Tournament: JW Patterson HS Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake IC | Judge: Joseph Kieklak
~Weheliye, Alexander G. "Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human." Duke University Press. 2014. LHP MK~
We are in dire need of alternatives to the legal conception of personhood that dominates
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, smell, and taste bare life in the subjectivity of the oppressed.
Their attempt to ascribe a unified essence to the subject – that individuals are classified as complete and homogenous – fails to acknowledge the different creative contexts that truly merit our philosophic inquiries. The particular can never follow from the universal as it is built upon the exclusion of difference – only a focus on the complex process of subject production can we open up new possibilities
Arnott ~Stephen J. Arnott, Canberra, ACT, Australia. "Liminal Subjectivity and the Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm of Félix Guattari"~ AA
Before we begin this task in earnest, it will be necessary to say something
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to the other half of the dialectic, that being structure or social organization
Brad Evans, 2010 "Foucault's Legacy: Security, War, and Violence in the 21st Century," Security Dialogue vol.41, no. 4, August 2010, pg. 422-424.
Imposing liberalism has often come at a price. That price has tended to be
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underwrites the violence of contemporary liberal occupations is removed from the analytical arena.
The majoritarian logic the aff forces individuals to adhere to is what allows facism to insert itself on the macro level – think about the orders in a totalitarian state – without the saying yes to totalitarianism, we cannot have it. The reason people do consent to it is because of the desire for the complexities to be smoothed out into coherence i.e you're a real American or of the arian race – the K deconstrucst this commitment to an identity – this means the K is a prior question to politics.. DELEUZE AND GUATTARI:
~Deleuze and Guattari 80 (Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari "A Thousand Plateaus" pp. 214-215). Print. CEFS~
It is not sufficient to define bureaucracy by a rigid segmentarity with compartmentalization of
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always a proportional relation between the two, directly or inversely proportional.
The alternative is to dismantle the face —- this undermines the faciality machines that they seek recognition through and their normative value. BIGNALL '12:
~Bignall, Simone. "Dismantling the Face: Pluralism and the Politics of Recognition." University of New South Wales. 2012. LHP MK~
Deleuze and Guattari assert: 'If the face is a politics, dismantling the
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mechanisms underlying a set 'face' undermines its pretensions to inevitability and stability.
The role of the ballot is to vote for the better debate that best interrogates the oppressive politics of recognition, education grounded in majoritarian thought leads to real-world regulation. CARLIN AND WALLIN:
~Carlin, Matthew. Wallin, Jason. "Deleuze and Guattari, Politics and Education." Bloomsbury. 2014. Pg. 119-121. LHP MK~
As a social machine through which 'labour power and the socius as a whole
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a necessary violence to those habits of repetition with which thought becomes contracted.