Sheman+and+Micah+Aff


 * __AFF__**

//Bifo://

====**Economists are the priests of a dead god – capitalism no longer functions through a direct means of production but through parasitically draining the neural energy of its victims, the sign of money has been divorced from its referent, paving the way for neoliberal marriage of the future with economic growth, death, and destruction**====
 * Bifo 11** [Franco Berardi, aka "Bifo," founder of the famous "Radio Alice" in Bologna and an important figure of the Italian Autonomia Movement, is a writer, media theorist, and media activist. He currently teaches Social History of the Media at the Accademia di Brera, Milan. "The Future After the End of the Economy"//ASherm]

====**This semiocapitalistic deterritorialization of wealth is especially visible in china, where an importation of western economic discourse has laid the foundation for the self-exploitation of millions of creative laborers**====
 * Kanngeiser 12** [Anja Kanngeiser is a professor of social geography at goldsmiths university "Creative labour in Shanghai: Questions on politics, composition and ambivalence"//ASherm]

**The impact is a global civil war**

 * Bifo, 16** [Franco Berardi, aka "Bifo," founder of the famous "Radio Alice" in Bologna and an important figure of the Italian Autonomia Movement, is a writer, media theorist, and media activist. He currently teaches Social History of the Media at the Accademia di Brera, Milan., "The Coming Global Civil War: Is There Any Way Out?," http://www.e-flux.com/journal/the-coming-global-civil-war-is-there-any-way-out/, //ASherm]

====**The university as a site for radicalism has died, and been resurrected as a form of semiocapitalist economic education, ideas are no longer organic products of individuals consciousness, but mechanized and mass produced by neoliberal economic engagement**====
 * Bifo 11** [Franco Berardi, aka "Bifo," founder of the famous "Radio Alice" in Bologna and an important figure of the Italian Autonomia Movement, is a writer, media theorist, and media activist. He currently teaches Social History of the Media at the Accademia di Brera, Milan. "I Want to Think: POST-U"//ASherm]

====**In a world where marx t-shirts are produced in sweatshops, our reading of Rilke's fifth elegy is the only radical political act left serves as a rupture in the neoliberal semiotization of language which is able to move beyond meaning and non meaning and revel in a form of chaosmosis**====
 * Bifo 12** [Franco Berardi aka "Bifo," founder of the famous "Radio Alice" in Bologna and an important figure of the Italian Autonomia Movement, is a writer, media theorist, and media activist. He currently teaches Social History of the Media at the Accademia di Brera, Milan. His last book titled After the Future is published AKpress. "Emancipation of the Sign: Poetry and Finance During the Twentieth Century"//ASherm]//

//Mystification of China://

====**Academic and media outlets construct China as a force in dialectical opposition to capitalism and the world order – the profusion of these representations has effectively replaced reality, creating a simulacrum founded in Eurocentrism**====
 * Nordin 12** Astrid Nordin, Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Philosophy, and Religion at Lancaster University, PhD in Chinese International Politics, "Taking Baudrillard to the Fair: Exhibiting China in the World at the Shanghai Expo", Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Volume 37, Number 2, May 2012, pg. 106-120

====**The reduction of Chinese identity to a knowable unit leads to violent attempts to either assimilate or exterminate this form of radical alterity – the western quest to render everything visible and knowable is a step in the drive towards a “pacified” and “perfected” world order**====
 * Nordin, 14** [Astrid, professor of politics and philosophy at Lancaster University, "Radical exoticism: Baudrillard and war," The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, vol. 11, no. 2]

====**This attempt to render china a knowable object is orientalism by a different name- from intervention during the boxer rebellions, to nixon’s trip to china is emblematic of the violence inherent in the project of western assimilation**====
 * Vukovich 12** [Daniel F. Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong, Visiting Professor UC-Santa Cruz, China and Orientalism: Western knowledge production and the P.R.C. Routledge: London, p. 1-8]

**Rendering geopolitical events meaningful and knowable is an attempt to make sense of the senseless that both fails and reproduces violence as we try to eradicate all that we cannot explain**

 * 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 west has made itself god in a narcissistic quest to impose meaning onto the nonwestern world – however, this is ultimately a futile attempt, as every infraction upon western rule merely causes the system to declare war upon itself**====
 * Debrix 9** (François, professor of political science at Virginia Tech, "5 Jean Baudrillard." Critical Theorists and International Relations (2009): 54.)

====**This system of assimilation structures academia – under a façade of progressivism, students are inculcated into a colonial system of neoliberal exploitation that eradicates forms of radical alterity in an attempt to pacify the academic space**====
 * Hoofd 10** Ingrid M. Hoofd, Assistant Professor in the Communications and New Media Programme at the National University of Singapore (NUS). The accelerated university: Activist academic alliances and the simulation of thought, ephemera, Feb 2010, 2010 ephemera 10(1): 7-24)

**Attempts to force us into these normative academic frameworks is a nihilistic and violent enterprise**

 * Antonio, 95** [Robert, Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas, "Nietzsche’s Antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History", Vol. 101 No. 1]

**Leave it a mystery**

 * Nordin, 14** "Baudrillard and War Radical Exoticism: Baudrillard and Others’ Wars" (Dr. Astrid, Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University, UK) //pday