Bellarmine Keyani Aff
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| ASU | 2 | Meadows ZN | Anish Ramireddy |
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| ASU | 4 | Mountain View ED | Moon Sung Gwak |
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| ASU | 6 | Harker KB | Bennett Fees |
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| Berkeley | 2 | Harker AA | Joel Lemuel |
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| Florida Blue Key | 1 | Prospect ST | Sabrina Callahan |
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| Florida Blue Key | 4 | Lexington AG | Spencer Orlowski |
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| Florida Blue Key | 6 | Coral Springs LV | Rafael Li |
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| Florida Blue Key | Doubles | Carnegie Vanguard SR | Javier Hernandez, Samantha McLoughlin, Kristen Arnold |
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| Glenbrooks | 2 | Westside SY | Dylan Jones |
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| Glenbrooks | 3 | Strake Jesuit HZ | Holden Bukowsky |
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| Glenbrooks | 6 | Eden Prairie AG | Rodrigo Paramo |
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| Greenhill | 2 | Lexington AK | David Yi |
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| Greenhill | 3 | Cabot AC | Andrew Halverson |
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| Greenhill | 5 | Lexington AL | Saianurag Karavadi |
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| Greenhill | Doubles | Carnegie Vanguard SR | Tate Weston, Varad Agarwala, Nigel Taylor-Ward |
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| Greenhill | Octas | Strath Haven AM | Varad Agarwala, Rodrigo Paramo, Saianurag Karavadi |
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| Greenhill | Quarters | Southlake Carroll PK | Rodrigo Paramo, Elijah Smith, Anna Myers |
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| TOC | 1 | Peninsula RM | Emmiee Malyugina |
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| TOC | 4 | Princeton VC | Brianna Aaron |
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| ASU | 2 | Opponent: Meadows ZN | Judge: Anish Ramireddy 1AC Space Tourism |
| ASU | 4 | Opponent: Mountain View ED | Judge: Moon Sung Gwak 1AC Space Tourism |
| ASU | 6 | Opponent: Harker KB | Judge: Bennett Fees 1AC Space Tourism |
| Berkeley | 2 | Opponent: Harker AA | Judge: Joel Lemuel 1AC Techno-Managerialism |
| Florida Blue Key | 1 | Opponent: Prospect ST | Judge: Sabrina Callahan 1AC Carcerality |
| Florida Blue Key | 4 | Opponent: Lexington AG | Judge: Spencer Orlowski 1AC Carcerality |
| Florida Blue Key | 6 | Opponent: Coral Springs LV | Judge: Rafael Li 1AC Carcerality |
| Florida Blue Key | Doubles | Opponent: Carnegie Vanguard SR | Judge: Javier Hernandez, Samantha McLoughlin, Kristen Arnold 1AC Carcerality |
| Glenbrooks | 2 | Opponent: Westside SY | Judge: Dylan Jones 1AC Carcerality v2 |
| Glenbrooks | 3 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit HZ | Judge: Holden Bukowsky 1AC Carcerality v2 |
| Glenbrooks | 6 | Opponent: Eden Prairie AG | Judge: Rodrigo Paramo 1AC Carcerality v3 |
| Greenhill | 2 | Opponent: Lexington AK | Judge: David Yi 1AC Semiotic Piracy |
| Greenhill | 3 | Opponent: Cabot AC | Judge: Andrew Halverson 1AC Semiotic Piracy v1 |
| Greenhill | 5 | Opponent: Lexington AL | Judge: Saianurag Karavadi 1AC Semiotic Piracy v1 |
| Greenhill | Doubles | Opponent: Carnegie Vanguard SR | Judge: Tate Weston, Varad Agarwala, Nigel Taylor-Ward 1AC Semiotic Piracy v2 |
| Greenhill | Octas | Opponent: Strath Haven AM | Judge: Varad Agarwala, Rodrigo Paramo, Saianurag Karavadi 1AC Semiotic Piracy v2 |
| Greenhill | Quarters | Opponent: Southlake Carroll PK | Judge: Rodrigo Paramo, Elijah Smith, Anna Myers 1AC Semiotic Piracy v2 |
| TOC | 1 | Opponent: Peninsula RM | Judge: Emmiee Malyugina 1AC Ecological Cosmology |
| TOC | 4 | Opponent: Princeton VC | Judge: Brianna Aaron 1AC Ecological Cosmology v2 |
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0 - ContactTournament: NA | Round: Finals | Opponent: NA | Judge: NA | 9/17/21 |
JanFeb - AC - Ecological CosmologyTournament: TOC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Peninsula RM | Judge: Emmiee Malyugina 1AC"It’s been now almost half a century since humans were last on the moon. That’s too long, we need to get back there and have … a big permanently occupied base on the moon. And then build a city on Mars to become a spacefaring civilization, a multi-planet species." – Elon Musk~Michael Sheetz; space reporter @ CNBC; 4-23-2021; "Elon Musk wants SpaceX to reach Mars so humanity is not a ‘single-planet species’"; CNBC; https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/23/elon-musk-aiming-for-mars-so-humanity-is-not-a-single-planet-species.html; Accessed 2-11-2022~ AK Elon Musk has fundamentally misunderstood space colonization – there can be no "spacefaring civilization" without racialized violence on Earth. Private companies can’t appropriate outer space without Earthly infrastructure, creating sacrifice zones in the Global South that render Black and brown bodies disposable. Every rocket and launchpad that’s built disproportionately targets marginalized and racialized bodies, clearing the frontier for colonial violence and ecocide.Klinger ‘19 ~Julie Michelle Klinger; PhD, a geographer at the University of Delaware, formerly Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University; 3-20-2019; "Environmental Geopolitics and Outer Space"; Geopolitics; http://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/files/2019/03/Environmental-Geopolitics-and-Outer-Space.pdf; Accessed 4-9-2022~ AK AND outer space and reconceived alongside evolving deliberations on the prospects for human survival. The geopolitical calculations of space travel terminally outweigh and control the internal link to every impact scenario. Western elites directly benefit from engineering a world that leaves the entire Global South without the means to survive.Grove ‘19 ~Jairus Victor Grove; Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Hawai‘i Research Center for Future Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa; 2019; "Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World"; Duke University Press; pp. 200-202ak47~ AND the ways that consciousness and political action change under increasingly sadistic material conditions. Private control in outer space is grounded in cosmobiopolitics, operating through informatic control. By constructing a security apparatus around the globe, tech in outer space domesticates the universe, imprinting the human onto a living milieu to govern life itself.Damjanov ‘15 ~Katarina Damjanov; PhD, a Senior Lecturer and the Discipline Lead in Media and Communication at the University of Western Australia; 2015; "The matter of media in outer space: Technologies of cosmobiopolitics"; Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2015, Vol. 33(5) 889–906; Accessed 02-02-2022~ AK AND acknowledging the complexities produced in this interweaving of the human and the technological. Outer space is a living milieu, inseparable from the sociotechnical conditions of human relations.Damjanov ‘15 ~Katarina Damjanov; PhD, a Senior Lecturer and the Discipline Lead in Media and Communication at the University of Western Australia; 2015; "The matter of media in outer space: Technologies of cosmobiopolitics"; Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2015, Vol. 33(5) 889–906; Accessed 02-02-2022~ AK AND limitations and proceed as a collective towards becoming more-than-human. Thus, I affirm negativity, a return to the crypt. The 1AC is a conspiracy against private entities, against the state, against capitalism. It’s time to abandon hope in favor of pessimism, the start of a rebellion in the catacombs of society.Culp ‘16 ~Andrew Culp; Professor of Media History and Theory @ California Institute of the Arts; PhD, 2013, The Ohio State University; 2016; "Dark Deleuze"; The Anarchist Library; https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/andrew-culp-dark-deleuze; Accessed 4-6-2022~ AK AND even when contrary, never believe that darkness will suffice to save us. The 1AC is an abolition of outer space as we know it. The cosmos is not something for Elon Musk to conquer, not something we can make transparent. It’s time to accept that we’re going to die on this rock, not build cities in the stars.Kriss ‘15 ~Sam Kriss; a writer and dilettante surviving in London; 02-02-2015; "Manifesto of the Committee to Abolish Outer Space"; The New Inquiry; https://thenewinquiry.com/manifesto-of-the-committee-to-abolish-outer-space/; Accessed 02-02-2022~ AK AND and the knowledge that we live in a world that is not possible. The end of the world is coming – the West’s endless expansion has made collapse inevitable. It’s too late to change this – all that matters is how we orient ourselves towards the apocalypse.Grove ‘19 ~Jairus Victor Grove; Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Hawai‘i Research Center for Future Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa; 2019; "Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World"; Duke University Press; pp. 10-11~ AK AND is not a way out of all this but rather a way through. But what does the affirmative do? How is the affirmative fair or educational? These questions should not and cannot be answered. Instead, we affirm debate as a site of failed scholarship. Defending a "topical" plan isn’t the solution to the problems inherent to the academy – instead, we embrace debate as a site of refuge and deviancy.Grove ‘19 ~Jairus Victor Grove; Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Hawai‘i Research Center for Future Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa; 2019; "Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World"; Duke University Press; pp. 25-27~ AK AND who should revel in what Harney and Moten have called the undercommons.53 Space-based tech is geopolitical by nature – it only exists to help the Global North and to provide an escape ticket for the wealthiest, leaving everyone else behind.Klinger ‘19 ~Julie Michelle Klinger; PhD, a geographer at the University of Delaware, formerly Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University; 3-20-2019; "Environmental Geopolitics and Outer Space"; Geopolitics; http://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/files/2019/03/Environmental-Geopolitics-and-Outer-Space.pdf; Accessed 4-9-2022~ AK AND linked to outer space through multiscalar processes unfolding within and across our atmosphere. Utilitarian calculus doesn’t account for the geopolitical structure of aggregate conceptions of the good – that makes it incapable of grappling with the causes of apocalypse.Grove ‘19 AND concern, requires with it a depoliticization of the causes of that concern. | 4/23/22 |
JanFeb - AC - Space Tourism v1Tournament: ASU | Round: 2 | Opponent: Meadows ZN | Judge: Anish Ramireddy 1AC – EnvironmentAdvantage 1 is the environment –Space tourism is coming and will scale up.Pultarova ‘21 ~Tereza Pultarova; Senior Writer @ Space.com, Master's in Science from the International Space University, Bachelor's in Journalism, Master's in Cultural Anthropology from Prague's Charles University; 07-26-2021; "The rise of space tourism could affect Earth's climate in unforeseen ways, scientists worry"; Space.com; https://www.space.com/environmental-impact-space-tourism-flights; Accessed 12-03-2021~ AK AND fly multiple times a day, just like short-haul aircraft do." It’s uniquely dangerous – kills the ozone layer, heats the planet, and is terminally unsustainable.Noor ‘21 ~Dharna Noor; the Boston Globe's climate producer, staff writer at Earther, Gizmodo's climate vertical; 07-19-2021; "Space Tourism Is a Waste"; Gizmodo; https://gizmodo.com/space-tourism-is-a-waste-1847285820; Accessed 12-03-2021~ AK AND of these men through space tourism will further corrode what we hold dear. Warming causes extinction and turns every impact.Cribb ‘17 ~Julian; Principal of JCA, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, former Director, National Awareness, CSIRO, "The Baker," Surviving the 21st Century Chapter 4, pg 91-94, dml~ AND extinction eventually"—Helen Berry, Canberra University (Snow and Hannam 2014). Independently, ozone depletion causes extinction.Southampton University ‘20 ~University of Southampton; a public research university; 05-27-2020; "Erosion of ozone layer responsible for mass extinction event"; ScienceDaily; https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200527150158.htm; Accessed 12-03-2021~ AK AND us from the current state of climate change, to a climate emergency." Space tourism is uniquely bad – irreversibly heats the stratosphere and hurts ag yields.Pultarova ‘21 ~Tereza Pultarova; Senior Writer @ Space.com, Master's in Science from the International Space University, Bachelor's in Journalism, Master's in Cultural Anthropology from Prague's Charles University; 07-26-2021; "The rise of space tourism could affect Earth's climate in unforeseen ways, scientists worry"; Space.com; https://www.space.com/environmental-impact-space-tourism-flights; Accessed 12-03-2021~ AK AND . "Then a subtle change in rainfall can impact your crop yields." Yield increases are key to avoid food shortages, which go nuclear.FDI 12. A Research Institute providing strategic analysis of Australia’s global interests; citing Lindsay Falvery, PhD in Agricultural Science and former Professor, University of Melbourne. "Food and Water Insecurity: International Conflict Triggers and Potential Conflict Points." May 25. http://www.futuredirections.org.au/workshop-papers/537-international-conflict-triggers-and-potential-conflict-points-resulting-from-food-and-water-insecurity.html AND identify famine as a potential trigger for conflicts and possibly even nuclear war. Extinction.Starr ’17 (Steven; director of the University of Missouri’s Clinical Laboratory Science Program, senior scientist at the Physicians for Social Responsibility, Associate member of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, expert in the environmental consequences of nuclear war; 1/9/17; "Turning a Blind Eye Towards Armageddon — U.S. Leaders Reject Nuclear Winter Studies"; https://fas.org/2017/01/turning-a-blind-eye-towards-armageddon-u-s-leaders-reject-nuclear-winter-studies/; Federation of American Scientists; accessed 11/24/18; TV) AND vested interest in eliminating the nuclear arsenals that continue to threaten their existence. 1AC – DebrisAdvantage 2 is space debris –Increased space tourism pushes debris over the brink – that wrecks satellites.Tehrani ‘21 ~James Tehrani; Spark‘s editor-in-chief, an award-winning writer and editor; 04-01-2021; "Space Junk: A Safety and Sustainability Problem Moving at 18,000 MPH"; Spark; https://sphera.com/spark/space-junk-a-safety-and-sustainability-problem-moving-at-18000-mph/; Accessed 12-26-2021~ AK AND 5 billion industry by 2028. The more activity, the more debris. Space debris causes nuclear miscalc – countries interpret collisions as pre-emptive strikes.Beauchamp ‘14 ~Zack Beauchamp; a senior correspondent at Vox, where he covers global politics and ideology, and a host of Worldly, Vox's podcast on foreign policy and international relations; 04-21-2014; "How space trash could start a nuclear war"; Vox; https://www.vox.com/2014/4/21/5625246/space-war-china-north-korea-iran; Accessed 12-26-2021~ AK AND detect a nuclear launch, things could get very bad, very quickly. Satellites are key to biodiversity conservation.Pettorelli ‘19 ~Dr. Nathalie Pettorelli; a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, the editor-in-chief of Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation and a senior editor for Journal of Applied Ecology; 09-25-2019; "Satellite Remote Sensing’s role in Biodiversity Conservation"; Medium; https://medium.com/science-uncovered/satellite-remote-sensings-role-in-biodiversity-conservation-fbce22a7133c; Accessed 12-26-2021~ AK AND to natural resource management, where both threats and consequences can be evaluated. Biodiversity loss causes extinction and is a threat multiplier.Torres ‘16 ~Phil Biologist, conservationist, science advocate and educator. 2 years based in Amazon rainforest, now exploring science around the world. "Biodiversity Loss: An Existential Risk Comparable to Climate Change" http://futureoflife.org/2016/05/20/biodiversity-loss/~~ AND as one of the most significant contemporary risks to human prosperity and survival. Increased space debris makes future space exploration impossible.Webb ‘18 ~(Amy Webb is a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business and is the chief executive of the Future Today Institute, a strategic foresight and research group in Washington, D.C.), "Space Oddities: We Need a Plan to Stop Polluting Space Before It’s Too Late" WIRED Science April 12, 2018 https://www.wired.com/story/we-need-a-plan-to-stop-polluting-space-before-its-too-late/~~ TDI AND very long-term thinking—before we try to colonize any others. 1AC – SolvencyThus, the plan –States should ban the appropriation of outer space for commercial space tourism by private entities.Parkinson ‘21 ~Stuart Parkinson; Executive Director of Scientists for Global Responsibility, written on climate science and policy for 30 years, PhD in climate science; 07-20-2021; "Space tourism: environmental vandalism for the super-rich"; Scientists for Global Responsibility (UK); http://space4peace.org/space-tourism-environmental-vandalism-for-the-super-rich/; Accessed 12-24-2021~ AK AND then there is an important step to take immediately: ban space tourism. Profit motives and corporate overconfidence mean careless decisions – turns and CPs are wrongCook ‘21 ~Kevin Cook; author of "The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA’s Challenger Disaster"; 07-22-2021; "The Case Against Space Tourism"; WSJ; https://www.wsj.com/articles/blue-origin-spacex-bezos-musk-galactic-branson-tourism-space-11626968962; Accessed 12-16-2021~ AK AND making that gets astronauts—or ordinary people in space suits—killed. 1AC – FrameworkThe standard is maximizing expected well-being.Extinction outweighs under any framework – moral uncertainty.Pummer ‘15 — (Theron Pummer, Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, "Moral Agreement on Saving the World", Practical Ethics University of Oxford, 5-18-2015, Available Online at http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/05/moral-agreement-on-saving-the-world/, accessed 7-2-2018, HKR-AM) we do not endorse ableist language= AND be acting very wrongly." (From chapter 36 of On What Matters) Pleasure and pain are intrinsically valuable and disvaluable.Moen ‘16 ~Ole Martin Moen, Research Fellow in Philosophy at University of Oslo "An Argument for Hedonism" Journal of Value Inquiry (Springer), 50 (2) 2016: 267–281~ SJDI AND places where we reach the end of the line in matters of value. Util is a lexical pre-requisite to any other framework: Threats to bodily security and life preclude the ability for moral actors to effectively utilize and act upon other moral theories since they are in a constant state of crisis that inhibit the ideal moral conditions which other theories presuppose – so, util comes first and my offense outweighs theirs under their own framework. | 1/8/22 |
JanFeb - AC - Techno-ManagerialismTournament: Berkeley | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker AA | Judge: Joel Lemuel 1AC R2"It’s been now almost half a century since humans were last on the moon. That’s too long, we need to get back there and have a permanent base on the moon — again, like a big permanently occupied base on the moon. And then build a city on Mars to become a spacefaring civilization, a multi-planet species." – Elon MuskFantasies of space colonization and the private appropriation of outer space rest upon techno-managerial logics grounded upon colonial and patriarchal ideals. The embrace of rational and scientific solutions to space exploration only cements liberalism and biopolitical control in space.Schmedes ‘21 ~Hannah Schmedes; finishing her Master’s in European Media Sciences at the University of Potsdam, received her Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Sciences and Philosophy from the Leuphana University of Lüneburg; 2021; "A Laboratory for Living Off-World: Re-Narrating Biosphere 2"; in "Earth and Beyond in Tumultuous Times: A Critical Atlas of the Anthropocene", edited by Réka Patrícia Gál and Petra Löffler; pp. 163-165; https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/50006/9783957961891.pdf?sequence=1; Accessed 01-27-2022~ AK AND Western" utopias are unconceivable without the history of colonialism and misogyny.3 Outer space was never meant to be controlled or understood with Western science – the resolution’s insistence on the cosmotechnical control of nature creates a psychic disorientation that traps us in a new era of techno-capitalism, which subsumes the Earth as billionaires try to escape finitude.Dunker and Hui ‘20 ~Anders Dunker; Norwegian writer and journalist; Yuk Hui; Ph.D. thesis at Goldsmiths College in London, postdoctoral studies in France, and Habilitation thesis in Germany, teaches at the Leuphana University and Bauhaus University; 06-09-2020; "On Technodiversity: A Conversation with Yuk Hui"; Los Angeles Review of Books; https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/on-technodiversity-a-conversation-with-yuk-hui/; Accessed 01-27-2022~ AK AND other planets, effectively reducing them to mere natural resources, raw material. The privatization of space locks in totalitarianism as space billionaires clear the path for infinite growth capitalism, bolstering surveillance. Only a rupture of space privatization can break capitalism’s cycle of consumption by achieving true satisfaction.McGowan ‘16 ~Todd McGowan; professor of film studies at the University of Vermont; 2016; "Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets; Columbia University Press; pp. 66-69~ AK AND necessity of the public trauma, we accede to our status as citoyens. Private control in outer space is grounded in cosmobiopolitics, operating through informatic control. By constructing a security apparatus around the globe, tech in outer space domesticates the universe, imprinting the human onto a living milieu to govern life itself.Damjanov ‘15 ~Katarina Damjanov; PhD, a Senior Lecturer and the Discipline Lead in Media and Communication at the University of Western Australia; 2015; "The matter of media in outer space: Technologies of cosmobiopolitics"; Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2015, Vol. 33(5) 889–906; Accessed 02-02-2022~ AK AND acknowledging the complexities produced in this interweaving of the human and the technological. Power in a control society is exercised not through repression but instant communication and continuous control. The private appropriation of outer space is the latest tactic of control society to modulate the enunciation of behavior and subjectivity through fascist mechanisms.Deleuze and Negri’90 |Gilles Deleuze and Antonio Negri, "Gilles Deleuze in conversation with Antonio Negri," http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpdeleuze3.htm~|KZaidi AND create vacuoles of noncommunication, circuit breakers, so we can elude control. Thus, in response to the unjust appropriation of outer space by private entities, I affirm the hacking of technologies of control in outer space.The aff is a form of cyberguerilla warfare that targets and exploits system vulnerabilities in private space companies. By using new mediums of communication to break down cybernetic power structures, the aff’s guerilla tactics spell the death of western power structures.Interior Ministry'18 |The Interior Ministry comprises of an anonymous group of guerilla militants and semioticians. "Guerilla Semiotix," from ALIENIST Magazine ~#4 (December 2018): RAGE AGAINST THE ALGORITHM. Page 84-88. https://alienistmanifesto.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/Alienist'Magazine-4'December'2018-1.pdf~|KZaidi AND and of exercising initiative in offence, and which ideally leave no trace. There’s a window for hackers to exploit vulnerabilities in private space companies now.Akoto ‘20 ~William Akoto; Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Denver; 02-12-2020; "Hackers could shut down satellites – or turn them into weapons"; The Conversation; https://theconversation.com/hackers-could-shut-down-satellites-or-turn-them-into-weapons-130932; Accessed 02-01-2022~ AK AND critical infrastructure. This includes electric grids, water networks and transportation systems. Use a framework of cosmobiopolitics to theorize the techno-appropriation of outer space. This novel method reinterprets biopolitics to understand how post-planetary capitalism shapes motives of expansion and exploration to exert new techniques of control.Damjanov ‘15 ~Katarina Damjanov; PhD, a Senior Lecturer and the Discipline Lead in Media and Communication at the University of Western Australia; 2015; "The matter of media in outer space: Technologies of cosmobiopolitics"; Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2015, Vol. 33(5) 889–906; Accessed 02-02-2022~ AK AND the material and social horizon of our futures on and beyond the globe. Insurrectionist movements are ongoing resistances that happen in our thoughts, actions, provocations, and explorations. Our model of debate seeks to allow for beautiful insurgencies from the ground up. This is work without a beginning, without an end, a constant planning as opposed to policy that we take with us wherever we go. | 2/20/22 |
NovDec - AC - CarceralityTournament: Florida Blue Key | Round: 1 | Opponent: Prospect ST | Judge: Sabrina Callahan 1ACWe live in a prison society defined by surveillance and militarization that dispossess populations, both inside and outside of prisons. Prison strikes are an intersubjective resistance strategy that imagines new worlds by rupturing the carceral state and empowering freedom.Fox ‘20 ~Taylor Fox; a fourth-year in the College studying Political Science and Human Rights; 05-01-2020; "Freedom, Caged: A Foucauldian Inquiry into the National Prison Strike"; Bachelor’s Thesis, University of Chicago; Advisor: Professor Reuben Miller; Preceptor: Alex Haskins; http://pozen.s3.amazonaws.com/system/ckeditor/attachments/435/Fox''Taylor'BA'Thesis'copy.pdf; Accessed 10-09-2021~ AK AND to incarcerated struggles. Future inquiries might expand this claim to other areas. Meaningful political action is only possible through mutual empowerment that rejects exclusion – anything else leads to world-destroying violence which destroys value to life by positioning marginalized populations as socially and legally dead. The prison system only serves to securitize and biopolitically control Black and brown bodies – the only alternative is unified strike action.Guenther ‘15 ~Lisa Guenther; Associate Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University; "Political Action at the End of the World: Hannah Arendt and the California Prison Hunger Strikes"; 2015; Canadian Journal of Human Rights; https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/canajo4anddiv=8andid=andpage=; Accessed 10-08-2021~ AK AND , both as theorists and as political animals, from their ongoing struggle. Thus, I affirm: A just government ought to recognize an unconditional right of incarcerated workers to strike.Kilgore ‘18 ~James Kilgore is an activist, writer and researcher based in Urbana, Illinois. He is the Co-Director of First Followers Reentry Program and is also has a 2017 Soros Justice Fellow to develop a campaign against electronic monitoring, Challenging E-Carceration. He is the author of five books; November 2018; "Reflecting on the Prison Labor Strike: Driving Toward the "Dismantling Process""; Public i; http://publici.ucimc.org/2018/11/reflecting-on-the-prison-labor-strike-driving-toward-the-dismantling-process/; Accessed 10-09-2021~ AK AND demonstrations, teach-ins, sit-ins and massive email campaigns. The aff’s radical strike action unsettles the prison apparatus, dismantling the carceral state. Strikes are in-line with the abolitionist project by disrupting the logics of carcerality. Political alternatives like the aff let incarcerated workers imagine futures of freedom and of political struggle, spilling up to larger movements and demystifying the prison.Fox ‘20 ~Taylor Fox; a fourth-year in the College studying Political Science and Human Rights; 05-01-2020; "Freedom, Caged: A Foucauldian Inquiry into the National Prison Strike"; Bachelor’s Thesis, University of Chicago; Advisor: Professor Reuben Miller; Preceptor: Alex Haskins; http://pozen.s3.amazonaws.com/system/ckeditor/attachments/435/Fox''Taylor'BA'Thesis'copy.pdf; Accessed 10-09-2021~ AK AND brief moments gesture toward the kinds of intersubjectivities that uniquely emerge through struggle. The prison is the newest mutation of the plantation, made possible through the incomplete abolition of slavery. Prisoner-led movements like the aff dismantle the prison industrial complex by creating glimmers of hope even in extreme isolation, making counter-hegemonic claims against racial logics of criminalization.Guenther ‘15 ~Lisa Guenther; Associate Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University; "Political Action at the End of the World: Hannah Arendt and the California Prison Hunger Strikes"; 2015; Canadian Journal of Human Rights; https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/canajo4anddiv=8andid=andpage=; Accessed 10-08-2021~ AK *Acronym expanded in curly brackets* AND as political actors, even in a situation of criminalization and civil death. Prison strikes align prisoners with radical Black movements to test revolutionary political strategies against the state’s necropolitics. The aff’s multiracial solidarity that’s created through Black radicalism threatens the hegemony of the prison and achieves self-determination for the incarcerated.Fox ‘20 ~Taylor Fox; a fourth-year in the College studying Political Science and Human Rights; 05-01-2020; "Freedom, Caged: A Foucauldian Inquiry into the National Prison Strike"; Bachelor’s Thesis, University of Chicago; Advisor: Professor Reuben Miller; Preceptor: Alex Haskins; http://pozen.s3.amazonaws.com/system/ckeditor/attachments/435/Fox''Taylor'BA'Thesis'copy.pdf; Accessed 10-09-2021~ AK AND self- determination remains visible in hunger strike campaigns that assert prisoners’ subjectivity. The role of the judge is to engage in critical counter-mapping of carceral systems of control. The most important theoretical work we can do is to understand the geographical implications of the carceral state.Gill, et al, 18—Professor of Human Geography, University of Exeter (Nick, with Deirdre Conlon, Assistant Professor in Critical Human Geography at the University of Leeds, Dominique Moran, Professor in Carceral Geographies, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, and Andrew Burridge, Associate Research Fellow, University of Exeter, "Carceral circuitry: New directions in carceral geography," Progress in Human Geography, Vol 42, Issue 2, 2018, dml) ~brackets in original~ AND of mental health – is a clear potential focus of future geographic effort. All political analysis must begin with a diagnosis of power – attempts to reach an objective "truth" only fortify societal control and violent power relations.Fox ‘20 ~Taylor Fox; a fourth-year in the College studying Political Science and Human Rights; 05-01-2020; "Freedom, Caged: A Foucauldian Inquiry into the National Prison Strike"; Bachelor’s Thesis, University of Chicago; Advisor: Professor Reuben Miller; Preceptor: Alex Haskins; http://pozen.s3.amazonaws.com/system/ckeditor/attachments/435/Fox''Taylor'BA'Thesis'copy.pdf; Accessed 10-09-2021~ AK AND potential of resistance strategies without expecting them to spark high-order revelations. Methodological pluralism is key to properly conceptualizing carcerality – prisons exist at the intersections of anti-Blackness, biopolitical violence, and capitalism.Ware and Anon ‘18 ~Jared Ware; Anon; an organizer from Jailhouse Lawyers Speak; 08-20-2018; "‘I’m for Disruption’: Interview with Prison Strike Organizer from Jailhouse Lawyers Speak"; Abolition Journal; https://abolitionjournal.org/im-for-disruption-interview-with-prison-strike-organizer-from-jailhouse-lawyers-speak/; Accessed 10-09-2021~ AK AND fail to work, then you will be removed out of these units. Academic philosophy is foundationally and irredeemably antiblack. The abstraction from the manifestations of racialized violence absolves white philosophers of their contributions to America’s apathy towards black death which prevents effective mobilization against white supremacy.Curry and Curry ‘18 ~Tommy, PhD, Prof. of Philosophy @ TAMU, Gwenetta, PhD, Ass. Prof. of Gender and Race Studies @ Alabama~, "On the Perils of Race Neutrality and Anti-Blackness: Philosophy as an Irreconcilable Obstacle to (Black) Thought," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 77, Nos. 3-4 (May-September 2018). DOI: 10.1111/ajes.12244~ JJ AND and build strategies against the present problems of racism in philosophy before us. | 10/30/21 |
NovDec - AC - Carcerality v2Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 2 | Opponent: Westside SY | Judge: Dylan Jones 1ACWe live in a prison society defined by surveillance and militarization that dispossess populations, both inside and outside of prisons. Prison strikes are an intersubjective resistance strategy that imagines new worlds by rupturing the carceral state and empowering freedom.Fox ‘20 ~Taylor Fox; a fourth-year in the College studying Political Science and Human Rights; 05-01-2020; "Freedom, Caged: A Foucauldian Inquiry into the National Prison Strike"; Bachelor’s Thesis, University of Chicago; Advisor: Professor Reuben Miller; Preceptor: Alex Haskins; http://pozen.s3.amazonaws.com/system/ckeditor/attachments/435/Fox''Taylor'BA'Thesis'copy.pdf; Accessed 10-09-2021~ AK AND to incarcerated struggles. Future inquiries might expand this claim to other areas. Meaningful political action is only possible through mutual empowerment that rejects exclusion – anything else leads to world-destroying violence which destroys value to life by positioning marginalized populations as socially and legally dead. The prison system only serves to securitize and biopolitically control Black and brown bodies – the only alternative is unified strike action.Guenther ‘15 ~Lisa Guenther; Associate Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University; "Political Action at the End of the World: Hannah Arendt and the California Prison Hunger Strikes"; 2015; Canadian Journal of Human Rights; https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/canajo4anddiv=8andid=andpage=; Accessed 10-08-2021~ AK AND , both as theorists and as political animals, from their ongoing struggle. Thus, I affirm: A just government ought to recognize an unconditional right of incarcerated workers to strike.Kilgore ‘18 ~James Kilgore is an activist, writer and researcher based in Urbana, Illinois. He is the Co-Director of First Followers Reentry Program and is also has a 2017 Soros Justice Fellow to develop a campaign against electronic monitoring, Challenging E-Carceration. He is the author of five books; November 2018; "Reflecting on the Prison Labor Strike: Driving Toward the "Dismantling Process""; Public i; http://publici.ucimc.org/2018/11/reflecting-on-the-prison-labor-strike-driving-toward-the-dismantling-process/; Accessed 10-09-2021~ AK AND demonstrations, teach-ins, sit-ins and massive email campaigns. The aff’s radical strike action unsettles the prison apparatus, dismantling the carceral state. Strikes are in-line with the abolitionist project by disrupting the logics of carcerality. Political alternatives like the aff let incarcerated workers imagine futures of freedom and of political struggle, spilling up to larger movements and demystifying the prison.Fox ‘20 ~Taylor Fox; a fourth-year in the College studying Political Science and Human Rights; 05-01-2020; "Freedom, Caged: A Foucauldian Inquiry into the National Prison Strike"; Bachelor’s Thesis, University of Chicago; Advisor: Professor Reuben Miller; Preceptor: Alex Haskins; http://pozen.s3.amazonaws.com/system/ckeditor/attachments/435/Fox''Taylor'BA'Thesis'copy.pdf; Accessed 10-09-2021~ AK AND brief moments gesture toward the kinds of intersubjectivities that uniquely emerge through struggle. The prison is the newest mutation of the plantation, made possible through the incomplete abolition of slavery. Prisoner-led movements like the aff dismantle the prison industrial complex by creating glimmers of hope even in extreme isolation, making counter-hegemonic claims against racial logics of criminalization.Guenther ‘15 ~Lisa Guenther; Associate Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University; "Political Action at the End of the World: Hannah Arendt and the California Prison Hunger Strikes"; 2015; Canadian Journal of Human Rights; https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/canajo4anddiv=8andid=andpage=; Accessed 10-08-2021~ AK *Acronym expanded in curly brackets* AND as political actors, even in a situation of criminalization and civil death. Prison strikes align prisoners with radical Black movements to test revolutionary political strategies against the state’s necropolitics. The aff’s multiracial solidarity that’s created through Black radicalism threatens the hegemony of the prison and achieves self-determination for the incarcerated.Fox ‘20 ~Taylor Fox; a fourth-year in the College studying Political Science and Human Rights; 05-01-2020; "Freedom, Caged: A Foucauldian Inquiry into the National Prison Strike"; Bachelor’s Thesis, University of Chicago; Advisor: Professor Reuben Miller; Preceptor: Alex Haskins; http://pozen.s3.amazonaws.com/system/ckeditor/attachments/435/Fox''Taylor'BA'Thesis'copy.pdf; Accessed 10-09-2021~ AK AND self- determination remains visible in hunger strike campaigns that assert prisoners’ subjectivity. The role of the judge is to engage in critical counter-mapping of carceral systems of control. The most important theoretical work we can do is to understand the geographical implications of the carceral state.Gill, et al, 18—Professor of Human Geography, University of Exeter (Nick, with Deirdre Conlon, Assistant Professor in Critical Human Geography at the University of Leeds, Dominique Moran, Professor in Carceral Geographies, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, and Andrew Burridge, Associate Research Fellow, University of Exeter, "Carceral circuitry: New directions in carceral geography," Progress in Human Geography, Vol 42, Issue 2, 2018, dml) ~brackets in original~ AND of mental health – is a clear potential focus of future geographic effort. All political analysis must begin with a diagnosis of power – attempts to reach an objective "truth" only fortify societal control and violent power relations.Fox ‘20 ~Taylor Fox; a fourth-year in the College studying Political Science and Human Rights; 05-01-2020; "Freedom, Caged: A Foucauldian Inquiry into the National Prison Strike"; Bachelor’s Thesis, University of Chicago; Advisor: Professor Reuben Miller; Preceptor: Alex Haskins; http://pozen.s3.amazonaws.com/system/ckeditor/attachments/435/Fox''Taylor'BA'Thesis'copy.pdf; Accessed 10-09-2021~ AK AND potential of resistance strategies without expecting them to spark high-order revelations. Methodological pluralism is key to properly conceptualizing carcerality – prisons exist at the intersections of anti-Blackness, biopolitical violence, and capitalism.Ware and Anon ‘18 ~Jared Ware; Anon; an organizer from Jailhouse Lawyers Speak; 08-20-2018; "‘I’m for Disruption’: Interview with Prison Strike Organizer from Jailhouse Lawyers Speak"; Abolition Journal; https://abolitionjournal.org/im-for-disruption-interview-with-prison-strike-organizer-from-jailhouse-lawyers-speak/; Accessed 10-09-2021~ AK AND fail to work, then you will be removed out of these units. Demands on the state don’t tie us to the government or its legitimacy – they’re key to question its legitimacy.Newman 11 (Saul Newman; PhD and professor of political theory; Goldsmith University; "The Politics of Postanarchism"; https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/saul-newman-the-politics-of-postanarchism; CAMP-CARD) AND rights that they had and had the rights that they had not.21 Using the government as a heuristic enables us to make contingent political demands. That preserves individual agency by forcing us to assume responsibility for political choices.Shove and Walker ‘7 (Elizabeth Shove Sociology @ Lancaster AND Gordon WALKER Geography @ Lancaster ‘7 ~"CAUTION! Transitions ahead: politics, practice, and sustainable transition management," Environment and Planning C 39 (4)) AND does happen, but not in ways that we can anticipate or know. | 11/20/21 |
NovDec - AC - Carcerality v3Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 6 | Opponent: Eden Prairie AG | Judge: Rodrigo Paramo 1ACWe live in a prison society defined by surveillance and militarization that dispossess populations, both inside and outside of prisons. Prison strikes are an intersubjective resistance strategy that imagines new worlds by rupturing the carceral state and empowering freedom.Fox ‘20 ~Taylor Fox; a fourth-year in the College studying Political Science and Human Rights; 05-01-2020; "Freedom, Caged: A Foucauldian Inquiry into the National Prison Strike"; Bachelor’s Thesis, University of Chicago; Advisor: Professor Reuben Miller; Preceptor: Alex Haskins; http://pozen.s3.amazonaws.com/system/ckeditor/attachments/435/Fox''Taylor'BA'Thesis'copy.pdf; Accessed 10-09-2021~ AK AND to incarcerated struggles. Future inquiries might expand this claim to other areas. Meaningful political action is only possible through mutual empowerment that rejects exclusion – anything else leads to world-destroying violence which destroys value to life by positioning marginalized populations as socially and legally dead. The prison system only serves to securitize and biopolitically control Black and brown bodies – the only alternative is unified strike action.Guenther ‘15 ~Lisa Guenther; Associate Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University; "Political Action at the End of the World: Hannah Arendt and the California Prison Hunger Strikes"; 2015; Canadian Journal of Human Rights; https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/canajo4anddiv=8andid=andpage=; Accessed 10-08-2021~ AK AND , both as theorists and as political animals, from their ongoing struggle. Thus, I affirm: A just government ought to recognize an unconditional right of incarcerated workers to strike.Kilgore ‘18 ~James Kilgore is an activist, writer and researcher based in Urbana, Illinois. He is the Co-Director of First Followers Reentry Program and is also has a 2017 Soros Justice Fellow to develop a campaign against electronic monitoring, Challenging E-Carceration. He is the author of five books; November 2018; "Reflecting on the Prison Labor Strike: Driving Toward the "Dismantling Process""; Public i; http://publici.ucimc.org/2018/11/reflecting-on-the-prison-labor-strike-driving-toward-the-dismantling-process/; Accessed 10-09-2021~ AK AND demonstrations, teach-ins, sit-ins and massive email campaigns. The aff’s radical strike action unsettles the prison apparatus, dismantling the carceral state. Strikes are in-line with the abolitionist project by disrupting the logics of carcerality. Political alternatives like the aff let incarcerated workers imagine futures of freedom and of political struggle, spilling up to larger movements and demystifying the prison.Fox ‘20 ~Taylor Fox; a fourth-year in the College studying Political Science and Human Rights; 05-01-2020; "Freedom, Caged: A Foucauldian Inquiry into the National Prison Strike"; Bachelor’s Thesis, University of Chicago; Advisor: Professor Reuben Miller; Preceptor: Alex Haskins; http://pozen.s3.amazonaws.com/system/ckeditor/attachments/435/Fox''Taylor'BA'Thesis'copy.pdf; Accessed 10-09-2021~ AK AND brief moments gesture toward the kinds of intersubjectivities that uniquely emerge through struggle. The prison is the newest mutation of the plantation, made possible through the incomplete abolition of slavery. Prisoner-led movements like the aff dismantle the prison industrial complex by creating glimmers of hope even in extreme isolation, making counter-hegemonic claims against racial logics of criminalization.Guenther ‘15 ~Lisa Guenther; Associate Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University; "Political Action at the End of the World: Hannah Arendt and the California Prison Hunger Strikes"; 2015; Canadian Journal of Human Rights; https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/canajo4anddiv=8andid=andpage=; Accessed 10-08-2021~ AK *Acronym expanded in curly brackets* AND as political actors, even in a situation of criminalization and civil death. Prison strikes align prisoners with radical Black movements to test revolutionary political strategies against the state’s necropolitics. The aff’s multiracial solidarity that’s created through Black radicalism threatens the hegemony of the prison and achieves self-determination for the incarcerated.Fox ‘20 ~Taylor Fox; a fourth-year in the College studying Political Science and Human Rights; 05-01-2020; "Freedom, Caged: A Foucauldian Inquiry into the National Prison Strike"; Bachelor’s Thesis, University of Chicago; Advisor: Professor Reuben Miller; Preceptor: Alex Haskins; http://pozen.s3.amazonaws.com/system/ckeditor/attachments/435/Fox''Taylor'BA'Thesis'copy.pdf; Accessed 10-09-2021~ AK AND self- determination remains visible in hunger strike campaigns that assert prisoners’ subjectivity. The role of the judge is to engage in critical counter-mapping of carceral systems of control. The most important theoretical work we can do is to understand the geographical implications of the carceral state.Gill, et al, 18—Professor of Human Geography, University of Exeter (Nick, with Deirdre Conlon, Assistant Professor in Critical Human Geography at the University of Leeds, Dominique Moran, Professor in Carceral Geographies, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, and Andrew Burridge, Associate Research Fellow, University of Exeter, "Carceral circuitry: New directions in carceral geography," Progress in Human Geography, Vol 42, Issue 2, 2018, dml) ~brackets in original~ AND of mental health – is a clear potential focus of future geographic effort. All political analysis must begin with a diagnosis of power – attempts to reach an objective "truth" only fortify societal control and violent power relations.Fox ‘20 ~Taylor Fox; a fourth-year in the College studying Political Science and Human Rights; 05-01-2020; "Freedom, Caged: A Foucauldian Inquiry into the National Prison Strike"; Bachelor’s Thesis, University of Chicago; Advisor: Professor Reuben Miller; Preceptor: Alex Haskins; http://pozen.s3.amazonaws.com/system/ckeditor/attachments/435/Fox''Taylor'BA'Thesis'copy.pdf; Accessed 10-09-2021~ AK AND potential of resistance strategies without expecting them to spark high-order revelations. Methodological pluralism is key to properly conceptualizing carcerality – prisons exist at the intersections of anti-Blackness, biopolitical violence, and capitalism.Ware and Anon ‘18 ~Jared Ware; Anon; an organizer from Jailhouse Lawyers Speak; 08-20-2018; "‘I’m for Disruption’: Interview with Prison Strike Organizer from Jailhouse Lawyers Speak"; Abolition Journal; https://abolitionjournal.org/im-for-disruption-interview-with-prison-strike-organizer-from-jailhouse-lawyers-speak/; Accessed 10-09-2021~ AK AND fail to work, then you will be removed out of these units. The status quo doesn’t solve – conditions and outright prohibitions on prisoners’ right to strike is exactly the problem – it’s try or die.Harvard Law Review ‘19 ~Harvard Law Review; a law review published by an independent student group at Harvard Law School; 03-08-2019; "Striking the Right Balance: Toward a Better Understanding of Prison Strikes"; Vol. 132, No. 5; https://harvardlawreview.org/2019/03/striking-the-right-balance-toward-a-better-understanding-of-prison-strikes/; Accessed 11-21-2021~ AK AND offer no viable protection for prison strikes and indeed often prohibit them outright. Demands on the state don’t tie us to the government or its legitimacy – they’re key to question its legitimacy.Newman 11 (Saul Newman; PhD and professor of political theory; Goldsmith University; "The Politics of Postanarchism"; https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/saul-newman-the-politics-of-postanarchism; CAMP-CARD) AND rights that they had and had the rights that they had not.21 | 11/21/21 |
NovDec - Note - Tommy CurryTournament: Florida Blue Key | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Carnegie Vanguard SR | Judge: Javier Hernandez, Samantha McLoughlin, Kristen Arnold | 11/1/21 |
SeptOct - AC - Semiotic PiracyTournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lexington AK | Judge: David Yi 1AC – Semiotic PiracyInformation capitalism has subsumed the realm of medical innovation – status quo IP systems are an ever-expanding biopolitical form of control that uses speed and power to encompass new aspects of life. This season’s resolution asks whether medicine belongs in the public or the private domain, but that fallacious binary reinforces biocolonialism.Coombe ‘20 ~Rosemary J. Coombe; a Canadian anthropologist and lawyer, a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at York University and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies; 08-27-2020; "Ethnographic Explorations of Intellectual Property"; Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Anthropology; https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.115; Accessed 09-03-2021~ AK AND of biocolonialism and negotiations of new ethical protocols (Cunningham and Scharper 1996). The law is not a neutral reflection of the world but instead modulates social identities and relationships. IP protection is a symbolic weapon to shut down subaltern resistance against domination, now taking place at the level of statecraft. The semiotic aspects of medical branding and trademarks disciplines everyday conduct and enables militarism.Coombe ‘20 ~Rosemary J. Coombe; a Canadian anthropologist and lawyer, a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at York University and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies; 08-27-2020; "Ethnographic Explorations of Intellectual Property"; Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Anthropology; https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.115; Accessed 09-03-2021~ AK AND in Colombian peace-building strategies (e.g., Fattal 2018). Consumer consumption now unfolds in a series of sacralization rituals in everyday life, with brands becoming intertwined with the medicine itself while modulating social cybernetics. Biocapitalism has linked together the medical lab, the factory, and now the stock market, reducing life to statistics and calculations, dictated by different registers of value and of meaning.Yoka ‘17 ~Lia Yoka; Associate Professor of History and Theory of Art and Culture at the School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, assistant editor of the semiotics journal punctum and coordinates the ‘cultural theories’ module at the Interuniversity Postgraduate Programme in Museology, AUTh and University of Western Macedonia; 2017; "Authentic sneakers, branded drugs, patented genes: A semiotic exercise in nominating commodities"; URL: https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/61235624/BRAND'COMMODITY'SEMIOTICS20191116-44611-18269hq.pdf?1573912822=andresponse-content-disposition=inline3B+filename3DNominating'commodities'A'semiotic'exerci.pdfandExpires=1630791674andSignature=LuK46hqGoeeb3inxIjLcEPw5wtUAqOtczYnDRKYIx9MnPAJz4d~~~~HQttT4Qsbe1Qo08LBUtRbj80OuerVIi0ZvPRoR7Q2MmJsVgcRQxOToGc6v~~t7alSPaMYJ5FTSi0vZSHWi5uWNQWSAXQPVoWnpa2bkDwXLeVYQvNGsTXWIsi4XU7y2k7bmYvf-jmJ1CwdJPsc9JfOLqXZmK~~nF7aU3hV~~FibES~~IeCPPa9Y26ZA2RXhCO87tjCNvrtiUzbeN8Ohsz5cqAdTweIiYgAptZDUgh5WYttWtH1EDyyrAS9QupoWhE6V3ZDUc5oE9Y~~GLnoIucrbKzOT3HgY7Ni2jMCg''andKey-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA; Accessed 09-04-2021~ AK *Figures omitted* AND eggs in comparison to Greek citizens, to use only a European example. Thus, I affirm piracy as a method to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines.The aff is a radical form of piracy, a rogue Other that sabotages Western modes of capital while reinforcing subaltern identities. The private-public domain binary is a farce created to exclude subjects from circuits of recognition and exchange. The aff is a semiotic project that implodes the IP system from within, spilling up to create new systems of cultural governmentality.Coombe ‘20 ~Rosemary J. Coombe; a Canadian anthropologist and lawyer, a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at York University and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies; 08-27-2020; "Ethnographic Explorations of Intellectual Property"; Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Anthropology; https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.115; Accessed 09-03-2021~ AK AND , the structuring principles of whose interrelationship are still obscure (Dawdy 2011). The private-public domain binary is based in Western commodification to make legible certain cultural contributions while erasing others, naturalizing divisions within social life. We reject the topic’s fetishization of the public domain, which validates colonialism and dispossession, instead hacking the dominant legal and economic orders of IP. There is not just one public domain – piracy opens new realms of social life, new publics as a communicative space for counter-hegemonic expression.Coombe ‘20 ~Rosemary J. Coombe; a Canadian anthropologist and lawyer, a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at York University and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies; 08-27-2020; "Ethnographic Explorations of Intellectual Property"; Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Anthropology; https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.115; Accessed 09-03-2021~ AK AND to attend to significant social relations co-produced through IP regulation.3 Patents and IP protection are vehicles of territorialization and extraction, reinforcing capitalist and colonial domination that enables state expansion. The aff’s counterfeiting creates new values while deterritorializing globalization and the demarcated zones of legality and illegality.Coombe ‘20 ~Rosemary J. Coombe; a Canadian anthropologist and lawyer, a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at York University and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies; 08-27-2020; "Ethnographic Explorations of Intellectual Property"; Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Anthropology; https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.115; Accessed 09-03-2021~ AK AND to new territorial infrastructures of global belonging (Larkin 2008; Reinberg 2015). Methodological pluralism is key to understanding IP – its large scope of social and economic impacts necessitates diverse perspectives to ethnographically track the IP system.Coombe ‘20 ~Rosemary J. Coombe; a Canadian anthropologist and lawyer, a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at York University and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies; 08-27-2020; "Ethnographic Explorations of Intellectual Property"; Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Anthropology; https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.115; Accessed 09-03-2021~ AK AND of the discipline whose work has been influential for anthropological engagements with IP. Debate is a space for rhizomatic education – it’s the only way to create a flexible educational model equipped to handle new modes of knowledge production. The community is the curriculum – like a rhizome, learning adapts and reconstructs itself to enable collaborative and deterritorialized education. IP systems are fundamentally incompatible – they reflect a static and frozen mode of knowledge. The role of the judge is to make this debate round another entry point into the rhizome.Cormier ‘8 ~Dave Cormier; Learning Specialist - Digital Learning Strategy and Special Projects @ University of Windsor, Masters of Education, Literacies Education - Mount Saint Vincent University; 07-01-2008; "Rhizomatic Education: Community as Curriculum"; Innovate: Journal of Online Education, Volume 4, Issue 5 June/July 2008, Article 2; https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/andhttpsredir=1andarticle=1045andcontext=innovate; Accessed 09-04-2021~ AK AND just a window, but an entry point into an existing learning community. | 9/18/21 |
SeptOct - AC - Semiotic Piracy v2Tournament: Greenhill | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Carnegie Vanguard SR | Judge: Tate Weston, Varad Agarwala, Nigel Taylor-Ward 1AC – Semiotic Piracy v2Information capitalism has subsumed the realm of medical innovation – status quo IP systems are an ever-expanding biopolitical form of control that uses speed and power to encompass new aspects of life. This season’s resolution asks whether medicine belongs in the public or the private domain, but that fallacious binary reinforces biocolonialism.Coombe ‘20 ~Rosemary J. Coombe; a Canadian anthropologist and lawyer, a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at York University and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies; 08-27-2020; "Ethnographic Explorations of Intellectual Property"; Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Anthropology; https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.115; Accessed 09-03-2021~ AK AND of biocolonialism and negotiations of new ethical protocols (Cunningham and Scharper 1996). Intellectual property is the next stage in the abstraction of property – a new axis of class conflict as capital is freed from its fixity. A new ruling class controls the vectors of communication, commodifying information and enabling privatization. IP is about maintaining control for owners, not creators.Wark ‘6 ~McKenzie Wark; Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at The New School in New York City, best known works are A Hacker Manifesto and Gamer Theory; 08-18-2006; "INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE (BUT IS EVERYWHERE IN CHAINS)"; Cultural Studies Vol. 20, Nos 2–3 March/May 2006, pp. 165–183; DOI: 10.1080/09502380500495668; Accessed 09-16-2021~ AK *Bracketed for gendered language* AND often accounts for a substantial part of the ‘assets’ of a company. Consumer consumption now unfolds in a series of sacralization rituals in everyday life, with brands becoming intertwined with the medicine itself while modulating social cybernetics. Biocapitalism has linked together the medical lab, the factory, and now the stock market, reducing life to statistics and calculations, dictated by different registers of value and of meaning.Yoka ‘17 ~Lia Yoka; Associate Professor of History and Theory of Art and Culture at the School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, assistant editor of the semiotics journal punctum and coordinates the ‘cultural theories’ module at the Interuniversity Postgraduate Programme in Museology, AUTh and University of Western Macedonia; 2017; "Authentic sneakers, branded drugs, patented genes: A semiotic exercise in nominating commodities"; URL: https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/61235624/BRAND'COMMODITY'SEMIOTICS20191116-44611-18269hq.pdf?1573912822=andresponse-content-disposition=inline3B+filename3DNominating'commodities'A'semiotic'exerci.pdfandExpires=1630791674andSignature=LuK46hqGoeeb3inxIjLcEPw5wtUAqOtczYnDRKYIx9MnPAJz4d~~~~HQttT4Qsbe1Qo08LBUtRbj80OuerVIi0ZvPRoR7Q2MmJsVgcRQxOToGc6v~~t7alSPaMYJ5FTSi0vZSHWi5uWNQWSAXQPVoWnpa2bkDwXLeVYQvNGsTXWIsi4XU7y2k7bmYvf-jmJ1CwdJPsc9JfOLqXZmK~~nF7aU3hV~~FibES~~IeCPPa9Y26ZA2RXhCO87tjCNvrtiUzbeN8Ohsz5cqAdTweIiYgAptZDUgh5WYttWtH1EDyyrAS9QupoWhE6V3ZDUc5oE9Y~~GLnoIucrbKzOT3HgY7Ni2jMCg''andKey-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA; Accessed 09-04-2021~ AK *Figures omitted* AND eggs in comparison to Greek citizens, to use only a European example. Thus, I affirm piracy as a method to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines.The aff is a radical form of piracy, a rogue Other that sabotages Western modes of capital while reinforcing subaltern identities. The private-public domain binary is a farce created to exclude subjects from circuits of recognition and exchange. The aff is a semiotic project that implodes the IP system from within, spilling up to create new systems of cultural governmentality.Coombe ‘20 ~Rosemary J. Coombe; a Canadian anthropologist and lawyer, a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at York University and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies; 08-27-2020; "Ethnographic Explorations of Intellectual Property"; Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Anthropology; https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.115; Accessed 09-03-2021~ AK AND , the structuring principles of whose interrelationship are still obscure (Dawdy 2011). Information’s ontological properties allow it to escape bounds of materiality while never being immaterial. Information wants to be free – the aff’s ontological rupture of IP law through piracy is an investment in the virtual to create new realms of info sharing, escaping IP’s regimes of scarcity.Wark ‘6 ~McKenzie Wark; Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at The New School in New York City, best known works are A Hacker Manifesto and Gamer Theory; 08-18-2006; "INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE (BUT IS EVERYWHERE IN CHAINS)"; Cultural Studies Vol. 20, Nos 2–3 March/May 2006, pp. 165–183; DOI: 10.1080/09502380500495668; Accessed 09-16-2021~ AK AND to each according to their needs; from each according to their abilities’. The private-public domain binary is based in Western commodification to make legible certain cultural contributions while erasing others, naturalizing divisions within social life. We reject the topic’s fetishization of the public domain, which validates colonialism and dispossession, instead hacking the dominant legal and economic orders of IP. There is not just one public domain – piracy opens new realms of social life, new publics as a communicative space for counter-hegemonic expression.Coombe ‘20 ~Rosemary J. Coombe; a Canadian anthropologist and lawyer, a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at York University and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies; 08-27-2020; "Ethnographic Explorations of Intellectual Property"; Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Anthropology; https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.115; Accessed 09-03-2021~ AK AND to attend to significant social relations co-produced through IP regulation.3 Methodological pluralism is key to understanding IP – its large scope of social and economic impacts necessitates diverse perspectives to ethnographically track the IP system.Coombe ‘20 ~Rosemary J. Coombe; a Canadian anthropologist and lawyer, a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at York University and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies; 08-27-2020; "Ethnographic Explorations of Intellectual Property"; Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Anthropology; https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.115; Accessed 09-03-2021~ AK AND of the discipline whose work has been influential for anthropological engagements with IP. Debate is a space for rhizomatic education – it’s the only way to create a flexible educational model equipped to handle new modes of knowledge production. The community is the curriculum – like a rhizome, learning adapts and reconstructs itself to enable collaborative and deterritorialized education. IP systems are fundamentally incompatible – they reflect a static and frozen mode of knowledge. The role of the judge is to make this debate round another entry point into the rhizome.Cormier ‘8 ~Dave Cormier; Learning Specialist - Digital Learning Strategy and Special Projects @ University of Windsor, Masters of Education, Literacies Education - Mount Saint Vincent University; 07-01-2008; "Rhizomatic Education: Community as Curriculum"; Innovate: Journal of Online Education, Volume 4, Issue 5 June/July 2008, Article 2; https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/andhttpsredir=1andarticle=1045andcontext=innovate; Accessed 09-04-2021~ AK AND just a window, but an entry point into an existing learning community. | 9/19/21 |
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