Tournament: Lexington Winter Invitational CHECK4CITES | Round: 1 | Opponent: Olympia OE | Judge: X Braithwaite
Outer space is an extension of sovereignty’s control, a “state of exception” – this month’s resolution neglects them as an integral part of the biopolitical loop of violence.
But hey… that just means the system is working as intended. :^)
Ryan 11 – Barry J. Ryan is a Lecturer in International Relations at the School of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy at Keele University, UK (“Statebuilding, Security-Sector Reform and the Liberal Peace: The Freedom of Security,” Routledge, p. 35-38, 3/31/11) LM 3
The distinction between what is reasonable and what is excessive
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as principle is subservient to contingency:
Dominating outer space has become the sovereign’s next step—to enable privatization, only to further feed the murderous, neoliberal machine within. :^(
MacDonald, 2007 (Fraser Macdonaldschool Of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies, University Of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia, Fraserm@Unimelb.Edu.Au, 10-1-2007, "Anti-Astropolitik — outer space and the orbit of geography," SAGE Journals, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0309132507081492?journalCode=phgb)/kaichen
Second, space is becoming ordinary.
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discussed by Nigel Thrift (2005a).
Operativity as an ontological paradigm deprives humans of any meaningful being outside of formless substance, in turn reducing life to its bare, pure functionality. The unthinking commitment to maximizing life itself only serves to reproduce historical horrors. :^(
Colebrook ’16 (Claire Colebrook, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, “Agamben,” pg. 23 - 26, Emory Debate)
This concept at once points back to what Agamben deems
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being whose language places his life in question. (SL: 68-9)
Therefore, we affirm: the appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust.
An ethics of openness comes first—our last stance in the world of morals. There can be no authentic community organized by exclusion. Instead, incentivize profane communities and allow for the “whatever being” to emerge.
Prozorov ’14 (Sergei Prozorov, Professor of Political and Economic Studies at the University of Helsinki, “Agamben and Politics”, Edinburgh University Press, pg. 74 - 80, *gendered pronouns substituted, Emory Debate)
We do not have the slightest idea of what either a people or a language is
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empty sky of humanity; it is the display of non-appearance as the only homeland of man. (Agamben 1995: 82)
The only way to disrupt the state’s sovereignty is to make visible the bodies that have been effaced, exposing the injustices and creating empathy within the population that can lead to revolution.
Frymire, 17 (Erin Frymire, Ph.D., Northeastern Univ. (2017)B.A., Skidmore College (2009), April 2017, accessed on 7-23-2020, Repository.library.northeastern, "", https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:cj82px203/fulltext.pdf)//fibow
The rhetoric of other people’s bodies is, in these cases, violent.
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as it violently transforms unwilling human beings into rhetorical tools.
Death, suffering, and extinction are inevitable. Humanity is a cosmic accident whose consciousness produces its own demise; We will inevitably disappear—but at least a value to life can we maximally enjoy whatever time we have left.
Ligotti ‘12 Thomas Ligotti, contemporary American philosopher and horror author, THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE HUMAN RACE, p. 42—AD: 4/21/15
Consciousness is an existential liability
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Is there really anything behind our smiles and tears but an evolutionary slipup?