The 1ac engagement with politics is that of total transparency. This is the ultimate form of pornography that effaces the individual.

Baudrillard 07 (Jean, Professor at EGS, The intelligence of evil or the lucidity pact pg 93-95) //Cheung

Turns case – this reproduces violence as we consume the suffering of others for a high. 

Baudrillard 94 (Jean, Prof of Phil at EGS, “The Illusion of the End” p. 66-71)

The alternative is radical otherness.

Radical otherness is to embrace the enigmatic nature of all things, not to render things known but to reject transparent systems of difference. 

Baudrillard 90 (Jean, Professor at EGS, The Transparency of Evil, p146-149)//Cheung

Hardt and Negri discuss the Arab Spring…

Michael Hardt, Associate Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University, andAntonio Negri, Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Paris and a Professor of Political Science at the University of Padua, 2011, The Guardian, Arabs are democracy's new pioneers: The leaderless Middle East uprisings can inspire freedom movements as Latin America did before,Feb. 24, 

However, the affirmative’s solvency narrative implicates us in the formation of Empire, a system that will co-opt the aims of the Arab Spring- the desire to resolve the crisis of the Arab Spring through the discourse of democracy- fixes these movements within the imperial regime- calling Empire into being to resolve the impacts of the 1ac

Hardt [Lit professor @ Duke] and Negri [philosopher, writer], 2000

Micheal, Antonio, Empire, Harvard University Press, p. 13-15, online: http://www.zaratustra.it/empire.htm

The ultimate impact of Empire's power over life is total world thermonuclear destruction

Hardt and Negri 00, Associate Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University; former Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Paris and a Professor of Political Science at the University of Padua Michael and Antonio, Empire. 2000, pp. 345-46

The alternative is embrace an ontology that is counter empire. 

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Professor at Duke University and Professor at the University of Pagua, Empire, 2000, 47-48

ZOMG THE LAND!!!