Kritikal+Version

Rosi Braidotti elucidates our position with an ode to the past, when 1ac’s began with inherency and debaters (or at least judges) had some semblance of an idea what was going on:
// No spectacular fin-de-siecle for us contemporary statistical units. __No theatrical__// //__AND__// // . I miss the sublime, //as we plunge headlong into the ridiculous//.
 * Braidotti 96** [Rosi, Philosopher and Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University as well as director of the Centre for the Humanities in Utrecht, “Cyberfeminism with a difference,” 1996, []] //khirn//

====Plunging headlong into the ridiculous, we come to the topic of the resolution, which asks us to draw clear lines between government surveillance and non-government surveillance, watcher and watched --- those pitiful attempts to demarcate person from machine represents the law’s utter failure to recognize that we are already becoming cyborgs==== // There is, however, another way to think about all of this: what // // AND // // not yet Terminators— at least a //little more integrated with our machines//.
 * Wittes and Chong 14** [Benjamin, senior fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution, co-founded and is the editor-in-chief of the Lawfare blog, and Jane, 2014 graduate of Yale Law School, where she was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, “Our Cyborg Future: Law and Policy Implications,” September 2014, Brookings Institution, []] //khirn//

====Instead, we refuse to take sides in the border war between organism and machine, and instead affirm the pleasure one finds in the confusion of boundaries in an effort to contribute to utopian tradition of imagining a world without gender, genesis, or end. Say it with me: we are cyborgs!==== A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a AND unfaithful to their origins. Their fathers, after all, are inessential.
 * Haraway 85** (Diana Haraway, Ph.D. in Biology Researches gender and primatology. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century, orig. published 1985, Socialist Review republished 2000. Pages 291-293, Yung Jung)

====“My partner and I wrote this 1ac together. Since each of us were several, there was already quite a crowd.” Our ontogentic understanding of becoming-cyborg theorizes ourselves as multiple sets of embodied positions – that paradox enables the contestation of metaphysical binaries that produce and maintain hegemonic masculinity, compulsory heterosexuality, and the melancholy cynicism of ressentiment that stifles contemporary political possibilities. Moreover, the joyful resistance of the 1ac opens up possibilities for challenging both the gaze of surveillance and the immiseration and commodification of billions around the globe.==== I would like to suggest as a consequence __that it is more adequate to speak __ AND to challenge the in-built assumption of visual superiority which it carries.
 * Braidotti 96** [Rosi, Philosopher and Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University as well as director of the Centre for the Humanities in Utrecht, “Cyberfeminism with a difference,” 1996, []] //khirn

====The 1ac’s joyful theorization can fabulate the dynamic flux of nomadic politics into political empowerment. Blurring the distinction between philosophy, politics, art, and fiction within the spaces we find ourselves enables a life-affirming subversion of oppressive structures and the possibility of becoming-otherwise==== The first thing a feminist critic can do is to acknowledge the aporias and the AND It is time for history and the unconscious to strike a new deal.
 * Braidotti 96** [Rosi, Philosopher and Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University as well as director of the Centre for the Humanities in Utrecht, “Cyberfeminism with a difference,” 1996, []] //khirn

Refuse the demand to abstract this debate elsewhere in favor of the 1ac’s radical politics of subversion --- forefront the creation of a queer heterotopia in this room
Utopias are abstract portraits of ideal or perfect societies that do not exist. Therefore AND fix queer subjectivity in order to advance a rights-based political program.
 * Jones 9** [Angela, “Queer Heterotopias: Homonormativity and the Future of Queerness,” interalia: a journal of queer studies, 2009 – 4, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Farmingdale State College, []] //khirn

We conclude with a requiem for the future:
//__Yes,__// __the world will end//,// my post-Zarathustra friend//. It will__ __AND__ the female kind, endowed with language.Just call me - woman.
 * Braidotti 96** [Rosi, Philosopher and Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University as well as director of the Centre for the Humanities in Utrecht, “Cyberfeminism with a difference,” 1996, []] //khirn//