Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 6 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake OF | Judge: Eli Smith
Large-scale threats of future suffering collapses ethics and creates a bodily paradigm of worthy versus unworthy- the only ethical response is to refuse that bribery and align yourself with a framing that finally gives credence to urgent bodies. The ROB is to vote for the team that best deconstructs the role of antiblackness in the context of the resolution.
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(Elizabeth, professor of geography and global studies at UNC Chapel Hill, ‘Geography and Ethics I: Waiting and Urgency,’ Progress in Human Geography, vol. 39 no. 4, pp. 517-526)
Though toileting might be thought of as a special case of bodily urgency, geographic research suggests that the body is increasingly set at odds with larger scale ethical concerns, …
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… processes (e.g. Lombard, 2013; Reyes, 2012). Though calls for urgency will certainly be used to obscure evasion of responsibility (e.g. Gilmore, 2008: 56, fn 6), they may also serve as fertile ground for radical critique, a truly fierce urgency for now.
The Aff’s world order constitutes a disavowal of the proximity and urgency of racial terror. You evaluate time frame and probability first, because the magnitude of racial terror is erased in their model of debate and policy prescription. The liberal world order is subtended by anti-blackness – the affirmative brackets out the racial terror of the form of change it endorses as an externality that can be solve for by civil politics. This implicates all their evidence and the arrangement of them into the 1AC as justifications for the plan.
Agathangelou and Killian, 16 – Anna, Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies @ York University and Kyle, core faculty in the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at Capella University. Time, Temporality, and Violence in International Relations: (De)fatalizing the Present, Forging Radical Alternatives. International relations as a vulnerable space: A conversation with Fanon and Hartman about temporality and violence. Routledge Press, p. 23-28 – iowa revised for abelist language
In the introduction to this book, we explored how dominant IR has conceptualized sovereignty and war (Hobbes 1996; also Ireland and Carvounas 2008) in …
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… enters the world accompanied by its fungible commodity, but this commodity is effaced by violences of value, thereby suggesting 'value is violence' and 'value is violence disguised or dis-figured' (Barrett 1999: 219; also Marx 1965).
COVID’s neoliberal framework, undergirded by IP law, feeds into Racial Capitalism that allows corporations to make huge profits on the suffering of Black and brown individuals. Until we interrogate the intersection of racism and capitalism, changing IP laws will do nothing to resolve the material conditions of subjugated groups. Vanni, 21
Dr. Amaka Vanni is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds, where she is affiliated with the Centre for Business Law and Practice (CBLP), and Centre for Law and Social Justice. Her work lies at the intersection of international economic law, development, and global governance. Her research and teaching are on intellectual property law, international trade law, philanthro-capitalism, critical legal theory and history. Dr Vanni received a B.A. (dual honours) in International Relations and Politics from Keele University, LLM in International Economic Law and PhD in the same field from the University of Warwick. She is the author of the award-winning book, Patent Games in the Global South: Pharmaceutical Patent Law-Making in Brazil, India and Nigeria (Hart/Bloomsbury, 2020). “On Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Medicines and Vaccine Imperialism,” 23 March 2021, https://twailr.com/on-intellectual-property-rights-access-to-medicines-and-vaccine-imperialism/ Cgilbert
While the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease continues to destroy human lives and economies, …
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… and it points to the entangled roots of race and capitalism.
Normative changes to the law will not do enough for Black disposability. Past experimentation on Black populations proves the law will fail them post reformation. Patz, 21
Nathan Patz Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. “DISPOSABLE LIVES: COVID-19, VACCINES, AND THE UPRISING,” Columbia Law Review Forum, 1 June 2021, Volume 121, pg. 71-94, https://www.columbialawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Sirleaf-Disposable_Lives-Covid-19_Vaccines_And_The_Uprising.pdf Cgilbert
This past is very much present, and unethical trials on Black and …
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… the hesitancy of some to participate in clinical trials and to sign up for the COVID-19 vaccines authorized for emergency use.
The alternative is to reject the affirmative and reorient ourselves towards the world through an unflinching paradigmatic analysis
Wilderson 10 Frank B. III, Ph.D., Associate Professor at UC Irvine, former ANC member, “on some guerilla shit”, Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, pages ix-x, OG *
STRANGE AS it might seem, this book project began in South Africa. During …
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… Bushy Kelebonye (deceased), Tefu Kelebonye, Ulrike Kistner, Kamogelo Lekubu, Andile Mngxitama, Prishani Naidoo, John Shai, and S'bu Zulu