Tournament: Harvard | Round: 5 | Opponent: Reagan CS | Judge: Emily Guthrie
Interpretation: an affirmative must thoroughly trace its agency network.
A. Failure to faithfully trace the connections between agents produces simplistic accounts that foreclose political possibility
Latour ‘5 (Bruno, Prof. @ Sciences Po and director of the TARDE program (Theory of Actor-network and Research in Digital Environments), Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory, pp. 128-133)
But what is
AND
to be achieved.

B. Old conceptual categories will fail to grasp new complexities.
Latour ’11 (Bruno, Prof. @ Sciences Po and director of the TARDE program (Theory of Actor-network and Research in Digital Environments), “Networks, Societies, Spheres: Reflections of an Actor-Network Theorist” International Journal of Communication, V. 5, p. 802)
But what I
AND
the social theory.

C. Link - Only a politics beginning with and centered around network analysis can mobilize action necessary to protect the environment.
Latour ’13 (Bruno, Prof. @ Sciences Po and director of the TARDE program (Theory of Actor-network and Research in Digital Environments), An Inquiry into Modes of Existence, pp. 485-486)
But it is
AND
off the worst.

D. Impact - The tendency to over-explain and under-describe shows us totalizing entities. Through that, there is no possible resistance, entrenching a violent resentment. If we trace these connections, we open up new avenues for resistance.
Latour ‘5 (Bruno, Prof. @ Sciences Po and director of the TARDE program (Theory of Actor-network and Research in Digital Environments), Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory, pp. 249-253)
But no matter
AND
should aim for.

Tournament: state | Round: 1 | Opponent: tba | Judge: tba
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Tournament: Golden Desert | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Brentwood JL | Judge: Stephanie Garrett, Ryan Fink, Ryan Hamilton
One day
The day will come
When the day won’t come

This poem by Paul Virilio may sound like the aff’s rhetoric predicting our impending doom, but it refers instead to the decentralization of the horizon from which we watch the sun emerge. Instead of the terrestrial stage of the earth against an open sky, we now watch events unfold on screens such that the geographical specificity of an event is becoming increasingly irrelevant. I negate.

1. Today’s communication technologies have radically redefined the notion of presence
   Paul Virilio, French philosopher, Open Sky, Verso, 1997
   Meeting at a distance...a complete mystery.

2. The decreased mobilization of urban populations results in physical and behavioral isolation and a reification of social hierarchy
Paul Virilio, French philosopher, Open Sky, Verso, 1997
Once more we...generalized interactivity.

3. Link - Ecology is deliberately deprived of responsiveness to postindustrial reality
Paul Virilio, French philosopher, Open Sky, Verso, 1997
Alongside air pollution...to “politics” alone.

4. Impact - A critique of communication technology is necessary in order to recover a functional view of the environment
Paul Virilio, French philosopher, Open Sky, Verso, 1997
Already, viral contamination...and optical density?

This turns the aff.

5. Alt: we must forge a new critical ecology

A. The alt provides the needed critique
Paul Virilio, French philosopher, Open Sky, Verso, 1997
So many connections...end of the millennium.

B. A critique of optoelectronics allows for a more democratic society
Paul Virilio, French philosopher, Open Sky, Verso, 1997
If desire to know...on totalitarian overtones.

C. Advantage: New communication technologies have decentralized labor and facilitated the development of late capitalism; grey ecology solves
Paul Virilio, French philosopher, Open Sky, Verso, 1997
In the face...with as we pleased.*

6. Framework – the standard is genealogy. Subjective descriptions of the world are key to all understanding – debaters can ask each other for warrants all day but what’s essentially happening is friction between two produced knowledges
Vucetic, 11 (Srdjan, Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at University of Ottawa, 2011, “The Anglosphere: A Genealogy of a Racialized Identity in International Relations”, Google Books)ZB
Genealogy is a tool...of the willing.”

*have also gone for
5. The alt is affirming the pedagogy of weeping
Taylor 06. Taylor, Chloi. "Hard, Dry Eyes and Eyes That Weep: Vision and Ethics in Levinas and Derrida." Postmodern Culture. University of Toronto, 2006. Web. 22 June 2011. http://pmc.iath.virginia.edu/text-only/issue.106/16.2hipsky.txt.
Derrida illustrates his
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guide our vision?

Tournament: ASU | Round: Semis | Opponent: Horizon EB | Judge: forgot

1. The bad news
   A. Market economies are based on neurotic subjects who believe that produced objects are real, produced vacancies and desires are fantasy and their own exploitation is virtuous
   Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari 1977 Anti-Oedipus Pg. 26-29

B. This capitalist politics of lack caused the problems the aff is so concerned about.
Ian Pindar and Paul Sutton, translators for a dead French person, 2000 'The Three Ecologies' pg. 3-5

C. We have front row seats for the end of the world - peak oil combined with rising demand and population growth is an inescapable equation for apocalypse.
Hans Tammemagi, writer for the Vancouver Sun, 2008 accessed 6/28/08 from http://ww.w canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=2eeece50-285f-4c4b­ bb,37-2d053d04d4e8

2. Advocacy

We must forge a new collective subjectivity founded on extracting the only truly renewable resource: personal energy, the force that courses through life and animates matter. Accepting as inevitable the lacking subject of capitalism that is doomed to consume results in the worst violence.
Mark Seem, translator for dead French theorists, 1977 Anti-Oedipus pg. XX-XXIV

This is why I negate in the name of rejecting the aff’s hegemonic response to perceived environmental threats in a frame outside the human.

3. Framework
I defend Daoism as a strategy for producing a non-capitalist subjectivity that exists in harmony with the ebb and flow of the cosmos - the current ecological crises are not due to poor technology or improper policy but a fundamentally flawed set of ideas concerning the sovereign human will.

A. Only embracing the Daoist ethic of wu-wei or non-action allows the natural order of the universe to manifest itself.
Zhang 2001 (Jiyu, a 65th generation direct descendant of the founder of the Daoist religion, the first celestial master Zhang Daoling. Vice President of the Chinese Daoist Association and editor-in-chief of the magazine Chinese Daoism, published in Beijing) “A Declaration of the Chinese Daoist Association on Global Ecology: Daoism and Ecology: Ways within a Cosmic Landscape” (p. 364-367)

B. We must abandon the western practice of conflating the discrete objects of grammar, science and law with reality – there is only the immanent unity of the Dao.
Alan Watts, 95 teacher of eastern religion and philosophy, Philosopher of Western Culture, Tao the Water Color Way, 41-44.

C. Alt: reject all rhetoric that does not have as its motive harmonious existence in the Dao.
Combs, 2005 Steven C. The Dao ofRhetoric, Assoc. ProfofComm@Loyola MarymOlIDt University, pg. 149

D. Solvency: Daoism changes the way we conceive economies of valuation in all aspects of life.
Giradot, Miller, Xiaogan 2001 (N.J., professor of comparative religion and Leigh University; James, PhD research in Daoism at Queens University; Liu, PhD @ Beijing University. Daoism and Ecology”.)

Thus, I negate.

underview
Vote neg -

1. If aff wins an interpretation in the 1ar that neg has to prove the converse of the resolution I meet – I advocate the extraction of personal resources.
   Also

2. For the Dao, there is no obdurately external world, meaning the rhetoric of human environmental protection policy violates the Dao.
3. Don’t let the aff win a violation in the 1AR - Neg doesn’t have to advocate resource extraction
(A) Text
(B) Ground

4. Don’t buy predictability standards in the 1AR. Even if Daoism isn’t exactly resource extraction, the literature is firmly grounded in the rhetoric of environmental protection