We are living in the state of “after the orgy”—the struggles for liberation have come and passed, but we are reliving these struggles in an effort to realize freedom. Refracting the utopian vision of the sixties, the aff repeats this struggle for freedom to the nth degree. What they fail to realize is that these simulations of liberation do nothing more than feed status quo tactics of domination—they create a culture of representative freedom without any real agency.
Baudrillard 90. Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher, writer, and professor of sociology at the Universite de Paris-X, The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena, Verso Books 1990.
If I were asked to characterize the present state of … whereby their own very existence is put at risk.
The aff’s engagement of solidarity ensures an endless pursuit to achieve universalism- this fails and becomes coproductive with the feminism they criticize, turning the case.
Bruckner ’86 (Pascal, Associate professor, Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris) The Tears of the White Man, p 34-37
What looked like an opening to the outside world was … guilty in their turn.
Solidarity manifests in the hatred of the self, the West, and creates delight in the systemic ruin of millions
Bruckner ’86 (Pascal, Associate professor, Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris) The Tears of the White Man, p.66-68
That is the wellspring of this religion of … and Lenin’s tomb under the patronage of a weeping Jesus Christ of Naples.
The terminal impact is lashout against the West, a hatred of all cultures, and the inability to love others
Bruckner ’86 (Pascal, Associate professor, Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris) The Tears of the White Man, p.146-147
The foregoing teaches … end of the world.
The move to reconcile the sexes seeks to destroy difference, but in the absence of difference, the other is reconstructed in the form of the self – women become reflections of men, which further entrenches patriarchal power structures and maintains a form of solipsist alienation far worse than simple gender oppression
Baudrillard in 95 [Jean, November 22, “Plastic Surgery for the Other”]
Starting with modernity, we have entered … attraction lies here.
Their attempt at academic change sustains power’s ability to constrain ANY resistance by turning those victims of power into ghosts. The tradition of liberal citizenship is a ghostly attempt to remember past political struggles that ultimately fetishize movements of the past, especially in academic subculture—this turns the case.
Occupied UC Berkeley 2k9. http://anticapitalprojects.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/the-necrosocial/, the necrosocial: civic life, social death, and the UC, nov. 19
Totally managed … in this graveyard?
Lives are meaningless if you vote affirmative—endless simulation causes lack of creativity and originality that kills value to life.
Baudrillard 90. Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher, writer, and professor of sociology at the Universite de Paris-X, The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena, Verso Books 1990.
There is something … absolute inertia.
The alternative is to reject the affirmative in favor of creating OUR OWN illusions. Grounding analysis in a search for truth and objectivity in politics is backwards and pointless. Instead, vote neg to scramble the technological illusion like a radio—this is the only possibility for making life meaningful.
Baudrillard 94. Jean Baudrillard, “Radical Thought,” translated by Francois Debrix, http://www.egs.edu/faculty/jean-baudrillard/articles/radical-thought/
We have lost the … to paint light on this wall."
Our alternative spreads like wildfire—our counter-illusionary strategy ciphers meaning in new and creative ways, creating a terroristic confusion that does not allow simulation of the orgy to continue to function.
Baudrillard 94. Jean Baudrillard, “Radical Thought,” translated by Francois Debrix, http://www.egs.edu/faculty/jean-baudrillard/articles/radical-thought/
Such a passion for the artificial, … little bit more enigmatic.
The destruction of the real decenters life and makes a playful approach the best response.
Baudrillard 94. Jean Baudrillard, “Radical Thought,” translated by Francois Debrix, http://www.egs.edu/faculty/jean-baudrillard/articles/radical-thought/
It is not true … one's own experience.
