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| Damus Invitational | 2 | Harker SD | Davidson, Ari |
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| Damus Invitational | 4 | Marlborough ML | Gentleman, Jonah |
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| Damus Invitational | 5 | Marlborough LK | Dosch, David |
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| Damus Invitational | Octas | Aragon ZA | Panel |
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| Damus Invitational | Quarters | Ayala AM | Panel |
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| Glenbrooks | Quarters | Garland LY | Panel |
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| Glenbrooks | 2 | Strake Jesuit VM | Robinson, Tajaih |
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| Glenbrooks | 4 | Westlake MR | Ribera, Claudia |
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| Glenbrooks | Octas | Lake Highland Prep YA | Panel |
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| Glenbrooks | 5 | Saratoga AG | Kuffour, Julian |
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| Heart of Texas Invitational | 2 | St Agnes EH | Ribera, Claudia |
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| Heart of Texas Invitational | 5 | Strake Jesuit JS | Barquin, Joseph |
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| Heart of Texas Invitational | Doubles | Strake Jesuit JW | Panel |
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| Heart of Texas Invitational | Quarters | Harker MK | Panel |
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| Heart of Texas Invitational | Semis | Harker DS | Panel |
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| Heart of Texas Invitational | Octas | Lexington AG | Panel |
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| Heat of Texas Invitational | 4 | Notre Dame San Jose AG | Malyugina, Emmiee |
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| Jack Howe | Octas | Samammish LW | Panel |
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| Jack Howe | 5 | Brookfield DJ | Bahrani, Neda |
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| Jack Howe | 1 | Orange Lutheran AZ | Gabriela Gonzalez |
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| Meadows Invitational | 4 | Harvard-Westlake JH | Cardenas, Albert |
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| Meadows Invitational | 6 | Catonsville AT | Lemuel, Joel |
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| Meadows Invitational | 2 | Stanford OHS AY | Bathily, Silma |
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| Meadows Invitational | Doubles | Harvard-Westlake KD | Panel |
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| Meadows Invitational | Octas | Diamond Bar NC | Panel |
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| NSD | 2 | na | na |
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| Silver and Black | 1 | Interlake KK | misra, parth |
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| Silver and Black | 4 | Millard North NL | Alvarez, Diana |
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| Silver and Black | 6 | Marlborough MS | Weingarten, Josh |
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| the olympics | 1 | myself | mental gymnastics |
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| Damus Invitational | 2 | Opponent: Harker SD | Judge: Davidson, Ari 1ac - beller |
| Damus Invitational | 4 | Opponent: Marlborough ML | Judge: Gentleman, Jonah 1ac - beller |
| Damus Invitational | 5 | Opponent: Marlborough LK | Judge: Dosch, David 1ac - beller v2 |
| Damus Invitational | Octas | Opponent: Aragon ZA | Judge: Panel 1AC - beller v2 |
| Damus Invitational | Quarters | Opponent: Ayala AM | Judge: Panel 1AC - Beller v2 |
| Glenbrooks | Quarters | Opponent: Garland LY | Judge: Panel 1ac - beller v3 |
| Glenbrooks | 2 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit VM | Judge: Robinson, Tajaih 1ac - beller v2 |
| Glenbrooks | 4 | Opponent: Westlake MR | Judge: Ribera, Claudia 1ac - beller v3 |
| Glenbrooks | Octas | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep YA | Judge: Panel 1ac - beller v3 |
| Glenbrooks | 5 | Opponent: Saratoga AG | Judge: Kuffour, Julian 1ac - beller v3 |
| Heart of Texas Invitational | 2 | Opponent: St Agnes EH | Judge: Ribera, Claudia 1AC - Hapticality |
| Heart of Texas Invitational | 5 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit JS | Judge: Barquin, Joseph 1AC - Hapticality |
| Heart of Texas Invitational | Doubles | Opponent: Strake Jesuit JW | Judge: Panel 1AC - Hapticality V2 |
| Heart of Texas Invitational | Quarters | Opponent: Harker MK | Judge: Panel 1AC - Hapticality V2 |
| Heart of Texas Invitational | Semis | Opponent: Harker DS | Judge: Panel 1AC - Hapticality V2 |
| Heart of Texas Invitational | Octas | Opponent: Lexington AG | Judge: Panel 1AC - Hapticality V2 |
| Heat of Texas Invitational | 4 | Opponent: Notre Dame San Jose AG | Judge: Malyugina, Emmiee 1AC - Hapticality Aff |
| Jack Howe | Octas | Opponent: Samammish LW | Judge: Panel 1AC - Vaccines V3 |
| Jack Howe | 5 | Opponent: Brookfield DJ | Judge: Bahrani, Neda 1AC - Vaccines V2 |
| Jack Howe | 1 | Opponent: Orange Lutheran AZ | Judge: Gabriela Gonzalez 1AC - Vaccines |
| Meadows Invitational | 4 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake JH | Judge: Cardenas, Albert 1AC - Hapticality V3 |
| Meadows Invitational | 6 | Opponent: Catonsville AT | Judge: Lemuel, Joel 1AC - Hapticality V3 |
| Meadows Invitational | 2 | Opponent: Stanford OHS AY | Judge: Bathily, Silma 1AC - Hapticality V3 |
| Meadows Invitational | Doubles | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake KD | Judge: Panel 1AC - Hapticality V3 |
| Meadows Invitational | Octas | Opponent: Diamond Bar NC | Judge: Panel 1AC - Hapticality V3 |
| NSD | 2 | Opponent: na | Judge: na 1AC - racial cap |
| Silver and Black | 1 | Opponent: Interlake KK | Judge: misra, parth 1ac - beller v3 |
| Silver and Black | 4 | Opponent: Millard North NL | Judge: Alvarez, Diana 1ac - beller v3 |
| Silver and Black | 6 | Opponent: Marlborough MS | Judge: Weingarten, Josh 1ac - china |
| the olympics | 1 | Opponent: myself | Judge: mental gymnastics Contact Information |
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0--Contact InfoTournament: the olympics | Round: 1 | Opponent: myself | Judge: mental gymnastics Email: lisiyu0831@gmail.com I also use Facebook messenger, so you can find me on here: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009768186055 Lmk if you have disclosure preferences/requests. | 12/4/21 |
0--NSD--Racial CapTournament: NSD | Round: 2 | Opponent: na | Judge: na UQ/Inherency COVID has heightened the impact of racial capitalism on black and brown workers – Amazon is a prime example. Orientation/FW The role of the ballot is to prioritize the dismantling of racial capitalism. 1 Interpreting and critiquing the status quo through fiat creates counter-states that, through playful simulation, transform politics and prefigure transformative directions for social movements 2 It’s a prerequisite to investigate the epistemology of their positions – racial capitalism has seeped into academia and infiltrated the way we understand the world, means that the aff is a pre-req to access non-biased truths about the world 3 Reject Ideal theory – presupposes that all subjects are equal or come from the same starting point which is an egregious claim: a white middle-class worker is distinctly different from the Black Amazon workers working in terrible conditions during Covid. 5 Unnecessarily intense suffering is world destroying—doesn’t allow space for reflection Solvency Thus, I affirm: A just government ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike. I’ll spec or clarify anything in CX to avoid friv theory debates and I’ll grant you your choice of definitions within CX within reason. Recognizing the right to strike allows left-wing movements to resist oppression and enact civil disobedience against capitalism. A black general strike disrupts the capitalist economy to restructure the workplace and works to dismantle the structure of white supremacy in all parts of life. Enforcement through IFAs is normal means – that solves credibility concerns and legal loopholes which encourages striking. Advantages Health Racial capitalism is the root cause of health inequalities in the US – COVID proves Climate Climate change is a result of racial capitalism – only by investigating and fighting the root cause do we stand a chance at creating any form of positive change. Prioritize epistemic violence first – anything else allows for marginalized populations to be sacrificed “for the greater good”. Underview Aff gets 1AR theory – otherwise the neg can be infinitely abusive and there’s no way to check back. 1AR theory is drop the debater, competing interps, and the highest layer of the round – the 1ARs too short to be able to rectify abuse and adequately cover substance. No RVI or 2N theory because you have 6 minutes to go for them whereas I only have a 3 minute 2AR to respond so I get crushed on time skew. Permissibility and presumption affirm: a Statements are true before false since if I told you my name, you’d believe me. b Epistemics – you wouldn’t be able to start a strand of reasoning since we’d have to question that reason. c Squo Bias – you are cognitively biased to maintaining the squo so if both options are equal err on the side of change. d If anything is permissible, then definitionally so is the aff since there is nothing that prevents us from doing it. e Time skew – The 6-3 time skew ensures the negative will always be ahead by the end which means if we come out equal I did the better job debating so vote aff. | 11/3/21 |
0--NavigationTournament: the olympics | Round: 1 | Opponent: myself | Judge: mental gymnastics *if the 2ar is not explicitly disclosed in the round report, assume that it was just case and whatever the 2nr went for. | 12/4/21 |
ND--1AC--BellerTournament: Damus Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker SD | Judge: Davidson, Ari The World Computer has created a world characterized by racial capitalism and its financialization of all information and all life – every individual matters only as much as their overall contribution to the productive processes of the code, writing a bloody price tag in our flesh, dictating what we are worth to capital. This is built on the first-order financialization of blackness in the hold of the slave ship, rendering black bodies fungible, reduced to merely their productive value. This financialization of existence manifests itself in the externalization of the outside, an environment that includes not simply the physical resources of the Earth but also its people, rendered into simply another resource. Our communication itself is labor – via the production and recirculation of images, we open a new terrain on which we are all both workers and the product – our reproduction of images serves to reinforce their exchange value. This means that the form of the message overdetermines its content – the use value of a message no longer matters as much as its exchange value. This means only a revolution at the level of communication can make our words mean something – star this card on your flow. The history of revolutionary labor movements across American and global history proves the revolutionary possibility found in mass organization of labor, but to understand the strike as an economic and political formulation within the context of communicative capitalism, we must come to terms with the financialization of the strike – through the mass production and consumption of media like Disney’s “Newsies”, or the use of Striketober headlines to sell more newspapers, the World Computer has adapted to the strike by selling it, killing its potential to meaningfully challenge the armatures of racial capitalism. The strike has lost its power, and this is because the code always already has control of its communicative implications – only a theory that conceptualizes the expansion of labor to communication can revitalize the potential of strikes. The strike isn’t just a material conflict between the workers and the boss, but rather a confrontation between organizational structures – the algorithms of the World Computer and racialized capitalism, the scab, the boss, the police inevitably conflict with the algorithms of the proletariat. However, the algorithms of the proletariat are necessarily distinct in that they are formulated through revolutionary movement – movement that is always already a form of communication – put simply, the strike is reliant on how we move and how we communicate, and only an examination of how we formulate revolutionary communication can overcome the financialization and sale of the strike that makes revolutionary workers movements impossible. Thus, we defend that a just government ought to recognize the universal right of workers to engage in communicative strikes. As a response to the communicative nature of racial capitalism, the 1ac seeks a radical constellation found in a strike against communicative labor – this is articulated via a refusal to move right, and instead dare to imagine new ways of being, one that builds communist algorithms by weaponizing the affective technologies of communicative spaces against the World Computer. So, we must build alternative, communist modes of communication that resist the pathological demand of capitalism to require access. As we know, the first step to the strike is to stop working – you should vote affirmative to step away from the assembly line and begin a general strike that can revolutionize communication. | 12/4/21 |
ND--1AC--Beller--V2Tournament: Damus Invitational | Round: 5 | Opponent: Marlborough LK | Judge: Dosch, David The World Computer has created a world characterized by racial capitalism and its financialization of all information and all life – every individual matters only as much as their overall contribution to the productive processes of the code, writing a bloody price tag in our flesh, dictating what we are worth to capital. This is built on the first-order financialization of blackness in the hold of the slave ship, rendering black bodies fungible, reduced to merely their productive value. This financialization of existence manifests itself in the externalization of the outside, an environment that includes not simply the physical resources of the Earth but also its people, rendered into another resource. Our communication itself is labor – via the production and recirculation of images, we open a new terrain on which we are all both workers and the product – our reproduction of images serves to reinforce their exchange value. This means that the form of the message overdetermines its content – the use value of a message no longer matters as much as its exchange value. This means only a revolution at the level of communication can make our words mean something – star this card on your flow. The history of revolutionary labor movements across American and global history proves the revolutionary possibility found in mass organization of labor, but to understand the strike as an economic and political formulation within the context of communicative capitalism, we must come to terms with the financialization of the strike – through the mass production and consumption of media like Disney’s “Newsies”, or the use of Striketober headlines to sell more newspapers, the World Computer has adapted to the strike by selling it, killing its potential to meaningfully challenge the armatures of racial capitalism. The strike has lost its power, and this is because the code always already has control of its communicative implications – only a theory that conceptualizes the expansion of labor to communication can revitalize the potential of strikes. The strike isn’t just a material conflict between the workers and the boss, but rather a confrontation between organizational structures – the algorithms of the World Computer and racialized capitalism, the scab, the boss, the police inevitably conflict with the algorithms of the proletariat. However, the algorithms of the proletariat are necessarily distinct in that they are formulated through revolutionary movement – movement that is always already a form of communication – put simply, the strike is reliant on how we move and how we communicate, and only an examination of how we formulate revolutionary communication can overcome the financialization and sale of the strike that makes revolutionary workers movements impossible. Alternative algorithms are possible – the form of communication ensures movements fail in radically combatting capital, but direct engagement with media and the communicative form can escape the trap of communication by creating ways of thinking and being that are outside of the code. Thus, we defend that a just government ought to recognize the universal right of workers to engage in communicative strikes. As a response to the communicative nature of racial capitalism, the 1ac seeks a radical constellation found in a strike against communicative labor – this is articulated via a refusal to move right, and instead dare to imagine new ways of being, one that builds communist algorithms by weaponizing the affective technologies of communicative spaces against the World Computer. We are going on strike – don’t cross the picket line. | 12/4/21 |
ND--1AC--Beller--V3Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 4 | Opponent: Westlake MR | Judge: Ribera, Claudia Welcome to the domain of the World Computer – capital has created a world characterized by the risk management science of computation, the constant demand to expand the terrains of profit results in the reduction of all life to merely its financial value, turning humans into numbers, expendable 1s and 0s that can be sacrificed in the endless chess game of profit. This inevitably embeds antiblackness, settler colonialism, heteropatriarchy, and imperialism into the workings of the World Computer, writing the code in the blood of the dispossessed. This means that our communication itself is labor – we are workers on the assembly line of communicative production, reproducing information, and, as we know, information is money and money is death. Communicative capitalism means that the form of the message overdetermines its content – the use value of a message no longer matters as much as its exchange value. This means only a revolution at the level of communication can make our words mean something – star this card on your flow. The history of revolutionary labor movements across American and global history proves the revolutionary possibility found in mass organization of labor, but to understand the strike as an economic and political formulation within the context of communicative capitalism, we must come to terms with the financialization of the strike – through the mass production and consumption of media like Disney’s “Newsies”, or the use of Striketober headlines to sell more newspapers, the World Computer has adapted to the strike by selling it, killing its potential to meaningfully challenge the armatures of racial capitalism. The strike has lost its power, and this is because the code always already has control of its communicative implications – only a theory that conceptualizes the expansion of labor to communication can revitalize the potential of strikes. The strike isn’t just a material conflict between the workers and the boss, but rather a confrontation between organizational structures – the algorithms of the World Computer and racialized capitalism, the scab, the boss, the police inevitably conflict with the algorithms of the proletariat. However, the algorithms of the proletariat are necessarily distinct in that they are formulated through revolutionary movement – movement that is always already a form of communication – put simply, the strike is reliant on how we move and how we communicate, and only an examination of how we formulate revolutionary communication can overcome the financialization and sale of the strike that makes revolutionary workers movements impossible. Alternative algorithms are possible – the form of communication ensures movements fail in radically combatting capital, but direct engagement with media and the communicative form can escape the trap of communication by creating ways of thinking and being that are outside of the code. Thus, we advocate that a just government should recognize the universal right of workers to engage in communicative strikes. This is not a demand for legal recognition, but rather a form of radical self-governance that asserts the only governing body that can regulate us is ourselves – we’ll defend a communicative strike that transforms the terms of communication by creating communist algorithms, allowing for the only possibility of genuine communicative space. As a response to the instrumentalization of all thought by the World Computer, the 1ac seeks a radical constellation found in a strike against communicative labor – this is articulated via a refusal to move right, and instead dare to imagine new ways of being, one that builds movements by weaponizing the affective technologies of communicative spaces against the World Computer. We are going on strike – don’t cross the picket line. | 12/4/21 |
ND--1AC--ChinaTournament: Silver and Black | Round: 6 | Opponent: Marlborough MS | Judge: Weingarten, Josh Framing The standard is maximizing expected wellbeing Only pain and pleasure are intrinsically good or bad – everything else collapses. Extinction is a unique ontological phenomenon that outweighs under every ethical theory. Util is lexically prior – in order for agents to be able to engage in complex moral deliberations they must first be safe and not in danger of death – that means materially reducing violence outweighs. Aff gets 1AR theory – otherwise the neg can be infinitely abusive and there’s no way to check back. 1AR theory is drop the debater, competing interps, and the highest layer of the round – the 1ARs too short to be able to rectify abuse and adequately cover substance. No RVI or 2N theory because you have 6 minutes to go for them whereas I only have a 3 minute 2AR to respond so I get crushed on time skew. Solvency Thus, I affirm: A just government of the People’s Republic of China ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike. Recognizing the legal right to strike solidifies workers’ abilities to collectively bargain and sets the floor for future labor rights policies. Illegal and violent strikes threaten the legitimacy of the CCP, but legal and moderate strikes have the opposite effect 1ac Chinese workers lack a credible platform to voice their concerns – state-run unions are co-opted by the state, forcing employees to use wildcat strikes instead. These wildcat strikes are becoming more offensive and violent – it’s a statistically proven trend. They inevitably create tension between the workers and the police, causing an escalation of conflict Deepening worker grievances create instability and create a scenario ripe for revolt - black swans make CCP collapse inevitable absent the aff. Domestic instability and the threat of CCP collapse triggers lash out – four scenarios Scenario 1 First scenario: SCS conflict upsets global trade and draws in regional powers US-China war goes nuclear – especially true in a SCS conflict Second scenario Second scenario: Border disputes with India escalates and goes nuclear Third scenario Third scenario: Sino-Japanese conflict draws in the US and escalates, goes nuclear Fourth scenario Fourth scenario: Taiwan war causes extinction-~--triggers nuclear war through miscalc and cyber-attacks. A small war would cause extinction-~--counter-forcing is impossible. | 12/4/21 |
P--Private Actor FiatTournament: Silver and Black | Round: 6 | Opponent: Marlborough MS | Judge: Weingarten, Josh | 12/4/21 |
P--Western ImperialismTournament: Silver and Black | Round: 6 | Opponent: Marlborough MS | Judge: Weingarten, Josh | 12/4/21 |
SO--1AC--HapticalityTournament: Heart of Texas Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: St Agnes EH | Judge: Ribera, Claudia We are living in the age of the World Computer – logistical capitalism has perfected the assembly line, extracting ultimate value from both the laborer and the planet – medical and scientific advancements have been written in the code of the World Computer, all made possible via the overarching systems of communication and signification that underwrite computational, logistical capitalism. Government pandemic and disease response cannot be disimbricated from the conditions of logistics – the valuation of bodies along financial lines shapes the distribution of medicine by manipulating the decision-making processes of agents of policy. And, the context of intellectual property protections for medicines further proves the investment of medical systems in logistics – the enclosure of genetic codes for medicines, the financialization of information, and the colonial imposition of vaccine apartheid all write the bloody script of logistics across the bodies of those deemed incalculable. We are in desperate need of healing – colonial medicine, articulated across lines of logistics, severs our connections between each other by imposing healing as a pharmaceutical process – one more pill, one more shot, and we’ll all be okay. The trauma of colonialism and logistics can never be resolved by medicine, no matter how free the information is – what is needed is a method of collectivity and care that forms the basis of solidarity across movements and critical spaces. We have all become the intellectual property of the World Computer – the financialization of thought means that each aspect of human activity is repackaged and sold, making our practice of genuine healing and medicine impossible – the affirmative is a reduction of those restrictions. We affirm a reduction of intellectual property protections for medicines via the process of hapticality, which Harney and Moten define as “the capacity to feel through others, for others to feel through you, for you to feel them feeling you.” This radical openness to touch unsettles static subjectivities created by colonialism by recognizing our being as always being defined by our relationships to each other and to the state. Our affective relationality shapes who we are as subjects and the iterative processes we engage in shape our relationality in turn – the 1ac functions as an invitation to join us in study and revolutionary planning and reconstruct ourselves in relation to each other. Computational, logistical capitalism has expropriated each aspect of human activity such that even revolutionary thought becomes subsumed as simply another subroutine of the World Computer – communication cannot be separated from logistics. However, this system isn’t invincible – starting at the point of logistics allows the possibility for a system glitch. If even our sociality is subsumed by its communicative form, we must revolutionize sociality, because this goes both ways – while media technology is a primary site of financialization, so too is it the primary site of resistance. Thus, we must struggle to find new forms of communication and sociality that cannot be subsumed by the media platforms we use – in the age of digital communication, the affirmative carves out spaces of genuine sociality that aim to create communist algorithms by fostering revolutionary culture. | 12/4/21 |
SO--1AC--Hapticality--V2Tournament: Heart of Texas Invitational | Round: Octas | Opponent: Lexington AG | Judge: Panel We are living in the age of the World Computer – logistical capitalism has perfected the assembly line, extracting ultimate value from both the laborer and the planet – medical and scientific advancements have been written in the code of the World Computer, all made possible via the overarching systems of communication and signification that underwrite computational, logistical capitalism. Government pandemic and disease response cannot be disimbricated from the conditions of logistics – the valuation of bodies along financial lines shapes the distribution of medicine by manipulating the decision-making processes of agents of policy. And, the context of intellectual property protections for medicines further proves the investment of medical systems in logistics – the enclosure of genetic codes for medicines, the financialization of information, and the colonial imposition of vaccine apartheid all write the bloody script of logistics across the bodies of those deemed incalculable. We are in desperate need of healing – colonial medicine, articulated across lines of logistics, severs our connections between each other by imposing healing as a pharmaceutical process – one more pill, one more shot, and we’ll all be okay. The trauma of colonialism and logistics can never be resolved by medicine, no matter how free the information is – what is needed is a method of collectivity and care that forms the basis of solidarity across movements and critical spaces. We have all become the intellectual property of the World Computer – the financialization of thought means that each aspect of human activity is repackaged and sold, making our practice of genuine healing and medicine impossible – the affirmative is a reduction of those restrictions. We affirm a reduction of intellectual property protections for medicines via the process of hapticality, which Harney and Moten define as “the capacity to feel through others, for others to feel through you, for you to feel them feeling you.” This radical openness to touch unsettles static subjectivities created by colonialism by recognizing our being as always being defined by our relationships to each other and to the state. Our affective relationality shapes who we are as subjects and the iterative processes we engage in shape our relationality in turn – the 1ac functions as an invitation to join us in study and revolutionary planning and reconstruct ourselves in relation to each other. Computational, logistical capitalism has expropriated each aspect of human activity such that even revolutionary thought becomes subsumed as simply another subroutine of the World Computer – communication cannot be separated from logistics. However, this system isn’t invincible – starting at the point of logistics allows the possibility for a system glitch. If even our sociality is subsumed by its communicative form, we must revolutionize sociality, because this goes both ways – while media technology is a primary site of financialization, so too is it the primary site of resistance. Thus, we must struggle to find new forms of communication and sociality that cannot be subsumed by the media platforms we use – in the age of digital communication, the affirmative carves out spaces of genuine sociality that aim to create communist algorithms by fostering revolutionary culture. Debate is always implicated in the context of propaganda – switch side debate and iterative clash are an attempt at deradicalization. | 12/4/21 |
SO--1AC--Hapticality--V3Tournament: Meadows Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Stanford OHS AY | Judge: Bathily, Silma We are living in the age of the World Computer – racial capitalism has shifted the site of value extraction from wage labor to communicative labor, financializing our sociality in the service of algorithms of difference that collapse qualities into quantities, writing a bloody price tag on our flesh. COVID pandemic response proves the instability of the World Computer – these racialized algorithms inevitably escalate into massive systemic failures based in the logistical management of difference and the constant perfection of expropriative technologies that ensures environmental destruction. Medical intellectual property is ground zero for the instrumentalization of thought and communication – via the sale and patenting of genetic codes and the segregation of vaccine access, the World Computer reveals itself as fundamentally unable to manage disease without the mass sacrifice of disposable bodies – but this means that at the site of algorithmic governance, we find the possibility of being otherwise because we are in desperate need of healing – the traumas of racial capitalism and colonialism are inescapable, manifesting themselves in the disparate impacts of COVID but not limited to purely biological sickness. Colonial medicine, articulated via algorithms of difference, severs our connections between each other by imposing healing as a pharmaceutical process – one more pill, one more shot, and we’ll be okay. The problem is that the trauma of racial capitalism is irresolvable by biotechnical solutions, no matter how free the information is – what is needed is a method of collectivity and care that forms the basis of solidarity across movements and critical spaces. So how do we find these spaces of community and care? We think the answer is in radical sociality – we affirm a reduction of intellectual property protections for medicines via the process of hapticality, which Harney and Moten define as “the capacity to feel through others, for others to feel through you, for you to feel them feeling you.” This radical openness to touch refuses the enfleshing of static ontologies by acknowledging our infinite indebtedness to each other. Our affective relationality shapes who we are as subjects and the iterative processes we engage in shape our relationality in turn – the 1ac functions as an invitation to join us in study and revolutionary planning and reconstruct ourselves in relation to each other. The form of the message overdetermines its content – this is our theory of communication, that the use value of a message no longer matters as much as its exchange value. This means only a revolution at the level of communication can make our words mean something – star this card on your flow. The 1ac is a proletarianization of communication, a seizing of the means of sociality, that evades the failings of past revolutionary movements by revolutionizing the communicative process via indebted relationality – anything else falls into the trap of financialization and fails to materialize revolutionary culture. Racial capitalism is shaped by the demand for access – in order to perfect the communicative assembly line, the World Computer must have infinite access to our bodies, our thoughts, and our communications. This access is inevitable, but we can make access burn – the 1ac’s moving wrong is a form of sabotage that denies individuation in favor of indebted relationality. | 10/31/21 |
SO--1AC--VaccinesTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 1 | Opponent: Orange Lutheran AZ | Judge: Gabriela Gonzalez | 9/20/21 |
SO--1AC--Vaccines--V2Tournament: Jack Howe | Round: 5 | Opponent: Brookfield DJ | Judge: Bahrani, Neda WTO The aff is the final chance for WTO credibility – the plan creates momentum for reforms, including resuming its role as mediator for US-China trade conflicts and approval of new Appellate Body judges, but only if the WTO is seen as instigating the solution. Only WTO mediation can reset US-China trade relations that kill cooperation now – that requires new Appellate Body judges. China and the US want to work together on climate, but unresolved trade disputes kill cooperation. Only US-China climate cooperation can meaningfully combat global warming – attempts are futile without bilateral communication. The brink is now – climate change causes extinction and turns every other impact. Framing The role of the ballot is to evaluate the relative benefits of the hypothetical implementation of the resolution or a competitive policy option. Its really simple – if the aff materially reduces suffering vote aff Prefer it: First, debate should focus on material solutions to violence – reject ethical theories that ignore material consequences of actions on real people. Second, scenario planning – its good in the context of the resolution – future pandemics will happen and COVID proves we are ill-prepared – means even if they win futurism is bad generically we’ll win its good in the context of the resolution. Third, it hijacks truth testing – truth can only be determined through empirical analysis of a resolutional question – absent discussion of what would happen in implementation we can’t know the moral truth of a statement which makes material implementation a prerequisite. The standard is maximizing expected wellbeing First, evaluating consequences is key to ethics – contingency trumps certainty. Second – only pain and pleasure are intrinsically good or bad – everything else collapses. Third, experience is good – only way to understand ethics because people come to different conclusions but we all experience pain and pleasure as good and bad – it’s the only universalizable morality. Fourth – reject ‘consequentialism fails’ arguments – they ignore empirical reality and devalue violence – i.e. if I put my hand over a hot stove I immediately pull it away not because of any moral truth about my hand being burnt but the simple fact that it hurts – global warming is killing people right now and ignoring it is violent – you should refuse to evaluate their arguments. Fifth – no act-omission distinction – choosing to not act is an act in and of itself – the aff creates a choice between two actions, neither of which is an omission Sixth – no intent-foresight distinction – foreseeable consequences of an action are intrinsic to an action – i.e. if I give an apple to you knowing its rotten then I’m responsible for you getting sick because I knew the consequences would happen and therefore intended them to happen but I didn’t know the apple was rotten them I’m not. That means that voting neg despite foreseeing the consequences of the affirmative is intrinsically bad. Seventh – introspection – the fact that humans have historically disagreed about almost everything proves that no normative truth can be reached besides universal introspective conclusions – i.e. just like I can tell that my computer is purple I can know that my happiness is good and that your happiness is good which proves util. Eighth – only consequentialism explains degrees of wrongness – i.e. if I lie to you about liking your hair that is clearly not as bad as lying to you about whether there’s a serial killer behind you. Only consequentialism explains why the first lie is less bad then the second one. Ninth – util is lexically prior – in order for agents to be able to engage in complex moral deliberations they must first be safe and not in danger of death – that means materially reducing violence has to come first. Tenth – actor specificity – side constraints make action impossible because government policies always require trade-offs—the way to resolve those conflicts is by benefiting everyone. Different agents have different ethical obligations – even if they win their theory of personal moral imperatives its fundamentally different then the state. Impact calc – First – extinction first –
2. Reversibility – once we all die that’s it – it eliminates the possibility for future value and forcing everyone on earth to die because the 1ac wasn’t ideologically perfect is horrible and denies agency. 3. Future live - the scale is incomprehensible – you should weigh all the billions of people that would die plus all the future people who are being denied the possibility to live. 4. Cognitive bias – extinction hasn’t happened yet which makes you less likely to view it as a distinct possibility – you should overcorrect. 5. Structural violence – even if not everyone dies war and pandemics create massive violence primarily directed at minorities – that is bad. Second – epistemic modesty – evaluate probability of framework times probability of impact A point its substantively true since it maximizes the probability of achieving net most moral value—beating a framework acts as mitigation to their impacts but the strength of that mitigation is contingent. B point philosophers care about different frameworks – i.e. they recognize intent but also recognize what happens as a result of that intent C point is clash—disincentives debaters from going all in for framework which means we get the ideal balance between topic ed and phil ed—it's important to talk about contention-level offense | 9/20/21 |
SO--1AC--Vaccines--V3Tournament: Jack Howe | Round: Octas | Opponent: Samammish LW | Judge: Panel Pandemics Global health inequality threatens progress in fight vs COVID-19 encouraging vaccine resistant mutations IP protections are the vital internal link to reduce vaccine inequality. Empirics disprove all pro patent arguments We’re facing an imminent vaccine shortage now – only by establishing strong infrastructure can we prevent the next pandemic COVID and future pandemics create massive instability – this escalates and risks nuclear war – multitude of warrants. If COVID doesn’t kill us all, numerous factors guarantee the next pandemic will – preparing now is key to prevent extinction. Solvency Thus, the plan: The member nations of the World Trade Organization should reduce intellectual property protections of medicines during pandemics. Removing IP protections will increase production, diversify supply, and spur innovations that protect against future pandemics Status quo medical innovation results in inequality, which the aff corrects. Traditional patent law and IPP legitimize biopiracy’s control over dominated subjects, turning them into capital. We get rid of that and step in the right direction Framing The standard is maximizing expected wellbeing Only pain and pleasure are intrinsically good or bad – everything else collapses. Extinction is a unique ontological phenomenon that outweighs under every ethical theory. Util is lexically prior – in order for agents to be able to engage in complex moral deliberations they must first be safe and not in danger of death – that means materially reducing violence outweighs. Actor specificity – side constraints make action impossible because government policies always require trade-offs and involve the actions of multiple agents with conflicting moral obligations—the way to resolve those conflicts is by benefiting everyone. Different agents have different ethical obligations – even if they win a theory of personal moral imperatives its fundamentally different then the states obligations. No intent-foresight distinction – foreseeable consequences of an action are intrinsic to an action – i.e. if I give an apple to you knowing its rotten then I’m responsible for you getting sick because I knew the consequences would happen and therefore intended them to happen. That means that voting neg despite foreseeing the consequences of the affirmative is intrinsically bad. Aff gets 1AR theory – otherwise the neg can be infinitely abusive and there’s no way to check back. 1AR theory is drop the debater, competing interps, and the highest layer of the round – the 1ARs too short to be able to rectify abuse and adequately cover substance. No RVI or 2N theory because you have 6 minutes to go for them whereas I only have a 3 minute 2AR to respond so I get crushed on time skew. | 9/20/21 |
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