Round Two vs. Dartmouth ER

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  Contention One: Inherency

   

  Nation states can only exist in the plural; if there were only one nation state, it would be the planer. Nation states relate to one another in the sphere of “I.R.” but they need to simulate an exterior against which they may give themselves positive epistemological texture. Maybe this backdrop is the clandestine, transnational actor…or maybe its just wanna-be-nation states.

   

  Squo international relations operates in a paradigmatically realist fashion. Nation states do not exist if they do not hjave strategic capability of executing foreign policy regardless of other nation’s agendas. According to this criterion, Egypt does not exist.

   

  Kusha Sefat, Producer for PressTV, 2009, “Saudi Arabia Does not Exist”, International Journal of Baudrillard Studies Vol. 6 No. 2, July 2009, pp. 3-5

   

  A nation-state cannot exist in the singular…Therefore, Saudi Arabia does not exist as a nation state.

   

  Contention Five is Contention Three.

   

  Thus the plan: Jack and I¹ drop melting clocks from the sky until the Declaration of the Independence of the Imagination and Man’s Rights to Madness emerges from a top had filled with plumb wine in Egypt. Funding and enforcement guaranteed. We reserve the right to mystify.

   

  Wait, its not big enough

  Unleash the Bees! And the Dogs! And the dogs with bees in their mouths so when they bark they shoot bees at you.

   

  Re-plan. But keep it in an envelope.

  Hidden plan.

   

  Lobster phone. Post-neopolean complex.

  We’re Post-pre-modern but not modern.

  The thermeter is driven by malcontent.

  Systematic Automatic (etc.)

   

  ¹Further identified as: The United States Federal Government

   

  Contention Four is the Harms:

   

  1.        Identity is death. Its like a butterfly in a glass jar, a cat in a safety box, a museum from which all laughter and running have been expunged. There is no inherent value in such a world, only the endless circulation of referents without grounding.

  Baudrillard in 76 (Symbolic Exchange and Death, p. 185, Sage)

   

  Pursued and censured everywhere, death springs…more than a system of writing.

   

  2.        Democracy is nothing other than the right everything has to its own special place within the museum. This is a violence of neutralization; a plastic surgery of the political; an inclusion unto death where all conflict is cryogenically frozen

  Baudrilliard 94 (The Illusion of the End, Stanford University Press, Pg. 42-44)

   

  There is, moreover, a paradox of…financial speculation, these same values may crash.

   

  1.        The Topic: An abstract butterfly, faceless, with wings of undifferentiated colors. Floating, not with, but on its wings. Fuck the colorblind.

  2.        On the plane a baby in the row next to me threw up. I waw death. A death so real and suffocating et. Cetera ellipsis

  Rick Santorum once said, of US democracy assistance, that:

  3.        “You must have chaos in your heart to give birth to a dancing star”

  We Concur

  4.        This pen does not erase

  5.        “I never lie”

  6.        Topic: Heg advantage, Oil shocks, death drive, judicial exchange, modeling, lacan, Battlestar Gallactica, the space topic, reason, questions, what is love?

  7.        Sgiwiggly line, a word that begins with the letter “a”. A medium lengthened word that has been scratched out. “Debate”. A sudden and abrupt change to cursive, equally illegible.

   

  Contention 6 is Advantage One.

   

  Advantage One is Solvency. We didn’t invent the rainy day, we just own the best umbrella.

  1.        The image of Power is the Power of the Impage. While meaning is always unhappy and hopeless, we can affirm the poetic play of language as a happy form and an intelligence without hope. Affirmation of the illusions generated by felicitous language is the only internal link to politics

  Baudrillard 96 (The Perfect Crime, Verso, pp. 102-104)

  It is not a question of defending radical thought. Every idea…but the meaning itself cannot be resolved.

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  3.        Rather than a process of revealing knowledge or meaning, we continue to ensure inaccessibility and mysterious evasion. The alternative is to endlessly sharpen the knives of a nihilist methodology on the simulated bodies that are disciplinary objects.

  Agamben 77 (Stanzas: Word and Phantasm in Western Culture, Translated by R.L. Martinez, Published, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press) JFS/USC

  It is possible, perhaps, to accept that a novel…conditions of its inaccessibility.

  
  
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2AC Round 4 vs. Wake BC

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  The imnagination colony:

  the affirmative stacks the deck of alternatives by framing all the relevant questions as choices among forms of community left over from euro-american colonial modernity

  Dr. Chatterjee, 1993 [Partha, The Nation and Its Fragments]

  I have one central objection to Anderson's argument...imaginations must remain forever colonized.

   

  Imagination is a social practice that underwrites agency at all levels - it is a key component of global order

  Appadurai, 1996 [Arjun, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimentions of Globalization]

  The crucial point, however, is that the United States...meaningful, we must address some other issues

   

  Master morality affirms strife, challenge, danger and unequality - safety,comfort and equality are slavish values

  Hateb 95 [Lawrence J, A Nietzschean Defense of Democracy: An experiement in Postmodern Politics, pg. 26-28]

  According to slave morality, anything that...Nietzsche's attack on democratic egalitarianism.

   

  The affirmation of differences in opinion only serves to stabilize the dominant social ideology of the time. Exposure to both sides only cents conventional social cleavages denying new form of thought and action

  Edelman 1992, Murray, "The cosntruction and uses of social problems" in Jean Baudrillard: The Disappearance of Art and Politics, pg. 265-7

  Explanations for the social problems that persist...has any bearing upon its outcomes.

   

  Passivity

  Antonio 95

  Nietzsche's Antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History  American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 101, No. 1 (Jul., 1995), pp. 1-43

  The "problem of the actor," Nietzsche said, "... the way for a new type of tyrant (Nietzsche 1986, pp. 137, 168; 1974, pp. 117-18, 213, 288-89, 303-4).

   

   

  Framework polices the meaning of the suicide bomber, locating it ouside the debate space

  Roland Bleiker, "Forget IR Theory" Alternatives 1997

  The doorkeepers of IR are those who, knowingly or unknowingly...evaluation it established to assess them.

   

   

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  Holocaust remembrance - etracing the event of the holocust is the final solution - purging of guilt which dissolves the trauma of the event by integrating it into cold systems of deterrence and communication

  [Baudrillard 2006, Simulacra and Simulation, pg. 49-51]

  Forgetting extermination is part of extermination...But this confusion will never be lifted.        

   

   

  transition from event to news to representation is the sacrifice of singularity on the alter of transparency - system of calculation eliminates the space that allos objects to exist

  Fernando 2008

  [Jeremy, Reflections of Terror, pg. 8-9]

  From event to news. From event to...this transparency that is truly and profoundly evil.

   

  
  
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