Notes

Foucault and Baudrillard K Answers I thought itd be good for the community to have.
Foucault
Neolib Turn
Foucaults greatest life experience was getting stoned off his a$$ in Death Valley
proves he is neoliberal!
Dyer 99 (Geoff, author of four novels and seven books of non-fiction, which have won a number of
literary awards and been translated into 24 languages, Hot, not Bothered, Published in Travel +
Leisure, December 1999, http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/hot-not-bothered)
IN THIS REGARD DEATH VALLEY HAS an almost canonic reputation as the place to take LSD. French philosopher Michel Foucault dropped
acid for the first time in 1975, at Zabriskie Point, in the center of Death Valley, and enjoyed what he later called
the greatest experience of his life. The sky has exploded, he said at the time, and the stars are
raining down upon me. I know this is not true, but it is the Truth. In San Francisco I once met an old hippie who distinguished
between different varieties of LSD. The best sort, he said, produced open-eye hallucinations. Thats Death Valley in a nutshell: an open-eye hallucination.
Baudrillard
No Friends Turn

But is that really just tobacco? I guess well never know.
Baudrillard admits he has no friends.
Horrocks 7 (Chris, Senior Lecturer in Art History, Kingston University, London, Jean Baudrillard:
Outlaw Cultural Theorist, Published in the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies Volume 4,
Number 3, October 2007, http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol4_3/v4-3-article16-
horrocks.html)
When I interviewed him in 1995 he said, rather melancholically, that he had no more friends in Paris, by which he meant that he had become an
intellectual outlaw a thinker detached from the academic establishment. Three publications in the 1970s had forged Baudrillards reputation as a thinker beyond the limit of prevailing ideas. The first, The Mirror of Production
(1975), took on Karl Marx. In characteristic fashion, Baudrillard saw Marxist thought as part of the problem it sought to theorize: Marx simply universalized or replicated bourgeois notions of the market and capitalist ideology, and
effectively fetishized the idea of work. Then Baudrillard delivered the bombshell Forget Foucault (1987), an assault on one of the most influential writers of that generation. Michel Foucault had chosen not to read the draft
Baudrillard sent him, but when it was published he was furious (Foucault is the last great dinosaur of the classical age, said Baudrillard).
Having no friends causes smoking.
Macrae 9 (Fiona, Daily Mail Reporter, Loneliness is as bad for health as smoking or obesity, experts
warn, Published in the Daily Mail 2-16-09, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-
1147106/Loneliness-bad-health-smoking-obesity-experts-warn.html)
Being lonely is as bad for your health as smoking or obesity, experts have warned. Being cut off fromfriends and family can raise blood pressure and weaken the immune system, the American Association for
the Advancement of Sciences annual conference heard. It can also make it harder to sleep and even speed the progression of dementia, according to psychologist John Cacioppo. He found loneliness raises levels of the hormone cortisol and can push blood pressure up into the danger
zone for heart attacks and strokes. Research showed the difference in health between the lonely and the most socially active could be as great as that between smokers and non-smokers and the obese and those of normal weight. Professor Cacioppo said: When time takes its toll on the
body, loneliness steepens that slope of descent. In his study, the loneliest people had blood pressure readings up to 30 poi nts higher than those with the most active social lives, making them three times more likely to develop heart disease and stroke and twice as likely to die from them
as people with normal blood pressure. High levels of cortisol can also suppress the immune system, raising a persons vulnerability to disease. The lonely also sleep more fitfully, feel lethargic during the day and are more likely to rely on sleeping tablets. Loneliness also has numerous
other effects on health, including accelerating the pace of dementia. It is not clear why this is but it may be their brains lack the suppleness of those who 5ealize5e regularly. When researchers compared the health of people who shut themselves away with fromthe world with gregarious
types they found the difference as great as that between smokers and non-smokers, the obese and the normal weight or those who exercised and those who didnt. Professor Cacioppo said the phenomenon was hugely relevant in todays fragmented society, where many people
communicate through the internet rather than face-to-face. The Chicago University researcher said: We are increasingly living in isolation. Partly because we are ageing, also because we are marrying later and having fewer children there are fewer confidantes and levels of loneliness are
going up. The professor advises the lonely to try making friends through charity work and says it is better to have a few strong friendships than lots of acquaintances. Lonely peopl e feel a hunger, he said. The key is to 5ealize that the solution lies not in being fed but in cooking for and
enjoying a meal with others. The professor believes the trait has its roots deep in evolution. Pangs of loneliness likely reminded those who had become isolated with a reminder to rejoin the security of the pack.
Smoking causes extinction.
Brown 14 (Elizabeth, Reason.com reporter, GOP Wants to Fund Israeli 'Iron Dome', Smokers Live
Longer Than Obese, We're Going Extinct: A.M. Links, Published in Reason.com July 25, 2014,
http://reason.com/blog/2014/07/25/iron-dome-tax-inversion-end-of-the-world)
Speaking in Los Angeles Thursday, President Obama touted "economic patriotism," which apparently involves keeping companies headquartered here by fiat. The president called on Congress to pass a bill ending the "unpatriotic
tax loophole" that allows U.S. companies to acquire foreign companies and "invert" business overseas. Exhausted by doing something surprisingly sane last week, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is promoting GOP
legislation providing emergency funding for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system. "Republicans are united in support of our ally Israel," he said yesterday. Israeli and Palestinian forces clashed in the West Bank Thursday night,
after the Fatah government there called for a "day of rage" in solidarity with Gaza. The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the Food and Drug Administration in a lawsuit filed by activists seeking to end the use of
antibiotics in livestock feed. Researchers from the National Cancer Institute found that smokers live longer than the very obese. Federal agencies'
next college campus meddling may involve transgender student accomodations. Scientists say we may be in the early days of the planet's sixth mass biological extinction event.
Baudrillard Effect Turn
Baudrillard effect turnwhen we talk about Baudrillard in debates he seduces us and
makes us think of him nonstop
Theriault 7 (Emily, Graduate Program in Sociology, Queen's University at Kingston, Canada, Seduced
But Not Abandoned, , Published in the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies Volume 4, Number
3, October 2007, http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol4_3/v4-3-article31-theriault.html)
Its been over two years and a Masters degree since I worked with his texts but the Baudrillard effect
continues. I still think about Baudrillard each day when I watch the news, read the paper, or when I
observe heated academic debates. He led me to challenge both the protagonist and the antagonist to force myself outside of any
position. And then I think of Baudrillard and smile when I realize that all the while, through life and death,
hes still seducing me.
Seduction leads to extinction.
Dingus and Rowe 98 (Lowell, works at American Musuem of Natural History, and Timothy,
Professor of Paleontology at UTexas Austin, The Seductive Allure of Dinosaurs, Published in the New
York Times in 1998, http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/d/dingus-extinction.html)
Nonetheless, it is easy to be seduced by the spectacular skeletons. The limitations imposed by the evidence in the rock and fossil records haven't stopped some paleontologists from imaginatively speculating about the use of these unusual
structures and many other aspects of dinosaur behavior. The public desperately wants answers to all their questions about dinosaurs, and some paleontologists have been unable to resist the urge to oblige and speculate. The literature of both the scientific and popular press is replete
with intriguing and outrageous claims about how dinosaurs lived and died. As a result, conflicting claims about dinosaurs, fueled by the public frenzy over blockbusters like Jurassic Park, have led to numerous public debates among paleontologists. Were dinosaurs "warm-blooded"? Did
they take care of their young? And within the present context: What caused so many dinosaurs to become extinct 65 million years ago? Our charge in this book i s to investigate all the major issues surrounding dinosaur extinction. What do we really know about the extinction of dinosaurs
at the end of the Cretaceous Period? To try and solve this case, which is somewhat like an ancient murder mystery, we must closely examine the evidence available in the rock and fossil records. That's the subject in Part I of this book. Our review of extinction hypotheses will basically
follow the order in which they were proposed. To begin, we will review some earlier ideas or hypotheses that sought to explai n the cause of dinosaur extinction. In retrospect, some seem comical, but others are more sophisticated. Our goal will be twofold: First, we will try to distinguish
between hypotheses that are scientific and those that are not. In pragmatic terms, this distinction depends on whether there is evidence available to test the hypothesis. If the rock and fossil records contain evidence that can be used to test the proposed cause, then the hypothesis is
considered to be scientific. If the hypothesis cannot be tested with evidence present in the rock and fossil record, then, for the time being, it falls outside the realmof science. Second, for each scientific extinction hypothesis, we will try to evaluate whether the evidence preserved in the
rock and fossil records is consistent or inconsistent with the proposed cause of extinction. This exercise will be used to illustrate how scientific methods work by testing new ideas against the available evidence. In the end, the hypothesis that i s consistent with, or explains, more evidence
than any other is deemed to be the most likely. This rule for making decisions, often called Occam's Razor or the Principle of Parsimony, forms the foundation for choosing between competing scientific hypotheses. Next, we will investigate the current debate about dinosaur extinction by
exploring clues in the rock record relating to two of the most momentous geological and astronomical events in Earth history. The first event began to be seriously discussed in 1972 as a cause for the Cretaceous dinosaur extinctions. It involves the second largest known episode of
volcanic activity ever inflicted on the continents of our planet, along with potentially associated changes in the location and configuration of the seas. Massive piles of lava flows that now cover vast areas of India represent the evidence for these eruptions at the end of the Cretaceous.
Because of the enormous amounts of gases and other pollutants erupted during this event, the Earth's environment could have been severely damaged. Could this have caused the extinction of dinosaurs? Or was that extinction caused by the Earth-shattering impact of a large comet or
asteroid near present-day Yucatan? This stunning hypothesis was put forward in 1980 by some of our colleagues in the Geology and Geophysics Department when we were graduate students at Berkeley. Their scenario suggested that the impact blasted a cloud of
debris into orbit, which completely enveloped the Earth. This cloud cut off all light fromthe Sun for several months, preventing pl ants from photosynthesizing. With the death of most plants, the herbivorous dinosaurs died out, and with the extinctionof their plant-
eating prey, so did the carnivorous dinosaurs.
Seduction also causes people to have sex, reversing the ecstasy of porn.
Voss 6 (Vanessa, Lecturer at University of Houston, The Useless Perfection of Pornography:
Baudrillards Critique of Sexual Reason, Thesis defended in May 2006,
https://www.academia.edu/2296404/The_Useless_Perfection_of_Pornography_Baudrillards_Critique_o
f_Sexual_Reason)
Baudrillard applies this theory of seduction as reversal of power to pornography, claiming that pornography is one sided, non-
antagonistic, and no longer engaged in a dialectical process. Pornography plays a major role in providing input towards the ecstasy felt in the wasteland of the real, where no one is going anywhere fast, or in other
words, no one is having real sex but simulated sex with immediacy. Baudrillard believes seduction is the cure. The next chapter of this work will briefly explain feminist criticisms
of his ideas about seduction and defend himfrom them, focus on Baudrillards critique of pornography to do such. In defendi ng Baudrillard, I will focus on two main points. First, I will describe in further detail his view of seduction and its role as a cure for the loss of reality. Second, I
will also show how his criticisms of sexual liberation actually resemble many other feminists positions, particularly (and surprisingly) Catharine MacKinnons views about sexuality and pornography.
Sex causes extinction empirics prove.
Magdelano 14 (Alex, Mashable reporter, The Cause of Earth's Largest Mass Extinction: Microbe
Sex, Published on Mashable April 3, 2014, http://mashable.com/2014/04/03/bacteria-extinction/)
Around 252 million years ago, 90 percent of all species on Earth were wiped out in an extinction event commonly called The Great
Dying. Now, a team of MIT researchers from the U.S. and China might have the answer for the largest
mass extinction our planet has ever seen. It wasnt asteroids or volcanoes, but methane-producing microbes called Methanosarcina
having sex or rather, passing genetic material in a strange microbial form of sex. SEE ALSO: NASA Discovers New Evidence to Suggest Water On Mars Scientists believe that these microbes acquired a set of genes that allowed them to feed off the rich organic carbon
deposits that have developed in the oceans. In doing so, the microbes spewed prodigious amounts of methane into the atmosphere, dramatically changing the climate and chemistry of the oceans literally suffocating almost all other life forms on the planet. The researchers case
against the potential culprit Methanosarcina rests on three pieces of evidence. There was an exponential increase in carbon dioxide in the oceans at the time; genetic evidence for a change in Methanosarcina to make it produce methane; and sediments showing an increased amount of
nickel deposits. Previously, scientists attributed the increase in carbon dioxide and methane to volcanic eruptions. But calculations by the MIT team proved that the volcanic activity at the time couldnt have produced enough to account for the carbon in the sediments. Similarly, the way
in which volcanoes produce gas rapidly at first, followed by a steady decrease couldnt account for the steady increase in carbon dioxide. That suggests a microbial expansion, Gregory Fournier, a MIT postdoc and researcher on the team, said in a statement. The growth of
microbial populations is among the few phenomena capable of increasing carbon production exponentially, or even faster." The teamtested 50 different genomes of methane-producing bacteria, and discovered that they acquired the ability to eat organic carbon around 252 million
years ago. The researchers believe that Methanosarcina acquired this ability and in the process, produced extreme levels of methane through gene transfer, aka sex, with a different microbe. The Methanosarcina needed the right nutrient to proliferate so quickly namely nickel.
The MIT teams findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science on Monday.
Baudrillard = Ugly

I know you were expecting him to be super hot, but honestly Baudrillards not that
seductive
Pawlett 7 (Dr. William, Sociology and Cultural Studies, University of Wolverhampton, UK, Two
Appointments With Baudrillard, Published in the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies Volume 4,
Number 3, October 2007, http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol4_3/v4-3-article27-
pawlett.html)
It was a cold, blustery and inauspicious Friday the 13th in Leicester, UK in 1998. Baudrillard was giving a lecture at a weary, municipal Arts Centre. I was writing a Ph.D. thesis on Baudrillard. The theme of his lecture is Nothing. This troubled me because my thesis, as yet little more than a
catalogue of his ideas, made no reference to this topic and so, even as a catalogue, it is about to be rendered obsolete. I was also anxious because, although shy, I had convinced myself that I would have to introduce myself to Baudrillard and ask intelligent questions. I had heard
Baudrillard lecture before. As a theorist passionate about the power of appearances, of illusions and of seduction, I had expected a seductive, rakish man, imagining Baudrillard to
look something like Antoine de Caunes (the presenter of the television show Euro trash). Yet, as has been recorded elsewhere2 Baudrillard in the flesh was not
this at all. He looked more like a retired trade union boss: dour and serious, tough-looking, almost
pugilistic or soldierly. I remembered thinking that Baudrillard must never have been handsome or particularly striking.
Baudrillard also didnt sign my bra strap! Soo mean omg.
Pawlett 7 (Dr. William, Sociology and Cultural Studies, University of Wolverhampton, UK, Two
Appointments With Baudrillard, Published in the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies Volume 4,
Number 3, October 2007, http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol4_3/v4-3-article27-
pawlett.html)
After the lecture I cornered Baudrillard and blurted out a few questions on simulation and its relationship to evil. He said that I spoke too rapidly for him to understand properly, but
nevertheless he answered and clarified an issue that had been troubling me. I began to relax but at that point he was whisked away by one of the event organisers. Later there
was a book signing and an exhibition of Baudrillards photography entitled Strange World. Baudrillard
was even invited by a female undergraduate to sign her bra-strap, but instead he signed the strap of her
shoulder bag. The book signing went on for some time with Baudrillard signing not only copies of his new book but, it seemed, any book that students brought to him: dog-eared
copies of his older works, library copies of his works in translation, including a copy of Horrocks Introducing Baudrillard (1996). I asked him if in this he was deliberately attacking the idea of
authenticity and authorial status; he replied perhaps.
Cant Understand Turn
Im only getting 1/5 of what youre saying, Baudrillardits 2 in the morning, were all
high, you have a really heavy French accent with bad translation and none of us are
philosophers. But at least youre wearing Liberace.
Kraus 7 (Chris, author of I Love Dick, (no, seriously, she wrote that, look it up) an American writer,
filmmaker, and professor of film at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Part of a
collection of tributes to Jean Baudrillard, published in Le Nouvel Observateur, 7-23-07,
http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/file/325233.pdf)
At The Chance Event at Whiskey Petes Casino in Primm, Nevada, November 1996, 400 people lay on the floor at 2 in the morning to
hear Jean Baudrillard deliver a lecture on the Demise of the Real. Because of the drugs, the lateness of
hour, Jeans heavy French accent, the bad last-minute translation and the fact that few of us were
trained as philosophers, the people assembled at best heard every fifth word. The response was ecstatic. Jean
was wearing a gold lame Liberace suit, and though he was a reluctant guru, he was willing to accept
what the audience gave him: a pure, undiluted unconditional love. Think, Johnny Cash performing at Folsom Prison. (We
were prisoners of our highly evolved senses of irony.) The Santa Claus factor. Baudrillard was like William S. Burroughs at
the end of his life one of those rare public figures whose presence conveys a promise of happiness
beyond any literal content, beyond any hype. His books were written in aphorisms the kind of texts where every page is marked with a
Post-It, every sentence is underlined. For his last public appearances in New York in November, 2005, hundreds of young people lined up in the
streets outside his venues. It was clear that theyd come not just to hear his (breathtaking) lecture on Abu Ghraib, but to be able to say years later: theyd been
there, theyd heard Jean Baudrillard. Modest, independent, and devastatingly humorous, Jeans work transmitted the lost urbanity of the mid-20th century while
speaking of and into the future. His writings described the present with breathtaking accuracy without ever becoming programmatic. No wonder fans gathered
around him. Cheerfully nihilistic, Baudrillards work gave us ways our own vague perceptions could become something larger, systemic and totally crystalline.