1AC+Agamben

Our Impacts
===The surveillance state is not a new technological phenomenon; it is an inevitable expression of sovereignty. The concept of privacy protections are incoherent in modern life because individuals are rendered bare in a zone of indistinct decisions made by the state. Whereas traditional responses to the topic rely on a false belief in state reform and legal regulation, we will confront the heart of the topic – biopower.=== This type of ... governmentality from sovereignty.
 * Douglas,** independent scholar,20**09**– (Jeremy, “Disappearing Citizenship: surveillance and the state of exception”, published in Surveillance & Society Vol 6, No 1, p. 33-34 http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/3402/3365)//roetlin

===The war on terror has created a permanent state of emergency where laws are passed to manage risk and create security. Bureaucratic surveillance programs are the central part of this project because of the desire to capture and control everything. The paradox is that the state can always suspend its own laws – this state of exception renders all life bare.=== A direct parallel ... a secondary move.
 * Van Munster** - Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies – 20**14** (DIIS) and teaches security studies at the Department of Political Science, University of Southern Denmark (Rens, “The War on Terrorism: When the Exception Becomes the Rule”, 5/28/2014, Danish Institute for International Studies, p. 146-152)//roetlin

Life captured by sovereignty and normalized by law is devoid of value.
Agamben asks, regarding ... and prison law” (Agamben, 1998, 169).
 * Federman and Holmes ’11**(Cary Federman, professor of justice studies at Montclair State University and Dave Holmes, professor of health sciences at the University of Ottawa, “Guantanamo Bodies: Law, Media, Biopower,” MediaTropes eJournal Vol III, No 1 (2011): ♥Tina

This biopolitical system of terror, law, and surveillance necessitates constant global genocides which escalate to extinction.
We live in ... a thanatopolitical instrument.
 * Gulli ’13** (Bruno Gulli, professor of history, philosophy, and political science at Kingsborough College in New York, “For the critique of sovereignty and violence,” [], ♥Tina

Bruno Gulli concludes in that same article
It is then ... robbery, [and] murder” (ibid.).

Prioritize our description of violence – wars are no longer between nation-states, but are “civil” and “global” in scope. Biopower is the root cause of war.
One of the ... the alternatives emerging.
 * McLoughlin 12**[Daniel McLoughlin is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, working on the political philosophy of Giorgio Agamben. “Giorgio Agamben on Security, Government and the Crisis of Law”, Griffith Law Review, Volume 21, Issue 3, 2012, msm]

The surveillance state cannot be erased, but it can be deactivated – We must find a way to push the paradox of sovereignty beyond itself.
Many critics of ... Western legal thought.
 * Kotsko ‘13** (Adam Kotsko is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Shimer College in Chicago and the translator of Giorgio Agamben’s Sacrament of Language: An Archeology of the Oath, The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life, and Opus Dei: An Archeology of Duty. “How to Read Agamben” 6/4/13 http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/how-to-read-agamben)///CW

Thus our law: The United States Federal Government should substantially curtail its surveillance of itself.
===Our aff profanes the sacred and turns the law into a toy – playing with the law rips it of its force and disrupts biopolitics. The affirmative is part of a slow unraveling of normative legality that will create a better vocabulary to discuss sovereign violence.=== In the Kafka ... or made juridical (Benjamin 1992, 41).
 * Agamben ‘5** – professor of philosophy at the College International de Philosophie in Paris (Giorgio, “The State of Exception”, pg. 63)//roetlin

This isn’t a game, we’re playing for keeps – Our affirmation is a form of play that liberates debate from rigid rules and detaches humanity from the sacred.
Giorgio Agamben considers ... wait and see…
 * Dragona ‘8** – PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Communication and Mass Media at University Of Athens, Freelance media arts curator (Daphne, “WhoDaresToDe-sacraliseTodaySPlay,” Personal Cinema, Page Last Modified 24 April 2008, http://www.personalcinema.org/warport/index.php?n=Main.WhoDaresToDe-sacraliseTodaySPlay?)

“Child-like play” good – Unlike dominant modes of education that are preoccupied with adulthood skills and corporate purpose, our aff is a means without ends.
To begin, I ... kind of life.
 * Lewis '14** [Tyson E. Lewis is Associate professor of art education in the Department of art education and art history, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas. “THE POTENTIALITY OF STUDY: GIORGIO AGAMBEN ON THE POLITICS OF EDUCATIONAL EXCEPTIONALITY”, symploke Vol. 22, Nos. 1-2 (2014), msm]