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Institutions can't solve warming - Policymakers assume they can solve warming
without radically changing capitalist eco-development. They assume neoliberal
civilization can continue as it is but neglect that ecological disaster has already
happened for many people BECAUSE of capitalist quick fixes.
Swyngedouw 13 (Erik, Prof of Geography @ U of Manchester, Apocalypse Now! Fear and Doomsday
Pleasures, Capitalism Nature Socialism 24(1), p. 9-18)LA
Against this cynical stand, the third, and for me proper, leftist response to the apocalyptic imaginary is twofold and cuts through the deadlock embodied by the first two responses. To begin

with, the revelatory promise of the apocalyptic narrative has to be fully rejected. In the face of
the cataclysmic imaginaries mobilized to assure that the apocalypse will NOT happen (if the right
techno-managerial actions are taken), the only reasonable response is Dont worry (Al Gore, Prince Charles, many environmental activists

. . ..), you are really right, the environmental apocalypse WILL not only happen, it has already happened, IT IS ALREADY HERE.

Many are already living in the post-apocalyptic interstices of life, whereby the fusion of environmental
transformation and social conditions, render life bare. The fact that the socio-environmental imbroglio has already passed the point of no return has to

be fully asserted. The socio-environmental Armageddon is already here for many; it is not some distant dystopian promise

mobilized to trigger response today. Water conflicts, struggles for food, environmental refugees, etc. testify to the socio-ecological predicament that
choreographs everyday life for the majority of the worlds population. Things are already too late; they have always already been too late. There is no Arcadian place, time, or environment to

It is only
return to, no benign socio-ecological past that needs to be maintained or stabilized. Many already live in the interstices of the apocalypse, albeit a combined and uneven one.

within the realization of the apocalyptic reality of the now that a new politics might emerge .
The second gesture of a proper leftist response is to reverse the order between the universal and the
particular that today dominates the catastrophic political imaginary. This order maintains that salvaging the particular historical-geographical configuration we are in
depends on re-thinking and re-framing the humanenvironment articulation in a universal sense. We have to change our relationship with nature so that capitalism can

continue somehow. Not only does this argument to preserve capitalism guarantee the prolongation of the
combined and uneven apocalypse of the present, it forecloses considering fundamental
change to the actually existing unequal forms of organizing the society-environment relations.
Indeed, the apocalyptic imaginary is one that generally still holds on to a dualistic view of nature and culture. The argument is built on the view that humans have perturbed the ecological
dynamic balance in ways inimical to human (and possibly non-human) long-term survival, and the solution consists broadly in bringing humans (in a universal sense) back in line with the
possibilities and constraints imposed by ecological limits and dynamics. A universal transformation is required in order to maintain the present. And this can and should be done through
managing the present particular configuration. This is the message of Al Gore or Prince Charles and many other environmental pundits. A left socio-environmental perspective has to insist that
we need to transform this universal message into a particular one. The historically and geographically specific dynamics of capitalism have banned an external nature radically to a sphere

beyond earth. On earth, there is no external nature left. It is from this particular historical-geographical configuration that a radical politics of
transformation has to be thought and practiced. Only through thetransformation of the particular socio-ecological relations of capitalism can a generic
egalitarian, free, and common re-ordering of the human/non-human imbroglios be forged. Those who already recognized the irreversible dynamics of the socio-environmental imbroglio that
has been forged over the past few centuries coined a new term to classify the epoch we are in. Welcome to the Anthropocene became a popular catch-phrase to inform us that we are now
in a new geological era, one in which humans are co-producers of the deep geological time that hitherto had slowly grinded away irrespective of humans dabbling with the surface layers of
earth, oceans, and atmosphere. Noble prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen introduced the Anthropocene, coined about a decade ago as the successor name of the Holocene, the relatively
benign geo-climatic period that allegedly permitted agriculture to flourish, cities to be formed, and humans to thrive (Crutzen and Stoermer 2000). Since the beginning of industrialization, so
the Anthropocenic argument goes, humans increasing interactions with their physical conditions of existence have resulted in a qualitative shift in geo-climatic acting of the earth system. The
Anthropocene is nothing else than the geological name for capitalism WITH nature. Acidification of oceans, biodiversity transformations, gene displacements and recombinations, climate
change, big infrastructures effecting the earths geodetic dynamics, among others, resulted in knotting together natural and social processes such that humans have become active agents
in co-shaping earths deep geological time. Now that the era has been named as the Anthropocene, we can argue at length over its meaning, content, existence, and possible modes of
engagement. Nonetheless, it affirms that humans and nature are co-produced and that the particular historical epoch that goes under the name of capitalism forged this mutual determination.
The Anthropocene is just another name for insisting on Natures death. This cannot be unmade, however hard we try. The past is forever closed and the future* including natures future*is
radically open, up for grabs. Indeed, the affirmation of the historical-geographical co-production of society WITH nature radically politicizes nature, makes nature enter into the domain of

We cannot escape producing nature; rather, it forces us to make choices about what socio-
contested socio-physical relations and assemblages.

natural worlds we wish to inhabit. It is from this particular position, therefore, that the environmental conundrum ought to be

approached so that a qualitative transformation of BOTH society AND nature has to be envisaged.
This perspective moves the gaze from thinking through a politics of the environment to politicizing the environment (Swyngedouw 2011;
2012). The human world is now an active agent in shaping the non-human world. This extends the terrain of the political to domains hitherto left to the mechanics of nature. The non-

human world becomes enrolled in a process of politicization. And that is precisely what
needs to be fully endorsed. The Anthropocene opens up a terrain whereby different natures can be contemplated and actually co-produced. And the struggle over
these trajectories and, from a leftist perspective, the process of the egalitarian socio-ecological production of the commons of life is precisely what our politics are all about. Yes, the

apocalypse is already here, but do not despair, let us fully endorse the emancipatory
possibilities of apocalyptic life. Perhaps we should modify the now over-worked statement of the Italian Marxist Amadeo Bordiga that if the ship goes down,
the first-class passengers drown too. Amadeo was plainly wrong. Remember the movie Titanic (as well as the real catastrophe). A large number of the first-class passengers found a lifeboat;
the others were trapped in the belly of the beast. Indeed the social and ecological catastrophe we are already in is not shared equally. While the elites fear both economic and ecological
collapse, the consequences and implications are highly uneven. The elites fears are indeed only matched by the actually existing socio-ecological and economic catastrophes many already live

The apocalypse is combined and uneven. And it is within this reality that political choices have to be
in.

made and sides taken.

BIFO COUNTER ADVOCACY
 First is the theory
The resolution was created to ensure that ground could be clearly distinguished
between the affirmative and negative sides of the topic, while allowing for enough
arguments to engage in in-depth clash.
The other team chose to not affirm the resolution, which requires government
regulation or funding of K-12 education. This changed the starting point of the round
to something that is undebatable and unpredictable.
We agree their advocacy has value; however, because they chose a starting point of
discussion that wasnt outlined by the resolution, we should no longer be held to the
burden of rejoinder. We should not have to say, No to their Yes. We should be
able to agree with their, Yes and then focus the debate on what is the best
methodology.
Forcing us to maintain the burden of rejoinder against non-topical affirmatives that
make terminal truth claims would put us in the position of making morally
reprehensible arguments, which is bad for education, promotes poor discussion and
results in a hostile environment.
 Second is the internal link turn
The 1AC is predicated on reject semio capital; however, the performance and form the
1AC embodied the way communication operates in a semiotic world. This prevents
the affirmative from resolving the harms of the 1AC and only makes them worse.
Bifo 9 /Franco Berardi, Prof, Social History of Comm, University of Milan, Precarious Rhapsody
Semiocapitalism and the pathologies of the post-alpha generation London: c0mp0siti0ns, Pg. 111-113/

A semiotic regime is repressive when one, and only one, signified is ascribed to each signifier. Whoever fails
to interpret the signs of power in the right way, doesnt wave at the flag or respect their superiors, and
breaks the law, is in trouble. However, the semiotic regime we find ourselves in as inhabitants of the
semiocapitalist universe is characterized by an excess of speed of the signifiers and stimulates a sort of
interpretative hyperkinesis. The typical over-inclusion of schizophrenic interpretation becomes the
predominant mode of navigation in the proliferating universe of video-electronic media. In a chapter entitled
Toward a theory of schizophrenia, Bateson defined schizophrenic interpretation thus: The schizophrenic
shows weakness in three fields of the communicative function: a) a difficulty in ascribing the correct mode of
communication to messages coming from other people; b) a difficulty in ascribing the correct mode of
communication to verbal and non verbal messages; and c) a difficulty in ascribing the right mode of
communication to her own thought, sensation and perception (1972: 240). In the video-electronic info-
sphere we all inhabit the conditions that describe schizophrenic communication. Exposed to an overloading
of signifying impulses, the human receiver is unable to process the meaning of statements and stimuli in
sequence and faces the difficulties listed by Bateson. A further peculiar character of the schizophrenic
Bateson mentions is that she does not know how to distinguish metaphor from literary expression. The
peculiarity of the schizophrenic is not that she uses metaphors, but that she uses them without identifying
them (1972: 248). In the domain of digital simulation, metaphors and things become less and less
distinguishable; thing turns into metaphor and metaphor into thing, representation replaces life, and so too
life representation. Semiotic flows and commodity circulation juxtapose their codes and become part of the
same constellation, which Baudrillard calls 111 // Dark Desires hyperreality. Thus the register of
schizophrenia becomes the main mode of interpretation. The system of collective cognition loses its critical
competence; this amounted to the ability to discern truth value in the statements that were submitted in
sequences to relatively alert attention. Amidst the proliferation of fast media, interpretation no longer
unfolds along sequential lines; instead, it follows associative spirals and asignifying connections.
Interpretation and overload In Learner based listening and technological authenticity, Richard Robin, a
researcher from George Washington University, studies the effect of the acceleration of speech on listening
comprehension. Robins research is based on a calculation of the number of syllables spoken each second. A
faster rate, and more syllables per second decrease the level of the listeners comprehension of meaning: the
faster the flow of syllables per second, the less the time for the listener to critically process the message. The
speed of emission and the amount of semiotic impulses sent in a given time unit are functional to the time
available to a conscious processing. Fast speech intimidates listeners. Evidence suggests that globalization
has produced faster speech emission rates in areas of the world where the Western mode of transmission of
signs has come to replace traditional and authoritarian ones. For instance, in the ex-Soviet Union the speed
of transmission measured in syllables per second has almost doubled since the fall of the communist regime:
from three to almost six syllables per second; similar findings reached the same conclusions in the Middle
East and China (1991: 403). The implications of Robins study are extremely interesting for our understanding
of the transition from a form of authoritarian biopolitical power that is persuasive (like the totalitarian
regimes of the twentieth century) to a form of biopolitical power that is pervasive (like contemporary
infocracy). Persuasive power is founded on consensus: citizens must understand the reasons of the President,
General, Secretary or Duce. Only one source of information is authorized. Dissident voices are subjected to
Precarious Rhapsody / 112 censorship. Instead, the infocratic regime of semio-capital grounds its power on
overload, the acceleration of semiotic flows and the proliferation of sources of information to the point of
the producing the white noise of indistinctiveness, irrelevance and indecipherability. Twentieth century art
was conceived as flows of desire and liberating expressions; Surrealism celebrated the expressive power of
the subconscious as liberating social and psychic energies. Today, art is also the flow of therapy for mind
ecology. Art has replaced the police in the universal dispositif of mind control, but at the same time it looks
for inroads into therapy. Whilst the prevailing epidemic pathology of modernity was the neurosis produced
by repression, the pathologies spreading epidemically today manifest signs of psychosis and panic. A hyper-
stimulation of attention reduces the ability to critically and sequentially interpret the speech of the other
who tries and yet fails to be understood.
 Genealogy
In debate, genealogy is bad the reify a position of mastery by presenting and
demanding a reward for the act of genealogy and rather than shaping us into better
subjects, their politics of historical counter-memory is equally likely to destroy the
ethical strength to resist oppression
Parkes 11 (Robert John, Senior Lecturer in Curriculum Studies and Deputy Head of School, Teaching and
Learning within the School of Education @ U. Newcastle, Counterpoints, Vol. 404, INTERRUPTING HISTORY:
Rethinking History Curriculum after 'The End of History' (2011), pp. 96-98)

Despite its good intentions, since the late 1980s critical pedagogy has sustained considerable criticism

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if critical pedagogies are to be useful to students navigating the struggle for histories

Genealogy is only a worthwhile method if you lower your standards for acceptable
history
Plamper, 2002 (Jan, Assistant professor of Russian History at the University of Tbingen, Germany,
Foucaults Gulag, Kritika, 3.2)

When situating the Gulag, Foucault ran into paradox and was ultimately unsuccessful for reasons

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between discourse and practices than ever conceivable in the Russian-Soviet context.

Prefer a dialectical method it is the only way to place specific events and concepts in
the context of the evolution of capitalism and cultivate class consciousness
Ollman, 2003 (Bertell, professor of politics at NYU, Dance of the Dialectic: Steps in Marxs Method, Why
Dialectics? Why Now? http://www.nyu.edu/projects/ollman/books/dd.php)

Just how difficult it is to grasp the bigger picture was recently brought home to

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make sense of it, and dialectics to make correct sense of Marxism.

Genealogy is completely meaningless if anyone in the room can give a coherent
definition, you get a cookie
Stevens, 2003 (Jacqueline, teaches political theory, Istanbul Bilgi University and visiting scholar at the
Center for Advanced Social Science Research, On the morals of genealogy, Political Theory, Vol. 31, No. 4,
August)

What does the past mean to us? Why do we value it? How

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come to be misused and perhaps even abused by Foucault and his disciples.

the specific etymology of geneaology is tied to sociobiological darwinism

STEVENS 3 On the Morals of Genealogy Author(s): Jacqueline Stevens Source: Political Theory, Vol. 31, No. 4
(Aug., 2003), pp. 558-588 Published by: Sage Publications, Inc. Stable URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3595672 Jacqueline Stevens teaches political theory at Istanbul Bilgi University
and is a visiting scholar at the Center for Advanced Social Science Research, New York University, and the
Centerfor Feminist Research, University of Southern California. She is the author of Reproducing the State
(Princeton University Press, 1999). Her current books in progress are The Human Being Project and States
without Nations. For more information, see www.jacquelinestevens.or g.

On the Genealogy of Morals takes issue with genealogy as a method unfortunately lifted from

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to be attentive to language, something that Ree's natural scientific bluster ignored.

reject sociobiological determinism its a formula for oppression

BELL AND MACDONALD, 1 Duncan S.A. Bell is a doctoral candidate at the Center for International Studies,
Cambridge University. He spent the past academic year as a Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Political
Science, Columbia Uni-versity. Paul K. MacDonald is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political
Science, Columbia Uni-versity. They would like to thank Stacie Goddard, Robert Jervis, Philip Kitcher, Daniel
Nexon, Joseph Parent, Jack Snyder, and Jennifer Sterling-Folker for their helpful comments Start the
Evolution without Us Author(s): Duncan S.A. Bell, Paul K. MacDonald, Bradley A. Thayer Source: International
Security, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Summer, 2001), pp. 187-198 Published by: The MIT Press Stable URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3092082

We believe, however, that there are serious ethical issues at stake in the

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scrutiny before they are adopted as scientific fact, or be avoided altogether.

Genealogy and Marx are incompatible. Looking to anything other than the Rez hurts
the adoption of the Marxian method
Meszaros 1995
(Istvan, Professor Emeritus at the University of Sussex, held the Chair of Philosophy at Sussex for fifteen
years, Beyond Capital, 30-32)

To be sure, Marx's concept of capital as a dynamically developing and all-

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were irremediably antagonistic and ultimately not only destructive but also self-destructive.

geneaology is the worst kind of positivism its a reduction of human possibility in

favor of scientism
STEVENS 3 On the Morals of Genealogy Author(s): Jacqueline Stevens Source: Political Theory, Vol. 31, No. 4
(Aug., 2003), pp. 558-588 Published by: Sage Publications, Inc. Stable URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3595672 Jacqueline Stevens teaches political theory at Istanbul Bilgi University
and is a visiting scholar at the Center for Advanced Social Science Research, New York University, and the
Centerfor Feminist Research, University of Southern California. She is the author of Reproducing the State
(Princeton University Press, 1999). Her current books in progress are The Human Being Project and States
without Nations. For more information, see www.jacquelinestevens.or g.

The final appearance of the word 'genealogy' is critical rather than laudatory of the method

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but to instruct us on the possibilities of overcoming positivists' colonization of humanity.

 Genealogy Fails
Plamper, 2002 (Jan, Assistant professor of Russian History at the University of Tbingen, Germany,
Foucaults Gulag, Kritika, 3.2)

This essay examines the relationships between these events - the discovery of the Gulag,

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colonial discourse, most decentering challenges to Foucault have so far emanated.3

 FW Stuff
Politics should be founded from the outset on advocacy for specific, contestable,
institutional changetheir prioritization of individual resistance lapses into new-age
individualist therapy that undermines collective action
Ella Myers 13, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Gender Studies at the University of Utah, 2013,
Worldly Ethics: Democratic Politics and Care for the World, p. 44-45

Unfortunately, Connolly is inconsistent in this regard, for he also positions Foucauldian self

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may have value, but it is not an ethics fit for democracy.

The 1AC is focused on describing and critiquing a problem, not on prescribing and
explaining a solution. This methodology is counterproductive because it destroys
public support for change and diverts intellectual resources away from more
productive scholarship. The aff ensures that we never find the solutions we
desperately need.
Bryant 12 Levi R. Bryant, Professor of Philosophy at Collin College, holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Loyola
University in Chicago, 2012 (Underpants Gnomes: A Critique of the Academic Left, Larval SubjectsLevi R.
Bryants philosophy blog, November 11th, Available Online at
http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/underpants-gnomes-a-critique-of-the-academic-left/,
Accessed 02-21-2014)

I must be in a mood todayhalf irritated, half amusedbecause

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. Instead we prefer to shout and denounce. Good luck with that.

Debate should be a space for carpentry, not critique. Vote neg to reject the
affirmatives fixation with texts and discourse instead of real things and real solutions.
Bogost 12 Ian Bogost, Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and Professor of Interactive
Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Founding Partner at Persuasive Games LLCan
independent game studio, holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of
California-Los Angeles and a B.A. in Philosophy and Comparative Literature from the University of Southern
California, 2012 (Carpentry: Constructing Artifacts that Do Philosophy, Alien Phenomenology, or What Its
Like to Be a Thing, Published by the University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 9780816678976, p. 90-92)

Second, writing is dangerous for philosophyand for serious scholarly practice in general

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the name carpentry to this practice of constructing artifacts as a philosophical practice.

Their criticism of IR does nothing to confront the real harms of the status quo only the aff can solve
atrocity and global problems.

Jarvis 2k Darryl S. L. Jarvis, Director of the Research Institute for International Risk and Lecturer in
International Relations at the University of Sydney, 2000 (International Relations and the Challenge of
Postmodernism: Defending the Discipline, Published by the University of South Carolina Press, ISBN
1570033056, p. 128-129)

Perhaps more alarming though is the outright violence Ashley recommends in response to what at

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to address the real life plight of those who struggle at marginal places.

Policies are vital to address material oppression and deprivation. This is especially true for young people.

Noguera and Cannella 6 Pedro Noguera, Professor in the Steinhardt School of Education and Director of
the Metro Center for Research on Urban Schools and Globalization at New York University, holds a Ph.D. in
Sociology from the University of California-Berkeley, and Chiara M. Cannella, Doctoral Student in the
Department of Language, Reading, and Culture at the University of Arizona, 2006 (Conclusion: Youth
Agency, Resistance, and Civic Activism: The Public Commitment to Social Justice, Beyond Resistance! Youth
Activism and Community Change: New Democratic Possibilities for Practice and Policy for Americas Youth,
Edited by Shawn Ginwright, Pedro Noguera, and Julio Cammarota, Published by Routledge, ISBN
0415952506, p. 345-346)

The Complexity Inherent in Combining Social Justice in Youth Policy

Policy cannot compensate for

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affirmation the most, but also for the future of American society itself.

Debate is structured by agential fantasy: the demand is an impotent call on the State that is answered and
alleviated by judges only to restart the cycle next round. Underwriting the 1ACs frantic calls for change is a
profound alienation from desire, locking in the status quo.

Vote neg- only this intervention breaks apart fantasy and opens the aff to a mode of political subjectivity
capable of inaugurating change

Lundberg 12 (Christian, Assoc. Prof. of Rhetoric @ UNC, Chapel Hill, On Being Bound to Equivalential
Chains, Cultural Studies 26.2-3)

Laclau's On Populist Reason provides an elegant account of demand as the fundamental unit of

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a hegemonic order, and therefore a particularly fraught form of political subjectivization.

Politics should be founded from the outset on advocacy for specific, contestable, institutional changetheir
prioritization of individual resistance lapses into new-age individualist therapy that undermines collective
action
Ella Myers 13, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Gender Studies at the University of Utah, 2013,
Worldly Ethics: Democratic Politics and Care for the World, p. 44-45

Unfortunately, Connolly is inconsistent in this regard, for he also positions Foucauldian self

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may have value, but it is not an ethics fit for democracy.

The notion that if only people knew, that it would change their minds, is a compromise for what debate has
the potential to be

Bigo 2, professor at Kings College London department of War studies, (Didier, Alternatives: Global, Local,
Political, 27.1 Jan-March)

Some "critical" discourses generated by NGOs and academics assume that if people,

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has so little effect in either the political arena or in daily life.

They make the ballot a commodity that makes social transformation impossible

Bryant 13philosophy prof at Collin College (Levi, The Paradox of Emancipatory Political Theory,
http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/the-paradox-of-emancipatory-political-theory/)

Theres a sort of Hegelian contradiction at the heart of all academic political theory that

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important and like their the best thing since sliced bread, I guess.
 De-anthropocene**
Carbon fueled capitalism is self-destructing and pushing us to the brink of human
extinction. There is nothing that we can do. We are fucked. The only questions are
how soon and how badly. In order to prepare for the climate catastrophe wrought by
the Anthropocene, the moment where humans became a key geological factor, we
desperately need renewed interventions into articulating the human subject in
relationship with the natural world. As the reality of climate change infringes on the
myth of human immortality, we desperately need philosophy in order to begin the
ethical and ontological quest of learning how to die.
Scranton 15. Roy Scranton, acclaimed journalist, activist and author, PhD in English from Princeton,
currently teaching at Notre Dame, New York Times contributor, Iraq War veteran, Learning To Die in the
Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of Civilization, City Lights Books, 2015, online

Were fucked. The only questions are how soon and how badly. The

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who resonates on other channels and with slower, deeper rhythms.

The Anthropocene will be the disaster to end all disasters. Its very scope shreds long-
held wisdom about what it is to be a human. Instead of re-asserting the primacy of the
Eurocentric subject of Enlightened humanism, we need to get ready by developing
non-human centric understandings of ecological agency which can understand the
layers of stratification of the Earth only a non-human ethos can effectively account
for this new era of geological agency
Clark 14. Nigel Clark, professor in the Lancaster Environment Center at Lancaster University (UK),
Geopolitics and the disaster of the anthropocene, The Sociological Review, 62:S1, pg. 21

It is anthropogenic climate change, and especially the prospect of passing over thresholds or

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also a time for mourning for dwelling on the experience of loss.

Politics is broken left and right merge together as all have a sense we must act to
avert warming yet fail in having even the most basic conceptual frameworks with
which to confront the crisis of the Anthropocene. Try or die for the alternative to re-
orient the values of the Global North away from rampant consumption habits that
render environmental squandering inevitable. None of their no tipping point evidence
assumes our evidences cultural prediction about the absolute depravity of
consumption in the West.
Scranton 15. Roy Scranton, acclaimed journalist, activist and author, PhD in English from Princeton,
currently teaching at Notre Dame, New York Times contributor, Iraq War veteran, Learning To Die in the
Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of Civilization, City Lights Books, 2015, online

This seems to be the situation were stuck in. On the left and

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nobody has real answers. The problem is that the problem is us.

Independently, the AFFs strict binary between life and death is a molar formation
that erects a regime of animacy this is the nexus of racism, gendered and sexual
violence this naturalizes the subject/object dichotomy. We ought instead to try to
queer these animacy spectrums before presupposing the world otherwise, negative
externalities to the hubris of human centrism are inevitable.
Chen 12. Mel Y. Chen, professor of linguistics and womens studies at UC Berkeley, Animacies: Biopolitics,
Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect, Duke U Press, pg. 10

Furthermore, political interest stokes public alarm toward toxins. We must therefore understand

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onstrated, these are all terms that intersect in productive ways with animacy.

Their appeal to the necessity of immediate action in response to climate change is

nothing but an emotive training ground to integrate the warming threat endemic to
human existence into another far off scenario to lull the population into fear-laden
productivity. Not only does this naturalize the most violent and racialized state
violence, which you should weigh as an external impact, it also eviscerates the value
of existence, sustaining an endless cruel optimistic attachment to the alleviation of
fear. Our frantic attempts to resolve such problems merely institutionalize the most
horrendous homicidal violence and push us to the brink of war. The only political task
left and the Role of the Judge is that of the philosopher who interrupts the absorption
of the resonance of fear that greases the wheels of modern power.
Scranton 15. Roy Scranton, acclaimed journalist, activist and author, PhD in English from Princeton,
currently teaching at Notre Dame, New York Times contributor, Iraq War veteran, Learning To Die in the
Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of Civilization, City Lights Books, 2015, online
When it comes to global warming, differing visions of the human future are

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human swarms dance to the compulsion of strife, the interrupter practices dying.

As extinction is simply inevitable over infinite cosmic timescales, wed be better off
refusing the imperative to preserve life and allowing the spectacular unfolding of
humanitys spectral disintegration. This openness to dissolution of the human
through the move towards extinction and embrace of the inherent possibilities of
becoming in the world offers new avenues for ethico-political action. The embrace of
extinction does not mean cessation of political engagement, but creates the possibility
of alternative figurations of the human on a theoretical level.
Mitchell, 16Wilfrid Laurier University (Audra, Is IR going extinct?, European Journal of International
Relations 123, dml)

Perhaps most profoundly, taking extinction seriously would involve relinquishing the fetishism of survival as

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tragedy, and a future of rapidly diminishing life lived in survival mode.

We should exhaust their sorry representations of suffering the creation of an

alternative theater of the human in a violent becoming-otherwise is the only way to
make life meaningful. Their suffering based justifications for life are not neutral but
political claims that reify liberal regimes of dominance through pity and moralizing
that mask a regime of truth that striates life. You should prefer our politics of
exhaustion with liberalism as an embrace of death and the only way to make life
meaningful.
Evans and Reid 14. Brad Evans, professor of international relations at the University of Lapland, Finland and
Julian Reid, senior lecturer in international relations at the University of Bristol, Resilient Life, 2014, pg. 176

If the era we have just left exhausted its remaining possibilities and attained the

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effect the possible is accomplished by the exhausted characters who exhaust it.12
 Hashtag Accelerate
A funny thing happened on the way to protest the 1AC is a fetishistic script of resistance whereby
spectacular outrage against the powers that be lock in an established and failed script that cannot generate
meaningful political change. The 1AC is nothing but the latest empty slogan. The beginning of ANY leftist
project must be the question of what has caused the utter and complete failure of the radical left in the last
20 years.

Srnicek and Williams 15. Nick Srnicek, PhD from the London School of Economics, lecturer at City University
and Westminister University (UK), and Alex Williams, lecturer in sociology at the City University of London,
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work, Verso 2015, 5-9

The next move was ours, and we just stood there, waiting for

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widespread and uncritical acceptance of what we call folk-political thinking.

We must reclaim and contest the idea of modernity rather than reject it only a politics focused on
articulating a universal and positive future can avoid capitalist appropriation of an infinity of particularisms.
Rather than ceding notions of modernity and modernization to the far right through the 1ACs anti-
modernism, we desperately need a reinvigorated imagination of a technological future as modernitys notion
of progress is essential for the sustainability of any large-scale leftist movement.

Srnicek and Williams 15. Nick Srnicek, PhD from the London School of Economics, lecturer at City University
and Westminister University (UK), and Alex Williams, lecturer in sociology at the City University of London,
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work, Verso 2015, 69-71

In the present climate, around the world, almost everything that can be

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of modernity and its ideals. Modernity must be contested, not rejected.

The future has been ceded to the right we must reclaim modernitys bounty that the future can and will be
better than the present given deliberate human attempts to create a more just world. Progressive and
modern notions of the future have been quashed by poststructuralism only a move towards politics that is
actively constructed by leftist intellectuals can offer us a way out.

Srnicek and Williams 15. Nick Srnicek, PhD from the London School of Economics, lecturer at City University
and Westminister University (UK), and Alex Williams, lecturer in sociology at the City University of London,
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work, Verso 2015, 71-75

To invoke modernity is ultimately to raise the question of the future. What should

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they are a matter of political achievement rather than divine or earthly providence.
The impact is extinction as the speedy pace of neoliberalism sets the stage for global apocalypse, we must
retrieve the spirit of accelerationism, move beyond capitalism, and intervene rather than reject narratives of
modernity and technology as the only hope for a sustainable future we have left.

Srnicek and Williams 13. Nick Srnicek, PhD from the London School of Economics, lecturer at City University
of London and Westminister University (UK), and Alex Williams, lecturer in sociology at the City University of
London, #ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics, Critical Legal Thinking, May 14, 2013,
http://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/

01. INTRODUCTION: On the Conjuncture 1. At the beginning of the second

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of The Plan must be married to the improvised order of The Network.

We can and must build a new world to accelerate out of our present predicament. Capitalism arbitrarily
constrains and destroys technological innovation and creativity only a postcapitalist futurism unlocks new
modes of subjectification to create an entirely new world. Remember that even if they are right about their
descriptive claims, we are the only ones with a means to solve those problems as the only way out is
through.

Srnicek and Williams 15. Nick Srnicek, PhD from the London School of Economics, lecturer at City University
and Westminister University (UK), and Alex Williams, lecturer in sociology at the City University of London,
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work, Verso 2015, 178-181

Technological development follows a recombinant path, bringing together existing ideas, technologies and
technological

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must build a world in which we can accelerate out of our stasis.

The AFF is but one response to the death of the Anthropocenic human slow geological time and the
destruction of the Earth reveal the foundational insignificance of human society. This loss of stability is met
both by technical solutions that lock in humanist tropes, recreating environmental destruction AS WELL AS
by the lock-step move to far right-wing authoritarians who promise a return to stability. Their desire to return
to a primitivism in which civilization has collapsed through the flippant rejection of all technology re-creates
the Each must be refused if we are to style a vision of the human that can leave in harmony with the natural
world through a renewed project of Anthropolysis, a critical refounding of the origin myths of the human
race.

Bratton 17. Benjamin H. Bratton, professor of visual arts and director of the Center for Design and Geopolitics
at the University of California, San Diego, visiting professor at the SCI-ARC Southern California Institute of
Architecture, professor at the European Graduate School in Switzerland, On Anthropolysis, e-flux
architecture, Superhumanity Issue, January 16, 2016, http://www.e-
flux.com/architecture/superhumanity/68640/on-anthropolysis/

Anthropogeny is the study of human origins, of how something that was not quite

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the humanist position and perspective it would require is the Anthropolysis we want.
Even if they are right about their bleak depiction of modern capitalism, the ONLY way OUT is THROUGH.
Capitalism is reaching its limit now and has proven itself unsustainable the divorce of democracy and
capitalism is imminent. Rather than dwell in endless critique, we revel in a post-truth and post-information
economy as a strategic site of leftist influence to guide the spectacle towards post-capitalist values.

ANON 2/5. This text that comments on Srnicek and Williams 2015 work appears with this brief note about
the identity of its authors: the work of ANON. We are a collective of Other. Some of us are sex workers,
some immigrants, many of us queer. There are even a few privileged white cucks amongst us. Never the less,
ANON is largely the work and brainchild of People of Color (PoC). Our social disciplines are as varied as our
identities: from Journalists to dominatrixes. ANON are the intellectual cousins of #BlackLivesMatter divorced
from liberalism. #AltWoke Manifesto, andandand Journal, February 5, 2017, http://tripleampersand.org/alt-
woke-manifesto/

Why support Left-Accelerationism? Accelerationism is a contested and obtuse term among the

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. Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle, (1967)

 Value
Any construction of value systems to give you the reason to vote aff are completely
arbitrary. Nothing in the universe is inherently meaningful in a way not justified by
infinite tautology. They dont meet the burden of proof vote neg on rejoinder.
 BIOPOWER FW
Our interpretation is that the aff is an engagement of the core resolutional question rather than an
instrumental implementation of the res
The question of this debate is not whether or not the usfg should engage with China but rather, as our
Grayson evid describes - "how do we remain cognizant of how forms of actionmaintain a system of global
governmentality?"
Competing interps are bad there's no objective understanding of the resolution, also means experiences
preclude theory
Edelman '85 (Murray Edelman, PhD, American Political Scientist, University of Wisconsin, Madison "Political
Language and Political Reality" http://ed-share.educ.msu.edu/scan/TE/danagnos/te9201A.PDF)

But that statement poses the problem rather than resolving it, for it challenges us

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no conflicts over meaning, the issue is not political, by definition.

We shouldn't be constrained to instrumental readings of the resolutiongenealogy is a re-thinking of

thinking that problematizes spatial logics of objective mastery
Marzec 1 (Robert, Teaches Postcolonial Studies @ SUNY Fredonia, An Anatomy of Empire, symploke 9.1-2
(2001) 165-168, muse thanks shree)
Retrieving crucial foundational shifts in history that determine the order of existence in our present

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one, according to Spanos, "most difficult but not impossible."

Beginning with policy action denies the power-relations that make biopolitics possible and makes us
authors of a sphere that denies ethics we do not resort to inaction but rather practice cognizance in
opposition to biopower
Grayson 7 (Kyle, Lecturer in International Politics @ Newcastle University, Human Security as
power/knowledge: the biopolitics of a definitional debate, Online paper archive for the SGIR Turin
Conference 2007, http://archive.sgir.eu/uploads/Grayson-graysonsgir.pdf thanks shree)
While the argument thus far has been critical of the biopolitics of human security,

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from these modes of thinking, the call is not a simple one.

Queer State-phobia
States will inevitably react to radical politics any AFF that rejects this
will fail.
Dean 16 (Jodi Dean, Professor of Political Science @ Hobart and William Smith, Crowds and Party, pp. 126-
127)

The party operates as the support for the subject

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remain powerless. This is why we are talking about the party again.
 Queer scholars must engage the law to combat normalization
Duggan 94 (Lisa Duggen, associate professor of American studies and history at New York University,
Queering the State, Social Text, No. 39 (Summer, 1994), pp. 1-14)

When we turn our attention to this project, we run into difficulty the moment

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complex ideas about the construction of racial and sexual identities and their intersections.
Agential Fantasies
 The AFF is an agential fantasy debate is an echo chamber for
resistance. The 1ACs politics of the direct demand structurally
requires that the Big Other never answers their call for change outside
of an AFF ballot saying NO to their demand shatters their fantasy
in favor of making a politics of desire the prerequisite to the AFF.
Lundberg 12 (Christian Lundberg, Professor and Communication Strategies Consultant, Lacan in Public,
wcp)

The demands of student revolutionaries and antiglobalization protestors provide a set of opportunities for
interrogating

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and productivity of frustrated demand as part and parcel of antagonistic democratic struggle.