The 1acs attempt to bring blackness to humanity is how
metaphysics disguising ontological terror as inclusivity
failing to realize blackness lacks ontology and thus is barred
from humanity. The 1acs choice of words will lose them the
debate here, words like “ black life” and “dehumanize” all
assume humanity which is barred from blakcness
WARREN Asst Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies @ Emory University 2k18
(Calvin L.-; ONTOLOGICAL TERROR: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation; pp. 11-15)
For the black nihilist, however, the question is this: will the dissolution of
metaphysical Being that Vattimo and Heidegger advance eliminate antiblack violence and
redress black suffering?
and
Ontological Terror wrestles or
tarries with critical traditions designed to exclude black(ness), including,
most of all, Being and ontology.
The law is a tool for terror that pretends universality when in reality
exploiting blackness and solidifying its objectivity as available
WARREN Asst Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies @ Emory University 2k18
(Calvin L.-; ONTOLOGICAL TERROR: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation; pp.75-76)
What I want to discuss now is certain legal technologies, tactics, strategies,
and inventions that perform the work of outlawing, now that we have
outlined its necessity.
and
practices—this is the twin axes of this
devastating terror.
the aff assumes that by preventing physical death of black
bodies they are saving life. They fail to realize that black
being is excluded ontologically and metaphysically meaning
that blackness is already barred from life. To “save black
life” is impossible in this metaphysical world. The 1ac
doesn’t help black bodies they only put up a smokescreen
that makes it appear like change is happening when
blackness proceeds to be nothingness.
WARREN Asst Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies @ Emory University 2k18
(Calvin L.-; ONTOLOGICAL TERROR: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emanipation; pp. 15-21)
The term free black carries tension within its structure; it brings two
disparate grammars into collusion and produces an ontological
catastrophe.
and
in order to illumine
the philosophical richness of the black experience in an antiblack world.
They frame the 1ac as a solution to fix or make progress on
antiblackness failing to realize there is no fix to the ontological terror
the non human faces. You cant use antiblack structures to fix
antiblackness. Their reliance on humanity justifies metaphysics that
already always excludes blackness
WARREN Asst Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies @ Emory University 2k18
(Calvin L.-; ONTOLOGICAL TERROR: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emanipation; pp. 1-6)
A deep abyss, or a terrifying question, engenders the declaration “Black Lives Matter.” The declaration, in fact, conceals
this question even as it purports to have answered it resolutely. “Black Lives Matter,” then, carries a
certain terror in its dissemination, a terror we dare to approach with
uncertainty, urgency, and exhaustion.
and
I argue
that blacks are introduced into the metaphysical world as available
equipment in human form.
The alternative is black nihilism --- refusing political hope is
the only metaphysically coherent response to the constant
slaughter of black bodies
Warren, ‘18
(Calvin L., Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
at Emory University, Ontological Terror, it’s a book, Duke University Press,
“Coda: Adieu to the Human,” pp. 171-172, ZW)
The important task for black thinking (philosophizing, theorizing,
theologizing, poeticizing) is to imagine black existence without Being,
and
Let our thinking lead us into the “valley of the shadow of death,” and
once there we can begin to imagine an existence anew.
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