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Neoliberal governmentality ensures war, disease, and environmental collapse- economic decision-making views people as a disposable resource for producing capital, only stepping outside this frame for politics can avert extinction

Giroux 6 (Henry A. Giroux currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in Canada.  “Dirty Democracy and State Terrorism: The Politics of the New Authoritarianism in the United States,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 26.2 (2006) 163-177.)

While it would be ludicrous to suggest that . . . 20 million children to leave their homes.16 

Fast capitalist coding of the environment leads to extinction – resource wars and collapses the biosphere

Simons ’10 (Petrus, Former Trader and Economist, PhD in Philosophy, “Accelerate or Slow Down”, Stimulus: The New Zealand Journal of Christian Thought & Practice, Vol. 18 (2010): 32-25)

Paul Virilio’s metaphor of a car which travels . . . will experience ever more painfully that speed kills.

2AC Framework

Policy simulation has created a hopelessly corroded political sphere and play into the hands of the elite – that’s Giroux – occupation is the only way to avoid extinction from the pathologies of neoliberalism

Traditional debate ignores that we’re debating on the enemy’s turf – occupation is key

Žižek 11 (Slavoj Žižek, 26 October 2011, “Occupy first. Demands come later”, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/26/occupy-protesters-bill-clinton)

What one should resist at this stage is . . . ", ominous and threatening as it should be.

2AC Predictibility/Limits

Limits are impossible

De Cock 1 (Christian De Cock, Professor of Organizational behaviour, change management, creative problem solving, 2001, “Of Philip K. Dick, reflexivity and shifting realities Organizing (writing) in our post-industrial society” in the book “Science Fiction and Organization”)

'As Marx might have said more generally, . . . (McCloskey, 1994, p. 166).

Fairness is the myth of the neutral economy that creates structural inequality – only Occupying can create a level playing field

Egnor 11 (Bill Egnor, contributor and assistant to the publisher at Firedoglake, Nov 28, 2011, “Occupy Wall St: It is All About Fairness, and that is the Strength of It”, http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/28/1040453/-Occupy-Wall-St:-It-is-All-About-Fairness,-and-that-is-the-Strength-of-It)

America has a lot of national myths. . . . we work together, we can change things.

Their move is not benign – the rhetoric of limits creates a necessarily exclusionary and authoritarian politics

Kulynych 97 (Kulynych, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Winthrop University, 1997 [Jessica, “Performing Politics," Polity, Winter, v.XXX, n.2, p. 315-330)

II. Disciplining Habermas Political scientists have traditionally . . . not just a matter of utilizing correct procedure.

2AC Ground

Begs the question of politics – if we win occupy is good then you should have predicted it

They can say occupy bad, reform good, democracy assistance bad and any number of kritiks – it faces a massive amount of criticism in the squo, it’s absurd to think

Ground loss inevitable – there’s a competitive advantage to race to the margins

2AC Education/Policymaking

Fetishizing instrumental education kills resistance to neoliberal ideology

Giroux 11 (Henry A. Giroux, Global TV Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, 28 February 2011, “Left Behind? American Youth and the Global Fight for Democracy”, http://www.truth-out.org/left-behind-american-youth-and-global-fight-democracy68042)

Meanwhile, not only have academic jobs been . . . justify itself in market terms or simply perish.

Focusing on the levers of power cedes politics to warmongers

Kappeler, Freelance author and teacher in England and Germany, 1995 [Susanne, The Will to Violence: the Politics of Personal Behavior, p. 9-11]

War does not suddenly break out in a . . . such thing as not acting or doing nothing.

Traditional conceptions of government fiat are fiction—they misrepresent the process of government decisionmaking, and are neither educational nor predictable

Claude 1988 (Inis, Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, States and the Global System, pages 18-20)

This view of the state as an institutional . . . to them–and that they sometimes claim.

This is especially true in policy debate

Mitchell, Ass’t. Prof. of Communications at Pittsburgh, 1998 [Gordon, "Pedagogical Possibilities for Argumentative Agency in Academic Debate," Argumentation and Advocacy, Fall, ProQuest]

The sense of detachment associated with the spectator . . . life" (1991, p. 8).

[He Continues...] 

The sense of argumentative agency produced through action . . . of reference for experiencing the landscape shifts fundamentally.

2AC Orientalism

US democracy assistance should be interrogated even when benign

Horn ’10 (Denise M., Prof. . . . of Democratization, pp. 3-4)

Geopolitics is often a game of seduction. . . . citizens in both the civil and economic sphere.

Occupy prereq

Dixon 12 (Marion Dixon, Professor of Sociology at Cornell University, “A Debaters Collective: An interview with Jeff Roberts”, http://kdebate.com/dixon.html)

MD: Yes. Juan Cole, professor . . . at least the attempt to co-opt.

Getting too close to policymaking destroys academia, removes critical capacity

Walt ‘11 (Stephen M. Walt, Prof. of International Affairs at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, July 21, 2011, “International Affairs and the Public Sphere,” online: http://publicsphere.ssrc.org/walt-international-affairs-and-the-public-sphere/)

The Pitfalls of Engagement Yet a more intimate . . . have the best of both worlds.[17]

2AC Democracy Bad

Reactionary rejection of democracy is suicidal and violent

Kacem 11 (Mehdi Belhaj Kacem is a French-Tunisian writer and philosopher. 1/31/11, “A Tunisian Renaissance”, http://www.lacan.com/thesymptom/?page_id=1046)

There seem to be two arguments in the . . . China and post-Stalinist Russia are today.

We should reject the simplistic distinction between evil democracy and the good other – ignores history and avoids critical questions of implementation that will cause ultimate failure of the movement

Rancière 10 (Jacques, The Idea of Communism, “Communists Without Communism” pgs. 174-175 bb)

The same situation forces us to question another . . . of sabo¬tage creates no space for any communism.

We are a reflexive criticism of liberal democrcy

Youngs, 2k11 (Richard, Associate Prof. at the U of Warwick, “Misunderstanding the maladies of liberal democracy promotion”, FRIDE, online)

The central thrust of Locke’s liberalism was anti. . . imbalances that sap the desired ‘democratisation of democracy’

Case

This is fundamentally a democratic project – that’s key both to holistic critique and coalitional alliances

Giroux 11 (Henry A. Giroux, Global TV Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, 9 October 2011, “An Interview With Henry Giroux: Youth Movement in a Culture of Hopelessness”, http://www.truth-out.org/interview-henry-giroux-youth-movement-culture-hopelessness/1318092302)

AJE: Any advice for the protesters? . . . differences. That's where they've got to go.

We problematize democracy

Graeber 11 (David Graeber, Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He was an associate professor of anthropology at Yale University, 15 November 2011, “Occupy and anarchism's gift of democracy”, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/15/occupy-anarchism-gift-democracy)

This is not the first time a movement . . . has changed that: democracy has broken out.

Reactionary rejection of democracy is suicidal and violent

Kacem 11 (Mehdi Belhaj Kacem is a French-Tunisian writer and philosopher. 1/31/11, “A Tunisian Renaissance”, http://www.lacan.com/thesymptom/?page_id=1046)

There seem to be two arguments in the . . . China and post-Stalinist Russia are today.

Their essentialism of democracy misses its radical social potential, plays back into neoliberal consensus, causes more violence

Rancière ‘6 (Jacques, Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Paris VIII, “Hatred of democracy,” p. 91-93)

It is true that denouncing democracy as the . . . democracy, because democracy is tantamount to totalitarianism.

The negative’s emphasis on the pre given CONTENT of our words over the EXPRESSION of their context prevent a rhizomatic understanding of language that prevents the process of becoming which is necessary for NOVEL ways of evaluating the world

Stevenson, 2k9 (Frank, Dept. English, National Taiwan Normal University, “Stretching Language to Its Limit: Deleuze and the Problem of Poeisis”,  Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 25.1)

Lecercle ends his book with a discussion of Deleuze’s late theory, ...n). It is as if the entire language started to roll from right to left, and to pitch backward and forward: the two stutterings. (Essays 110)