Tournament: Woodward | Round: 1 | Opponent: Meadows BJ | Judge: Vitelio Silva
Private and military appropriation of outer space has led to copious amounts of space debris that is only viewed through hegemonic ways. What happens in space affects terrestrial bodies; Racial Capitalism provides the appropriate explanation for the dilemma posed by the topic. The constant drive to hold supremacy in space leads to space debris that negatively affects racialized bodies on Earth. We must forefront discussions of racialized inequalities before we can fully understand our relationship to outer space, the Arctic, and global power writ large. Hunter and Nelson, 21
HANNAH HUNTER is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography and Planning at Queen’s University in Canada. Her research explores human–nature relationships, creative geographies, and historical geographies of nature. Email: hannah.hunter@queensu.ca. ELIZABETH NELSON is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography and Planning at Queen’s University in Canada. Her research is focused on national identity, settler igno- rance, and public memory in Canadian cities. She is particularly interested in the study of impermanent and peripheral places. Email: elizabeth.nelson@queensu.ca. “Out of Place in Outer Space?” Environment and Society: Advances in Research 12 (2021): 227–245. https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/environment-and-society/12/1/ares120113.xml Cgilbert
Orbital debris are also risks in military imaginations of outer space. Orbital …
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… departure from hegemonic considerations of orbital debris and their impacts.
Debate is no different. We think that what’s happens “out there,” external to debate doesn’t affect us here but it does. The arguments we make and defend have material consequences. A Heg disad or a China Rise disad may seem like harmless arguments yet that endorse covert forms of fascism that create material impacts for racialized bodies. We must look at how Racial Capitalism has infiltrated not just norms but also rhetoric throughout the activity.
Debate has become too insular and full of itself; only concerned with white sensibilities while protecting power and privilege. Judges, and debaters alike, must change their relationship to arguments and each other; focusing on normative interps crowds out discussions about privilege and power. Students should be allowed to kritik debate because the things we discuss inherently AFFECT debate; disregard “dropped arguments” if we win our top-level framing. Smith, 14
Elijah J Smith is the Director of the Rutgers University-Newark Debate Team. Elijah held debate coaching and programming positions throughout the world, including at Wake Forest University and the University of California, Berkley, and in programs in Shanghai, China. Smith has been one of debate's shining stars as he progressed from high school and collegiate debate competition to coaching. A Newark native, Smith began debating as a student at University High School. In spring 2013, Smith helped make history in the collegiate debate world when he and his debate partner, Ryan Wash, won that year’s national Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) championship title and garnered the championship title for the National Debate Tournament (NDT), a stunning achievement unparalleled by any team in the history of the two tournaments. Moreover, Smith and Wash were the first African-American team to win the NDT and the second African-American team to win the CEDA tournament. “DEVELOPING OUR ENVIRONMENT: PLANTING THE SEEDS FOR THE ACTIVIST MODEL,” 30 January 2014, http://victory-briefs.squarespace.com/vbd/2014/1/developing-our-environment-planting-the-seeds-for-the-activist-model Cgilbert
Despite popular opinion, I think you should be rooted in the topic no matter what your politics, …
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…better prepared to advocate on behalf of those who cannot advocate for themselves.
Prioritize the racializing violence of racial capitalism over the spectacle of extinction - the universal humanity presumed by util calculus mystifies the bifurcation of life worlds and the devaluation that is the condition of possibility for extinction in the first place. Farman, 20
(Abou, July 1, An anthropologist, writer and artist, Abou Farman is author of the books Clerks of the Passage (2012, Montreal: Linda Leith Press) and On Not Dying: Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience (Minneapolis: Univ. Minn. Press, 2020). He is assistant professor of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research and founder of Art Space Sanctuary, as well as the Shipibo Conibo Center of NY. https://alinejournal.com/politics/terminality-the-ticking/)//DSRB
This is the logic of terminality: A threat is looming over all of humanity, and if humanity …
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… the end rather than imagined the end as the future?
Thus, we affirm destituent power; destituent power is necessary to disrupt status quo formations of power, legal order, and how we understand space itself. Our affirmation is one of a "positive no"; that is creative in nature, opening up space for new social and environmental relations that fundamentally challenge the basis of subjectification. This is essential to disrupt "business as usual" and the capitalism cooption of democratic processes. Macro-economic and macro-political agents merely exist because individuals consent to their hegemony. Bougsty-Marshall 16
(Skye, Teacher at the Brooklyn Commons, Former Attorney for the India for the Human Rights Law Network, former law fellow for the Public International Law and Policy Group (PILPG), “Flooding Wall Street: Echoes from the Future of Resistance around Climate Change,” Journal of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, Volume 27, Issue 3) jmills
Thus, to weave the necessary federated and transversal links between multiple…
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…redeployed through the reflexivity of the network, which can give rise to emergent properties (Chesters and Welsh 2006, 101–102).
Fascism and Racial Capitalism are intertwined THUS THE ROLE OF THE BALLOT is to deplatform fascism. It’s not enough to address those that self-identify but hold rhetoric accountable. Normative debate suffers from the same limitations as political responses to modern day fascism; voting aff reanimates anti-fascist energies. Toscano, 20
Alberto Toscano is Reader in Critical Theory and Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought at Goldsmiths, University of London. He’s the author of Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea and of the forthcoming Late Fascism. “The Long Shadow of Racial Fascism,” 27 October 2020, https://bostonreview.net/articles/alberto-toscano-tk/ Cgilbert
What can be gleaned from Davis’s account is the way that fascism and democracy can be experienced very …
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… insufficient task of confronting only those who self-identify as fascists.