Trumpeter, Volume 19 Issue 3)

According to Emmanuel Levinas
AND
rather than self-centred.

anthropocentrism is the foundational hierarchy that structures all others - their humanist politics dooms us to a future that endlessly repeats the oppression of the status quo

10 billion non-human animals in the US alone are slaughtered on the altar of anthropocentrism in factory farms - thats 2 million by the end of this debate. and the cruel deaths they face are at least a reprieve from a life of disease, torture, forced impregnation, and dismemberment. globally the number of animals killed for is more than 7 times the entire human population

speciesism goes far beyond slaughterhouses. it can only be described as a vast apparatus of genocide and war against the non-human. it is one rendered powerful by its imperceptibility, the humming backdrop to any aspect of social or political life. these are the true zones of sacrifice

Best 7 (Steven, chair of philosophy at UT-El Paso, JCAS 5.2)

While a welcome advance over the anthropocentric conceit
AND
an evolutionary cul-de-sac.

Your ethical imperative is political scholarship and speech against the oppression of humanism. rather than produce the slaughterhouse of a so-called "radical" and more perfect humanity, vote negative to disrupt and revolutionize your humanist identity

Best No date (Steven, chair of philosophy at UT-El Paso, "Animal Rights and the New Enlightenment", http://www.drstevebest.org/AnimalRightsandtheNewEnlightenment.htm)

Western society has made rapid
AND
nature is evolve or die.

Tournament: NDT | Round: 7 | Opponent: Louisville | Judge: Hagwood, Odekirk, Dunn

the role of the ballot is to vote for the best strategy to combat oppression

successful rhetoric should strive to activate more than just situational affect - if embodied speech is not tied to broader political endpoints, it is too easily undone by both conservative and postmodern politicians

Berlant et al 92 (Lauren, David Bunn, Vinay Dharwadker, Norma Field, Dilip Gaonkar, Marilyn Ivy, Benjamin Lee, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Xinmin Liu, Mathew Roberts, Sharon Stephens, Katie Trumpener, Greg Urban, Michael Warner, Jianyang Zha, and Jueliang Zhou of the Chicago Cultural Studies Group, "Critical Multiculturalism", Critical Inquiry 18, Spring, p. 548-550)

5. Affiliated Knowledge
AND
present arbiter of normativity.

Turn - Outing: the politics of personal disclosure is a dead end - its pursuit is violent to identities whose power is found in subversion and invisibility - they obscure the privilege of disclosing itself

Vila 5 (Pablo, associate professor of sociology at UT-San Antonio, "Border Ethnographies", Ethnography at the Border, Ed. Pablo Vila, pg. xxviii-xxxiii)

At the same time, some
AND
intertwine them with their ethnographies.

Tournament: NDT | Round: 7 | Opponent: Louisville VW | Judge: Hagwood, Odekirk, Dunn

No tag – recognition fails

Escalating Identity ‘12
Anonymous group of black, brown, queer, trans* Occupy Oaklanders, self described “Inside agitators resisting capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy and the state – by any means necessary”
April 30, 2012
Who Is Oakland: Anti-Oppression Activism, the Politics of Safety, and State Co-optation

Understanding racism as … the dominant praxis.

Opacity provides the best strategy to overcoming the affective bonds sustaining racial subordination

Britton 99 Celia, Professor of French teaches French Caribbean literature and thought, postcolonial theory; surrealism in the Caribbean; psychoanalysis and colonialism; literature and ideology; images of community; the Nouveau Roman, Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance, pgs. 18-25 

The production of stereotypes…it is a typical form of opacity.

Second – Perm fails – we BEGIN from an entirely different starting point and set of assumptions about identity

Grosz 2005 Elizabeth A. Grosz is an Australian feminist academic living and working in the USA. She is known for philosophical interpretations of the work of French philosophers Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, as well as her readings of the works of French feminists, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva and Michele Le Doeuff. She has mainly written on questions of corporeality and their relations to the sciences and the arts. She has held tenured positions at The University of Sydney, Monash University, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Rutgers University and Duke University. Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power p. 83-89  

And if so, … of all types.  

REFUSE THE CONFESSIONAL POLITICS OF THEIR PEDAGOGY

A) Native Informants -  Confessional discourse is co-opted by power and creates exclusionary notions of authenticity that must be rejected – think of when Fox News finds the Native American who “loves life on the reservation” and so on

Wendy Brown 1996, Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Constitutions and 'Survivor Stories': In the 'folds of our own discourse' The Pleasures and Freedoms of Silence, 3 U Chi L Sch Roundtable 185

If, taken together, … on heterosexual pleasure?)    

1NC
T-Restrictions
Anthro
Opacity K
Case Turns

2NC
Opacity
Case Turns

1NR
Anthro

2NR
Opacity
Case Turns

1AC: Quare rage/double consciousness
1NC: Opacity K, Anthro K, case
2NC: Opacity
1NR: Anthro
2NR: Anthro