Tournament: CPS | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker DV | Judge: David Dosch
The erosion of the distinction between human and machine, between knowledge and data, has already occurred. This is the thesis of Cybernetics- our world has become an amalgamation of technology and humanity. We leave behind humanity in pursuit of technology
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Arthur, running out of jokes here. 2014. “Exits to the Posthuman Future.” pat
Digital cosmology? Its ontology is epigenesist, the belief that digital organisms proliferate by
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nothing now counts but the ersatz nothingness of data itself. Digital trauma.
Empirics Prove: A recent America-backed coup in Bolivia over lithium supplies is concrete evidence of Cybernetics’ grasp on our society
Conese 19 Ignacio Conese, December 9 2019, "Was Bolivia's coup over lithium?”, TRTWorld, https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/was-bolivia-s-coup-over-lithium-32033
Many believe the recent ousting of Bolivian President Evo Morales is a consequence of his
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have no proof, but I am just suspicious in light of history.”
Cybernetics ensures the production of catastrophe is maintained to enable new technological innovations. As technology ultimately fails to properly address existential crises, we enter a positive feedback loop of development in a futile effort to catch up with our problems
Duffield 19 Mark Duffield is a Professor of Development Politics and Director of the Global Insecurities Centre @ the University of Bristol, “Post-Humanitarianism: Governing Precarity in the Digital World,” 2019, Polity Pressthanks Townes
At the time of writing, there is a consensus among Western security specialists that
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registers and gives the reader an indication of the structure of the book.x
Cybernetics and war are intrinsically tied, having developed around each other. Nukes were developed a cybernetic influence and nuclear war is the inevitable result
Dyer-Witheford 19 Nick Dyer-Witheford and Svitlana Matviyenko, 2019, "Cyberwar and Revolution," University of Minnesota Press, https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/cyberwar-and-revolution ZS
That capital periodically renews itself with technological revolutions, machinic steroid injections that boost productivity
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socialist project that there would emerge the new interstate hostilities driving today’s cyberwar.
Space is the new frontier of war driven by the lust for technological expansion. We conquer and weaponize space, turning it into yet another battleground to flaunt our progress
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Arthur, Great Value-brand Jean Baudrillard. 2004. “The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism: Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Marx.” pat
With this, the age of Artificial War has begun. In its manifesto for
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Artificial war, then, as a prolegomenon to the codes of technology.
Thus, I affirm the resolution Resolved: The appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust. We employ the concept of The Inhuman to reject Cybernetics and reconfigure our relationship with technology- doing so is the only way to truly rid space of appropriation
You should understand the aff as an analysis of our orientation to technology that reconfigures thought from cybernetic to techno-diverse- by rejecting the appropriation of space, we reject the societal narrative of limitless and inexhaustible technological progression. The Inhuman is our metaphor for separating humanity from its mechanical counterpart.
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Yuk, teaches at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and is a visiting professor (PhD supervision qualification) in philosophy and technology at the China Academy of Art. 2019. “Recursivity and Contingency.” pat
We would now like to return to Lyotard’s critique of system and to offer a
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there will be no longer any thinking, and no longer anything contingent?
Our resistance is tangible- The aff generates interventions into the structure of imperialism. Targeted material resistance has the power to uproot Cybernetics and collapse the system
Tiqqun 01 French leftist philosophical journal, founded in 1999 with an aim to "recreate the conditions of another community." Probably not you. 2001. “The Cybernetic Hypothesis,” https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/tiqqun-the-cybernetic-hypothesis pat
These questions, seen from the neutralized and neutralizing perspective of the laboratory observer or
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, in urban or peri-urban non-places — is unpredictable.
The Role of the Ballot is to think through virtual reality- considering a world in which the status quo of Cybernetics no longer exists. Our relationship to technology governs our very existence and the site of debate as an exchange of information collapses all thought into the cybernetic system. You should use your position as the judge to endorse research that resists this.
Kroker and Weinstein ’94 Arthur, (post?)human meth pipe, and Michael Weinstein, Purdue University. 1994. “Data Trash.” pat
Virtual reality sells the illusion of displacement. It allows you to jump out of
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technology, becoming the world-historical process animating the will to virtuality.