Tournament: Shirley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Gonzaga HN | Judge: Matt Moore
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We must see ourselves as condemned, and the refusal of the affirmative does not stop that from happening, all it does is take away the potential to bring it about in our own way.  We will produce the spectacle of disaster one way or the other
Itzkowitz ‘ 99 (Kenneth associate professor of philosophy at Marietta College. He has written mainly on issues of continental value theory, ethics, and violence at the end of metaphysics, To witness spectacles of pain: The hypermorality of Georges Bataille)

The main point, for Bataille, is that the … we achieve such rare and unusual self-knowledge?

Attempting to control energy consumption colonizes the accursed share, and authorize interventions
Harney and Martin ‘07(Stefano and Randy The Johns Hopkins University Press,Mode of Excess: Bataille, Criminality, and the War On Terror/muse)

It would be tempting to see in the … supply in the face of imminent scarcity.

Thus we call for our alternative to be in the spirit of festival, a sacrifice of the affirmative – This sacrifice allows for us to destroy the subordination to the status of a thing, and to connect through intimacy of the Divine -
Georges Bataille (an insane librarian).  Theory of Religion.  1989.  Translated by Robert Hurley.  Page 43-44.

The first fruits of the harvest or a head of … world, of the profound immanence of all that is.” 

Case
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 entirely, the … relations other 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 die, not life. Any work of …, becomings evolve, 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 language, and the language … we are finally 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 opinion that choosing life is … dictate a 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 moral judgment … preparation for death.

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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 was recently …, but rather resides outside of time altogether.
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 any more. That … seconds of rushing air, 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 defeats the slaveholder, … but it is necessarily also without substance, purely a question of syntax
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 losing the body is … and the mystic experiences himself 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 in any form, including Buddhism, .... You cannot be destroyed then.

Tournament: Shirley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Gonzaga HN  | Judge: Matt Moore
Viviocentrism 2NC

There is no warranted defense of physical existence – we’re just living to keep the human race going – the Western ego socially constructs and protects individuals so they can pass their DNA on to future generations and continue marching down the road to nowhere – that’s DnG ’72 – It is impossible to quantify the desirability of life: the difference between a living being and a non-living being is ultimately superimposed by anthropomorphism –
Additionally, there’s a racism DA –  attempts to maintain viviocentrism are akin to the racist attempt to maintain a flawed vision of the natural superiority of particular ways of being over others. Organic and non-organic are ultimately indistinguishable so the 1ac has zero impact, the whole thing is a noble lie based on a flawed teleological assumption about nature – that’s Heisman ‘10 – the western egoic bias towards survival or the value of any life is an irrational subservience to the fear of death and it involves notions of mastery and natural superiority that are coterminous with justifications for racism, patriarchy, heteronormativity, etc. –
Life is inevitable—they have zero offense—there’s no justification for prioritizing organic life over inorganic life—
They have zero defense of organic life—however we have disads to physical existence—there’s only a risk of our impact turns.
The link only flows our way—all the benefits they identify to physicallife exist if we win there life after death—they can’t win VTL, or happiness are reasons to reject extinction because all of those things exist in the multiverse
by voting Aff, you’re just continuing the noble lie of viviocentrism along with its ideological baggage and creating more future generations to suffer and then die in this hate and pain filled world – that’s Heisman ’10 and Luchte ‘9 – they have comparatively little offense against non-organic existence –
Here’s more evidence for all of the above, there’s a ethical obligation to take action to overcome physical-life-centeredness:
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

The conventional distinction … different organisms or different species. 

A2: Can’t Choose for Others
People have a right to not be born into a world of suffering—since people can’t choose to not be born we should presume that they don’t want to be—that’s Benatar
Their argument begs the question—if we prove physical life is bad then it is worse to take away somebody’s right not to be born than it is to take away somebody’s right to have a physical body and make future generations.
Deleuze and Guittari evidence indicates that the decision to pro-create is based on the unconscious desire to continue the ego rather than choice and free will—in the name of choice we condemn infinite future generations to a world of pain and give them no choice—that’s our Luchte evidence.
Dolan says that we have a moral obligation to “the dead and the unborn” to end physical existence to prevent suffering
There is a net benefit to
Our Aima evidence says that the decision must be ceded and nuclear warfare must be affirmed
Our Castronovo evidence says that the most ethical thing to do is to prevent life and cause extinction
PP Debate/Life is good
Our impact outweights two reasons
Even if we lose the multiverse is real—there is no suffering without a physical body——death is the only zero risk option.   
There’s no suffering in the multiverse—if even one person suffers because of physical existence we in.
Even if we don’t win there is life after death extinction is still better  because it is a net reduction in suffering—
The link only flows our way—all the benefits they identify to physicallife exist if we win there life after death—they can’t win VTL, or happiness are reasons to reject extinction because all of those things exist in the multiverse
They have zero defense of organic life—however we have disads to physical existence. 

Extend Castronovo
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, that everybody is glad … benefited by being brought into existence.

A2: Future Generations/VTL
The only reason we even want to make future generations is because of our ego—it is a will to sexual reproduction because it passes on the ego—that’s our Deleuze and Guattari and Luchte evidence.
We have VTL in the multiverse
Extend Castronovo—inorganic life is superior to physical existence
Death is the ultimate ethical obligation—preventing future generations is the only sure path to reduce suffering.
Doyal ‘07 (Doyal, Len emeritus professor of medical ethics at Queen Mary, University of London and a medical ethicist (10/2007). "Is Human Existence Worth Its Consequent Harm?". Journal of medical ethics (0306-6800), 33 (10), p. 573)

Benatar goes on to draw some provocative … existers and those who otherwise potentially exist in the future.
Err on the side of death—there’s only a risk of suffering if you promote future generations of organic life.
A2: Suicide
Three reasons suicide doesn’t solve
Doesn’t allow for future generations—in a world where we go one by one or slowly people have more time to pro-create which only brings more people into an awful physical existence.
Suicide causes more grief than nuclear war—Our piece of Dolan evidence says that when people kill themselves their loved ones suffer more—Nuclear war sends us all into oblivion ensuring the least amount of suffering.
There is a net benefit to mass death—Our Aima evidence says that collective disaster enables us to understand death rhizomatically as a conduit for the beauty and meaning of existence.
A2: Life Getting Better
Life is not getting better-rape rate increasing
India Today Feb. 13th, 2012 “Cops need to be on their toes” http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/car-borne-thugs-rape-minors-in-delhi/1/173331.html

Delhi's sorry record on the safety of women took ….intoday.in/story/car-borne-thugs-rape-minors-in-delhi/1/173331.html
Only a risk of suffering—even if violence is decreasing that doesn’t mean suffering is
Red flag all their author’s claims – they are deluded and studies have proven this.
Benatar, David (01/2008). "The Optimism Delusion". Think : philosophy for everyone (1477-1756), 16, p. 19.

The deeply deluded will deny that … quality of their life is above average.

Objectively, our lives are intolerably awful – their evidence is rooted in a delusional optimist epistemology, only pessimism is objective.
Singer ’10 (Peter, a chair in bioethics at Princeton University's Center for Human Values, 6/6, The New York Times, “Should This Be The Last Generation?”, http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/should-this-be-the-last-generation/?scp=2andsq=singerandst=cse)
Benatar also argues that human lives …, we would see that they are not something we should inflict on anyone.

Even if they win suffering is decreasing in general there are still those that do suffer and the happiness of some on physical life doesn’t outweigh the suffering that occurs in physical life because EVERYONE is happy post death of the physical body.
Falsifibility Debate
Our theory is falsifible—to be falsifible means that you could have been wrong but you were proven to be true though experiments—our argument could have been false but it was proven true by experiments—we’re the ONLY ones offering a scientific paradigm that accounts for things like the Big Bang and Gravity means you should default to our interpretation.
Here’s more ev—Life can’t be destroyed—only transformed—consciousness exists outside of the physical body. 

Lanza 2010 (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?: Life Is Forever, Says Theory" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/does-death-exist-life-is_b_410306.html)

In the cartoon, Bugs Bunny swallows nitroglycerine and … we only experience them piece by piece. 

Hell
Hell isn’t real-it’s only a theological concept to control how we live in the physical world
Above Top Secred 02-01-12 “The concept of hell and eternal damnation is a form of control., page 1” http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread792389/pg1

This priest agrees with you, and I … this priest out .. he makes a lot of sense.
Physical life is hell for large segments of the world—maybe not you but plenty of people in other places
It’s not offense—they can’t prove a majority of the people would go there.
A2: Dumb arg
That assumes there is something intrinsically good about the process of dying—there’s not—the conclusion is good
Dolan is a DA—in a world where we bring more lives into physical existence then we have to watch our loved ones suffer as they go one by one—Dolan explicitly says that the best way for us all to go is in a nuclear war because it is the fastest, least suffering filled way for us all to go
Benatar is a DA to this arg—we shouldn’t bring more lives into physical existence just to suffer—those lives have a right not to be born

Quals Debate
Patterson isn’t qualified—he’s a philosopher he lacks the ability to make claims about quantum physics

Our argument is also an Epistemology D/A—the Aff's hypotheses can't accommodate for recent experimental findings, means they can't be correct. Our hypothesis is a better fit for the evidence so voting Aff is bad science—bad science is debilitating to the coherence of our knowledge systems (this is true no matter whether you're acting as a policy maker or a philosopher—bad science is bad science)

Lanza – Robert Lanza. MD, is considered one of the leading cell scientists in the world. He is currently Chief Scientific Officer at Advanced Cell Technology, and a professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and Berman 2k9 Bob Berman is an author and the most widely read astronomer in the world, he is director of the Storm King Observatory in Cornwall, New York, and of the Overlook Observatory in Woodstock, New York, he is an adjunct professor of astronomy at Marymount Manhattan College. Biocentrism. 2009. p.1-2 m leap

Our understanding of the universe as a … some of our greatest scientific minds.
We only defend the particle experiment—the Myers evidence doesn’t indict that—Myers doesn’t disprove the particle experiment that’s the ony part of Lanza’s theory we’re defending
The burden of proof is on them—the consensus of scientific evidence supports life after death—even if we don’t win Lanza 

Zammit ‘3 (Victor, ba, ma, phd former solicitor of the sc of new south wales and the court of australia, January 22, http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=50)

In England today a group of scientists, mathematicians … scientist who has proved that the afterlife does not exist.

This ev and this ev—doesn’t disprove Lanza’s theory about life after death—two—Lanza has many theories they have to prove that their evidence specifically indicts the part of the theory we defend—if not it doesn’t apply. 

NDEs legit—afterlife real and good—brain death not true
Fitzpatrick and Long '10 (Laura Fitzpatrick,interviewing Dr. Jeffery Long, M.D., 01/22/2010, “Is There Such a Thing as Life After Death?” http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1955636,00.html) M Leap 

Is there life after death? Theologians can debate all … need to have to believe in life after death is substantially reduced.

Our argument is also an Epistemology D/A—the Aff's hypotheses can't accommodate for recent experimental findings, means they can't be correct. Our hypothesis is a better fit for the evidence so voting Aff is bad science—bad science is debilitating to the coherence of our knowledge systems (this is true no matter whether you're acting as a policy maker or a philosopher—bad science is bad science)

Lanza – Robert Lanza. MD, is considered one of the leading cell scientists in the world. He is currently Chief Scientific Officer at Advanced Cell Technology, and a professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and Berman 2k9 Bob Berman is an author and the most widely read astronomer in the world, he is director of the Storm King Observatory in Cornwall, New York, and of the Overlook Observatory in Woodstock, New York, he is an adjunct professor of astronomy at Marymount Manhattan College. Biocentrism. 2009. p.1-2 [m leap]

Our understanding of the … science, and it is a logical extension of the work of some of our greatest scientific minds. 

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 principle, … is no absolute self-existing matrix in which energy just dissipates.

The burden of proof is on them—the consensus of scientific evidence supports life after death—even if we don’t win Lanza
Zammit ‘3 (Victor, ba, ma, phd former solicitor of the sc of new south wales and the court of australia, January 22, http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=50)

In England today a group of scientists, … that the afterlife does not exist.

NDEs legit—afterlife real and good—brain death not true
Fitzpatrick and Long '10 (Laura Fitzpatrick,interviewing Dr. Jeffery Long, M.D., 01/22/2010, “Is There Such a Thing as Life After Death?” http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1955636,00.html) [M Leap] 

Is there life after death? Theologians can … faith you need to have [to believe in] life after death is substantially reduced.

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The Mystery 1NC

The world is a boundless play of aesthetic forces, ever changing – 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 – the alternative is to do that aff without their attempt to accumulate and utilize objective knowledge – 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-http://history.ucsd.edu/_files/base-folder1/Biopolitical Economies and the Political Aesthetics of Climate Change.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
AND
, 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
AND
, 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 Neg – voting Neg 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
AND
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-http://history.ucsd.edu/_files/base-folder1/Biopolitical Economies and the Political Aesthetics of Climate Change.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.

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There is no environment; there is only a world populated with ever-present violence– our "environment" is a metropolis that only survives through management of its own sustained collapse.

The Invisible Committee 2007 (France’s Premier Terrorist Organization, "The Coming Insurrection". Semiotext(e) Intervention Series. pg. 73-74) ~[MRL~]

Ecology is the discovery of the decade. For the last thirty years we’ve left
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the metropolis, and that projects itself onto everything that would escape it.

Climate change is already destroying everything.  Establishment environmental science applies a shallow cost-benefit risk analysis that is based in willful political ignorance of our participation in an ongoing ecocide. Both progressive and conservative solutions result in apocalypse – capitalism commodifies everything in its drive for production and consumption – it’s try or die to reject business-as-usual calls like the Aff to work inside the system and increase energy production.

Gelderloos ’10 (PETER GELDERLOOS, FEBRUARY 01, 2010 , "Capitalist Solutions for Global Warming: More Wood for the Fire," http://www.counterpunch.org/2010/02/01/more-wood-for-the-fire/) ~[m leap~]

While progressives typically wear the mask of green capitalism and conservatives the mask of the
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, and the fact that we have less time to deal with it.

The capitalist state will never be able to solve warming.  The presentation of the plan for the USFG to increase energy production in the 1AC will always be a link – no permutation is possible – we need to reject false solutions and refuse dialogue with institutions. Only the alt has a chance of solving – grassroots revolt and disruption of industrial production is key

Gelderloos ’10 (PETER GELDERLOOS, FEBRUARY 01, 2010 , "Capitalist Solutions for Global Warming: More Wood for the Fire," http://www.counterpunch.org/2010/02/01/more-wood-for-the-fire/) ~[m leap~]

It would be unconscionable to allow the world leaders who just five and ten years
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efforts of the powerful to manage and prolong the disaster they have created.

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1NC

I learned yesterday
 (I must be behind the times, or perhaps it's only a false rumor,
 one of those pieces of spiteful gossip that are circulated between
 sink and latrine at the hour when meals that have been ingurgitated
 one more time are thrown in the slop buckets),
 I learned yesterday
 one of the most sensational of those official practices of American
 public schools
 which no doubt account for the fact that this country believes itself
 to be in the vanguard of progress,
 It seems that, among the examinations or tests required of a child
 entering public school for the first time, there is the so-called
 seminal fluid or sperm test,
 which consists of asking this newly entering child for a small
 amount of his sperm so it can be placed in a jar
 and kept ready for any attempts at artificial insemination that
 might later take place.
 For Americans are finding more and more that they lack muscle
 and children,
 that is, not workers
 but soldiers,
 and they want at all costs and by every possible means to make
 and manufacture soldiers
 with a view to all the planetary wars which might later take place,
 and which would be intended to demonstrate by the overwhelming
 virtues of force
 the superiority of American products,
 and the fruits of American sweat in all fields of activity and of the
 superiority of the possible dynamism of force.
 Because one must produce,
 one must by all possible means of activity replace nature
 wherever it can be replaced,
 one must find a major field of action for human inertia,
 the worker must have something to keep him busy,
 new fields of activity must be created,
 in which we shall see at last the reign of all the fake manufactured
 products,
 of all the vile synthetic substitutes
 in which beatiful real nature has no part,
 and must give way finally and shamefully before all the victorious
 substitute products
 in which the sperm of all artificial insemination factories
 will make a miracle
 in order to produce armies and battleships.
 No more fruit, no more trees, no more vegetables, no more plants
 pharmaceutical or otherwise and consequently no more food,
 but synthetic products to satiety,
 amid the fumes,
 amid the special humors of the atmosphere, on the particular axes
 of atmospheres wrenched violently and synthetically from the
 resistances of a nature which has known nothing of war except
 fear.
 And war is wonderful, isn't it?
 For it's war, isn't it, that the Americans have been preparing for
 and are preparing for this way step by step.
 In order to defend this senseless manufacture from all competition
 that could not fail to arise on all sides,
 one must have soldiers, armies, airplanes, battleships,
 hence this sperm
 which it seems the governments of America have had the effrontery
 to think of.
 For we have more than one enemy
 lying in wait for us, my son,
 we, the born capitalists,
 and among these enemies
 Stalin's Russia
 which also doesn't lack armed men.

All this is very well,
 but I didn't know the Americans were such a warlike people.
 In order to fight one must get shot at
 and although I have seen many Americans at war
 they always had huge armies of tanks, airplanes, battleships
 that served as their shield.
 I have seen machines fighting a lot
 but only infinitely far
 behind
 them have I seen the men who directed them.
 Rather than people who feed their horses, cattle, and mules the
 last tons of real morphine they have left and replace it with
 substitutes made of smoke,
 I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from
 which they were born
 I mean the Tarahumara
 eating Peyote off the ground
 while they are born,
 and who kill the sun to establish the kingdom of black night,
 and who smash the cross so that the spaces of spaces can never
 again meet and cross.

And so you are going to hear the dance of TUTUGURI.

TUTUGURI

The Rite of the Black Sun

And below, as if at the foot of the bitter slope,
 cruelly despairing at the heart,
 gapes the circle of the six crosses,
 very low
 as if embedded in the mother earth,
 wrenched from the foul embrace of the mother
 who drools.

The earth of black coal
 is the only damp place
 in this cleft rock.

The Rite is that the new sun passes through seven points before
 blazing on the orifice of the earth.

And there are six men,
 one for each sun,
 and a seventh man
 who is the sun
 in the raw
 dressed in black and in red flesh.

But, this seventh man
 is a horse,
 a horse with a man leading him.

But it is the horse
 who is the sun
 and not the man.

At the anguish of a drum and a long trumpet,
 strange,
 the six men
 who were lying down,
rolling level with the ground,
 leap up one by one like sunflowers,
 not like suns
 but turning earths,
 water lilies,
 and each leap
 corresponds to the increasingly somber
 and restrained
 gong of the drum
 until suddenly he comes galloping, at vertiginous speed,
 the last sun,
 the first man,
 the black horse with a

naked man,
 absolutely naked
 and virgin
 riding it.

After they leap up, they advance in winding circles
 and the horse of bleeding meat rears
 and prances without a stop
 on the crest of his rock
 until the six men
 have surrounded
 completely
 the six crosses.

Now, the essence of the Rite is precisely

THE ABOLITION OF THE CROSS.

When they have stopped turning
 they uproot
 the crosses of earth
 and the naked man
 on the horse
 holds up
 an enormous horseshoe
 which he has dipped in a gash of his blood.

The Pursuit of Fecality

There where it smells of shit
 it smells of being.
 Man could just as well not have shat,
 not have opened the anal pouch,
 but he chose to shit
 as he would have chosen to live
 instead of consenting to live dead.

Because in order not to make caca,
 he would have had to consent
 not to be,
 but he could not make up his mind to lose
 being,
 that is, to die alive.

There is in being
 something particularly tempting for man
 and this something is none other than
CACA.
 (Roaring here.)

To exist one need only let oneself be,
 but to live,
 one must be someone,
 to be someone,
 one must have a BONE,
 not be afraid to show the bone,
 and to lose the meat in the process.

Man has always preferred meat
 to the earth of bones.
 Because there was only earth and wood of bone,
 and he had to earn his meat,
 there was only iron and fire
 and no shit,
 and man was afraid of losing shit
 or rather he desired shit
 and, for this, sacrificed blood.

In order to have shit,
 that is, meat,
 where there was only blood
 and a junkyard of bones
 and where there was no being to win
 but where there was only life to lose.

o reche modo
 to edire
 di za
 tau dari
 do padera coco

At this point, man withdrew and fled.

Then the animals ate him.

It was not a rape,
 he lent himself to the obscene meal.

He relished it,
 he learned himself
 to act like an animal
 and to eat rat
 daintily.

And where does this foul debasement come from?

The fact that the world is not yet formed,
 or that man has only a small idea of the world
 and wants to hold on to it forever?

This comes from the fact that man,
 one fine day,
stopped
 the idea of the world.

Two paths were open to him:
 that of the infinite without,
 that of the infinitesimal within.

And he chose the infinitesimal within.
 Where one need only squeeze
 the spleen,
 the tongue,
 the anus
 or the glans.

And god, god himself squeezed the movement.

Is God a being?
 If he is one, he is shit.
 If he is not one
 he does not exist.

But he does not exist,
 except as the void that approaches with all its forms
 whose most perfect image
 is the advance of an incalculable group of crab lice.

"You are mad Mr. Artaud, what about the mass?"

I deny baptism and the mass.
 There is no human act,
 on the internal erotic level,
 more pernicious than the descent
 of the so-called jesus-christ
 onto the altars.

No one will believe me
 and I can see the public shrugging its shoulders
 but the so-called christ is none other than he
 who in the presence of the crab louse god
 consented to live without a body,
 while an army of men
 descended from a cross,
 to which god thought he had long since nailed them,
 has revolted,
 and, armed with steel,
 with blood,
 with fire, and with bones,
 advances, reviling the Invisible
 to have done with GOD'S JUDGMENT.

The Question Arises ...

What makes it serious
 is that we know
 that after the order
 of this world
 there is another.

What is it like?

We do not know.

The number and order of possible suppositions in
 this realm
 is precisely
 infinity!

And what is infinity?

That is precisely what we do not know!

It is a word
 that we use
 to indicate
the opening
 of our consciousness
 toward possibility
 beyond measure,
 tireless and beyond measure.

And precisely what is consciousness?

That is precisely what we do not know.

It is nothingness.

A nothingness
 that we use
 to indicate
 when we do not know something
 from what side
 we do not know it
 and so
 we say
 consciousness,
 from the side of consciousness,
 but there are a hundred thousand other sides.

Well?

It seems that consciousness
 in us is
 linked
 to sexual desire
 and to hunger;

but it could
 just as well
 not be linked
 to them.

One says,
 one can say,
 there are those who say
 that consciousness
 is an appetite,
 the appetite for living;

and immediately
 alongside the appetite for living,
 it is the appetite for food
 that comes immediately to mind;

as if there were not people who eat
 without any sort of appetite;
 and who are hungry.

For this too
 exists
 to be hungry
 without appetite;

well?

Well
 the space of possibility
 was given to me one day
 like a loud fart
 that I will make;
 but neither of space,
 nor possibility,
 did I know precisely what it was,

and I did not feel the need to think about it,

they were words
 invented to define things
 that existed
 or did not exist
 in the face of
 the pressing urgency
 of a need:
 the need to abolish the idea,
 the idea and its myth,
 and to enthrone in its place
 the thundering manifestation
 of this explosive necessity:
 to dilate the body of my internal night,

the internal nothingness
 of my self

which is night,
 nothingness,
 thoughtlessness,

but which is explosive affirmation
 that there is
 something
 to make room for:

my body.

And truly
 must it be reduced to this stinking gas,
 my body?
 To say that I have a body
 because I have a stinking gas
 that forms
 inside me?

I do not know
 but
 I do know that

space,
 time,
 dimension,
 becoming,
 future,
 destiny,
 being,
 non-being,
 self,
 non-self,

are nothing to me;

but there is a thing
 which is something,
 only one thing
 which is something,
 and which I feel
 because it wants
 TO GET OUT:
 the presence
 of my bodily
 suffering,

the menacing,
 never tiring
 presence
 of my
 body;

however hard people press me with questions
 and however vigorously I deny all questions,
 there is a point
 at which I find myself compelled
 to say no,

NO

then
 to negation;

and this point
 comes when they press me,

when they pressure me
 and when they handle me
 until the exit
 from me
 of nourishment,
 of my nourishment
 and its milk,

and what remains?

That I am suffocated;

and I do not know if it is an action
 but in pressing me with questions this way
 until the absence
 and nothingness
 of the question
 they pressed me
 until the idea of body
 and the idea of being a body
 was suffocated
 in me,

and it was then that I felt the obscene

and that I farted
 from folly
 and from excess
 and from revolt
 at my suffocation.

Because they were pressing me
 to my body
 and to the very body

and it was then
 that I exploded everything
 because my body
 can never be touched.

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1NC Stuff

This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to  suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window.  It always seems to me that I should feel well in the place where I am not, and this question of removal is one which I discuss incessantly with my soul.   ’Tell me, my soul, poor chilled soul, what do you think of going to live in Lisbon? It must be warm there, and there  you would invigorate yourself like a lizard…  My soul does not reply.  ’Since you are so fond of stillness, coupled with the show of movement, would you like to settle in Holland…  What do you think of Rotterdam, you who love forests of masts, and ships moored at the foot of houses?’  My soul remains silent.   ’Perhaps Batavia attracts you more? …  Not a word. Could my soul be dead?  ’Is it then that you have reached such a degree of lethargy that you acquiesce in your sickness? If so, let us  flee to lands that are analogues of death. I see how it is, poor soul%21 We shall pack our trunks for Tornio. Let us go  farther still to the extreme end of the Baltic; or farther still from life, if that is possible; let us settle at the Pole. There  the sun only grazes the earth obliquely, and … we shall be able to take long baths of darkness…  At last my soul explodes, and wisely cries out to me: ’No matter where%21 No matter where%21 As long as it’s out of the world%21’

All life is death – we are all always dying, and decaying. We must look to disaster to speed up the process to be free.  Trying to prevent the violence of death only creates worse fascist violence of domination

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/~~%23comments) ~[m leap~]

In the beginning was the language, and the language was gravity. Before the
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primordial prison, we are finally irrational, ex-tinctual and free.
 

Knowledge gathering and security planning only acts to further catalogue the grand meaninglessness of our civilization.  Buried under mountains of information all the worlds have become a museum; a great zombie-archive which eternally preserves frozen life which is itself already dead.

Baudrillard 76(Jean, Symbolic Exchange and Death p 185-187, Sage publications) ~[m leap~]

Pursued and censured everywhere, death springs up everywhere again. No longer as apocalyptic
AND
it is clear that only death can put an end to political economy.

We celebrate Death: you sing the Resurrection

The unconditional affirmation of human life is a violent form of oppression. People become slaves, shackled to the tautological cycle of positivity: survival and labor.

Baudrillard 2002 (Jean, "The Spirit of Terrorism: Hypotheses on Terrorism", Verso 2002, translated by Chris Turner, pp. 68-70) 

All the same, we should try to get beyond the moral imperative of unconditional
AND
aim, are the ones who today symbolically occupy the position of master. 

We claim mystic sovereignty – We are the executioner of your whole reality.

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
AND
of the world, the singularity by which it too constitutes an event.

We are a poetic reconfiguration of communication that refuses to dominate ways of knowing. Poetry pushes meaning to exhaustion – the delirious hurricane of debate, we are the eye of the storm

Land 92 (Nick, Lecturer in Continental Philosophy at the University of Warwick, Thirst for Annihilation, Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism, pg 202-204)

As if the confusional cyclone of poetry had already laid waste the resources of articulation
AND
man to ~[blank~]’ ~[II 247~]. Excess is venom. 

Pascal had his Void that went with him day and night  Alas%21 It’s all Abyss, - action, longing, dream  the Word%21 And I feel Panic’s storm-wind stream  through my hair, and make it stand upright.  Above, below, around, the desert, the deep,  the silence, the fearful compelling spaces...  With his knowing hand, in my dark, God traces  a multi-formed nightmare without release.  I fear sleep as one fears a deep hole,  full of vague terror. Where to, who knows?  I see only infinity at every window,  and my spirit haunted by vertigo’s stress envies the stillness of Nothingness.  Ah%21 Never to escape from Being and Number%21

And we call for a sacrifice of the aff, positivity, accumulation, and the future – we want to spend excess life in glory and squandering – refuse scarcity and security – take excess energy and sacrifice it – sacrifice thing-ness and connect through intimacy with the Divine

Georges Bataille (an insane librarian).  Theory of Religion.  1989.  Translated by Robert Hurley.  Page 43-44.

The first fruits of the harvest or a head of livestock are sacrificed in order
AND
of the divine world, of the profound immanence of all that is."

Tournament: Indiana | Round: 4 | Opponent: Weber State | Judge: 

Difference Shell

Their conception of sacrifice ensures eradication of sexual difference
Hughes 08—Rebecca Roberts-Hughes • King’s College London, 2008, Erotic transgression and sexual difference in Georges Bataille, http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/erotic/er4/Rebecca%20Roberts-Hughes%20Paper.pdf-http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/erotic/er4/Rebecca Roberts-Hughes Paper.pdf, jj

Bataille says that women are sacrificed in erotic transgression and that transgression is always violent
AND
we find horrific; subsuming otherness is not a way of achieving this.
In terms of sacrifice, we must conclude that there is a threefold sacrifice of
AND
to him) in which there can only be totality and no difference. 

The Alt is to sacrifice the sacrifice and embrace a concept of sacrifice without murder and expenditure
Hughes 08—Rebecca Roberts-Hughes • King’s College London, 2008, Erotic transgression and sexual difference in Georges Bataille, http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/erotic/er4/Rebecca%20Roberts-Hughes%20Paper.pdf-http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/erotic/er4/Rebecca Roberts-Hughes Paper.pdf, jj

Irigaray refers to woman’s jouissance, an "indefinite flood in which all manner of
AND
possible with two equal subjects – maybe with sacrifice, but without murder.

Implosion Shell

NEXT OFF IS IMPLODE THE CODE

First, semio-capitalism rules through ever-present management of the code – the code is a perfection of categorization and representation that precedes reality through symbolic exchange – the 1ac is coterminous with the tautological imperative of operating the mythical economy of capitalism

Robinson ’12 (Andrew Robinson, "Jean Baudrillard: The Code," April 27, 2012, Ceasefire, online) ~[m leap~]

In his more recent work, the idea of capitalism is replaced by ideas of
AND
. Production dissolves into the code.  Everything becomes a circulation of signifiers.

Second – we can only overthrow the code by pursuing symbolic disorder and catastrophe – we can resist the system through implosion – the alt is do the aff without continuing to be blackmailed by the system’s logic and without trying to fix the code and reinvest it with new meaning – any disads to the alt assume the linear code of meaning of the status quo

Robinson ’12 (Andrew Robinson, "Jean Baudrillard: Strategies of Subversion," Sept 7, 2012, uk/in-theory-bakhtin-1/ online) ~[M Leap~]

Alternative strategies to overthrow the code. Baudrillard proposes that opponents of the system replace
AND
value – allowing work, value, the dying system to bury themselves.

Finally – you can simply leave the system to die – this is a possibility in everyday, direct communication – coding deflects our struggle back within the system and political economy

Robinson ’12 (Andrew Robinson, "Jean Baudrillard: Strategies of Subversion," Sept 7, 2012, uk/in-theory-bakhtin-1/ online) ~[M Leap~]

Baudrillard was writing this before the rise of contemporary surveillance and policing practices, which
AND
system. It also deflects them back to the field of political economy.

Case

Bataille’s focus on consumption and expenditure without purpose is an affirmation of capital.  Expenditure and sacred consumption fuel capitalist markets by providing it consumers.  His horizontalism is a pedagogy of submission to the desire of the wealthy whose consumption creates superprofits.  Your affirmative is divorced from the materialist class struggle.

Ebert 9 (Teresa, Prof English @ SUNY-Albany; The Task of Cultural Critique; P. 181-184)

All post al theories of consumption are founded on the conservative views of Georges Bataille
AND
revolution that "does its work methodically" (The Eighteenth Brumaire 185). 

Their sacrifice arguments aren’t subversive and won’t improve value to life
Arnould ’96
Elisabeth Arnould, Diacritics 26.2 (1996) 86-96, The Impossible Sacrifice of Poetry: Bataille and the Nancian Critique of Sacrifice, jj

Sacrifice is unquestionably the most prominent model in Bataille’s thinking of finitude. But it
AND
," then we must also call it "unsacrificeable" ~[Nancy 30~]. 

There is no difference between productive consumption and unproductive squandering within capitalism since all consumption produces profit making industries.  Bataille’s examples of consumption societies maintain the social hierarchies of capitalism and the divide between those powerful enough to engage in spectacular consumption and the masses below who can do little but watch the dazzled consumption.

Goux 90 (prof French Studies @ Rice Univ; Jean-Joseph; Yale French Studies; No. 78, On Bataille; "General economics and postmodern capitalism")

It is clear that even the most unproductive seeming consumption (for example: tobacco
AND
10 Unless we understand it as a production marked by complete axiological indifference. 

Bataille is anthropocentric- 3 reasons.

Tyler 5 (Tom; Journal for Cultural Research; 9: 3; "Like water in water"; July)

We can at this point usefully distinguish at least three modes of anthropocentric thought.
AND
satisfied anthropocentrism, which inscribes too quickly a distinction between humanity and animality.

Expenditure is not transgressive- limitless consumption is useless theory

Mann 99 (Paul, "The Exquisite Corpse of Georges Bataille" in Masocriticism, p. 67-9)
I would like at one and the same time to affirm this model and to
AND
theory itself as death.Of theory-death.A double fatality.

The affirmation of unconditional expenditure leads to fascism—the concentration camp is the modern figure of a totally useless loss

Bell, M.A. Thesis in the Theory, Culture and Politics Program at Trent University, 2008 ~[Jeremy, "Bataille, the Economic, and the Sacred: Working through the accursed share," January, proquest, 91-96~]
At the same time however, we need not apologize for the irrefutable problems with
AND
childish economy of play, could lapse into the bloodshed of primitive war.

Energy obviously isn’t infinite so reveling is impossible
Krauss %26 Starkman 99 Lawrence M. Krauss and Glenn D. Starkman 1999 Department of Physics and Astronomy Case Western Reserve University Life,  The Universe, and Nothing: Life and Death in an Ever-Expanding Universe Google Scholar
Our universe could end in one of two ways. Either the observed expansion could
AND
find a mathematical solution allowing an infinite number of computations with finite energy. 

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Universality 1NC

Identity politics makes the realization of a true universal impossible

Zizek, ’09 (Slavoj, senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, professor at the European Graduate School, and total BAMF, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, p. 102, bgm)

Liberals who acknowledge the problems of those excluded from the socio-political process formulate
AND
bourgeois democracy" and "dictatorship of the proletariat" —is crucial.

The aff is wasted energy – fighting particular battles without changing the way the economy works means nothing really changes – the aff just obscures the logic of capitalism

Zizek, ’99 (Slavoj, Senior Researcher and professor at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, The Ticklish Subject, page 352-355)

The big news of today’s post-political age of the ’end of ideology’
AND
more than ever caught in an inexorable compulsion that effectively runs his life.

Vote neg on ethics - resisting this reliance on economic evaluation is the ultimate ethical responsibility

Zizek and Daly 2004 
(Slavoj, professor of philosophy at the Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana, and Glyn, Senior Lecturer in Politics in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at University College, Northampton, Conversations with Zizek, page 14-16)

For Zizek it is imperative that we cut through this Gordian knot of postmodern protocol
AND
abject Other to that of a ’glitch’ in an otherwise sound matrix.

Our alternative is to engage in revolt against capitalism.  Politics is fear, endlessly describing the disaster while managing all resistance. Anything less than revolting against modern civilization is unethical and accepts endless war and proletarianization.

The Invisible Committee 2007, insurrectionary communists, Call, p. 3-7 MRL

Proposition I: The triumph of civilisation lacks nothing. Neither political terror nor affective
AND
That the desert of our time is not perceived only makes it harsher.

Tournament: NDT | Round: Round 3 | Opponent: UNT MQ | Judge: Swanlek, Struth, Jordan

1NC

The Aff’s call to accelerate the development of nuclear technology is deeply integrated with the military industrial complex and the technostrategic race to a nuclear holocaust of the earth – speed distributes power and controls the political – voting aff merely funnels more money and power through the war machine and contributes to a "state of emergency" discourse – this allows technocratic domination based on a promise of security from the catastrophic accident that the system itself is actually accelerating us towards – voting negative endorses a scholarship that interrogates the role of speed in political discourses like the affirmative – contesting techno-strategy like this in everyday debates is key to political agency

Kellner ’99 (Douglas, George F. Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education, UCLA – "Virilio, War, and Technology: Some Critical Reflections," Theory, Culture and Society, Vol. 16(5-6), 1999: 103-125, http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/kell29.htm-http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/kell29.htm) ~m leap~

In _Speed and Politics_ (1986 ~1977~), Virilio undertakes his first
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politics further diminishes the space and role of democratic political participation and interaction.
 

We must adopt the resistance of the break, to slow down the empire of speed through moving outside of the inscribed framework by constantly shifting and changing. Refuse to use the ballot as another cog in the war machine

Adams ’3 (Jason, The Evergreen State College, POPULAR DEFENSE IN THE EMPIRE OF SPEED: PAUL VIRILIO AND THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE POLITICAL BODY. THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS - In the Department Of Political Science - SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY - November 2003)

But simply because this great transformation has taken place and many of the resources that
AND
becomes a motor, in other words a producer of speed".~202~

Our alternative interruption creates a new relationship to speed and technosubjectivity that allows us to inject the theorization of the accident back into politics.  This slowing down of politics interrupts the first world technological drive behind pure war.  Be skeptical of their arguments about how this interruption would create death.  This imagining of the possibility of death as interruption makes possible a new relation to politics.

Virilio and Lotringer ’4 ~Paul and Sylvere, Pure War, 2004, p. 37-39~

—If we wish to reinvent politics, we must find a way to politicize
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our~ his death the great cut-off, an insurmountable interruption.

Global climate modeling does not allow ambiguity or duality into global warming debates – it splits certainty and reason apart from excess and nonknowledge in order to create a restricted economy based on banishing excess – this accumulation and aggregation is an epistemology that attempts to know the world only as more and more data to be fit into models for energy scenarios – voting Aff propels us further towards catastrophe – ecological collapse already outpaces our models and if we continue to banish the unknown excess of our models then we also ensure the victory of things such as climate denial-ism and political corruption of science – rejecting the aff is a pre-requisite to any kind of solvency or having a sound ethics, politics, or epistemology

Yusoff ’9 (Kathryn Yusoff, School of Geography, University of Exeter, "Excess, catastrophe, and climate change," 24 August 2007; in revised form 19 March 2008; published online 26 October 2009, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2009, volume 27, pages 1010-1012) ~M Leap~

The catastrophe of climate change is excessive and will inscribe all earthly space. It
AND
further instability. This is the cost of splitting the ambiguity of knowledge.

Rejecting environmental security modeling is an absolute prior step to creating any successful effectuation of the aff – only the alternative can solve warming or lay the foundation for producing good scientific knowledge about climate change  – we need to take the risk of embracing intimacy with nonknowledge instead of splitting duality into an opposition between the restricted economy and its barred excess – the aff can’t assimilate this mode of thinking into their advocacy – their methodology excludes it – excess is banished by the ethico-political assumptions of environmental management and security that underlie the Aff project of climate modeling

Yusoff ’9 (Kathryn Yusoff, School of Geography, University of Exeter, "Excess, catastrophe, and climate change," 24 August 2007; in revised form 19 March 2008; published online 26 October 2009, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2009, volume 27, pages 1012-1015) ~M Leap~

This paper begins by addressing the dominance of scientific modelling in the scientific and political
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of that knowledge in order to risk being changed by it.(8)

2NC

The affirmative/negative’s response to the inconsistencies of perception described can never escape that location of rational dominance in which it emerges.  Here every form of alternative methodological privileging is usurped, assimilated and overwhelmed as they become de-singularized into a homogenized and potentially controllable texture of events.

Crary 2009 (John, Introduction to The Aesthetics of Disappearance - The Aesthetics of Disappearance.  Translated by Philip Beitchman, Page(s) 11-12)

  
Historically, there have been a wide range of ways in which societies have responded
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thought of as technologies, but by vectors and itineraries of many kinds.

We don’t say science is bad but the scientific approach of the Aff normalizes its own benevolence to mask its corruption by the political and military reasons – that’s both pieces of Yusoff evidence – the benign nature of normal science allows us to obscure the naturalized affinity to massive bombing through military science

Chow ’6 ~Rey, Age of the World Target, 2006, p. 29~

I should make clear that what I am suggesting is not simply that hard science
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process of annihilation that began with the very arrival of modern science itself.

Environmental Discourse

Environmental discourse covers over the mass contradiction of the nuclear complex and facilitates a new site for governmentality – whitewashing the nuclear geography of sacrifice in ecology and biodiversity preservation.

Masco ’6 (Joseph, The Nuclear Borderlands, 2006, p. 311-14) ~m leap~

At the end of the Cold War, the U.S. nuclear complex
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and national sacrifice zone has become an expansive post–Cold War project.

A2: Tech Good

Don’t fall for the "technological bluff" – only by embracing the alternative can the development of new technologies be advanced.  Giving into our fearful illusions of absolute technological necessity by way of refusing to question those negative aspects associated with the concept only serves to give technology itself the "kiss of death"

Virilio 2004 (Paul, ’.DIALOGUES./ the Game of Love and Chance: A Discussion with Paul Virilio. Interview with Jérôme Sans’. Electronic document. Available online: http://www.watsoninstitute.org/infopeace/vy2k/sans.cfm-http://www.watsoninstitute.org/infopeace/vy2k/sans.cfm)

PAUL VIRILIO: Those are the thaumaturgists, the miracle-criers. You have
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block system" as long as we listen to the prophets of joy.

A2: Specific Scenarios

Your "specific scenarios" assume a certain geopolitical situation that is ultimately not important.  You should prefer our analysis about the pure war society.  The aff asks the wrong questions.

Virilio and Lotringer ’4 ~Paul and Sylvere, Pure War 1570270783 page _119-120_~-AC

—Under these conditions, what is the future of pacifism? We cannot understand
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-it certainly wouldn’t spare us any work on politics or trans-politics

Waste/Cleanup/Storage/Tracking

The commitment to waste control, cleanup and a strategy of nuclear technology investment just allows modernity to reenergize and adjust the trajectory of the nuclear complex – the aff makes industrial warfare seem seductive and beautiful.  Voting aff just endorses aesthetically purging nuclear technology – that masks the mass control of culture that perpetuates nuclear militarism which means that the situation keeps escalating to extinction

Masco ’6 (Joseph, The Nuclear Borderlands, 2006, p. 6-8) ~m leap~

Sig Hecker’s statement offers a compelling modernist history of the nuclear age, a Cold
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a reality that seemed to demand imaginative new possibilities for organizing social life.

1NR

Nuclear Power will be the next form of military drones allowing surveillance for months at a a time –

Infowars.com ’12 (April 2, 2012, The next phase of the survveillant state: Nuclear Powered Drones. http://www.infowars.com/next-phase-of-the-surveillance-state-nuclear-powered-drones/-http://www.infowars.com/next-phase-of-the-surveillance-state-nuclear-powered-drones/)

The next generation of surveillance drones will be nuclear powered. Instead of flying for hours, the new drones will be able to stay in the air for months. The development represents a bonanza for the national security state and its military-industrial complex ministries like the Department of Homeland Security.

Nuclear power fuels new levels of military drones

Infowars.com ’12 (April 2, 2012, The next phase of the survveillant state: Nuclear Powered Drones. http://www.infowars.com/next-phase-of-the-surveillance-state-nuclear-powered-drones/-http://www.infowars.com/next-phase-of-the-surveillance-state-nuclear-powered-drones/)
The blueprints for the new drones, which have been developed by Sandia National Laboratories
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dispense with the need for ground crews based in remote and dangerous areas.

Extinction impact

Bauman and Lyon ’13 (Zygmunt Bauman and David Lyon, "Liquid Surveillance," 2013, pg. 88-90) ~m leap~

By the start of the twenty-first century, military technology had managed to
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a ’drool bucket’, his mind drowning in a ’swirl of data’ . .

Nuclear power is part of the global imperialist strategy and smokescreen for nuclear warfare

ICC ’11 (Nuclear Energy, Capitalism and Communism, August 16, 2011, http://en.internationalism.org/wr/347/nuclear)

The potential to use nuclear fission or fusion to produce power has been known about
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heavy water for the reactor it was building with French assistance.~20~

Nuclear energy is part of an imperialist militarism strategy

ICC ’11 (Nuclear Energy, Capitalism and Communism, August 16, 2011, http://en.internationalism.org/wr/347/nuclear-http://en.internationalism.org/wr/347/nuclear)

Nuclear energy is being pushed by various governments as a ’green’ solution to the
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started as a source of fissile material and a cover for weapons programmes.

Extinction inevitable – western globalization is the root cause of all violence and extinction

Shiva, ’02 (Vandana, Alternative Nobel Laureate, Director of The Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy, a network of researchers specializing in sustainable agriculture and development, and Philosophy Ph.D., "Terrorism as Cannibalism," January 23, http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2002-01/23shiva.cfm-http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2002-01/23shiva.cfm, bgm)

Humans are experiencing their religious spaces enclosed when militaries occupy sacred lands as in the
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survival. Intellectual property laws and water privatisation are new invisible cages trapping humanity

Coal, nuclear, and natural gas use the majority of water in the country causing mass pollution and drastically destroying stability of water and destroying biodiversity and turning their warming claims -

WLGS ’12 (Wendy Wilson, Travis Leipzig, Bevan Griffiths-Sattenspiel, Thirst for power: how coal, nuclear and gas waste our water. June 27, http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/06/27/thirst-for-power/-http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/06/27/thirst-for-power/)

As many Americans retreat to air-conditioned environments to get out of the heat
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thirsty electrical grid. Water behind dams is not included in USGS numbers. 

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
We affirm the resolution not as a single idea for a policy action but as a perspective of the possibility of new forms of thinking and orienting ourselves towards wind energy production in the United States as a challenge to the Oil industry. WE affirm a fundamental reorientation toward the topic toward the perspective of the multitude of Native American nations instead of the destructive over-consumptive habits of western culture 

Deloria’s use of vision’s is a visual metaphor that associates vision with knowledge and thus reinforces a western manchean dualism  of mind/body and thus turns the aff -
Vivian M. May and Beth A. Ferri 2005 assistant professor of Women’s Studies at Syracuse University and associate professor in the School of Education and graduate faculty in Disability Studies at Syracuse University. FIXATED ON ABILITY Questioning Ableist Metaphors in Feminist Theories of Resistance, Prose Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1and2 April-August 2005, pp. 120-140, KEL

Surprisingly, many theorists continue to rely on disability as a metaphor for ignorance,
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body, I/not-I in the name of liberation politics.

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The Ruins

They attempt to break down the project of the enlightenment without learning to inhabit its ruins – this is an ethical, political, and methodological pre-requisite – we should inhabit the ruins of crumbling enlightenment values instead of going around re-decorating – accepting ruin, failure, obstruction, and stuttering bafflement is key
MacLure ’10 (Maggie MacLure, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, “Qualitative inquiry: where are the ruins?,” Keynote presentation to the New Zealand Association for Research in Education Conference, University of Auckland, 6-9 December 2010, p. 1-3) m leap

I want to use the notion of ruins as a way of opening up some
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risk being merely decorative. A picturesque gloss on the same old edifice.

Their attempt to include perspectives causes the Aff to fail to be ruinous – turns solvency and reasserts modern enlightenment liberal-humanism
MacLure ’10 (Maggie MacLure, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, “Qualitative inquiry: where are the ruins?,” Keynote presentation to the New Zealand Association for Research in Education Conference, University of Auckland, 6-9 December 2010, p. 3-4) m leap

So, how and where have we failed to be ruinous? For a start
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walls of common sense or received practice. It has not been ruinous.

The Outside

The Aff’s openness is instrumentalized through political and economic exchange values of liberal society – it is this economical open-ness based on inclusion of knowledge and perspectives – vote neg to sacrifice that kind of openness to the radical Outside – this creates a more radical open-ness and avoids reinscription into the liberal exchange economy
Negarestani ‘8 (Reza, philosopher, artist, “cyclonopedia: complicity with anonymous materials” p.195-199)

In the mid-eighties, before succumbing to his petromantic nympholepsy, Hamid Parsani
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as the prolonging of survival; affordability in all its forms guarantees survival.

A2: Mystery Bad/Meaning Good

The promethean drive for unlimited accumulation of knowledge tries to penetrate and reveal all mystery and unknowing in order to bring them under the aegis of meaningful information – this paradoxically collapses meaning by obliterating our symbolic space
Baudrillard, ’10 (Jean, Carnival and Cannibal; Ventriloquous Evil, p. 70-73) m leap

IN THE PROMETHEAN PERSPECTIVE of unlimited growth, there is not merely the desire to
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form of understanding or intelligence, which is the intelligence of the mystery. 

Survival/Zero

Life itself is exterior to the act of survival – the only ethical act is to affirm survival as a form of resistance to life and nourishment for the outside Unworld
Negarestani ‘8 (Reza, philosopher, artist “cyclonopedia: complicity with anonymous materials” p. 210-213)
The problematic of Life can be superficially — if not ironically — embraced by posing
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and religiously conscious of its own repression and the exteriority of life. 

Salvation is an attempt to become One before the moment of subtraction and discontinuity – instead, we position an ethos of transgression, exuberance towards Nothingness and unthinkable communication with Zero
Land '12 (Nick, former Lecturer in Continental Philosophy at Warwick University, Fanged Noumena ed. Ray Brassier and Robin Mackay "Shamanic Nietzche" in Nietzsche: A Critical Reader 1993)

The death of God is a religious event - a transgression, experiment in damnation
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of the shattered attitude, it is transgression'. (Bataille, Oevres)

Inclusion Bad

Inclusion and accumulation of narratives/perspectives is bad – their proposition of a coherent, hopeful solution destroys their methodology and reinserts the slave-savage into the libidinal economy and civil society of master-settler society – only voting neg can foreground red and black ontology without obliterating it
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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taken up in the context of looking at the status of the slave.  

1NC: Wilderson, Bataille
2NC: Wilderson
1NR: condo and state good/bad
2NR: Wilderson