1ac - lunar base 1nc - T Queer K 1ar - answers 1nr - K 2ar - fw
Berkley
3
Opponent: Brent AR | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin
1ac - cap aff 1nc - innovation DA Nigeria DA 1ar - answers 1nr - innovatio DA war turn 2ar - answers
Berkley
3
Opponent: Brent AR | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin
1ac - cap aff 1nc - innovation DA Nigeria DA 1ar - answers 1nr - innovatio DA war turn 2ar - answers
College Prep
2
Opponent: Harker MS | Judge: Gerard Grisby
1ac - space faring asteroid mining 1nc - 3 T shells and Asteroid mining DA and CP 1ar - answers 1nc - DA and CP
College Prep
4
Opponent: Harker AS | Judge: Alex Baez
1ac - harker space faring aff 1nc - extra T Space Law DA Case 1ar - answers 1nr - Space law DA 2ar - answers
Colleyville
1
Opponent: Immaculate Heart MF | Judge: Kristen Arnold
1ac - china aff 1nc - t deluze k 1ar - answering 1nr - k 2ar - no link
Colleyville
5
Opponent: Memorial DX | Judge: Chetan Hertzig
1ac - white science aff 1nc - cap k and t 1ar - answering 1nr - cap k 2ar - perm
Colleyville
3
Opponent: Plano East JN | Judge: Devin Hernandez
1ac - lunar base 1nc - T outer space t-gov econ da LHS CP case spikes shell 1ar - answering 1nr - econ da LHS CP case 2ar - answering
Flower Mound
4
Opponent: Newman Smith SJ | Judge: Brennan Dufrene
1ac - phil 1nc - academy k 1ar - answering 1nr - academy 2ar - answers
Heart of Texas
1
Opponent: Harker VZ | Judge: Gerard Grigsby
1AC- waiver during crisis disease extinction 1NC- cap k case 1ar- case cap k 1nr- case collapse on cap 2ar- case cap
Hebron
Finals
Opponent: Faith Choate GP | Judge: Lucas Chan
1ac - fem aff sex strikes 1nc - cap k 1ar - ROB is fem 1nr - cap 1st ROB cap ROB wash 2ar - fem rob and fem solves
TFA State
4
Opponent: Stephen F Austin VG | Judge: Holden Bukowsky
1AC - whole rez 1NC - baudrillard case 1AR - answers 1NR - pressumption on case K 2AR - Objectivity possible W
UPenn
1
Opponent: Walt Whitman HZ | Judge: MALACHI AMBROSE
1ac - PTD 1nc - queer k disc t-reduce case 1ar - answers 1nr - K 2ar - answers
UPenn
5
Opponent: All Saint Episcopal EA | Judge: Eric He
1ac - struc vio aff 1nc - queer ir k disc case 1ar - answers 1nr - k 2ar - weighing and no link
UPenn
Doubles
Opponent: Princeton AS | Judge: Jonathan Hsu panel
1ac - mining 1nc - t appropriation and queer ir K 1ar - answers 1nr - k and Fpik 2ar - perm fw and no Fpik
UPenn
Octas
Opponent: Ridge VS | Judge: Panel
1ac - semio cap aff 1nc - T 2DAs case 1ar - answers 1nr - T ROB ivory tower DA 2ar - answers
Yale
5
Opponent: West Des Moines Valley MM | Judge: Annie Wang
1ac- lockean libertarianism fw phil trix ac 1nc- cap k 1ar- AFC answering cap 1nr- cap k 2ar- AFC XT defense
Yale
2
Opponent: Scarsdale OL | Judge: Anand Rao
1ac- covid aff 1nc- cap k case 1ar- case k 2nr- k turns case links alt solves aff 2ar- perm solves
Yale
3
Opponent: Syosset ML | Judge: Josh Li
1ac- covid waiver 1nc- inno DA Export CP case 1ar- straight down 1nr- Inno DA Case 1ar- Inno DA Case
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Tournament: All | Round: 1 | Opponent: All | Judge: All 0 - Contact info/ DeabteDrills /Navigation 1 - Theory 2 - K generics 3 - Other generics SO – September and October Topic ND – November and December Topic JF - January and February Topic MA - March and April Topic
2/13/22
1 - JF - Appropriation
Tournament: College Prep | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker MS | Judge: Gerard Grisby Interpretation and violation – appropriation means taking possession of something. Affs based around usage of resources are nontopical Dictionary ND, Dictionary.com, “appropriation”, https://www.dictionary.com/browse/appropriation, DD AG
Standards
Limits: Specing allows them to have an inf amount of affs that the neg cannot account for. Makes it impossible to negate and destroys fairness and education. 2. TVA solves all their offense. They can have the same impacts with a whole res aff.
This is drop the debater. It destroys fairness and clash.
2/13/22
1 - JF - Appropriation v2
Tournament: UPenn | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Princeton AS | Judge: Jonathan Hsu panel Interpretation: the affirmative may not specify a type of appropriation ‘The’ indicates that appropriation is generic – no spec is allowed Merriam Webster’s 19 Online Dictionary, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the 4 -- used as a function word before a noun or a substantivized adjective to indicate reference to a group as a whole the elite Violation: they spec asteroid mining Standards 1 Limits – they can spec infinite different types of appropriation like space mining, satellite orbit types, colonization, etc. This takes out functional 2 TVA solves – just read your aff as an advantage to a whole rez aff –
Topicality is a voting issue that should be evaluated through competing interpretations—it tells the negative what they do and do not have to prepare for. Reasonability is arbitrary and unpredictable, inviting a race to the bottom and we’ll win it links to our offense.
No RVIs—it’s your burden to be fair and T—same reason you don’t win for answering inherency or putting defense on a disad.
2/13/22
1 - JF - Disclosure
Tournament: UPenn | Round: 5 | Opponent: All Saint Episcopal EA | Judge: Eric He Interpretation: debaters must disclose the aff 30 mins before the round either on the wiki or through email Violation: my opponent did not disclose at all
Standards:
Strat skew: The entirety of the neg strat is entirely reactive to the aff. This is an internal link to fairness. 2. Clash: the neg cannot not properly engage with the aff if they have never seen the argument before Internal link to education. Voters:
Fairness: 2. Education:
Paradigm issues:
Prefer competing interpretation, it is the only way to set norms in debate and ensure that abusive tactics are not used just in the name of the ballot 2. Drop the debater, only way to set a precedent 3. No RVIs, only goes on to punish the debater for calling out abuse
2/13/22
1 - JF - Extra
Tournament: College Prep | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker MS | Judge: Gerard Grisby Interpretation – the affirmative may not defend anything beyond the scope of the topic. To be clear, the affirmative may not defend that a specific type of appropriation of outer space is unjust.
Standards
Limits: Specing allows them to have an inf amount of affs that the neg cannot account for. Makes it impossible to negate and destroys fairness and education. 2. TVA solves all their offense. They can have the same impacts with a whole res aff.
This is drop the debater. It destroys fairness and clash.
2/13/22
1 - JF - Nebel
Tournament: Colleyville | Round: 3 | Opponent: Plano East JN | Judge: Devin Hernandez OS under Colley
Interpretation – the aff may not defend that the appropriation of outer space by a certain set of private entities is unjust. Entities is a generic bare plural Nebel 20 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. “Indefinite Singular Generics in Debate” Victory Briefs, 19 August 2020. no url AG I agree that if “a democracy” in the resolution just meant “one or more democracy,” then a country-specific affirmative could be topical. But, as I will explain in this topic analysis, that isn’t what “a democracy” means in the resolution. To see why, we first need to back up a bit and review (or learn) the idea of generic generalizations. It applies to this topic – a entities is an existential bare plural bc it has no determiner b The sentence “The appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust” does not imply “the appropriation of outer space by private and public entities is unjust” Violation – they spec x private entities. Standards 1 Limits – they can spec infinite different entities like 2 TVA solves – just read your aff as an advantage to a whole rez aff. PICs aren’t aff offense – a it’s ridiculous to b There’s only a small number of pics c PICs incentivize better affs
2/13/22
1 - JF - Outer Space
Tournament: Colleyville | Round: 3 | Opponent: Plano East JN | Judge: Devin Hernandez Interpretation- The affirmative must defend the appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust. Outer space doesn’t include celestial bodies- Science Daily Outer Space. Science Daily. URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/outer_space.htm JV
Standards- 1 Limits-
Voters- Fairness and education are voters – Precision o/w – Drop the debater No RVIs –
2/13/22
1 - JF - Policy
Tournament: Colleyville | Round: 5 | Opponent: Memorial DX | Judge: Chetan Hertzig Interpretation – the affirmative has to defend a policy action under the resolution. The term “resolved” calls for an analysis of the consequences of the topic which happens through some form of action, and not the discourse of “white science”.
Violation – they do not defend a specific policy action. They concede they don’t engage in policy making. Standards:
Aff-neg dialectics---the resolution is the only problem given to both teams in advance - centering it allows deep preparation and engagement that refines our activist strategies. Post-facto shifts do not capture this offense because lack of central point to engage means that we can’t effectively synthesize activist lessons. Scheuer, 21 Robert Scheuer is a Social Ecologist from Southeast Michigan. He received a M.A. in Philosophy from Eastern Michigan University, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Michigan State University, “Dialogical Vanguard Pedagogy: Educate, Agitate, Awaken!,” 5/17/2021, Midwestern MarxTownes Clash: effective clash is the only way to learn about the topic and create change. It is thru resolutional debating that we are able to become beter activitists that can challenge structures of power. 2. Clash - The government isn’t going to change because you win an affirmative. Proves your advocacy is a sham. Your evidence is non-existent on this question, and all the debate rounds that have been won and produced zero government change 3. Fairness – Their interp explodes limits and allows affs to monopolize the moral high ground. The lack of a stable mechanism lets them radically re-contextualize their aff and erase neg ground via perms. Fairness is good and prior – debate’s a game that requires effective competition and negation, which makes their offense inevitable.
This is drop the debater. Prefer competing interps. No rvis prevents us from calling abuse
2/13/22
1 - JF - Private Entities
Tournament: Colleyville | Round: 3 | Opponent: Plano East JN | Judge: Devin Hernandez Interpretation – The affirmative must defend the enactment of a hypothetical government action of the resolution. The text of the resolution calls for debate on hypothetical government action: “Resolved” means to enact a policy by law. Words and Phrases ’64 (Words and Phrases; 1964; Permanent Edition) Government action is necessary to regulate private entities. Blaustein 18 (Blaustein, Richard. “Private-Sector Space Activities Require Government Regulation, Says US Report.” Physics World, IOP Publishing, 4 July 2018, physicsworld.com/a/private-sector-space-activities-require-government-regulation-says-us-report/.)DebateDrills AY Governments have responsibility over non-government (private) entity actions in outer space. UNOOSA (UNOOSA. “United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs.” Outer Space Treaty, UNOOSA, www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties/outerspacetreaty.html.)DebateDrillsAY Violation- The actor of the aff is “private entities” Standards- 1 Predictable limits – there are more than 10,000 private companies investing in space Keotsier 21 . 2 Policymaking –
2/13/22
1 - JF - Reduce
Tournament: UPenn | Round: 1 | Opponent: Walt Whitman HZ | Judge: MALACHI AMBROSE interp: the aff debater must defend banning appropriation by private entities, not reduction. Vio: plan text and The PTD doesn’t ban appropriation by private entities, just limits them. Rollins 06 Brigit, “The Public Domain: Basics of the Public Trust Doctrine”, The National Agricultural Law Center. April 2006. https://nationalaglawcenter.org/the- To clarify: reduce is make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size (oxford) and ban is officially or legally prohibit (oxford). Framers intent: Reduce is too vague- Standards:
Clash: 2. TVA solves
2/13/22
1 - JF - v K Affs
Tournament: UPenn | Round: Octas | Opponent: Ridge VS | Judge: Panel Interpretation – the affirmative should have to defend a why appropriation of outer space is unjust
Appropriation of outer space is the exercise of exclusive control. Trapp 13 (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)DebateDrills AY
Standards:
Aff-neg dialectics---the resolution is the only problem given to both teams in advance - centering it allows deep preparation and engagement that refines our activist strategies. Post-facto shifts do not capture this offense because lack of central point to engage means that we can’t effectively synthesize activist lessons. Scheuer, 21 Robert Scheuer is a Social Ecologist from Southeast Michigan. He received a M.A. in Philosophy from Eastern Michigan University, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Michigan State University, “Dialogical Vanguard Pedagogy: Educate, Agitate, Awaken!,” 5/17/2021, Midwestern MarxTownes 2. Clash: 3. Limits- This is drop the debater. Prefer competing interps. No rvis prevents us from calling abuse
2/14/22
1 - MA - Cap v Fem
Tournament: TFA State | Round: 1 | Opponent: Vandegrift | Judge: Christopher Sterns Their idea that by hacking the resolution and debate they can challenge capitalist capture is false. Capitalism thrives on that narrative of “escape”. Disrupting a logic or social system cannot solve, boring analysis of structures is necessary. Bluhdorn 07 – (May 2007, Ingolfur, PhD, Reader in Politics/Political Sociology, University of Bath, “Self-description, Self-deception, Simulation: A Systems-theoretical Perspective on Contemporary Discourses of Radical Change,” Social Movement Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1–20, May 2007, google scholar)
Their model of fem activism through transgression replicates neoliberalism by refusing the promise of collective transformation Drucker 15 Peter Drucker (Peter has emerged in the 21st century as a leading Marxist scholar in queer studies. His special contributions concern the roots of 'homonormativity' in neoliberalism, the impact of neoliberal globalization on same-sex sexualities in dependent countries, and links between queer and anti-capitalist resistance. He is also working on a series of studies on gender and sexual dimensions of Islamophobia, in both Europe and the Middle East. Finally, he continues his long-term work on the history of US and European socialism, connecting it to the left's record on feminist and LGBTIQ issues.); 2015; “Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism”; https://books.google.com/books?id=_ByoBgAAQBAJandpg=PA301BWSWJ
The aff’s rejection of the specific details of political engagement is not radical but continues the prevailing mode of leftist cynicism that eviscerates our ability to construct alternatives to political domination Burgum ‘15 (Samuel, PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Warwick and has been conducting research with Occupy London since 2012, “The branding of the left: between spectacle and passivity in an era of cynicism,” Journal for Cultural Research, Volume 19, Issue 3)
The alternative is to theorize through Marxist Materialism – only collective action focused on a unified front can produce a queer anti-capitalism Drucker 11 Peter Drucker; “The Fracturing of LGBT Identities under Neoliberal Capitalism”; Historical Materialism 19.4 (2011) 3–32; http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1000.69andrep=rep1andtype=pdfBWSWJ
Capitalism is the root cause of heteronormativity and a politics that queers socialism provides the best analytical tools to solve it Sears 13 Alan Sears (Sears is the author of, among other works, "Queer in a Lean World" and “Queer Anti-Capitalism: What's Left of Lesbian and Gay Liberation?” and co-author with James Cairns of The Democratic Imagination) interviewed by Andrew Sernatinger and Tessa Echeverria (Andrew Sernatinger and Tessa Echeverria are socialists based in Madison, Wisconsin. This interview was recorded for their podcast, Black Sheep Radio); November 6, 2013; Queering Socialism: An Interview with Alan Sears; New Politics; http://newpol.org/content/queering-socialism-interview-alan-sears;BWSWJ
3/10/22
2 - JF - Academy
Tournament: Flower Mound | Round: 4 | Opponent: Newman Smith SJ | Judge: Brennan Dufrene The 1ACs opposition to the excesses of modernity through the refusal of academic modes positions the aff as a critical savoir of the negligent other in whose name they speak. This is the professionalism of the academy par excellence, where negligence is appropriated and weaponized in favor of an auto-encylopedic mode of recognizing the litany of abuses – this is the worst form of counter insurgency and the most subtle and damning mode of incorporation and turns the aff. The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study, Stefano Harney and Fred Moten Released by Minor Compositions 2013 Wivenhoe / New York / Port Watson Pg 30-34 Their investment into philosophical discussion about our relationship towards otherness is a tool of speed-elitism. The move for more transparent discussions about ethics mystifies the reliance on highly exlcusive and unethical technologies of travel and communication. By figuring those technics as the metrics for liberatory theology, that expands Debate’s state of exploitation. Hoofd 10(Ingrid M. Hoofd is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore, "The Accelerated University: Activist-Academic Alliances and the Simulation of Thought." Ephemera: Theory and politics in organisation, Vol. 10, No.1 (September 2010), http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/accelerated-university-activist-academic-alliances-and-simulation-thought) KB+TR Collab The Conditioning of debate as a sight for liberal discussions about our orientations towards ethics merely engenders a semiotic fantasy of radicalism – paving over very real conditions of pain and death that make this space possible. Its try or die for a semiotic insurrection. www.AnarchistNews.org 10. “The University, Social Death, and the Inside Joke,” https://web.archive.org/web/20171110115921/http://anarchistnews.org/content/university-social-death-and-inside-joke Thus The alternative is _Sike You Thought_ Voting neg is a withdrawal from the instrumental game of call-and-response into an aesthetic under-commons of redaction, opacity, and fugitive resonance. The refusal of demands for transparent or professionalized theory of ethics frustrates the professional logistics of academia. Moten and Harney 13 – Fred Moten, professor of Performance Studies at New York University and has taught previously at University of California, Riverside, Duke University, Brown University, and the University of Iowa, and Stefano Harney, Professor of Strategic Management Education at Singapore Management University, 2013 (Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study, pgs. 28-32)
2/13/22
2 - JF - Cap v Identity
Tournament: Colleyville | Round: 5 | Opponent: Memorial DX | Judge: Chetan Hertzig Claims of metaphysical ontology are inherently depoliticizing, locking in politics rather than opening up the possibility of a pragmatics of becoming acting directly upon the contingencies of power relations that make up the status quo. Buck-Morss 13. Susan Buck-Morss, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center, NYC, “A Commonist Ethics,” in The Idea of Communism, 2013, http://susanbuckmorss.info/text/commonist-ethics/ The aff’s articulation of antiracist politics ahistoricizes the social transformations made possible by commitment to revolutionary politics—accusations of past failures within socialist movements become the justification for minimizing class struggle Reed 17 (Adolph, Jr, Prof of Political Science @ U of Pennsylvania, “Revolution as ‘National Liberation’ and the Origins of Neoliberal Antiracism,” Socialist Register 2017, ed. Gregory Albo and Leo Panitch, p. 299-322) Capitalism causes war, violence, environmental destruction and extinction Robinson 14 (William I., Prof. of Sociology, Global and International Studies, and Latin American Studies, @ UC-Santa Barbara, “Global Capitalism: Crisis of Humanity and the Specter of 21st Century Fascism” The World Financial Review) The alternative is to theorize through Marxist Materialism, which contests the political efficacy and descriptive accuracy of the 1AC by returning to the conceptual tools long central to the American black radical tradition Ferguson ‘15 (Stephen C., Assoc. Prof. in Liberal Studies @ North Carolina A and T State U., Philosophy of African American Studies: Nothing Left of Blackness, p. 7-14)
2/13/22
2 - JF - Deluze
Tournament: Colleyville | Round: 1 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart MF | Judge: Kristen Arnold OS v. IMMAC HEART
The affirmative offers a solution: implement a restriction on Chinese private entities to secure hegemony. This is the wrong approach—we exist within a “control society,” where power is exercised not through repression, but continuous control-- frame this round as an interrogation of productivity and desire. Deleuze 92Gilles Deleuze was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus, both co-written with psychoanalyst Félix Guattari, Postscript on the Societies of Control on JSTOR, Winter 1992,The MIT press,https://www.jstor.org/stable/778828?seq=1, 12-11-2021 amrita
Distinctions between the private and public sphere do not exist-- the affirmative’s theorization of such is the latest tactic of control society to modulate the enunciation of behavior and subjectivity through fascist mechanisms. Hardt 98 Michael Hardt is an American political philosopher and literary theorist. Hardt is best known for his book Empire, which was co-written with Antonio Negri. It has been praised by Slavoj Žižek as the "Communist Manifesto of the 21st Century". He is currently a professor of literature at Duke University, The Global Society of Control on JSTOR, Fall 1998, Discourse Vol. 20, No. 3, Gilles Deleuze: A Reason to Believe in this World, https://www.jstor.org/stable/41389503, 12-14-2021 amrita
This may seem innocuous, but it creates a war on difference, a new totalitarian model that is premised upon reactive orientations to desire, leaving only a simulation of political participation creating fascism-- that turns case. Karatzogianni and Robinson 13. Athina Karatzogianni is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester (UK), Andrew Robinson is an independent researcher and writer, “Schizorevolutions vs. Microfascisms: A Deleuzo-Nietzschean Perspective on State, Security, and Active/Reactive Networks,” Selected Works, July 2013, http://works.bepress.com/athina_ karatzogianni, 8-17-2019, amrita Endorse community-based radical organizing built around collective solidarity—the aff plan is doomed to failure if it is tied to discussions of hegemony and war. Space has the radical potential to be different and you should affirm a subversion of their politic—no perms. Battaglia 12 Debbora Battaglia is a professor at Mount Holyoke College. “Arresting hospitality: the case of the 'handshake in space,” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 18, https://www.jstor.org/stable/41506671., 12-14-2021 amrita The aff must defend their epistemic orientation and not just the causal consequences of the plan:
a) Interrogation DA: b) Desire DA:
2/12/22
2 - JF - Queer IR
Tournament: UPenn | Round: 1 | Opponent: Walt Whitman HZ | Judge: MALACHI AMBROSE The psychic and structural imposition of liberalism legitimizes securitized rhetoric and biopolitical control in domestic spheres which justifies the affs heternormative logic Melanie Richter-Montpetit, 03-17-2017, ("Queer International Relations," No Publication, https://oxfordre.com/politics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228637-e-265) SP The aff’s drive to prevent extinction is a form of masculine survivalism where gendered bodies become the unwilling tools to sustain humanity Mitchell 15 (Audra Mitchell, Audra Mitchell is a settler scholar who lives and works on the Ancestral and treaty lands of the Neutral (Attawandaron), Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas of the New Credit (please see Honouring the Land). She currently holds the the Canada Research Chair in Global Political Ecology at Wilfrid Laurier University. From 2015-18 she held the CIGI Chair in Global Governance and Ethics at the Balsillie School of International Affairs Audra is an Associate Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, 8-3-2015, "Gendering extinction," Worldly, https://worldlyir.wordpress.com/2015/08/03/gendering-extinction/, JKS) The 1AC perpetuates this fear of death that is rooted in violence against non – normative bodies, we become the scapegoats for violence in the name of preserving a future-to-come that never quite arrives. Winnubst 2006 (Shannon, Asst. Prof. Women’s Studies, “Queering Freedom,” 2006 Pp. 184)CJQ The alternative is THE ABORTION OF REALITY, to sign your ballot for NONE OF THE ABOVE in an act of queer mutiny that throws into question heterosexual logics of reproduction and efficiency that would straightwash the violence done to queers by articulating it only as individual criminal acts. This social order has given nothing to queers that they couldn’t build on their own: use your ballot to embrace a queer reclamation of this and every other space. Edelman 2004 (Lee, Prof. English Tufts, “No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive,” Pp. 4-5)Raunak The judge should treat the AC as an artifact. Resolvability¬– A. Rep shape policy implementation– B. Repetition compulsion– Your theorizations relies on violence against genderqueer and trans bodies to justify itself. Shepherd and Sjoberg 12 (Laura J, Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Professor of International Relations at Sydney University, and Laura, PhD USC and associate professor of Political Science at the University of Florida, Trans- bodies in/of war(s): Cisprivilege and contemporary security strategy, Feminist Review) Raunak Dua
2/13/22
2 - JF - Queer IR v2
Tournament: UPenn | Round: 5 | Opponent: All Saint Episcopal EA | Judge: Eric He Policies are pursued for the sake of the future generations in an endless cycle of reproductive futurism that excludes the queer. Baedan 12: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/baedan-baedan#toc7 baedan. Journal of queer nihilism issue one. Accessed 11/04/18. AQ. The psychic and structural imposition of liberalism legitimizes securitized rhetoric and biopolitical control in domestic spheres which justifies the affs heternormative logic Melanie Richter-Montpetit, 03-17-2017, ("Queer International Relations," No Publication, https://oxfordre.com/politics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228637-e-265) SP The 1AC perpetuates this fear of death that is rooted in violence against non – normative bodies, we become the scapegoats for violence in the name of preserving a future-to-come that never quite arrives. Winnubst 2006 (Shannon, Asst. Prof. Women’s Studies, “Queering Freedom,” 2006 Pp. 184)CJQ The alternative is THE ABORTION OF REALITY, to sign your ballot for NONE OF THE ABOVE in an act of queer mutiny that throws into question heterosexual logics of reproduction and efficiency that would straightwash the violence done to queers by articulating it only as individual criminal acts. This social order has given nothing to queers that they couldn’t build on their own: use your ballot to embrace a queer reclamation of this and every other space. Edelman 2004 (Lee, Prof. English Tufts, “No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive,” Pp. 4-5)Raunak The judge should treat the AC as an artifact. The aff must defend their epistemic orientation prior to debating a risk of fiated solvency. A. Resolvability¬– B. Rep shape policy implementation– C. Repetition compulsion–
The ontopolitical nature of gender encodes of cispirvellege shapes the way we conceptualize of IR – Your theorizations relies on violence against genderqueer and trans bodies to justify itself. Shepherd and Sjoberg 12 (Laura J, Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Professor of International Relations at Sydney University, and Laura, PhD USC and associate professor of Political Science at the University of Florida, Trans- bodies in/of war(s): Cisprivilege and contemporary security strategy, Feminist Review) Raunak Dua STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE DA:
2/13/22
2 - JF - Queer IR v3
Tournament: UPenn | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Princeton AS | Judge: Jonathan Hsu panel The psychic and structural imposition of liberalism legitimizes securitized rhetoric and biopolitical control in domestic spheres which justifies the affs heternormative logic Melanie Richter-Montpetit, 03-17-2017, ("Queer International Relations," No Publication, https://oxfordre.com/politics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228637-e-265) SP The aff’s drive to prevent extinction is a form of masculine survivalism where gendered bodies become the unwilling tools to sustain humanity Mitchell 15 (Audra Mitchell, Audra Mitchell is a settler scholar who lives and works on the Ancestral and treaty lands of the Neutral (Attawandaron), Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas of the New Credit (please see Honouring the Land). She currently holds the the Canada Research Chair in Global Political Ecology at Wilfrid Laurier University. From 2015-18 she held the CIGI Chair in Global Governance and Ethics at the Balsillie School of International Affairs Audra is an Associate Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, 8-3-2015, "Gendering extinction," Worldly, https://worldlyir.wordpress.com/2015/08/03/gendering-extinction/, JKS) The 1AC perpetuates this fear of death that is rooted in violence against non – normative bodies, we become the scapegoats for violence in the name of preserving a future-to-come that never quite arrives. Winnubst 2006 (Shannon, Asst. Prof. Women’s Studies, “Queering Freedom,” 2006 Pp. 184)CJQ The alternative is THE ABORTION OF REALITY, to sign your ballot for NONE OF THE ABOVE in an act of queer mutiny that throws into question heterosexual logics of reproduction and efficiency that would straightwash the violence done to queers by articulating it only as individual criminal acts. This social order has given nothing to queers that they couldn’t build on their own: use your ballot to embrace a queer reclamation of this and every other space. Edelman 2004 (Lee, Prof. English Tufts, “No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive,” Pp. 4-5)Raunak The judge should treat the AC as an artifact. The aff must defend their epistemic orientation prior to debating a risk of fiated solvency. A. Resolvability¬– B. Rep shape policy implementation– C. Repetition compulsion– The ontopolitical nature of gender encodes of cispirvellege shapes the way we conceptualize of IR – Your theorizations relies on violence against genderqueer and trans bodies to justify itself. Shepherd and Sjoberg 12 (Laura J, Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Professor of International Relations at Sydney University, and Laura, PhD USC and associate professor of Political Science at the University of Florida, Trans- bodies in/of war(s): Cisprivilege and contemporary security strategy, Feminist Review) Raunak Dua UTIL DA: Util is the fantasy of reproductive futurity, it cannot exist without.
2/13/22
2 - MA - Baudrillard
Tournament: TFA State | Round: 4 | Opponent: Stephen F Austin VG | Judge: Holden Bukowsky Objective Communication is terminally unsustainable -- the proliferation of a singular interconnected sphere of the media has conditioned what we perceive as real. No longer is what we perceive grounded in any tangibly objective reality, rather, information is created and spread by the media, and the legitimacy of new information is determined through its cross-checking with the information deemed “objective” by media representations. Krevel 18 Mojca, Professor of English at the University of Lituania, “On the Apocalypse that No One Noticed”, https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/elope/article/view/7917, published 2018, accessed 07/04/18
The Impact is implosive violence as we seek to exterminate otherness by imposing meaning onto the globe. 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)raunak dua
The endless search for objectivity culminates in a violent cycle of self-depravity – instead you should vote negative to refuse their binarisitic interpolation of information Pawlett’14 Dr. William Pawlett (Sociology and Cultural Studies, University of Wolverhampton, UK) raunak dua
Interpretation – the 1AC is an object of research. The role of the negative should be to disprove the contents of that object
3/11/22
2 - ND - Cap
Tournament: Hebron | Round: Finals | Opponent: Faith Choate GP | Judge: Lucas Chan Our thesis is that the collapse of capitalism is inevitable, it is a question of now or later: you should frame your decision through an anti-capitalist lens by centering the valorization of productivity that aff’s logic is founded upon. Kuang 20 Da Kuang and Changyi Huang are professors at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, College of Marxism in Wuhan 430074, China. A Study of Marx’s Thought on the Speed of Capital Accumulation, Presented at the 2020 International Conference on Social Science, Economics and Education Research (SSEER 2020), Atlantic Press: Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research Volume 455, 8-22-21, amrita
The aff’s insidious attempts to replace welfare with wage labor reinforces the idealization and social control of “work ethic”. Myths of work allow governments to blame systemic poverty on the behavior of the poor. Valorization of work and notions that you can resist via unionization deflates proletariat unity by turning workers against non-workers. Frayne 15 Frayne, David. The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work . Zed Books, London (2015); 98-105; CE recut amrita Rights based frameworks that posit unionization as the end all to all problems are part of the problem—consumption and work fuel each other cyclically. The proletariat must refuse the demand of work to refuse the demand of consumption. Lafargue 83 Lafargue, Paul. The Right To Be Lazy. Charles Kerr and Co., Illinois (1883); Retrieved on March 23, 2010 from www.marxists.org; https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/paul-lafargue-the-right-to-be-lazy amrita
But capitalism can’t be saved. The short-term rejuvenation simply pushes back the long-term inevitable collapse which dooms us to death by climate change before the revolution can happen— Foster 18 John Bellamy Foster, John Bellamy Foster is a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and also editor of Monthly Review. He writes about political economy of capitalism and economic crisis, ecology and ecological crisis, and Marxist theory. “Making War on the Planet.” Monthly Review. September 1, 2018. https://monthlyreview.org/2018/09/01/making-war-on-the-planet/ recut 8-22-2021 amrita
Endorse a dictatorship of the proletariat. Global capitalism’s inequities can only be fully purged once its intrinsic contradictions expose themselves and allow for the collapse of the bourgeoisie state. A dictatorship is required to solidify our transition to communism and is why you should reject any perm that attempts to preserve the state apparatus. Revolution 73 Proletarian Dictatorship Vs. Bourgeois “Democracy”; Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line; Revolution; May 1973; Edited by Paul Saba; https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-1/pd-v-bd.htm; CE recut amrita
The aff must defend their epistemic orientation and not just the causal consequences of the plan:
a) Interrogation DA: b) Movement DA:
2/13/22
2 - SO - Cap
Tournament: Yale | Round: 2 | Opponent: Scarsdale OL | Judge: Anand Rao COVID-19 is a symptom of the disease that is late-stage capitalism— it represents the intrinsic contradictions that have arisen within capitalist economies and the inevitable collapse. Waitzkin 21 Howard Waitzkin is at the Department of Sociology and Health Sciences Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, 2021, International Journal of Health Services, DOI: 10.1177/0020731420977711, 8-22-21 amrita The affirmative invests within capitalism in two way. First, is false liberalism. The plan is representative of the idea that capitalism can be saved- eliminating “intellectual property protections” is a scheme that aims to increase market competition for the purpose of profit. Gilbert 19 Geoff Gilbert is a Professor of Law in the School of Law and Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex. He was Head of Department between 2000-2003 and 2011-13. In 2012, he was appointed a Professorial Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He was Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Refugee Law from 2002-15 and is co-Editor-in-Chief as of September 2019; he also sits on the Advisory Board., “Free trade” is today’s imperialism by the 1 percent, 1-13-2019,No Publication,https://www.bilaterals.org/?free-trade-is-today-s-imperialism, 8-21-2021 amrita
Second is WTO legitimacy. The plan is a colonialist revision that re-packages the WTO as a legitimate organization that can overcome its insidious past towards a future of equal free trade—that decks class consciousness. Gilbert 19 Geoff Gilbert is a Professor of Law in the School of Law and Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex. He was Head of Department between 2000-2003 and 2011-13. In 2012, he was appointed a Professorial Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He was Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Refugee Law from 2002-15 and is co-Editor-in-Chief as of September 2019; he also sits on the Advisory Board., “Free trade” is today’s imperialism by the 1 percent, 1-13-2019,No Publication,https://www.bilaterals.org/?free-trade-is-today-s-imperialism, 8-21-2021 amrita Capitalism will, without a doubt, cause us to die by climate change Foster 18 John Bellamy Foster, John Bellamy Foster is a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and also editor of Monthly Review. He writes about political economy of capitalism and economic crisis, ecology and ecological crisis, and Marxist theory. “Making War on the Planet.” Monthly Review. September 1, 2018. https://monthlyreview.org/2018/09/01/making-war-on-the-planet/ recut 8-22-2021 amrita Endorse a dictatorship of the proletariat. Global capitalism’s inequities can only be fully purged once its intrinsic contradictions expose themselves and allow for the collapse of the bourgeoisie state. A dictatorship is required to solidify our transition to communism and is why you should reject any perm that attempts to preserve the state apparatus. Revolution 73 Proletarian Dictatorship Vs. Bourgeois “Democracy”; Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line; Revolution; May 1973; Edited by Paul Saba; https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-1/pd-v-bd.htm; CE We allow for innovation but better—our Marxist dictatorship still provides the incentive for innovating without the profit and productivity based mindset that pushes us to overconsumption and death. Nieto 20 Nieto, Maxi and Mateo Tomé, Juan. Maxi Nieto is a doctoral candidate at Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche. Juan Mateo Tome is a professor at Complutense University of Madrid (2020). Dynamic Efficiency in a Planned Economy: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Without Markets. Science and Society. 84. 42-66. 10.1521/siso.2020.84.1.42. 8-28-2021 amrita
The aff must defend their epistemic orientation
a) Interrogation DA b) Movement DA
2/13/22
3 - JF - Appropriation Doc CP
Tournament: College Prep | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker MS | Judge: Gerard Grisby Counterplan: Property rights for asteroids should be governed by the doctrine of appropriation. Private appropriation of non-asteroid celestial bodies should be prohibited. No link turns -- rules of appropriation solve waste and abstract claims and alternative approaches don’t Myers 16 -- Ross Myers (J.D. candidate at the University of Oregon Law School.), The Doctrine of Appropriation and Asteroid Mining: Incentivizing the Private Exploration and Development of Outer Space, 2016, Oregon Review of International Law, https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/19850/Meyers.pdf?sequence=1 WJ
2/13/22
3 - JF - Cede the Pol DA
Tournament: UPenn | Round: Octas | Opponent: Ridge VS | Judge: Panel Public support for climate reform is high now Tyson and Kennedy 20 Alec and Brian, (Alec Tyson is an associate director of research at Pew Research Center, where he studies public views of science and technology and the implications of science for society. He is an expert in U.S. survey research and has written about American public opinion on a range of topics, including U.S. generations, the growing role of partisanship in American life, climate change, the environment, and trust in scientists. And Brian Kennedy received his master’s and Ph.D. in political science at Michigan State University, where his work focused on cross-national attitudes about climate change.)/EE ALEC AND BRIAN KENNEDY Governmental policy is key to solve for climate change but continued public support is needed Leiserowitz, 19 Anthony, (Anthony Leiserowitz is a human geographer at Yale University who studies public perceptions of climate change. He has particularly examined perceptions within the United States, where people are considerably less aware of climate change than in other countries.)October 22, "Building Public and Political Will for Climate Change Action," Yale School of the Environment, https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/building-public-and-political-will-for-climate-change-action / EE The aff is “culturally” left- recourse to abstract philosophy/jargon and denigration of policy/institutions are more naively optimistic than pragmatic political engagement which causes a trade off with public support McClean, PhD, 14 (David E., RICHARD RORTY, LIBERALISM AND COSMOPOLITANISM) Scientific consensus- immediate, large scale action is needed to prevent extinction from climate change Beardsworth, PhD, 20 (Richard, Politics@Leeds, Climate science, the politics of climate change and futures of IR, International Relations, https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117820946365)
2/14/22
3 - JF - ILO DA
Tournament: UPenn | Round: Octas | Opponent: Ridge VS | Judge: Panel Anti-capitalist transition threatens the liberal international order. Mann 14 Eric Mann is a special agent with a United States federal agency, with significant domestic and international counterintelligence and counter-terrorism experience. Worked as a special assistant for a U.S. Senator and served as a presidential appointee for the U.S. Congress. He is currently responsible for an internal security and vulnerability assessment program. Bachelors @ University of South Carolina, Graduate degree in Homeland Security @ Georgetown. “AUSTERITY, ECONOMIC DECLINE, AND FINANCIAL WEAPONS OF WAR: A NEW PARADIGM FOR GLOBAL SECURITY,” May 2014, https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/bitstream/handle/1774.2/37262/MANN-THESIS-2014.pdf Extinction- LIO collapse accelerates revisionism and great power war. Kagan ’17 – Stephen and Barbara Friedman Senior Fellow with the Project on International Order and Strategy in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings Robert Kagan, “The Twilight of the Liberal World Order,” Brookings Big Ideas for America edited by Michael O’Hanlon, Brookings Institution Press (2017): https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctt1kk66tr.31
Independently, a transition from capitalism opens us up to nuclear annihilation Milne and Kinsella, 17—Faculty of English, University of Cambridge AND School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts, Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University (Drew and John, “NUCLEAR THEORY DEGREE ZERO, WITH TWO CHEERS FOR DERRIDA,” Angelaki, 22:3, 1-16,) brett
2/14/22
3 - JF - Mining DA
Tournament: College Prep | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker MS | Judge: Gerard Grisby Asteroid mining is an unqualified good – it’s essential to advanced asteroid deflection, deep space travel, and fighting climate change Heise 18 -- Jack Heise (Judicial Law Clerk at U.S. Courts of Appeals), Space, the Final Frontier of Enterprise: Incentivizing Asteroid Mining Under a Revised International Framework, 40 Mich. J. Int'l L. 189 (2018). https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjil/vol40/iss1/5 WJ Asteroids have no significance beyond their finite resources – property rights for asteroids are necessary for deep space travel and rare metals Myers 16 -- Ross Myers (J.D. candidate at the University of Oregon Law School.), The Doctrine of Appropriation and Asteroid Mining: Incentivizing the Private Exploration and Development of Outer Space, 2016, Oregon Review of International Law, https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/19850/Meyers.pdf?sequence=1 WJ Warming causes extinction Yangyang Xu 17, Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas AandM University; and Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 9/26/17, “Well below 2 °C: Mitigation strategies for avoiding dangerous to catastrophic climate changes,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 114, No. 39, p. 10315-10323
2/13/22
3 - JF - Space Law DA
Tournament: College Prep | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harker AS | Judge: Alex Baez The plan requires clarifying international space law---causes strategic bargaining to extract concessions Alexander William Salter 16, Assistant Professor of Economics, Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University, "SPACE DEBRIS: A LAW AND ECONOMICS ANALYSIS OF THE ORBITAL COMMONS", 19 STAN. TECH. L. REV. 221 (2016), https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/19-2-2-salter-final_0.pdf V. MITIGATION VS. REMOVAL Russia uses negotiations to push the PPWT---erodes US space dominance---unilat solves Michael Listner 18, JD, Regent University School of Law, the founder and principal of the legal and policy think-tank/consultation firm Space Law and Policy Solutions, Sept 17 2018, "The art of lawfare and the real war in outer space", The Space Review, www.thespacereview.com/article/3571/1 The PPWT prohibits space-based missile defense Jack M. Beard 16, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law, Feb 15 2016, "Soft Law ’s Failure on the Horizon: The International Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities", University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, Vol. 38, No. 2, 2016, https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=andhttpsredir=1andarticle=1086andcontext=spacelaw Causes rogue state missile threats---that escalates Patrick M. Shanahan 19, Acting Secretary of Defense from January to June 2019, previously vice president and general manager of Boeing Missile Defense Systems, Jan 2019, "2019 MISSILE DEFENSE REVIEW", US Department of Defense, https://media.defense.gov/2019/Jan/17/2002080666/-1/-1/1/2019-MISSILE-DEFENSE-REVIEW.PDF
2/13/22
3 - SO - Export CP
Tournament: Yale | Round: 3 | Opponent: Syosset ML | Judge: Josh Li CP Text: The member nations of the World Trade Organization should decrease tariffs and export restrictions.
Exports are necessary for access to vaccines. Peters and Prabhakar 6-11 Ralf Peters is the chief of UNCTAD's trade information section. Divya Praghakar is a trade and development policy specialist working in the same section. , 6-11-2021, "Export restrictions do not help fight COVID-19," Unctad, https://unctad.org/news/export-restrictions-do-not-help-fight-covid-19, accessed 8/20/2021 EH Waivers do nothing—exports solve Meyer 21 David Meyer, 6-18-2021, "The WTO’s survival hinges on the COVID-19 vaccine patent debate, waiver advocates warn – Fortune," Fortune, https://fortune.com/2021/06/18/wto-covid-vaccines-patents-waiver-south-africa-trips/amp/, accessed 7/18/2021 EH
Pandemics are a non-linear, existential risk-~--encompasses AND outweighs other threats. Empirically proven by historic epidemics such as the Black Death and Spanish flu Pamlin and Armstrong 15, Dennis Pamlin, Executive Project Manager Global Risks, Global Challenges Foundation, and Stuart Armstrong, James Martin Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, February 2015, “Global Challenges: 12 Risks that threaten human civilization: The case for a new risk category,” Global Challenges Foundation, p.30-93, https://api.globalchallenges.org/static/wp-content/uploads/12-Risks-with-infinite-impact.pdfRe DE EK