Tournament: Blake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Eagan DW | Judge: Snyder, Kaija
The resolution is undergirded by a dualistic understanding of systems and being - instrumentalism relies on the flawed conception of a unified subject and static identity, which reinforces inherently static dichotomies – traditionally "male" vs. traditionally "female" discussions, assertive men vs. submissive women– those that fail to conform become viewed as the witch-like monstrous other, to be either eradicated or forced to conform – instead of forcing us to adhere to strictures of conformity, allow us to frame discourse and identity through becoming – the body is a plane on which chaotic, everchanging forces act, and embracing this is key
Ella Brians. 2011. ~Ella Brians (B.A., Amherst College, French and Philosophy; M.A., New School for Social Research, Philosophy) works on poetry and poetics from Romanticism to Modernism in English, French and German~, The 'Virtual' Body and the Strange Persistence of the Flesh: Deleuze, Cyberspace and the Posthuman, Deleuze and the Body. https://edinburgh.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748638642.001.0001/upso-9780748638642-chapter-6. EC
This brings us, finally, to Deleuze. Ann Weinstone has grouped Deleuze's work
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and materiality, but that also sees these two tasks as intimately interconnected.
Massumi 99
Massumi, Brian. A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari. MIT Press, 1999 (LHZ 1/2/20)
The productive processes of becoming-other and becoming-the-same follow very
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. The select achieve death (maximum entropy). 107-108
Thus, I embrace the job of the witch in undermining and questioning the gender binary that permeates the gender spheres and debate, in order to combat its pervasive violence and achieve liberation. This means I reject the appropriation of outer space by private entities and curse private entities for trying to appropriate space similar to the way heteronormative spaces have tried to appropriate me.
How is your body yours when others name it for you?
You pick at the fleece of your jacket and swallow hard. You've read about this before, in the book that pulled you back into witchcraft: a story of the first time the author flew, burst in an explosion of feathers and light from her ribs, unfurled into the air and left her body under the trees. You want it. You want so badly to leave your bones.
This should be easy. You've never lived in your body, not really. The facsimile of ownership inherent in holding an identity that never matched your biology forced you out as soon as you learned it was possible.
So here you sit, under a bookcase, warm light from the table in the corner invading your sight. You close your eyes and try—
And try—
And try to step out.
Did I ever tell you: teeth carry the oxygen of where you grew up. Are yours full of the ions of some wild land, or the terror of your stuffy room where you drew air across your teeth just to prove you could?
You wonder why not both. Aren't they both wild and strange in their own way?
You peel away from your skin, pull free of the body that's been taken from you. Ephemeral bones stretch and crack.
Mutability - HAWKE (Hawke is a full-time student who aspires to be a full-time witch. Ze lives in CA with a couple of middle-aged cats and a steadily-growing bone collection. Those two things are not related, from Arcane Perfection, published 2017)
Issues devoid of gender are a clear indicator of hegemonic masculinity; this has created
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What are the methods by which we can transcend this silence on gender?
Using feminist pedagogy in an educational space helps eliminate ideologies of privilege. This is a prerequisite to larger moral policy discussions, because otherwise the only voices we hear are those of the privileged. This becomes a bigger issue when the resolution at hand isnt accessible queer bodies
Teachnology
What Is Feminist Pedagogy?, www.teach-nology.com/teachers/methods/feminist_pedagogy/ 1/2/20
While ideally used in a university setting, feminist pedagogy can be employed in elementary
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among friends or family or neighbors, but allows everyone the same opportunities.
Bianco 18
Bianco, Marcie."The Patriarchal Race to Colonize Mars Is Just Another Example of Male Entitlement." NBCNews.com, NBCUniversal News Group, 2 Aug. 2019, www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/patriarchal-race-colonize-mars-just-another-example-male-entitlement-ncna849681
These men, particularly Musk, are not only heavily invested in who can get
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result of men giving up on the planet they have all but destroyed.
Massumi 99 (2)
Massumi, Brian. A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari. MIT Press, 1999 LHZ 1/2/20
Deleuze and Guattari do not deny the reality of sexual difference. They simply argue
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correlated cascade of supramolecular self-inventions.
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