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Bifo
Vote negative to reject the 1AC.
The economy and global capital are crumbling around us - we should use the collapse as a site for organizing affective
singularity outside of the realm of economics
Bifo 2011
(Franco Berardi, Professor of Social History and Communication at the Academia di belle Arti in Milan and Founder of
A/Traverse, After the Future, ed. Genesko%26Thoburn, AKPress, p. 147-54)
Activism has generally conceived the should be considered an unending process.

It's a supposedly very complex argument about what Baudrillard calls the Code and semiotic investment in capitalism
it basically boils down to academia bad and so academia good is responsive. Cap good is responsive too, unless
your Aff has already forgone that route.
The card itself says that semiotic (IE mental) investments in activism/consciousness raising accelerate our personal
investment in the capitalist system through attempts to change it. It then makes a Baudrillard-esque argument about
why we need a fatal strategy (in this case Bifo advocates exhaustion, which means complete disinvestment in the
semiotic system of capitalism and as such activism and debate, and in the real world something much like a 'general
strike') because supposedly trading activism for a ballot props up capitalism. Twisted logic, I understand, but this is
what you get from cutting from esoteric Italian political philosophers talking about Baudrillard and then making the
transition to debate.
For academia good/right forum args, it depends on your aff, but in general Giroux writes a lot of good cardslook for
the article that has a title like 'Occupy the University' or something like that
Then you can read Baudrillard indicts, ballot good, cap good if applicable, and just generally take down Baudrillard's
fatal strategy in general.

Well, Bifo is cool with like Occupy and movements when their aim is like the end of work for example, so he's cool with
some activism, but he isn't cool coupling anticapitalism activism with
the forum of something like debate... When i say academia bad I mean args more like ballot commodification, and
generally emotional and psychic investment in a system based upon use of activism/subversive knowledge production
for competitive reasons, if that makes sense

Idk if you've seen the old Baudrillard shells that are like activism on the plane of the Real bad (on my phone rn so can't
pull it up sorry), and that cards that's floating around cut from the Spirit of Terrorism that K Affs are using to answer
FW, but the argument as I've seen it run generally centers around less terrorism good/we take the ballot as hostage
and more that exhaustion is a fatal strategy which "triggers a symbolic trap in the system" by disinvesting in the
power of debate to generate or further activism (parallel to a strike in which we just stop working) we show how hollow
the system is and thus symbolically destroy it

To answe martyp, I can't explain it in great detail, because the geniuses who theorized this crap (Baudrillard and Bifo)
never get more specific than how I was up there, but I think the arg is pretty simple, just that debate is a form of
semiocapitalism (trading knowledge for ballots) and when we try to say "cap is bad" inside such a system we fail to
see our own complicity in a mirror system, and therefore we have to just leave the system and let it collapse by itself

Loyola
Their reliance on economic rationality presupposes a neoliberal form of subjectivity that they superimpose upon the
world in order to justify mass violence and homogenization. This also makes transition wars and economic collapse
inevitable, as it fails to understand how the crucial problem today is one of symbolic exchange. Against this, we should
withdraw from necronomics.
Bifo 11 (Franco, After the Future, ed. Genesko & Thoburn, AKPress, p. 141-7)
More than ever, economic rationality fabric of language and imagination.
As capitalism withers away we must save desire and autonomy by withdrawing from impositions like the maintenance
of a neoliberal subject. We must use the current recession as an opportunity to proliferate singularities as self creative
processes capable of retaining value and sustaining freedom.
Bifo 11 (Franco, After the Future, ed. Genesko & Thoburn, AKPress, p. 147-54)
Activism has generally conceived the be considered an unending process.

tags
The 1AC was a virtual presentation of a world improved through an imaginary strategy of economic engagement. This
is pan-capitalism- virtualized exchange value prescribed to commodities in order to guarantee economic comfort
through systems of capital. This process of virtualization is life negating and anti-political, as it makes the implosion of
these economic systems inevitable through a process of fascistic consumption

The 1AC is a battery plugged into the machine of digital capitalism. Think about the form of their argument; the
presentation of the 1AC was a face-down reading of economics literature at a hyper-fast pace off of the bright digital
computer screen where they store information. This reduces the body to a mechanic instrument used for data storage
and extraction by the system of virtual capitalism and destroys all political subjectivity

The way the system of exchange operates is through the invasion of the field of communication, which reduces the
affirmative to a commodity in a state of standing-reserve to be used by the economic system. This is the foundation for
modern violence- the circulation of pancapitalism creates a system of relationality that is dependent on violent
consumption and technologizes every facet of existence

Vote negative to reject the 1AC. Instead of further investing ourselves into the realm of virtualized production, the
alternative is a momentary diversion from neoliberalism on the level of the social. This is an affective singularity that
allows an analysis of individual complicity in systems of capitalism, which creates a reconceptualization of the internal
desire for commodity production- only this solves

The plan is an act of colonization that extends the space of the virtual economy in order to maintain the sovereignty of
pan-capitalism. Their politics are always already determined by technocratic state elites which make structural
violence, military intervention, and the death of political subjectivity inevitable

Oklahoma K
The affirmative's neoliberal rationality attempts to molarize an image of the proper subject that locks the soul into
stasis and guarantees economic collapse and transition wars - the impact is social death
Bifo 2011
(Franco Berardi, Professor of Social History and Communication at the Academia di belle Arti in Milan and Founder of
A/Traverse, After the Future, ed. Genesko%26Thoburn, AKPress, p. 141-47)
More than ever, economic rationality fabric of language and imagination.
This focus on rational economic science has created a bloodthirsty form of capitalism that erases affective
engagements with desire and makes violence inevitable - neoliberalism constantly produces crisis to rationalize its
capacity for control - this makes the destruction of all life the very impulse of the economy
Wiltgen 2005
(James, Professor of History and Critical Theory at CalArts, "Sado-Moneatrism or Saint Fond Saint Ford", in
Consumption in the Age of Information, ed. Cohen and Rutsky, BERG, New York, p. 107-10)
How does digital capitalism intertwine their dense and complex oscillations.

Emporia
The economic crisis was precipitated by a high produced by the Prozac culture in its attempt to resolve depression Affect is the cause of the depression and the affirmative's attempt to use amphetamines will only magnify the impact.
Bifo 2009
(Franco Berardi, Professor and Pirate, The Soul at Work, Semiotext(e), p. 166-67)
Advertising reasserts at every street... ... be deeper and deeper relapses.
The affirmative breaks down the distinction between social/cognitive and economic labor - the knowledge they produce
is introduced into a knowledge economy of representation that inevitable erupts into unpredictable and violent revolt that paralyzes cognition.
Bifo 2007
(Franco Berardi, Professor of Social History of Communication at the Academia di belle Arti in Milan, and Founder of
A/traverse, Technology and Knowledge in a Universe of Indetermination, SubStance #112, Vol. 36 no. 1, trans.
Giuseppina Mecchia, pp. 68-72)
When we talk about the... ...paralysis of cognition and affectivity.

Wiltgen Impact from the other Bifo K

Our alternative is to exhaust debate

Bifo 2011
(Franco Berardi, Professor of Social History and Communication at the Academia di belle Arti in Milan and Founder of
A/Traverse, After the Future, ed. Genesko%26Thoburn, AKPress, p. 135-139)
Time is in the mind... ...based on depression and exhaustion.

Baidou
THE REDUCTION OF POLITICS TO A WHITE/BLACK BINARY MAKES IT HISTORICALLY NON-REFERENTIAL
THIS IS SPECULATIVE LEFTISM: THE POSITING OF OVERARCHING STRUCTURAL DETERMINATES THAT
CANNOT BE EXPLAINED OR VERIFIED BY ANY SORT OF EXPERIENCE. THIS MODE OF THEORIZING CAN
ONLY PRODUCE APOLITICAL, SPONTANEOUS ACTION REINVIGORATING COMMUNISM SOLVES BETTER
BOSTEELS 11 (Bruno, Prof. of Romance Studies @ Cornell U., Badiou and Politics, pp. 280-285)
MARXIST POLITICS We must conceive ... wholly other dimension beyond being.
OUR ETHICO-POLITICAL OBLIGATION IS TO ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR ACTIONS. IT IS ONLY OUR
BELIEF IN THE BIG OTHER WHICH ALLOWS CAPITALISM TO NATURALIZE THE SUBJUGATION OF THE
MILLIONS WHO ARE EXCLUDED FROM IT, AND THROUGH IDEOLOGY, ELIMINATE THEM.
IEK and DALY 4 (Slavoj, Prof. of European Graduate School, Intl. Director of the Birkbeck Inst. for Humanities, U. of
London, and Senior Researcher @ Inst. of Sociology, U. of Ljubljiana, and Glyn, Professor Intl. Studies @
Northampton U., Risking the Impossible http://www.lacan.com/zizek-daly.htm th)
It is in the light ... us to risk the impossible.

Laurelle
THE DELEUZIAN NOTION OF DESIRE AND DIFFERENCE AS DIFFERENT ASPECTS THAT MOVE BACK AND
FORTH BETWEEN TRANSCENDTAL AND IMMANENT IGNORES THAT THE ONLY IMMANENT FORCE OF
THINKING IS THE ONE
GRANCIEUSE 12 (Marjorie, Laruelle Facing Deleuze: Immanence, Resistance and Desire Laruelle and NonPhilosophy, pp. 47-49)
Besides, hierarchy or difference is ... Other and identity always marginal.9
ITS NOT TOO ABSTRACT PHILOSOPHY ITSELF IS THE ULTIMATE FORM OF VIOLENCE TODAY, OUR
ETHICO-POLITICAL IMPERATIVE IS TO RESIST IT.
GANGLE 12 (Rocco, Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy @ Caldicott College, Laruelle and Ordinary Life, Laruelle and NonPhilosophy, pp. 60-63)
The formidable technicality and abstractness ... of what is thereby uncovered.
OUR ALTERNATIVE IS TO ENGAGE IN THE SCIENCE OF NON-PHILOSOPHY
NON-PHILOSOPHY INVOLVES A CONSTANT EFFORT TO EXTRACT THE TRANSCENDENCE FROM THEIR
PHILOSOPHY WHICH ALWAYS THREATS TO DESTROY THE ONENESS OF BEING ITSELF
MULLARKEY and SMITH 12 (John, and Anthony Paul, Profs, Introduction: The Non-Philosophical Inversion:
Laruelle's Knowledge Without Domination Laruelle and Non-Philosophy, pp 2-3)
It is crucial in all ... all (non-summative) material parts.

2NC
THE AFFIRMATIVES FOCUS ON THE PARTICULARITIES OF NUCLEAR WASTE FAIL TO GRASP WASTE AS A
FUNDAMENTAL CONDITION OF LATE CAPITALISM
YATES, 11 (Michelle, University of California, The Human-As-Waste, the Labor Theory of Value and Disposability in
Contemporary Capitalism, Antipode
Mike Davis argues that rapid an immanent critique of capitalism.
WE SHOULD HAVE A MARXISM THAT REFUSES TO BE PRODUCTIVE BECAUSE ONLY THAT THEORY
REFUSES PRODUCTIVITY AND EXCHANGE
GALLOWAY 12 (Alexander R., Laruelle, Anti-Capitalist Laruelle and Non-Philosophy, pp. 201-204)
Perhaps a useful way to perhaps for the first time.
2. ITS AN AXIOM, NOT AN ADD-ON. WE HAVE TO COMPLETELY GIVE UP ON THE CONCEPT OF EXCHANGE
IN ANTI-CAPITALIST THOUGHT
GALLOWAY 12 (Alexander R., Laruelle, Anti-Capitalist Laruelle and Non-Philosophy, pp. 197-201)
This brings us to the allow for exchange of forces. 23

Latour
OUR METHODOLOGY IS A SYMMETRICAL ANTHRPOLOGY THAT TAKES NETWORK ANALYSIS AS ITS FOCAL
POINT AND SETS OUT TO REFUSE THE BRACKETING OFF OF NATURE. ONLY BEGINNING FROM THIS POINT
ALLOWS US TO INTERROGATE BROADER STRUCTURES OF VIOLENCE
LATOUR 93 (Bruno, Prof. and vice-president for research @ Sciences Po Paris, We Have Never Been Modern, pp.
103-106)
Let us suppose that anthropology ... fall back on common sense.
THAT MEANS THEY MISUNDERSTAND THE PRODUCTION OF RACISM IT IS NOT A UNIFIED PHENOMENON
WITH EXPLANATORY POWER, BUT AN ASSEMBLAGE EMERGING FROM SPECIFIC MATERIAL CONDITIONS
Jason LIM 9 School of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London Environment and Planning A 2010, volume 42,
pages 2393-2409
What might all this mean ... a dancing-drinking-desiring machine?

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