Binghamton RZ Aff

Observation 1: The Body of the Death

The determination of which bodies receive assistance is based on a fluctuating political tug of war, effecting the ability for international NGOs to use funds on family planing including HIV programs.
Rogin 2011 (Josh Rogin, Writer for Foreign Policy an award-winning magazine of global politics, economics, and ideas.)
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/07/21/house_foreign_affairs_committee_votes_to_reinstate_abortion_gag_rule //mz

On the second day ... women to the global stage."

Despite the current status of the rules, political perception prevents NGOs from investing in family planning. 
Mgbako 2010 (Chi Mgbako, Fordham Law Professor writing for the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice) http://www.leitnerlaw.com/files/Publications/LeitnerCtr_EthiopiaReport_WebVersion.pdf //mzs

Although the Obama .... than previous administrations.

Containment is a result of deep seeded misconceptions that constitute the white and clean body politic of the U.S. in opposition to the diseased and infected Other. The alienation of the sex worker is an example of the racist constructions of backwards foreigners who are in need of the “heroic” west to fix them
Haver 96 (William [Professor of Comparative Literature at Binghamton University], “The Body of this Death: Historicity and Sociality in the Time of AIDS,” 1996, pgs. 10-11)

Undoubtedly, we have all..... failure of cultural containment.


With holding assistance demarcates a social surplus in opposition to an Imaginary community that humanism constantly reinvents through Sameness.  The state defines the terms by which assistance can be provided. The  fight over the global gag rule illustrates the dominant narrative of containment from AIDS, buttressing itself against the dominant narratives of the state which attempt to purify the body politic through violence
Haver 96 (William [Professor of Comparative Literature at Binghamton University], “The Body of this Death: Historicity and Sociality in the Time of AIDS,” 1996, pgs. 19-20)

The trace, therefore, .... anarchic entropy is unavoidable.  

The original narrative of HIV is the root cause to the theory of containment that justifies the denial of assistance to an impure community.  The denial of aid to those who are HIV positive is a form of bio-power that attempts to control the erotic and reduce the body to a state of bare life.

Haver 96 (William [Professor of Comparative Literature at Binghamton University], “The Body of this Death: Historicity and Sociality in the Time of AIDS,” 1996, pgs. 11-12)

Concomitantly and this ..... against historicity and sociality.

The liberal-humanist appropriation of AIDS represents the transcendental project, ultimately complicit with virulent forms of racism and nationalism. Instead of a glorified American referent, ‘us’ becomes the human community who look endlessly upon the victims of AIDS as the abject reminders of our rightness. The social surplus maintains the human community by upholding genetic, viral, and bacteriological standards

Haver 96 (William [Professor of Comparative Literature at Binghamton University], “The Body of this Death: Historicity and Sociality in the Time of AIDS,” 1996, pgs. 87-89)

At the end of an .....constituting “society” as totality.

We affirm the thought of the erotic, materiality, historicity, and sociality as the proliferation of infinite difference --- this is the only way to access an understanding of the historical that doesn’t reduce politics to an encounter with a sacrificial ‘other’ that we must destroy in order to save. The 1AC is an intervention in U.S. International assistance policies that deviates from hegemonic discourses that contribute to logics of containment and separation

Haver 96 (William [Professor of Comparative Literature at Binghamton University], “The Body of this Death: Historicity and Sociality in the Time of AIDS,” 1996, pgs. 21-22)

Second, a thinking the.... acts up by raising hell.

Our affirmation is the rupture of dominant State history in the context of AIDS discourse – molecular struggles such as this round, this moment are key; failure to resist the totalization of history is complicit in the formation and encouragement of racism, sexism, and heterosexism. This complicity depends on and makes necessary ongoing political sacrifice of alterity to the gods of realism who cannot save us, rather we must start raising hell to save ourselves!
Haver 1994 (“A World of Corpses,” Positions)

What I have tried to say.....with Asian studies: ACT-UP! 1 


Our affirmation provides a vision past the totality of community enabling us to dismantle totalitarianism’s control over the discourse of HIV/AIDS in the context of US International aid–it’s what you do in this one moment that matters.

Pelevin, 2002 [Victor, Russian author.]. Bomb Magaizine, Vol No. 79, Spring. P. http://www.bombsite.com/pelevin/pelevin3.html

Since it happened a long ..... entire order of things.

This is what we affirm

Thus Mark and I affirm the resolution; Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase its democracy assistance for one or more of the following countries Bahrain, Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen.

Observation 2: Framework

Our engagement with the resolution violates normative assumptions of the debate space which allows for new forms of agency. This agency is a tool we use to resist hegemonic discourses.

Phillips 2006 (Kenndell [Prof. at Syracuse University] “Rhetorical Maneuvers: Subjevtity, Power, ad Resistance,” Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol. 39, No. 4, 2006)

The rhetorical maneuver .....that I now turn.

Constraints on what can be discussed within the public sphere, who has access to it, and what form it takes, like framework norms within this debate space, are only means to replicate dangerous norms and ensure that certain lives will never be recognized as lived – means the affirmative allows debate to exist

Butler 04 (Judith [Maxine Elliott professor in the Rhetoric and Comparative Literature departments at the University of California, Berkeley. From the academic year 2011-2012 she will be a Visiting Professor at Columbia University], “The Precarious Life: The Power and Mourning and Violence,”)

Dissent and debate ....the effects of war. 

The treatment of debate as a space where discourses can be bounded for 'the good of the community' destroys debate-- the language dies as it becomes rusted shut, unable to see its own censorship

Toni Morrison “The Bird in Our Hand: Is It Living or Dead? Toni Morrison's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech 1993

A dead language ..... harmony among the public.

The Dominant language used in debate is a violent language – debate norms represent the need to stifle knowledge and the exchange of ideas

Toni Morrison “The Bird in Our Hand: Is It Living or Dead? Toni Morrison's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech 1993