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Ouroborus 1AC 0.7

Page 1 Production

The more we sense the less we know. From the sun to the cosmos, glancing off and being absorbed by the earth. This solar production cannot be known by humans but can surely be felt, thought, and imagined. Everything has gone blurry and any conception of production is ripped from our grasp. Nature is a horror novel gone awry—at least for us.

Thacker 10 Eugene In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy Vol. 1, Zero Books, p 128-130

While the conventional leftist reading of Bataille would see this as a critique of global
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flow of life) or the scientific (fluid dynamics, laminar flow).

Such horror is not impossible but improbable exposing the contingency humans as well as the sun that builds and destroys the complexity of its own systems. That doesn’t make the sun our cosmic interlocutor, but more like a hot mess. In this thermal and cosmological model a closed system is impossible—chaos always overwhelms stasis

Land 92 Nick, Lecturer in Continental Philosophy at Warwick University, Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and virulent nihilism (an essay in atheistic religion), Routledge London and New York 30-31

The thermospasm is reality as undilute chaos. It is where we all came from
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are only gradations and a multiplicitous delicacy of steps’ [N II 589].

It’s less a question of what is this big ball of fire or what does our relation to the sun mean, only ask what egregious things and forces does it produce. Even our very thoughts are in part infiltrated and created by solar forces.

Land 93 Nick, University of Warwick, "Machinic Desire," Textual Practice, Vol. 7 Is. 3 472-474

The philosophy of production becomes atheistic, orphan, and inhuman. In the technocosmos
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energy. Production of the real as an intensive magnitude starting at zero.

Production is always middling—from the sun, to the earth, to the sun, to the rest of the cosmos all at once. The sun is our starting point, but then becomes only a small glimpse in the cosmos. We are terrifically lost pushed in and out simultaneously in what the sun produces and what terrestrial life and the sun are composed by and producing in. Only then like Icarus can we understand the precariousness of our position

Land 92 Nick, Lecturer in Continental Philosophy at Warwick University, Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and virulent nihilism (an essay in atheistic religion), Routledge London and New York 21-27

Everything begins for us with the sun, because (we shall come to see
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of a true end, which does not serve anything’ [VII 298]. 

Continued

Disorder always increases in a closed system (such as the universe), because nature
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but a scorch-mark from the expository diagnosis of the physicalistic prejudice.
 

The production of the sun makes the privileged scales or temporalities impossible due to irreducible details. The cosmos has a great surface of disparate objects and it seems as if there is no ideal perspective in the wake of the sun.

Land 92 Nick, Lecturer in Continental Philosophy at Warwick University, Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and virulent nihilism (an essay in atheistic religion), Routledge London and New York p115-119

As the third part of Bataille’s Inner Experience meanders towards its insatiate termination in a
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each time, but in a process that never resolves into homogeneous negation. 

Page 2 Speculative conjunction

Speculate the United States federal government removes all restrictions for solar energy production in the United States

Speculation is necessary to investigate the production of thought itself which is embedded in nature. Our speculation eviscerates the comfort of interiority that papers over the most unsettling limits and trajectories of nature.

We greet solar production with melancholy not because it is intrinsically horrific, but it certainly is for the all-too-human world

Woodard 11 Ben "Towards a Philosophy of (Dejected) Nature : Natural Conceptualization, Eco-Aesthetics, and
the Blues of Green Affect and Economy," Thinking Nature, v. 1, Open Humanities Press.
Beyond a better articulation of becoming, a theory of relations is also required.
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only started to understand what it means to be a part of it.

Horror emerges as that which can usurp all evaluations. But in a solar economy to usurp is also connective between traumas.

Negarestani 11  «Globe of Revolution. An Afterthought on Geophilosophical Realism» by Reza Negarestani Source: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, issue: 17 / 2011, pages: 25-54,

The deepening of the ostensibly local traumas of the modern man qua citizen from the
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within itself that is detrimental to systems in general and capitalism in particular.

Our thoughts are produced by our ecological milieu, this indistiction makes dualist thought impossible. And although we can know the sun we are deeply affected by its seeming harshness.

Woodard 11 Ben "Towards a Philosophy of (Dejected) Nature : Natural Conceptualization, Eco-Aesthetics, and
the Blues of Green Affect and Economy," Thinking Nature, v. 1, Open Humanities Press.

It is initially difficult to imagine an ecological project in which nature is a threat
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[...]Depression is the most accurate way of experiencing the current ecological disaster."

We conjugate two processes both constituted by trauma: endogenic tension which is the universal made regional expressed by our shared horror and exogenic tension that that alter our capacity for reflexivity. These tension pull at our horror and experiences both regionally and universally through interconnected trauma

Negarestani 11  «Globe of Revolution. An Afterthought on Geophilosophical Realism» by Reza Negarestani Source: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, issue: 17 / 2011, pages: 25-54,

Trauma, or: It is not the psychoanalyst who knows the difference between amputation
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these tensions and the exact role of traumatic cuts in determining such syntheses.

The universal synthesis composed of these endogenic and exogenic processes that expose isolated traumas rather than flee from our horror. Our synthesis facilities a connective responsivity to the open continuum
Negarestani 11  «Globe of Revolution. An Afterthought on Geophilosophical Realism» by Reza Negarestani Source: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, issue: 17 / 2011, pages: 25-54,

2. Not only speculative and synthetic opportunities but also perils and illusions brought ashore
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Constructing the asymptotic thought of the open and examining such thought’s revolutionary import.

Negarestani Continues

If violent traces ofcapitalism and fundamentalism are transplanted in our daily spheres with such ease
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open through asymptotic deepening of its geophilosophical synthesis and stretching its nested traumas.