Tournament: TFA State | Round: 3 | Opponent: BoeCha Leon Petriu | Judge: Jacob Lugo
Western Communication is on the brink of implosion – oversaturated by endless signs and images. Reality is dead, information is dissuasive, and truth no longer exists – any critical content of the Aff is over-coded by the hyperreal form of communication.
Artrip and Debrix 18, Ryan E., and François Debrix. "The viral mediation of terror: ISIS, image, implosion." Critical Studies in Media Communication 35.1 (2018): 74-88. (Philosophy and Political Science at Guilford College and Elon University)Elmer
Mediation and the virality of the image A crucial feature of the contemporary media system
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into information becomes the object of endless speculation" (p. 41).
Artrip and Debrix 14, Ryan E., and François Debrix. "The digital fog of war: Baudrillard and the violence of representation." (2014). (Philosophy and Political Science at Guilford College and Elon University)Elmer
The story that needs to be told is thus not about the undoubtedly deplorable "
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immune systems and our capacities to resist" (2003; our italics).
Pawlett 7, William. Jean Baudrillard: against banality. Routledge, 2007. (Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Wolverhampton)Elmer
To exemplify his position regarding information, Baudrillard focuses on news reports where there is
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we merely complete the circuit. Human interaction is replaced by simulatory interactivity.
The Will to Objectivity turns the world into a Global Target – Academic Rationality and the Will to Know culminates in Extermination.
Answers Science/Objective Truth Args
Chow 06. Rey Chow, professor of comparative literature at Brown, The Age of the World Target, 2006, pg. 40 Elmer
Often under the modest and apparently innocuous agendas of fact gathering and documentation, the
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a definable object"-and by "the problem of the vanishing object."
Pawlett 7, William. Jean Baudrillard: against banality. Routledge, 2007. (Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Wolverhampton)Elmer
Radical thought, as Baudrillard styles it, is not scientific, but nor is
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entirely dominated by relations of uncertainty. (Baudrillard, 2001c: 18)