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Excess is inevitable – the 1AC’s attempt to contain and transcend it through utility inevitably fails
Land 92 – lecturer in Continental Philosophy at Warwick University (Nick, “The Thirst for Annihilation” pg. 23-24)rkezios
Belonging alongside ‘sacrifice’ in Bataille’s work is the word ‘expenditure’, dépense.
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of a true end, which does not serve anything’ VII 298.
Our alternative is to refuse the 1ac’s utilitarian ethics as a revolutionary act of sacrifice – that’s the only way to reverse nuclear annihilation, slavery and escape the current political order
Goldhammer 5 - Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley (Jesse, “The Headless Republic”, pg 10-14)rkezios
In chapter 4, I examine how the renegade surrealist Georges Bataille used the sacrificial
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sign that a community in crisis is pregnant with a new political order.