Ranciere Aff

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• Democracy has been negated by consensus and the term stolen to legitimize imperial ambitions.
   Ross 11 [Kristin Professor of Comparative Literature @ NYU, Democracy for Sale in Democracy in What State? Pg 95

  This is because consensus has shrunk the stage of democracy to the point where it has become useless, a meaningless gift to be given away like we do with our old clothing.
  Ranciere continues in '10[Jacques, Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School Emeritus and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris; Dissensus on Politics and Aesthetics pg 72]

  Democracy cannot exist within the framework of the topic. Whether economically or military, the resulting institutions modeled after proper US democracy are not democratic.
  Ranciere 10 [Jacques, Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School Emeritus and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris; Dissensus on Politics and Aesthetics pg 53] 

  Consensus lies at the root of new modes of racism and ethnic cleansing. The consensual regime that creates the topography of war and peace relegates this peace to 'here' while violently expelling its violent underbelly to the periphery. Violence lies at the heart of the impetus to put things in their proper place.
  Ranciere 10 [[Jacques, Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School Emeritus and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris; Chronicles of Consensual times pg viii]

  Thus our advocacy: Alec and I affirm democracy within the topically designated countries.

  The burden rests on those who are invisible to emerge on to the political scene.
  Phillips 09[Charles, PhD student at the Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Political Science; Difference, Disagreement and the Thinking of Queerness pg 4]

  Ranciere continues in 10
  [Jacques, Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School Emeritus and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris; Dissensus on Politics and Aesthetics pg 70]

  The logic of the police consists of demarcating political spaces as non-political. Only by re-qualifying what counts as political can we support democracy within the topic.
  Ranciere 01 [Jacques, Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School Emeritus and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris; Ten Theses on Politics http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs/Ranciere.html]

  
  
  

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• AT: ZIZEK

  Marxist theory and class-based struggles are rooted in patriarchy and overlook racism, sexism, and nationalism.

  Folbre 2001 [Nancy, Professor and former chair of of Economics at UMass; The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values pg 211] 

  Their most conspicuous...ensuring democratic governance.

  Democracy ruptures the oligarchic running of the state that sustains capitalism. Equality as an anti-liberal empty-signifier has always limited the reign of commercial exchange.

  Ranciere 98 [Jacques, Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School Emeritus and Professor of Philosophy Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy page 7] 

  There are those...and the unjust.

  What is intolerable to Zizek is democracy, that the power of the demos could not be enacted without its proper arkhe, his arkhe. This is rooted in Zizek’s desire to be the equivalent of a philosopher king, to subject the people to his will.

  Ranciere 98 [Jacques, Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School Emeritus and Professor of Philosophy Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy Pg 69] 

  "Political philosophy" begins..."in place" of politics.

  TURN: Zizek’s notion of violence not only kills individual liberty, but also reifies state violence.

  Newman 10

  THE POLITICS OF POSTANARCHISM. Saul Newman Edinburgh University Press 2010. Pg 130-.

  One finds a similar... historical epoch is founded.56 

  
  

  
  
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  Aff: New School FO

   

  Round #  4 Tournament: Shirley

  vs: ASU BN

  Judge: Mike Bausch

   

   

  Plan Text: Alec and I affirm democracy in the topic countries

   

  1ac Advantages:

   

  SQ democracy is imperialist/racist and that’s bad

  Debate is disinterested

  We need to fight within the academy to create good democracy (Giroux)

  We solve cap stuff in debate land (Capitalism)

   

  2ac Offense

   

  Marxism silences voices

  T is policing knowledge

  Speech acts are topical actions

  Framework marginalizes voices

  1ar Strategy

   

  Same as 2AC

   

  2ar Strategy

   

  Speech acts are topical

  Framework marginalizes voices

   

  
  
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1AC Texas

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• !Part 1: This is what Democracy looks like.

   

  Everywhere there are spontaneous uprisings of the demos to combat the oligarchic runnings of the state and everywhere the consensual machine wants to put them in their proper place.

   

   

  Part 2: This is what consensus looks like.

   

  For Rancière, liberal democracies are defined by  their consensual logic. Consensus is the reduction of politics to the police

  Democracy assistance relies on a fundamental misconception of democracy; it confuses consensus with politics.

   

  A) This liberal inclusion renders all lives calculable.

   

   

  Thus, the “good” and “non-violent” Muslim becomes the criterion for those lives that the US will positively engage with. Bodies are evaluated by this criterion, and the foreign policy analysts propose to support to subvert these bodies. Peoples, bodies, ideas, and organizations are pawns in a game of American geostrategics.  As Michael Dillon says:

   

  Part 4 is infinite war:

   

  To assume we must assist democracy is to presuppose its not already inherent. Ongoing struggles for democracy abroad are not aiming for democracy but actively practicing it. Only when we see democracy as something we must cultivate do we fall back into a metaphysical inquiry which necessitates imperialism and infinite war.

   

   

  And humanitarian intervention necessitates war without limits against evil- this is infinite war

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  Therefore Alec and I affirm democracy in the topically designated countries.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  Democracy is not a regime but the interruption thereof. It is the intrusion on the political stage of those who have no business in doing so.

  Ranciere 09[Jacques,  A few remarks on the method of Jacques Ranciere, parallax, 2009, vol. 15, no. 3, 114–123 pg 119]

   

  How is it possible to weave such a logic, he has often been reproached?... continuously discovers new landscapes, paths or obstacles which oblige to reframe the conceptual net used to think where we are.

   

   

   

   

   

  We stand here as a dramaturgy against the commonsense assertion of what democracy is, to break with the notion of what can be said and done in debate against the consensual logic that kills democracy.

   

  Against the topic’s hypocritical call to assist democracy is actual democracy, the disruption of the police order in the name of equality. Only when we understand this can we begin to assist democracy.

   

  
  
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Cap K

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• Link: You're capitalist

  Impact: Capitalism is bad

  
  
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