So Seductive 1AC

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• We are faced with a crisis of identity and disinheritance—in a time of increased banalization and technicization, speaking of “successful” integration in terms of some indefinable notion of being America is to signal its lack of reality. Advocates of liberalizing democracy assistance and their opponents align themselves to a metaphysical quest to re-establish a lost center to humanness.

  Baudrillard 6 (Jean, Prof of Phil of Culture and Media Crit @ EGS, The Pyres of Autumn, New Left Review 37, Jan-FebAaron)

  Some debaters try to rouse the indifferent masses of the debate space into frenzied activity by invoking a panoply of survival issues—ecology, terrorism, and nuclear weapons—because they place value in an obsessive desire to survive.

  Baudrillard 89 (Jean, Prof of Phil of Culture and Media Criticism at European Graduate School, America, p 42-4Aaron)  

  The demarcation between life and death is constructed—the exclusion of death is the ultimate exclusion that takes life hostage and condemns it to degradation  

  Baudrillard 93 (Jean, Prof of Phil of Culture and Media Criticism at EGS, The Symbolic Exchange and Death, p 126-7Aaron)

  Orienting ourselves as enlightened liberal subjects is the flip side of the same coin.  Their metaphysical blackmail portrays the strategy of the object as Evil while glorifying the strategy of the subject of knowledge that tries to intervene in the politics surrounding democracy assistance.  But, it isn’t the subject that wills the world into existence but rather the object that seduces it—privileging the subject fails and fuels self-hatred through repression.   

  Baudrillard 90 (Jean, Professor of Philosophy of Culture and Media Criticism at the European Graduate School, Fatal Strategies, p. 111-13Aaron)

  Subjective illusions like agency and responsibility are invoked to persuade us to break free of spectatorship.  But this turns liberation into a duty—when we are answerable only to ourselves we lose the symbolic freedom provided by the voluntary servitude of gaming.

  Baudrillard 5 (Jean, Prof of Phil of Culture and Media Criticism at EGS, Intelligence of Evil, p 50-5Aaron)

  The subjects’ drive to purify us of Evil by making us answerable only to ourselves breeds ressentiment because we confine ourselves to a victim economy and wallow in misfortune  

  Baudrillard ‘5 (Jean, Prof of Phil of Culture and Media Criticism at EGS, Intelligence of Evil, p 151-4Aaron) 

  The liberal expectation that people should be answerable for every aspect of their current situation is one that mirrors the process of democracy assistance—the USFG and its allies force their subjects to participate in a confessionary complex where they must leverage their identities against the benign image of democracy itself. This forces the liquidation of radical alterity—this is self-servitude par excellance 

  Baudrillard 93 (Jean, Prof of Phil at EGS, The Transparency of Evil, p 165Aaron)

  This replaces difference with images of the same and results in annihilation  

  Baudrillard 96 (Jean, Professor of Philosophy of Culture and Media Criticism at the European Graduate School, The Perfect Crime, p. 112-4Aaron)

  Rutgers _MK_ affirm—
  Resolved: the United States Federal Government should substantially increase its democracy assistance for one or more of the following: Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen.

  Instrumental affirmation is impossible—even if meaning is fixed in the short-term, in the long-term it is oversaturated with meanings and can’t have a particular trajectory 

  Baudrillard 81 (Jean, Professor of Phil of Culture and Media Criticism at the European Graduate School, Simulacra and Simulation, p. 16-17Aaron)

  The rule of symbolic exchange is to return the world and language as we received it: enigmatic and aphoristic.  Instead of imposing truths upon the resolution as subjects, we affirm as objects seduced by the resolution.  Our affirmation of the resolution is meaningless and participates in the very form and intelligence of evil  

  Baudrillard 5 (Jean, Prof of Phil of Culture and Media Criticism at EGS, Intelligence of Evil, p 207-13Aaron) 

  Subjectivity and power relations aren’t inevitable—neither are real power until you concede to the truth claims that give them power  

  Baudrillard 90 (Jean, Prof of Phil of Culture and Media Criticism at EGS, Seduction, p 48-9Aaron) 

  Evaluate arguments by determining the mode of existence that serves as their principle for debaters in a discursive activity.  Instead of falling back on transcendental values that attempt to resuscitate the political in the activity, endorse the strategy of the object as a joyous gesture.  

  Baudrillard 90 (Jean, Professor of Philosophy of Culture and Media Criticism at the EGS, Fatal Strategies, p. 98-99Aaron)

  No risk of co-option—our discourse can’t be mobilized because we are de-linked from the social

  Baudrillard 83 (Jean, Prof of Phil of Culture and Media Criticism at EGS, In the Shadow of Silent Majorities, p 26-8Aaron) 

  
  
  

The Schizophrenic Masochist 1AC

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• Let the experiment commence!

  Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari ‘87 (Gilles Deleuze is an ex-professor of philosophy @ the University of Vincennes,  Felix Guattari studied under Jacques Lacan @ the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, Co-Authors, Translation by Brian Massumi, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, p. 150Aaron)     

  "You never reach the Bod without Organs...will not let you experiment in peace."

  Ohhh the Obstacles!

  Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari ‘87 (Gilles Deleuze is an ex-professor of philosophy @ the University of Vincennes,  Felix Guattari studied under Jacques Lacan @ the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, Co-Authors, Translation by Brian Massumi, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, p. 159-60Aaron)

  "Let us consider the three great strata...otherwise you're just a tramp."

  I guess we’ll explain a little bit, but NO PROMISES!

  Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari ‘87 (Gilles Deleuze is an ex-professor of philosophy @ the University of Vincennes,  Felix Guattari studied under Jacques Lacan @ the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, Co-Authors, Translation by Brian Massumi, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, p. 159-60Aaron)

  "What does out mean to disarticulate...tearing the body away from the organism."

  It’s better we show you! 

  Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari ‘87 (Gilles Deleuze is an ex-professor of philosophy @ the University of Vincennes,  Felix Guattari studied under Jacques Lacan @ the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, Co-Authors, Translation by Brian Massumi, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, p. 155-6Aaron)

  "At night put on the bridle and attach my hands more tightly...give the beast a good thrashing."

  "...What is this masochist doing?...the horse and the mistress."

  "Results to br obtained: that I am kept...as an imprint or zone a BwO."

  The RISKS!

  Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari ‘87 (Gilles Deleuze is an ex-professor of philosophy @ the University of Vincennes,  Felix Guattari studied under Jacques Lacan @ the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, Co-Authors, Translation by Brian Massumi, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, p. 160Aaron)

  "Caution is the art common to all three...and I have believed in them."

  And I can hear the resolution’s torturous screams!

  Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari ‘87 (Gilles Deleuze is an ex-professor of philosophy @ the University of Vincennes,  Felix Guattari studied under Jacques Lacan @ the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, Co-Authors, Translation by Brian Massumi, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, p. 158-9Aaron)

  "We come to the gradual realization...They've stolen my body!"

  Ignoring the resolution’s screams transforms the stratum into cancerous tissue – the organism nails us down to the stratum, significance blocks the circulation of signs and subjectification destroys the distinction between subjects. 

  Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari ‘87 (Gilles Deleuze is an ex-professor of philosophy @ the University of Vincennes,  Felix Guattari studied under Jacques Lacan @ the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, Co-Authors, Translation by Brian Massumi, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, p. 162-3Aaron)

  "for the BwO already exists in the strata...remaining distinction between subjects."

  The duplication and multiplication of this cancerous tissue results in the creation of a socio-cancer that destroys the debate space and the political through an irreversible process of stratification.

  Baudrillard 90 (Jean, Prof of Phil of Culture and Media Criticism at EGS, Seduction, p 171-2Aaron)    

  "Behind this reversal lies the incursion of a technology that...or the same signals."

  Affirming or negating this sort of socio-cancer fails to reconstitute the debate space as a plane of consistency and condemns both the individual and the political to a state of suicidal collapse and catastrophic death.

  Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari ‘87 (Gilles Deleuze is an ex-professor of philosophy @ the University of Vincennes,  Felix Guattari studied under Jacques Lacan @ the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, Co-Authors, Translation by Brian Massumi, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, p. 161Aaron)

  "There are, in fact, several ways of botching...down on us heavier than ever.."

  So as an act of destratification, Rutgers  affirms each individual word of as a plateau to reconstitute the resolution as a Body without Organs and establish the debate space as a plane of consistency upon which the BwO lies.

   

  [[The 2AR walks around the room while the 1AC is affirming ach word an posts each piece of paper, each with a different word of the rez on it, on the room’s walls]

    

  (Note: the following order is random and varies round to round and the performative affirmation always varies as well)

  Resolved:

  The

  States

  United

  Government

  Federal

  increase

  should

  substantially

  democracy

  its

  assistance

  one

  for

  or

  more

  of

  following

  the:

  Yemen

  Bahrain,

  Egypt,

  Syria,

  Libya,

  Tunisia. 

  The debate space is now ready. 

  Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari ‘87 (Gilles Deleuze is an ex-professor of philosophy @ the University of Vincennes,  Felix Guattari studied under Jacques Lacan @ the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, Co-Authors, Translation by Brian Massumi, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, p. 165Aaron)

  "The plane of consistency is not simply...including the cancerous or empty bodies."

  But why?

  Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari ‘87 (Gilles Deleuze is an ex-professor of philosophy @ the University of Vincennes,  Felix Guattari studied under Jacques Lacan @ the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, Co-Authors, Translation by Brian Massumi, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, p. 160-1Aaron)

  "You have to keep enough of the organism...the organization of the organs we call the organism."

  We destratify the resolution to usher in a state of constant becoming – the 1AC is an act of schizoanalysis that abandons the tonal for the nagual in order to dissolve subjectivity. This is the only point of entry into the political.

  Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari ‘87 (Gilles Deleuze is an ex-professor of philosophy @ the University of Vincennes,  Felix Guattari studied under Jacques Lacan @ the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, Co-Authors, Translation by Brian Massumi, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, p. 161Aaron)

  "The tonal seems to cover many...affects and experiences movements, speeds."

  Every question of solvency is a substratum that assures catastrophic collapse of the political and death of the individual. Instead you should evaluate the debate by determining who best constructs the debate space as plane of consistency. This is the only way to gauge who affirms life by offering an avenue into the political.  

  Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari ‘87 (Gilles Deleuze is an ex-professor of philosophy @ the University of Vincennes,  Felix Guattari studied under Jacques Lacan @ the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, Co-Authors, Translation by Brian Massumi, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, p. 165-6Aaron)

  "What is the nature of this totality?...doubles will triumph."

  
  
  

Earth to Matilda 1AC

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• We are BECOMING-affirmative! Our 9 minute speech is just the beginning and our war on the strata currently destroying debate has no end. So without further a due, let the experiment commence!

  Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari ‘87 (Gilles Deleuze is an ex-professor of philosophy @ the University of Vincennes,  Felix Guattari studied under Jacques Lacan @ the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, Co-Authors, Translation by Brian Massumi, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, p. 150//Aaron)

  What are we waging war on you ask? The strata of organization, subjectification and significance which are those that guarantee the death of the debate without performances like this. Enjoy!

  Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari ‘87 (Gilles Deleuze is an ex-professor of philosophy @ the University of Vincennes,  Felix Guattari studied under Jacques Lacan @ the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, Co-Authors, Translation by Brian Massumi, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, p. 159-60//Aaron)

  The idea that judge should assume a certain role, that the resolution should be interpreted in a certain way, and that our act of becoming is constrained to the normative limits of debate are all instances of subjectification, signification and organisation par excellance. BECOMING-affirmative is our way of opening up the resolution and debate space to new connections that they’ve been deprived of in order to breathe life to what the negative wants to kill.

  Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari ‘87 (Gilles Deleuze is an ex-professor of philosophy @ the University of Vincennes,  Felix Guattari studied under Jacques Lacan @ the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, Co-Authors, Translation by Brian Massumi, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, p. 159-60//Aaron)

  Take the story of the masochist – just as he forms a circuit with the horse to replace the distinctive forces with transmitted forces to jumpstart the process of BECOMING–a Body without Organs, we liberate the organs of the resolution from its body to allow for an endless circulation of intensities between us and the resolution that enable us to understand its instinctual nature and engage a process of BECOMING–democracy.

  Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari ‘87 (Gilles Deleuze is an ex-professor of philosophy @ the University of Vincennes,  Felix Guattari studied under Jacques Lacan @ the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, Co-Authors, Translation by Brian Massumi, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, p. 155-6//Aaron)

  This is not a revolution but a BECOMING-revolutionary! From time to time we may court illusory hallucinations that threaten the unconscious but our performance is a constant exploration of the unconscious. Only through affirming our endless act of affirming can we prevent ourselves and the activity of debate from sinking into the plane of Unreal where psychic death awaits those carless explorers.

  Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari ‘87 (Gilles Deleuze is an ex-professor of philosophy @ the University of Vincennes,  Felix Guattari studied under Jacques Lacan @ the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, Co-Authors, Translation by Brian Massumi, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, p. 160//Aaron)

  All of their attempts to perfect our act of becoming and negate the stratified nature of the resolution are symptomatic of the West’s attempt to universally define democracy and are substratum that we wage war on from within by forming an assemblage with the debate space and those in it to mimic the masochist’s method of becoming.

  Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari ‘87 (Gilles Deleuze is an ex-professor of philosophy @ the University of Vincennes,  Felix Guattari studied under Jacques Lacan @ the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, Co-Authors, Translation by Brian Massumi, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, p. 158-9//Aaron)

  Failing to join us in our act of BECOMING-affirmative transforms the stratum into cancerous tissue – the organism nails us down to the stratum, significance blocks the circulation of signs and subjectification destroys the distinction between subjects as we become the walking replication of these cancerous debate norms. 

  Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari ‘87 (Gilles Deleuze is an ex-professor of philosophy @ the University of Vincennes,  Felix Guattari studied under Jacques Lacan @ the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, Co-Authors, Translation by Brian Massumi, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, p. 162-3//Aaron)

  The duplication and multiplication of these cancerous debate norms results in the creation of a socio-cancer that destroys the debate space and the political through an irreversible process of stratification that subsumes the plane of consistency.

  Baudrillard 90 (Jean, Prof of Phil of Culture and Media Criticism at EGS, Seduction, p 171-2//Aaron)

  Affirming or negating through the current form of SS debate fails to reconstitute the resolution as Body without Organs and reinscribes the strata of organization condemning every part of the assemblage to a state of suicidal collapse and catastrophic death where our subjectivity is dissolved and we ourselves become zombified debate norms.

  Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari ‘87 (Gilles Deleuze is an ex-professor of philosophy @ the University of Vincennes,  Felix Guattari studied under Jacques Lacan @ the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, Co-Authors, Translation by Brian Massumi, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, p. 161//Aaron)

  So as an act of destratification, Rutgers ________ affirms each individual word of the resolution as a plateau to reconstitute the resolution as a Body without Organs and establish the debate space as a plane of consistency upon which the BwO lies.

   

  [[The 2AR walks around the room while the 1AC is affirming ach word an posts each piece of paper, each with a different word of the rez on it, on the room’s walls]

   

  Resolved:

  The

  States

  United

  Government

  Federal

  increase

  should

  substantially

  democracy

  its

  assistance

  one

  for

  or

  more

  of

  following

  the:

  Yemen

  Bahrain,

  Egypt,

  Syria,

  Libya,

  Tunisia. 

  Our method of affirmation transforms the debate space into a plane of consistency – a site where everything already exists minus the cancerous norms that threaten its sustainability. Only now does it reject those metaphysical shackles the negative is trying so hard to tie it down with.

  Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari ‘87 (Gilles Deleuze is an ex-professor of philosophy @ the University of Vincennes,  Felix Guattari studied under Jacques Lacan @ the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, Co-Authors, Translation by Brian Massumi, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, p. 165//Aaron)

  We should clear this up now – the debate space, the resolution and my partner and I don’t disappear these metaphysical shackles but cautiously mimic and turn them against themselves. Our method of becoming may constantly be in flux but our instantaneous variations of it are still a form of schizophrenic mimicry.

  Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari ‘87 (Gilles Deleuze is an ex-professor of philosophy @ the University of Vincennes,  Felix Guattari studied under Jacques Lacan @ the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, Co-Authors, Translation by Brian Massumi, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, p. 160-1//Aaron)

  The 1AC is an act of schizophrenic mimicry that abandons the tonal for the nagual – a site upon which everything already exists except those cancerous debate norms and the arboreal root causes of their argument – in order to dissolve subjectivity and replace it with becomings. This is the only point of entry into the political. 

  Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari ‘87 (Gilles Deleuze is an ex-professor of philosophy @ the University of Vincennes,  Felix Guattari studied under Jacques Lacan @ the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, Co-Authors, Translation by Brian Massumi, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, p. 161//Aaron)

  Every question of solvency is a substratum that assures the catastrophic collapse of the political and death of the individual. Instead you should evaluate the debate by determining who best constructs the debate space as plane of consistency. This is the only way to gauge who affirms life by offering an avenue into the political.  

  Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari ‘87 (Gilles Deleuze is an ex-professor of philosophy @ the University of Vincennes,  Felix Guattari studied under Jacques Lacan @ the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, Co-Authors, Translation by Brian Massumi, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, p. 165-6//Aaron)

  
  
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