General

• Watch Michigan KM in Michigan State on YouTube
• Don't miss the trees in the forest
  • Don't get overwhelmed
  • Antonio says nonsense
  • used in every context
• Not effective to group by author name
• Split into
  • Framework
  • Links
  • Internal Links
  • Alts
• allows you to set the format of the debate in the 2ac
• specific evidence
• POMO debates are based on perception
• want to make it seem like you don't know
• If evidence is vague
  • Give worst case examples
• If exact, probably not debate
• Antonio card
  • Answer it like a fiat K
• Role of the ballot
  • the better debater
• They haven't REALLY done anything
• we aren't an ivory tower
• movements not good
• Fun impact possible
• fairness too, debate is a game
• structural unfairness
  • Means big schools can run a k aff every time for every page in a philosophy book
  • our interp is good for small schools for debate
  • T is a rule
  • debate is a game, you agree to rules
  • choice, unlike the law

Psycoanalysis

The Explanation

• Many things are at an unconcious level
• shape our way of world
• can;t do anything
• Floid
  • Id
    • unconcious
  • Ego
    • Mediator of Id and super ego
  • superego
    • father figure
• Wanted to understand why people do things
• neurosis
  • as humans we thing of the best case scenario
• illusion of control
  • overextimate our ability to control events
• death drive
  • they would engage in self destructive behavior
  • we all desire something, even if it kills us
• Lachan
  • death drive 2.0
    • Drive and lack
    • lack is something you don't have
    • drive is to fill your lack
    • when you want what you don't have, self destructive
    • like the chase even if there is no hope
    • toddlers always want
  • ego and superego
    • the real
      • where words fail
      • can't be represented by words
      • wanting something but not knowing what you want
    • imaginary
      • the need to feel fufilled
      • fantasy in psycho
      • when we fill the lack
      • complete and whole
    • symbolic
      • language
      • when we articluate the real and the imaginary
  • libido
    • sex drive
    • broader structures of desire
    • libidimal economy
      • drives us to want things

Application

• death drive
  • The aff desires something
  • saying problems can be solved is a fantasy
  • fufilling the lack
    • makes every policy fail because we think world is perfect
• alt
  • think about why we need to solve these problems
  • Say no to the aff, and think about it

Answering

• Look at the alt
  • links will vary a bit
  • "traverse the fantasy"
    • psycho
• find the links
• decode the academic language
• resantament will be heard
• dussants
  • enjoyment to the point of pain
• ask! better to look dumb in 1ac cx
• no fiat
• FRAMEWORK
  • justify why you read the aff
  • Ex. Title nine to prevent sexual assault etc
  • Floating PICS bad
• roleplaying good
• you don't think you actually are, its good for debate
• resentamant good to change the squo
• Is the plab falsifiable
  • NO
  • no plan text is falsafiable
• perms
  • perm do both
  • bc its a idea alt
  • cost of not doing the aff vs not doing the alt
• say the theory is wrong
  • totological
  • nothing can prove it
• meant for an analyst and a patient
  • not for the goverment
  • not for groups and multiple groups of peopel
• Kritik the theory
  • Feminism k for the id and superego

Questions

floating pic

Bodriarc

Theory

• Language is a system of signs and symbols
• tree
  • tree
    • the sound
  • The meaning
    • The treeness of the tree
• mass communication
  • basic orders of how we approach a simulation
  • beyong representation
    • drawing something
  • masks
    • distortion of reality
    • sound tree
  • no relation to reality
    • simulocrum
    • everything we say has nothing
    • nothing is real
    • symbols represent reality
  • gulf war didn't happen
    • the images of the war preceeded th actual war

application

• read with smth
• aff tries to solve something that isn't real
• alt
  • do nothing accept we know everything
  • collapse debate

answering

• Identify links in the alt

• use CX to see what they defend

• compartmetalize your 2ac

• why debates matter

• defending communication

  • K is a double turn, they read cards, and use language
  • communication is possible even without complete truth
  • flux in language is bad, otherwise people use dispersive constructions
  • debate is an activity to determine whether something is good or bad
  • materialism is good
  • best system we have to deal with things people are suffering
  • stereo policy failure, (world good)

• turn into death or cap k

• pre-empt in 2ac

• in 2ar explain what is good, and summarize

• do a cost benefit analysis of doing alt

• ask why is the theory true

• ask for the links in cx

• they don't know hwat they are talking about

• give wordless assertion bad

• isolate warrants

• IS This true

• Ask about the alt

  • Material
  • how does debating about this create skills useful for black people