Tournament: UT | Round: 6 | Opponent: Dulles TY | Judge: Alexander Yoakum
Part 1
The subject is fundamentally unstable as it exists as a particle of a grand structure. This incompleteness forces beings to operate inside of norms to control the porous self. These nuclei of relative stability purport dangerous façades of completion – bodies out of orbit are rendered expendable.
Bataille 1 Georges; “The Labyrinth” retrieved from “Visions of Excess” (1930); librarian by day, literary figure, sociologist, and philosopher by night; Dulles VN
Emerging out of --
beneath its feet.
This incompleteness comes by way of interdependency as agents necessitate expressing their desires through language which renders the subject vulnerable and open to the other. Every subject is trapped in the labyrinth of their incompleteness and as a result look for ways to map themselves out through production – the idea that increased creation will make the self-whole.
Bataille 2 Georges; “The Labyrinth” retrieved from “Visions of Excess” (1930); librarian by day, literary figure, sociologist, and philosopher by night; Dulles VN
Starting from a ---
feels obscurely ashamed.
Accumulation occurs at the expense of particular bodies being demarked unnecessary – those rendered “unsocialized” have norms inflicted upon them. Thus, the standard and Role of the Ballot is to vote for the debater who best dwells within insufficiency.
O’Shea Anthony; “Desiring Desire: How Desire makes us Human, All too Human”; Sociology; 2002; http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1034.4228andrep=rep1andtype=pdf; University of Sunderland; LCA-BPrecut Dulles VN
We attempt to ---
self-affirm itself.
Prefer:
1 Productivity: current pedagogical models are centered around the productive child dialectic: we must center our discussions on philosophy oriented for and through community.
Noys 3 Benjamin; “Georges Bataille A Critical Introduction; Pluto Press; 2000; Professor of Critical Theory and coordinator of the MA English Literature. His research focuses on critical and literary theory, with particular interest in the avant-garde, film, and the cultural politics of theory; LCA-BP
The impossible resists ---
imposes on thought.
2 Means based: we advocate for a reiterative recognition of insufficiency. Thus, sacrifice is our praxis as a way to embrace transgressive acts that undo the illusion of a complete subject. To clarify, the frames under which ethical actions are taken matter most.
3 Intersubjectivity: all ethics need to account for how subjects interact with others, otherwise we’d theorize in a vacuum and philosophy would be useless. Beginning with the solar economy emphasizes the intrinsic connectedness to land and body.
Timofeeva 1 Oxana; “From the Quarantine to the General Strike: On Bataille’s Political Economy”; July 25th 2020; Oxana Timofeeva is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Sociology at the European University in St. Petersburg, Russia, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a member of the art group Chto Delat.; LCA-BP
In his time,---
expend, not conserve. (Stoekl 2007: 32–59)
Contention
I affirm; A just government ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike.
Strikes are a form of non-productive expenditure as we interrupt the machine of productivity and act against established economic norms without any particular gain.
Timofeeva 2 Oxana; “From the Quarantine to the General Strike: On Bataille’s Political Economy”; July 25th 2020; Oxana Timofeeva is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Sociology at the European University in St. Petersburg, Russia, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a member of the art group Chto Delat.; Dulles VN
Bataille’s notion of --_
but a communal kind of action.
Part 2
We must deny productive modes of thought at every corner and instead affirm wasteful excess. Attachment to consumption in its survivalist form of hoarding forms of labor, avoids an embracement of loss which is crucial to the efficacy of any strategy. The toxicity of the logic of accumulation haunts every workplace
Noys 3 Benjamin; “Georges Bataille A Critical Introduction; Pluto Press; 2000; Professor of Critical Theory and coordinator of the MA English Literature. His research focuses on critical and literary theory, with particular interest in the avant-garde, film, and the cultural politics of theory; LCA-BP
Wealth would be --- model of economy.
The current model of state-based domination has been decentralized, which necessitates innovation: the affirmative rethinks the methods by which we explore. Our aim is to develop strategies that eradicate the political dialectic once and for all.
DeLeon Abraham; associate prof @ UT san antonio; Chapter 17: Against the Grain of the Status Quo: Anarchism behind Enemy Lines,” in Anarchist Pedagogies; 2012 *brackets in og text
Infiltration: a word that--- and coercive institutions.
The absence of sacrificial expenditure only allows the acceleration of violence beyond all limits, resulting in total warfare, racialized violence, and nuclear annihilation.
Pawlett 15
(William Pawlett. Senior Lecturer in Media, Communications, and Cultural Studies at the University of Wolverhampton. (2015). Georges Bataille: The sacred and society. London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. pg. 93-5)
Yet Bataille’s argument ---
to exchange.
If the aff is too short
1 Presumption and permissibility affirm:
a we intuitively believe statements true – if I said my name was Anika you’d believe me
b the Neg’s constructive is 1 minute longer—this means I have to establish more content in a shorter speech, so I did better debating with less time. 13:13 can’t solve when the distribution structurally favors them, so they have to weigh all theory arguments against side bias
c the neg is reactive, so they can go for more offs, which means neg theory on the underview is illegitimate because they could have chosen to respond to the aff in different ways – adaptation outweighs on clash and critical thinking.
1 My offense affirms under truth testing, but prefer a comparative worlds paradigm.
a I defend an on-balance interpretation of the resolution – not an absolute rule. NSDA rules prove – the aff only has the burden of general principle – I should not have to prove I’m optimal:
Nelson 08 Adam Nelson (Director of Lincoln-Douglas Debate at the Harker School) “Towards a Comprehensive Theory of LD” The Lincoln-Douglas Debate Theory Journal April 15th 2008 http://ldtheoryjournal.blogspot.com/2008/04/towards-comprehensive-theory-of-ld-adam.html *brackets for gendered language
But the NFL’s new Lincoln Douglas Debate Event Description explicitly repudiates such a model by placing parallel burdens amongst one of the hallmarks of the activity: No question of values can be determined entirely true or false. This is why the resolution is desirable. Therefore neither debater should be held to a standard of absolute proof. No debater can realistically be expected to prove complete validity or invalidity of the resolution. The better debater is the one who, on the whole, proves his/her their side of the resolution more valid as a general principle.2 And the truth-statement model of the resolution imposes an absolute burden of proof on the affirmative: if the resolution is a truth-claim, and the affirmative has the burden of proving that claim, in so far as intuitively we tend to disbelieve truth-claims until we are persuaded otherwise, the affirmative has the burden to prove that statement absolutely true. Indeed, one of the most common theory arguments in LD is conditionality, which argues it is inappropriate for the affirmative to claim only proving the truth of part of the resolution is sufficient to earn the ballot.
b Reciprocity—truth testing gives the neg infinite NIB’s because they can prove morality doesn’t exist, it’s inaccessible, or read burdens. That’s unfair because 1 they can win on them but I can’t and 2 screws the 1AR over since its so short and there are a bunch of hoops I have to jump through. Proving the desirability of a competitive advocacy solves since they share the same assumptions as the AC. Key to fairness since it ensures equal access to the ballot.
c Substantive education—truth testing allows for a priori’s or other blippy args that decide the round if dropped since they are preclusionary, meaning we don’t learn about the topic.
d Constitutivism is false: every debate is functionally a new version of the activity.
Enoch David Enoch “Shmagency Revisited” JW
But one may ---
disincentivizing 1AR theory.
4 Use reasonability on NC theory –
a Competing interps moots 6 mins of AC offense creating a 7-13 time skew which outweighs minimal aff abuse.
b Offense-defense disincentivizes substantive education by shifting the round from the AC to a norm so their model