Err neg—the aff oversimplifies the complexity of politics

In political spaces, the naturalized imperative of counterhegemony often crystallizes in a prescription for a coherent alternative to the hegemonic order. Social movements are seen as too fragmented, disorganized, and vague, lacking a coherent strategy that could challenge neoliberalism. Singular problems are often translated into claims or demands for a solution; to explain what movements want, where they’re going, what they’re struggling for. This process of articulation is always a reduction of the complexity of political spaces. There is no escape from articulation and coding; we always need to be able to make sense of our lives and our practices in order to accomplish even the most basic tasks. The problem lies in privileging articulation, so that the intersections of molarization and singularization are unintelligible and depoliticized.