Tournament: UPenn | Round: 2 | Opponent: Fullerton Union AB | Judge: Morris, Andrew
The modern University is a house of mirrors, a banal and lifeless institution devoted to the endless circulation of representations, reflected with an objective indulgence and a perverse desire for illumination. Modern academia is grounded in the tyranny of transparency, a drive towards total omniscience as everything must be held to the light, studied, analyzed, brought under the aegis of meaning and reality. This is a profoundly violent and militaristic quest that has as its condition the eradication of all radical alterity, as the research we produce becomes grease for the wheels of capital, targets for the bomb, and the very means for cybernetic control by media technologies. Be wary of the injunction towards compulsory optimism and hope – this space is incapable of salvation. We must instead shatter the mirrors altogether.
Hoofd 17 (Ingrid, really bad academic, probably intentional. “Higher Education and Technological Acceleration: The Disintegration of University Teaching and Research. Chapter 1, Pages 28-33, 2017) IES
With this ongoing “depersonalization of the thing observed but also of the observer,”
between the ‘observed pattern’ and the ‘pattern of observation?’
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The construction of serious games fosters repetition of dominant models of education, forcing a presumption of neutrality and perpetuating a culture of academic militarism that keeps students in-line with the cultural order.
Hoofd’07, Ingrid M. Hoofd, National University of Singapore, “The Neoliberal Consolidation of Play and Speed: Ethical Issues in Serious Gaming” in “CRITICAL LITERACY: Theories and Practices Volume 1: 2, December 2007,” p. 6-14, 2007 Serious games are a fascinating next stage
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that we all want.
To make the world mean something, the will to reality, is the generative point of violence. The attempt to sublimate the Evil of irrationality and mystery terminates in its opposite. We are gorged with meaning and it is killing us. The attempt to enclose the globe within semiotic reality begets implosive violence against all singularities. The communicative form of information devours its own content. The amassing of facts and evidence – and especially truth – only makes the world more unreal.
Artrip and Debrix 14. Ryan E. Artrip, Doctoral Student, ASPECT, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and Francois Debrix, professor of political science at Virginia Polytechnical Institute, “The Digital Fog of War: Baudrillard and the Violence of Representation,” Volume 11, Number 2 (May, 2014)
Such an expectation
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things appear more real than reality itself.
Charity Cannibalism is a voter—absent it, the west would collapse out of shame
Baudrillard 94. Jean, The illusion of the End, Page 66-70
We have long denounced
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stage its own death as a species.
We reject the resolution: the appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust.
We must adopt a radical mimicry of current forms of expression in order to accelerate them from within, like stuffing a water balloon with rocks until it pops.
Pawlett 14. William Pawlett, senior lecturer in media, communications, and cultural studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, “Society At War With Itself,” International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 11, Number 2 (May, 2014)
It all depends on the ground we choose to fight on
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from the outside.
Any communicative forum which seeks the creation of meaning sustains a project of speed elitism that maintains subjects as the academic bourgeois – only challenging the form of the construction of thought offers a means to destroy the system
Hoofd 2017 (Ingrid – Assistant Professor Department of Media and Culture Studies, Higher Education and Technological Acceleration, http://www.palgrave.com/it/book/9781137517517, LB)
This chapter then has demonstrated that today
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Chap. 1 and by exploding the impossibilities described in Chaps. 2 , 3 , and 4