Tournament: Duke Invitational | Round: 3 | Opponent: Durham ZG | Judge: Survance, Anthony
To be is to signify – the failure of linguistic signifiers to describe the Real produces repetitive drives to fill the resulting lack that is the root cause of violence and destroys politics, ethics, and the value to life. Thus, the roll of the ballot is to analyze the libidinal investments of the 1AC's politics and presentation.
Ruti 14 ~Mari, English, Toronto, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society (2014) 19, 297–314~
Lauren Berlant characterizes this predicament as one of "cruel optimism": the stubborn,
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of desire that, on the most elementary level, determines our destiny.
Donahue 2 ~Brian Donahue, assistant professor of English at Gonzaga University. He has a Ph.D. from Purdue University, Gonzaga University, 2002 ~"Marxism, Postmodernism, Zizek", http://pmc.iath.virginia.edu/issue.102/12.2donahue.html, 2-19-2019~
According to Zizek, theorists of postmodern society who make much of the usurpation of
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" upon which empirical studies may be (and will be) performed.
Intellectual Property or Intellectual Poverty? Between Colonialism and Empire in the Context of AIDS and Public Health Crises
Boris Knezevic, UCL Faculty of Laws Medicine, Ethics and Law
February 2007
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a view to making them sustainable and self-sufficient both in providing for
Their deployment of debate is a cynical project which denies their own perverse investment in the university through an identification with their relationship to other people's relationship to the academy. This allows them to be perversely invested in the continuation of debate and the university because it allows for them to moralize about other people's investment.
McGowan '4 (Todd, Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy @ Vermont U., The End of Dissatisfaction: Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment, pp. 17-18)
In order to make clear the structure of the society of prohibition as it contrasts
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role in supplementing the power of prohibition and the threat that it poses.
Vote negative to embrace the lack – this entails accepting that the gap between the Symbolic and the Real is a precondition of existence and breaks down the subject's compulsive fantasy world.
Ruti ~Winnicott with Lacan: Living Creatively in a Postmodern Worldby Mari Ruti, pages 356-360~
How, then, does the Lacanian subject find meaning in its life? Lacan's
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hollow, in the final analysis leaving the subject worse off than before.