Boom Goes the Dynamite

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• Aid is a strategy of appeasement – it makes war inevitable and buys off opposition to the military-industrial complex preventing genuine expenditure

  Hutnyk 3 [John, cultural studies, goldsmiths college, “Bataille’s Wars”, Critique of Anthropology 23(3), 281-285]

  Bataille cannot be left to rot in the library...Fair call, Georges Bataille.

   

  The denial of excess demanded by democracy drives the absolute war of modernity.

  Hamblet 5 [Wendy, ethics/philosophy, adelphi university, “The Manic Ecstasy of War”, Peace Review 17, 42-43]

  The violence that floods the globe in modernity...globally in the marketplace of military power.

   

  Stability is neither achievable nor desirable– ordering of the world is antithetical to living life. Reject claims of objectivity in favor of headlessness.

  Hore 11 [Richard, MA in contemporary art theory, http://teufelink.com/2011/05/19/dancing-under-the-fall-of-the-scythe-the-non-philosophy-of-georges-bataille-part-2/]

  The traditional order of things, the union of mankind...What is at stake is life and the universe itself.

   

  Vote negative to rupture the affirmative’s narrative of democratic orderliness.

  Bataille 85 [Georges, sexy librarian, “The ‘Old Mole’ and the Prefix Sur”, Visions of Excess, 43]

  In the conditions that have just been specified...imbecilic elevation of any man's spirit.

  
  
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DA DA

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• Despite the aff’s benign intentions, their employment of “democracy assistance” provides a smokescreen to the greater imperial project of solidifying militaristic and economic domination of those whom we “assist”. The aff is a bait and switch to distract from the double standards countries like Saudi Arabia benefit from.

  Gerald Sussman, Professor of Urban Studies and Communication @ Portland State University, 2006, “The Myths of ‘Democracy Assistance’: U.S. Political Intervention in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe”, The Monthly Review Vol. 58 Issue 7

  U.S. interventionism, except perhaps in the Second World War...without running the risks of democratic uncertainty.”30

   

  Rather than explicit coercion, the affirmative utilizes democracy assistance as a technique of micro-fascism by which the 1ac depicts a legitimate democratic subject as one which internally bears a desire to look and act like their western counterparts – this enframes political development in [insert] and pits civil society against the state.

  David Budde and Mathias Grobklaus, both in graduate political science department @ Freie Universitat Berlin, 2010, “Patterns of Power:

   The EU’s External Steering Techniques at Work - The Case of Democratization Policies in Morocco” KFG working Paper no. 22 December

  An obvious steering mechanism in...the country’s population and civil society take up a skeptical stance (EMHRN 2007: 5).

   

  It is those microfascism that transforms the State into a war machine— a war waged on culture, politics and the individual—war becomes, dispersed everywhere and nowhere at the same time, creating a culture of fear the turns collective groups into political cannibals. Rather than live of the violence of a fascist war machine we should create our own alternatives

  Bell ‘7 (Daniel M., Associate Professor of Theological Ethics, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, JCRT 8.2 SPRING 2007 55,d  http://www.jcrt.org/archives/08.2/)

  We  have entered a new era, but the state-form...elsewhere. To this alternative we now turn.

   

  Rather than rely on the spatial subject/object relationship embedded in the aff’s notion of assistance, vote negative to recognize resonance between our criticism and the deterritorialized struggles of those fighting tyranny in [insert country aff discusses].

  Bert Olivier, Professor of Philosophy @ Nelson Mandela, PhD in philosophy and post-doctoral fellow @ Yale Philosophy, 2011, July 7, “Desire, Democracy, and Deleuze/Guattari”, http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/bertolivier/2011/07/10/desire-democracy-and-deleuzeguattari/

  Deleuze/Guattari encourage us to stop thinking...against the forces of political and economic repression.

  
  
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Das Kapital

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• Appeals to democracy attempt to smooth over the divisions that make universal politics possible this makes criticisms of the economy prerequisites to meaningful democracy

  Dean Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges 2007 Jodi Democracy and Other Neo-Liberal Fantasies p 76 -77

  Despite democracy's inability to represent justice...undermines dynamic, responsive, left politics.3

   

  Communicative capitalism ⇒ a stop-gap in critical theorizing and thought – the aff gets lost in the plurality of internet communication

  Dean Prof of Political Science @ Hobart and William Colleges 2010 Jodi Blog Theory page 2-3

  The second side of the problem, the form of theory's presentation...don’t by any means think.

   

  The new era of capitalism relies on the exploitation of communication ⇒ placating resistance 

  Dean Prof of Political Science @ Hobart and William Colleges 2010 Jodi Blog Theory page 3-4

  What that assessment is, or, more specifically...as it placates and diverts the many.

   

  Communicative capitalism precludes the democratic value of the plan ⇒ massive distortions of wealth and the consolidation of democracy into a purely capitalist venture

  Dean Prof of Political Science @ Hobart and William Colleges 2010 Jodi Blog Theory page 4-5

  Communicative capitalism designates the strange convergence...Oh no she didn’t! Pwned!8

   

  Resisting reliance on economic evaluation is the ultimate ethical responsibility – the current social order guarantees social exclusion on a global scale

  Zizek and Daly 2k4 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16)

  For Zizek it is imperative that we...in an otherwise sound matrix.

   

  Capitalism precludes ethics because it preferences economic valuation to any other method of judging the world 

  Morgareidge Prof of Philosophy at Lewis & Clark College 1998 Clayton Why Capitalism is Evil 08/22 http://www.lclark.edu/~clayton/commentaries/evil.html

  Now none of these philosophers are naive...will ethics have a seat at the table.

   

  Our alternative is to completely withdraw from the ideology of capital – this is essential to destroy the fetish that allows capital to survive

  Johnston, interdisciplinary research fellow in psychoanalysis at Emory University, 2004

  Adrian, Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, December v9 i3 p259 page infotrac

  Perhaps the absence of a detailed political roadmap...or the truth? I choose fetishism"). 

  
  
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Taoism

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• In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired.

  In the pursuit of Dao, every day something is dropped.

  Less and less is done

  Until non-action is achieved.

  When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

  The world is ruled by letting things take their course.

  It cannot be ruled by interfering.

  [Lao Tzu, perhaps? http://naturyl.humanists.net/ttc.html]

  It is no longer hip to believe that

  “we live in a benign...call this the perfectible cosmos.”

  The world, however is not as malleable as we might like to believe, and a

  “third vision takes the cosmos ... call this the horrific cosmos.”[1]

  What does it mean to order the world? The

  “Jewish and Christian myth, cite ...unquestioned assumption embedded in the Western lifeworld.”[2]

  So, we need a new god to rein in the failures of the universe. Democracy. America. Us.

  [1]Philip J. Kain, “Nietzsche, Eternal Recurrence, and the Horror of Existence”, Nietzsche Studies 33

  [2]Wendy Hamblet, “The Manic Ecstasy of War”, Peace Review 17

  Sussman 6 [Gerald, Professor of Urban Studies and Communication @ Portland State University, “The Myths of ‘Democracy Assistance’: U.S. Political Intervention in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe”, The Monthly Review 58.7]

  U.S. interventionism, except perhaps in the Second World War...without running the risks of democratic uncertainty.”30

  Just as good creates evil, so does democracy assistance create non-democrats.

  Colonomos 8 [Ariel, Senior Research Fellow Centre for International Studies and Research[ Moralizing International Relations[ Translated by Chris Turner, p6]

  The victory of the United States in its confrontation...to a division between partners and pariahs.

  But surely, muses the affirmative, we must act? Provide solutions? Fix what we can? Even the simplest moral imperatives for action are based on the faulty assumption that humans know anything about what is happening in the world. Instead, sit back, and enjoy the show.

  Kirland 1 [http://kirkland.myweb.uga.edu/rk/pdf/pubs/ECO.pdf]

  As some of the other presenters gathered here...might call both moral and spiritual immaturity.

  
  
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