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=1AC – Harmony=

====Welcome to the 2010 Chinese Expo in Shanghai, signifying its status as the "next great world city." An Expo articulated as an extension of China's "harmonious world" that seeks to integrate all nations into a holistic order based on the logic of 天下(Tiānxià) or 'All-under-heaven' - the World Fair was read as a symbol of Chinese rising greatness.==== We have seen how China's rise is commonly described in terms of inevitable destiny because AND the world by way of reading it through the work of Jean Baudrillard.
 * Nordin 12 **(Astrid H.M. Nordin [Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University], "Time, Space and Multiplicity in China's Harmonious World", 2012, The University of Manchester Library, https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/uk-ac-man-scw:186417, pages 135-149)

====The world no longer operates through the logic of nation building, but the over proliferation of simulations models. The expo was not isolated to Shanghai, the entire globe is a world fair –where the distinctions between visiting the expo and being the expo are blurred until all notions of subject are rendered incoherent, simulacra avatars in a virtual hyper-reality. China is reduced to an economic signifier, a simulations model projected as a consumerist fantasy after the death of the real, when language became orbital and took leave of this world. This is the expo; have fun at the American pavilion! ==== TAKING BAUDRILLARD TO THE FAIR Above, I have examined different ways in which China AND The Expo is us: our bodies, our dreams, our future.
 * Nordin 12 **(Astrid H.M. Nordin [Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University], "Time, Space and Multiplicity in China's Harmonious World", 2012, The University of Manchester Library, https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/uk-ac-man-scw:186417, pages 149-168)

====Information is futile – the attempt to render the whole world transparent transposes the global way of war on the level of representation. The moment geopolitics appears, it immediately disappears, swamped by media indeterminacy. This confusion produces constant implosive violence as we attempt to impose meaning onto the map of the globe.==== The story that needs to be told is thus not about the undoubtedly deplorable " AND immune systems and our capacities to resist" (2003; our italics).
 * Artrip and Debrix 14 **(Ryan E. Artrip [Doctoral Student, ASPECT, Virginia Polytechnic Institute] and Francois Debrix [professor of political science at Virginia Polytechnical Institute,]"The Digital Fog of War: Baudrillard and the Violence of Representation," Volume 11, Number 2 (May, 2014))

====One attempt to doom domestic radicalism is the Great Firewall. The cyberscape has been 'harmonized' in response to specific words. The online culture known as恶 搞 (Ègǎo) plays on these linguistic codes to subvert meaning, forming a poetic revolution of meaning inflection in the effusive play with language. Our 1AC is a cancerous counter-simulacra within the communicative infrastructure of meaning-making that forces the system of communication to lash out against itself.==== ITERATION AND LANGUAGE PLAY: RESISTNIG HARMONISATION Previous chapters of this thesis have examined how AND the (im)possibility of openness to this Other "to come".
 * Nordin 12 **(Astrid H.M. Nordin [Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University], "Time, Space and Multiplicity in China's Harmonious World", 2012, The University of Manchester Library, https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/uk-ac-man-scw:186417, pages 174-213)

====The system of global power is dual. Modernity is at odds, at war, with itself. Deterrence no longer exists: it now takes place exclusively through simulations models, which does not result in peace but a viral proliferation of conflicts, a fractalization of war and conflict into everyday life. The disappearance of war into ever fabric of the social is papered over by simulated non-events such as the Gulf Wars. Critiques of the system premised on exteriority miss the point by being far to on the mark: they only reify the reality principle of a system of global semiotic militarization. All things are complicit – and it is surely heaven. Every critique fights on terms demarcated by power in advantage. All attempts to criticize the system on the plane of the real succumb to a will towards integral reality. The only option is a radical passivity, a mimicry of the forms of the system, that accelerates them to the point of their obvious vacuity. Duality re-emerges: every attempt at coherence, presence, life and the Good is met by a concomitant move towards incoherence, absence, and Evil. We affirm this dualistic ontology in a moment of semiotic rupture. "Nothing becomes wholly transparent without also becoming enigmatic." Duality emerges as a fatal strategy, embracing its complicity in a re-emergent dualistic mocking that maintains the possibility of mystery, Evil, and radical alterity. ==== It all depends on the ground we choose to fight on … most often … AND society is based (1993a: 1-5; 131-135).
 * Pawlett 14.** William Pawlett, senior lecturer in media, communications, and cultural studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, "Society At War With Itself," International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 11, Number 2 (May, 2014)