Shell – Democracy Topicality

A.     Definition: Democracy refers solely to the principle of popular sovereignty

Gilbert 2009 [Jeremy, Teaches Cultural Studies at the University of East London, “Liberalism Does Not Imply Democracy,” http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/ourkingdom/jeremy-gilbert/2009/09/26/liberalism-does-not-imply-democracy]

There is one…  enacting in the world.

B.      

C.     Violation: The affirmative lacks a defense of DEMOCRACY – instead, they attempt to affirm the Nothing, but democracy requires a Nothing to be a democracy at all.

D.     
Reasons to Prefer

1. Limits: liberalism is set of political values, including civil and political rights, individual autonomy and public discussion.  The affirmative would allow any plan mechanism that merely promoted a liberal value.  The list would be huge and unpredictable, destroying competitive equity.
   
   
2. Topic directionality: allowing the promotion of a specific political tendency means they also justify any other values which could potentially be expressed democratically.  This makes the topic multidirectional.

Schmitt 1988 [Carl, Professor of Law, The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy, p.24-5]

If all political tendencies … who themselves decide.

3. Education: the confusion of liberalism with democracy constrains political debate and promotes ideological escapism

Mouffe 2000 [Chantal, Prof of Politics & International Relations, The Democratic Paradox, p.92-3]

So we have to conclude … morality or rationality.

Topicality is a voter for fairness, education, and jurisdiction.

Burn it Down

The imagining of civil society requires a false historical imagining of the position of the slave. The slave serves as a necessary backdrop for the understanding of the subject object relationship. There is no emancipatory project without first realizing ‘no slave no world’ and ‘no slave in this world’.

Frank B. Wilderson III, 2010, He graduated from Dartmouth College, Columbia University with an MFA, and University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Film Studies. He teaches African American studies and drama at the University of California, Irvine Red, White and Black; Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonism. P12-13

Regarding the Black position, … Columbia University awaits an answer

Modernity is the foundation upon which the ontological relationship of master/ slave is set in place. It is one thing to notice that the experience of the slave isn’t unique to the black body or black flesh, but this misunderstands slavery as an ontological category that informs western thought. Like why the ethical implications of enslaving the black body were never spoken of upon its origin.

Frank B. Wilderson III, 2010, He graduated from Dartmouth College, Columbia University with an MFA, and University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Film Studies. He teaches African American studies and drama at the University of California, Irvine Red, White and Black; Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonism. P14-15

It would be reassuring … banishment from) ontology.

Struggles to end human suffering ignore the original marker of human value in modernity. The ontological category of the slave, ‘the slave has no place in this world.’ The body upon which gratuitous violence is enacted… must begin with the category of the slave.

Frank B. Wilderson III, 2010, He graduated from Dartmouth College, Columbia University with an MFA, and University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Film Studies. He teaches African American studies and drama at the University of California, Irvine Red, White and Black; Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonism. P19-21

It is highly conceivable … social death of Blacks.

The judges should vote negative to deny their capacity to act as subjects.

While the actual completion of the act is structurally impossible, the contemplation of questions it presents are the only way to situate debate on true questions of ethics. Rejection of this call manifests the fundamental disavow of black suffering that affirms the capacity and ethicalility of the neg team while black suffering that makes that capacity intelligible in the first place. This mediation is precursor to all legal interrogations, for only here can the epistemological blindness of white academia be confronted with the fundamental ethic truth that turns assumptive logic of all their scholarship on its head; for it is Incapacity, not Agency, that is the only ethic stance. In a world of SLAVES it is UNETHICAL TO BE FREE. It is only in moments of Incapacity, can ethics and thus all subsequent legal questions become coherent

Frank B. Wilderson III, 2010, He graduated from Dartmouth College, Columbia University with an MFA, and University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Film Studies. He teaches African American studies and drama at the University of California, Irvine Red, White and Black; Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonism. P44-45

Due to the presence of prior existing … incoherent, uncertain at best. [

Wilderson Concludes p49

The Revolutions Did Not Happen

The Egyptian Revolution was a pseudoevent. Like the Gulf War before, its relation to reality lies solely in the eyes of the viewers on TV, the experts making analysis day after day, and the college students pontificating on its democratic “revolutionary” nature.

Hearns-Branaman ‘12 [International Journal of Baudrillard Studies Volume 9, Number 1,

Dr. Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman, “The Egyptian Revolution Did Not Take Place: On Live Television Coverage by Al Jazeera English”]

We can say…

 without cameras present.

This image of the “revolution” portrayed in the media framed the protests as the cause of change while negotiations occurred in closed-door meetings between international governments and resulted in little more than the military “cleansing” themselves of the “Mubarak figurehead.”

Hearns-Branaman ‘12 [International Journal of Baudrillard Studies Volume 9, Number 1,

Dr. Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman, “The Egyptian Revolution Did Not Take Place: On Live Television Coverage by Al Jazeera English”]

 But what did we …….Police and their eventual disbanding (see MacFarquhar, March 15, 2011)].

The assertion and defense of the democratic nature of the revolution is based on the assumption of democracy as the end of history

Hearns-Branaman ‘12 [International Journal of Baudrillard Studies Volume 9, Number 1,

Dr. Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman, “The Egyptian Revolution Did Not Take Place: On Live Television Coverage by Al Jazeera English”]

First, the spontaneity …. would be rude to assert otherwise.

The news media produces the simulation of crisis to hold us hostage to the imperatives of power the Affs affirmation of this truth only ensures the system remains in place

Baudrillard, Professor of Sociology, 1994 [Jean, Simulacra and Simulation, p.37-9]

The moralists of war, ….as the referential of cruelty).

Framework – 2NC

1.     Provisional stability is key to agency – the AFF ignores the worldliness of texts, locking us into a nihilistic prison house of textuality

Spanos, 1993 [William, Professor of English, Heidegger and Criticism, p.121-2, 125]

Derrida's differance "….

 capitalist university.

Exclusion is inevitable – even attempts to subvert the resolution end up creating exclusionary judgments

Shively 2000 [Ruth, Professor of Political Science, Political Theory and Partisan Politics, p.188-9]

This is why the ambiguists …. former option is best.


Switch-side debating breaks down us/them binaries

English 2007 [Eric, et al. http://www.pitt.edu/~gordonm/JPubs/EnglishDAWG.pdf]

Given the switch-side …. debate so threatening.

Establishing fair procedures is key to having fruitful dialogue over the ideas of the AFF

Heller and Feher 1988 [Agnes, Professor of Philosophy, and Ferenc, Professor in the Humanities, The Postmodern Political Condition]

The outstanding intellectual virtue of the good citizen

AND

number of the members of a body politic.

Switch-side debate is key to promote tolerance and fairness toward others

Muir 1993 [Star, “A Defense of the Ethics of Contemporary Debate,” Philosophy and Rhetoric, p.288]

Switch-side debate is not simply a

AND

access to ideas and equal opportunities for expression,

The Rev Didn’t Happen 1NR

Neoliberal New World Order has colonized the globe. The affirmative identifies today’s symptom of this order as a location where the heroic subject should rise up and challenge the damage of the status quo not realizing this only offers another location for this order to colonize.
 Baudrillard, prof of sociology, 1994 Jean, Simulacra and Simulation, p, 84-6]
 With one caution… and of speech

The monotony of the world order produces the desire for catastrophic events, making them inevitable.
 Baudrillard, prof of sociology, 1994 Jean, In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities, p. 128-30
 we feel an immense – of the world order

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//You’re Guilty.  

Anti-Western rhetoric stems from an ontology of guilt – it is not objective and trivializes atrocities committed by non-Western peoples

Bruckner 10 (Pascal, French writer and public intellectual, maître de conférences at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris and collaborator at the Nouvel Observateur. The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism p. 1-3)

A great city in … and meddles in everything.

The ontology of guilt causes us to hate ourselves – the world becomes a morality play where the Exploitative Westerner preys upon the Helpless and Innocent Other. This self-hatred replicates racism and makes progressive reform impossible

Bruckner 10 (Pascal, French writer and public intellectual, maître de conférences at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris and collaborator at the Nouvel Observateur. The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism p. 100-104)

One part of the ….rejoin the human family?

A politics of shame is necessary to counteract the masochism of the ontology of guilt – we must accuse the accusers. The gift is poisoned, but humanity is at stake.

Bruckner 10 (Pascal, French writer and public intellectual, maître de conférences at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris and collaborator at the Nouvel Observateur. The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism p. 220-221)

Naturally, we will …survival of humanity.

Stories about the Climax

The affirmative domesticates the radical threat of terrorism – By treating it as a “construct” that is a product of our imaginary “fantasies,” the Aff reduces terrorism to the projection of the Western imaginary.  This is wrong!  Terrorism is very real – and it’s good.  Terrorism is the symbolic gift of death that destabilizes the global order.

Baudrillard, Professor of Sociology, 2003 [Jean, The Spirit of Terrorism, p.54-9]

Here again, this is to …find our own image.

The West needs to fear and be fascinated by terrorism because this is the only way that the symbolic exchange with terrorists can occur.  It is only by giving value to the Twin Towers that 9/11 had symbolic force.  There is no value to terrorism in the Affirmative’s framework.  Vote negative to foment the terroristic imagination.

Baudrillard, Professor of Sociology, 2003 [Jean, The Spirit of Terrorism, p.4-7]

All that has been ….perfection or omnipotence.

There is no war on terror – there is only a global set-piece designed as a media spectacle.

Merrin, Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies, 2005 [William, “Total Screen: 9/11 and the Gulf War Reloaded,” International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 2.2, www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol2_2/merrin.htm]

As Baudrillard suggests…. suffered from the same problem.

The affirmative misdiagnoses the problem.  They fear the escalation of nuclear war to wipe out the terrorist other.  This is impossible because these images serve as a prophylactic aphrodisiac that prevents passage to the event.

Baudrillard, Professor of Sociology, 1995 [Jean, The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, p.74-5]

Blank out the war. …corpses in the charnel house of Timisoara.

CASE

Zizek is not qualified to make prescriptive policy proposals – he suffers from a political reductionism that naively transfers philosophical precepts to the field of politics

Boucher, Research Fellow at Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, 2005 [Geoff, Traversing the Fantasy, p. 27-40]

Beginning from such ….into the dimension of the Real” (Zizek, 1991a: 139).

The affirmative’s totalizing view of politics makes them unable to distinguish the qualitative differences between democracy and totalitarianism

Boucher, Research Fellow at Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, 2005 [Geoff, Traversing the Fantasy, p. 27-40]

This distinction valorises …of Zizek’s politics.

Zizek’s alternative creates a mode of subjectivity whose passivity accedes to the dominant modes of capitalism that he is trying to escape

Parker, Professor of Psychology, 2004 [Ian, http://www.lacan.com/zizcritintro.htm]

Shifting up a gear in ….interpreting the world to changing it