Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Salado AS | Judge: Aguilar, Josh
I negate
Part 1 is the framework
First the resolution is merely a guide for a political discussion and action that both the judges and participants attempt to act within. The starting point for this realm is through the words of the topic, creating the political discourse.
Hayward, Katy and O’Donnell, Catherine. “Analysing Political Discourse” Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution: Debating Peace in Northern Ireland 2011.
“It can be argued that…justification might be related to legitimacy'.”
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To analyze the framing of the resolution and the discourse that it creates we must understand and accept the starting point. Evaluating the critical understanding and composition of the words and frames that we are given is essential to continuing with a subjective ethic that is reflected within our political discourse.
Hayward and O’Donnell 2
“In order to analyse …relying on linguistic analysis”
Giroux, Henry A. What Might Education Mean After Abu Ghraib: Revisiting Adorno's Politics of Education, "Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 24.1 (2004) 3-22"
“Education as a critical practice…becomes a power grab.”
Secondly
The framed ethic of the resolution assumes that the only truths are the state and biopolitics.
Chandler 2k11 David, University of Westminister, Our Morals and Theirs: Politics Beyond the Biopolitical Subject, December 2011. Pg. 8-9
“While Foucault argues … the future human.”
Thus the Role of the Ballot is to become Foucault’s Specific Intellectual – The judge’s ballot becomes a tool to mark the domination of the state and to criticize state structures that suppress the subjective ethic and establish the state identity.
Owen ‘94 David, Morality and Modernity, pgs 208-210
“While these struggles share…determinations of who we are.”
Part 2 is the system
Modern democracy is the essence of biopolitics and is no different than totalitarianism
Agamben 98 Giorgio: philosopher and professor of aesthetics at University of Verona Italy, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, 1998, p. 121-121
“The contiguity between…also have their roots here.”
The political process and deliberation are riddled with biopolitics – it’s the entire foundation that’s hidden in the political system
Agamben 98 Giorgio: philosopher and professor of aesthetics at University of Verona Italy, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, 1998, p. 121-121
“The protagonist of…biopolitical body of humanity.”
The culmination of the bio political only leads to the death of the subject and the birth of the object, meaning that we will be nothing more than mere pawns for the state. Serving as empty, soulless vessels that have no ethic beyond that which we know from the state
Ruffolo, David V. “Rhizomatic Bodies: Thinking through the Virtualities of Control Societies” Rhizomes vol. 17 Winter 2008
“The successful proliferation of confessional…specific spaces and particular tasks.”
Part 3 is the solvency
May, Todd. The Political Thought of Jacques Ranciere pg 139 2008
“The discourse of democratic…rather than objects.”
This can be accomplished thru the ballot by allowing for the Specific Intellectual to recognize the creation of the subject rather than the continuation of the object.
May, Todd. The Political Thought of Jacques Ranciere pg 130 2008
“If the role of the intellectual…actions into another one.”
Hedges 2
“All resistance must…fascism and communism.”