Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge: 

1AC

Everything comes from the Sun, which gives energy, gloriously and freely, in abundance with no expectation of accumulation or gain — matter on earth is simply congealed energy that has been channeled and re-appropriated from the sun – instead of being willing to squander the energy from the sun, we live in the status quo greedily accumulating and storing energy from the Sun – it would be better to revolt against this “good and useful” purposing of energy

Hochrcoth ’95 (Lysa Hochroth, taught in the French Departments at Columbia University and at the University of the District of Columbia, received her Ph.D. in 1991 from Columbia University, “The Scientific Imperative: Improductive Expenditure and Energeticism,” The Johns Hopkins University Press and the Society for Literature and Science, p.58-61, muse) [m leap]

In "La limite de l'utile," chapter 1, Bataille emphasized the universal conditions

AND

a middle step in the cycle of loss. [End Page 61]

Energy from the Sun gets taken and challenged-forth by the selfish “rational utilitarian subject” of modern technology—status quo notions of Mastery enframe everything in standing reserve, which creates an ongoing logic of concentration camps and destruction of the earth in error replication.

Stoekl ‘7 (Allan Stoekl, “Bataille’s Peak Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability,” p. 128-133, 2007) [m leap]

The German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) was no doubt one of

AND

, death-driven, glorious — will be, thankfully, discarded.¶

The status quo completely fails to comprehend politics that involve sacrificing excess energy because such a viewpoint is a transgression against our current politics of accumulation and storage – our inability to accept the poetic and erotic production of energy from sacrificial expenditure causes a total Ontological and Epistemological ignorance of the conditions of our existence – allowing sacrifice is necessary because freeing energy and giving it back to the cosmos helps us understand how to free ourselves

Hochroth ’95 (Lysa Hochroth, taught in the French Departments at Columbia University and at the University of the District of Columbia, received her Ph.D. in 1991 from Columbia University, “The Scientific Imperative: Improductive Expenditure and Energeticism,” The Johns Hopkins University Press and the Society for Literature and Science, p.75-77, muse) [m leap]

The energeticist view is also an epistemology, in that expenditures and transformations of energy

AND

night" is the foundation for the reality of difference in all occurrences.

The Sun gives off the energy of all life and death freely in glorious expenditure – there is always excess of energy and we can either manage it for use in utilitarian accumulation and labor or we can gloriously sacrifice it in an unproductive expenditure such as the Aztec sun festival

Hochroth ’95 (Lysa Hochroth, taught in the French Departments at Columbia University and at the University of the District of Columbia, received her Ph.D. in 1991 from Columbia University, “The Scientific Imperative: Improductive Expenditure and Energeticism,” The Johns Hopkins University Press and the Society for Literature and Science, p.62-65, muse) [m leap]

Bataille found that earth life appropriates more energy than it can use. Georges Ambrosino

AND

, inorganic, chemical, physical, biological, psychological, and socioeconomic.

Thus the Plan,

Text: the United States Federal Government should substantially reduce restrictions on and substantially increase its financial incentives for ritual blood orgies to increase solar energy production

What makes the Sun shine? Blood. Blood powers the Sun. We should take a page from the Aztecs and the sacrificial Sun Festival.

Bataille ’91 (Georges, insane librarian, The Accursed Share: An Essay on the General Economy vol. 1 consumption, translated Robert Hurley p. 48-51) [m leap]

A short while later, having fallen on their knees, the gods saw Nanauatzin

AND

the Mexicans thought that if they ceased the sun would cease to give light

Sacrificing of ritual objects fundamentally defies the logic of accumulation and the standing reserve – there are different kinds of expenditure and sacrificial expenditure is better than the forms of restricted expenditure in the status quo – we are always producing energy, so we should choose to affirm production of Heterogeneous “other” energy through inner experience and sacrifice, rather than producing more stockpiled Homogeneous energy.

Stoekl ‘7 (Allan Stoekl, “Bataille’s Peak Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability,” p. 134-137, 2007) [m leap]

This makes clear, I think, a weakness in Heidegger’s argument. While his

AND

, narrowly utilitarian and calculating bourgeois mentality. (Goux 1990a, 217)

Sustainability and accumulation are two sides of the same coin – they are both forms of BAD expenditure that take turns propping up a consumer-capitalist restricted economy that is hell-bent on wasting the earth – they both assume and require coherent subjects acting in rational self-interest to somehow manage “their” resources in the name of survival, security, and comfort – the only alternative is to affirm an increase in production of Inner Experience, which is the “other” energy that is formed by the glorious politics of erotic sacrifice rather than mastery

Stoekl ‘7 (Allan Stoekl, “Bataille’s Peak Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability,” p. 138-143, 2007) [m leap]

Thus for Goux, Bataille becomes a Reaganite avant la lettre, and the accursed

AND

Blue of Noon [1978]) bear witness to this shuddering force.15

Our ecstatic and erotic communication with death is one that tears down the system of exchange that holds the system of positivity together, committing treason against the architecture of exchange between life and death

Land 1992 [Nick, “The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism”, 191-192]

Bataille’s obsession is with ‘the unity of death, or of the consciousness of

AND

of life is there merging. ‘The truth of eroticism is treason.

1AC

Everything comes from the Sun, which gives energy, gloriously and freely, in abundance with no expectation of accumulation or gain — matter on earth is simply congealed energy that has been channeled and re-appropriated from the sun – instead of being willing to squander the energy from the sun, we live in the status quo greedily accumulating and storing energy from the Sun – it would be better to revolt against this “good and useful” purposing of energy

Hochrcoth ’95 (Lysa Hochroth, taught in the French Departments at Columbia University and at the University of the District of Columbia, received her Ph.D. in 1991 from Columbia University, “The Scientific Imperative: Improductive Expenditure and Energeticism,” The Johns Hopkins University Press and the Society for Literature and Science, p.58-61, muse) [m leap]

In "La limite de l'utile," chapter 1, Bataille emphasized the universal conditions

AND

a middle step in the cycle of loss. [End Page 61]

Energy from the Sun gets taken and challenged-forth by the selfish “rational utilitarian subject” of modern technology—status quo notions of Mastery enframe everything in standing reserve, which creates an ongoing logic of concentration camps and destruction of the earth in error replication.

Stoekl ‘7 (Allan Stoekl, “Bataille’s Peak Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability,” p. 128-133, 2007) [m leap]

The German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) was no doubt one of

AND

, death-driven, glorious — will be, thankfully, discarded.¶

The status quo completely fails to comprehend politics that involve sacrificing excess energy because such a viewpoint is a transgression against our current politics of accumulation and storage – our inability to accept the poetic and erotic production of energy from sacrificial expenditure causes a total Ontological and Epistemological ignorance of the conditions of our existence – allowing sacrifice is necessary because freeing energy and giving it back to the cosmos helps us understand how to free ourselves

Hochroth ’95 (Lysa Hochroth, taught in the French Departments at Columbia University and at the University of the District of Columbia, received her Ph.D. in 1991 from Columbia University, “The Scientific Imperative: Improductive Expenditure and Energeticism,” The Johns Hopkins University Press and the Society for Literature and Science, p.75-77, muse) [m leap]

The energeticist view is also an epistemology, in that expenditures and transformations of energy

AND

night" is the foundation for the reality of difference in all occurrences.

The Sun gives off the energy of all life and death freely in glorious expenditure – there is always excess of energy and we can either manage it for use in utilitarian accumulation and labor or we can gloriously sacrifice it in an unproductive expenditure such as the Aztec sun festival

Hochroth ’95 (Lysa Hochroth, taught in the French Departments at Columbia University and at the University of the District of Columbia, received her Ph.D. in 1991 from Columbia University, “The Scientific Imperative: Improductive Expenditure and Energeticism,” The Johns Hopkins University Press and the Society for Literature and Science, p.62-65, muse) [m leap]

Bataille found that earth life appropriates more energy than it can use. Georges Ambrosino

AND

, inorganic, chemical, physical, biological, psychological, and socioeconomic.

Thus the Plan,

Text: the United States Federal Government should substantially reduce restrictions on and substantially increase its financial incentives for ritual blood orgies to increase solar energy production

What makes the Sun shine? Blood. Blood powers the Sun. We should take a page from the Aztecs and the sacrificial Sun Festival.

Bataille ’91 (Georges, insane librarian, The Accursed Share: An Essay on the General Economy vol. 1 consumption, translated Robert Hurley p. 48-51) [m leap]

A short while later, having fallen on their knees, the gods saw Nanauatzin

AND

the Mexicans thought that if they ceased the sun would cease to give light

Sacrificing of ritual objects fundamentally defies the logic of accumulation and the standing reserve – there are different kinds of expenditure and sacrificial expenditure is better than the forms of restricted expenditure in the status quo – we are always producing energy, so we should choose to affirm production of Heterogeneous “other” energy through inner experience and sacrifice, rather than producing more stockpiled Homogeneous energy.

Stoekl ‘7 (Allan Stoekl, “Bataille’s Peak Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability,” p. 134-137, 2007) [m leap]

This makes clear, I think, a weakness in Heidegger’s argument. While his

AND

, narrowly utilitarian and calculating bourgeois mentality. (Goux 1990a, 217)

Sustainability and accumulation are two sides of the same coin – they are both forms of BAD expenditure that take turns propping up a consumer-capitalist restricted economy that is hell-bent on wasting the earth – they both assume and require coherent subjects acting in rational self-interest to somehow manage “their” resources in the name of survival, security, and comfort – the only alternative is to affirm an increase in production of Inner Experience, which is the “other” energy that is formed by the glorious politics of erotic sacrifice rather than mastery

Stoekl ‘7 (Allan Stoekl, “Bataille’s Peak Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability,” p. 138-143, 2007) [m leap]

Thus for Goux, Bataille becomes a Reaganite avant la lettre, and the accursed

AND

Blue of Noon [1978]) bear witness to this shuddering force.15

Our ecstatic and erotic communication with death is one that tears down the system of exchange that holds the system of positivity together, committing treason against the architecture of exchange between life and death

Land 1992 [Nick, “The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism”, 191-192]

Bataille’s obsession is with ‘the unity of death, or of the consciousness of

AND

of life is there merging. ‘The truth of eroticism is treason.

Tournament: CSUF | Round: 3 | Opponent: Liberty LS | Judge: Sean Kennedy 

You should affirm the non-knowledge of the topic: the world is a boundless play of aesthetic forces, ever changing – we try to know about things like solar energy or climate change, but we can’t know everything – there’s always an accursed share of non-knowledge: something that is in excess of our ability to completely understand it, something that we can’t know because it is excluded in the very process of systematic thinking – affirm our ontological vision of a topic and world formed by a play of forces that are always in excess of our ability to know them – we need to accept the lack, the laceration, the empty space of non-knowledge within our knowledge about the environment – we need to stop trying to stockpile and exhaust the utility of the topic – environmental security tries to fight loss by archiving biological life but repressing animality and loss just destroys ethics and banalizes violence – making a cut in the fabric of utility is a pre-requisite to good communication and policy making about the environment
Kathryn Yusoff ‘10 (Professor of Geography at the University of Exeter, “Biopolitical Economies and the Political Aesthetics of Climate Change,” Theory Culture Society 2010 27: 73 http://history.ucsd.edu/_files/base-folder1/Biopolitical%20Economies%20and%20the%20Political%20Aesthetics%20of%20Climate%20Change.pdf) m leap

The ‘Play of the World’: Bataille AND to the archive that I now turn.

To endlessly challenge forth knowledge is to enframe everything in the Standing Reserve – The will to reveal an objective picture of reality is coterminous with the selfish “rational utilitarian subject” of modern technology that accumulates and stockpiles energy from the sun – relating to the earth through security, mastery, and total knowing enframes everything in the instrumental mania of the standing reserve – this creates an ongoing logic of concentration camps and destruction of the earth in error replication.
Stoekl ‘7 (Allan Stoekl, “Bataille’s Peak Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability,” p. 128-133, 2007) m leap

The German philosopher Martin AND will be, thankfully, discarded.¶ 

The resolution has an accursed share: the Heterogeneous “other” energy of inner experience that is in excess of our ability to utilize or know it – sacrifice and utilization trade off with each other as ways to deal with this inevitable excess --- when we give up trying to utilize and accumulate the whole topic then we can adopt a sacrificial deployment of excess – unknowable and useless “other” energy is always a part of, but is also a transgression against, the Homogeneous energy of accumulation, utility, and self-security in the standing reserve – learning to accept the unknowability of accursed share forms an alternative to restricted expenditure because we stop struggling to stockpile excess energy and knowledge for the future use of autonomous subjects
Stoekl ‘7 (Allan Stoekl, “Bataille’s Peak Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability,” p. 134-137, 2007) m leap

This makes clear, I think, a AND bourgeois mentality. (Goux 1990a, 217)

There’s Utility DA to excluding the accursed share – Sustainability and accumulation are the same: based on this exclusion, they are both forms of BAD expenditure of energy – they take turns propping up a consumer-capitalist restricted economy that is hell-bent on stockpiling and then wasting the earth in the standing reserve – they both assume and require coherent subjects acting in rational self-interest to somehow manage “their” resources in the name of mastery, security, survival and comfort – instead of accepting this vision, we need to affirm the other side of the topic – the inner experience of non-knowledge – affirm the unknown “other” energy that defies mastery through analysis – this kind of intimate communication about the topic is always left out by the attempt to accumulate knowledge and utility – the ethics formed by affirming the accursed share of non-knowledge is the only way to spare the earth from nuclear destruction
Stoekl ‘7 (Allan Stoekl, “Bataille’s Peak Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability,” p. 138-143, 2007) m leap

Thus for Goux, Bataille becomes a AND bear witness to this shuddering force.15

The fact that we could end up saving earth from extinction is an issue of secondary relevance to us, not a justification for voting aff – voting aff could end up sparing the earth but only because we give up trying to secure and know everything about the future, which disrupts the stability of the individualist restrained economy – our ethics of general expenditure entails an ecstatic frenzied revolt –eroticism and radical generosity as their own immediate justification – we affirm excess and madness, the intimate underside of human knowing and subjectivity that gets left out of by an exclusive focus on knowing reality
Stoekl ‘7 Allan Stoekl, Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Penn State University, Bataille’s Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability, University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, 2007, p. 50-51

Bataille’s model in The Accursed AND energy of a myriad of stars.

The topic is not reducible to a thing – we can trace it with our knowledge but we cannot stand outside it and describe and reveal it like a picture on the wall – the archival drive to accumulate and preserve objects of knowledge only succeeds in destroying the whole experience by trying to view the topic as a thing and thus reifying and quantifying any sense of play or animality in the resolution – the Archive destroys its contents by trying to accumulate and preserving them – it annihilates the accursed share by trying to catalogue it – attempting to aesthetically encounter the topic forms a better ecological politics than aesthetic representation and accumulation – we should yield to the unthinkable which disrupts the archival drive and allows us to question the creation of a taxonomy of things
Kathryn Yusoff ‘10 (Professor of Geography at the University of Exeter, “Biopolitical Economies and the Political Aesthetics of Climate Change” Theory Culture Society 2010 27: 73 http://history.ucsd.edu/_files/base-folder1/Biopolitical%20Economies%20and%20the%20Political%20Aesthetics%20of%20Climate%20Change.pdf) m leap

These traces of animals trapped AND the cut of a paw print through mud.

Tournament: CSUF | Round: 3 | Opponent: Liberty LS | Judge: Sean Kennedy
We meet—we affirm the topic, just not a part of it that can be known or put to use – that’s the Stoekl Standing Reserve and Heterogeneous Energy cards as well as the Yusoff Non-knowledge evidence – there will always be a part of the topic that is outside of specific knowable USFG action for utilization and accumulation of homogeneous energy – there are kinds of energy we can’t know or completely understand

Failing to accept non-knowledge ends up exhausting the topic by trying to saturate it with meaning – knowledge produces non-knowledge – any attempt to form a more perfect universality or hegemony of knowledge just produces worse terrorist response – it reinvests a more ferocious singularity against the monopolization of power – this is the dark underside of a closed economy – excess is accumulated until the entire system wants nothing more than its own death.
Baudrillard ‘1 (Jean Baudrillard, “The Spirit of Terrorism,” Le Monde, 11/2/2001, trans. Rachel Bloul, http://www.egs.edu/faculty/jean-baudrillard/articles/the-spirit-of-terrorism/) m leap

All the speeches and commentaries AND this terrorist situational transfer.

Perm—their interpretation plus our aff--No abuse to including our aff and there’s no infinite regression because you can’t specify different kinds of non-knowledge and we don’t justify reading a random K on the aff or bidirectional interpretations so this is pretty reasonable 

The neg is overlimiting which is net worse for things like creativity and unique education—our interpretation allows for their kind of education to exist while their just arbitrarily excludes our form of thinking.

Aff is turns their framework—The topic isn’t reducible to a thing – that’s the Yusoff Reification evidence – their framework operates as an attempt to archive the topic which makes bad political education—this turns their exportable skills impact

The need to create portable skills for future utilization is the ultimate attempt to reduce education to a standing reserve, Attempts to make the most use of our experience here trains us to be ready at hand for later deployment – that’s impacted by our offense against utilitarian future use maximization – the Stoekl ‘Standing Reserve’ and Utility disads as well as the Yusoff ‘non-knowledge’ evidence and the Stoekl ‘Ethics of General Expenditure’ evidence.

Their interpretation frames work as compulsory production. Focus on sterilizing the debate community from the experience of unknowing is a strategy meant to achieve maximum productivity and maximum life for future generations – this results in the destruction of being and the denial of intimacy – that’s impacted by our whole 1AC – here’s more evidence—Turn to any managerialism non-sense
Brewis and Warren 2k1 (Joanna Brewis and Samantha Warren, Joanna Brewis is of lecturer in management at the University of Essex, Samantha Warren is a researcher and part-time lecturer in Organization Behavior at the University of Portsmouth, “Pregnancy as Project: Organizing Reproduction,” Administrative Theory and Praxis, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Sep., 2001), pp. 383-406, (JSTOR))

As already intimated, one especially AND live for as long as possible.

Their interp enframes topic education in the dominant politics of accumulating and challenging forth energy for use in the standing reserve – that’s Stoekl – and, revealing is concealing – education gets framed by their call to limit the debate to their supposedly “predictable” notion of production – this is an Act of Double Concealment where we believe we still have agency because technological education gives us a false sense of control and destroys our ability to question the bounds of knowledge – this forsakes any inner experience and forces us to be a cog in the system of labor
Magrini ‘10 (James Magrini. "Worlds Apart in the Curriculum: Heidegger, Technology, and the Poietic Attunement of Art" Philosophy Scholarship (2010). Available at: http://works.bepress.com/magrini/14) m leap

The Enframing of education AND not productive” (Fitzsimons, 2002. p. 186).

Mutual agreement and the creation of competing research paradigms is possible without recourse to abstract sets of “game rules”
Kuhn 1996 (Thomas, Professor Emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at MIT, “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. pg. 45-47) We don’t endorse the sexist language used.

That question is very old and AND hypothetical rules of the game.

Transgression is affirmation——our argument is all about acceptance—revolting against the complete know-ability and represent-ability of the topic is an affirmation of accepting the impossible within the topic – Affirming the resolution doesn’t mean we have to say yes through trying to utilize all of it – the drive to total utilization links to our Stoekl ‘standing reserve’ evidence – our aesthetics generates an affirmative response through interruption – this is not to say that we attempt to block or stop the resolution, but rather that we affirm it through saying that the attempt to know it completely could be interrupted and we can, in doing that, affirm it through a different vision then we do in the status quo – We should declassify the topic – opening ourselves to the excluded experience of the wounds in our knowledge is key – once we truly experience the loss and rage caused by climate change it screams through our the aesthetic order and creates new possibilities for politics and ethics – transgressing knowledge with intimate experience of animality unmasks the restricted economy and its march towards ecological collapse
Kathryn Yusoff ‘10 (Professor of Geography at the University of Exeter, “Biopolitical Economies and the Political Aesthetics of Climate Change” Theory Culture Society 2010 27: 73 http://history.ucsd.edu/_files/base-folder1/Biopolitical%20Economies%20and%20the%20Political%20Aesthetics%20of%20Climate%20Change.pdf) m leap

Conclusion¶ What would an AND neat categories of extinction.

Predictability is a kind of management that seeks to guard itself from things that are undesirable to meet an intended end this is impact turned by our Brewis and Warren and our Irwin ev from the cap flow
Only the aff can make the debate fair not fair for non-traditional teams right now.  Only opening up ourselves and the community to the lack and laceration helps us truly respect each other and allows us to enter into the debate on a level playing field. 

Boggs vehemently votes aff – identifying with the current left continues oppression, only a comprehensive move like the aff can solve
Boggs 9 (Carl, Your Carl Boggs, “A Way Forward,” http://www.zcommunications.org/a-way-forward-by-carl-boggs ZNET, August 21shree)

I'm delighted and flattered AND are a total waste of time.

We don’t cede the political—political action is still possible with our aff Yusoff 10 pre-req to good policy making
All we cede is their policy-obsessed attempt to use one fascism against another, to seal the blister from within – we reject their assumption that it is somehow desirable to be disciplined and obedient participants in reformist capitalism, laboring and lurching towards the apocalypse – we should stop numbing ourselves to the lacerated communication of poetry that is excluded by their humanist discourse – opening yourself to the impossible is a pre-requisite to any constructive engagement or construction of meaning
Land 92 ( Nick, Lecturer in Continental Philosophy at the University of Warwick, Thirst for Annihilation, Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism, pg 140-141)

Fascism is not so much a symptom AND attained the beyond of words? 

And, ceding their political is key to having a good political method – that’s the Yusoff “non-knowledge” evidence – letting go of the utilitarian drive to accumulate knowledge for future use is a pre-requisite to any politics that operates outside of the biopolitical drive to archive and secure life in the standing reserve – that’s also the Stoekl evidence – our Aff is a disad to participating in the negative’s political sphere 

We need a new politics because power is dead and so are its ideas.  Reality squeaks along as the territory rots under the map.  Policy elites manipulate us with this dead, simulated power – all of their political education is empty and just masks this fascism
Paul Hegarty 2004 (7/30 Jean Baudrillard: Live Theory P. 91-93) M Leap

The era of simulation, or AND edifice of former societies’ 65; 69). 

They say switch-side simulation good—
Our entire aff is a disad to their switch side – their promotion of strict switch side debate is complacent with overall attempts to force liberal enlightenment values of detached knowledge acquisition. Their exclusive promotion of switch-side debate is the hermeneutic of the war on terror – they destroy alterity and singularity under the guise of objectivity – their arguments about dogmatism and heuristics are all links, you should abandon their empty pedagogical exercise
Hicks and Greene 2009 Darrin, University of Denver and Ronald Walter Greene, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Conscientious Objections: Debating Both Sides and the Cultures of Democracy, Source: Conference Proceedings -- National Communication Association/American Forensic Association (Alta Conference on Argumentation) 

The problem with reducing our AND hermeneutic battle with alterity.

Assumes only two sides subject/object dichotomy Stoeckl

 (1)  No link—we don’t claim to be anti-topical, we’re a legitimate affirmation of the resolution, which means we’ve switched sides—they’re the ones refusing to switch sides on our aff

(2)  Cognitive studies show that dissent against normative rules leads to better switch side thinking
Feinberg and Nemeth 8 (Matthew Feinberg and Charlan J. Nemeth Department of Psychology University of California, Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment The “Rules” of Brainstorming: An Impediment to Creativity? http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/workingpapers/167-08.pdf)

In contrast to such literature, AND have gone undetected (Nemeth, 1995).

(3) The status quo is their ground anyways – the distinctions between our aff and other affs that read a policy option is arbitrary and based on a rigged and equally arbitrary definition of predictability 

(4) Switch-side debate is a trick – they won’t ever affirm the non-knowledge of the topic when it’s their turn to switch sides – switch-side debate is code for one-sided debate

(5) We can’t read our argument on the neg and there’s no specific policy option version of the aff

And – (6) their offense has no uniqueness because their impacts require two sided thinking, not two sided arguing – to write 2AC blocks, we’ve researched both sides of a question and engaged in inter-disciplinary decision making
Episodically framing the debate around the immediate enactment of an instrumental plan designed to respond to highly specific predictions degrades epistemological quality by prioritizing questions which can only be answered by the elite and privileged.  This encourages ontological disempowerment, over-simplifies complex issues, and distracts attention from innovative analysis.
London, 93 –  journalist; Over the past decade, I've devoted much of my time to consulting with academic, government, and nonprofit leaders on issues involving social innovation and civic renewal. I’ve also led several national studies and research projects aimed at understanding how social innovators do their work, the power of informal networks, the uses (and misuses) of collaboration, and how communities transform and renew themselves. (Scott, How the Media Frames Political Issues, http://www.scottlondon.com/reports/frames.html)

Since electoral accountability is AND 'fit' the observed problems."

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
What Every Indian Knows – Pam Colorado:

Auschwitz ovens//
burn bright//
in America//
twenty-four million//
perished in the flame//
Nazi//
not a people//
but//
a way of life//
Trail of Tears Humans//
Ends in Oklahoma//
an Indian name of//
Red Earth//
Redder still//
Soaked in blood//
of two hundred//
remove tribes//
the ovens burn bright//
in America//
Ancestral ashes//
sweep the nation//
carried in//
Prevailing winds//
Survivors know//
The oven door stands wide//
and some like mouse//
cat crazed and frenzied//
turn//
and run into the jaws//
at night//
the cat calls softly//
to the resting//
us//

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Today, the lands that belong to Native Americans is still under control of White Supremacy. Dylan Rodriguez notes that “Variable, overlapping, and mutually constituting white supremacist regimes have in fact been fundamental to the formation and movements of the United States, from racial chattel slavery and frontier genocide to recent and current modes of neoliberal land displacement and (domestic-to-global) warfare. Without exception, these regimes have been differently entangled with the state’s changing paradigms, strategies, and technologies of human incarceration and punishment (to follow the prior examples: the plantation, the reservation, the neoliberal sweatshop, and the domestic-to-global prison)” (Rodriguez 2007). Let’s be clear we are not isolating certain people when we say “white supremacy”. Rodriguez further clarifies that “white supremacy may be understood as a logic of social organization that produces regimented, institutionalized, and militarized conceptions of hierarchized “human” difference, enforced through coercions and violences that are structured by genocidal possibility (including physical extermination and curtailment of people’s collective capacities to socially, culturally, or biologically reproduce). As a historical vernacular and philosophical apparatus of domination, white supremacy is simultaneously premised on and consistently innovating universalized conceptions of the white (European and euroamerican) “human” vis-à-vis the rigorous production, penal discipline, and frequent social, political, and biological neutralization or extermination of the (non-white) sub- or non-human” (Rodriguez 2007). The effects of this hierarchy are still most plainly seen in Native American Communities. For example, there are roughly 4.1 million native Americans in the United States which is 1.5 percent of the overall population. The median household income for native Americans is roughly 14,000 dollars lower than for non-hispanic whites. 25 percent of native Americans are in poverty which is a much higher rate than Caucasians. 27% of Native Americans don’t have healthcare which is 17% more than non-hispanic whites. Among this comes the fact that Native Americans have a higher likelihood of suicide than other ethnicities with suicide being the second highest cause of death amongst ten year olds to thirty four year olds. On a topic about energy production it is worth noting that we are producing energy from and on stolen land. These facts elucidate the time that we are in. Ward Churchill describes our current time very vividly, he notes that “At this juncture, the entire planet is locked… in a room with… Hannibal Lecter. An individual of consummate taste and refinement, imbued with indelible grace and charm, he distracts his victims with the brilliance of his intellect, even while honing his blade. He is thus able to dine alone upon their livers… Over and over the ritual is repeated, always hidden, always denied in order that is may be continued. So perfect is Lecter’s pathology that, from the depths of his scorn for the inferiors upon whom he feeds, he advances himself as their sage and therapist… he professes to be their savior. His success depends upon being embraced and exalted by those upon whom he preys. Ultimately, so long as Lecter is able to retain his mask of omnipotent gentility, he can never be stopped. The sociocultural equivalent of Hannibal Lecter is the core of an expansionist European “civilization” which has reached out to engulf the planet” (Churchill 1996, 14). The impacts of this expansion should not be understated for they risk the possibility of global decimation. Lilian Friedberg further notes that “what is at stake today, at the dawn of a new millennium, is not the culture, tradition, and survival of one population on on continent on either side of the atlantic. What is at stake is the very future of the human species…the survival of Native America is fundamentally about the collective survival of all human beings… it is not about “us” as indigenous peoples – it is about us as a human species. We are all related… we must speak today in terms of the human problem…because is is o longer a matter of serial genocide, it has become one of collective suicide” (Friedberg 2000).

So what then is the role of the debater in this particular debate round? What is the role of the critic? These issues are directly tied to the role of scholarship and the academy. What is the role of the scholar? Currently we see that the academy has a very specific purpose, and is far from neutral on the issues noted before. Devon Mihesuah writes that “the academy has much invested in maintaining control over who defines knowledge, who has access to knowledge, and who produces knowledge. As indigenous intellectuals committed to our indigenous nations, we threaten the power and authority claimed by institutions, disciplines, and peoples created, in part from the oppression of our people. Since every academic institution sits on indigenous land, that oppression was first corporeal; ultimately the institutions exist because indigenous peoples were first dispossessed. That oppression continued in a less tangible but no less destructive way with the establishment of academic disciplines that exploited indigenous peoples as their subjects of research in ways that reinforced  the superior position of EuroAmerican peoples while subjugating their subjects of study” (Mihesuah and Wilson 2004). Because of the role the academy occupies today we are not afforded the luxury of self-referential politics and indulgent theory. For us scholarship today has to be directed very specifically at refusing and interrupting colonialism. We have a first priority as debaters and scholars that are speaking on blood soaked, stolen land.  Sandy Grande notes that “centuries of ‘rhetorical imperialism’ committed by ‘mainstream’ scholars pressures indigenous scholars to concentrate their research efforts on their own communities. In this context, restorative projects that affirm and sustain the value of indigenous languages, cultural knowledge, and intellectual history are a first priority. Against such immediate needs, engagement in abstract theory seems indulgent – a luxury and privilege of the academic elite. Further, theory itself is viewed as  definitively Eurocentric” (Grande 2004, 2). Churchill continues by saying that “if scholarship itself is to have any positive and constructive meaning. Scholarship is never neutral or objective, it always works either for the psychopath or against him, to mystify sociocultural reality or to decode it, to make corrective action possible or to prevent it” (Churchill 1996, 15). Our framework for this debate is that the ballot should represent who best advances the liberation of the oppressed. Our advocacy uses our privilege in this space to expose and confront the practices of colonialism from our social location. We apprehend and reject the logic of imperialism that thrives throughout these academic walls. This is what you vote for when you vote Aff. Neutrality is impossible, use the ballot to pierce the silence and confront the logic of colonialism. The status quo is a feast over candlelight, accompanied by lofty music and a fine wine outside a concentration camp.  A garden party next to a lynching.  Sandy Grande explains that the status quo politics undeniably serves the dominant culture as she writes that “postmodernism – the notion of fluid boundaries, the relativizing of difference and negation of grand narratives – primarily serves whitestream America. The multiphrenia of postmodern plurality, its world of simulation and obliteration of any sense of objective reality, has given rise to a freetic search for the authentic led by culture vultures and capitalist bandits fraught with imperialist nostalgia… the notion of fluidity has never worked to the advantage of indigenous peoples. Federal agencies have invoked the language of lfuid or unstable identities as the rationale for dismantling the structures of tribal life. Whitestream America has seized upon the message of relativism to declare open season on Indians, and whitestream academics have employed the language of signification and simulation to transmute centuries of war between indigenous peoples and their respective nation-states into a geneteic and cultural dialogue” (Grande 2004, 112). The status quo claims it is not the same form of theory that has denied success for native peoples in the past. Its proponents are, of course, guilt free, devoid of any responsibility. One must be skeptical of this defense due to its widespread prevalence throughout our society that has essentially created the silent sin of this nation. There are no perpetrators, only victims. Our argument is not a witch hunt, but we do ask that the status quo be held accountable for its existence in this colonial space. As colonial subjects it is our ethical responsibility to not fall into a fear of confronting others and questioning their efficacy in this time. Grande continues by writing that “it is equally important to avoid falling into the postmodern trap of relativism. A postmodern theory of difference that insists on impartiality masks the power and privilege that underpins whitestream culture and perspectives. In other words, American Indian students do not enter into a social space in which identities compete with equal power for legitimacy; rather, they are infused into a political terrain that presumes their inferiority. For example, postmodern musings of subjectivity as disembodied and free-floating ignore the fact that America Indian students…are engaged with the state in a complex relationship in which there are varying degrees of interdependence at play. As such American Indian students are neither free to reinvent themselves nor able to liberally transgress borders of difference, but rather, remain captive to the determined spaces of colonialist rule…Thus, while postmodern theorists rightly question the whole notion of origins and work to disrupt the grand narrative of modernism, its hyperelastic and all-inclusive categories offer little to no protection against the colonialist forces of cultural encroachment and capitalist commodification” (Grande 2004, 113). Our argument is simple, we are compelled by the contemporary state of affairs to respond to the imperialism of the status quo and the past five hundred years of occupation on this land.  We speak on stolen land so this is our primary responsibility.  Refusing this can only act to ignore the plight of native peoples, it insufferably casts aside any praxis that could be helpful to our struggle. 

citations

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http://www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/Population%20statistics.htm 

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Churchill, Ward. A Native Son, 1996.

Friedberg, Lilian. The American Indian Quarterly 24.3 (2000).

Grande, Sandy. Red Pedagogy, isbn: 0742518299, 2004.

Mihesuah and Wilson, Devon and Angela. Indigenizing the Academy.

Rodriguez, Dylan, Professer University of California Riverside, November 2007, Kritika Kultura “AMERICAN GLOBALITY   AND THE U. S. PRISON REGIME:  STATE VIOLENCE AND WHITE SUPREMACY FROM ABU GHRAIB TO STOCKTON  TO BAGONG DIWA”  Available online at http://www.ateneo.edu/ateneo/www/UserFiles/121/docs/KK09.pdf

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent: WGA DF | Judge:
1AC

You should affirm the non-knowledge of the topic: the world is a boundless play of aesthetic forces, ever changing – we try to know about things like solar energy or climate change, but we can’t know everything – there’s always an accursed share of non-knowledge: something that is in excess of our ability to completely understand it, something that we can’t know because it is excluded in the very process of systematic thinking – affirm our ontological vision of a topic and world formed by a play of forces that are always in excess of our ability to know them – we need to accept the lack, the laceration, the empty space of non-knowledge within our knowledge about the environment – we need to stop trying to stockpile and exhaust the utility of the topic – environmental security tries to fight loss by archiving biological life but repressing animality and loss just destroys ethics and banalizes violence – making a cut in the fabric of utility is a pre-requisite to good communication and policy making about the environment
Kathryn Yusoff ‘10 (Professor of Geography at the University of Exeter, “Biopolitical Economies and the Political Aesthetics of Climate Change,” Theory Culture Society 2010 27: 73 http://history.ucsd.edu/_files/base-folder1/Biopolitical%20Economies%20and%20the%20Political%20Aesthetics%20of%20Climate%20Change.pdf) m leap

The ‘Play of the World’: Bataille, Nietzsche and Aesthetics¶ In another
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for both. It is thus to the archive that I now turn.

To endlessly challenge forth knowledge is to enframe everything in the Standing Reserve – The will to reveal an objective picture of reality is coterminous with the selfish “rational utilitarian subject” of modern technology that accumulates and stockpiles energy from the sun – relating to the earth through security, mastery, and total knowing enframes everything in the instrumental mania of the standing reserve – this creates an ongoing logic of concentration camps and destruction of the earth in error replication.
Stoekl ‘7 (Allan Stoekl, “Bataille’s Peak Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability,” p. 128-133, 2007) m leap

The German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) was no doubt one of
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, death-driven, glorious — will be, thankfully, discarded.¶ 

The resolution has an accursed share: the Heterogeneous “other” energy of inner experience that is in excess of our ability to utilize or know it – sacrifice and utilization trade off with each other as ways to deal with this inevitable excess --- when we give up trying to utilize and accumulate the whole topic then we can adopt a sacrificial deployment of excess – unknowable and useless “other” energy is always a part of, but is also a transgression against, the Homogeneous energy of accumulation, utility, and self-security in the standing reserve – learning to accept the unknowability of accursed share forms an alternative to restricted expenditure because we stop struggling to stockpile excess energy and knowledge for the future use of autonomous subjects
Stoekl ‘7 (Allan Stoekl, “Bataille’s Peak Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability,” p. 134-137, 2007) m leap

This makes clear, I think, a weakness in Heidegger’s argument. While his
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, narrowly utilitarian and calculating bourgeois mentality. (Goux 1990a, 217)

There’s Utility DA to excluding the accursed share – Sustainability and accumulation are the same: based on this exclusion, they are both forms of BAD expenditure of energy – they take turns propping up a consumer-capitalist restricted economy that is hell-bent on stockpiling and then wasting the earth in the standing reserve – they both assume and require coherent subjects acting in rational self-interest to somehow manage “their” resources in the name of mastery, security, survival and comfort – instead of accepting this vision, we need to affirm the other side of the topic – the inner experience of non-knowledge – affirm the unknown “other” energy that defies mastery through analysis – this kind of intimate communication about the topic is always left out by the attempt to accumulate knowledge and utility – the ethics formed by affirming the accursed share of non-knowledge is the only way to spare the earth from nuclear destruction
Stoekl ‘7 (Allan Stoekl, “Bataille’s Peak Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability,” p. 138-143, 2007) m leap

Thus for Goux, Bataille becomes a Reaganite avant la lettre, and the accursed
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Blue of Noon 1978) bear witness to this shuddering force.15

The fact that we could end up saving earth from extinction is an issue of secondary relevance to us, not a justification for voting aff – voting aff could end up sparing the earth but only because we give up trying to secure and know everything about the future, which disrupts the stability of the individualist restrained economy – our ethics of general expenditure entails an ecstatic frenzied revolt –eroticism and radical generosity as their own immediate justification – we affirm excess and madness, the intimate underside of human knowing and subjectivity that gets left out of by an exclusive focus on knowing reality
Stoekl ‘7 Allan Stoekl, Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Penn State University, Bataille’s Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability, University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, 2007, p. 50-51

Bataille’s model in The Accursed Share ultimately depends on a distinction between types of expenditure
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and of the universe in the unrecoverable energy of a myriad of stars.

The topic is not reducible to a thing – we can trace it with our knowledge but we cannot stand outside it and describe and reveal it like a picture on the wall – the archival drive to accumulate and preserve objects of knowledge only succeeds in destroying the whole experience by trying to view the topic as a thing and thus reifying and quantifying any sense of play or animality in the resolution – the Archive destroys its contents by trying to accumulate and preserving them – it annihilates the accursed share by trying to catalogue it – attempting to aesthetically encounter the topic forms a better ecological politics than aesthetic representation and accumulation – we should yield to the unthinkable which disrupts the archival drive and allows us to question the creation of a taxonomy of things
Kathryn Yusoff ‘10 (Professor of Geography at the University of Exeter, “Biopolitical Economies and the Political Aesthetics of Climate Change” Theory Culture Society 2010 27: 73 http://history.ucsd.edu/_files/base-folder1/Biopolitical%20Economies%20and%20the%20Political%20Aesthetics%20of%20Climate%20Change.pdf) m leap

These traces of animals trapped inside natural history forever are arranged through reification, the
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interruption, a silence, the cut of a paw print through mud.

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent: WGA DF | Judge:
2AC

the slave is rendered as the foundation of the national order but is also structurally unthought by it – however, the negative’s attempt to narrativize and present a solution to the position of the slave only collapses back into and re-elaborating the failures of leftist integration and multiculturalism – recognizing the position that ‘the unthought’ takes within the subject/object system of accumulation is a pre-requisite to having a good method – we affirm that which is unthought by the accumulation of the resolution – affirmation as an impossibility, a catastrophe and a wound that cannot be closed – only our role of the ballot articulates the narrative of our defeat without turning it into an obscene opportunity for celebration and progress – we cannot simply carve a space outside of the state for autonomous action – the fungible accumulation of the black body disarticulates the notion of consent – negating the resolution participates in the will of the master just the same as affirming it does, because the privilege of non-consensual subjectivity is first predicated on a negation of the black body’s will—this turns their second Gordon card
Hartman and Wilderson ‘3 (Saidiya V. Hartman and Frank B. Wilderson, III, “THE POSITION OF THE UNTHOUGHT,” Qui Parle, Vol. 13, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2003, pp. 183-201, University of Nebraska Press, www.jstor.org/stable/20686156, Accessed: 17/10/2012 16:55) m leap

Frank B. Wilderson, Ill- One of the first things I want to
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subjectivity is predicated upon the negation of will" (S, 111).
We affirm the underbelly of modernity – the position of death and violence – the cut of non-knowledge is a splinter in the heart of the entire world – affirming civil death destroys the cohesion of social order
Hartman and Wilderson ‘3 (Saidiya V. Hartman and Frank B. Wilderson, III, “THE POSITION OF THE UNTHOUGHT,” Qui Parle, Vol. 13, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2003, pp. 183-201, University of Nebraska Press, www.jstor.org/stable/20686156, Accessed: 17/10/2012 16:55) m leap

That's what I was working with there, that impossibility or tension between Jacobs as
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bodies. We give the nation its coherence because we're its underbelly.1

We claim mystic sovereignty when we accept the sacrificial knowledge of vulnerability, contingency, and penetration by death – the mystic speaks of death from within death – we are the executioner of the utilitarian reality, introducing the toxin of the impossible in order to collapse systems of meaning – a moment of ungluing and intoxication – Mysticism unmasks the anguish of the underside of experience that is concealed by rationally coordinated political science and philosophy.
Irwin 2002 (From Alexander Irwin, in Saints of the Impossible, “Exercises in Inutility,” 2002, p. 162-165) m leap

This parti pris of responding to a brutal political and military situation with a mystico
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of the world, the singularity by which it too constitutes an event.

1AR
Eurocentric thought carries a dichotomous reasoning behind it that helps propel western thought –our aff frustrates that logic by affirming the unproductive which breaks down the subject object dichotomy.
NUNN - 97 Kenneth, Professor of law at the University of Florida, “Law as a Eurocentric Enterprise, 15 Law and Ineq. J. 323 access Lexis Nexis

Dichotomous Reasoning. Eurocentric culture embraces a reasoning style that is dichotomous. 42 That
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of information that is not *335  neatly categorized or compartmentalized.

Tournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent:  | Judge:
Perm—do both: The contradiction of the two texts problematizes our discourse.
Katherine Adams Assistant Professor of English at University of Tulsa, 2002, Hypatia, “At the Table with Arendt: Toward a Self-Interested Practice of Coalition Discourse,” Muse

As Anzaldúa and Friedman ...self-interested discourse at work.

Alt. can’t solve case-- Inner experience is the mystical experience of ecstasy, rapture, passion, and meditation – inner experience is its own sole authority and value – subordinating it to external qualities or dogmatizing it with end-points and goals ruins the whole experience
Irwin ’93 (Alexander C. Irwin, “ECSTASY, SACRIFICE, COMMUNICATION: Bataille on Religion and Inner Experience,” Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 76, No. 1, Spring 1993, p. 108-109) m leap

Bataille's first approach ... authority, sole value" (18).

Tournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent:  | Judge:
Changing language is a pre-requisite to shaping gender equality—phrases like “you guys” reinforce patriarchal system.
Kleinman 07 (Sherryl Kleinman, Professor in Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, “Why Sexist Language Matters.” March 12, 2007. http://www.alternet.org/story/48856/. MR.)
Gendered words and phrases ... noun, pronoun

Author gender assumption

Gendered language shapes reality—creates a patriarchal society of sexism and must be rejected in this debate space
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 10 (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. “Feminist Philosophy of Language” http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-language/. MR.)

Spender and others also ... no ungendered reality or ungendered perspective”.

Tournament: NDT | Round: 7 | Opponent: Minnesota SS | Judge: 

1. We meet—this restriction is a direct limitation on energy production in these area—that’s our 1AC Mata evidence
   We have contextual evidence—zoning restrictions are a direct limit on energy production
   Solar Panels Information December 14th, 2011 “The Advantages of Solar Energy” http://solarpanelsinformationx.com/posts/

The advantages of … and zoning restrictions.

2. We meet—zoning limitations are direct restrictions on production
Hayden ’05 (J.D., Penn State Dickinson School of Law, 2005)
Tim 13 Penn St. Envtl. L. Rev. 217

B. Telecommunications Act of 1996
¶ In 1996, a major piece … strict zoning procedures.
3. Counter-interp: a restriction on energy production is anything that makes it more difficult or expensive
LVM Institute 96, Ludwig Von Mises Institute Original Book by Ludwig Von Mises, Austrian Economist in 1940. Evidence is cut from fourth edition copyright Bettina B. Greaves, “Human Action” http://mises.org/pdf/humanaction/pdf/ha_29.pdf

Restriction of production … which the output

Tournament:  | Round: 7 | Opponent: Minnesota SS | Judge:
We're On the Road to Nowhere—the attempt to preserve life is really nothing but an imperialist quest staged by our own desire to reproduce more and more of ourselves, this goal of survival only glorifies continual reproduction of the ego and more bodies—walking meat bag vessels of the ego.
Deleuze and Guattari ’72 (Gilles and Felix, Anti-Oedipus, 1972, p. 107-109)

Coextensiveness is another matter … than the parent-child relations."49

Our lives exist perpetually in the middle – subjects in the middle of becoming objects – people in the middle living – people in the middle of becoming corpses.  Life is an a-subjective current of folded consciousness, a stream of life, and we slip on and on through the middle of it – never seeing the forest for the trees.   The truth is that the river runs through us too – united in pure immanence.  However, the restrictive identity of “self” survival imprisons us in the ego and the body, preventing any lines of flight or becoming.

Mark ’98 (John, Gilles Deleuze: Vitalism and Multiplicity, p. 29-33)

It's organisms that …revolutions take shape. (N,45) 

Things Fall Apart: The force of entropy makes all physical existence fatal. Eventually even time will die. The supreme evil in this existence is the atomized ego because it prevents radical creativity and formlessness—the process of giving value to existence. We need to contemplate and embrace mass death in order to understand our own role in the process of dying. Only when the disaster speaks through us can we truly live our death and thus give meaning to the fundamental character of our existence. 1% chance that we can become the beauty of existence will always outweigh.
Aima 2k9 (Rahel, Columbia University, in the beginning was the language, and the language was gravity, April 13, 2009, http://killingdenouement.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/in-the-beginning-was-the-language-and-the-language-was-gravity/#comments)

In the beginning was the … irrational, ex-tinctual and free.

The affirmative approaches the world with the tautological rationality of viviocentrism – that is life-centeredness.  Viviocentrism is a noble lie that informs all aspects of their advocacy and it is the same binary logic of natural mastery that justifies racism, sexism, anthropomorphism, etc. Opening our minds to death allows a transcendence of the tyranny of life and creates the conditions for the ultimate erosion of all borders and conceptions of the natural – put the burden on them to justify physical existence as a roll for the ballot
Mitchell Heisman (The opposite of a bullshitter, suicide practitioner, and University at Albany bachelor's degree in psychology) 2010
Suicide Note, online @ http://www.suicidenote.info/, loghry

There is a very popular … bias towards life. 

Their attempts to preserve life may seem benign, but allowing for the ego’s continual creation of new generations just condemns more people to a world of finitude and pain. Physical existence is bad and we should withdraw any affirmation of it
Luchte, James (03/16/2009). "The Body of Sublime Knowledge: The Aesthetic Phenomenology of Arthur Schopenhauer". Heythrop journal (0018-1196), 50 (2), p. 228.

Returning to Schopenhauer's …preparation for death.

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Death of the physical body can’t destroy consciousness—multiple experiments prove—this evidence answers the counter-arguments
Lanza ’11 (Robert Lanza, M.D., 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, “Five Reasons You Won't Die,” Huffington Post, 1/20/11, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/5-reasons-you-wont-die_b_810936.html?view=screen) M Leap

Consider the uncertainty … which energy just dissipates.
Nuclear winter causes fast timeframe extinction of physical existence and that is the ultimate good – causes nirvana – superior to individual suffering, death, suicide and grief as we go one by one in this meaningless torture chamber – our evidence assumes their counter arguments.
Dolan ‘2 (John Dolan, PhD in the writing of the Marquis de Sade from UC Berkeley, professor and essayist, “The Case for Nuclear Winter,” April 21, 2002, http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=6495andIBLOCK_ID=35) M Leap

There are no nihilists … and then Nirvana. 

Death, and specifically causing future deaths is good – it is only way to ensure freedom and satisfaction for those who would otherwise be doomed to a life of torment
Castronovo ‘2K (Russ, Jean Wall Bennett Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, author of Fathering the Nation: American Genealogies of Slavery and Freedom and Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States and coeditor of Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics. “Political Necrophilia” Boundary 2 27.2 MUSE)

Infanticide not only … question of syntax
it is always safer to presume someone will regret being brought into physical existence because no one suffers when they are not brought into physical existence.
Benatar ‘6
(David, Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Cape Town, Better Never to Have Been, pg 153-155) 

It is not true, of course, … brought into existence.

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)

What bothers people about … as the one reality.

Embracing death is the gateway to transcendence and the solution to all earthly problems

Chopra ‘7 (Deepak, India Abroad, (New york edition) new york, n.y. feb 2. vol. 37, iss. 18; pg. A12)

I do not think religion … be destroyed then.

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)

Consider an experiment that … outside of time altogether. 

Tournament:  | Round: 7 | Opponent: Minnesota SS | Judge: 

Radiophobia 1AC

Contention One

Current restrictions on energy production prevent nuclear power plants from being built in close proximity to high-population areas.

U.S. NRC Feb 19th, 2013 http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part100/part100-0011.html-http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part100/part100-0011.html

100.11 Determination of exclusion area, low population zone, and population center
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a greater distance may be necessary because of total integrated population dose consideration.

Current siting strategies for nuclear power plants create epistemological distance between governmental and corporate decision makers and the disadvantaged communities where the plants are built.

Kevin ’97
Daniel Kevin is an environmental analyst at the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in
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THEORIES AND REMEDIES 8 Vill. Envtl. L.J. 121 1997

Conflicts over LULU siting can be lessened by lowering the number of LULUs that must
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attractive than would otherwise be the case if solely technical criteria were employed.

This Radiophobia is bad

DeviantArt 2010 http://chowderl.deviantart.com/

Radiophobia- Fear of radioactivity or x-rays Symptoms: Fear of angry green
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visit Ukraine; avoid visiting Japan/Russia; and never split atoms.

Radiation is all around us – status quo fear-mongering isn’t based on science but an irrational inability to confront material reality – justifying status quo fears externally causes psychological trauma.

Johnson, a background in nuclear, experimental %26 accelerator physics. He worked for Los Alamos National Laboratory in the 1990s, and currently teaches university physics, astronomy %26 ethics, 2009
Dr. John D "The Irrational Fear of Radiation" http://nuclearactive.com/?cat=15-http://nuclearactive.com/?cat=15

Radiation is natural, yet the very word itself generates an irrational fear in most
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of background radiation is important to the stimulation of the body’s immune system.

Thus the Plan

Text: The United States federal government should substantially reduce restrictions on energy production for nuclear power by removing NRC 100.11 Section 3 for power plants built in economically affluent neighborhoods in the United States.

Contention Two

Enter the specter of Chernobyl: While the design causing the worst nuclear plant accident in history is banned in the United States, this ban gives many the illusion of plant safety. Consider the following dialogue from Staedter in 10:

~IS NUCLEAR ENERGY SAFE?", Discovery News, Analysis by Tracy Staedter, Mar 17, 2010~

It’s a complicated topic, but to give you some food for thought, I
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certain subpopulations may be more susceptible to radiation exposure, such as children.

Radiation disrupts the symbolic order to reduce the obsessive approach to the ecological crisis

Zizek 91 ~Slavoj Zizek, professor of philosophy at the university of Ljubljana, Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture, 1991, pg. 35-36~

What can a Lacanian approach tell us about the ecological crisis? Simply that we
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demonstrates the degree to which our everyday life is already penetrated by science.

The ecology of fear is a post-political subversion to reduce politics to expert management and administration accepted unquestioningly by a docile citizenry.  Ecology is becoming a new opiate for the masses, which is instilling an encompassing, hegemonic control over the socius.

Zizek prof phil/sociology/psyche @ European grad institute and overall BA 2k8 (Slavoj, "censorsip today: Violence or Ecology as a new Opium for the masses" http://www.lacan.com/zizecology1.htm-http://www.lacan.com/zizecology1.htm)

Political action and consumption become fully merged. In short, without the antagonism between
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- here is a nice quote from the TIME magazine on this topic:

Speaking out against radiophobia is a pre-fiat benefit to voting aff

Rockwell, Founding Officer, Radiation, Science %26 Health, Inc., and of MPR Associates, Inc., 2000
Theodore Rockwell, "Al Gore vs. Hippocrates Being "Cautious" about Radiation is Killing People" www.cns-sn.ca%2Fbranches%2FToronto%2Fradiation%2FRockwellBeingcautiousaboutradiation.doc%26ei=rZ9ySuSWLZCqtgODpvXRCA%26rct=j%26q=gunnar+walinder+professor%26usg=AFQjCNHEpV5dDr9xjaSmBe7j7kA0kyspxA%26sig2=JUA1EnrogW5zmEHQTOm27g

The U.S. Secretary of Energy, on January 28, 2000,
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Walinder, Klaus Becker. Their actions should be an inspiration to others.