Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart SS | Judge: Ahuja, Ronak
The subject emerges through loss, unable to express its desires through language which produces a constitutive lack – desires from lack project fantasies of complete identity on queer bodies. The 1ACs investment in imaginary futures proliferates reproductive futurism and sustains the fantasy of the Child, which exists in a structural antagonism with queerness.
Edelman 98 – Lee, Jan. 1998, is the Fletcher Professor of English Literature at Tufts University. He is the author of Transmemberment of Song: Hart Crane's Anatomies of Rhetoric and Desire (Stanford University Press, 1987, Published by: Ohio State University Press, https://www.jstor.org/stable/20107133
Like the network of signifying relations Lacan described as the symbolic, politics may function
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are able to conceive of a future without the figure of the child.
Stanley 11 – Eric Stanley, Near Life, Queer Death: Overkill and Ontological Capture, 2011, p. 8-10
Overkill is a term used to indicate such excessive violence that it pushes a body
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, what it must mean, to do violence to what is nothing.
Baedan 12 – Summer 2012, authors' manuscript, Baedan — journal of queer nihilism — issue one, https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/baedan-baedan~~#toc8
Leftist notions of reform, progress, tolerance, and social justice always come up
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models, to instead experiment with the undying negativity of the death drive.