Tournament: UPenn | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harrison TB | Judge: He, Eric
The modern University is devoted to the endless circulation of representations. Modern academia is grounded in the tyranny of transparency, a drive towards total omniscience as everything must be held to the light, studied, analyzed, co-opted. The research they create for the resolution is fundamentally complicit in this – the production of objective knowledge surrounding the private management of outer space only strengthens informational governance.
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
Like Lyotard, Virilio suggests
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observation?’
Their attempt to make the world mean something is the generative point of violence in the contemporary world—everything must be made known. Everything. The meanings and content of what we read are stripped and turned into fuel for the fire.
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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real than reality itself.
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
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in a sense, created 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
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the impossibilities described in Chaps. 2 , 3 , and 4