ArMe+Neg

__**I'm a Tool 1nc (ATM to Montse)**__ They say our poetry will become coopted – poetry resists capitalism as it acts as a rupture rather than something to be consumed. Like the black body, it lives on the outskirts of capitalist hegemonic culture and agitates the white gaze because it confronts it directly and resists its imposed representations. Paist’15 (Katherine, Creative writing major at Georgia State, “The Poetics of Resistance: The Functions of Poetry in the Critique of Capitalism”,http://www.academia.edu/3659724/The_Poetics_of_Resistance_The_Functions_of_Poetry_in_the_Critique_of_Capitalism, pg. 1-2)

In writing poetry we...poetry agitates and disrupts.

Our performance of poetry is already working – poetry functions to dismantle institutions of authority controlled by the white gaze. Poetry says fuck logic and reason and pursue the irrational, the unreasonable, the final solution.

Paist’15 (Katherine, Creative writing major at Georgia State, “The Poetics of Resistance: The Functions of Poetry in the Critique of Capitalism”,http://www.academia.edu/3659724/The_Poetics_of_Resistance_The_Functions_of_Poetry_in_the_Critique_of_Capitalism, pg. 4-6)

Yet it is through contradiction...authority within our time.

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]//

//It is the end of summer...violence, misery, and war.//

//Education now only serves capitalist interests and provide them with human capital, trapping workers at the bottom of society indefinitely// //Henry Giroux, Giroux received his Doctorate from Carnegie-Mellon in 1977.// //(“Beyond Dystopian Education”, 10/1, https://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/10_1/giroux10_1.html, accessed 6/26/17)//

//Public education and higher...hope for the future.//

//The Capitalist Class oppresses the worker class through means of education Dave Hill, Professor of Education Policy at the University of Northampton, For twenty years he was a regional political and trade union leader. He recently completed a study for the International Labour Organization on the impacts of neoliberal education policy on equity, democracy and workers’ rights.// //2010 (“Class, Capital and Education in this Neoliberal and Neoconservative Period”, 4/22, http://libr.org/isc/issues/ISC23/B1%20Dave%20Hill.pdf, accessed, 6/26/17, EVH)//

//Neoliberal and neoconservative policies...male and female working class.//

//The constant game of catch-up that cognitive workers must play in the accelerated imagery of the modern world induces great mental suffering in the form of panic, attention deficit disorder, anxiety, and depression. The impacts also result in a// //global scale 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]

Are we heading into the Third World War?...And at the end, suicide.