Harmony+Cites

====**Welcome to the 2010 Chinese Expo in Shanghai, signifying its status as the “next great world city.” Spanning over 5.28 square kilometers with 246 countries all situated in a unit-based spatial imaginary, the Expo was officially articulated as an extension of China’s “harmonious world” that seeks to integrate all nations into a holistic celestial order of one-worldness based on the logic of 天下 (Tiānxià) or ‘All-under-heaven’ - the World Fair was thus read as a symbol of Chinese rising greatness, classifying both time and space to restore its place as the origin of civilization. Finally we achieve our dream: we live in the Hell of Harmony, a cybernetic landscape of depravity with no meaning. China disappears…**==== 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, [], pages 135-149) We have seen how China’s rise is AND by way of reading it through the work of Jean Baudrillard.

====**As the fair went on people noticed the Chinese promotional tune “Waiting For You” sounded remarkably similar to the Japanese hit “Stay the Way You Are.” As accusations of plagiarism were thrown about, the world missed a fundamental uniqueness question – reality is hyper-real, a plagiarized totality, a signifier without a signified, a sign without a referent. For as Credible News Source Michael Franti has told us time and time again, “It seems like everywhere I go, the more I see the less I know.” We take leave of the real world, endlessly encased within the sad shell of communication like an over-exposed photograph.**==== ====**The expo was not isolated to Shanghai, the entire globe is a world fair – a harmonius simulation of international coherence where countries are isolated spatial and cultural totalities, where the distinctions between __visiting__ the expo and __being__ the expo are blurred until all notions of subject are rendered incoherent, copies of copies without originals, simulacra avatars in a virtual hyper-reality.**====

**This is the expo; have fun at our pavilion!**
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, [], pages 149-168) TAKING BAUDRILLARD TO THE FAIR Above, I have examined different AND The Expo is us: our bodies, our dreams, our future. ====**The will to harmony is self-defeating. 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 imposition of harmony produces constant implosive violence as we attempt to impose meaning onto the map of the globe.**==== 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)

The story that needs to be told is thus not about AND it destroys our immune systems and our capacities to resist" (2003; our italics).

====**Our 1AC is a cancerous counter-simulacra, a river crab within the communicative infrastructure of meaning-making, metastasizing as a linguistic onco-operativity of meaninglessness that forces the system of communication to lash out against itself in a suicidal autodestructivity. The Great Firewall has firewalled itself: it is incapable of responding.**==== 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, [], pages 174-213) ITERATION AND LANGUAGE PLAY: RESISTNIG HARMONISATION Previous chapters of this thesis AND that I turn in my conclusion, to the (im)possibility of openness to this Other “to come”. ====**River crabs don’t defend meaning. The form of meaning is always unhappy. Any attempt to impose meaning paradoxically terminates in its own disappearance. Reality is too obvious to be real. Harmony is too harmonious to be harmony. We should engage in the felicitous and happy form of language to push debate through to its own disappearance. This is the only political act left. Bet on radical illusion.**==== Baudrillard 96 (Jean Baudrillard, The Perfect Crime, pg. 96) Say: This is real, the world is real, the real exists AND an erotic perception of reality's turmoil.