1NC

The affirmative is a perverse relation to the political that

perpetuates the fantasy of effective political participation and
progress for black folk. This politics of hope seeks to restore a
fractured and fractioned black being to a whole self that has
never existed. The 1AC is not liberation. It is the
instrumentalization of black suffering to accomplish
pedagogical, cathartic, and redemptive objectives. It is the
death drive that valorizes a democracy to come at the expense
of the humiliated, incarcerated, mutilated, and terrorized black
body
Warren 15 (Calvin L Warren, Assistant Professor of African American Studies @
George Washington University, Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope, CR: The
New Centennial Review, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2015, PG 215-216)
Perverse juxtapositions structure our relation to the Political. This becomes
even more apparent and
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advances political apostasy as the only ethical response to black suffering.

Furthermore, the 1AC is a manifestation of the electoral

unconscious that teaches subjects to desire the political. This
desire is particularly detrimental for black folk because unlike
traditional political participation which is motivated by selfinterested expectancy, the relationship of black folk to the
political is one of cruel optimism and sustained trauma. They
are an attempt at achieving the impossible which only allows
for the disregard of the historicity of anti-blackness and its
continued legacy
Warren 15 (Calvin L Warren, Assistant Professor of African American Studies @
George Washington University, Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope, CR: The
New Centennial Review, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2015, PG 219-221)
In the essay A Fidelity to Politics: Shame and the African American Vote
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and the continued widening of the gap between historical reality and
fantastical ideal.

And, the Aff is the most disgusting form of vampirism that

uses representations of suffering for their own liberal selfaggrandizement. This produces an affective investment in
suffering that does not end, but only recreates an endless
spectacle to grant legitimacy to the perversions that structure
their projects of intervention.
Berlant 98 (Lauren, George M. Pullman Professor, Department of English,
University of Chicago, Poor Eliza, American Literature, Vol. 70, No. 3, No More
Separate Spheres! (Sep., 1998), Duke University Press, Pg 653-658)
What distinguishes these critical texts are the startling ways they struggle to encounter the Uncle
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fully expressed by the overpresence of the stereotypical image. 635-668)

Technological management is an expression of the death drive

that causes projection of our fears onto the human and nonhuman world to justify their annihilation
Dodds 12 [Joseph, MPhil, Psychoanalytic Studies, Sheffield University, UK, MA,
Psychoanalytic Studies, Sheffield University, UK BSc, Psychology and Neuroscience,
Manchester University, UK, Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) of the British
Psychological Society (BPS), and a member of several other professional
organizations such as the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society,
Psychoanalysis and Ecology at the Edge of Chaos, p. 70]
Here there are echoes of Freud's (1916) idea of 'anticipatory mourning' and the
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danger of bringing about our extinction.(Searles 1972: 371-372)

The central question of the debate is how we respond to

anxiety voting aff is a dangerous palliative that gives us the
illusion of control by affirming our mastery over nature, a
hubris that tempts us
Dodds 12 [Joseph, MPhil, Psychoanalytic Studies, Sheffield University, UK, MA,
Psychoanalytic Studies, Sheffield University, UK BSc, Psychology and Neuroscience,
Manchester University, UK, Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) of the British
Psychological Society (BPS), and a member of several other professional
organizations such as the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society,
Psychoanalysis and Ecology at the Edge of Chaos, p. 27]

Why psychoanalysis? On the face of it, it seems frankly irrelevant. Surely

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of 'holding environments', the ultimate 'environment mother' (Winnicott
1999,1987).

The fantasy is incredibly seductive. It promises all that we

want, and all that it cannot give. It is a trap. Do not fall for it.
Traverse it.
Warren 15 (Calvin L Warren, Assistant Professor of African American Studies @
George Washington University, Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope, CR: The
New Centennial Review, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2015, PG 223-229)
Within critical discourses, black nihilism is saturated with negative semantics.
Theorists consider it
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the retreat from the Political that is the ultimate sign of spiritual maturity.