Tournament: Harvard | Round: 1 | Opponent: Chattahoochee EK | Judge: Jada Bourne
Wynter ~Wynter, Sylvia. "Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument." CR: The New Centennial Review, Michigan State University Press, 3 Feb. 2004, muse.jhu.edu/article/51630. CJ Recut SJ/JC Recut chsAK/MM~
Recent and still ongoing scholarship on archaeo-astronomy has shown that allbuman -orders
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realm of the terrestrial (the realm of doxa. of mere opinion).
Wynter 2 ~Wynter, Sylvia. "Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument." CR: The New Centennial Review, Michigan State University Press, 3 Feb. 2004, muse.jhu.edu/article/51630. SJ recut chsMM~
The Argument proposes that the new master code of the bourgeoisie and of its ethnoclass
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fact of their having all been selected by Evolution in terms of race.
Thus, the standard and role of the ballot is to vote for the debater who best disenchants systems of autopoiesis. We have an obligation to disrupt existing hegemonies by embracing deviance. Only a hold of disenchantment and embracing a non-human status to disrupt the expectations of what it means to be human can be liberating in the face of this defining structure.
Wynter 3 Sylvia Wynter Cultural Critique No. 7, The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse II (Autumn, 1987), pp. 207-244. LHP MK recut chsMM/AK
To disenchant discourse will therefore be to desacralize our "cultures" and their systems
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Gellner calls the extra-territoriality, at last, of human cognitio.
Weheliye 14 Alexander Weheliye, Professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University, 2014, "Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human,"recut chsMM
In my opinion, the incipient promise that precipitated Spillers’s injunction has yet to be
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things that otherwise lie hidden beneath piety, heedlessness, or routine."11
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) KVrecut chsMM
Ex. Reagan’s Star Wars Initiative
Space X launching their Falcon 9 rocket on
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wonderful") are often fairly shallow reorganizations of the contemporary status quo.3
Our eager gravitation towards space appropriation makes us more distant from the oppression on earth. Every space launch since 69 entrenches the systemic oppression of the deviant body so that the white man can pursue control in space.
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) KVArecut chsMM
. 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.
Treat Scott Heron’s Whitey 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 61-93recut chsMM
("While others lauded the lunar landing as a "giant leap for mankind," Scott-Heron lamented the Moon trip in his lyrical litany. He felt the trip consumed resources that could have been better put to use helping people confront the everyday costs of living on Earth.")
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.
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)chsMM
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.