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ISU HO Derrida Aff @ Georgia

Derrida 1AC

The United States Federal government should give democracy assistance to all topically mandated countries unconditionally

Contention 1: The problem of United States singularity

The US had failed to anticipate the revolutions in MENA and as a result has been left trying to turn the uprisings into an advantage for Washington constantly negotiating between exercising pure sovereignty and democracy.

Carpenter 2012(1/2/2012, Ted Galen Carpenter, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, is the author of eight books and

The United States gives aid conditionally now

Scott & Steele 2011 (James M. Oklahoma State University and Carie A.  University of Illinois, Sponsoring Democracy: The United States and Democracy Aid to the Developing World, 1988–2001, International Studies Quarterly (2011) 55, 47–69)

The problem of the U.S. is common in western political thought. The United States is intent to acting as a pure sovereign and trying fully realizing democracy aboard. Pure sovereignty calls for one to wield power oneself and exercise it in silence in order to maintain power indivisibly. However, democracy calls for the sovereign to share power by giving reasons and universalizing the principle of shared power. Force, freedom, decision calculus, and sovereign power must be used to universalize the principles of democracy.

 Lawlor 06 ( Leonard Lawlor, Full Professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania state University, Published November 22, 2006, Revised June 6 2011, "Jacques Derrida", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2011/entries/derrida/>.)

Contention 2: The worst

As soon as speech is authorized from one to the other power automatically becomes divisible because speech is a universal medium. With this contradiction, sovereignty must exist but power must also be shared through repetition. This is the problem of singularity and auto-affection within individuals and state actors. It creates a distinction between self and the self as the other.

Derrida 02 (Jaques Derrida, 2002, “Rogues”, pg. 100-101)

The contradiction of pure sovereignty and the singularity of democracy produces “the worst”

Lawlor 06 ( Leonard Lawlor, Full Professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania state University, Published November 22, 2006, Revised June 6 2011, "Jacques Derrida", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2011/entries/derrida/>.)

The world is already lost. The US has tried to completely appropriate the other outside of itself rendering our sovereign power indivisible.  This response has resulted in “the worst” which is Derridean term indicating ultimate and total violence.
Lawlor 2008 (Leonard Lawlor, Full Professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania state University, “Waiting and Lateness: Th e Context, Implications, and

Basic Argumentation of Derrida’s “Awaiting (at) the Arrival” (S’attendre à l’arrivée) in Aporias” , Research in Phenomenology 38 (2008) 392–403”

The worst is the root cause of all violence because repeatability creates an other as self or a complete other.

Lawlor 06 ( Leonard Lawlor, Full Professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania state University, Published November 22, 2006, Revised June 6 2011, "Jacques Derrida", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2011/entries/derrida/>.)

And violence of the worst is escalating by becoming more suicidal as rational state actors attempt to destroy itself as the other through protecting democracy. This is the course of immunizing oneself; it is a system in which we seek to constantly rid ourselves of the dangerous other. This makes every other wholly other and thus the single other needs to be rejected from the immune system.

Derrida 02 (Jaques Derrida, 2002, “Rogues”, pg. 33-34)

This innumerable rejection leads to genocide and the absolute threat

Derrida 02 (Jaques Derrida, 2002, “Rogues”, pg. 35)

Contention 3: Unconditionality and Democracy to come

A) We must attach our language and our acts to the plan. This speech and debate that is about to take place is instrumental in changing auto-immunity by acknowledging that “undecidibility is essential to providing the least violence.

Derrida 02 (Jaques Derrida, 2002, “Rogues”, pg. 36)

B) And even if we do not win that the plan solves, the speech alone is enough to disrupt escape the absolute

Senatore 11 (Mauro Senatore , In the Name of the Event: The Deconstructive Conjuration parallax, 2011, vol. 17, no. 1, 43–53)

C)   Our speech act is key to unconditional hospitality because it opens the space for the criticism of unconditional and conditional actions by acknowledging unconditional actions will always insufficient by deconstructing action which is the only way to prevent the worst violence

Lawlor 06 ( Leonard Lawlor, Full Professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania state University, Published November 22, 2006, Revised June 6 2011, "Jacques Derrida", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2011/entries/derrida/>.)

D) Deconstructing our actions is key to demanding justice for the other. This constant demand ensures the least violence

Weber 2005 (Elisabeth Weber, 2005, Deconstruction is justice, Substance #106, Vol. 34, no. 1)

E) The demand for justice using a deconstructive method is necessary to make justice possible in countless ways.

Weber 2005 (Elisabeth Weber, 2005, Deconstruction is justice, Substance #106, Vol. 34, no. 1)

Contention 4: Solvency

Our ability to build a new democracy in the eyes of the sovereign is essential to creating the least violent policy position. Only through the process of finding our actions to policy can we escape the conditions created by the event

Senatore 11 (Mauro Senatore , In the Name of the Event: The Deconstructive Conjuration parallax, 2011, vol. 17, no. 1, 43–53)

And we cannot fully solve through our advocacy today but neither can any other action. Our case is pivotal is realizing that the idea of fully resolving a situation is a fantasy. We must always acknowledge that the undecidibility of justice and democracy is the only way to minimize violence

Lawlor 2008 (Leonard Lawlor, Full Professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania state University, “Waiting and Lateness: Th e Context, Implications, and

Basic Argumentation of Derrida’s “Awaiting (at) the Arrival” (S’attendre à l’arrivée) in Aporias” , Research in Phenomenology 38 (2008) 392–403”

ISU HP Affirmative

Contention 1: THE HYPOCRISY OF WESTERN DEMOCRACIES.

The revolutions in the Arab world are a gigantic step towards a genuine democratic world. The people of Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Yemen, Libya are crying out for liberation against repressive regimes. WE SHOULD BE JUMPING for joy at this expression of such an expression of freedom.  Instead, western states are terrified of the revolutionary outcomes. They have propped up and defended the repressive regime for decades. They perceive stability is more important than democracy.

Leupp 2011 (Gay Leupp – Professor of History at Tufts University. “Dictators or Democracy? The West’s “Arab Spring” Conundrum”. May 6^th, 2011. http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/05/dictators-or-democracy-the-west’s-“arab-spring”-conundrum/)

It clearly took “western leaders” by surprise…. may have painted itself into a corner.

The West’s priorities during the Arab spring are the epitome of “autoimmunity” – a phrase coined by Jacques Derrida to describe states turning against part of itself for security – the fear of the instability in Middle East has prompted western democratic nations to purposely prop up undemocratic systems because the fear of the alternative.

Naas 6 [Michael, prof. at DePaul University, "'One nation...indivisible': Jacques Derrida on the autoimmunity of democracy and the sovereignty of god. Research in Phenomenology]

True to the “method” of deconstruction or, better, true… that is, to the unconditionality of the event (R, xiv).

AND – the United States lies at the center of this Autoimmunity.

Mitchell 2005 (W.J.T. Mitchell – Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago”. “Picturing Terror: Derrida’s Autoimmunity”. Cardoza Law Review Vol. 27:2. 2005. http://www.cardozolawreview.com/content/27-2/MITCHELL.WEBSITE.pdf)

But on reflection, the stretching…. the present historical reality.

Unless we confront this paradox of liberal democracy - This will constantly repeat itself. Every time we secure ourselves from a threat – we set countless new seeds for potential destructions. Violence is inevitable in this ideology.

Thomson 05 (Alex Thomson – Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow.  “What’s to Become of “Democracy to Come”? http://pmc.iath.virginia.edu/text-only/issue.505/15.3thomson.txt.)

In our second source, his interview with… and prolongs the cycle of violence, repression, and reaction.

What is at stake is nothing less than the existence of the world. The U.S. places humanity at infinite risk because when our form of democracy is perceived as being threatened it must protect itself from is equally infinite, thus extinction is inevitable in the status quo

Ivan Callus andStefanHerbrechter, Summer 2004.  http://www.reconstruction.ws/043/callus.htm

 It needs to be said immediately that if "we" are starting…. radically to come that it resists even the grammar of the future anterior [emphasis added].

Plan: The United States federal government should provide electoral assistance to civil and political organizations within topically mandated countries.

AND –  liberal democracy does not always have to self-destructive. The one good thing about autoimmunity is that it makes us vulnerable to the Other. The way we respond to that is up to us. Instead of cutting them off we can tie our obligation and responsibility to the Other. We can make democracy actually apply to them and not our own versions or what we consider destabilizing.

Caze 11 [Marguerite, prof @ University of Queensland, "Terrorism and trauma: Negotiating Derridean 'autoimmunity'" Philosophy Social Criticism 37]

Derrida also suggests that we reconceptualize the concept… herself or himself from the emotional pain she or he is suffering (Freud,1964: 90).

AND – When we treat democracy genuinely it forces us to acknowledge that democracy is always coming into existence – it is never static and will never come in its entirety. However the upholding for democracy for democracy’s sake allows us to be open for others.

Naas 6 [Michael, prof. at DePaul University, "'One nation...indivisible': Jacques Derrida on the autoimmunity of democracy and the sovereignty of god. Research in Phenomenology]

Because the very name, concept, and practices of democracy…. some alterity, autoimmunity—like deconstruction— is the case.25

AND – This is necessary for genuine peace.

Butler 2003 (Judith Butler 2003. Believer Magazine Interview with Judith Butler. http://www.believermag.com/issues/200305/?read=interview_butler)

JB: I think the Bush government, as conveyed… equivalent to what I mean by responsiveness at the individual level.

The 1AC’s ethics provide the concrete act that goes beyond moral posturing, creates the potential for democratic resolutions to global problems including economics, challenge boundaries,  the heteronormative understanding of identity

Kelly 10 [Michaeleen, Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, "A new humanitarian paradigm for understanding the right to asylum: Responses to Arendt and Derrida" Feb. 21 http://jha.ac/2010/02/21/a-new-humanitarian-paradigm-for-understanding-the-right-to-asylum-responses-to-arendt-and-derrida/)

Cosmopolitanism would entail a positive affiliation…. above-cited deprivation of basic needs.

The plan recognizes that the ultimate paradox: democracy can be a threat to democracy itself. Once this is recognized and democracy is still up-holded – this solves autoimmunity and the countless suffering of the other. Additionally politically addressing this is key.

Derrida 4 [J.  South Atlantic Quarterly "The last of the rogue states: The democracy to come"

ISU DO

Observation 1: The folly of Liberal Democracy

Liberal democracy premised on a sovereign right and fear of the other is the unquestioned norm in the understanding and formulation of intrastate political organization. Thus, states not adhering to these principles are considered “rogue” where military intervention is justified.

Derrida 4 [J.  South Atlantic Quarterly "The last of the rogue states: The democracy to come"

Plan

Advantage 1: Autoimmunity

This fear of the other results in autoimmunity, which turns the state against itself, resulting in a drive for self-destruction

Naas 6 [Michael, prof. at DePaul University, "'One nation...indivisible': Jacques Derrida on the autoimmunity of democracy and the sovereignty of god. Research in Phenomenology]

Fear of the Other drives the process of auto-immunity. The other that is in contrast with U.S. interests are perceived as faceless masses who are presumed to threaten democracy. This justifies violence against all those who dare to dissent.  This is a fundamental denial of ethics and responsibility

Anne Orford, 2005.  German Law Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1, Pg. 34-37

What is at stake is nothing less than the existence of the world. The U.S. places humanity at infinite risk because when our form of democracy is perceived as being threatened it must protect itself from is equally infinite, thus extinction is inevitable in the status quo

Ivan Callus andStefanHerbrechter, Summer 2004.  http://www.reconstruction.ws/043/callus.htm

Advantage 2: Terrorism

The most poignant example ofautoimmunity is terrorism.  Terrorism is a vicious cycle of violence that is continuously recreated

Caze 11 [Marguerite, prof @ University of Queensland, "Terrorism and trauma: Negotiating Derridean 'autoimmunity'" Philosophy Social Criticism 37]

This results in Extinction

Borradori 3 [Givonna, professor of philosophy at Vasser College, “Philosophy in a time of terror: Dialuges with Jurgenhabermas and jacues Derrida”

Observation 3: Solvency

Our unconditional cosmopolitan approach is critical to solve for autoimmunity

Naas 6 [Michael, prof. at DePaul University, "'One nation...indivisible': Jacques Derrida on the autoimmunity of democracy and the sovereignty of god. Research in Phenomenology]

The cosmopolitan cities of refuge provide the only true from of democratic politics. Writers are essential to the ideal and practice of democracy

Kelly 4 [Sean, assistant professor of Philosophy at Florida Gulf Coast University, Contemporary Justice Review, "Derrida's Cities of Refuge: Toward a Non-Utopian Utopia" 421-439.

The 1AC’s cosmopolitan’s ethics provide the concrete act that goes beyond moral posturing, creates the potential for democratic resolutions  to global problems including economics, challenge boundaries,  the heteronormative understanding of identity

Kelly 10 [Michaeleen, Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, "A new humanitarian paradigm for understanding the right to asylum: Responses to Arendt and Derrida" Feb. 21 http://jha.ac/2010/02/21/a-new-humanitarian-paradigm-for-understanding-the-right-to-asylum-

The affirmative’s cosmopolitan politics is critical to reconceptualize terrorism that prevents the current autoimmune approach to terrorism, as well as creating better protections against terrorism

Caze 11 [Marguerite, prof @ University of Queensland, "Terrorism and trauma: Negotiating Derridean 'autoimmunity'" Philosophy Social Criticism 37]

Our advocacy is apolitical and cannot be severed or coopted by the negative. Democracy to come is the critical measure to spur political action

Derrida 4 [J.  South Atlantic Quarterly "The last of the rogue states: The democracy to come"

Democracy to come is the critical political act to solve for autoimmunity and the countless suffering of the other

Derrida 4 [J.  South Atlantic Quarterly "The last of the rogue states: The democracy to come"

Finally, our argument is not that democratic auto-immunity can ever finally and completely be overcome—that would merely reverse the logic of auto-immunity itself.  Rather, our argument is that the Cities of Refuge represent spaces that signify that violence against those who dissent is no longer necessary.  The Cities bring democracy into being, not by conceiving it as a finished process that must be defended at all cost, but by conceiving a kind of democracy that is perpetually vigilant against violence committed in its name and always willing to question its own founding.  The Cites thus represent a real alternative to the world’s auto-immunity

Sean Kelly, December 2004, Contemporary Justice Review, Vol. 7, No. 4, Pg. 431-435

The expression ‘‘democracy to come’’ translates, to be sure…. but from all teleology, all onto-theo-teleology.

ISU CS or MS

Lady Gaga Affirmative

This is a performance affirmative with a mixture of Lady Gaga quotes & songs, a narrative http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/jun/13/gayrights.lifeandhealth and a mixture of policy debate bad with some Derrida.  The affirmative's "impact" is self hatred http://israelpalestine-speedy.blogspot.com/2010/11/self-hatred.html  Their advocacy is unconditional acceptance and the elimination of otherness

ISU Negative

Capitalism withdrawal Alternative

Imperialism K

EU Counterplan

Framework

Politics: Transportation bill

Derrida K

Lacan Race K

Passive Voice CP

Saudi Arabia DA

Nietzsche

Assistance pic

Pressure CP

Case defense

T development assistance

Lady Gaga performance---similar to the affirmative except with a democracy assistance link, government bad link and usually a link specific to the affirmative advocacy/plan.