Tournament: 1 - College Prep | Round: 6 | Opponent: Ayala AM | Judge: Karcher, Charles
Kilgore 03 (De Witt Douglas Kilgore, English Professor at Indiana University, "Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space," 2003, University of Pennsylvania Press) KVA
The two faces of astrofuturism, popular science and science fiction, are joined forcefully
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wonderful") are often fairly shallow reorganizations of the contemporary status quo.3
Dickens and Ormrod 7 (Peter Dickens, Lecturer in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge and Visiting Professor of Sociology, University of Essex, and James S. Ormrod, Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Brighton, "Cosmic Society: Towards a sociology of the Universe," Routledge) KVA
. Hegemony and science fiction Some commentators on science fiction have also argued that the
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certainly have a key role to play if this is to be resisted.
Cornum 18 (Lou Cornum, They now live in Brooklyn and study Black and Indigenous science fiction at the CUNY Graduate Center, "Event Horizon: Thinking about space demands new ways of thinking about humanity" Real Life Magazine, March 12, 2018)
The face that launched a thousand spaceships was the face of the earth. The
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want, what I need, is a space program for the people.
Treat Whiteys on the Moon as an existential threat—it negates non-white subjectivity, breeds cognitive bias in policy, and it spills up from psychic to material extermination—prioritizing "traditional" impacts is racial selection
Preston, 17 – John, Cass School of Education and Communities, University of East London, "Rethinking Existential Threats and Education," Competence Based Education and Training (CBET) and the End of Human Learning pp 61-93
After Marxism, the second existential threat is one of negation and elimination of the
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subject to a digital organism as I will show in the next chapter.
Refusing to acknowledge problems in debate is the main way oppression is perpetuated- silence destroys education and preserves the status quo.
Reid-Brinkley 2008 (Shanara, Creds: Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh, Director of Debate for the William Pitt Debating Union. National award winner for work on critical theory, black feminist theory, gender, and hip hop culture. Dissertation work, completed at the University of Georgia, engaged in an in-depth analysis of non-traditional debate practices; "The Harsh Realities of "Acting Black"", https://getd.libs.uga.edu/pdfs/reid-brinkley'shanara'r'200805'phd.pdf, 10/1/16Steroids)
Although the Louisville team provides a clear justification for their policy statement, i.
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in an activity and environment hostile to those debate bodies marked by difference.