“Democracy is nothing less than defined by critique.”*
George Pavlich writes that…
one usually … reform, and so on.*
However,
“Moreover, a privileged … democracy) is thriving *

Pavlich Uses The Term “Grammar of Judgment” to describe an underlying grammar:
the tri-umphant wailing ….some or other yardstick. *

The affirmative judges their strategy against the criteria established by their impact calculus. Specifically, the imperative to—
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This might seem obvious.  After all, What can be wrong with normative judgment against normalizing structures?
But Perhaps You Should Ask a Different Question.
Is holding “firm ….within disciplinary regimes”?*
Pavlich writes that even  “criticism of disciplinary …. truth regimes”.*

Pre-determined research methods shut down the radical possibilities of our encounters.
We instead invite the “Unexpected and Unpredictable: Learning from Being Lost” 

Jenny Pearce, International Centre for Participation Studies/Department of Peace Studies at University of Bradford, 2008
[“‘We Make Progress Because We are Lost’: Critical Reflections on Co Producing Knowledge as a Methodology for Researching Non governmental Public Action” eprints.ncrm.ac.uk]
Unexpected and Unpredictable: Learning from Being Lost
Co-production of ….e who can best use them

Is this a judgment against judgment? Perhaps, But We Do NOT Offer External Criteria Against Which to Judge the 1AC. We Instead Test the 1AC’s Coherence—Discerning an Implicit Double Turn:
They deploy normative judgment against judgments of normativity. 

Judgment is not the only alternative. Pavlich Writes That Critique’s Etymology Opens Up:
to judge, but … and decide.*
We “imagine images of ….in dividing”*

“Divide the 1AC Into Two Piles.
Welcome The 1AC’s Imperative to Overcome the Limitations of Status Quo Approaches to Democracy Assistance. Set Aside the 1AC Impact Calculus as Justification for their Advocacy.”
We gesture towards a new grammar of critical encounter. Pavlich describes it as:
“a unique sort … persist intact.”*

The experiences suppressed by the status quo are their own justification.
Suspending Judgment on 1AC Criteria Builds Affective Capacities for Political Engagement.
We call on the judge to vote for their advocacy to affirm the democratic subject already existing in yemen external from the justifications the 1ac uses.
Leet 02 Gender Modified*
Martin Leet, Research Fellow in International Studies at The University  of Queensland, 2002 [“After-effects of Knowledge: Dogmatic Retreats and Sceptical Adventures” Critical Horizons 3:2  (201-223)]
As with respect to nature, … one’s surroundings. 
*source for pavlich snippets [don’t read again]
George Pavlich 2005
[Professor of Sociology  University of Alberta Law and Critique (2005) 16: 95–112]
Critique and criticism ….s – all the better’

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Reflect on the 1AC as a Flow of Communication–Resonances and Meanings Emerging through Interactive Processes of Affect and Knowledge. 

Your ballot should interrupt the 1AC’s communication of risk.
Their reductionist framework backfires—Undermining political responsibility in the face of threat.

William J. Kinsella, Assoc Prof Communication at NC State University, 2010
[“Risk communication, phenomenology, and the limits of representation” Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies 2 (2) pp. 267–276]

Despite movements towards ... those who take and bear risks.  

The 1AC cultivates linkages between democracy assistance and fear—
This spills-over to state violence and squashing of political dissent

Jennifer Hyndman, Prof Social Science and Geography at York U, 2007
[“The Securitization of Fear in Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka” Annals of the Association of American Geographers Volume 97, Issue 2, pages 361–372]

It is a conviction of the times ... crisis in search of a response.

Interrupting the 1AC framework educates us to respond to uncertainty—
Their reductionist scholarship erodes public trust in meaningful political action

Cristian Suteanu 2005 [Professor of geography at Saint Mary’s University “Complexity, Science and the Public: The Geography of a New Interpretation” Theory, Culture & Society 22(5): 113–140]

There are important ...and the wisest might err.’

Humanism is performative.

This aporia between the human and the animal lurks behind every political act, no matter how radical.

Their so-called inclusion is a factory that produces the empty signifier of human sovereignty founded upon the incommunicable animal remnant.

Wolf-Meyer 2004

Matthew, Asst Prof of Anthropology at the UC, Santa Cruz “The Open: Man and Animal.” http://reconstruction.eserver.org/BReviews/revTheOpen.htm

<1> With no mention ...simplicity of "letting be."

Anthropocentrism is the original and foundational hierarchy that structures all other forms of oppression and violence.

Best 2007

Steven, Asst Phil Prof at UT El Paso “Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust, by Charles Patterson (2002)” Journal for Critical Animal Studies, 5.2 http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/Issue_7/bestpatterson.pdf

While a welcome advance ... evolutionary cul-de-sac.

The 1AC promises redemption, repeating the sovereign decisiveness that founds the expulsion of the animal.

Vote negative to refuse the affirmative’s decision to be human.

This renunciation expresses the undecidability between the human and animal.

Rossello 2010

Diego, Asst Prof of PoliSci at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile “Deciding to be Human? Benjamin and Schmitt on Political Theology and Animality.” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Sept, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1654674

Benjamin’s staging of .... an undecidability.