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1AC - Wenzhou Luxury (Bataille) 1AC - Toxicity (Chen, cites as seen in the file)

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E. M. Cioran, Romanian madman, 19 34 , “Pe culmile disperării” Translated by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston. Fundaţia Pentru Literatură Şi Artă "Regele Carol II,". HHurt.

====The systematic suppression of cultures of excessive generosity and ritual destruction of wealth, such as the Wenzhou in China, is justified based on productive rationality and the desire to promote modern utilitarian mechanisms of productivity and disciplinary power. Despite their poverty, the CCP violently attempting to end Wenzhou “superstitions,” and bend the people to savings accounts and other productive expansion, the Wenzhou people still make more sacrificial offerings than before. They are an example of a profound holdout against the oceanic tide of the productive side of economic engagement.==== Yang 13. (Mayfair, Professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Two Logics of the Gift and Banquet: A Genealogy of China and the Northwest Coast,” Taipei: National Chengchi University, Institute of Foreign Languages, Translation Center, 2013. However, __Bataille’s work takes the Nietzschean spirit of anti- utilitariansim to new heights__ __AND__ 1990; quoted in Wang, M.M. 1995: 62)

====Instead the 1ac sacrifices productive engagement with the topic, just like how in Wenzhou wealth is sacrificed and the will to productivity of Communist China is rebuked. Voting aff is the affirmation of a sovereign moment, where individuals can experience the basic freedom of luxuriousness that profane life has sought to eradicate.==== Yang 13. (Mayfair, Professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Two Logics of the Gift and Banquet: A Genealogy of China and the Northwest Coast,” Taipei: National Chengchi University, Institute of Foreign Languages, Translation Center, 2013. __At the beginning of the 21 st century, what can we learn from this__ __AND__
 * __in divinity, must be r e- cuperated and grasped for modernity.__**

====Absent a re-orientation of the politics of expenditure, humanity will succumb to the ongoing endless homogenization of itself, the infusion of a species by the spirit of a military neoliberal machine, which has no purpose other than work. This supreme form of nihilism operates on the very genome of individuality, total surveillance, poverty, and destruction across the world and the biosphere. The contemporary drive towards productivity immerses humans into the ultimate technological war machine and secures a fate of self-destruction and techno-nihilism alongside the liquidation of meaning as humanity becomes data trash in a commodity ecosystem.==== Despite the dire warnings of the prophets of technological dystopia such as Heidegger //we remain// //AND// (2008b) two books on contemporary American supercapitalism, Great Satan’s Rage.
 * Featherstone 10.** [Mark, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Keele University, “Death-Drive America: On Scott Wilson’s Vision of the Cultural Politics of American Nihilism in the Age of Supercapitalism,” //Fast Capitalism// 7.1, 2010]

E. M. Cioran, Romanian madman, 19 34 , “Pe culmile disperării” Translated by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston. Fundaţia Pentru Literatură Şi Artă "Regele Carol II,". HHurt.

====We affirm the topic as a luxurious economic engagement with China, even while there is no more space for material expansion, this absurd model of active and affective transgression are key to subvert the ethics of calculation that dominate contemporary society and empower political multitudes to resist the will to overproductivty and violence of empire.==== Featherstone 16. (Mark Featherstone, professor of sociology at Keele University, “Luxus: A thanatology of luxury from Nero to Bataille,” //Cultural Politics// Vol 12 Issue 1 pp. 67-71) In this article, I propose to develop an aneconomic theory of luxury that locates AND the death drive that heads over to the other side of material things.

====A truly surrealist poetics is a marvelous embrace of joy before death, the refusal of all exterior forms, and a sovereign moment of non-meaning and thus radiating beauty. You should vote aff for the 1ac’s performance of a surrealist poetics of sacrifice==== Hirsch 14. Alexander Hirsch, professor of political science at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, “Sovereignty surreal: Bataille and Fanon beyond the state of exception,” Contemporary Political Theory (2014) 13, pg. 292 It is no coincidence that Bataille articulated this theory of sovereignty most elegantly in his AND this //forgetfulness//, given its //attunement to a reality fecund with oblivion//.9

====The aff on the other hadn is a joyful embrace of both the desirable and undesirable elements of communication. We cannot purge our existence of the accursed share of language, only by protecting the impossible difference fundamental to existence as communicators can we make debate great again.==== Lerman 15 (Lindsay Lerman, PhD in philosophy from the University of Guelph, “Georges Bataille's ‘Nonknowledge’ as Epistemic Expenditure: An Open Economy of Knowledge,” pp. 40-43) “Socratic College” also contains multiple claims that some kind of failure is necessarily AND that fragile something in communication too far, pushing it until it dies.

Neg: Bataille