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**Moten AFF**
====**The history of domestic surveillance is inseparable from the history of slavery. Lists of human cargo, plantation inventories, and diaries were used by masters to govern slaves, to impose domination onto unwilling bodies. Disciplinary power utilizing information technology such as slave patrols or wanted posters functioned to create a __racially stratified__ security system, imposing a compulsory visibility upon the black body as communicated through the literacy of the White body—it is from this that contemporary policing and surveillance arises**==== According to Christian Parenti, __the history of surveillance in America__ AND to trouble surveillance as a "Technology of Whiteness".
 * Browne 12 ** – PhD in Sociology and Equity Studies in Education (Simone; “Race and Surveillance” “Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies”; Google Book; [|https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=F8nhCfrUamEC&oi=fnd&pg=PA72&dq=race+and+surveillance+Simone+browne&ots=y_cvDcnYS0&sig=ZmhtR3WJI2mp_clVI6qwScZDZwQ#v=onepage&q=race%20and%20surveillance%20Simone%20browne&f=false]; 7/5/15 || NDW)

**Slaves were not, however, passive objects implicated within the play of this biopolitical endeavor. Consider the story of Uncle Toliver, as told in Leon Litwack’s “//Been in the Storm So Long”//:**
====**In Nansemond County, Virginia, a slave known as Uncle Toliver had been indiscreet enough to pray aloud for the Yankees. The master’s two sons ordered him to kneel in the barnyard and pray for the Confederacy. But this stubborn old man prayed even louder for a Yankee triumph. With growing exasperation, perhaps even bewilderment, the two sons took turns in whipping him until finally the slave, still murmuring something about the Yankees, collapsed and died. (Litwak 1979, 30) **==== ====**One might conclude that Uncle Toliver’s death was a nihilistic, tragic event—that his state of subjugation was so entrenched that nothing meaningful could come from it. Yet, the aporia of the slave’s unintelligible actions, of property’s critique against Property, creates a bewilderment, a disorientation of the Master that allows for the possibility of agency**==== But this is a simple passage, one designed to provide some sense AND __as in the future resonances of variations of an unknown tongue.__
 * Moten 4 ** (Fred, UC Riverside Department of English professor, “Knowledge of Freedom,” The New Centennial Review, Vol. 4, No. 2, Fall 2004, p. 285-287, ProjectMUSE, IC)

**Vote affirmative to acknowledge that surveillance of fugitive bodies should be curtailed.**
====**Fugitivity is not simply __opposition__ to or __transgression__ of the social but, rather, functions in a zone of __indeterminacy__ that disrupts the relationship between knowledge and resistance—it is through this space of unintelligibility that blackness can find social life within social death**==== **gender modified I'll begin with a thought that doesn't come from any of these zones, AND __when subjects are engaged in the representation of objects.__
 * Moten 8 ** (Fred, UC Riverside Department of English professor, “The Case of Blackness,” Criticism, Vol. 50, No. 2, Spring 2008, p. 178-179, ProjectMUSE, IC)

====**The narrative of Uncle Toliver is always already in the process of continual reinvention, oscillating between the planes of intelligibility and unintelligibility as it is passed down, translated, and transcribed. It is from this unstable and aporic space that Black people derive the knowledge of freedom and the subjectivity to assert that freedom**==== Noam __Chomsky and others have begun to frame__ AND __our attunement to which assures us that we are "in the tradition."__
 * Moten 4 (**Fred, UC Riverside Department of English professor, “Knowledge of Freedom,” The New Centennial Review, Vol. 4, No. 2, Fall 2004, p. 304-306, ProjectMUSE, IC)

** The 1AC’s method of fugitivity solves for the paraontological condition of the Black body **
Moten and Harney also __study what it would mean to refuse__ AND Can't you hear them whisper one another's touch?
 * Moten et al 13 ** Fred Moten, Member of the Undercommons. 2013. “Undercommons: Fugitive planning and black study”. Pgs. 8-11, 26-28, 87-88, 92-97. PWoods.

**Fugitivity creates a framework through which one can subvert anti-Blackness in academia**
__"To the university I'll steal, and there I'll steal__," AND __where the work gets subverted, where the revolution is still black, still strong.__
 * Moten and Harney 4 ** (Fred Moten, UC Riverside Department of English professor; Stefano Harney, Singapore Management University professor, “The University and the Undercommons: Seven Theses,” Social Text, Vol. 22, No. 2, Summer 2004, p. 101-102, ProjectMUSE, IC)


 * Neg**
 * Off case args: T (Domestic - US persons, within geographical borders; USFG - not state), Framework, Agamben K, CapK, HR DA, Terror DA, Iran Ptx DA, offsets CP (like once)**
 * Case: haven't read any turns yet**
 * Past 2NRs: T, Framework, Agamben, Offsets CP**