Tournament: Yale | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lincoln JR | Judge: Henry Eberhart
We have entered a post-Fordist state of technocapitalism in which our subjectivites are objects and inventions of biochemical political management. The inherent connection between the sex, drug, and war industries underwrite all capital relations. This manipulative government is the pharmacopornographic regime.
Precadio 1 ~Preciado, Paul B., and Bruce Benderson. Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era. New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2013. MSJ SB~
How did sex and sexuality become the main objects of political and economic activity?
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resisting, of consuming and destroying, of evolution and self-destruction.
The creation of the contraceptive pill in Puerto Rico signified the mass infiltration of a government of biochemical, semiotic, and economic manipulation
Precadio 2 ~Preciado, Paul B., and Bruce Benderson. Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era. New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2013. MSJ SB~
During the period when the notion of gender, the H-bomb, silicone
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, the separation of the sexes, and the control of gender.78
Under capitalism, some bodies are deemed vulnerable and disposed to sustain a "healthy body and society." The system of biomedicine across the globe is premised on the binary on which violence can be enacted. Service economies and systems of control means certain bodies will always be used in cycles of exploitation, regardless of whether we do "positive things."
Puar 17 (Jasbir K., associate professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. "Preface: Hands Up, Don't Shoot." The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability. pages 78-82)spaldwin
Mitchell and Snyder further vacillate between the figures of the resistant non-productive unfit
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."76 These bodies Snyder and Mitchell demarcate the "able- disabled."
The alternative is a refusal of the aff's centering of health care within capitalism in favor of the ballroom. Turning the debate into the ballroom produces care entrenched in non-market values that creates a different version of health centered in local alternatives for workers and patients who cannot rely on the state for liberation. Our ethic aligns itself with transnational resistance movements against capitalism to produce a social revolution.
Bailey'12 (Marlon M. Bailey is a professor of gender studies and American studies and an adjunct assistant professor of theater and drama. He currently teaches at Arizona State University and is a visiting professor at the University of California, San Francisco, in the Department of Medicine. Bailey writes and researches in the area of African American Studies. He also has written about LBGT subcultures,~4~ and in particular topics which involve both subjects Bailey is also a director, actor, and performance artist. The most recent play that he acted in was in 2006, "The Hard Evidence of existence: a Black Gay Sex (Love Show," directed by Cedric Brown. His most recent Directing was in 2002 "Blackness: Perspectives in Color" in the Durham Studio, UC-Berkeley. "Black Genders and Sexualities" pgs. 221-224)NAE
First, I highlight the ways in which ballroom members construct a social epistemology as
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and affirmation that ballroom members are usually otherwise denied in the outside world.