Life According To a Debater: a Policy Case Found Poem

The 1AC is a shot in the dark. When we use interrogative strategies we create zones of visibility and possibility. The potentiality for deliberation towards a new politic. The study of bare life signals radical transformations; The constitutive ambiguity of theory is never clear-- is always double Thinking of thinking; A reflection that interrogates the link between life and politics. The relation between power is complicated to consider. The most authentic paradigm: Sovereignty corresponds to ability And ability not to be: a state of exception. An act is sovereign when it realizes itself. Bodies are made intelligible through visibility and value. When these components are removed, what is left? Operating in the shadows, the truth often stays hidden Fights break out like “walking on minefields.” Silently governed interests implement policy which silently neglect populations further into the margins. The bodies of the victims emphasize this state of exception making it more difficult to identify, articulate and critique. There are rare but significant attempts to conceive the indistinguishably between law and life. Debate helps curtail individual power: to shape behaviors and attitudes, to be made visible and speak to the systemic character of American injustice. The possibility to fill the void and mitigate impact of fighting. Education can have a dramatic impact. Mental stimulation and meaningful human interaction cause social connection, Zones of indistinction regain the meaning they lost. The key is to create alternative conceptualizations of self in relationship to others. With broad political and social movements standing behind, uniting the call on the part of democratic transformations. Any radical change will be more than cosmetic. Young people now carry the banner of struggle. Of democratic life. A variety of discourses developed to avert stemming the flow-- reverting to secrets we do not know. Claiming that debaters can “solve” by repeatedly rejecting and interrogating the tradition is a key strategy in creating new modes of being the secret to every exception. How it unfolds remains to be seen.