Spanos

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  //Western thought is metaphysical, having as its goal the total pacification and colonization of the world.  It stands above the world, attempting to reduce everything in it to objects, like pieces on a game board, rendering them an exploitable standing reserve.

   

  Spanos 2000 [William, Prof of English, America’s Shadow: An Anatomy of Empire, p. 9-11]

  Metaphysics, therefore, in its post-Greek, that is, … dominant, that is, Western, order.

   

   

  The crucial stake for the New World Order is the domestication of the symbolic danger represented by radical Islam and the Middle East – democracy assistance is the attempt to consensually assimilate the region to the global order

   

  Baudrillard 1995 [Jean, Prof of Sociology, The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, p.85-7]

  The crucial stake, the decisive stake … or the chances, of its collapse.

   

   

  The affirmative’s claim to “help” democracy movements is inseparable from Western Truth discourse – the colonization of difference is no longer through overt violence; the Other is now assimilated through strategies of deceptive outflanking

  Spanos 2003 ( William, "Heidegger, Foucault, and the 'Empire of the Gaze': Thinking the territorialization of knowledge," Ed. Michman and Rosenberg, Foucault and Heidegger; Critical Encounters, P. 268-270)

   

  In thus bringing to explicitness the affiliated … instrumental reason is a living death.

   

   

  Failure to account for the ontological roots of modern politics ensures serial policy failure – we will repeatedly reproduce the same problems that we seek to solve

   

  Dillon & Reid 2000 [Michael & Julian, Prof of Politics & Prof of International Relations, “Global Governance, Liberal Peace, and Complex Emergency,” Alternatives: Social Transformation & Humane Governance 25.1]

  As a precursor to global governance, …  biomolecular as well as Foucauldian "biopower" ways.

   

   

  The intellectuals project should be to rethink thinking, to retrieve the forgotten or airbrushed history that western metaphysics has left in its wake. This would include a retrieval of ontological criticism and the contradictory histories that informed our obliteration of Vietnam and imposition of democracy in Afghanistan and Iraq.

   

  SPANOS 2008 [William V, Professor at Binghamton, American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization: The Specter of Vietnam, SUNY Press 2008, P 21- 22]

   

  We are thus compelled by … in its final “anthropological” phase.    

   

  
  

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Capitalism

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  //In the era of Post-politics multiculturalists negotiate identity in order to foreclose an authentic act of politics, the 1AC’s attempts at the possible of identity politics returns to the Real in the form of racism – we must instead embrace politics as the art of the impossible and oppose globalization and universalization.
  Zizek in 99 (Slavoj, The Ticklish Subject, page 198-201)

   

  Today however, we are dealing with … stand-in for the Universal.

   

   

  Capitalism’s naturalization of the process of subjugation creates social exclusion on a global scale – the ultimate ethico-political responsibility is to challenge the foundations of this system’s organization principles

   

  Zizek and Daly 2k4 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16)

   

  For Zizek it is imperative that we … of a ‘glitch’ in an otherwise sound matrix.

   

   

   

  Suspension of political and social freedoms is inevitable without a strategy that confronts the universal ideology of Capital

   

  Zizek  in 89 (Slavoj, The Sublime Object of Ideology, page 3-4)

   

  It is upon the unity of these two features … of a transparent, rationally governed society.

   

   

  THE ALTERNATIVE IS TO COMPLETELY WITHDRAW FROM THE IDEOLOGY OF CAPITAL

                        
  This act is essential to destroy the fetish that allows capital to exist – the alternative stops belief in this system which collapses its ability to steer our existence

   

  Johnston in 4  (Adrian, interdisciplinary research fellow in psychoanalysis at Emory University Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, December v9 i3 p259 page infotrac)

  Perhaps the absence of a detailed … or the truth? I choose fetishism").

  
  
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  //War is a simulacrum – the terror of deterrence is spread through virtual war that unfolds in an abstract, electronic, and informational space.  The 1ac participates in the reproduction of the system of simulation.

  Patton, 1995 [Paul, Lecturer in Philosophy, “Introduction,” in Jean Baudrillard, The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, p. 7-9]

  Rhetoric aside, Baudrillard's … into a third order of reality.

  The threat of nuclear war is only a pretext designed for a system of control that blackmails us into submission

   

  Baudrillard 1994 [Jean, Prof of Sociology, Simulacra and Simulation, p. 32-3]

  The apotheosis of simulation: the nuclear. …. because it risks annihilation.

   

   

  The AFF’s attempt to speculate about war is the product of mass media, a proliferation of phony and unaccountable commentary & information

   

  Baudrillard 1995 [Jean, Prof of Sociology, The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, p. 51]

  By the force of the media, …. insignificance of the images.

   

  
  
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  //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 assumption common ….  of enacting in the world.

   

  B.     Violation: The affirmative promotes the values of political liberalism toward ________________.  This is not topical because liberalism and democracy have distinct grounding principles.

   

  C.     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 could ….  those 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]

  
  
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Queer Theory

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  //All political intervention lies in the normalizing structures of heteronormativity… envisioning a future only to protect the “Child,” casting out any possibility of the queer.

  Edelman 04 [Lee: Professor of English at Tufts University, PhD from Yale, queer theory scholar, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, 2004 Duke University Press, page 2-3]

  But what helped him most in …  resistance from every social structure.

   

  Within the current social order trying to sustain the Child there is NO FUTURE for queers, only violence – queers are at a critical place to deny the structuring fantasy – figuratively destroying politics and the self, resisting enslavement to the future in order to have value to life now

  Edelman 04 [Lee: Professor of English at Tufts University, PhD from Yale, queer theory scholar, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, 2004 Duke University Press, page 29-30]

  We might like to believe …. future in the name of having a life.

   

  The alternative prioritizes the real internal limit of the subject over the fulfilled notion of future oriented politics.

  Edelman 04 [Lee: Professor of English at Tufts University, PhD from Yale, queer theory scholar, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, 2004 Duke University Press, page 24-25]

  How should we read this … beyond the pleasure principle.

   

  We advocate sinthomosexuality as key to accessing the jouissance necessary to challenge identity relations and reproductive futurism by refusing the normativity and immobility of the sexual relations within Symbolic Law

  Edelman 04 [Lee: Professor of English at Tufts University, PhD from Yale, queer theory scholar, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, 2004 Duke University Press, page 73-74]

  But love, Lacan argues, with its …, those who care nothing [for] the future: homosexuals." 11

   

   

  
  
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