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| UT Longhorn Classic | 1 | barbers hill SC | Nandian Dhurjati |
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| UT Longhorn Classic | 4 | plano east AD | Austin Broussard |
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| berkeley | 2 | strath haven AM | Joseph Barquin |
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| berkeley | 3 | coppell HA | Jacob Lugo |
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| berkely | 6 | harker AA | Baunak Dua |
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| disclosure | 1 | u | mario judah |
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| emory | 3 | holy cross JD | Conor Obrien |
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| emory | 6 | lexington AR | Eugene Toth |
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| emory | 2 | strath haven AM | Christopher Randall |
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| glenbrooks | 1 | brophy CC | Silma Bathily |
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| grapevine | 2 | cooper city NR | Jayanne Forrest |
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| grapevine | 4 | northland christian CS | Nicky Smith |
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| grapevine | 5 | bridgeland PT | Blake Andrews |
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| grapevine | 5 | bridgeland PT | Blake Andrews |
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| grapevine | Triples | strake jesuit NW | Delon Fuller |
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| greenhill | 2 | harker AS | Elijah Smith |
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| greenhill | 3 | harker AA | Sai Karavadi |
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| greenhill | 6 | mcneil AG | Varad Agarwala |
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| st marks | 2 | immaculate heart JL | Elijah Smith |
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| tfa state | 1 | clear brook CB | Chris Castillo |
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| tfa state | 3 | greenhill NT | Alexandra Myers |
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| tfa state | 5 | strake KS | Nelson Okunlola |
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| tfa state | Triples | pesh AD | Chris Castillo, River Cook, Jacob Koshak |
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| valley | 2 | harker NA | Chris Castillo |
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| valley | 3 | edina SJ | Brixz Gonzaba |
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| Tournament | Round | Report |
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| UT Longhorn Classic | 1 | Opponent: barbers hill SC | Judge: Nandian Dhurjati AC - stock |
| UT Longhorn Classic | 4 | Opponent: plano east AD | Judge: Austin Broussard AC - bataille |
| berkeley | 2 | Opponent: strath haven AM | Judge: Joseph Barquin AC - space col |
| berkeley | 3 | Opponent: coppell HA | Judge: Jacob Lugo AC - baedan |
| berkely | 6 | Opponent: harker AA | Judge: Baunak Dua AC - mining |
| disclosure | 1 | Opponent: u | Judge: mario judah - disclosure |
| emory | 3 | Opponent: holy cross JD | Judge: Conor Obrien AC - lay |
| emory | 6 | Opponent: lexington AR | Judge: Eugene Toth AC - disability |
| emory | 2 | Opponent: strath haven AM | Judge: Christopher Randall IMPORTANT!! cites for this round dont work idk dont ask me ask the wiki gods but i can send cites if needed - doc is also OS'd |
| glenbrooks | 1 | Opponent: brophy CC | Judge: Silma Bathily AC - sv |
| grapevine | 2 | Opponent: cooper city NR | Judge: Jayanne Forrest AC - cap |
| grapevine | 4 | Opponent: northland christian CS | Judge: Nicky Smith AC - hivaids |
| grapevine | 5 | Opponent: bridgeland PT | Judge: Blake Andrews AC - trips |
| grapevine | 5 | Opponent: bridgeland PT | Judge: Blake Andrews AC - trips |
| grapevine | Triples | Opponent: strake jesuit NW | Judge: Delon Fuller AC - asian identity |
| greenhill | 2 | Opponent: harker AS | Judge: Elijah Smith AC - EU |
| greenhill | 3 | Opponent: harker AA | Judge: Sai Karavadi AC - EU |
| greenhill | 6 | Opponent: mcneil AG | Judge: Varad Agarwala AC - indigenous biomed |
| st marks | 2 | Opponent: immaculate heart JL | Judge: Elijah Smith AC - covid |
| tfa state | 1 | Opponent: clear brook CB | Judge: Chris Castillo AC - stock |
| tfa state | 3 | Opponent: greenhill NT | Judge: Alexandra Myers AC - climate |
| tfa state | 5 | Opponent: strake KS | Judge: Nelson Okunlola AC - poland |
| tfa state | Triples | Opponent: pesh AD | Judge: Chris Castillo, River Cook, Jacob Koshak AC - indopak |
| valley | 2 | Opponent: harker NA | Judge: Chris Castillo AC - trade secrets |
| valley | 3 | Opponent: edina SJ | Judge: Brixz Gonzaba AC - rawls |
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0 - accessibilityTournament: disclosure | Round: 1 | Opponent: u | Judge: mario judah PLEASE make debate accessible and space out spikes/independent justifications here's an example of what u should do
here's an example of what u shouldn't do
here's a interp to meet that u will see in the nc/1ar if u dont do that: interp: debaters must clearly delineate spikes and independent justifications for arguments if there is an accessibility request on the wiki please just be a good person and make debate inclusive | 12/7/21 |
0 - contact infoTournament: disclosure | Round: 1 | Opponent: u | Judge: mario judah
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0 - navigationTournament: disclosure | Round: 1 | Opponent: u | Judge: mario judah | 12/7/21 |
1 - K - cap v disabilityTournament: emory | Round: 6 | Opponent: lexington AR | Judge: Eugene Toth 1Capitalism causes massive violence and inevitable extinction – the fundamental task is developing tools for organization and tactics to bring about revolution.Escalante ‘19 AND scientific status of Marxism, and must insist on the possibility of victory. The 1AC’s emphasis on localism and resistance is unable to scale-up to generate meaningful resistance to capital – you can only beat a universal with a counter-universal.Williams and Srnicek ‘15 AND , and it is heterogeneous and includes differences, rather than eliminating them. Fantasies of disabled bodies as inherently resistant to capitalism mystifies how disability becomes a site of value extraction and papers over Western privilege.Puar ‘17 AND /developed nations and the disarray of the rest/developing nations. / Vote negative for communist organizing – that requires collective struggle and the establishment of centralized organization to inform both theory and practice.Kuhn ‘18 AND can watch failure unfold. The challenge lies in helping to prevent it. The alt reorganizes social and economic life around a new concept of work that doesn’t mandate ableist productivity and creates solidarity.Slorach ‘15 AND the Paris Commune in 1871 needs little amending almost 150 years later: / | 1/29/22 |
JF - K - capTournament: berkeley | Round: 3 | Opponent: coppell HA | Judge: Jacob Lugo Capitalism causes massive violence and inevitable extinction – the fundamental task is developing tools for organization and tactics to bring about revolution.Escalante ‘19 AND scientific status of Marxism, and must insist on the possibility of victory. The aff’s fear of vertical organizing is a reactionary infatuation with failure – naming oneself as a comrade is key to disciplined communist organizing.Dean ‘19 AND out the party’s work; all are equally important for the party’s work. The aff is an immaterial solution to material structures – queer theory’s fetishization of change for its own sake is unable to ground a collective subject to resist the violence of capital.Gleeson et al ‘18 AND such as the proletariat of the past or the queers of the present. Vote negative for communist organizing – that requires collective struggle and the establishment of centralized organization to inform both theory and practice.Kuhn ‘18 AND can watch failure unfold. The challenge lies in helping to prevent it. Only communism can allow for an experimentation with sexuality outside of the bounds of productive labor.Gleeson et al ‘18 AND rediscovery of love, for the creation of sexualities we have never known. | 2/20/22 |
JF - K - groveTournament: berkeley | Round: 2 | Opponent: strath haven AM | Judge: Joseph Barquin International Relations is the royal science of empire – the aff engineers "sustainable warfare" through a mutating geopolitics of violence.Grove ‘19 AND collective violence and goes on for decades as a kind of sustainable warfare. The 1AC is embedded within an critical astropolitics of empire – the desire to command, control, and cooperate over the unique processes of space represent an attempt to make the cosmos into a geopolitical chess gameHavercroft and Duvall ‘9 AND of analysis – be used to supplement and refine critical international relations theory? Utilitarian calculus doesn’t account for the geopolitical structure of aggregate conceptions of the good – that makes it incapable of grappling with the causes of apocalypse.Grove ‘19 AND concern, requires with it a depoliticization of the causes of that concern. Voting negative adopts failed IR for a healthy dose of pessimism – at the end of the world, all we can do is hope to be buried alive together.Grove ‘19 AND animals out there studying global politics. May we be buried alive together. The Role of the Judge is to adopt martial empiricism.Bousquet et al ‘20 AND and embodiments that engender armed conflict as an unremitting condition of global life. | 2/19/22 |
JF - K - grove v2Tournament: berkely | Round: 6 | Opponent: harker AA | Judge: Baunak Dua International Relations is the royal science of empire – the aff engineers "sustainable warfare" through a mutating geopolitics of violence.Grove ‘19 AND collective violence and goes on for decades as a kind of sustainable warfare. The aff’s managerial concerns over space debris is techno-sustainability – liberal governance over space as a "commons" is the exclusive domain of space-faring nationsStroikos ‘16 AND on the norms that shape the behaviour of the space-faring states. Utilitarian calculus doesn’t account for the geopolitical structure of aggregate conceptions of the good – that makes it incapable of grappling with the causes of apocalypse.Grove ‘19 AND concern, requires with it a depoliticization of the causes of that concern. Voting negative adopts failed IR for a healthy dose of pessimism – at the end of the world, all we can do is hope to be buried alive together.Grove ‘19 AND animals out there studying global politics. May we be buried alive together. The Role of the Judge is to adopt martial empiricism.Bousquet et al ‘20 AND and embodiments that engender armed conflict as an unremitting condition of global life. | 2/20/22 |
JF - T - FWTournament: berkeley | Round: 3 | Opponent: coppell HA | Judge: Jacob Lugo Our interpretation is the topic should determine the division of aff and neg ground – winning that the appropriation of space by private entities is not unjust should always be sufficient condition for voting negative – hold the line, the 1AC proves there’s no I-meet, the text of the 1ac states that the 1ac endorses the res as a unimaginal desire of queernes"Resolved" is a formal decision.Merriam-Webster The Role of the Ballot is to vote for whoever does the better debating – any alternative framework must explain why we switch sides, why there has to be a winner and a loser, and why there are structural rules. The frame for evaluating offense is that debate is a game and we’re all here to win – that means procedural questions come first.Vote neg for predictable limits – abdicating government actions sanctions picking any interpretation for debate – that incentivizes retreat from controversy and forces the neg to first characterize the aff and then debate it which eliminates the benefit of preround research – two impacts –1. Clash – a common point of engagement ensures effective clash, which is a linear impact – negation is the necessary condition for distinguishing debate from discussion, but negation exists on a sliding scale. The topic of discussion is up to the affirmative, but depth and nuanced engagement is determined by negative ground. Any impact intrinsic to debate, not just discussion, comes from negation because it starts the process of critical thinking, reflexivity, and argument refinement.2. Fairness – prioritize preserving the competitive aspects of debate – games cannot operate unless both sides can be confident in advance they have an equal chance of winning – the fact they’ve asked you to vote for them proves we all agree that debate is a competition. | 2/20/22 |
JF - T - appropriationTournament: berkeley | Round: 2 | Opponent: strath haven AM | Judge: Joseph Barquin Interpretation - "Appropriation of outer space" by private entities refers to the exercise of exclusive control of space.TIMOTHY JUSTIN TRAPP, JD Candidate @ UIUC Law, ’13, TAKING UP SPACE BY ANY OTHER MEANS: COMING TO TERMS WITH THE NONAPPROPRIATION ARTICLE OF THE OUTER SPACE TREATY UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW ~Vol. 2013 No. 4~ AND the Bogotá Declaration were trying to accomplish, albeit through different means.219 Violation – Space tourism is temporary occupancyVote negative for limits – they explode the topic to include affs like theirs which have no core disads that link to it such as the soft power disad and the mining disad – they encourage a rush to margins of the topic which incentivizes a lack of nuanced clash over the intricacies of the aff which also means that they steal the remaining neg ground on already aff biased topic | 2/19/22 |
JF - T - extraTournament: berkely | Round: 6 | Opponent: harker AA | Judge: Baunak Dua Interpretation - "Appropriation of outer space" by private entities refers to the exercise of exclusive control of space.TIMOTHY JUSTIN TRAPP, JD Candidate @ UIUC Law, ’13, TAKING UP SPACE BY ANY OTHER MEANS: COMING TO TERMS WITH THE NONAPPROPRIATION ARTICLE OF THE OUTER SPACE TREATY UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW ~Vol. 2013 No. 4~ AND the Bogotá Declaration were trying to accomplish, albeit through different means.219 Violation – mining is temporary occupancyVote negative for limits – they explode the topic to include affs like space tourism which have no core disads that link to it such as the soft power disad– they encourage a rush to margins of the topic which incentivizes a lack of nuanced clash over the intricacies of the aff which also means that they steal the remaining neg ground on already aff biased topicIndependently, extra T is a voter – they fiat the creation of a legal trust which is beyond the scope of the resolution – extra-topicality allows them to tack on infinite planks to artificially improve aff solvency and spike out of DAs, like fiating enforcement or random possible modifications to extraterrestrial property rights. The counter-interp sets a precedent that the scope of aff fiat doesn’t have to be bounded by the resolution, which outweighs on magnitude. No drop the arg – we shouldn’t have to always read T just to get back to what we should’ve been debating to begin with – it incentivizes adding random extra-t planks because there’s no punishment. | 2/20/22 |
JF - lay ncTournament: emory | Round: 3 | Opponent: holy cross JD | Judge: Conor Obrien frameworkI value morality as the resolution asks us to determine if something is just. Pleasure and pain are the starting point for moral reasoning—they’re our most baseline desires and the only things that explain the intrinsic value of objects or actionsMoen 16, Ole Martin (PhD, Research Fellow in Philosophy at University of Oslo). "An Argument for Hedonism." Journal of Value Inquiry 50.2 (2016): 267. SM AND notion of legal standing will outstrip the power relations that ground Pettit’s theory.
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MA - T - ATournament: tfa state | Round: 5 | Opponent: strake KS | Judge: Nelson Okunlola Interpretation: Affirmatives may not specify a democracy"A Democracy" is genericA~ It doesn’t pass the contradiction testNebel 1~Jake Nebel- Jake Nebel is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. Jake works mainly in moral philosophy but has also published work in the philosophy of language in The Philosophical Review. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from New York University, an AB in Philosophy from Princeton University, and a BPhil in Philosophy from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. As a coach, Jake’s students have won the Tournament of Champions, the NDCA National Championship, the Dukes and Bailey Cup, the Glenbrooks, the Harvard Round Robin, the New York City Invitational, the Barkley Forum at Emory, the TFA State Tournament, and other national, regional, and local championships. As a debater, he won the Glenbrooks (twice), Greenhill (twice), Harvard, Emory, Bronx, the Bronx Round Robin, the MBA Round Robin, the VBT Round Robin, and the Florida State Tournament, was in finals of NSDA Nationals, and was top speaker at the Tournament of Champions, Greenhill, Harvard, Bronx (twice), the Bronx Round Robin (twice), Yale (twice), the Vassar Round Robin, the Crestian Classic, and the Florida State Tournament. He attended VBI three times as a student and has worked at 35 sessions. "Indefinite Singular Generics in Debate" VBI Briefs. 2020~ UT AI* Note: These were from a brief. Text me or any of my kids and they’ll send it to you. AND So "a democracy" in the resolution cannot be existential after all. B~ it fails the upper entailment test- replacing "democracy" with a general noun changes the meaning.Nebel 2~Jake Nebel- Jake Nebel is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. Jake works mainly in moral philosophy but has also published work in the philosophy of language in The Philosophical Review. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from New York University, an AB in Philosophy from Princeton University, and a BPhil in Philosophy from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. As a coach, Jake’s students have won the Tournament of Champions, the NDCA National Championship, the Dukes and Bailey Cup, the Glenbrooks, the Harvard Round Robin, the New York City Invitational, the Barkley Forum at Emory, the TFA State Tournament, and other national, regional, and local championships. As a debater, he won the Glenbrooks (twice), Greenhill (twice), Harvard, Emory, Bronx, the Bronx Round Robin, the MBA Round Robin, the VBT Round Robin, and the Florida State Tournament, was in finals of NSDA Nationals, and was top speaker at the Tournament of Champions, Greenhill, Harvard, Bronx (twice), the Bronx Round Robin (twice), Yale (twice), the Vassar Round Robin, the Crestian Classic, and the Florida State Tournament. He attended VBI three times as a student and has worked at 35 sessions. "Indefinite Singular Generics in Debate" VBI Briefs. 2020~ UT AI* Note: These were from a brief. Text me or any of my kids and they’ll send it to you. AND This suggests that "a democracy" in the resolution is not existential. Semantics outweigh and are an independent voterA~ Stasis – it’s the only stasis for predictability and pragmatics – sequencing negatesB~ Inherency – It’s the only thing inherent to the topic – pragmatics are just reasons to change the topic not reasons why our interp is wrongViolation: They only make voting compulsory in JapanNow Negate-1~ Limits-There are over 150 democracies around the world. In each of these democracies there are several possible scenarios in which objectivity and advocacy are good – infinite affs are impossible to prep out2~ Ground- I lose access to core negative ground like elections DA’s, racism Das and topic CPs – means that NC prep is impossible. Disclosure doesn’t check because it’s not comfirmable and 30 mins preround isn’t enough to cut a full 1nParadigm issues1 - T is DTD –their abusive advocacy skewed the debate from the start2 - Comes before 1AR theory — A - If we had to be abusive it’s because it was impossible to engage their aff, B - T outweighs on scope because their abuse affected every speech that came after the 1AC3 - Use competing interps on T – A - topicality is a yes/no question, you can’t be reasonably topical, B - reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention and a race to the bottom of questionable argumentation4 - No RVIs – A - Forcing the 1NC to go all in on the shell kills substance education and neg strat, B - discourages checking real abuse C - Encourages baiting – outweighs because if the shell is frivolous, they can beat it quick | 3/11/22 |
ND - K - capTournament: glenbrooks | Round: 1 | Opponent: brophy CC | Judge: Silma Bathily Capitalism is a system engendering massive violence and inevitable extinction – the foundational task is to find a way out – the Role of the Ballot is to endorse the best organizational tactics.Badiou ‘18 AND millennia. And that means that it is old — far too old. History proves an effective right to strike is impossible in liberal capitalist society – courts will water it down and workers will be replaced – but its justification relies on the same tropes of property protection that will be used to delegitimize worker militancy.White ‘18 AND of tactics that might make going on strike a worthwhile thing to do. Capitalist climate reforms can’t solve warming – it’s way too slow and doesn’t challenge the imperial structure of production that drives ecological devastation.Escalante ‘19 AND will present itself within the ever-shrinking twelve-year time frame. Vote neg to join the party – dual power organizing is the only path to revolutionary change.Escalante ‘18 AND to the soviets" will be heard again. Lets make it happen. | 11/20/21 |
ND - K - cap v2Tournament: UT Longhorn Classic | Round: 1 | Opponent: barbers hill SC | Judge: Nandian Dhurjati Capitalism is a system engendering massive violence and inevitable extinction – the foundational task is to find a way out – the Role of the Ballot is to endorse the best organizational tactics.Badiou ‘18 AND millennia. And that means that it is old — far too old. History proves an effective right to strike is impossible in liberal capitalist society – courts will water it down and workers will be replaced – but its justification relies on the same tropes of property protection that will be used to delegitimize worker militancy.White ‘18 AND of tactics that might make going on strike a worthwhile thing to do. Capitalist climate reforms can’t solve warming – it’s way too slow and doesn’t challenge the imperial structure of production that drives ecological devastation.Escalante ‘19 AND will present itself within the ever-shrinking twelve-year time frame. Vote neg to join the party – dual power organizing is the only path to revolutionary change.Escalante ‘18 AND to the soviets" will be heard again. Lets make it happen. | 12/4/21 |
ND - K - cap v3Tournament: UT Longhorn Classic | Round: 4 | Opponent: plano east AD | Judge: Austin Broussard Capitalism is a system engendering massive violence and inevitable extinction – the foundational task is to find a way out – the Role of the Ballot is to endorse the best organizational tactics.Badiou ‘18 AND millennia. And that means that it is old — far too old. History proves an effective right to strike is impossible in liberal capitalist society – courts will water it down and workers will be replaced – but its justification relies on the same tropes of property protection that will be used to delegitimize worker militancy.White ‘18 AND of tactics that might make going on strike a worthwhile thing to do. Affirming glorious unproductively is useless, and not in a good way, capitalism is a vibe killer and refusing commitment to political projects cements the system.Hollywood, 10 ~Amy, prof at Harvard’s Divinity School, "Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History," 2010, 30-1~Townes AND hatred of discourse" and to the fragmentation and disdain of his writing. Vote neg to join the party – dual power organizing is the only path to revolutionary change.Escalante ‘18 AND to the soviets" will be heard again. Lets make it happen. | 12/4/21 |
SO - K - bellerTournament: st marks | Round: 2 | Opponent: immaculate heart JL | Judge: Elijah Smith Society has become devoted to value management through the system of the World Computer which codifies life through a series of abstractions which codifies difference along race, gender, and class. Information is not a real product but rather invented behind our backs. The World Computer uses our every move to repair itself – the role of the ballot should be to resist informatics, resisting further automation is keyFor spec purposes: AND oppression which is at once beyond all calculation and one with it.7 What is patent reform if not a monopolization on the production and distribution of information? The medical industry has become operationalized through the process of abstraction, one that seeks to render life valueless through financializationBeller 18 (Jonathan Beller; 2018; Pluto Press; "The Message is Murder: Substrates of Computational Capitalism"; accessed 8/6/21; ask me for the pdf; Jonathan Beller is a film theorist, culture critic and mediologist. He currently holds the position of Professor of Humanities and Media Studies and Critical and Visual Studies, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including Mellon, J.P. Getty and Fulbright Foundation grants and honours; pages 89-96) HB AND thought and praxis open when the logic gate selected is "Yes."25 Crisis oriented IR functions as a closed system of feedback which causes reactionary geopolitics and a divide between the human/inhuman. The logic of data syncs with the World Computer to create endless disastersParisi 19 (Luciana Parisi; 5/22/19; ŠUM Journal of Contemporary Art, Criticism and Theory, Special Issue Number 11; "Surrational Fugitives" from Hypersonics Hyperstitions; http://sumrevija.si/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/SUM-11'FINAL'pages.pdf**; Luciana Parisi is Reader in Cultural Theory, Chair of the PhD programme at the Centre for Cultural Studies, and co-director of the Digital Culture Unit, Goldsmiths University of London. She published Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire (2004) and Contagious Architecture. Computation, Aesthetics and Space (2013). She is currently researching the history of automation and the philosophical consequences of logical thinking in machines.; pages 1460-1463) HB *Note – the evidence uses "Man" as a description of dominating structures, not as a general reference to the human* AND unknown world that has always run parallel to the military mission of Man. The alternative is a cognitive strike as an embrace of the potential of a new communist horizon – we refuse the technological image that has abstracted itself onto reality and create new ways to know that cannot be cataloged into the code. This new method of communism is one that devises a plan of revolution, radicalizing the semiotic, libidinal, and politicalBeller 21-2 (Jonathan Beller; 2021; Duke University Press; "The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism"; accessed 4/11/21; ask me for the pdf; Jonathan Beller is a film theorist, culture critic and mediologist. He currently holds the position of Professor of Humanities and Media Studies and Critical and Visual Studies, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including Mellon, J.P. Getty and Fulbright Foundation grants and honours.; pages 184-195) HB AND Perhaps we have only begun to glimpse what a total refusal might achieve. | 10/16/21 |
SO - K - bioinsecuritiesTournament: grapevine | Round: 4 | Opponent: northland christian CS | Judge: Nicky Smith Empire has shifted from the administration of death to the production of life – the affs restructuring of global medical intervention is the new logic of biopolitical governance – no longer is imperialism a question of borders and military power, but rather the protection of bodies.Ahuja ‘16 AND when life insurance capitalizes death, death itself thus gives form to life. Threats of economic collapse shuts down deliberation in favor of immediate response, creating a violent state of exception.Hanan ‘10 AND has both a discursive and extra-discursive reality since the institutional forms and The aff’s investment in public health as a response to the threat of disease sanctions a more sinister form of biopolitical racism whereby "unhealthy" populations are subject to ethnic cleansing and state-sanctioned violence.Elbe ‘5 AND and the ‘unhealthy’ (HIV-positive) segments of a population. This culminates in a form of dread life which organizes and deploys disaster biopolitics to justify constant interventionism, health apartheid, and antagonistic subject formation that turns and outweighs the aff.Debrix ‘18 AND of disastrous biopolitics to be reproduced, re-imagined, or redeployed. The alternative is autoaesthetics – liberal biopolitics is a form of resilient living that subverts human potential into endless dangers to be secured – voting negative reintroduces death to the question of life – ask yourself, what would it mean to have a death well lived?Evans and Reid ‘14 AND mathematical? Wholeheartedly. Welcoming our coming into the world? Without reservation. The Role of the Judge is to give up hope.Hopeful affirmation warps within the biomedical sphere to structure policy toward the governance of difference – voting neg refuses to play into the affirmation of life for the sake of itEhlers and Krupar ‘14 AND alternative hope tactics—"hoping for other things"—in relation to cancer. | 9/11/21 |
SO - K - bioinsecurities v2Tournament: grapevine | Round: 5 | Opponent: bridgeland PT | Judge: Blake Andrews Empire has shifted from the administration of death to the production of life – the affs restructuring of global medical intervention is the new logic of biopolitical governance – no longer is imperialism a question of borders and military power, but rather the protection of bodies.Ahuja ‘16 AND when life insurance capitalizes death, death itself thus gives form to life. TRIPS/compulsory licensing is a neoliberal ploy to both legitimize the WTO as a governing apparatus while covertly authorizing economic retaliation against nations who invoke it.Ferrer ‘19 AND is in fact the very site of that conflict it’s supposed to resolve. Threats of economic collapse shuts down deliberation in favor of immediate response, creating a violent state of exception.Hanan ‘10 AND -discursive reality since the institutional forms and discourses coincide with one another. This culminates in a form of dread life which organizes and deploys disaster biopolitics to justify constant interventionism, health apartheid, and antagonistic subject formation that turns and outweighs the aff.Debrix ‘18 AND of disastrous biopolitics to be reproduced, re-imagined, or redeployed. The alternative is autoaesthetics – liberal biopolitics is a form of resilient living that subverts human potential into endless dangers to be secured – voting negative reintroduces death to the question of life – ask yourself, what would it mean to have a death well lived?Alt is uncondo AND challenge them, let alone move beyond the tragedy of their artificial supports. The Role of the Judge is to adopt martial empiricism.Bousquet et al ‘20 AND and embodiments that engender armed conflict as an unremitting condition of global life. | 9/12/21 |
SO - K - bioinsecurities v3Tournament: greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: harker AS | Judge: Elijah Smith Empire has shifted from the administration of death to the production of life – the affs restructuring of global medical intervention is the new logic of biopolitical governance – no longer is imperialism a question of borders and military power, but rather the protection of bodies.Ahuja ‘16 AND when life insurance capitalizes death, death itself thus gives form to life. Threats of economic collapse shuts down deliberation in favor of immediate response, creating a violent state of exception.Hanan ‘10 AND -discursive reality since the institutional forms and discourses coincide with one another. The aff’s investment in public health as a response to the threat of disease sanctions a more sinister form of biopolitical racism whereby "unhealthy" populations are subject to ethnic cleansing and state-sanctioned violence.Elbe ‘5 AND and the ‘unhealthy’ (HIV-positive) segments of a population. This culminates in a form of dread life which organizes and deploys disaster biopolitics to justify constant interventionism, health apartheid, and antagonistic subject formation that turns and outweighs the aff.Debrix ‘18 AND emergencies, etc.) Dread life is also productive of a range of subjects The alternative is autoaesthetics – liberal biopolitics is a form of resilient living that subverts human potential into endless dangers to be secured – voting negative reintroduces death to the question of life – ask yourself, what would it mean to have a death well lived?Evans and Reid ‘14 AND challenge them, let alone move beyond the tragedy of their artificial supports. The Role of the Judge is to give up hope.Hopeful affirmation warps within the biomedical sphere to structure policy toward the governance of difference – voting neg refuses to play into the affirmation of life for the sake of itEhlers and Krupar ‘14 AND alternative hope tactics—"hoping for other things"—in relation to cancer. | 9/18/21 |
SO - K - bioinsecurities v4Tournament: greenhill | Round: 3 | Opponent: harker AA | Judge: Sai Karavadi Empire has shifted from the administration of death to the production of life – the affs restructuring of global medical intervention is the new logic of biopolitical governance – no longer is imperialism a question of borders and military power, but rather the protection of bodies.Ahuja ‘16 AND when life insurance capitalizes death, death itself thus gives form to life. Threats of economic collapse shuts down deliberation in favor of immediate response, creating a violent state of exception.Hanan ‘10 AND -discursive reality since the institutional forms and discourses coincide with one another. The aff’s investment in public health as a response to the threat of disease sanctions a more sinister form of biopolitical racism whereby "unhealthy" populations are subject to ethnic cleansing and state-sanctioned violence.Elbe ‘5 AND and the ‘unhealthy’ (HIV-positive) segments of a population. This culminates in a form of dread life which organizes and deploys disaster biopolitics to justify constant interventionism, health apartheid, and antagonistic subject formation that turns and outweighs the aff.Debrix ‘18 AND of disastrous biopolitics to be reproduced, re-imagined, or redeployed. The alternative is autoaesthetics – liberal biopolitics is a form of resilient living that subverts human potential into endless dangers to be secured – voting negative reintroduces death to the question of life – ask yourself, what would it mean to have a death well lived?Evans and Reid ‘14 AND challenge them, let alone move beyond the tragedy of their artificial supports. The Role of the Judge is to give up hope.Hopeful affirmation warps within the biomedical sphere to structure policy toward the governance of difference – voting neg refuses to play into the affirmation of life for the sake of itEhlers and Krupar ‘14 AND alternative hope tactics—"hoping for other things"—in relation to cancer. | 9/18/21 |
SO - K - bioinsecurities v5Tournament: greenhill | Round: 6 | Opponent: mcneil AG | Judge: Varad Agarwala Empire has shifted from the administration of death to the production of life – the affs restructuring of global medical intervention is the new logic of biopolitical governance – no longer is imperialism a question of borders and military power, but rather the protection of bodies.Ahuja ‘16 AND when life insurance capitalizes death, death itself thus gives form to life. compulsory licensing is a neoliberal ploy to both legitimize the WTO as a governing apparatus while covertly authorizing economic retaliation against nations who invoke it.Ferrer ‘19 AND is in fact the very site of that conflict it’s supposed to resolve. This culminates in a form of dread life which organizes and deploys disaster biopolitics to justify constant interventionism, health apartheid, and antagonistic subject formation that turns and outweighs the aff.Debrix ‘18 AND of disastrous biopolitics to be reproduced, re-imagined, or redeployed. The alternative is autoaesthetics – liberal biopolitics is a form of resilient living that subverts human potential into endless dangers to be secured – voting negative reintroduces death to the question of life – ask yourself, what would it mean to have a death well lived?Evans and Reid ‘14 AND challenge them, let alone move beyond the tragedy of their artificial supports. The Role of the Judge is to give up hope.Hopeful affirmation warps within the biomedical sphere to structure policy toward the governance of difference – voting neg refuses to play into the affirmation of life for the sake of itEhlers and Krupar ‘14 AND alternative hope tactics—"hoping for other things"—in relation to cancer. | 9/20/21 |
SO - K - capTournament: grapevine | Round: Triples | Opponent: strake jesuit NW | Judge: Delon Fuller Capitalism causes massive violence and inevitable extinction – the fundamental task is developing tools for organization and tactics to bring about revolution.Escalante ‘19 AND scientific status of Marxism, and must insist on the possibility of victory. The aff’s fear of vertical organizing is a reactionary infatuation with failure – naming oneself as a comrade is key to disciplined communist organizing.Dean ‘19 AND out the party’s work; all are equally important for the party’s work. The 1AC’s emphasis on cultural production of Asian-american identity fuels neoliberal multiculturalism that emphasizes fragmentation and the power of aestheticized resistance that turns case.Raymundo, 17 ~Emily Raymundo, PhD in philosophy @ University of Southern California, "REORIENTING ASIAN AMERICA: RACIAL FEELING IN A MULTICULTURAL ERA," 2017, ProQuest~Townes AND the two formations, while also being embedded in and shaping their intertwining. Labor competition was the foundation of Asian exploitation – their language games are meaningless and cede the question to neoliberal ends.San Juan Jr. ‘91 AND its effects, is what is occluded in Takaki’s narrative (see Nakanishi). Vote negative for communist organizing – that requires collective struggle and the establishment of centralized organization to inform both theory and practice.Kuhn ‘18 AND can watch failure unfold. The challenge lies in helping to prevent it. | 9/12/21 |
SO - K - cap v2Tournament: valley | Round: 3 | Opponent: edina SJ | Judge: Brixz Gonzaba 1NC – 1Capitalism is a system engendering massive violence and inevitable extinction – the foundational task is to find a way out – the Role of the Ballot is to endorse the best organizational tactics.Badiou ‘18 AND millennia. And that means that it is old — far too old. Ethical abstraction erases the material basis of exploitation and experience as foundational to human social production – you should understand humanity as a historical agent instead.Eagleton ‘11 AND prejudice that thought is independent of reality is itself shaped by social reality. The aff’s response to Covid-19 papers over the logics of capital that made it inevitable while simultaneously granting the US moral ammunition to continue it’s economic-imperial war against China and the global south.Foster and Suwandi ‘20 AND of color, where conditions of economic and environmental injustice are most severe. Vote neg to join the party – dual power organizing is the only path to revolutionary change.Escalante ‘18 AND to the soviets" will be heard again. Lets make it happen. When one speaks of communism, they have already invoked equality at the level of its Idea – thus, even if they are 100 correct about equality, this leaves them no choice but to commit themselves to communism.Badiou ‘8 AND existence of the communist hypothesis, in our consciousness and on the ground. | 9/26/21 |
SO - T - FWTournament: grapevine | Round: 2 | Opponent: cooper city NR | Judge: Jayanne Forrest Truth and justice B)Our interpretation is that the resolution should exclusively define the division of affirmative and negative ground"Resolved" before a colon reflects a legislative forum.USAWOCC 04 AND play: Nations are defined territories with governmentsMerriam Webster ~Merriam Webster, 8-22-2021, accessed on 9-6-2021, Merriam-webster, "Definition of NATION", https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nation~~ Adam AND federation of tribes (as of American Indians)the Seminole Nation in Oklahoma Medicines refer to physical substances.American Heritage Dictionary of Medicine 18 The American Heritage Dictionary of Medicine 2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company https://www.yourdictionary.com/medicine Elmer There are 4 types of IP the aff could reduce.Brewer 19 ~Trevor Brewer, 5-16-2019, accessed on 8-11-2021, BrewerLong, "What Are The 4 Types of Intellectual Property Rights? BrewerLong", https://brewerlong.com/information/business-law/four-types-of-intellectual-property/~~ Adam AND of a trademark is not required, but registering can offer additional advantages. Violation: they defend (insert). Independently, garnering offense from form implies their speech act is an advocacy. CX proves and hold the line – at best, they’re Extra-T which still links to our predictability offense.Vote neg –Predictable limits - post-facto topic adjustment manipulates the balance of prep which is anchored around the resolution. The resolution is the only official and public stasis point for pre-round prep.Two impactsClash – the resolution as a stasis point is key for thorough examining of both sides of topic – that deconstructs dogma through self-reflection and consideration of multiple viewpoints AND is a prerequisite for third- and fourth-level iteration that develops advocacy skills which turn all their out-of-round impacts.Outweighs:A well-defined resolution is critical to allow an iterative process of argument testing and improvement—-this does not require particular forms of argument, but does require a common point of disagreement.Poscher 16 – Director at the Institute for Staatswissenschaft and Philosophy of Law at the University of Freiburg (Ralf, "Why We Argue About the Law: An Agonistic Account of Legal Disagreement", Metaphilosophy of Law, Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki/Adam Dyrda/Pawel Banas (eds.), Hart Publishing, forthcoming) AND concept of justice to art such as to engage in an intelligible controversy. Procedural Fairness – speech times, speaker positions, and wins and losses prove debate is a game structured around competition. Procedural equity is necessary for the sustainability and value of that game otherwise no one will play – any interpretation that upsets it should lose. Independently, its assessment is inevitable because it’s the logical evaluative structure that undergirds their arguments.T outweighs case – in-round engagement is structured by pre-round abuse – anything else nullifies topicality and insulates their arguments from testing, so presume them false.Drop the debater on T – the entire aff is abusive; at worst, our engagement with every part of it was skewed – anything else greenlights 1AR restart.Use competing interps – reasonable limits invite unpredictable intervention and are impossible to determine while prepping – deviating from the topic is a conscious commission, so you should be able to justify it.No RVIs – it’s illogical – you shouldn’t win because the debate was good. It also encourages baiting theory and chills reading topicality which destroys the neg’s ability to check abuse – 1AR theory solves all of their offense.TVA solves their offense – they can say reducing IPPs is good for organizingSwitch side debate solves their offense because they can read their aff as a K on the negative | 9/11/21 |
SO - T - FW v2Tournament: grapevine | Round: Triples | Opponent: strake jesuit NW | Judge: Delon Fuller Our interpretation is the topic should determine the division of aff and neg ground – winning that voting ought not be compulsory should always be sufficient condition for voting negative – hold the line, CX and the 1AC prove there’s no I-meet."Resolved" is a formal decision.Merriam-Webster Nations are defined territories with governmentsMerriam Webster ~Merriam Webster, 8-22-2021, accessed on 9-6-2021, Merriam-webster, "Definition of NATION", https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nation~~ Adam AND federation of tribes (as of American Indians)the Seminole Nation in Oklahoma Medicines refer to physical substances.American Heritage Dictionary of Medicine 18 The American Heritage Dictionary of Medicine 2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company https://www.yourdictionary.com/medicine Elmer There are 4 types of IP the aff could reduce.Brewer 19 ~Trevor Brewer, 5-16-2019, accessed on 8-11-2021, BrewerLong, "What Are The 4 Types of Intellectual Property Rights? BrewerLong", https://brewerlong.com/information/business-law/four-types-of-intellectual-property/~~ Adam AND of a trademark is not required, but registering can offer additional advantages. The Role of the Ballot is to vote for whoever does the better debating – any alternative framework must explain why we switch sides, why there has to be a winner and a loser, and why there are structural rules. The frame for evaluating offense is that debate is a game and we’re all here to win – that means procedural questions come first.Vote neg for clash – abdicating government actions sanctions picking any interpretation for debate – incentivizes retreat from controversy and forces the neg to first characterize the aff and then debate it which eliminates the benefit of preround research. A common point of engagement ensures effective clash, which is a linear impact – negation is the necessary condition for distinguishing debate from discussion, but negation exists on a sliding scale. The topic of discussion is up to the affirmative, but depth and nuanced engagement is determined by negative ground. Any impact intrinsic to debate, not just discussion, comes from negation because it starts the process of critical thinking, reflexivity, and argument refinement.TVA and switch-side solve the 1AC –The TVA could be that IPPs are bad bc they perpetuate covid, and more covi means more anti asian sentimenrAny 1AR response to the substance of the TVA is offense for us because it proves our model allows for clear contestation and reading the rest of their theory on the negative solves their offense. | 9/12/21 |
SO - T - medicinesTournament: greenhill | Round: 6 | Opponent: mcneil AG | Judge: Varad Agarwala Interpretation: "medicines" is a generic bare plural. The aff may not defend that member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for a medicine or subset of medicines.Nebel 19. ~Jake Nebel is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California and executive director of Victory Briefs. He writes a lot of this stuff lol – duh.~ "Genericity on the Standardized Tests Resolution." Vbriefly. August 12, 2019. https://www.vbriefly.com/2019/08/12/genericity-on-the-standardized-tests-resolution/?fbclid=IwAR0hUkKdDzHWrNeqEVI7m59pwsnmqLl490n4uRLQTe7bWmWDO'avWCNzi14 TG AND "colleges and universities" is generic rather than existential in the resolution. Violation: They spec "medicines to the point that discoverable biological elements are not patentable" – cx and the 1ac proveStandards:~1~ precision – the counter-interp justifies them arbitrarily doing away with random words in the resolution which decks negative ground and preparation because the aff is no longer bounded by the resolution. Independent voter for jurisdiction – the judge doesn’t have the jurisdiction to vote aff if there wasn’t a legitimate aff.~2~ Limits and ground – their model allows affs to defend anything from Covid vaccines to HIV drugs to Insulin— there's no universal DA since each has different functions and political implications — that explodes neg prep and leads to random medicine of the week affs which makes cutting stable neg links impossible — limits key to reciprocal engagement since they create a caselist for neg prep and it takes out ground like DAs to certain medicines which are some of the few neg generics when affs spec medicines.~3~ TVA solves – you could’ve read your plan as an advantage under a whole res advocacy.Fairness – debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation. Outweighs because it’s the only intrinsic part of debate – all other rules can be debated over but rely on some conception of fairness to be justified.Drop the debater – a~ deter future abuse and b~ set better norms for debate.Competing interps – ~a~ reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention since there’s no clear norm, ~b~ it creates a race to the top where we create the best possible norms for debate.No RVIs – a~ illogical, you don’t win for proving that you meet the burden of being fair, logic outweighs since it’s a prerequisite for evaluating any other argument, b~ RVIs incentivize baiting theory and prepping it out which leads to maximally abusive practices | 9/20/21 |
SO - T - nebelTournament: greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: harker AS | Judge: Elijah Smith Interp: The affirmative must defend all member nations of the WTO reducing IPPsViolation: their plan is just the EUDefinitive articles like "the" mean the entirety of the subject – similar to the use of the word "all"Konig 18 König, Ekkehard. "Definite articles and their uses: ". Aspects of Linguistic Variation, edited by Daniël Olmen, Tanja Mortelmans and Frank Brisard, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2018, pp. 165-184. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110607963-006 Ekkehard König is a German linguist and Professor Emeritus at the Free University of Berlin, specializing in linguistic typology, semantics, and the linguistics of English. AND 6e), or action-instrument, as in examples like (7). WTO member nations are the following countries NOT THE EUWTO no date – see the list in the doc https://www.wto.org/english/thewto'e/whatis'e/tif'e/org6'e.htm~~#collapseI AND United States Uruguay Vanuatu Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of Viet Nam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe Grammar comes first:Stasis Point: using the grammatically correct interpretation of the resolution allows for a fixed stasis point that ensures a predictable division of ground.Resolvability: in grammar there is a definitive right and wrong interpretation which allows for an easily resolved debate. This ensures there is less judge intervention and increases topic education because it encourages less muddled T debates.Vote neg:Procedural fairness: They explode limits, opening the floodgates to an almost infinite scope of possible affs. They can cherry pick any member nation of the WTO to have reduce IP protections which makes it impossible for us to have a strat. This kills neg ground and creates a side bias for the aff. Debate is fundamentally a competitive game which means that fairness is a d-rule and a pre-req to evaluating aff offense.Clash: their aff doesn’t allow for sufficient clash - EU countries are too small a subset of the WTO to allow for all topic Das and CPsTVA solves - they could just read the aff as an advantage. Terminal defense against the aff and Das to the TVA are offense for us – means its debatableDrop the debater: key to deter abuse and the aff is the debaterCI: reasonability causes a rase to the bottom and its impossible to be reasonably topicalNo RVIS: You shouldn’t win for following the rules and RVIS would lead to a chilling effect preventing a check on legitimate abuse. | 9/18/21 |
SO - T - nebel v2Tournament: greenhill | Round: 3 | Opponent: harker AA | Judge: Sai Karavadi Interp: The affirmative must defend all member nations of the WTO ought to reduce IPPs, for clarification – that every member of the WTO should reduce ALL intellectual property protectionsViolation: their plan is the EU ought to reduce plan secret protectionsWTO member nations are the following countries NOT THE EUWTO no date – see the list in the doc https://www.wto.org/english/thewto'e/whatis'e/tif'e/org6'e.htm~~#collapseI AND United States Uruguay Vanuatu Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of Viet Nam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe Vote neg:Prep skew: big schools like hwl and harker have massive prep squads that allow for in depth research on the topic and 1ar strats, means that on this broad of a topic they can find any possible combonation of IPPs + countries or medicines, puts smaller schools and independents at a disadvantage because they don’t have access to immense prep filesLimits: specifying any permutation of countries PLUS a type of IPP creates infinite aff advocacies and worlds – ie that mexico + switzerland ought to reduce copyrights etc. means its impossible to negate the specific advocacy and offense of the affLimits outweighs: even if it’s a question if in round abuse the midterms DA or any non EU country specific link evidence wont link into the aff, means its impossible for the 1n to come up with a strat and the 2n to execute it – any possible fairness concerns are the cause of the 1ac because the 1n is reactiveFairness and eduTVA solves - they could just read the aff as an advantage. Terminal defense against the aff and Das to the TVA are offense for us – means its debatableDrop the debater: key to deter abuse – the aff advocacy is the debaterCI: reasonability causes a rase to the bottom and its impossible to be reasonably topicalNo RVIS: You shouldn’t win for following the rules and RVIS would lead to a chilling effect preventing a check on legitimate abuse. | 9/18/21 |
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