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| 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | 5 | Scarsdale KS | Brian Zhou |
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| 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | 1 | Bronx Science IP | Angela Zhong |
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| 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | 4 | Lexington AK | Ronak Ahuja |
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| 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | 7 | Prospect ST | Sreyaash Das |
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| 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | Triples | Eagan AE | Viren Abhyankar - Jenn Melin - Jharick Shields |
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| 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | Quarters | Lexington BF | Ronak Ahuja, Ishan Bhatt, Charles Karcher |
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| Any | 2 | Any | Any |
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| Any | 3 | Any | Any |
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| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 2 | Evergreen Valley Independent SS | Raunak Dua |
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| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 3 | Marlborough SG | Jacob Palmer |
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| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 6 | Holy Cross ND | Saianurag Karavadi |
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| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Triples | Southlake Carroll EPi | Phoenix Pittman - Jenn Melin - Jalyn Wu |
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| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | 1 | Trinity Prep NC | Keshav Dandu |
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| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | 4 | American Heritage Broward NR | Arjan Kang |
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| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | 6 | Lake Highland Prep ArVe | Rohith Sudhakar |
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| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Doubles | Lexington AG | Keshav Dandu - Tajaih Robinson - Breigh Plat |
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| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 2 | Lexington AA | Phoenix Pittman |
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| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 3 | Edina NK | Nelson Okunlola |
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| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 6 | Loveless Academic Magnet Program RR | River Cook |
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| Grapevine Classic | 1 | Plano East NG | Irene Hwang |
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| Grapevine Classic | 4 | Southlake Carroll CC | Grant Brown |
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| Grapevine Classic | Triples | West HS SLC HZ | Samantha McLoughlin |
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| Grapevine Classic | Octas | Plano East AW | Favian Sun, Blake Andrews, Dylan Jones |
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| Loyola Invitational | 2 | Plano East JN | Ishan Rereddy |
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| Loyola Invitational | 4 | Lynbrook MD | Truman Le |
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| Loyola Invitational | 5 | Harvard-Westlake OF | Brett Cryan |
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| Mid America Cup | 2 | Millard North Arjun Rishi | Cyrus Jackson |
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| Mid America Cup | 4 | San Mateo Yesh Rao | Maya Xia |
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| Mid America Cup | 6 | Aragon Zayne Abraham | Tajaih Robinson |
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| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 2 | Lexington FV | Austin Broussard |
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| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 3 | Byram Hills EW | Brendon Morris |
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| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 6 | West Des Moines Valley AM | Muhammad Khattak |
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| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Doubles | Summit JC | Heaven Montague - Andrew Lee - Chetan Hertzig |
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| Palm Classic | 2 | Harker SS | Gordon Krauss |
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| Palm Classic | 4 | Aragon ZA | Faizaan Dossani |
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| Palm Classic | 6 | Mountain House ES | Nathan Frenkel |
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| TFA State | 2 | Bridge Zarik Tao | Phoenix Pittman |
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| TFA State | 3 | McNeil Anshul Gulati | Joshua George |
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| TFA State | 6 | Greenh Nikitha Thoduguli | Devin Hernandez |
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| TFA State | Doubles | Memori Ben Duong | Devin Hernandez, Visha Sivamani, Dylan Jones |
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| The 47th Churchill Classic TOC and NIETOC Qualifier | 2 | SanDay William Walker | Davina Le |
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| The 47th Churchill Classic TOC and NIETOC Qualifier | 3 | ClaTay Michael Reichle | Phoenix Pittman |
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| The 47th Churchill Classic TOC and NIETOC Qualifier | 6 | Saint Marys Hall Rohith Siddabattula | Nelson Okunlola |
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| The Longhorn Classic | 2 | Northland Christian Linh Dam | Truman Le |
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| The Longhorn Classic | 4 | Northland Christian Jake McCathran | Devin Hernandez |
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| The Longhorn Classic | 6 | Round Rock Sohali Vaddula | Austin Broussard |
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| The Longhorn Classic | Triples | St Agnes Ella Huang | Elmer Yang - Breigh Plat - Ishan Rereddy |
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| Tournament of Champions | 1 | Edgemont Junior-Senior AA | Rose Larson |
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| University of Houston Cougar Classic | 2 | Carnegie Vanguard SR | Alexander Yoakum |
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| University of Houston Cougar Classic | 4 | Dulles AD | Holden Bukowsky |
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| University of Houston Cougar Classic | Doubles | Little Rock Central XJ | Vishal Sivamani, Reed Weiler, Demarcus Powell |
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| Yale University Invitational 2021 | 1 | Harrison TB | Eric Tang |
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| Yale University Invitational 2021 | 3 | Lexington AR | Ben Waldman |
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| Yale University Invitational 2021 | 6 | Sam Barlow EL | Animesh Joshi |
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| Tournament | Round | Report |
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| 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | 5 | Opponent: Scarsdale KS | Judge: Brian Zhou 1AC - Deleuze |
| 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | 1 | Opponent: Bronx Science IP | Judge: Angela Zhong 1AC - Stock (Colonialism and Ozone Layer) |
| 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | 4 | Opponent: Lexington AK | Judge: Ronak Ahuja 1AC - Debris |
| 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | 7 | Opponent: Prospect ST | Judge: Sreyaash Das 1AC - Kant |
| 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | Triples | Opponent: Eagan AE | Judge: Viren Abhyankar - Jenn Melin - Jharick Shields 1AC - Mega-Constellations |
| 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | Quarters | Opponent: Lexington BF | Judge: Ronak Ahuja, Ishan Bhatt, Charles Karcher 1AC - Space Exploration |
| Any | 1 | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any Hi I'm Michael (hehim) You should probably contact me through Facebook Messenger (Michael Stuckert) but text sometimes works (281-438-7085) but my phone is a little glitchy so probably email instead |
| Any | 2 | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any 0 - Contact InfoNavigation |
| Any | 3 | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any I'll try to give content warnings for topics that I think are sensitive but please let me know if there is anything on my wiki that would trigger you or make you uncomfortable and I'll modify stuff |
| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 2 | Opponent: Evergreen Valley Independent SS | Judge: Raunak Dua 1AC - Impossible demands afro-pess |
| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 3 | Opponent: Marlborough SG | Judge: Jacob Palmer 1AC - Income inequality |
| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 6 | Opponent: Holy Cross ND | Judge: Saianurag Karavadi 1AC - black fem necropolitics |
| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Triples | Opponent: Southlake Carroll EPi | Judge: Phoenix Pittman - Jenn Melin - Jalyn Wu 1AC - Teachers |
| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | 1 | Opponent: Trinity Prep NC | Judge: Keshav Dandu 1AC - Minimizing Strucual Violence whole rez |
| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | 4 | Opponent: American Heritage Broward NR | Judge: Arjan Kang 1AC - Contracts |
| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | 6 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep ArVe | Judge: Rohith Sudhakar 1AC - Petit |
| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Doubles | Opponent: Lexington AG | Judge: Keshav Dandu - Tajaih Robinson - Breigh Plat 1AC - Heg |
| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 2 | Opponent: Lexington AA | Judge: Phoenix Pittman 1AC - Democracy |
| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 3 | Opponent: Edina NK | Judge: Nelson Okunlola 1AC - Cap |
| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 6 | Opponent: Loveless Academic Magnet Program RR | Judge: River Cook 1AC - Fem aff |
| Grapevine Classic | 1 | Opponent: Plano East NG | Judge: Irene Hwang 1AC - Lay Evergreening |
| Grapevine Classic | 4 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll CC | Judge: Grant Brown 1AC - Stock (COVID only Pandemics Vaccine Diplomacy) |
| Grapevine Classic | Triples | Opponent: West HS SLC HZ | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin 1AC - Wynter AC |
| Grapevine Classic | Octas | Opponent: Plano East AW | Judge: Favian Sun, Blake Andrews, Dylan Jones 1AC - Evergreening |
| Loyola Invitational | 2 | Opponent: Plano East JN | Judge: Ishan Rereddy 1AC - Evergreening AC |
| Loyola Invitational | 4 | Opponent: Lynbrook MD | Judge: Truman Le 1AC - Stock (COVID and WTO Legitimacy) |
| Loyola Invitational | 5 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake OF | Judge: Brett Cryan 1AC - Stock |
| Mid America Cup | 2 | Opponent: Millard North Arjun Rishi | Judge: Cyrus Jackson 1AC - Opioids AC |
| Mid America Cup | 4 | Opponent: San Mateo Yesh Rao | Judge: Maya Xia 1AC - Evergreening |
| Mid America Cup | 6 | Opponent: Aragon Zayne Abraham | Judge: Tajaih Robinson 1AC - Evergreening |
| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 2 | Opponent: Lexington FV | Judge: Austin Broussard 1AC - COVID Medicines Stock |
| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 3 | Opponent: Byram Hills EW | Judge: Brendon Morris 1AC - SV Whole Rez AC |
| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 6 | Opponent: West Des Moines Valley AM | Judge: Muhammad Khattak 1AC - Biopiracy |
| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Doubles | Opponent: Summit JC | Judge: Heaven Montague - Andrew Lee - Chetan Hertzig 1AC - Evergreening |
| Palm Classic | 2 | Opponent: Harker SS | Judge: Gordon Krauss 1AC - Mining |
| Palm Classic | 4 | Opponent: Aragon ZA | Judge: Faizaan Dossani 1AC - Lunar Heritage |
| Palm Classic | 6 | Opponent: Mountain House ES | Judge: Nathan Frenkel 1AC - Mars |
| TFA State | 2 | Opponent: Bridge Zarik Tao | Judge: Phoenix Pittman 1AC - Kant |
| TFA State | 3 | Opponent: McNeil Anshul Gulati | Judge: Joshua George 1AC - Fairness Doctrine |
| TFA State | 6 | Opponent: Greenh Nikitha Thoduguli | Judge: Devin Hernandez 1AC - Climate |
| TFA State | Doubles | Opponent: Memori Ben Duong | Judge: Devin Hernandez, Visha Sivamani, Dylan Jones 1AC - Racial Cap |
| The 47th Churchill Classic TOC and NIETOC Qualifier | 2 | Opponent: SanDay William Walker | Judge: Davina Le 1AC - Beller World Computer thing |
| The 47th Churchill Classic TOC and NIETOC Qualifier | 3 | Opponent: ClaTay Michael Reichle | Judge: Phoenix Pittman 1AC - Mollow |
| The 47th Churchill Classic TOC and NIETOC Qualifier | 6 | Opponent: Saint Marys Hall Rohith Siddabattula | Judge: Nelson Okunlola 1AC - Cap |
| The Longhorn Classic | 2 | Opponent: Northland Christian Linh Dam | Judge: Truman Le 1AC - Courts |
| The Longhorn Classic | 4 | Opponent: Northland Christian Jake McCathran | Judge: Devin Hernandez 1AC - Courts |
| The Longhorn Classic | 6 | Opponent: Round Rock Sohali Vaddula | Judge: Austin Broussard 1AC - Agriculture |
| The Longhorn Classic | Triples | Opponent: St Agnes Ella Huang | Judge: Elmer Yang - Breigh Plat - Ishan Rereddy 1AC - Empire |
| Tournament of Champions | 1 | Opponent: Edgemont Junior-Senior AA | Judge: Rose Larson 1AC - Setcol |
| University of Houston Cougar Classic | 2 | Opponent: Carnegie Vanguard SR | Judge: Alexander Yoakum 1AC - Pragmatism tricks |
| University of Houston Cougar Classic | 4 | Opponent: Dulles AD | Judge: Holden Bukowsky 1AC - Cap |
| University of Houston Cougar Classic | Doubles | Opponent: Little Rock Central XJ | Judge: Vishal Sivamani, Reed Weiler, Demarcus Powell 1AC - Afropess |
| Yale University Invitational 2021 | 1 | Opponent: Harrison TB | Judge: Eric Tang 1AC - Racial Cap |
| Yale University Invitational 2021 | 3 | Opponent: Lexington AR | Judge: Ben Waldman 1AC - Pettit |
| Yale University Invitational 2021 | 6 | Opponent: Sam Barlow EL | Judge: Animesh Joshi 1AC - Trans genealogy |
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0 - Contact InfoTournament: Any | Round: 1 | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any | 9/4/21 |
0 - Content WarningTournament: Any | Round: 3 | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any | 9/4/21 |
0 - NavigationTournament: Any | Round: 2 | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any | 9/4/21 |
1 - Disclosure - Open SourceTournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: 6 | Opponent: Holy Cross ND | Judge: Saianurag Karavadi Interpretation: Debaters must disclose all constructive positions on open source with highlighting on the 2020-21 NDCA LD wiki after the round in which they read them.Violation – screenshots in the doc prove they don't1~ Debate resource inequities—you'll say people will steal cards, but that's good—it's the only way to truly level the playing field for students such as novices in under-privileged programs – it equals the playing field.Overing 18 – Bob Overing, LD Scholar ("Holiday Disclosure Post ~#6 – 10 Things Edition" JANUARY 12, 2018. http://www.premierdebate.com/disclosure-post-6/) 2~ Evidence ethics – open source is the only way to verify pre-round that cards aren't miscut or highlighted or bracketed unethically. That's a voter – maintaining ethical ev practices is key to being good academics and we should be able to verify you didn't cheat3~ Depth of clash – it allows debaters to have nuanced researched objections to their opponents evidence before the round at a much faster rate, which leads to higher quality ev comparison – outweighs cause thinking on your feet is NUQ but the best quality responses come from full access to a case. | 11/6/21 |
1 - ESpecTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 4 | Opponent: San Mateo Yesh Rao | Judge: Maya Xia Interpretation: affirmative debaters must delineate their enforcement mechanism by which they reduce in the 1AC.There is no normal means since terms are negotiated contextually among member states.WTO "Whose WTO is it anyway?" https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/tif_e/org1_e.htm Elmer Negate:1~ Shiftiness- they can redefine what measure of reduction the 1ac defends in the 1ar which decks strategy and allows them to wriggle out of negative positions which strips the neg of specific politics DAs, process CPs, innovation DAs and case answers. They will always win on specificity weighing.CX can't resolve this and is bad because A~ Not flowed B~ Skews 6 min of prep C~ They can lie and no way to check D~ Debaters can be shady.2~ Real World- policy makers will always specify what the object of change is. That outweighs since debate has no value without portable application. It also means zero solvency since the WTO, absent spec, can circumvent aff's policy since they can say they didn't know how to enforce it.This spec shell isn't regressive- it literally determines how the affirmative implements and who it affects | 9/26/21 |
1 - Evidence EthicsTournament: 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: Bronx Science IP | Judge: Angela Zhong Independent voter for evidence ethics and bracketing cards without clarification – drop them for academics ethics - they can misrepresent their intent because paragraphs are how authors delineate arguments. Also allows debaters to manipulate evidence and strategically leave out what contradicts with their arguments – putting rest of the uncut paragraph and clarifying the bracketing in the doc solves all your offense – drop them in order to set better norms1st is Moen 16 – check the doc they got rid of the words "a man" without crossing it out they just deleted it and cut the card in the middle of a paragraphHere's a URL to Moen's pdf for clarification: http://www.olemartinmoen.com/wp-content/uploads/AnArgumentForHedonism.pdf 2nd is World Atlas 19 – Check the doc their card starts and ends in the middle of a paragraph3rd is Thompson 20 – Check the doc the word "and" is bracketed in with no indication of that in the doc | 2/20/22 |
1 - Extra-T BadTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 6 | Opponent: Sam Barlow EL | Judge: Animesh Joshi Interpretation: The affirmative debater may only defend that the member states of the WTO ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines. To clarify- the aff cannot garner offense from anything beyond the resolutionViolation: That's what their plan is modeled after. ~They garner offense from method and not just the fiatted advocacy and 2. because their method requires more than just implementing the policy but requires a specific orientation/research/etc~ Standards:1~ Limits- they can add any random non topical action to the plan which explodes neg prep burdens- limits key to reciprocal engagement since they create a caselist for neg prep- supercharged by the lack of a stasis point2~ Ground- their model allows them to artificially inflate their ground by fiating actions that solve potential solvency deficits- takes away core generics like infrastructure, scale up, quality, circumvention and more- ground controls the IL to engagementFairness – debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation. Outweighs because it's the only intrinsic part of debate – all other rules can be debated over but rely on some conception of fairness to be justified.Drop the debater – a~ deter future abuse and b~ set better norms for debate.Competing interps – ~a~ reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention since there's no clear norm, ~b~ it creates a race to the top where we create the best possible norms for debate.No RVIs – a~ illogical, you don't win for proving that you meet the burden of being fair, logic outweighs since it's a prerequisite for evaluating any other argument, b~ RVIs incentivize baiting theory and prepping it out which leads to maximally abusive practicesFairness first:1~ It's a constitutive process of debate since debate is a game with a winner and loser, speech times, and flipping 30 min before the round – Constitutive Rules means any DA to our interpretation are inevitable and terminally non-unique2~ Self Defeating- All the 1ar's arguments assume that the judge will evaluate them fairly which concedes it's authority – actively hack against them3~ Ballot proximity – the ballot can't solve their offense or actualize their method since arguments we read have no effect on our subjectivity, but voting negative can set good norms.4~ Deliberation – Every discussion of an liberation strategy assumes an level playing field with the ability to contribute to the discussion5~ Misses the boat – Their impact turns shows a misapplication of fairness not a reason why the very structure of it is bad.6~ Fair Testing – since I can't answer the aff you should assume their arguments are presumptively false – we can only come to conclusions about the world via rigorous testing of them | 9/20/21 |
1 - New Affs BadTournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Plano East JN | Judge: Ishan Rereddy Interpretation: Debaters must disclose the plan text and standard text to their new AC on the NDCA wikiViolation: I asked and you chose not to disclosure – check the doc~1~ Limits — Unbroken standard are unpredictable because they can plan any part of the resolution making it impossible to know which part he's going to specify, which means the neg has to prep every single one of thousands of different standards to have a shot at engaging whereas the aff only has to prep one, creating a massive prep skew. Turns aff flex, even if affirming is harder, which I will contest, you shouldn't be able to eliminate 99 percent of neg prep. My interpretation is key to me being able to have any shot at engaging.~2~ Argument quality: standard text text disclosure discourages cheap shot aff's with frings authors and shoddy solvency. If the aff isn't inherent or easily defeated by 20 minutes of research, the case should lose. They had a month to prep – the neg is entitled to some research time to make sure the AFF is inherent, topical, and controversial. Otherwise bad AFF's can win on purely surprise factor, which is a bad model b/c it encourages finding the most fringe surprising case possible instead of a well researched and defensible aff. Also impacts to evidence ethics, without any disclosure you could have an aff where you make up everything about the authors evidence ethics comes before any impact of the ac It calls into question everything else. If they would lie about their evidence then anything else they may have said could be a lie as well and should be disregarded.Fairness is a voter—debate is a competitive activity that requires objective evaluation and ow other voters on irriversibilty we cant get education from cutting cards but we will never get a level playingfield without theory. Drop the debater—the abuse has already occurred and my time allocation has shifted—also the shell indicts your whole aff—justifies severance which skews my strat. Use competing interps—leads to a race to the top since we figure out the best possible norm and avoids judge intervention since there's a clear briteline. No RVIs—a. Baiting—they'll just bait theory and prep it out—justifies infinite abuse and results in a chilling effectb. its not logical—you don't reward them for meeting the burden of being fair. Logic is a meta constraint on all args because it definitionally determines whether an argument is valid. | 9/4/21 |
1 - No 1ar theoryTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lexington FV | Judge: Austin Broussard Reject 1ar theory on face –~1~ 1ar theory time skews the rest of the round since they have the 1ar and 2ar, which is 7 minutes compared to my 2nr, which is 6 minutes. This gives them a whole minute advantage on the theory debate, that's a lot in such a time crunched event and outweighs their strat args since I need time to execute strat and get ground.~2~ I lose the flex of being able to indict practices of the aff without going new in the 2nr, which gives them the ability to effectively weigh on the theory debate. Also outweighs on spikes because you have the ability to weigh an entirely conceded theory spike while I have to weigh my theory interp against all possible interps of the aff.~3~ they get to speak before and after me which means they get to frame the debate and end the debate, which is abusive in the 2n I have to go for a counterinterp and respond to their shell while they can choose either in the 2ar.Evaluate the theory debate after the 2nr infinite 2ar recontextualization and weighing makes it impossible for negs to win theory debates which means that our model is the most fairReject new 1ar a prioris and new 1ar K's on time skew because restarting the round in the 1ar creates a 7-6 burden against the negative means I'll always lose which o/w on quantality, verifiability, and magnitude. | 10/16/21 |
1 - ROB SpecTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 6 | Opponent: Sam Barlow EL | Judge: Animesh Joshi Interpretation: If the aff reads evidence specifying what the role of the judge or ballot ought to be, they must have a text in the 1AC which clarifies:—-what constitutes offense—-how to weigh offense under their paradigm—-what constitutes a legitimate advocacyViolation: They don't.Standards:~1~ Stable Advocacy – they can shift framework in their second speech to delink offense or exclude turns by re-specifying what links and what doesn't under their framework, making it impossible for me to win offense under their framework2 Impacts:time skew – letting them shift out of my offense gives them 13 mins of offense but I have to restart in the 2nr, outweighs because it's key to fairnessclash – letting them exclude any legitimate argument I make denies a rigorous testing of ideas~2~ Resolvability – it's impossible to choose the better debater under their role of the ballot if they don't specify what it means to debate under that role of the ballot. Key to fairness – absent an objective adjudication of the round, the decision is arbitrary.~3~ Engagement – If I don't know how the role of the ballot functions, its impossible for me to engage the aff, since knowing what counts as offense is a prerequisite to being able to make meaningful arguments that clash with yours. Knowing what a legitimate advocacy is ensures that I read something that is relevant to your method, and knowing how to weigh gives us an explicit standard for what is relevant, preventing superficial clash where we each make vacuous preclusion claims.You can't use your ROB to exclude my shell. My shell allows you to read your role of the ballot, it just functionally constrains how you can do that. Additionally, as long as I win comparative offense to my interp it precludes on a methodological level -my method is your ROTB with specification, your is just the ROTB, so if the former is better it's a reason to vote for me even if method debates in general preclude theory. Also, if they go for K first that proves the abuse of my shell since they should have specified in the AC. ~a~ topic ed: asking a million questions about the advocacy means that we don't get to discuss the central issues of the case or the warrants, that's what makes the case true~b~ They can shift out in CX as I ask disad questions, which is the abuse of my shell. | 9/20/21 |
1 - Round ReportsTournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: Triples | Opponent: Southlake Carroll EPi | Judge: Phoenix Pittman - Jenn Melin - Jalyn Wu Interp: Debaters must disclose round reports on the 2020-21 NDCA LD wiki for every round they have debated this season. Round reports disclose which positions (AC, NC, K, T, Theory, etc.) were read/gone for in every speech.Violation: screenshot in the doc – they have one – no round reports or any disclosure for apple valley
Standards:1~ Level Playing Field – big schools can go around and scout and collect flows but independents are left in the dark so round reports are key to prep- they give you an idea of overall what layers debaters like going for so you can best prepare your strategy when you hit them. Accessibility first and independent voter – it's an impact multiplier2~ Strategy Education – round reports help novices understand the context in which positions are read by good debaters and help with brainstorming potential 1NCs vs affs – helps compensate for kids who can't afford coaches to prep out affs. | 11/20/21 |
1 - T-ImplementationTournament: Grapevine Classic | Round: Triples | Opponent: West HS SLC HZ | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin Interpretation: The affirmative must defend that the hypothetical enactment of a policy by which member nations of the WTO reduce IP for medicines.Resolved denotes a proposal to be enacted by lawWords and Phrases 1964 Permanent Edition Violation: They defend the resolution as a general principleVote Neg:1. Procedural Fairness- Not all topics offer equitable ground. Absent a topical requirement, the aff will be biased by competitive incentives to find the most uncontroversial advocacy possible with a germane relation to the topic. That limits me to offensive arguments against the AC like oppression good. The only way to make sure that debates are fair is to have one chosen by a 3rd party topic committee. In-round competitive equity is a voting issue and outweighs the K. Resolvability- the judge has to indicate who won the round, fairness best coheres with this since if one debater had ten minutes to speak and the other had three there would be incongruence that alters ability to judge the truth value of who wins on the AC so cross-applications don't work.2. Limits- Affs outside the topic justify a literal infinite number of affs because you only need to be germanely topical.Controls the internal link to the aff- I can't engage in the 1AC's critical issues in round AND you cause research overload so I cannot be politically active for your cause outside of round because I am too busy researching.3. Ground I can't read DA's or PICs which are k2 neg ground when you defend implementation4. TVA- Defend implementation – solves all your offense5. Jurisdiction on Tabroom or joy of tournaments its says debaters have to defend the topic, the judge has to affirm or negate the resolution, if I win they are non topical you vote neg because you cant vote aff since it was literally not an. Jurisdiction is an independent voter because it constrains judge obligation6. This is offense under the AC because it abstracts from questions of how we should go about fighting the color line | 9/12/21 |
2 - Adorno KTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lexington AR | Judge: Ben Waldman Identity thinking generalizes objects under categories assuming it's capturing the object in full it ignores the inherent commitment of the non-identical. Modern thinking fails.Freyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Framing issues in terms of risks of political violence is identity thinking –Harrington 15 Cameron Harrington (Assistant Professor - School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University), "Toward a Critical Water Security: Hydrosolidarity and Emancipation," Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 21.1: 28-44. 2015 https://dro.dur.ac.uk/23643/1/23643.pdf SJMS The regime of legal "neutrality" is an extension of bourgeois identity thinking.Van Marle 04 Karin van Marle (Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria.), ""Meeting The World Halfway" - The Limits Of Legal Transformation," Special issue on Law, Culture, and Society: LatCrit Theory and Transdisciplinary Approaches Critical Approaches to Legal Reform: Toward Social Justice? in 16 Fla. J. Int'l L. 651 Florida Journal of International Law September, 2004. https://latcrit.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/9icc4marle.pdf SJMS 2 Impacts:~1~ Identity thinking reproduces AuschwitzFreyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Bracketed for gendered language. ~2~ Enlightenment is not merely a period in 18th century Europe – because of fear of the unknown, through identity thinking, enlightenment is a process of radicalizing mythical fear in the name of demythologiziation. This all-consuming fear of the unknown maintains global systems of exploitation and oppression.Zuidervaart 15 Zuidervaart, Lambert (Lambert Zuidervaart is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. He is the author of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (MIT Press), Artistic Truth, Social Philosophy after Adorno, Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation, and other books.), "Theodor W. Adorno", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2015/entries/adorno/. SJMS Ellipses in original. The Alternative is to use negative dialects to confront the non-identical - this resolves the crisis posed by your violence – it understands the subordinate needs of an object come before our concepts.Freyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS The Role of the Ballot is to vote for the debater who best embraces Adorno's education after Auschwitz – this means using the debate space as an educational space to instill distance of violence and atrocitiesFreyenhagen 13 (Quoting Adorno) Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Quotes from Adorno marked by bracketed inserts. | 9/18/21 |
2 - Adorno K v10Tournament: University of Houston Cougar Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Carnegie Vanguard SR | Judge: Alexander Yoakum Trigger warning: This K will discuss non-explicit mentions of anti-semitic violence1Identity thinking generalizes objects under categories assuming it's capturing the object in full thereby ignoring the inherent commitment of the non-identical. Therefore, all non-negative dialectical modern thinking fails.Freyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS The regime of legal "neutrality" is an extension of bourgeois identity thinking.Van Marle 04 Karin van Marle (Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria.), ""Meeting The World Halfway" - The Limits Of Legal Transformation," Special issue on Law, Culture, and Society: LatCrit Theory and Transdisciplinary Approaches Critical Approaches to Legal Reform: Toward Social Justice? in 16 Fla. J. Int'l L. 651 Florida Journal of International Law September, 2004. https://latcrit.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/9icc4marle.pdf SJMS The AC is pragmatism — it explicitly rejects epistemological foundation, but this mentality when presented in academic spaces only serves as a type of identity thinking that evaluates concepts in terms of their pragmatic effects. This recreates ideology and limits the terms of discussion.Moten and Harney 4 Fred Moten, Stefano Harney (Fred Moten is an American cultural theorist, poet, and scholar whose work explores critical theory, black studies, and performance studies. Stefano Harney is Professor of Strategic Management Education at Singapore Management University.), "The University and the Undercommons: Seven Theses," Social Text, 79 (Volume 22, Number 2), Summer 2004, pp. 101-115. http://cq5publish.ou.edu/content/dam/Education/documents/the20university20and20the20undercommons.pdf SJMS Stipulating what a just world would look like is an act of positive utopianismGeuss 5 (Raymond Geuss, Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, is a political philosopher and scholar of 19th and 20th century European philosophy.) "Art and Criticism in Adorno's Aesthetics," Chapter 10 in Outside Ethics, Princeton University Press. Princeton, New Jersey. 2005. Print. https://books.google.com/books?id=u-a3TUddXYsCandpg=PA172andlpg=PA172anddq=22A+further+reason+that+specifically+modern+art22andsource=blandots=32CgovDHbfandsig=ACfU3U2JpVMfTJqY-6_SDz6rWy5vD_M4GAandhl=enandsa=Xandved=2ahUKEwiMzemn7O_zAhWomWoFHRJYCjkQ6AF6BAgDEAM~~#v=onepageandq=22A20further20reason20that20specifically20modern20art22andf=false SJMS Pragmatists attempt to evade the subject-object distinction, but that means they cannot attend to the truths and falsity of this distinction.Morris 01 Morris, Martin (From his online bio: "I was born and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand. I received my PhD in Political Science from York University in Toronto in 1996. I was Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) post-doctoral fellow at The Literature Program, Duke University, North Carolina, 1996-98, studying with (and sponsored by) Professor Fredric Jameson, and working with others there such as Professor Romand Coles and Professor Michael Hardt. In 2002, I was appointed Assistant Professor in the Communication Studies department at the University of Windsor, Ontario. I joined the Communication Studies department here at Laurier in 2005 as Associate Professor."). "Recovering The Ethical And Political Force of Adorno's Aesthetic-Critical Theory," Chapter 5 in Rethinking the communicative turn: Adorno, Habermas, and the problem of communicative freedom. SUNY Press, 2001. Pgs. 143-191. Print. (Ask for the PDF) SJMS 2 Impacts:~1~ Identity thinking reproduces AuschwitzFreyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Bracketed for gendered language. ~2~ Enlightenment is not merely a period in 18th century Europe – because of fear of the unknown, through identity thinking, enlightenment is a process of radicalizing mythical fear in the name of demythologiziation. This all-consuming fear of the unknown maintains global systems of exploitation and oppression.Zuidervaart 15 Zuidervaart, Lambert (Lambert Zuidervaart is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. He is the author of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (MIT Press), Artistic Truth, Social Philosophy after Adorno, Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation, and other books.), "Theodor W. Adorno", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2015/entries/adorno/. SJMS Ellipses in original. The Alternative is to use negative dialects to confront the non-identical - this resolves the crisis posed by your violence – it understands the subordinate needs of an object come before our concepts.Freyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS The aff doesn't fiat they can't perm: It doesn't make any sense to say to "do the aff and x" if you don't defend doing the aff in the first place. This also means an a priori can't count as a justification for a perm because it doesn't amount to a net benefit to doing something.The Role of the Ballot is to vote for the debater who best embraces Adorno's education after Auschwitz – this means using the debate space as an educational space to instill distance of violence and atrocitiesFreyenhagen 13 (Quoting Adorno) Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Quotes from Adorno marked by bracketed inserts. The K negates under truth testing because if the world is totally administered than any action taken to stop the appropriation of outer space by private entities – state policy or otherwise – is immoral.Moral Pluralism is a link – it assumes truth of itself, ignores dialectics, ignores the evil of Auschwitz, and was produced by social conditions to serve societyMorris 1 Morris 01 Morris, Martin (From his online bio: "I was born and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand. I received my PhD in Political Science from York University in Toronto in 1996. I was Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) post-doctoral fellow at The Literature Program, Duke University, North Carolina, 1996-98, studying with (and sponsored by) Professor Fredric Jameson, and working with others there such as Professor Romand Coles and Professor Michael Hardt. In 2002, I was appointed Assistant Professor in the Communication Studies department at the University of Windsor, Ontario. I joined the Communication Studies department here at Laurier in 2005 as Associate Professor."). "Recovering The Ethical And Political Force of Adorno's Aesthetic-Critical Theory," Chapter 5 in Rethinking the communicative turn: Adorno, Habermas, and the problem of communicative freedom. SUNY Press, 2001. Pgs. 143-191. Print. (Ask for the PDF) SJMS Your epistemology fails because it is dominated by the totality of society and capitalism – only mine can explain the worldFreyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS | 1/15/22 |
2 - Adorno K v11Tournament: University of Houston Cougar Classic | Round: 4 | Opponent: Dulles AD | Judge: Holden Bukowsky Trigger Warning this K will have non-explicit mentions to anti-Semitic violence1Identity thinking generalizes objects under categories assuming it's capturing the object in full thereby ignoring the inherent commitment of the non-identical. Therefore, all non-negative dialectical modern thinking fails.Freyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS The aff fetishizes the suffering of the working class – it says they're suffering so, in a linear historical view, they can revolt. This just idealizes the working class and is an example of identity thinking.Zadnikar 09 Darij Zadnikar (Assistant Professor for Philosophy of Education at University of Ljubljana). "Adorno and Post-Vanguardism," Chapter Five in: Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism. Edited by John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros and Sergio Tischler. Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Pgs. 79-94 2009. Print. SJMS The revolution is impossible – means your alt fails and is just utopia fiatFreyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS 2 Impacts:~1~ Identity thinking reproduces AuschwitzFreyenhagen 2 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Bracketed for gendered language. ~2~ Enlightenment is not merely a period in 18th century Europe – because of fear of the unknown, through identity thinking, enlightenment is a process of radicalizing mythical fear in the name of demythologiziation. This all-consuming fear of the unknown maintains global systems of exploitation and oppression.Zuidervaart 15 Zuidervaart, Lambert (Lambert Zuidervaart is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. He is the author of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (MIT Press), Artistic Truth, Social Philosophy after Adorno, Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation, and other books.), "Theodor W. Adorno", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2015/entries/adorno/. SJMS Ellipses in original. The Alternative is to use negative dialects to confront the non-identical - this resolves the crisis posed by your violence – it understands the subordinate needs of an object come before our concepts.Freyenhagen 3 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Negative dialects have empirically worked – the Zapatistas proveZadnikar 09 (Quoting a member of the Zapatistas) Darij Zadnikar (Assistant Professor for Philosophy of Education at University of Ljubljana). "Adorno and Post-Vanguardism," Chapter Five in: Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism. Edited by John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros and Sergio Tischler. Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Pgs. 79-94 2009. Print. SJMS Quote is marked by bracketed inserts. With histories guide the exploitation of capitalism can be solved without reverting to socialism or feudalism.Freyenhagen 4 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Capitalism imposes rigid binaries; dialectics is the way out not a replication of itHolloway et al 09 John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros, Sergio Tischler. "Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism," Chapter One in: Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism. Edited by John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros and Sergio Tischler. Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. 2009. Print. SJMS The Role of the Ballot is to vote for the debater who best embraces Adorno's education after Auschwitz – this means using the debate space as an educational space to instill distance of violence and atrocitiesFreyenhagen 5 (Quoting Adorno) Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Quotes from Adorno marked by bracketed inserts. | 1/15/22 |
2 - Adorno K v12Tournament: Palm Classic | Round: 4 | Opponent: Aragon ZA | Judge: Faizaan Dossani Trigger warning: This K will discuss non-explicit mentions of anti-semitic violence1Identity thinking generalizes objects under categories assuming it's capturing the object in full thereby ignoring the inherent commitment of the non-identical. Therefore, all non-negative dialectical modern thinking fails.Freyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS The regime of legal "neutrality" is an extension of bourgeois identity thinking. Their "universal rules key" card supercharges the linkVan Marle 04 Karin van Marle (Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria.), ""Meeting The World Halfway" - The Limits Of Legal Transformation," Special issue on Law, Culture, and Society: LatCrit Theory and Transdisciplinary Approaches Critical Approaches to Legal Reform: Toward Social Justice? in 16 Fla. J. Int'l L. 651 Florida Journal of International Law September, 2004. https://latcrit.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/9icc4marle.pdf SJMS Striving towards scientific development supercharges the link and link turns their extinction scenario – we made nukes which contradict our survivabilityFreyenhagen 2 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Their "Improved Atmospheric Science solves Natural Disasters" Card is a link — first it's an instance of identity thinking simplifying all of climate change as "radiation balance" and ignoring human conditions which causes it – 2nd it assumes the only solution is more technological development which misses the underlining problem and promotes an ideological defense of the squo using the unknown future technologies as the solution to everything which lets the cultural industry further cause warming.2 Impacts:~1~ Identity thinking reproduces AuschwitzFreyenhagen 3 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Bracketed for gendered language. ~2~ Enlightenment is not merely a period in 18th century Europe – because of fear of the unknown, through identity thinking, enlightenment is a process of radicalizing mythical fear in the name of demythologiziation. This all-consuming fear of the unknown maintains global systems of exploitation and oppression.Zuidervaart 15 Zuidervaart, Lambert (Lambert Zuidervaart is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. He is the author of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (MIT Press), Artistic Truth, Social Philosophy after Adorno, Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation, and other books.), "Theodor W. Adorno", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2015/entries/adorno/. SJMS Ellipses in original. The Alternative is to use negative dialects to confront the non-identical - this resolves the crisis posed by your violence – it understands the subordinate needs of an object come before our concepts.Freyenhagen 4 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS The Role of the Ballot is to vote for the debater who best embraces Adorno's education after Auschwitz – this means using the debate space as an educational space to instill distance of violence and atrocitiesFreyenhagen 5 (Quoting Adorno) Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Quotes from Adorno marked by bracketed inserts. | 2/13/22 |
2 - Adorno K v13Tournament: 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | Round: 4 | Opponent: Lexington AK | Judge: Ronak Ahuja Trigger warning this K will have non-explicit mentions of antisemitic violence1Identity thinking generalizes objects under categories assuming it's capturing the object in full thereby ignoring the inherent commitment of the non-identical. Therefore, all non-negative dialectical modern thinking fails.Freyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Stipulating what a just world would look like is an act of positive utopianismGeuss 5 (Raymond Geuss, Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, is a political philosopher and scholar of 19th and 20th century European philosophy.) "Art and Criticism in Adorno's Aesthetics," Chapter 10 in Outside Ethics, Princeton University Press. Princeton, New Jersey. 2005. Print. https://books.google.com/books?id=u-a3TUddXYsCandpg=PA172andlpg=PA172anddq=22A+further+reason+that+specifically+modern+art22andsource=blandots=32CgovDHbfandsig=ACfU3U2JpVMfTJqY-6_SDz6rWy5vD_M4GAandhl=enandsa=Xandved=2ahUKEwiMzemn7O_zAhWomWoFHRJYCjkQ6AF6BAgDEAM~~#v=onepageandq=22A20further20reason20that20specifically20modern20art22andf=false SJMS They're FW is a link – it tries to ground normative claims which delay's action, is inappropriate, irrational and it leads to and undermines the evil of AuschwitzFreyenhagen 2 Their defense and extension of the OST promotes the regime of legal "neutrality" which is an extension of bourgeois identity thinking.Van Marle 04 Karin van Marle (Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria.), ""Meeting The World Halfway" - The Limits Of Legal Transformation," Special issue on Law, Culture, and Society: LatCrit Theory and Transdisciplinary Approaches Critical Approaches to Legal Reform: Toward Social Justice? in 16 Fla. J. Int'l L. 651 Florida Journal of International Law September, 2004. https://latcrit.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/9icc4marle.pdf SJMS 2 Impacts:~1~ Identity thinking reproduces AuschwitzFreyenhagen 3 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Bracketed for gendered language. ~2~ Enlightenment is not merely a period in 18th century Europe – because of fear of the unknown, through identity thinking, enlightenment is a process of radicalizing mythical fear in the name of demythologiziation. This all-consuming fear of the unknown maintains global systems of exploitation and oppression.Zuidervaart 15 Zuidervaart, Lambert (Lambert Zuidervaart is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. He is the author of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (MIT Press), Artistic Truth, Social Philosophy after Adorno, Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation, and other books.), "Theodor W. Adorno", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2015/entries/adorno/. SJMS Ellipses in original. The Alternative is to use negative dialects to confront the non-identical - this resolves the crisis posed by your violence – it understands the subordinate needs of an object come before our concepts.Freyenhagen 4 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS The Role of the Ballot is to vote for the debater who best embraces Adorno's education after Auschwitz – this means using the debate space as an educational space to instill distance of violence and atrocitiesFreyenhagen 5 (Quoting Adorno) Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Quotes from Adorno marked by bracketed inserts. | 2/20/22 |
2 - Adorno K v14Tournament: 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | Round: 7 | Opponent: Prospect ST | Judge: Sreyaash Das Trigger warning this K will discuss non-explicit mentions of anti-semitic violence1Identity thinking generalizes objects under categories assuming it's capturing the object in full thereby ignoring the inherent commitment of the non-identical. Therefore, all non-negative dialectical modern thinking fails.Freyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Their defense of "this concrete subject has a dual nature" in the Farr evidence causes domination, victim blaming, unfreedom, and fails – and we agree with the transedental subject for now in your Tiberius evidenceFreyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen (Fabian Freyenhagen is a British philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex. He is known for his expertise on critical theory and Kantian ethics.) "No right living," Chapter 2 in Adorno's Practical Philosophy: Living Less Wrongly. Cambridge University Press. 2013. Pgs. 56-59. https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543. SJMS 2 Impacts:~1~ Identity thinking reproduces AuschwitzFreyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Bracketed for gendered language. ~2~ Enlightenment is not merely a period in 18th century Europe – because of fear of the unknown, through identity thinking, enlightenment is a process of radicalizing mythical fear in the name of demythologiziation. This all-consuming fear of the unknown maintains global systems of exploitation and oppression.Zuidervaart 15 Zuidervaart, Lambert (Lambert Zuidervaart is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. He is the author of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (MIT Press), Artistic Truth, Social Philosophy after Adorno, Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation, and other books.), "Theodor W. Adorno", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2015/entries/adorno/. SJMS Ellipses in original. The Alternative is to use negative dialects to confront the non-identical - this resolves the crisis posed by your violence – it understands the subordinate needs of an object come before our concepts.Freyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS They're FW is a link – it tries to ground normative claims which delay's action, is inappropriate, irrational and it leads to and undermines the evil of Auschwitz – also use explanatory normativityFreyenhagen 13 The Role of the Ballot is to vote for the debater who best embraces Adorno's education after Auschwitz – this means using the debate space as an educational space to instill distance of violence and atrocitiesFreyenhagen 13 (Quoting Adorno) Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Quotes from Adorno marked by bracketed inserts. | 2/20/22 |
2 - Adorno K v15Tournament: TFA State | Round: 2 | Opponent: Bridge Zarik Tao | Judge: Phoenix Pittman Trigger warning this K will discuss non-explicit mentions of anti-semitic violence1Identity thinking generalizes objects under categories assuming it's capturing the object in full thereby ignoring the inherent commitment of the non-identical. Modern thinking fails.Freyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Their prioritization of objectivity and defense of the free press legitimizes the dominant fascist point of view and undermines KritikFine 16 Michelle Fine ~Michelle Fine - The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, USA CONTACT Michelle Fine ude.ynuc.cg@enifm, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 6304.17, New York, NY10016, USA.~ "Just methods in revolting times" PMC US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health Qualitative Research in Psychology NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) PMCID: PMC5062036 PMID: 27812314 Qual Res Psychol. 2016 Oct 1; 13(4): 347–365. Published online 2016 Aug 2. doi: 10.1080/14780887.2016.1219800 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5062036/?fbclid=IwAR2WuM3RbdKeBQlUqGlZFK8Q9A83AbWvfQDKkBix4t6SC19W72wj2asBE6A SJMS That fungibility reproduces AuschwitzFreyenhagen 2 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Bracketed for gendered language. Enlightenment is not merely a period in 18th century Europe – because of fear of the unknown, through identity thinking, enlightenment is a process of radicalizing mythical fear in the name of demythologiziation. This all-consuming fear of the unknown maintains global systems of exploitation and oppression.Zuidervaart 15 Zuidervaart, Lambert (Lambert Zuidervaart is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. He is the author of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (MIT Press), Artistic Truth, Social Philosophy after Adorno, Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation, and other books.), "Theodor W. Adorno", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2015/entries/adorno/. SJMS Ellipses in original. The Alternative is to use negative dialects to confront the non-identical - this resolves the crisis posed by your violence – it understands the subordinate needs of an object come before our concepts.Freyenhagen 3 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS They're FW is a link – it tries to ground normative claims which delay's action, is inappropriate, irrational and it leads to and undermines the evil of Auschwitz – also use explanatory normativityFreyenhagen 4 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, Pages: 203-205 https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS The Role of the Ballot is to vote for the debater who best embraces Adorno's education after Auschwitz – this means using the debate space as an educational space to instill distance of violence and atrocitiesFreyenhagen 5 (Quoting Adorno) Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Quotes from Adorno marked by bracketed inserts. | 3/10/22 |
2 - Adorno K v16Tournament: TFA State | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Memori Ben Duong | Judge: Devin Hernandez, Visha Sivamani, Dylan Jones Trigger Warning this K will have non-explicit mentions to anti-Semitic violence1Identity thinking generalizes objects under categories assuming it's capturing the object in full thereby ignoring the inherent commitment of the non-identical. Therefore, all non-negative dialectical modern thinking fails.Freyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS The aff fetishizes the suffering of the working class – it says they're suffering so, in a linear historical view, they can "Revolutionary Suicide". This just idealizes the working class and is an example of identity thinking.Zadnikar 09 Darij Zadnikar (Assistant Professor for Philosophy of Education at University of Ljubljana). "Adorno and Post-Vanguardism," Chapter Five in: Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism. Edited by John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros and Sergio Tischler. Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Pgs. 79-94 2009. Print. SJMS The aff is an act of positive utopianism – only Adorno's thought is appropriate to this moment – solves case and proves the linkGeuss 5 (Raymond Geuss, Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, is a political philosopher and scholar of 19th and 20th century European philosophy.) "Art and Criticism in Adorno's Aesthetics," Chapter 10 in Outside Ethics, Princeton University Press. Princeton, New Jersey. 2005. Print. https://books.google.com/books?id=u-a3TUddXYsCandpg=PA172andlpg=PA172anddq=22A+further+reason+that+specifically+modern+art22andsource=blandots=32CgovDHbfandsig=ACfU3U2JpVMfTJqY-6_SDz6rWy5vD_M4GAandhl=enandsa=Xandved=2ahUKEwiMzemn7O_zAhWomWoFHRJYCjkQ6AF6BAgDEAM~~#v=onepageandq=22A20further20reason20that20specifically20modern20art22andf=false SJMS Identity thinking reproduces AuschwitzFreyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Bracketed for gendered language. Enlightenment is not merely a period in 18th century Europe – because of fear of the unknown, through identity thinking, enlightenment is a process of radicalizing mythical fear in the name of demythologiziation. This all-consuming fear of the unknown maintains global systems of exploitation and oppression.Zuidervaart 15 Zuidervaart, Lambert (Lambert Zuidervaart is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. He is the author of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (MIT Press), Artistic Truth, Social Philosophy after Adorno, Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation, and other books.), "Theodor W. Adorno", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2015/entries/adorno/. SJMS Ellipses in original. The Alternative is to use negative dialects to confront the non-identical - this resolves the crisis posed by your violence – it understands the subordinate needs of an object come before our concepts.Freyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Alt solves case in a non-vanguardian manner – means aff incapable no perms – and objectivity is also the opposite of the altZadnikar 09 (Quoting Khorasanee) Darij Zadnikar (Assistant Professor for Philosophy of Education at University of Ljubljana). "Adorno and Post-Vanguardism," Chapter Five in: Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism. Edited by John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros and Sergio Tischler. Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Pgs. 79-94 2009. Print. Quote is marked by bracketed inserts. The Role of the Ballot is to vote for the debater who best embraces Adorno's education after Auschwitz – this means using the debate space as an educational space to instill distance of violence and atrocitiesFreyenhagen 13 (Quoting Adorno) Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Quotes from Adorno marked by bracketed inserts. Alt solves case –~1~ Capitalism imposes rigid binaries; my alt is the way out not a replication of itHolloway et al 09 John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros, Sergio Tischler. "Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism," Chapter One in: Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism. Edited by John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros and Sergio Tischler. Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. 2009. Print. SJMS ~2~ Negative dialectics contains a non-totalizing utopian potential in its micrological method. Negative Utopianism is better than total pessimism because calling attention to the false promises of the world is a better way of rallying people to the realization of how bad it isTillar 1 Elizabeth K. Tillar (At the time the article was written: St. Anselm College. Currently Plymouth State University Teaching Lecturer in Philosophy), "The Influence of Social Critical Theory on Edward Schillebeeckx's Theology of Suffering for Others," Heythrop Journal, 42(2), 2001. Pgs. 148-172. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-2265.00167 Bracketed inserts mark quotations, the first from Adorno the second from David Toole. SJMS Quotes by Adorno and Toole marked by bracketed inserts | 4/23/22 |
2 - Adorno K v17Tournament: Tournament of Champions | Round: 1 | Opponent: Edgemont Junior-Senior AA | Judge: Rose Larson Trigger Warning, this K will have non-explicit mentions of antisemitic violence1Identity thinking generalizes objects under categories assuming it's capturing the object in full thereby ignoring the inherent commitment of the non-identical.Freyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS They implement through government action and require Indigenous participation in the system, directly or indirectly, but working within the state is epistemically flawed – the IDEA OF STATE POWER co-ops any movement – their Zanotti 14 proves the linkZadnikar 09 Quoting Holloway Darij Zadnikar (Assistant Professor for Philosophy of Education at University of Ljubljana). "Adorno and Post-Vanguardism," Chapter Five in: Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism. Edited by John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros and Sergio Tischler. Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Pgs. 79-94 2009. Print. SJMS Extended quote from Holloway marked by brackets. The notion of shifting and fluid paradigms is an attempt to embrace an antifoundational critique of the university. This regresses into a kind of critical pragmatism that excludes dialectical thinking as 'unprofessional.' They'll say "not my pragmatism" but they just assimilate marginalized perspectives into the university system in order to perpetuate the stability of that systemMoten and Harney 4 Fred Moten, Stefano Harney (Fred Moten is an American cultural theorist, poet, and scholar whose work explores critical theory, black studies, and performance studies. Stefano Harney is Professor of Strategic Management Education at Singapore Management University.), "The University and the Undercommons: Seven Theses," Social Text, 79 (Volume 22, Number 2), Summer 2004, pp. 101-115. http://cq5publish.ou.edu/content/dam/Education/documents/the20university20and20the20undercommons.pdf SJMS That reproduces AuschwitzFreyenhagen 2 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Bracketed for gendered language. Enlightenment is not merely a period in 18th century Europe – because of fear of the unknown, through identity thinking, enlightenment is a process of radicalizing mythical fear in the name of demythologiziation. This all-consuming fear of the unknown maintains global systems of exploitation and oppression. This controls the internal link to their Smiles 1 cardZuidervaart 15 Zuidervaart, Lambert (Lambert Zuidervaart is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. He is the author of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (MIT Press), Artistic Truth, Social Philosophy after Adorno, Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation, and other books.), "Theodor W. Adorno", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2015/entries/adorno/. SJMS Ellipses in original. The Alternative is to use negative dialects to confront the non-identical - this resolves the crisis posed by your violence – it understands the subordinate needs of an object come before our concepts.Freyenhagen 3 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS The Role of the Ballot is to vote for the debater who best embraces Adorno's education after Auschwitz – this means using the debate space as an educational space to instill distance of violence and atrocitiesFreyenhagen 4 (Quoting Adorno) Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Quotes from Adorno marked by bracketed inserts. | 4/23/22 |
2 - Adorno K v2Tournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 6 | Opponent: Aragon Zayne Abraham | Judge: Tajaih Robinson Trigger warning: This K will discuss the holocaust1Identity thinking generalizes objects under categories assuming it's capturing the object in full thereby ignoring the inherent commitment of the non-identical. Therefore, all non-negative dialectical modern thinking fails.Freyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Framing issues in the developing world in terms of risks of political violence is an instance of identity thinking –Harrington 15 uses the example of water security. Cameron Harrington (Assistant Professor - School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University), "Toward a Critical Water Security: Hydrosolidarity and Emancipation," Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 21.1: 28-44. 2015 https://dro.dur.ac.uk/23643/1/23643.pdf SJMS The regime of legal "neutrality" is an extension of bourgeois identity thinking.Van Marle 04 Karin van Marle (Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria.), ""Meeting The World Halfway" - The Limits Of Legal Transformation," Special issue on Law, Culture, and Society: LatCrit Theory and Transdisciplinary Approaches Critical Approaches to Legal Reform: Toward Social Justice? in 16 Fla. J. Int'l L. 651 Florida Journal of International Law September, 2004. https://latcrit.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/9icc4marle.pdf SJMS 2 Impacts:~1~ Identity thinking reproduces AuschwitzFreyenhagen 2 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Bracketed for gendered language. ~2~ Enlightenment is not merely a period in 18th century Europe – because of fear of the unknown, through identity thinking, enlightenment is a process of radicalizing mythical fear in the name of demythologiziation. This all-consuming fear of the unknown maintains global systems of exploitation and oppression.Zuidervaart 15 Zuidervaart, Lambert (Lambert Zuidervaart is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. He is the author of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (MIT Press), Artistic Truth, Social Philosophy after Adorno, Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation, and other books.), "Theodor W. Adorno", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2015/entries/adorno/. SJMS Ellipses in original. The Alternative is to use negative dialects to confront the non-identical - this resolves the crisis posed by your violence – it understands the subordinate needs of an object come before our concepts.Freyenhagen 3 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS The Role of the Ballot is to vote for the debater who best embraces Adorno's education after Auschwitz – this means using the debate space as an educational space to instill distance of violence and atrocitiesFreyenhagen 4 (Quoting Adorno) Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Quotes from Adorno marked by bracketed inserts. | 9/26/21 |
2 - Adorno K v3Tournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 6 | Opponent: West Des Moines Valley AM | Judge: Muhammad Khattak Trigger warning: This K will discuss non-explicit mentions of anti-semitic violence1Identity thinking generalizes objects under categories assuming it's capturing the object in full thereby ignoring the inherent commitment of the non-identical. Therefore, all non-negative dialectical modern thinking fails.Freyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS A dialectical analysis of the historic-material conditions of technical thinking is necessary.Franck 18. Thomas Franck (Liège University-Humboldt Universität), "The Reception of Adorno's Critical Theory in France. From the Hegelian Conception of Totality to the Critique of Heidegger's Ontology," John Felice Rome Center Loyola, 11-May-2018. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/222744 Quoting: Theodor Adorno, Philosophie de la nouvelle musique, Paris, Gallimard, coll. "Tel", 1962, p. 30. Brackets in the Adorno quote are Franck's. Translated into English and modified for gendered language, the French passage reads: "The more this mentality ~the mentality which dominates nature~ advances towards autonomy, the more it moves away from the concrete relation with everything it dominates, human and material alike. Once, in its own sphere of free artistic production, the mind dominates everything down to the last heteronomous element, down to the last material element, it begins to spin on itself, as if imprisoned, detached from all that opposes it, whose penetration alone had given it meaning. The total liberation of the mind coincides with the loss-of-power of the mind. Its fetishistic character, its hypostasis as a simple form of reflection becomes manifest from the moment when it frees itself from the last link of dependence with what is not itself spirit, but which as a sub-element. understood by all spiritual forms, is the factor which gives them substantiality." The AC is a form of critical pragmatism — it explicitly rejects epistemological foundations in favor of thinking from the hold, but this anti-foundationalist mentality when presented in academic spaces only serves as a type of identity thinking that evaluates concepts in terms of their pragmatic effects. This recreates ideology and limits the terms of discussion.Moten and Harney 4 Fred Moten, Stefano Harney (Fred Moten is an American cultural theorist, poet, and scholar whose work explores critical theory, black studies, and performance studies. Stefano Harney is Professor of Strategic Management Education at Singapore Management University.), "The University and the Undercommons: Seven Theses," Social Text, 79 (Volume 22, Number 2), Summer 2004, pp. 101-115. http://cq5publish.ou.edu/content/dam/Education/documents/the20university20and20the20undercommons.pdf SJMS 2 Impacts:~1~ Identity thinking reproduces AuschwitzFreyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Bracketed for gendered language. ~2~ Enlightenment is not merely a period in 18th century Europe – because of fear of the unknown, through identity thinking, enlightenment is a process of radicalizing mythical fear in the name of demythologiziation. This all-consuming fear of the unknown maintains global systems of exploitation and oppression.Zuidervaart 15 Zuidervaart, Lambert (Lambert Zuidervaart is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. He is the author of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (MIT Press), Artistic Truth, Social Philosophy after Adorno, Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation, and other books.), "Theodor W. Adorno", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2015/entries/adorno/. SJMS Ellipses in original. The Alternative is to use negative dialects to confront the non-identical - this resolves the crisis posed by your violence – it understands the subordinate needs of an object come before our concepts.Freyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Negative dialectics contains a non-totalizing utopian potential in its micrological method.Tillar 1 Elizabeth K. Tillar (At the time the article was written: St. Anselm College. Currently Plymouth State University Teaching Lecturer in Philosophy), "The Influence of Social Critical Theory on Edward Schillebeeckx's Theology of Suffering for Others," Heythrop Journal, 42(2), 2001. Pgs. 148-172. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-2265.00167 Bracketed inserts mark quotations, the first from Adorno the second from David Toole. SJMS Quotes by Adorno and Toole marked by bracketed inserts The Role of the Ballot is to vote for the debater who best embraces Adorno's education after Auschwitz – this means using the debate space as an educational space to instill distance of violence and atrocitiesFreyenhagen 13 (Quoting Adorno) Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Quotes from Adorno marked by bracketed inserts. | 10/16/21 |
2 - Adorno K v4Tournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Evergreen Valley Independent SS | Judge: Raunak Dua Trigger warning: This K will discuss non-explicit mentions of anti-semitic violenceIdentity thinking generalizes objects under categories assuming it's capturing the object in full thereby ignoring the inherent commitment of the non-identical. Therefore, all non-negative dialectical modern thinking fails.Freyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS A dialectical analysis of the historic-material conditions of technical thinking is necessary.Franck 18. Thomas Franck (Liège University-Humboldt Universität), "The Reception of Adorno's Critical Theory in France. From the Hegelian Conception of Totality to the Critique of Heidegger's Ontology," John Felice Rome Center Loyola, 11-May-2018. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/222744 Quoting: Theodor Adorno, Philosophie de la nouvelle musique, Paris, Gallimard, coll. "Tel", 1962, p. 30. Brackets in the Adorno quote are Franck's. Translated into English and modified for gendered language, the French passage reads: "The more this mentality ~the mentality which dominates nature~ advances towards autonomy, the more it moves away from the concrete relation with everything it dominates, human and material alike. Once, in its own sphere of free artistic production, the mind dominates everything down to the last heteronomous element, down to the last material element, it begins to spin on itself, as if imprisoned, detached from all that opposes it, whose penetration alone had given it meaning. The total liberation of the mind coincides with the loss-of-power of the mind. Its fetishistic character, its hypostasis as a simple form of reflection becomes manifest from the moment when it frees itself from the last link of dependence with what is not itself spirit, but which as a sub-element. understood by all spiritual forms, is the factor which gives them substantiality." The AC is a form of critical pragmatism — it explicitly rejects epistemological foundations in favor of thinking from the hold, but this anti-foundationalist mentality when presented in academic spaces only serves as a type of identity thinking that evaluates concepts in terms of their pragmatic effects. This recreates ideology and limits the terms of discussion.Moten and Harney 4 Fred Moten, Stefano Harney (Fred Moten is an American cultural theorist, poet, and scholar whose work explores critical theory, black studies, and performance studies. Stefano Harney is Professor of Strategic Management Education at Singapore Management University.), "The University and the Undercommons: Seven Theses," Social Text, 79 (Volume 22, Number 2), Summer 2004, pp. 101-115. http://cq5publish.ou.edu/content/dam/Education/documents/the20university20and20the20undercommons.pdf SJMS Rejection of dialectics blurs political linesHolloway et al 09 John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros, Sergio Tischler. "Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism," Chapter One in: Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism. Edited by John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros and Sergio Tischler. Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. 2009. Print. SJMS Stipulating what the world would look like is an act of positive utopianism – you can't just utopianly think the government will circumvent and the impossible demand is utopian view of the worldGeuss 5 (Raymond Geuss, Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, is a political philosopher and scholar of 19th and 20th century European philosophy.) "Art and Criticism in Adorno's Aesthetics," Chapter 10 in Outside Ethics, Princeton University Press. Princeton, New Jersey. 2005. Print. https://books.google.com/books?id=u-a3TUddXYsCandpg=PA172andlpg=PA172anddq=22A+further+reason+that+specifically+modern+art22andsource=blandots=32CgovDHbfandsig=ACfU3U2JpVMfTJqY-6_SDz6rWy5vD_M4GAandhl=enandsa=Xandved=2ahUKEwiMzemn7O_zAhWomWoFHRJYCjkQ6AF6BAgDEAM~~#v=onepageandq=22A20further20reason20that20specifically20modern20art22andf=false SJMS 2 Impacts:~1~ Identity thinking reproduces AuschwitzFreyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Bracketed for gendered language. ~2~ Enlightenment is not merely a period in 18th century Europe – because of fear of the unknown, through identity thinking, enlightenment is a process of radicalizing mythical fear in the name of demythologiziation. This all-consuming fear of the unknown maintains global systems of exploitation and oppression.Zuidervaart 15 Zuidervaart, Lambert (Lambert Zuidervaart is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. He is the author of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (MIT Press), Artistic Truth, Social Philosophy after Adorno, Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation, and other books.), "Theodor W. Adorno", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2015/entries/adorno/. SJMS Ellipses in original. The Alternative is to use negative dialects to confront the non-identical - this resolves the crisis posed by your violence – it understands the subordinate needs of an object come before our concepts.Freyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Negative dialectics contains a non-totalizing utopian potential in its micrological method.Tillar 1 Elizabeth K. Tillar (At the time the article was written: St. Anselm College. Currently Plymouth State University Teaching Lecturer in Philosophy), "The Influence of Social Critical Theory on Edward Schillebeeckx's Theology of Suffering for Others," Heythrop Journal, 42(2), 2001. Pgs. 148-172. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-2265.00167 Bracketed inserts mark quotations, the first from Adorno the second from David Toole. SJMS Quotes by Adorno and Toole marked by bracketed inserts The Role of the Ballot is to vote for the debater who best embraces Adorno's education after Auschwitz – this means using the debate space as an educational space to instill distance of violence and atrocitiesFreyenhagen 13 (Quoting Adorno) Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Quotes from Adorno marked by bracketed inserts. | 11/5/21 |
2 - Adorno K v5Tournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: 6 | Opponent: Holy Cross ND | Judge: Saianurag Karavadi Trigger warning: This K will discuss non-explicit mentions of anti-semitic violenceIdentity thinking generalizes objects under categories assuming it's capturing the object in full thereby ignoring the inherent commitment of the non-identical. Therefore, all non-negative dialectical modern thinking fails.Freyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Links -~a~ Root cause claims are identity thinking.Marasco 06 Marasco, Robyn (Robyn Marasco is Associate Professor of Political Science at Hunter College, City University of New York, and author of The Highway of Despair: Critical Theory after Hegel.). ""Already the Effect of the Whip": Critical Theory and the Feminine Ideal." differences 17, no. 1 (2006): 88-115. https://read.dukeupress.edu/differences/article-abstract/17/1/88/97651/Already-the-Effect-of-the-Whip-Critical-Theory-and Bracketed inserts mark quotation. SJMS ~b~ The AC is a form of critical pragmatism — it explicitly rejects epistemological foundations in favor of thinking from the hold, but this anti-foundationalist mentality when presented in academic spaces only serves as a type of identity thinking that evaluates concepts in terms of their pragmatic effects. This recreates ideology and limits the terms of discussion.Moten and Harney 4 Fred Moten, Stefano Harney (Fred Moten is an American cultural theorist, poet, and scholar whose work explores critical theory, black studies, and performance studies. Stefano Harney is Professor of Strategic Management Education at Singapore Management University.), "The University and the Undercommons: Seven Theses," Social Text, 79 (Volume 22, Number 2), Summer 2004, pp. 101-115. http://cq5publish.ou.edu/content/dam/Education/documents/the20university20and20the20undercommons.pdf SJMS ~c~ Stipulating what the world would look like is an act of positive utopianism – you can't just utopianly think the government will circumvent and the impossible demand is utopian view of the worldGeuss 5 (Raymond Geuss, Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, is a political philosopher and scholar of 19th and 20th century European philosophy.) "Art and Criticism in Adorno's Aesthetics," Chapter 10 in Outside Ethics, Princeton University Press. Princeton, New Jersey. 2005. Print. https://books.google.com/books?id=u-a3TUddXYsCandpg=PA172andlpg=PA172anddq=22A+further+reason+that+specifically+modern+art22andsource=blandots=32CgovDHbfandsig=ACfU3U2JpVMfTJqY-6_SDz6rWy5vD_M4GAandhl=enandsa=Xandved=2ahUKEwiMzemn7O_zAhWomWoFHRJYCjkQ6AF6BAgDEAM~~#v=onepageandq=22A20further20reason20that20specifically20modern20art22andf=false SJMS ~d~ Pessimism links and the alt solves. LaCouter 17Travis LaCouter (Campion Hall, University of Oxford), "Competing Accounts Of Progress: The Redemptive Purpose Of Memory In J.B. Metz And Theodor Adorno," The Heythrop Journal, 2017. https://www.academia.edu/35521584/Competing_Accounts_of_Progress_The_Redemptive_Purpose_of_Memory_in_Adorno_and_Metz Brackets in original. 2 Impacts:~1~ Identity thinking reproduces AuschwitzFreyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Bracketed for gendered language. ~2~ Enlightenment is not merely a period in 18th century Europe – because of fear of the unknown, through identity thinking, enlightenment is a process of radicalizing mythical fear in the name of demythologiziation. This all-consuming fear of the unknown maintains global systems of exploitation and oppression.Zuidervaart 15 Zuidervaart, Lambert (Lambert Zuidervaart is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. He is the author of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (MIT Press), Artistic Truth, Social Philosophy after Adorno, Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation, and other books.), "Theodor W. Adorno", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2015/entries/adorno/. SJMS Ellipses in original. The Alternative is to use negative dialects to confront the non-identical - this resolves the crisis posed by your violence – it understands the subordinate needs of an object come before our concepts.Freyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Negative dialectics contains a non-totalizing utopian potential in its micrological method.Tillar 1 Elizabeth K. Tillar (At the time the article was written: St. Anselm College. Currently Plymouth State University Teaching Lecturer in Philosophy), "The Influence of Social Critical Theory on Edward Schillebeeckx's Theology of Suffering for Others," Heythrop Journal, 42(2), 2001. Pgs. 148-172. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-2265.00167 Bracketed inserts mark quotations, the first from Adorno the second from David Toole. SJMS Quotes by Adorno and Toole marked by bracketed inserts The Role of the Ballot is to vote for the debater who best embraces Adorno's education after Auschwitz – this means using the debate space as an educational space to instill distance of violence and atrocitiesFreyenhagen 13 (Quoting Adorno) Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Quotes from Adorno marked by bracketed inserts. | 11/6/21 |
2 - Adorno K v6Tournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: Edina NK | Judge: Nelson Okunlola Trigger warning: This K will discuss non-explicit mentions of anti-semitic violence1Identity thinking generalizes objects under categories assuming it's capturing the object in full thereby ignoring the inherent commitment of the non-identical. Therefore, all non-negative dialectical modern thinking fails.Freyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Strikes are an example of praxis – they're just a call for direct political action. Prioritizing praxis over theory does not challenge the system itself and is a link.Wilding 09 Adrian Wilding. "Pied Pipers and Polymaths: Adorno's Critique of Praxism," Chapter Three in: Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism. Edited by John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros and Sergio Tischler. Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. 2009. Print. SJMS The resolution the aff defends asks us to use the state for the working class's strikes movement but working within the state is epistemically flawed – the IDEA OF STATE POWER co-ops any movementZadnikar 09 Quoting Holloway Darij Zadnikar (Assistant Professor for Philosophy of Education at University of Ljubljana). "Adorno and Post-Vanguardism," Chapter Five in: Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism. Edited by John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros and Sergio Tischler. Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Pgs. 79-94 2009. Print. SJMS Extended quote from Holloway marked by brackets. The aff fetishizes the suffering of the working class – it says they're suffering so, in a linear historical view, they can strike. This just idealizes the working class and is an example of identity thinking. Also alt solevs case the aff is just vanguardism it's just "the smart communist people organize the dumb proletariat"Zadnikar 09 Darij Zadnikar (Assistant Professor for Philosophy of Education at University of Ljubljana). "Adorno and Post-Vanguardism," Chapter Five in: Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism. Edited by John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros and Sergio Tischler. Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Pgs. 79-94 2009. Print. SJMS 2 Impacts:~1~ Identity thinking reproduces AuschwitzFreyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Bracketed for gendered language. ~2~ Enlightenment is not merely a period in 18th century Europe – because of fear of the unknown, through identity thinking, enlightenment is a process of radicalizing mythical fear in the name of demythologiziation. This all-consuming fear of the unknown maintains global systems of exploitation and oppression.Zuidervaart 15 Zuidervaart, Lambert (Lambert Zuidervaart is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. He is the author of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (MIT Press), Artistic Truth, Social Philosophy after Adorno, Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation, and other books.), "Theodor W. Adorno", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2015/entries/adorno/. SJMS Ellipses in original. The Alternative is to use negative dialects to confront the non-identical - this resolves the crisis posed by your violence – it understands the subordinate needs of an object come before our concepts.Freyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS The Role of the Ballot is to vote for the debater who best embraces Adorno's education after Auschwitz – this means using the debate space as an educational space to instill distance of violence and atrocitiesFreyenhagen 13 (Quoting Adorno) Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Quotes from Adorno marked by bracketed inserts. | 11/21/21 |
2 - Adorno K v7Tournament: The Longhorn Classic | Round: 6 | Opponent: Round Rock Sohali Vaddula | Judge: Austin Broussard Trigger Warning – This K will have non-explicit mentions to anti-Semitic violence1Identity thinking generalizes objects under categories assuming it's capturing the object in full thereby ignoring the inherent commitment of the non-identical. Therefore, all non-negative dialectical modern thinking fails.Freyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS The resolution the aff defends asks us to use the state for the working class's strikes movement but working within the state is epistemically flawed – the IDEA OF STATE POWER co-ops any movementZadnikar 09 Quoting Holloway Darij Zadnikar (Assistant Professor for Philosophy of Education at University of Ljubljana). "Adorno and Post-Vanguardism," Chapter Five in: Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism. Edited by John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros and Sergio Tischler. Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Pgs. 79-94 2009. Print. SJMS Extended quote from Holloway marked by brackets. Stipulating what the world would look like under a "just government" is an act of positive utopianismGeuss 5 (Raymond Geuss, Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, is a political philosopher and scholar of 19th and 20th century European philosophy.) "Art and Criticism in Adorno's Aesthetics," Chapter 10 in Outside Ethics, Princeton University Press. Princeton, New Jersey. 2005. Print. https://books.google.com/books?id=u-a3TUddXYsCandpg=PA172andlpg=PA172anddq=22A+further+reason+that+specifically+modern+art22andsource=blandots=32CgovDHbfandsig=ACfU3U2JpVMfTJqY-6_SDz6rWy5vD_M4GAandhl=enandsa=Xandved=2ahUKEwiMzemn7O_zAhWomWoFHRJYCjkQ6AF6BAgDEAM~~#v=onepageandq=22A20further20reason20that20specifically20modern20art22andf=false SJMS 2 Impacts:~1~ Identity thinking reproduces AuschwitzFreyenhagen 2 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Bracketed for gendered language. ~2~ Enlightenment is not merely a period in 18th century Europe – because of fear of the unknown, through identity thinking, enlightenment is a process of radicalizing mythical fear in the name of demythologiziation. This all-consuming fear of the unknown maintains global systems of exploitation and oppression.Zuidervaart 15 Zuidervaart, Lambert (Lambert Zuidervaart is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. He is the author of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (MIT Press), Artistic Truth, Social Philosophy after Adorno, Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation, and other books.), "Theodor W. Adorno", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2015/entries/adorno/. SJMS Ellipses in original. The Alternative is to use negative dialects to confront the non-identical - this resolves the crisis posed by your violence – it understands the subordinate needs of an object come before our concepts.Freyenhagen 3 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS The Role of the Ballot is to vote for the debater who best embraces Adorno's education after Auschwitz – this means using the debate space as an educational space to instill distance of violence and atrocitiesFreyenhagen 4 (Quoting Adorno) Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Quotes from Adorno marked by bracketed inserts. | 12/4/21 |
2 - Adorno K v8Tournament: The Longhorn Classic | Round: Triples | Opponent: St Agnes Ella Huang | Judge: Elmer Yang - Breigh Plat - Ishan Rereddy Trigger Warning this K will have non-explicit mentions to anti-Semitic violence1Identity thinking generalizes objects under categories assuming it's capturing the object in full thereby ignoring the inherent commitment of the non-identical. Therefore, all non-negative dialectical modern thinking fails.Freyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Strikes are an example of praxis – they're just a call for direct political action. Prioritizing praxis over theory does not challenge the system itself and is a link.Wilding 09 Adrian Wilding. "Pied Pipers and Polymaths: Adorno's Critique of Praxism," Chapter Three in: Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism. Edited by John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros and Sergio Tischler. Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. 2009. Print. SJMS The aff fetishizes the suffering of the working class – it says they're suffering so, in a linear historical view, they can strike. This just idealizes the working class and is an example of identity thinking.Zadnikar 09 Darij Zadnikar (Assistant Professor for Philosophy of Education at University of Ljubljana). "Adorno and Post-Vanguardism," Chapter Five in: Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism. Edited by John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros and Sergio Tischler. Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Pgs. 79-94 2009. Print. SJMS 2 Impacts:~1~ Identity thinking reproduces AuschwitzFreyenhagen 2 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Bracketed for gendered language. ~2~ Enlightenment is not merely a period in 18th century Europe – because of fear of the unknown, through identity thinking, enlightenment is a process of radicalizing mythical fear in the name of demythologiziation. This all-consuming fear of the unknown maintains global systems of exploitation and oppression.Zuidervaart 15 Zuidervaart, Lambert (Lambert Zuidervaart is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. He is the author of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (MIT Press), Artistic Truth, Social Philosophy after Adorno, Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation, and other books.), "Theodor W. Adorno", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2015/entries/adorno/. SJMS Ellipses in original. The Alternative is to use negative dialects to confront the non-identical - this resolves the crisis posed by your violence – it understands the subordinate needs of an object come before our concepts.Freyenhagen 3 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Negative dialects have empirically worked – the Zapatistas proveZadnikar 09 (Quoting a member of the Zapatistas) Darij Zadnikar (Assistant Professor for Philosophy of Education at University of Ljubljana). "Adorno and Post-Vanguardism," Chapter Five in: Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism. Edited by John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros and Sergio Tischler. Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Pgs. 79-94 2009. Print. SJMS Quote is marked by bracketed inserts. The Role of the Ballot is to vote for the debater who best embraces Adorno's education after Auschwitz – this means using the debate space as an educational space to instill distance of violence and atrocitiesFreyenhagen 4 (Quoting Adorno) Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Quotes from Adorno marked by bracketed inserts. | 12/5/21 |
2 - Adorno K v9Tournament: The 47th Churchill Classic TOC and NIETOC Qualifier | Round: 3 | Opponent: ClaTay Michael Reichle | Judge: Phoenix Pittman Trigger warning: This K will discuss non-explicit mentions of anti-semitic violence1Identity thinking generalizes objects under categories assuming it's capturing the object in full thereby ignoring the inherent commitment of the non-identical. Therefore, all non-negative dialectical modern thinking fails.Freyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS The 1AC defends a form of dysfluency which merely reduces to breaking with clarity. But that is not the same as resisting identity thinking, because while identity thinking aims at clarity, the fight against it is a historicized political struggle against fascist impulses motivated by bourgeois interests. By prioritizing dysfluency as an end-in-itself you depoliticize the struggle. That means the aff is a link, the perm is impossible, and only the alt can solve because it disrupts these political forms.Plass 09 Ulrich Plass (Professor of German Studies at Wesleyan University), "Outbreak Attempts: New Scholarship on Adorno," telos Spring 2009 vol. 2009 no. 146 159-173. doi: 10.3817/0309146159 (The article is a review essay about five books: Roger Foster, Adorno: The Recovery of Experience. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. / Iain Macdonald and Krzysztof Ziarek, eds., Adorno and Heidegger: Philosophical Questions. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. / Alastair Morgan, Adorno's Concept of Life. New York: Continuum, 2007. / Gerhard Richter, Thought-Images: Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007. / David Sherman, Sartre and Adorno: The Dialectics of Subjectivity. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007.) SJMS A dialectical analysis of the historic-material conditions of technical thinking is necessary.Franck 18. Thomas Franck (Liège University-Humboldt Universität), "The Reception of Adorno's Critical Theory in France. From the Hegelian Conception of Totality to the Critique of Heidegger's Ontology," John Felice Rome Center Loyola, 11-May-2018. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/222744 Quoting: Theodor Adorno, Philosophie de la nouvelle musique, Paris, Gallimard, coll. "Tel", 1962, p. 30. Brackets in the Adorno quote are Franck's. Translated into English and modified for gendered language, the French passage reads: "The more this mentality ~the mentality which dominates nature~ advances towards autonomy, the more it moves away from the concrete relation with everything it dominates, human and material alike. Once, in its own sphere of free artistic production, the mind dominates everything down to the last heteronomous element, down to the last material element, it begins to spin on itself, as if imprisoned, detached from all that opposes it, whose penetration alone had given it meaning. The total liberation of the mind coincides with the loss-of-power of the mind. Its fetishistic character, its hypostasis as a simple form of reflection becomes manifest from the moment when it frees itself from the last link of dependence with what is not itself spirit, but which as a sub-element. understood by all spiritual forms, is the factor which gives them substantiality." The AC is a form of critical pragmatism — it explicitly rejects epistemological foundations in favor of thinking from the hold, but this anti-foundationalist mentality when presented in academic spaces only serves as a type of identity thinking that evaluates concepts in terms of their pragmatic effects. This recreates ideology and limits the terms of discussion.Moten and Harney 4 Fred Moten, Stefano Harney (Fred Moten is an American cultural theorist, poet, and scholar whose work explores critical theory, black studies, and performance studies. Stefano Harney is Professor of Strategic Management Education at Singapore Management University.), "The University and the Undercommons: Seven Theses," Social Text, 79 (Volume 22, Number 2), Summer 2004, pp. 101-115. http://cq5publish.ou.edu/content/dam/Education/documents/the20university20and20the20undercommons.pdf SJMS Rejection of dialectics blurs political linesHolloway et al 09 John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros, Sergio Tischler. "Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism," Chapter One in: Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism. Edited by John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros and Sergio Tischler. Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. 2009. Print. SJMS 2 Impacts:~1~ Identity thinking reproduces AuschwitzFreyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Bracketed for gendered language. ~2~ Enlightenment is not merely a period in 18th century Europe – because of fear of the unknown, through identity thinking, enlightenment is a process of radicalizing mythical fear in the name of demythologiziation. This all-consuming fear of the unknown maintains global systems of exploitation and oppression.Zuidervaart 15 Zuidervaart, Lambert (Lambert Zuidervaart is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. He is the author of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (MIT Press), Artistic Truth, Social Philosophy after Adorno, Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation, and other books.), "Theodor W. Adorno", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2015/entries/adorno/. SJMS Ellipses in original. The Alternative is to use negative dialects to confront the non-identical - this resolves the crisis posed by your violence – it understands the subordinate needs of an object come before our concepts.Freyenhagen 13 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Negative dialectics contains a non-totalizing utopian potential in its micrological method.Tillar 1 Elizabeth K. Tillar (At the time the article was written: St. Anselm College. Currently Plymouth State University Teaching Lecturer in Philosophy), "The Influence of Social Critical Theory on Edward Schillebeeckx's Theology of Suffering for Others," Heythrop Journal, 42(2), 2001. Pgs. 148-172. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-2265.00167 Bracketed inserts mark quotations, the first from Adorno the second from David Toole. SJMS Quotes by Adorno and Toole marked by bracketed inserts The Role of the Ballot is to vote for the debater who best embraces Adorno's education after Auschwitz – this means using the debate space as an educational space to instill distance of violence and atrocitiesFreyenhagen 13 (Quoting Adorno) Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Quotes from Adorno marked by bracketed inserts. | 1/8/22 |
2 - Adorno solves capTournament: The Longhorn Classic | Round: Triples | Opponent: St Agnes Ella Huang | Judge: Elmer Yang - Breigh Plat - Ishan Rereddy With histories guide the exploitation of capitalism can be solved without reverting to socialism or feudalism.Freyenhagen 5 Fabian Freyenhagen ~University of Essex~, 2013, "ADORNO'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY Living Less Wrongly" Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-03654-3, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543 SJMS Capitalism imposes rigid binaries; dialectics is the way out not a replication of itHolloway et al 09 John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros, Sergio Tischler. "Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism," Chapter One in: Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism. Edited by John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros and Sergio Tischler. Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. 2009. Print. SJMS | 12/5/21 |
2 - Kant Method vs Non-TTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 6 | Opponent: Sam Barlow EL | Judge: Animesh Joshi The starting point of morality is practical reason.1~ Regress: A theory is only binding when you can answer the question "why should I do this?" and not continue to ask "why". Only practical reason provides a deductive foundation for ethics since the question "why should I be rational" already concedes the authoritative power of agency since your agency is at work. Metaethical standards outweigh: they determine what counts as a warrant for a standard, so absent grounding in some metaethical framework, their arguments aren't relevant normative considerations.2~ Action Theory: Every action has infinite sub-actions we must unify them under intent to explain the unity of action. To use intent agents must use practical reason to know the means she takes in her actions can achieve principles guiding the action.And, reason must be universal – a reason for one agent is a reason for another agent. I can't say 2+24 is true for me but not for you – that's incoherent.==== Method:Thus, counter-methodology:Vote negative to engage in a liberation strategy of universal reason.This entails a starting point where we abstract from individual perspectives to understand the universal, and use this starting point to apply it to empirical institutions and agents.No perms: Uniquely non-sensical in a method debate:~a~ It assumes a notion of fiat that doesn't make sense without a plan. The 1AC role of the ballot forefronts the performative and methodological which a permutation steals away~b~ non-T affs shouldn't get perms since they can defend literally anything in the world – thus the burden is on them to prove their advocacy is the best solution to the problem they propose. Additionally Prefer:~1~ Performativity: freedom is the key to the process of justification of arguments through talking freely. Willing that we should abide by their ethical theory presupposes that we own ourselves in the first place. Thus, denying self-ownership in the round automatically implies the truth of the aff framework.~2~ Ideal theory is capable of radical possibilities.Holmstrom 12 ~Holmstrom, Nancy ~Prof. Emeritus @ Rutgers~. "Response to Charles Mills's." Radical Philosophy Review 15.2 (2012): 325-330.~ ~3~ Consequences Fail - Takes out their offense and claims in their evidence since they're predicated on using past experiences and means you vote neg on presumption.~a~ Every action has infinite stemming consequences, because every consequence can cause another consequence so we can't predict or calculate.~b~ Induction is circular because it relies on the assumption that nature will hold uniform and we could only reach that conclusion through inductive reasoning based on observation of past events.Negate:~1~ Independently not defending the topic is non-universalizable b/c if nobody defended the topic than a topic wouldn't have even been created in the first place which is a contradiction in conception.~2~ The aff has a deontological obligation to be topical.Nebel 15 Jake Nebel,"The Priority of Resolutional Semantics by Jake Nebel," Briefly, https://www.vbriefly.com/2015/02/20/the-priority-of-resolutional-semantics-by-jake-nebel/==== | 9/20/21 |
2 - Log Con NCTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lexington FV | Judge: Austin Broussard Permissibility and presumption negate – a. the resolution indicates the affirmative has to prove an obligation, and permissibility would deny the existence of an obligation b. Statements are more often false than true because any part can be false so negate because the aff is probably falseThe aff burden is to prove that the resolutional statement is logical, and the reciprocal neg burden is to prove that the resolutional statement is illogical.Prefer:1. Text – Oxford Dictionary defines ought as "used to indicate something that is probable."https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/ought Massa Ought is "used to express logical consequence" as defined by Merriam-Webster(http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ought) Massa 2. Debatability – a) my interp means debates focus on empirics about squo trends rather than irresolvable abstract principles that've been argued for years b) Moral oughts cannot guide action.Gray, Grey, JW. "The Is/Ought Gap: How Do We Get "Ought" from "Is?"" Ethical Realism. N.p., 19 July 2011. Web. 28 Oct. 2015. Massa 3. Neg definition choice – The aff should have defined ought in the 1ac as their value, by not doing so they have forfeited their right to read a new definition – kills 1NC strategy since I premised my engagement on a lack of your definition.~1~ Inherency – either a) the aff is non-inherent and you vote neg on presumption or b) it is and it isn't logically going to happen. | 10/16/21 |
2 - No Right Living NCTournament: The Longhorn Classic | Round: 6 | Opponent: Round Rock Sohali Vaddula | Judge: Austin Broussard There is a distinction between models of normativity that distinguish between better and worse and those which distinguish between bad and less bad. The second denies the possibility of positive obligations and values, even though it allows normative evaluation.Freyenhagen 5 Fabian Freyenhagen (Fabian Freyenhagen is a British philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex. He is known for his expertise on critical theory and Kantian ethics.) "No right living," Chapter 2 in Adorno's Practical Philosophy: Living Less Wrongly. Cambridge University Press. 2013. Pgs. 65-66. https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543. SJMS Bracketed inserts mark quotations from Adorno. Demonstrating that there aren't positive obligations negates because the resolution ~and plan text~ uses the word "ought" which 3 dictionary definitions denotes as a proactive duty to do something.https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ought~~#:~~:text=(used20to20express20duty20or,He20ought20to20be20punished. Prefer~1~ Textuality~a~ "To negate ," means "to deny the truth of," which means any argument that renders affirming false is sufficient to negate. If an assumption the AC makes is false, the resolution is also false.~b~ "Resolved" means to be "Firmly determined to do something." So the aff needs to prove a proactive obligation~2~ It's not just a word game – it's a substantive issue. Your AC claims that there is positive value in your advocacy so you must be prepared to defend the existence of positive value in a fallen world.~a~ That negates under truth-testing because you can't prove the resolution true if there is no positive value.~b~ It negates under comparative worlds because I show your world is not desirable.~c~ It negates under plan focus because the plan is not "a good idea" even if it's the least bad option.~3~ It turns the AC ~and links into the K~ because by acting as if you can live rightly in a wrong world, you only obscure the moral failings of the world.Freyenhagen 6 Fabian Freyenhagen (Fabian Freyenhagen is a British philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex. He is known for his expertise on critical theory and Kantian ethics.) "No right living," Chapter 2 in Adorno's Practical Philosophy: Living Less Wrongly. Cambridge University Press. 2013. Pgs. 59-60. https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543. SJMS Bracketed inserts mark quotations from Adorno. Negate:~1~ Practical antinomies make right living impossible – there is no right choiceFreyenhagen 7 Fabian Freyenhagen (Fabian Freyenhagen is a British philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex. He is known for his expertise on critical theory and Kantian ethics.) "No right living," Chapter 2 in Adorno's Practical Philosophy: Living Less Wrongly. Cambridge University Press. 2013. Pgs. 56-59. https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543. SJMS Bracketed for clarity. ~2~ Guilt context – Everything we do sustains our evil world there is no right livingFreyenhagen 8 Fabian Freyenhagen (Fabian Freyenhagen is a British philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex. He is known for his expertise on critical theory and Kantian ethics.) "No right living," Chapter 2 in Adorno's Practical Philosophy: Living Less Wrongly. Cambridge University Press. 2013. Pgs. 61-62. https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543. SJMS ~3~ No autonomy – There's no ability to live rightly due to society's restrictions on autonomyFreyenhagen 9 Fabian Freyenhagen (Fabian Freyenhagen is a British philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex. He is known for his expertise on critical theory and Kantian ethics.) "No right living," Chapter 2 in Adorno's Practical Philosophy: Living Less Wrongly. Cambridge University Press. 2013. Pgs. 64. https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/adornos-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly?format=HBandisbn=9781107036543. SJMS | 12/4/21 |
2 - Util NCTournament: Grapevine Classic | Round: Triples | Opponent: West HS SLC HZ | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin The standard is maximizing expected wellbeing.1~ Actor spec—governments must use util because they don't have intentions and are constantly dealing with tradeoffs—outweighs since different agents have different obligations—takes out calc indicts since they are empirically denied.2~ Death is bad and outweighs – a~ agents can't act if they fear for their bodily security which constrains every ethical theory, b~ it destroys the subject itself – kills any ability to achieve value in ethics since life is a prerequisite which means it's a side constraint since we can't reach the end goal of ethics without life3~ Pleasure and pain are the starting point for moral reasoning—they're our most baseline desires and the only things that explain the intrinsic value of objects or actionsMoen 16, Ole Martin (PhD, Research Fellow in Philosophy at University of Oslo). "An Argument for Hedonism." Journal of Value Inquiry 50.2 (2016): 267. 4~ Extinction outweighsMacAskill 14 ~William, Oxford Philosopher and youngest tenured philosopher in the world, Normative Uncertainty, 2014~ 5~ Physicalism is true and leads to util – ignore non-material circumstances.Papineau 9 Papineau, David, "Naturalism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2009 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2009/entries/naturalism/. | 9/12/21 |
2 - Util NC v2Tournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harrison TB | Judge: Eric Tang The ROB is to evaluate the post-fiat consequences of the plan. Vote aff if it is superior to the status quo or a competitive counter-plan, and neg if it is not. Prefer:~1~ Physicalism is true and leads to util – ignore non-material circumstances.Papineau 9 Papineau, David, "Naturalism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2009 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2009/entries/naturalism/. ~2~ Extinction outweighsPummer 15 ~Theron, Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford. "Moral Agreement on Saving the World" Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. May 18, 2015~ AT ~3~ Ethical frameworks must be theoretically legitimate. All frameworks are functionally topicality interpretations of the word ought so they must theoretically justified. Prefer our standard –a~ Ground: Both debaters are guaranteed access to ground – Aff gets plans and advantages, while Neg gets disads and counterplans. Additionally, anything can function as an impact as long as an external benefit is articulated, so all your offense applies.b~ Weighing ground: consequences lets us weigh the probability a scenario, its risk, scope, severity, etc. and we can even weigh between these standards. We can still run side constraints but they are compared to other impacts while other frameworks prevent weighing by making them absolute. Outweighs on resolvability because if there is framing mechanism that we don't know what offense matters. That's an independent voter: because the judge literally cannot make a decision~4~ Policy education is key to advocacy – that outweighs on portable skills.Nixon 2K Makani Themba-Nixon, Executive Director of The Praxis Project. "Changing the Rules: What Public Policy Means for Organizing." Colorlines 3.2, 2000. | 9/18/21 |
2 - Util NC v3Tournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: Trinity Prep NC | Judge: Keshav Dandu The standard is maximizing expected well-being1~ Util is a lexical pre-requisite to any other framework: Threats to bodily security and life preclude the ability for moral actors to effectively utilize and act upon other moral theories since they are in a constant state of crisis that inhibit the ideal moral conditions which other theories presuppose – so, util comes first and my offense outweighs theirs under their own framework.2~ existential threats outweigh-A~ extinction o/ws under any framework- moral uncertainty and future gensPummer 15 — (Theron Pummer, Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, "Moral Agreement on Saving the World", Practical Ethics University of Oxford, 5-18-2015, Available Online at http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/05/moral-agreement-on-saving-the-world/, accessed 7-2-2018, HKR-AM) we do not endorse ableist language= B~ prereq to their offense- it forecloses all future value and causes massive structural violence | 10/30/21 |
2 - Util NC v4Tournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 4 | Opponent: American Heritage Broward NR | Judge: Arjan Kang The standard is maximizing expected wellbeingPrefer:1 – The argument from supervenience is true and coherently explains the grounding for morality. Thus, moral naturalism is true.Lutz and Lenman 18. Lutz, Matthew and Lenman, James, "Moral Naturalism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2018/entries/naturalism-moral/. Massa Pleasure and pain are intrinsically valuable.Moen 16 ~Ole Martin Moen, Research Fellow in Philosophy at University of Oslo "An Argument for Hedonism" Journal of Value Inquiry (Springer), 50 (2) 2016: 267–281~ SJDI, brackets in original ~2~ Actor specificity: util is the best for governments, which is the actor in the rez – multiple warrants:~a~ Governments must aggregate since every policy benefits some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action.~b~ States lack wills or intentions since policies are collective actions.~c~ No act-omission distinction—governments are responsible for everything in the public sphere so inaction is implicit authorization of action: they have to yes/no bills, which means everything collapse to aggregation.~d~ No intent-foresight distinction – the actions we take are inevitably informed by predictions from certain mental states, meaning consequences are a collective part of the will.~e~ Actor-specificity comes first since different agents have different ethical standings. Takes out util calc indicts since they're empirically denied and link turns them because the alt would be no action.~3~ Extinction outweighsPummer 15 ~Theron, Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford. "Moral Agreement on Saving the World" Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. May 18, 2015~ AT ~4~ Ethical frameworks must be theoretically legitimate. Any standard is an interpretation of the words of the resolution-thus framework is functionally a topicality argument about how to define the terms of the resolution. My framework interprets ought as maximizing happiness. Prefer this definition:~A~ Ground: Both debaters are guaranteed access to ground to engage under util – ie Aff gets plans and advantages, while Neg gets disads and counterplans. Additionally, anything can function as a util impact as long as an external benefit is articulated, so all your offense applies. Other frameworks deny 1 side the ability to engage the other on both the impact and link level.~B~ Weighing ground: consequences lets us weigh the probability a scenario, its risk, scope, severity, etc. and we can even weigh between these standards. We can still run side constraints but they are compared to other impacts while other frameworks prevent weighing by making them absolute. Ow on resolvability because if there is framing mechanism that we don't know what offense matters. That's an independent voter: because the judge literally cannot make a decision | 10/30/21 |
2 - Util NC v5Tournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 6 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep ArVe | Judge: Rohith Sudhakar The standard is maximizing expected wellbeingPrefer:1 – The argument from supervenience is true and coherently explains the grounding for morality. Thus, moral naturalism is true.Lutz and Lenman 18. Lutz, Matthew and Lenman, James, "Moral Naturalism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2018/entries/naturalism-moral/. Massa Pleasure and pain are intrinsically valuable.Moen 16 ~Ole Martin Moen, Research Fellow in Philosophy at University of Oslo "An Argument for Hedonism" Journal of Value Inquiry (Springer), 50 (2) 2016: 267–281~ SJDI, brackets in original ~2~ Actor specificity: util is the best for governments, which is the actor in the rez – multiple warrants:~a~ Governments must aggregate since every policy benefits some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action.~b~ States lack wills or intentions since policies are collective actions.~c~ No act-omission distinction—governments are responsible for everything in the public sphere so inaction is implicit authorization of action: they have to yes/no bills, which means everything collapse to aggregation.~d~ No intent-foresight distinction – the actions we take are inevitably informed by predictions from certain mental states, meaning consequences are a collective part of the will.~e~ Actor-specificity comes first since different agents have different ethical standings. Takes out util calc indicts since they're empirically denied and link turns them because the alt would be no action.~3~ Extinction outweighsPummer 15 ~Theron, Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford. "Moral Agreement on Saving the World" Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. May 18, 2015~ AT ~4~ Ethical frameworks must be theoretically legitimate. Any standard is an interpretation of the words of the resolution-thus framework is functionally a topicality argument about how to define the terms of the resolution. My framework interprets ought as maximizing happiness. Prefer this definition:~A~ Ground: Both debaters are guaranteed access to ground to engage under util – ie Aff gets plans and advantages, while Neg gets disads and counterplans. Additionally, anything can function as a util impact as long as an external benefit is articulated, so all your offense applies. Other frameworks deny 1 side the ability to engage the other on both the impact and link level.~B~ Weighing ground: consequences lets us weigh the probability a scenario, its risk, scope, severity, etc. and we can even weigh between these standards. We can still run side constraints but they are compared to other impacts while other frameworks prevent weighing by making them absolute. Ow on resolvability because if there is framing mechanism that we don't know what offense matters. That's an independent voter: because the judge literally cannot make a decision | 11/5/21 |
2 - Util NC v6Tournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 6 | Opponent: Loveless Academic Magnet Program RR | Judge: River Cook The standard is maximizing expected wellbeing and the role of the ballot is to vote on whether the affirmative is better than the status quo or a competitive policy option Prefer:~1~ The argument from supervenience is true and coherently explains the grounding for morality. Thus, moral naturalism is true.Lutz and Lenman 18. Lutz, Matthew and Lenman, James, "Moral Naturalism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2018/entries/naturalism-moral/. Massa Pleasure and pain are intrinsically valuable.Moen 16 ~Ole Martin Moen, Research Fellow in Philosophy at University of Oslo "An Argument for Hedonism" Journal of Value Inquiry (Springer), 50 (2) 2016: 267–281~ SJDI, brackets in original ~2~ Actor spec—governments must use util because they don't have intentions and are constantly dealing with tradeoffs—outweighs since different agents have different obligations—takes out calc indicts since they are empirically denied.Johnson and Thayer 16 – Dominic D. P. Johnson, D.Phil., Ph.D.* and Bradley A. Thayer, Ph.D., "The evolution of offensive realism Survival under anarchy from the Pleistocene to the present," https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/56B778004187F70B8E59609BE7FEE7A4/S073093841600006Xa.pdf/div-class-title-the-evolution-of-offensive-realism-div.pdf ~3~ Extinction outweighs~a~ Moral uncertainty and risk analysisMacAskill 14 ~William, Oxford Philosopher and youngest tenured philosopher in the world, Normative Uncertainty, 2014~ ~b~ Apocalyptic images challenge dominant power structures to create futures of social justiceJessica Hurley 17, Assistant Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, "Impossible Futures: Fictions of Risk in the Longue Durée", Duke University Press, https://read.dukeupress.edu/american-literature/article/89/4/761/132823/Impossible-Futures-Fictions-of-Risk-in-the-Longue ~4~ The subjective deliberation of a utilitarian requires one to look for a third-party perspective. This means there is no intent-foresight distinction.Driver 11 Driver, Julia (Julia Driver is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in the integration of virtue theory with utilitarian thought). Consequentialism. Routledge, 2011. Hijacks the AC~a~ The subjective dimension of ethical experiences is still something we can relate to in the effort to overcome internalized oppression, but the move to an objective evaluation allows us to broaden into including a wider array of people in our calculations.~b~ Objective utilitarian evaluation is a heuristic, it may sometimes go awry but it is a tool to be used for achieving justice in ethical deliberation. | 12/3/21 |
2 - Util NC v7Tournament: The 47th Churchill Classic TOC and NIETOC Qualifier | Round: 6 | Opponent: Saint Marys Hall Rohith Siddabattula | Judge: Nelson Okunlola The standard is maximizing expected wellbeing and the role of the ballot is to vote on whether the affirmative is better than the status quo or a competitive policy option Prefer:~1~ The argument from supervenience is true and coherently explains the grounding for morality. Thus, moral naturalism is true.Lutz and Lenman 18. Lutz, Matthew and Lenman, James, "Moral Naturalism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2018/entries/naturalism-moral/. Massa Pleasure and pain are intrinsically valuable.Moen 16 ~Ole Martin Moen, Research Fellow in Philosophy at University of Oslo "An Argument for Hedonism" Journal of Value Inquiry (Springer), 50 (2) 2016: 267–281~ SJDI, brackets in original ~2~ Actor spec—governments must use util because they don't have intentions and are constantly dealing with tradeoffs—outweighs since different agents have different obligations—takes out calc indicts since they are empirically denied.Johnson and Thayer 16 – Dominic D. P. Johnson, D.Phil., Ph.D.* and Bradley A. Thayer, Ph.D., "The evolution of offensive realism Survival under anarchy from the Pleistocene to the present," https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/56B778004187F70B8E59609BE7FEE7A4/S073093841600006Xa.pdf/div-class-title-the-evolution-of-offensive-realism-div.pdf ~3~ Extinction outweighs~a~ Moral uncertainty and risk analysisMacAskill 14 ~William, Oxford Philosopher and youngest tenured philosopher in the world, Normative Uncertainty, 2014~ ~b~ Apocalyptic images challenge dominant power structures to create futures of social justiceJessica Hurley 17, Assistant Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, "Impossible Futures: Fictions of Risk in the Longue Durée", Duke University Press, https://read.dukeupress.edu/american-literature/article/89/4/761/132823/Impossible-Futures-Fictions-of-Risk-in-the-Longue | 1/8/22 |
2 - Util NC v8Tournament: 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | Round: 5 | Opponent: Scarsdale KS | Judge: Brian Zhou 1The standard is maximizing expected wellbeing and the role of the ballot is to vote on whether the affirmative is better than the status quo or a competitive policy option Prefer:~1~ The argument from supervenience is true and coherently explains the grounding for morality. Thus, moral naturalism is true.Lutz and Lenman 18. Lutz, Matthew and Lenman, James, "Moral Naturalism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2018/entries/naturalism-moral/. Massa Pleasure and pain are intrinsically valuable.Moen 16 ~Ole Martin Moen, Research Fellow in Philosophy at University of Oslo "An Argument for Hedonism" Journal of Value Inquiry (Springer), 50 (2) 2016: 267–281~ SJDI, brackets in original ~2~ Actor spec—governments must use util because they don't have intentions and are constantly dealing with tradeoffs—outweighs since different agents have different obligations—takes out calc indicts since they are empirically denied.Johnson and Thayer 16 – Dominic D. P. Johnson, D.Phil., Ph.D.* and Bradley A. Thayer, Ph.D., "The evolution of offensive realism Survival under anarchy from the Pleistocene to the present," https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/56B778004187F70B8E59609BE7FEE7A4/S073093841600006Xa.pdf/div-class-title-the-evolution-of-offensive-realism-div.pdf ~3~ Extinction outweighs~a~ Moral uncertainty and risk analysisMacAskill 14 ~William, Oxford Philosopher and youngest tenured philosopher in the world, Normative Uncertainty, 2014~ ~b~ Apocalyptic images challenge dominant power structures to create futures of social justiceJessica Hurley 17, Assistant Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, "Impossible Futures: Fictions of Risk in the Longue Durée", Duke University Press, https://read.dukeupress.edu/american-literature/article/89/4/761/132823/Impossible-Futures-Fictions-of-Risk-in-the-Longue ~c~ Turns case - a dead subject is stable~4~ Physicalism is true and leads to util – ignore non-material circumstances.Papineau 9 Papineau, David, "Naturalism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2009 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2009/entries/naturalism/. ~5~ The subjective deliberation of a utilitarian requires one to look for a third-party perspective. This means there is no intent-foresight distinction.Driver 11 Driver, Julia (Julia Driver is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in the integration of virtue theory with utilitarian thought). Consequentialism. Routledge, 2011. | 2/20/22 |
JF - CP - Mega-ConstellationsTournament: 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | Round: 5 | Opponent: Scarsdale KS | Judge: Brian Zhou Cp Text: The appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust in all instances except for use of mega-constellations.India's digital divide is increasing and has uniquely undermined economic growth.Beniwal 20 ~Vrishti Beniwal, Vrishti is a journalist for Bloomberg and ThePrint. 12-17-20, "As digital divide widens, India risks losing a generation to pandemic disruption," ThePrint, https://theprint.in/india/education/as-digital-divide-widens-india-risks-losing-a-generation-to-pandemic-disruption/568394/ accessed 2/9/22~ Adam Mega constellations are expanding access in India now.Vanamali 21 ~Krishna Veera Vanamali, 11-9-2021, "Starlink and OneWeb: Can satellite broadband bridge India's digital divide?," Business Standard, https://www.business-standard.com/podcast/current-affairs/starlink-and-oneweb-can-satellite-broadband-bridge-india-s-digital-divide-121110900035_1.html accessed 2/9/22~ Adam Constellations will bridge digital divide – costs fall over time.Croshier 22 ~Rose Croshier, Rose Croshier is a policy fellow at the Center for Global Development, where her work focuses on enabling low and middle-income countries' adoption of space-based technology. Before joining CGD, Croshier was an accomplished program and operations manager with the U.S. Air Force, specializing in areas such as Space Operations, Security Cooperation, Peacekeeping, Disaster Management and Military Intelligence. 1-19-2022, "Space and Development: Preparing for Affordable Space-Based Telecommunications," Center For Global Development, https://www.cgdev.org/publication/space-and-development-preparing-affordable-space-based-telecommunications accessed 2/9/22~ Adam Indian economic strength deters China along the India-China border—-military buildup and signal of resolve diffuses conflict.Haqqani and Pande 21 ~Husain Haqqani and Aparna Pande 7-10-21. Haqqani is the director for South and Central Asia at the Hudson Institute in Washington D.C. and was Pakistan's ambassador to the United States. Pande (Ph.D) is director of the Initiative on the Future of India and South Asia at the Hudson Institute. "India has a long way to go in confronting China". The Hill. https://thehill.com/opinion/international/562397-india-has-a-long-way-to-go-in-confronting-china~~ That goes nuclear.Rachman 20 "Erosion of nuclear deterrence makes India-China relations critical" GIDEON RACHMAN ~Gideon Rachman became chief foreign affairs columnist for the Financial Times in July 2006. He joined the FT after a 15-year career at The Economist, which included spells as a foreign correspondent in Brussels, Washington and Bangkok.~ September 7, 2020 https://www.ft.com/content/311694ac-d1a4-4d92-a850-97e161ad887c SM And solves and turns the aff~1~ Mega-constellations don't "divide space up into parts" they're just satellites that move~2~ The CP enables "connectivity" between people through better internet i.e., starlink~3~ Megaconstellations are a distributed network that is not based on a centralized communications platform and which enables people across the world to interact with each other on the internet. that means it is the best system for deterritorializing relationships between people because it promotes fluidity without centralized power.~4~ Mega-constellations are still "for everyone" because everyone benefits from the internet and prevention of extincion | 2/20/22 |
JF - CP - Mega-Constellations advantage cpTournament: 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | Round: Triples | Opponent: Eagan AE | Judge: Viren Abhyankar - Jenn Melin - Jharick Shields Text – States shouldimplement cooperative active debris removal measures aimed at mitigating debris from mega-constellations. 1st plank solves Cyber-Attacks.Robertl and Vocl 21 ~Christopher Robertl and Vince Vocl. Christopher is the Senior Vice President of Cyber Intelligence and Supply Chain Security Policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Vince VocI is the Executive Director Cyber Policy and Operations at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. 5-14-2021, accessed on 8-8-2021, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, "4 Ways U.S. Government Leaders Can Protect IP and Personal Data", https://www.uschamber.com/on-demand/cybersecurity/how-can-the-government-help-protect-intellectual-property-and-personal-data~~ Adam 2nd solves for Mega-constellation Impacts.Hardy 20, Brian Patrick. Long-term effects of satellite megaconstellations on the debris environment in low earth orbit. Diss. 2020. (Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering in the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)Elmer 3rd plank solves second advantage – states won't possess asat capability to escalateReject 1AR theory- A~ 7-6 time skew means it's endlessly aff biased B~ I don't have a 3nr which allows for endless extrapolation C~ 1AR theory is skewed to the aff because they have a 2ar judge psychology warrant.Infinite abuse claims are wrong- A~ Spikes solve-you can just preempt paradigms in the 1AC B~ Functional limits- 1nc is only 7 minutes longCondo is good proving a CP is bad doesn't prove the plan is good, a logical policy maker can always choose not to act. Logic outweighs – it's the basis of all rational arguments. | 2/20/22 |
JF - CP - UnilateralTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker SS | Judge: Gordon Krauss | 2/12/22 |
JF - DA - AfricaTournament: 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | Round: Triples | Opponent: Eagan AE | Judge: Viren Abhyankar - Jenn Melin - Jharick Shields Independent African satellite constellation key to push out foreign, Chinese investment – which kills African democracyTuerk 20 Tuerk, Miriam. CEO and cofounder of Clear Blue Technologies Inc."Africa Is The Next Frontier For The Internet." Forbes, 8 June 2020, www.forbes.com/sites/miriamtuerk/2020/06/09/africa-is-the-next-frontier-for-the-internet/?sh=1f5e9eec4900. Expansion in Africa escalates absent democratic relationsMaru 19 - a scholar of peace and security, law and governance, strategy and management, human rights and migration issues. (Mehari, "A new cold war in Africa" Aljazeera. July 1, 2019. DOA: November 17, 2019. https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/cold-war-africa-190630102044847.html)//MGalian** Instability causes global warMead 13 – (Walter Russell, Foreign Affairs Prof @ Bard, "Peace In The Congo? Why The World Should Care", American Interest; http://www.the-american-interest.com/2013/12/15/peace-in-the-congo-why-the-world-should-care/) | 2/20/22 |
JF - DA - Korean denuclearizationTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker SS | Judge: Gordon Krauss Deployment of diplomatic capital key to Korean peninsula denuclearization.Titli Basu 2/8, Titli Basu is Associate Fellow at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses. 2/8/22. ~IDSA. "Japan and US–China Strategic Competition: Alliances and Alignments," https://www.idsa.in/issuebrief/japan-and-us-china-strategic-competition-tbasu-080222~~ Justin Space multilateralism drains diplomatic capital.Joan Johnson-Freese 17 – Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, 2017, Space Warfare in the 21st Century: Arming the Heavens, p. 173-174 North Korean diplomacy key to solve nuclear war.Doug Bandow 19, Senior fellow at the Cato Institute, 04/15/2019, "Trump's Remarkable Diplomatic Efforts in North Korea," Cato, https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/trumps-remarkable-diplomatic-efforts-north-korea | 2/12/22 |
JF - DA - PLATournament: The 47th Churchill Classic TOC and NIETOC Qualifier | Round: 6 | Opponent: Saint Marys Hall Rohith Siddabattula | Judge: Nelson Okunlola Xi is tightening control over the PLA but completing goals are critical.Krishnan 21 – Ananth, 11/18/21, ~'Xi tightened control over the PLA', TheHindu, https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/xi-tightened-control-over-the-pla/article37549460.ece~~ Justin The commercial space sector is one of the PLAs central goals – the plan is a 180.Bartholomew and Cleveland 19 – Carolyn and Robin, 4/25/19, Chairmen and Vice Chairmen. Section is written from Michael A. McDevitt, US Congressperson, ~"HEARING ON CHINA IN SPACE: A STRATEGIC COMPETITION?," https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/transcripts/April20252C20201920Hearing20Transcript2028229.pdf~~ Justin That triggers backlash – they don't support restrictions on the space sector and will do everything to convince leaders not to do the plan.Cheng 14 ~Dean Cheng, Senior Research Fellow in the Asia Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation, Former Senior Analyst at the China Studies Division of the Center for Naval Analyses, Former Senior Analyst with Science Applications International Corporation, "Prospects for U.S.-China Space Cooperation", Testimony before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, 4/9/2014, https://www.heritage.org/testimony/prospects-us-china-space-cooperation~~ An unhinged PLA triggers Himalayan war – goes globalChellaney 17 ~Dr. Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Strategic Studies at the Center for Policy Research and Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy, PhD in International Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, "Why the Chinese Military's Rising Clout Troubles Xi Jinping", The National, 9/9/2017, https://www.thenational.ae/opinion/why-the-chinese-military-s-rising-clout-troubles-xi-jinping-1.626815?videoId=5754807360001~~ Extinction.Caldicott 17 – Helen, 2017, Founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility ~"The new nuclear danger: George W. Bush's military-industrial complex," The New Press~Elmer | 1/8/22 |
JF - DA - PLA v2Tournament: Palm Classic | Round: 6 | Opponent: Mountain House ES | Judge: Nathan Frenkel Xi is tightening control over the PLA but completing goals are critical.Krishnan 21 – Ananth, 11/18/21, ~'Xi tightened control over the PLA', TheHindu, https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/xi-tightened-control-over-the-pla/article37549460.ece~~ Justin The commercial space sector is one of the PLAs central goals – the plan is a 180.Bartholomew and Cleveland 19 – Carolyn and Robin, 4/25/19, Chairmen and Vice Chairmen. Section is written from Michael A. McDevitt, US Congressperson, ~"HEARING ON CHINA IN SPACE: A STRATEGIC COMPETITION?," https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/transcripts/April20252C20201920Hearing20Transcript2028229.pdf~~ Justin China wants to colonize mars – the plan decks Xi's legitimacy and causes lashoutHong 20 Brendon Hong ~Brendon Hong is the pseudonym of a longtime contributor to The Daily Beast based in Hong Kong.~ "China Wants to Be First to Colonize the Moon and Mars" Space Race Updated Jul. 29, 2020 4:00AM ET / Published Jul. 28, 2020 4:35AM ET https://www.thedailybeast.com/china-wants-to-be-first-to-colonize-the-moon-and-mars?ref=scroll SJMS That triggers backlash – they don't support restrictions on the space sector and will do everything to convince leaders not to do the plan.Cheng 14 ~Dean Cheng, Senior Research Fellow in the Asia Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation, Former Senior Analyst at the China Studies Division of the Center for Naval Analyses, Former Senior Analyst with Science Applications International Corporation, "Prospects for U.S.-China Space Cooperation", Testimony before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, 4/9/2014, https://www.heritage.org/testimony/prospects-us-china-space-cooperation~~ An unhinged PLA triggers Himalayan war – goes globalChellaney 17 ~Dr. Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Strategic Studies at the Center for Policy Research and Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy, PhD in International Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, "Why the Chinese Military's Rising Clout Troubles Xi Jinping", The National, 9/9/2017, https://www.thenational.ae/opinion/why-the-chinese-military-s-rising-clout-troubles-xi-jinping-1.626815?videoId=5754807360001~~ Extinction.Caldicott 17 – Helen, 2017, Founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility ~"The new nuclear danger: George W. Bush's military-industrial complex," The New Press~Elmer | 2/13/22 |
JF - DA - PLA v3Tournament: 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | Round: Triples | Opponent: Eagan AE | Judge: Viren Abhyankar - Jenn Melin - Jharick Shields Xi is tightening control over the PLA but completing goals are critical.Krishnan 21 – Ananth, 11/18/21, ~'Xi tightened control over the PLA', TheHindu, https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/xi-tightened-control-over-the-pla/article37549460.ece~~ Justin Megaconstellations are part of China's core space agenda, is seen as their greatest opportunity to compete with the West, and is a national priority – the private sector is key and the plan is a 180Jones, 21 (Ash Jones, 4-27-2021, accessed on 1-23-2022, Industry Europe, "China's plans for a 13,000 satellite megaconstellation", https://industryeurope.com/sectors/aerospace-defence/china-s-plans-for-a-13-000-satellite-megaconstellation/)azhang That triggers backlash – they don't support restrictions on the space sector and will do everything to convince leaders not to do the plan.Cheng 14 ~Dean Cheng, Senior Research Fellow in the Asia Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation, Former Senior Analyst at the China Studies Division of the Center for Naval Analyses, Former Senior Analyst with Science Applications International Corporation, "Prospects for U.S.-China Space Cooperation", Testimony before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, 4/9/2014, https://www.heritage.org/testimony/prospects-us-china-space-cooperation~~ An unhinged PLA triggers Himalayan war – goes globalChellaney 17 ~Dr. Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Strategic Studies at the Center for Policy Research and Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy, PhD in International Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, "Why the Chinese Military's Rising Clout Troubles Xi Jinping", The National, 9/9/2017, https://www.thenational.ae/opinion/why-the-chinese-military-s-rising-clout-troubles-xi-jinping-1.626815?videoId=5754807360001~~ Extinction.We'll conceded 1AC Rachman 20 | 2/20/22 |
JF - NC - KantTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 6 | Opponent: Mountain House ES | Judge: Nathan Frenkel Ethics must begin a priori and the meta-ethic is bindingness.~1~ Uncertainty – our experiences are inaccessible to others which allows people to say they don't experience the same, however a priori principles are universally applied to all agents.~2~ Bindingness – I can keep asking "why should I follow this" which results in skep since obligations are predicated on ignorantly accepting rules. Only reason solves since asking "why reason?" requires reason which is self-justified.That means we must universally will maxims— any non-universalizable norm justifies someone's ability to impede on your ends.Thus, the standard is consistency with the categorical imperative.Prefer –~1~ All other frameworks collapse—non-Kantian theories source obligations in extrinsically good objects, but that presupposes the goodness of the rational will.~2~ Theory – Frameworks are topicality interps of the word ought so they should be theoretically justified. Prefer on resource disparities—a focus on evidence and statistics privileges debaters with the most preround prep which excludes lone-wolfs who lack huge evidence files. A debate under my framework can easily be won without any prep since huge evidence files aren't required.~3~ No 1AR Framework: It moots 7 minutes of the 1NC and exacerbates the AFF infinite prep time so I should be able to compensate by choosing. They justify substantive skews by shifting frame of offense.Negate:~1~ A model of freedom mandates a market-oriented approach to space—that negatesBroker 20 ~(Tyler, work has been published in the Gonzaga Law Review, the Albany Law Review and the University of Memphis Law Review.) "Space Law Can Only Be Libertarian Minded," Above the Law, 1-14-20, https://abovethelaw.com/2020/01/space-law-can-only-be-libertarian-minded/~~ TDI ~2~ Banning private space appropriation inhibits the sale and use of spacecraft and fuel- that's a form of restricting the free economic choices of individualsRichman 12, Sheldon. "The free market doesn't need government regulation." Reason, August 5, 2012. AHS RG ~3~ Acquisition of property can never be unjust – to create rights violations, there must already be an owner of the property being violated, but that presupposes its appropriation by another entity.Feser 1, (Edward Feser, 1-1-2005, accessed on 12-15-2021, Cambridge University Press, "THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN UNJUST INITIAL ACQUISITION | Social Philosophy and Policy | Cambridge Core", Edward C. Feser is an American philosopher. He is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-philosophy-and-policy/article/abs/there-is-no-such-thing-as-an-unjust-initial-acquisition/5C744D6D5C525E711EC75F75BF7109D1)~~brackets for gen lang~phs st | 2/13/22 |
JF - NC - Kant v2Tournament: 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: Bronx Science IP | Judge: Angela Zhong Ethics must begin a priori and the meta-ethic is bindingness.~1~ Uncertainty – our experiences are inaccessible to others which allows people to say they don't experience the same, however a priori principles are universally applied to all agents.~2~ Bindingness – I can keep asking "why should I follow this" which results in skep since obligations are predicated on ignorantly accepting rules. Only reason solves since asking "why reason?" requires reason which is self-justified.That means we must universally will maxims— any non-universalizable norm justifies someone's ability to impede on your ends.Thus, the standard is consistency with the categorical imperative.Prefer –~1~ All other frameworks collapse—non-Kantian theories source obligations in extrinsically good objects, but that presupposes the goodness of the rational will.~2~ Theory – Frameworks are topicality interps of the word ought so they should be theoretically justified. Prefer on resource disparities—a focus on evidence and statistics privileges debaters with the most preround prep which excludes lone-wolfs who lack huge evidence files. A debate under my framework can easily be won without any prep since huge evidence files aren't required.~3~ No 1ar Theory – Moots 7 min of the 1N and restarts the 1ar creating a 7-6 time skew against the negNegate:~1~ A model of freedom mandates a market-oriented approach to space—that negatesBroker 20 ~(Tyler, work has been published in the Gonzaga Law Review, the Albany Law Review and the University of Memphis Law Review.) "Space Law Can Only Be Libertarian Minded," Above the Law, 1-14-20, https://abovethelaw.com/2020/01/space-law-can-only-be-libertarian-minded/~~ TDI ~2~ Banning private space appropriation inhibits the sale and use of spacecraft and fuel- that's a form of restricting the free economic choices of individualsRichman 12, Sheldon. "The free market doesn't need government regulation." Reason, August 5, 2012. AHS RG ~3~ Acquisition of property can never be unjust – to create rights violations, there must already be an owner of the property being violated, but that presupposes its appropriation by another entity.Feser 1, (Edward Feser, 1-1-2005, accessed on 12-15-2021, Cambridge University Press, "THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN UNJUST INITIAL ACQUISITION | Social Philosophy and Policy | Cambridge Core", Edward C. Feser is an American philosopher. He is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-philosophy-and-policy/article/abs/there-is-no-such-thing-as-an-unjust-initial-acquisition/5C744D6D5C525E711EC75F75BF7109D1)~~brackets for gen lang~phs st Self-ownership justifies the appropriation of property – our freedom necessitates being able to set and pursue external things as our ends, including exercising our rights on property. Restricting this arbitrarily limits our freedom which is unjust.Feser 2, (Edward Feser, 1-1-2005, accessed on 12-15-2021, Cambridge University Press, "THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN UNJUST INITIAL ACQUISITION | Social Philosophy and Policy | Cambridge Core", Edward C. Feser is an American philosopher. He is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-philosophy-and-policy/article/abs/there-is-no-such-thing-as-an-unjust-initial-acquisition/5C744D6D5C525E711EC75F75BF7109D1)~~brackets for gen lang~phs st | 2/20/22 |
JF - REM PICTournament: The 47th Churchill Classic TOC and NIETOC Qualifier | Round: 2 | Opponent: SanDay William Walker | Judge: Davina Le | 1/8/22 |
JF - T-AppropriationTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker SS | Judge: Gordon Krauss Interpretation: Appropriation refers to sovereign claims of land.Melissa J. Durkee 19, J. Alton Hosch Associate Professor of Law, University of Georgia, "Interstitial Space Law," Washington University Law Review 97, no. 2 423-482 Violation: they only defend asteroid mining which is extraction – those are distinct – prefer rigorous legal analysis.Wrench 19 – John grew up outside of Ithaca, New York, and received his law degree from the Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 2019. During law school, he served as editor in chief of the Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law and was a member of the Federalist Society. John interned in his law school's First Amendment Litigation Clinic and was a judicial extern to the Honorable Paul E. Davison in the Southern District of New York. John graduated from Pace University in 2015 with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Religious Studies. 2019. ~Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, " Non-Appropriation, No Problem: The Outer Space Treaty Is Ready for Asteroid Mining," https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2546andcontext=jil~~ Justin Standards:1~ Precision outweighs – non-topical affs violate tournament rules so the judge doesn't have the jurisdiction to vote on them and it controls the internal to pragmatic offense in a question of models because it decks predictable stasis.2~ Limits – allowing extraction to equate to sovereign claims explodes limits by shifting the debate away from sovereign claims to celestial bodies to permutations of parts of celestial bodies that companies could extract – leads to unbeatable affs that just ban extraction of one resource which the neg can't ever predict. Forcing the affirmative to defend sovereign claims to celestial bodies is net better.3~ TVA – defend an aff that bans sovereign claims to celestial bodies – solves your offense since you still get property rights fight offense. | 2/12/22 |
JF - T-Appropriation v mega-constellationsTournament: 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | Round: Triples | Opponent: Eagan AE | Judge: Viren Abhyankar - Jenn Melin - Jharick Shields Interpretation: Appropriation of outer space" by private entities refers to the exercise of exclusive control of space.TIMOTHY JUSTIN TRAPP, JD Candidate @ UIUC Law, '13, TAKING UP SPACE BY ANY OTHER MEANS: COMING TO TERMS WITH THE NONAPPROPRIATION ARTICLE OF THE OUTER SPACE TREATY UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW ~Vol. 2013 No. 4~ Violation: Megaconstellations do not appropriate – reject non-legal interpretationsJohnson 20 ~Chris Johnson is the Space Law Advisor for Secure World Foundation and has nine years of professional experience in international space law and policy. He has authored and co-authored publications on international space law, national space legislation, international cooperation in space, human-robotic cooperative space exploration, and on the societal benefits of space technology for Africa. "The Legal Status of MegaLEO Constellations and Concerns About Appropriation of Large Swaths of Earth Orbit." https://swfound.org/media/206951/johnson2020_referenceworkentry_thelegalstatusofmegaleoconstel.pdf~~ Standards:1~ Precision outweighs – non-topical affs violate tournament rules so the judge doesn't have the jurisdiction to vote on them and it controls the internal to pragmatic offense in a question of models.2~ Predictable limits—including temporary occupation is a limits disaster—any aff about a single spaceship, satellite, or weapon would be T because they temporarily occupy space. Limits explodes neg prep and draws unreciprocal lines of debate.3~ TVA – defend debris like strake – that's what the core concern about megaconstellations are and is permanent.Fairness is a voter—it's a gateway issue to the ballot.Drop the debater to deter future abuse.CI- Reasonability is arbitrary and we don't know the brightline while prepping. Collapses since it uses an offense/defense paradigm to win it.No RVIs- A~ Illogical- you don't win for being fair B~ Encourages baiting theory which proliferates abuse C~ Chills checking abuse for fear of the RVI | 2/20/22 |
JF - T-ImplementationTournament: University of Houston Cougar Classic | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Little Rock Central XJ | Judge: Vishal Sivamani, Reed Weiler, Demarcus Powell Interpretation: The affirmative must defend that the hypothetical enactment of a policy by which private entities cease appropriating outer space or by which they are prevented from doing soResolved means legislative actionLouisiana House 3-8-2005, http://house.louisiana.gov/house-glossary.htm** Vote Neg:~1~ Procedural Fairness- Not all topics offer equitable ground. Absent a topical requirement, the aff will be biased by competitive incentives to find the most uncontroversial advocacy possible with a germane relation to the topic. That limits me to offensive arguments against the AC like oppression good. The only way to make sure that debates are fair is to have one chosen by a 3rd party topic committee. In-round competitive equity is a voting issue and outweighs the K.A. Resolvability- the judge has to indicate who won the round, fairness best coheres with this since if one debater had ten minutes to speak and the other had three there would be incongruence that alters ability to judge the truth value of who wins on the AC so cross-applications don't work.B. Internal Link- Violations of competitive equity prevent effective dialogue and participation.Galloway 07 Ryan, Samford Comm prof, Contemporary Argumentation and Debate, Vol. 28, 2007 ~2~ Limits- Affs outside the topic justify a literal infinite number of affs because you only need to be germanely topical. You can combine any idea with a direction of the resolution. You can read fem rage, DnG, afropess, afrofuturism, and the list goes on and on. Only the topic can serve as a stable starting point on which to base research.Only limited topics protect participants from research overload which materially affects our lives outside of round.Harris 13 Scott Harris (Director of Debate at U Kansas, 2006 National Debate Coach of the Year, Vice President of the American Forensic Association, 2nd speaker at the NDT in 1981). "This ballot." 5 April 2013. CEDA Forums. http://www.cedadebate.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=4762.0;attach=1655 Controls the internal link to the aff- I can't engage in the 1AC's critical issues in round AND you cause research overload so I cannot be politically active for your cause outside of round because I am too busy researching. Also proves your model of debate has material disparaties that you create that prevent effective dialogue.~3~ TVA- read an aff about how oppressive structures will be perpetuated in spaceSolves all your offenseAdditionally, if I win topical version of the aff, they have to win that never being topical is good since otherwise all their net benefits have been captured by my T interpretation.~5~ Ballot paradox – either they want the ballot and prove the competition args, or they're only here for the discussion in which case vote neg but recognize the aff's education is valuable – proves T comes first.~6~ Jurisdiction on Tabroom or joy of tournaments its says debaters have to defend the topic, the judge has to affirm or negate the resolution, if I win they are non topical you vote neg because you cant vote aff since it was literally not an. Jurisdiction is an independent voter because it constrains judge obligationVotersFairness – axiomatic of any competitive activity with wins and losses, requires equal opportunities to win the round.Education – the purpose of the activity is to promote educational discourse, it's the reasons schools support it.competing interps key to setting norms, reasonability doesn't tell you what rule you're endorsing, this means competing interps is key to solving abuse in the future because only this approach can set norms in the future 3) creates a race to bottom where debaters just claim they're reasonably fair or educationalDrop the debater:A) Key to endorsing good methodologies—1AR severance prevents effective dialogue on the role of the ballot and having a methods debate sets a norm for other rounds. It's too late to have a constructive debate about public policy since there are only three speeches left.B) If I win their advocacy is not topical and that topicality comes first then they have no advocacy and thus cannot have offense.Don't let them crossapply their arguments from caseNorm-setting: If there is risk of violation of the shell, then the crossapplication is irrelevant because we have to rectify the abuse claim firstPredictability: I can't predict what they'll go for because meanings of philosophy are unknown to most people and all interpretations of philosophy differ between individuals, so even if I go for what I think can be cross applied then I still looseStructural skew: They get 6 minutes to read constructive arguments, so I'd have to line by line all of them if I don't want them to cross apply them – that's literally impossible if I want to read off case positions tooConflates pre/post fiat distinction – framework arguments are not relative to the round itself, if they were, then the judge would have to be ok with murder if you read skep or benautar | 2/1/22 |
MA - CP - Media LiteracyTournament: TFA State | Round: 3 | Opponent: McNeil Anshul Gulati | Judge: Joshua George Counterplan: Democracies should enact compulsory media literacy courses in high schools and create media literacy community outreach programs.Albano 21 ~Teresa Albano (Freelance writer), 8/31/21, Illinois Becomes the First State to Require Media Literacy Classes for High School Students, https://progressive.org/latest/illinois-first-state-media-literacy-albano-210831/~~ Creates an infrastructure for effective Adult-Ed which solves quicklyKavanagh 18 ~political scientist at the RAND Corporation and associate director of the Strategy, Doctrine, and Resources Program in the RAND Arroyo Center; and Michael D. Rich, president and chief executive officer of the RAND Corporation, 2018, Truth Decay: An Initial Exploration of the Diminishing Role of Facts and Analysis in American Public Life~ Recut Jet Recut Cookie JX Recut SJKS Recut SJVM Recut Justin Recut SJJK Re-cut Elmer Recut SJDL Recut sjvc Recut B1ack ZD Recut Ph1l1m0nst3r Recut SJCPJG Recut SJBE Recut SJ AMe Recut 4n33l Recut Aadit Recut n33l Recut Jay Recut Plano RP Recut SJMS Recut Yaters but for real Recut Jet Solves –1~ Training and demand for high quality contentASP 17 ~American Security Project, With Fake News, Knowledge is Power – The Case for Media Literacy, November 7, https://www.americansecurityproject.org/knowledge-is-power-media-literacy/~~ Recut Jet 2~ Literacy builds immunological resistances against disinformation and signals political costs which immediately reduces propagandaChessen 17 ~Foreign Service Science, Technology and Foreign Policy Fellow at The George Washington University, UNDERSTANDING THE PSYCHOLOGY BEHIND COMPUTATIONALPROPAGANDA, PUBLIC DIPLOMACY SURVIVE THE INTERNET? BOTS, ECHOCHAMBERS, AND DISINFORMATION, https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/271028.pdf~~ Recut Jet | 3/10/22 |
MA - DA - AuthoritarianismTournament: TFA State | Round: 6 | Opponent: Greenh Nikitha Thoduguli | Judge: Devin Hernandez Policies that promote objectivity become the pretext for government crackdowns on legitimate journalismWest 17 Darrell M. West (Vice President and Director - Governance Studies Senior Fellow - Center for Technology Innovation Douglas Dillon Chair in Governmental Studies) 12/18/2017, How to combat fake news and disinformation, Brookings, https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-to-combat-fake-news-and-disinformation/Karan Gov. crackdowns on media are a form of soft authoritarianism that escalates into complete tyrannyChristensen 21 Christensen, Devin (PhD in Political Science, UNC, Chapel Hill), John Lovett, and John A. Curiel. "Mainstream Media Recirculation of Trust-Reducing Social Media Messages." American Politics Research (2021): 1532673X211023931. Authoritarianism causes a laundry list of catastrophic impacts.Kasparov and Halvorssen 17 ~Garry Kasparov and Thor Halvorssen *Chairman of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation Thor Halvorssen is the foundation's president and chief executive. "Opinion: Why the rise of authoritarianism is a global catastrophe." Washington Post. 2/13/17. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2017/02/13/why-the-rise-of-authoritarianism-is-a-global-catastrophe/~~ Justin That culminates in rogue tech, nuclear war, and climate change.Orts '18 ~Eric; June 27; Guardsmark Professor in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania; LinkedIn Pulse, "Foreign Affairs: Six Future Scenarios (and a Seventh)," https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/foreign-affairs-six-future-scenarios-seventh-eric-orts~~ | 3/12/22 |
MA - DA - UkraineTournament: TFA State | Round: 3 | Opponent: McNeil Anshul Gulati | Judge: Joshua George Ukraine war is optimistic, but maintaining outside support and low Russian morale's keyUkraine getting outside help from west Ukrainian propaganda is key to defeating Russia.Stuart A. Thompson 22 (reporter in the technology department covering misinformation and disinformation.) and Davey Alba (technology reporter covering disinformation. In 2019, she won a Livingston Award for excellence in international reporting and a Mirror Award) 3/3/2022, nytimes, Fact and Mythmaking Blend in Ukraine's Information War, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/technology/ukraine-war-misinfo.html Ukraine's info war is key to defeating Russia.Sinan Aral 22 (director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and author of "The Hype Machine) 3/1/2022, Ukraine is winning the information war, Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/03/01/information-war-zelensky-ukraine-putin-russia/ Russian win would lead to escalation in multiple forums – goes global.LIANA FIX 22 (Resident Fellow at the German Marshall Fund, in Washington, D.C). MICHAEL KIMMAGE (Professor of History at the Catholic University of America and a Visiting Fellow at the German Marshall Fund. )2/18/22, What If Russia Wins? A Kremlin-Controlled Ukraine Would Transform Europe, Foreign Affairs, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/ukraine/2022-02-18/what-if-russia-wins | 3/10/22 |
MA - NC - KantTournament: TFA State | Round: 3 | Opponent: McNeil Anshul Gulati | Judge: Joshua George Ethics must begin a priori and the meta-ethic is bindingness.~1~ Uncertainty – our experiences are inaccessible to others which allows people to say they don't experience the same, however a priori principles are universally applied to all agents.~2~ Bindingness – I can keep asking "why should I follow this" which results in skep since obligations are predicated on ignorantly accepting rules. Only reason solves since asking "why reason?" requires reason which is self-justified.That means we must universally will maxims— any non-universalizable norm justifies someone's ability to impede on your ends.Thus, the standard is consistency with the categorical imperative.Prefer –~1~ All other frameworks collapse—non-Kantian theories source obligations in extrinsically good objects, but that presupposes the goodness of the rational will.~2~ Theory – Frameworks are topicality interps of the word ought so they should be theoretically justified. Prefer on resource disparities—a focus on evidence and statistics privileges debaters with the most preround prep which excludes lone-wolfs who lack huge evidence files. A debate under my framework can easily be won without any prep since huge evidence files aren't required.~3~ No 1AR Framework: It moots 7 minutes of the 1NC and exacerbates the AFF infinite prep time so I should be able to compensate by choosing. They justify substantive skews by shifting frame of offense.~4~ Aspec: JOURNALISTS CAN'T USE UTIL, PREFER DUTY BASED ETHICSChristians 7 Christians, Clifford (Research Professor of Comunications, Professor of Journalism and Professor of Media Studies Emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Utilitarianism in media ethics and its discontents." Journal of Mass Media Ethics 22.2-3 (2007): 113-131. Negate:~1~ Objectivity censors' journalists' personal views and biases- that's non universalizableGreven 21 Greven, Alec, "Speech and Sovereignty: A Kantian Defense of Freedom of Expression" (2021). Honors Theses. 1579. ~2~ Journalists are required to respect those they report on, thus, advocacy journalism is required to alleviate sufferingLeshilo 18 Thabo Leshilo ~A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, Applied Ethics for Professionals.~ "Morality and Journalists: Objectivity versus Duty of Care" 13 July 2018, Johannesburg https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10539/26530/Morality20and20Journalists20(markup)_2.pdf?sequence=1 | 3/10/22 |
MA - Spec MediaTournament: TFA State | Round: 6 | Opponent: Greenh Nikitha Thoduguli | Judge: Devin Hernandez Interpretation: The affirmative must define "free press" in a delineated line in the 1ACMultiple types of press that fit into the definition- explicit clarification neededCambridge Dictionary, ND, "free press," No Publication, https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/free-press Violation: They didn'tNegate:1~ Shiftiness- they can redefine what free press the 1ac defends in the 1ar which decks strategy and allows them to wriggle out of negative positions which strips the neg of social media DAs, specific news stations DAs, and case answers. They will always win on specificity weighing.CX can't resolve this and is bad because A~ Not flowed B~ Skews 6 min of prep C~ They can lie and no way to check D~ Debaters can be shady.2~ Real World- policy makers will always specify who the actor of change is. That outweighs since debate has no value without portable application.This spec shell isn't regressive- it literally determines who the affirmative implements the aff through.Fairness – debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation. Education – terminal impact of debateDrop the debater – a~ deter future abuse and b~ set better norms for debate.Competing interps – ~a~ reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention since there's no clear norm, ~b~ it creates a race to the top where we create the best possible norms for debate.No RVIs – a~ illogical, you don't win for proving that you meet the burden of being fair, logic outweighs since it's a prerequisite for evaluating any other argument, b~ RVIs incentivize baiting theory and prepping it out which leads to maximally abusive practices | 3/12/22 |
Method - Kant vs Non-T v2Tournament: University of Houston Cougar Classic | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Little Rock Central XJ | Judge: Vishal Sivamani, Reed Weiler, Demarcus Powell The starting point of morality is practical reason.1~ Regress: A theory is only binding when you can answer the question "why should I do this?" and not continue to ask "why". Only practical reason provides a deductive foundation for ethics since the question "why should I be rational" already concedes the authoritative power of agency since your agency is at work. Metaethical standards outweigh: they determine what counts as a warrant for a standard, so absent grounding in some metaethical framework, their arguments aren't relevant normative considerations.And, reason must be universal – a reason for one agent is a reason for another agent. I can't say 2+24 is true for me but not for you – that's incoherent.==== Method:Thus, counter-methodology:Vote negative to engage in a liberation strategy of universal reason.This entails a starting point where we abstract from individual perspectives to understand the universal, and use this starting point to apply it to empirical institutions and agents.No perms: Uniquely non-sensical in a method debate:~a~ It assumes a notion of fiat that doesn't make sense without a plan. The 1AC role of the ballot forefronts the performative and methodological which a permutation steals away~b~ non-T affs shouldn't get perms since they can defend literally anything in the world – thus the burden is on them to prove their advocacy is the best solution to the problem they propose. Additionally Prefer:~1~ Ideal theory is capable of radical possibilities.Holmstrom 12 ~Holmstrom, Nancy ~Prof. Emeritus @ Rutgers~. "Response to Charles Mills's." Radical Philosophy Review 15.2 (2012): 325-330.~ ~2~ Universality is the best way of solving oppression.Mills 18 Charles W. Mills. "Black Radical Kantianism." Res Philosophica, Vol. 95, No. 1, January 2018, pp. 1–33 https:// doi.org/ 10.11612/ resphil.1622 SJVM Organic Intellectual Negate:~1~ Independently not defending the topic is non-universalizable b/c if nobody defended the topic than a topic wouldn't have even been created in the first place which is a contradiction in conception.~2~ The aff has a deontological obligation to be topical.Nebel 15 Jake Nebel,"The Priority of Resolutional Semantics by Jake Nebel," Briefly, https://www.vbriefly.com/2015/02/20/the-priority-of-resolutional-semantics-by-jake-nebel/==== | 2/1/22 |
ND - CP - Compulsory VotingTournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lexington AA | Judge: Phoenix Pittman CP Text: In a just government voting ought to be compulsory.Herrle and Dionne 7/24 Amber Herrle and E.J. Dionne, 7-24-2020, Why shouldn't voting be mandatory?, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/07/24/why-shouldnt-voting-be-mandatory/ Amber Herrle Research Analyst - Governance Studies E.J. Dionne, Jr. W. Averell Harriman Chair and Senior Fellowsjvc Compulsory voting is key to bolster democratic electionsHerrle and Dionne 7/24 Amber Herrle (research analyst – governance studies) and E.J. Dionne, Jr. (W. Averell Harriman Chair and Senior Fellow), 7-24-2020, "Why shouldn't voting be mandatory?" Brookings, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/07/24/why-shouldnt-voting-be-mandatory/, SJBE CP solves – leads to more youth registration which leads to immediate increase in turnout and democratic legitimacy – Australia provesSmith 16 Jake Smith (postgraduate student at the School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University), 11-15-2016, "An analysis of the effect of compulsory voting on youth political apathy" Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods, https://wiserd.ac.uk/news/analysis-effect-compulsory-voting-youth-political-apathy, SJBE | 11/20/21 |
ND - DA - InflationTournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lexington AA | Judge: Phoenix Pittman Post-Covid economic recovery is fragile now- inflation is adding pressure.Lynch 6-11 ~David J. Lynch Washington, D.C. Financial writer covering trade and globalization Washington Post, 6-11-2021, "Rising prices in the U.S. could rattle other countries amid uneven global recovery," https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/06/11/inflation-fed-biden-recovery/~~ 6/13/2021 Unions' demands for higher wages causes an inflationary spiral.Guida 6-4 Victoria Guida ~an economics reporter covering the Federal Reserve, the Treasury Department and the broader economy. She has spent her Washington career writing about bank regulations, monetary policy and trade negotiations. That collapses the economy.Colombo 18 ~Jesse Colombo is an economic analyst and Forbes contributor who warns about bubbles and future financial crises~, "How Interest Rate Hikes Will Trigger The Next Financial Crisis", Forbes, 9-27-18, https://www.forbes.com/sites/jessecolombo/2018/09/27/how-interest-rate-hikes-will-trigger-the-next-financial-crisis/?sh=5401bf966717 Causes global nuclear warTønnesson 15, Dr. Stein Tønnesson is a Norwegian peace researcher and historian. International Area Studies Review, 18(3), "Deterrence, interdependence and Sino–US peace." https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2233865915596660 you know how to access it | ahsBC | 11/20/21 |
ND - DA - InfrastructureTournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Lexington AG | Judge: Keshav Dandu - Tajaih Robinson - Breigh Plat Infrastructure is passing now and is at the top of Bidens agenda—-Biden has enough PC but continuation is critical.Nomikos 9/1 ~William; 9/1/21; Assistant professor of political science at Washington University in St. Louis and director of the Data-driven Analysis of Peace Project; "Everyone has an opinion on Afghanistan — Do voters care?" The Hill, https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/570422-everyone-has-an-opinion-on-afghanistan-do-voters-care~~ Justin Labor reform saps PC – empirically prove with Obama, corporate opposition, and Democratic resistanceLeon 21 Luis Feliz Leon, 01-06-2021, ""If we want it, we're going to have to fight like hell for it" - Labor faces an uphill battle to pass the PRO Act," Strike Wave, https://www.thestrikewave.com/original-content/labor-faces-uphill-battle-to-pass-pro-act/SJKS ExtinctionCastillo 21 ~Rhyma; 8/16/21; News and politics writer at Elite Daily, where she's passionate about advocating for underserved communities throughout the United States. She's covered issues in politics, immigration, environmental racism, climate change, gun violence, and more. After graduating with an English degree from Texas AandM Unversity, Rhyma has worked as a technical writer and test author at Educational Testing Service (ETS), a copywriter for Mightier Content, and as a Creative Operations Specialist at GoDaddy. She also has bylines as a freelancer at the San Antonio Current, where her reporting on local news, politics, tech, and entertainment has been widely circulated; "Experts Explain What You Can Do About Climate Change After That Scary IPCC Report," Elite Daily, https://www.elitedaily.com/news/what-you-can-do-climate-change-after-ipcc-report~~ Justin | 11/5/21 |
ND - DA - TerrorTournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: Trinity Prep NC | Judge: Keshav Dandu Tech can solve infrastructure concerns but needs to be integrated – operators are key.Jacobs 5/31 ~Lionel; Senior Security Architect in the Palo Alto Networks ICS and SCADA solutions team. Coming from the asset-owner side , Lionel has spent more than 20 years working in the IT/OT environment, with a focus on ICS systems design, controls, and implementation. He was a pioneer in bridging the IT-OT security gap and implementing next-generation security into performance and safety critical process control areas. During his tenure, he successfully deployed a large scale ICS/SCADA security architecture composed of over 100 next-generation firewalls, hundreds of advanced endpoint protection clients and SIEM, distributed over dozens of remote plants and a centralized core, all based on a "Zero Trust" philosophy. Lionel graduated from Houston Baptist University with a double degree in Physics and Mathematics and has held certifications as a MCSE, CCA, CCNP, CCIP, CCNA, CSSA, and GICSP; "Critical Infrastructure Protection: Physical and Cyber Security Both Matter," eSecurity Planet; 5/31/21; https://www.esecurityplanet.com/networks/critical-infrastructure-protection-physical-cybersecurity/~~ Justin Increased strikes send a clear signal to terrorists that critical US infrastructure is vulnerable by weakening organizations.Davies 6 ~Ross; George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, The Green Bag; "Strike Season: Protecting Labor-Management Conflict in the Age of Terror," SSRN; 4/12/06; https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=896185~~ Justin Attacks on critical infrastructure collapses the economy through multiple avenues.FAS 6 ~DCSINT Handbook No. 1.02; Info directly from US army and Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence; "Critical Infrastructure Threats and Terrorism," DCSINT/FAS; 8/10/6; https://fas.org/irp/threat/terrorism/sup2.pdf~~ Justin Extinction.Liu '18 ~Qian; 11/13/18; Managing Director of Greater China for The Economist Group, previously director of the global economics unit and director of Access China for the Economist Intelligence Unit, PhD in economics from Uppsala University; "The next economic crisis could cause a global conflict. Here's why," https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/the-next-economic-crisis-could-cause-a-global-conflict-heres-why/~~ Re-Cut Justin | 10/30/21 |
ND - Impact Turn - Heg badTournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Lexington AG | Judge: Keshav Dandu - Tajaih Robinson - Breigh Plat 1NC – Heg BadFirst is offense-1~ CounterbalancingA. Pursuit of hegemony leads to Sino-Russia alliance and is unsustainable.Porter, DPhil, 19 B. A strong Sino-Russian alliance combined with expanded US military presence ensures joint retaliation — that escalates to the use of nuclear forceKlare 18 – Professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College. (Michael T., "The Pentagon Is Planning a Three-Front 'Long War' Against China and Russia," April 4, 2018, https://fpif.org/the-pentagon-is-planning-a-three-front-long-war-against-china-and-russia/)//sy 2~ TerrorismA. Hegemony fails and propagates terrorism – it justifies intervention and empirically causes blowback.Bandow 19 (Doug, senior fellow @ Cato Institute and JD Stanford, 6-2-2019, "Understanding the Failure of U.S. Foreign Policy: The Albright Doctrine," National Interest, https://nationalinterest.org/blog/skeptics/understanding-failure-us-foreign-policy-albright-doctrine-60477) AG B. Unipolarity is specifically responsible for the globalization of extremism – that makes heg unsustainable.Ibrahimi 18 (2/19/18; S. Yaqub Ibrahimi, ~researcher and instructor of political science. PhD @ Carleton University~ "Unipolar politics and global peace: a structural explanation of the globalizing jihad"; taylor and francis https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17467586.2018.1428763?needAccess=true) C. Terrorism causes global nuclear war—collapses internal AND external stabilityArguello and Buis, 18 – *Irma, Founder and Chair of the NPSGlobal Foundation (Non-proliferation for Global Security), degree in Phyisics Science from the University of Buenos Aires, Master degree in Business Administration from IDEA/Wharton School, Defense and Security studies (Master level) at the Escuela de Defensa Nacional, Argentina; Emiliano, lawyer and associate professor of public international law, international humanitarian law, international law of disarmament, and the origins of international law in antiquity (Irma Arguello and Emiliano J. Buis, "The global impacts of a terrorist nuclear attack: What would happen? What should we do?," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1080/00963402.2018.1436812) 3~ China Heg GoodTrump's abandoning of liberal norms creates a window for Chinese leadershipYan Zuetong 19, Distinguished Professor and Dean of the Institute of International Relations at Tsinghua University, January/February, "The Age of Uneasy Peace," lexis. The plan reverses Chinese expansion and decks heg – authoritarianism is the keyChernin 17 Kelly Chernin, 7-24-2017, "Hong Kong's democratic struggle and the rise of Chinese authoritarianism," Conversation, https://theconversation.com/hong-kongs-democratic-struggle-and-the-rise-of-chinese-authoritarianism-81369, SJBE Chinese hegemony is necessary to global cooperation on existential threatsShen Yamei 18, Deputy Director and Associate Research Fellow of Department for American Studies, China Institute of International Studies, 1-9-2018, "Probing into the "Chinese Solution" for the Transformation of Global Governance," CAIFC, http://www.caifc.org.cn/en/content.aspx?id=4491 Empirics prove authoritarian China is a credible deterrent – authoritarian military spending prevents warPayne et al. 13 (Keith, Professor and Head of the Graduate Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, Missouri State University (Washington Campus). Dr. Payne is also President and co-founder of the National Institute for Public Policy, a nonprofit research center located in Fairfax, Virginia. Dr. Payne served in the Department of Defense as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Forces Policy. He received the Distinguished Public Service Medal and the Forces Policy office Dr. Payne led received a Joint Meritorious Unit Award. In this position, Dr. Payne was the head of U.S. delegation in numerous allied consultations and in "Working Group Two" negotiations on BMD cooperation with the Russian Federation. In 2005 he was awarded the Vicennial Medal from Georgetown University for his many years on the faculty of the graduate National Security Studies Program. Dr. Payne is the Chairman of the U.S. Strategic Command's Senior Advisory Group, Strategy and Policy Panel, editor-in-chief of Comparative Strategy: An International Journal, and co-chair of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum. He served as a Commissioner on the bipartisan Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States, the Secretary of State's International Security Advisory Board, as co-chairman of the Department of Defense's Deterrence Concepts Advisory Group, and also as a participant or leader of numerous governmental and private studies, including White House studies of U.S.-Russian cooperation, Defense Science Board Studies, and Defense Department studies of missile defense, arms control, and proliferation. He was a primary contributor to the 2001 Nuclear Posture Review, and has served as a consultant to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and participated in the 1998 "Rumsfeld Study" of missile proliferation. Dr. Payne has lectured on defense and foreign policy issues at numerous colleges and universities in North America, Europe, and Asia. He is the author, co-author, or editor of over one hundred and fifty published articles and eighteen books and monographs, some of which have been translated into German, Russian, Chinese or Japanese. His most recent monograph is entitled, Nuclear Force Adaptability for Deterrence and Assurance: A Prudent Alternative to Minimum Deterrence (with Dr. John Foster). Dr. Payne's articles have appeared in many major U.S., European and Japanese professional journals and newspapers. Dr. Payne received an A.B. (honors) in political science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1976, studied in Heidelberg, Germany, and in 1981 received a Ph.D. (with distinction) in international relations from the University of Southern California, James, an American economist and public servant who was best known for serving as Secretary of Defense from 1973 to 1975 under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, Minimum Deterrence: Examining the Evidence, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY, 2013, http://www.nipp.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Final-Distro.pdf, Accessed: June 26, 2016, YDEL) Defense-Empirics go neg – most qualified studies disprove hegemonic stability theories.Fettweis 17 –Christopher J. Fettweis is an American political scientist and the Associate Professor of Political Science at Tulane University. "Unipolarity, Hegemony, and the New Peace, Security Studies" 26:3, 423-451; EG) Power transitions cause retrenchment and peace, not war.MacDonald and Parent, PhDs in Political Science, 20 | 11/5/21 |
ND - Kant NCTournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: Triples | Opponent: Southlake Carroll EPi | Judge: Phoenix Pittman - Jenn Melin - Jalyn Wu The meta-ethic is practical reasoningInfinite Regress: We can infinitely ask why for other theories but to ask why for reasons concedes reasons, so reasons are inescapable and binding, and binding theory outweigh because only they can guide action which is the purpose of ethics.Action Theory: Every action has infinite sub-actions we must unify them under intent to explain the unity of action. To use intent agents must use practical reason to know the means she takes in her actions can achieve principles guiding the action.To be an agent is to have the ability to rationally self-reflect, because that ability is how we derive reason and value.Korsgaard 96 Agency requires universalizability. Universal willing is a prerequisite to self-determination of action. Anything else means desire controls our actions, thus the actor is no longer an agent.Korsgaard 99 If an agent regards their purpose as important, they must regard the means as important, one of which is freedom.Denying individuals' independent choice, or outer freedom, is rationally contradictory. As you expand your freedom to limit someone else's same freedom which results in contradiction and is incoherent, so we can't limit anyone's freedom. A universal system of freedoms requires consistency with the omnilateral will.Ripstein 04 ~1~ Ethical frameworks must be theoretically legitimate. All frameworks are functionally topicality interpretations of the word ought so they must be theoretically justified:~a~ Resource disparities—a focus on evidence and statistics privileges debaters with the most preround prep which excludes lone-wolfs who lack huge evidence files. My Framework solves since only analytical arguments are required. That controls the internal link to other voters because a pre-req to debating is access to the activity.~b~ Real world education—states abide by inviolable side-constraints in constitutions—Germany proves.Ripstein 09 Voters: Fairness—debate is a competitive activity governed by rules. You can't evaluate who did better debating if the round is structurally skewed, so fairness is a gateway to substantive debate. Education—schools fund debate for its education value, and only education has out of round impacts.~2~ Performativity—freedom is the key to the process of justification of arguments. Willing that we should abide by their ethical theory presupposes that we own ourselves in the first place. Thus, it is logically incoherent to justify a standard without first willing that we can pursue ends free from others.Offense1~ Strikes violate individual autonomy by exercising coercion.Gourevitch 18 ~Alex; Brown University; "The Right to Strike: A Radical View," American Political Science Review; 2018; https://sci-hub.se/10.1017/s0003055418000321~~ Justin 2~ Means to an end: employees ignore their duty to help their patients in favor of higher wages which treats them as a means to an end.3~ The aff homogenizes all strikes as an unconditional right which is unethical.Loewy 2K, Erich H. "Of healthcare professionals, ethics, and strikes." Cambridge Q. Healthcare Ethics 9 (2000): 513. (Erich H. Loewy M.D., F.A.C.P., was born in Vienna, Austria in 1927 and was able to escape first to England and then to the U.S. in late 1938. He was initially trained as a cardiologist. He taught at Case Western Reserve and practiced in Cleveland, Ohio. After 14 years he devoted himself fully to Bioethics and taught at the University of Illinois for 12 years. In 1996 he was selected as the first endowed Alumni Association Chair of Bioethics at the University of California Davis School of Medicine and has taught there since.) JG 4~ Free-riding: strikes are a form of free-riding since those who don't participate still reap the benefits.Dolsak and Prakash 19 ~Nives and Aseem; We write on environmental issues, climate politics and NGOs; "Climate Strikes: What They Accomplish And How They Could Have More Impact," 9/14/19; Forbes; https://www.forbes.com/sites/prakashdolsak/2019/09/14/climate-strikes-what-they-accomplish-and-how-they-could-have-more-impact/?sh=2244a9bd5eed~~ Justin | 11/20/21 |
ND - NC - RipsteinTournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: Marlborough SG | Judge: Jacob Palmer FWThe meta-ethic is practical reasoningInfinite Regress: We can infinitely ask why for other theories but to ask why for reasons concedes reasons, so reasons are inescapable and binding, and binding theory outweigh because only they can guide action which is the purpose of ethics.Action Theory: Every action has infinite sub-actions we must unify them under intent to explain the unity of action. To use intent agents must use practical reason to know the means she takes in her actions can achieve principles guiding the action.To be an agent is to have the ability to rationally self-reflect, because that ability is how we derive reason and value.Korsgaard 96 Agency requires universalizability. Universal willing is a prerequisite to self-determination of action. Anything else means desire controls our actions, thus the actor is no longer an agent.Korsgaard 99 If an agent regards their purpose as important, they must regard the means as important, one of which is freedom.Denying individuals' independent choice, or outer freedom, is rationally contradictory. As you expand your freedom to limit someone else's same freedom which results in contradiction and is incoherent, so we can't limit anyone's freedom. A universal system of freedoms requires consistency with the omnilateral will.Ripstein 04 Thus, the standard is consistency with the omnilateral will. Prefer:~1~ Ethical frameworks must be theoretically legitimate. All frameworks are functionally topicality interpretations of the word ought so they must be theoretically justified:~a~ Resource disparities—a focus on evidence and statistics privileges debaters with the most preround prep which excludes lone-wolfs who lack huge evidence files. My Framework solves since only analytical arguments are required. That controls the internal link to other voters because a pre-req to debating is access to the activity.~b~ Real world education—states abide by inviolable side-constraints in constitutions—Germany proves.Ripstein 09 Voters: Fairness—debate is a competitive activity governed by rules. You can't evaluate who did better debating if the round is structurally skewed, so fairness is a gateway to substantive debate. Education—schools fund debate for its education value, and only education has out of round impacts.~2~ Performativity—freedom is the key to the process of justification of arguments. Willing that we should abide by their ethical theory presupposes that we own ourselves in the first place. Thus, it is logically incoherent to justify a standard without first willing that we can pursue ends free from others.Offense1~ Strikes violate individual autonomy by exercising coercion.Gourevitch 18 ~Alex; Brown University; "The Right to Strike: A Radical View," American Political Science Review; 2018; https://sci-hub.se/10.1017/s0003055418000321~~ Justin 2~ Means to an end: employees ignore their duty to help their patients in favor of higher wages which treats them as a means to an end.3~ The aff homogenizes all strikes as an unconditional right which is unethical.Loewy 2K, Erich H. "Of healthcare professionals, ethics, and strikes." Cambridge Q. Healthcare Ethics 9 (2000): 513. (Erich H. Loewy M.D., F.A.C.P., was born in Vienna, Austria in 1927 and was able to escape first to England and then to the U.S. in late 1938. He was initially trained as a cardiologist. He taught at Case Western Reserve and practiced in Cleveland, Ohio. After 14 years he devoted himself fully to Bioethics and taught at the University of Illinois for 12 years. In 1996 he was selected as the first endowed Alumni Association Chair of Bioethics at the University of California Davis School of Medicine and has taught there since.) JG 4~ Free-riding: strikes are a form of free-riding since those who don't participate still reap the benefits.Dolsak and Prakash 19 ~Nives and Aseem; We write on environmental issues, climate politics and NGOs; "Climate Strikes: What They Accomplish And How They Could Have More Impact," 9/14/19; Forbes; https://www.forbes.com/sites/prakashdolsak/2019/09/14/climate-strikes-what-they-accomplish-and-how-they-could-have-more-impact/?sh=2244a9bd5eed~~ Justin | 11/6/21 |
ND - NC - Ripstein v2Tournament: The Longhorn Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Northland Christian Linh Dam | Judge: Truman Le The meta-ethic is practical reasoningInfinite Regress: We can infinitely ask why for other theories but to ask why for reasons concedes reasons, so reasons are inescapable and binding, and binding theory outweigh because only they can guide action which is the purpose of ethics.Action Theory: Every action has infinite sub-actions we must unify them under intent to explain the unity of action. To use intent agents must use practical reason to know the means she takes in her actions can achieve principles guiding the action.To be an agent is to have the ability to rationally self-reflect, because that ability is how we derive reason and value.Korsgaard 96 Agency requires universalizability. Universal willing is a prerequisite to self-determination of action. Anything else means desire controls our actions, thus the actor is no longer an agent.Korsgaard 99 If an agent regards their purpose as important, they must regard the means as important, one of which is freedom.Denying individuals' independent choice, or outer freedom, is rationally contradictory. As you expand your freedom to limit someone else's same freedom which results in contradiction and is incoherent, so we can't limit anyone's freedom. A universal system of freedoms requires consistency with the omnilateral will.Ripstein 04 For the state to maintain its united will, the powerful need to be regulated so they cannot rightfully abuse positions over those subject to them to maintain equal freedom. Coercion is when your circumstance requires adopting another's purposes because of imbalanced bargaining position.Ripstein 9 "Force and Freedom." Arthur Ripstein, 2009. Prof. of Philosophy and Law at University of Toronto. https://books.google.com/books?id=W_B3oVsdOZUCandpg=PA272andlpg=PA272anddq=22Kant+argues+that+provision+for+the+poor+follows+directly+from+the+very+idea+of+a+united+will.22andsource=blandots=qeZgxmZ4o0andsig=ACfU3U09Kis9KW3g9jVDf3h8LHA3lm7hdgandhl=enandsa=Xandved=2ahUKEwiW4aCQ3ePzAhX7nWoFHZIQCpIQ6AF6BAgDEAM~~#v=onepageandq=22Kant20argues20that20provision20for20the20poor20follows20directly20from20the20very20idea20of20a20united20will.22Because20each20person20is20master20andf=false SJMS Bracketed for clarity Thus, the standard is consistency with the omnilateral will. Prefer:~1~ Performativity—freedom is the key to the process of justification of arguments. Willing that we should abide by their ethical theory presupposes that we own ourselves in the first place. Thus, it is logically incoherent to justify a standard without first willing that we can pursue ends free from others.~2~ Consequences Fail:~a~ Every action has infinite stemming consequences, because every consequence can cause another consequence so we can't predict or calculate.~b~ Induction is circular because it relies on the assumption that nature will hold uniform and we could only reach that conclusion through inductive reasoning based on observation of past events.~3~ Use epistemic confidence.~a~ Truth-testing implies it – you must first determine under what conditions something could be considered true before deciding if it is true. EM begs the question of why maximizing value on your side of the resolution is good, that would require comparative worlds.~b~ It's substantively true – you wouldn't combine medicines from three different doctors just because they gave you three different opinions.~c~ EC promotes higher quality phil clash because it incentivizes stronger defensive arguments against phil which actually test the underlying warrants in frameworks rather than just extending args for a risk of offense~d~ EM is infinitely regressive since we need to use modesty to determine the probability that EM is true and that that is true and so on~e~ EC is better for clash people it ensures that people don't weigh something that is 0.01 true against something that is 100 true and ignore clashNegate:1~ Strikes violate individual autonomy by exercising coercion.Gourevitch 18 ~Alex; Brown University; "The Right to Strike: A Radical View," American Political Science Review; 2018; https://sci-hub.se/10.1017/s0003055418000321~~ Justin 2~ Means to an end: employees ignore their duty to help their patients in favor of higher wages which treats them as a means to an end.3~ Free-riding: strikes are a form of free-riding since those who don't participate still reap the benefits.Dolsak and Prakash 19 ~Nives and Aseem; We write on environmental issues, climate politics and NGOs; "Climate Strikes: What They Accomplish And How They Could Have More Impact," 9/14/19; Forbes; https://www.forbes.com/sites/prakashdolsak/2019/09/14/climate-strikes-what-they-accomplish-and-how-they-could-have-more-impact/?sh=2244a9bd5eed~~ Justin 4~ The aff homogenizes all strikes as an unconditional right which is unethical.Loewy 2K, Erich H. "Of healthcare professionals, ethics, and strikes." Cambridge Q. Healthcare Ethics 9 (2000): 513. (Erich H. Loewy M.D., F.A.C.P., was born in Vienna, Austria in 1927 and was able to escape first to England and then to the U.S. in late 1938. He was initially trained as a cardiologist. He taught at Case Western Reserve and practiced in Cleveland, Ohio. After 14 years he devoted himself fully to Bioethics and taught at the University of Illinois for 12 years. In 1996 he was selected as the first endowed Alumni Association Chair of Bioethics at the University of California Davis School of Medicine and has taught there since.) JG | 12/4/21 |
ND - Nebel Wokers TTournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: Triples | Opponent: Southlake Carroll EPi | Judge: Phoenix Pittman - Jenn Melin - Jalyn Wu Interpretation: "workers" is a generic bare plural. The aff may not defend that a just government recognizes a specific group of workers unconditional right to strikeNebel 19. ~Jake Nebel is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California and executive director of Victory Briefs. He writes a lot of this stuff lol – duh.~ "Genericity on the Standardized Tests Resolution." Vbriefly. August 12, 2019. https://www.vbriefly.com/2019/08/12/genericity-on-the-standardized-tests-resolution/?fbclid=IwAR0hUkKdDzHWrNeqEVI7m59pwsnmqLl490n4uRLQTe7bWmWDO_avWCNzi14 TG It applies to "workers" – 1~ upward entailment test – "a just government ought to recognize workers unconditional right to strike" doesn't entail that a just government ought to recognize peoples unconditional right to strike because it doesn't prove all people should strike, 2~ adverb test – adding "always" doesn't change its meaning because recognition is unconditional.Violation: They specStandards:1~ Precision – the counter-interp justifies them arbitrarily doing away with random words in the resolution which decks ground and prep because the aff is no longer bounded by the resolution. Independent voter for jurisdiction – the judge doesn't have the jurisdiction to vote aff if there wasn't a legitimate aff.2~ Limits and ground – their model allows affs to defend anything from teachers to doctors to the police— there's no universal DA since each has different functions and implications — that explodes prep and leads to random worker of the week affs which makes neg prep impossible.3~ TVA solves – you could've read your plan as an advantage under a whole res advocacy.Fairness – debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation. Outweighs – it constrains your ability to evaluate the rest of the flow because they require fair evaluation.Drop the debater – to deter future abuse and set better norms for debate.Competing interps – reasonability is arbitrary and invites judge intervention but we creates a race to the top where we create the best norms for debate.No RVIs – a~ illogical, you don't win for proving that you meet the burden of being fair, logic outweighs since it's a prerequisite for evaluating any other argument, b~ RVIs incentivize baiting theory and prepping it out which leads to maximally abusive practices1AR theory is dta and reasonability – sandbagging o/w, irresolvable o/wRVI on 1AR theory – time skew o/w | 11/20/21 |
ND - Nibs NCTournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 4 | Opponent: American Heritage Broward NR | Judge: Arjan Kang Presumption and permissibility negates – a) more often false than true since I can prove something false in infinite ways b) real world policies require positive justification before being adopted c) the aff has to prove an obligation which means lack of that obligation negates d) resolved in the resolution indicates they proactively did something, to negate that means that they aren't resolved e) winning the nc proves since otherwise we'd be blindly deceived when skeptical f) to negate means to deny the truth of which means if the aff is false you vote neg g) permissibility can't affirm since then anything would be ok which would justify racism – we should be safe and do nothing.The role of the ballot is to determine whether the resolution is a true or false statement – anything else moots 7 minutes of the 1NC and exacerbates the affirmative infinite prep time skew since I should be able to compensate by choosing – it's the most logical since you don't say vote for the player who shoots the most 3 points, the better player wins since debate is a game with rules given by how there's a winner and loser. No arguments in the 1ar and 2ar so we can end debate quicker and go on with our personal live which o/w on probability b/c everyone does things outside debate. Answers collapse to truth testing since they require truth value i.e. truth testing is false requires proving that it is true that truth testing is false which means we're also a prerequisite to your framing.X Changing the structure of the activity can't occur within the round i.e. in the middle of a chess match, it's nonsensical to bring up new rules unless discussed outside of the act of playing the game – out of round rule-setting solves 100 of your offense.Nothing leaves this round other than the result on the ballot which means even if there is a higher purpose, it doesn't change anything, and you should just write whatever is important on the ballot and vote for me. Evaluate the debate after the 1nc because we each have 1 speech. Answering this triggers constitutivism since the win is necessary for your scholarship which means rules inside of the game matter otherwise negate on presumption.Scalar methods like comparison increases intervention – the persuasion of certain DA or advantages sway decisions – T/F binary is descriptive and technical. 1ar theory isn't reciprocal, you have 1 more speech.~1~ Workers are defined as "any of the sexually underdeveloped and usually sterile members of a colony of social ants, bees, wasps, or termites that perform most of the labor and protective duties of the colony" (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/worker) but bees can't strike so the resolution is incoherent~2~ To means "indicate movement" (Merriam Webster), but that means the resolution is incoherent because the word ought cannot move to the word provide. Means you negate on face because you can't even know what the resolution looks like and an incoherent claim can't have truth.~3~ Topicality-Inherency Double bind – either the aff defends a just government in which case it would already recognize the aff to strike so the aff has no inherency so you vote neg because there's no reason to do the aff or the aff doesn't defend a just government in which case they're not defending the resolution so you vote neg because they don't affirm – if the aff said nothing in the 1ac I couldn't make arguments but you'd still vote neg because they didn't affirm | 10/30/21 |
ND - PIC - Interunion DisputesTournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: Trinity Prep NC | Judge: Keshav Dandu Counter-Plan Text: "A just government" ought to recognize a right of workers to strike with a condition that strikes not relate to inter-union disputes.Waas 13 Bernd Waas (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany). "Strike as a Fundamental Right of the Workers and its Risks of Conflicting with other Fundamental Rights of the Citizens," XX World Congress, Santiago de Chile, September 2012, General Report III. https://www.islssl.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Strike-Waas.pdf SJMS Empirical evidence proves – inter-union rivalries hurt the labor movement.Ncube 16 Farai Ncube (Faculty of Management and Law, School of Economic and Management, University of Limpopo, Polokwane, South Africa), "Inter- Union Rivalry, Legitimacy and Union Influence on Shop-Floor Industrial Relations in Zimbabwe's Urban Councils," International Journal of Economics, Finance and Management Sciences. Vol. 4, No. 6, 2016, pp. 362-368. doi: 10.11648/j.ijefm.20160406.18 http://article.sciencepublishinggroup.com/html/10.11648.j.ijefm.20160406.18.html SJMS Methodology in docFarai Ncube (Faculty of Management and Law, School of Economic and Management, University of Limpopo, Polokwane, South Africa), "Inter- Union Rivalry, Legitimacy and Union Influence on Shop-Floor Industrial Relations in Zimbabwe's Urban Councils," International Journal of Economics, Finance and Management Sciences. Vol. 4, No. 6, 2016, pp. 362-368. doi: 10.11648/j.ijefm.20160406.18 http://article.sciencepublishinggroup.com/html/10.11648.j.ijefm.20160406.18.html Using strikes in inter-union disputes hurt recruitment and divert resources from labor initiatives. This creates a negative feedback loop because lower recruitment leads to more inter-union tension. This also diminishes foreign investment in small countries like Ireland. Inter-union disputes uniquely harm infrastructure – proves the DA.Frawley 01 Martin Frawley (assistant editor of Industrial Relations News), "Inter-union rivalry shooting trade union movement in foot," The Irish Times, May 12, 2001, https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/inter-union-rivalry-shooting-trade-union-movement-in-foot-1.307449 | 10/30/21 |
ND - PIC - TeachersTournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 4 | Opponent: American Heritage Broward NR | Judge: Arjan Kang CP Text: A just government ought to recognize an unconditional right of all workers except for teachers to strike.Biden made education a core priority in his post covid recovery plan and is investing billions of dollars-education is on the riseUSDE 4-29 Pandemic 4-29-2021, "100 Days of the Biden Administration: How the Department of Education Has Helped More Schools Safely Reopen and Meet Students Needs," No Publication, https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/100-days-biden-administration-how-department-education-has-helped-more-schools-safely-reopen-and-meet-students-needs//SJJK Teacher strikes can be disastrous and hurt student growth.Norton and Hernandez 18 ~Hilary and Tracy. Hilary Norton is BizFed chair and executive director of FAST (Fixing Angelenos Stuck in Traffic). Tracy Hernandez is the founding CEO of the Los Angeles County Business Federation (BizFed) and president of IMPOWER Inc.. "Commentary: A teachers strike is bad for our students, families and economy ". 10-10-2018. No Publication. http://laschoolreport.com/commentary-a-teachers-strike-is-bad-for-our-students-families-and-economy/.~~ SJVM Education is needed to solve extinction.Peter Serdyukov 17. National University, La Jolla, California. 03/27/2017. "Innovation in Education: What Works, What Doesn't, and What to Do about It?" Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching and Learning, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 4–33. | 10/30/21 |
ND - T - Must Spec GovernmentTournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 4 | Opponent: American Heritage Broward NR | Judge: Arjan Kang Interpretation: The affirmative debater must specify the type of strike in a delineated text in the 1AC.Violation:Standards –1~ Topic lit – strikes are the core question of the topic and there's no consensus on normal means so you must spec.Law Library ====This acts as a resolvability standard. Debate has to make sense and be comparable for the judge to make a decision which means it's an independent voter and outweighs.==== Implications:~1~ Stable advocacy – 1AR clarification delinks neg positions that prove why enforcement in a certain instance is bad by saying it isn't their method of enforcement – wrecks neg ballot access and kills in depth clash – CX doesn't check since it kills 1NC construction pre-round~2~ Prep skew – I don't know what they will be willing to clarify until CX which means I could go 6 minutes planning to read a disad and then get screwed over in CX when they spec a different funding. This means that CX can't check because the time in between is when I should be formulating my strat and waiting until then is the abuse. Key fairness because I won't be able to use the strat I formulated if you skewed my prep and will have a time disadvantageD. VoterFairness is a voter—debate is a competitive activity that requires objective evaluation. Education is a voter – it is the terminal impact of debate. Drop the debater—the abuse has already occurred and my time allocation has shifted—also the shell indicts your whole aff—justifies severance which skews my strat. Use competing interps—leads to a race to the top since we figure out the best possible norm and avoids judge intervention since there's a clear briteline. No RVIs—a. Baiting—they'll just bait theory and prep it out—justifies infinite abuse and results in a chilling effectb. its not logical—you don't reward them for meeting the burden of being fair, especially on T debate where definitions are objective while your interp is subjective. Logic is a meta constraint on all args because it definitionally determines whether an argument is valid. | 10/30/21 |
ND - T - Must not spec governmentTournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Lexington AG | Judge: Keshav Dandu - Tajaih Robinson - Breigh Plat Interpretation: The affirmative may not specify a just government in which a right to strike ought to be recognized"A" is an indefinite article that modifies "just governmnt" in the res – means that you have to prove the resolution true in a VACCUM, not in a particular instanceCCC ("Articles, Determiners, and Quantifiers", http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/determiners/determiners.htm~~#articles, Capital Community College Foundation, a nonprofit 501 c-3 organization that supports scholarships, faculty development, and curriculum innovation) LHSLA JC/SJ Violation: they spec ~x~Standards:~1~ precision – the counter-interp justifies them arbitrarily doing away with random words in the resolution which decks negative ground and preparation because the aff is no longer bounded by the resolution. Independent voter for jurisdiction – the judge doesn't have the jurisdiction to vote aff if there wasn't a legitimate aff.~2~ limits – the UN says there are 195 national governments but even that's not an agreed upon brightline – explodes limits since there are tons of independent affs plus functionally infinite combinations, all with different advantages in different political situations. Kills neg prep and debatability since there are no DAs that apply to every aff – i.e. factors that affect labor shortages or unions in the US are different than in China – means the aff is always more prepared and wins just for speccing.~3~ tva – just read your aff as an advantage under a whole res advocacy, solves all ur offenseFairness – debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation. Outweighs because it's the only intrinsic part of debate – all other rules can be debated over but rely on some conception of fairness to be justified.Drop the debater – a~ deter future abuse and b~ set better norms for debate.Competing interps – ~a~ reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention since there's no clear norm, ~b~ it creates a race to the top where we create the best possible norms for debate.No RVIs – a~ illogical, you don't win for proving that you meet the burden of being fair, logic outweighs since it's a prerequisite for evaluating any other argument, b~ RVIs incentivize baiting theory and prepping it out which leads to maximally abusive practices | 11/5/21 |
ND - T - Must spec strikeTournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 6 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep ArVe | Judge: Rohith Sudhakar Interpretation: The affirmative debater must specify the type of strike in a delineated text in the 1AC.Violation:Standards –1~ Topic lit – strikes are the core question of the topic and there's no consensus on normal means so you must spec.Law Library ====This acts as a resolvability standard. Debate has to make sense and be comparable for the judge to make a decision which means it's an independent voter and outweighs.==== Implications:~1~ Stable advocacy – 1AR clarification delinks neg positions that prove why enforcement in a certain instance is bad by saying it isn't their method of enforcement – wrecks neg ballot access and kills in depth clash – CX doesn't check since it kills 1NC construction pre-round~2~ Prep skew – I don't know what they will be willing to clarify until CX which means I could go 6 minutes planning to read a disad and then get screwed over in CX when they spec a different funding. This means that CX can't check because the time in between is when I should be formulating my strat and waiting until then is the abuse. Key fairness because I won't be able to use the strat I formulated if you skewed my prep and will have a time disadvantageD. VoterFairness is a voter—debate is a competitive activity that requires objective evaluation. Education is a voter – it is the terminal impact of debate. Drop the debater—the abuse has already occurred and my time allocation has shifted—also the shell indicts your whole aff—justifies severance which skews my strat. Use competing interps—leads to a race to the top since we figure out the best possible norm and avoids judge intervention since there's a clear briteline. No RVIs—a. Baiting—they'll just bait theory and prep it out—justifies infinite abuse and results in a chilling effectb. its not logical—you don't reward them for meeting the burden of being fair, especially on T debate where definitions are objective while your interp is subjective. Logic is a meta constraint on all args because it definitionally determines whether an argument is valid. | 11/5/21 |
SO - Climate DATournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 5 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake OF | Judge: Brett Cryan We are on pace to cut emissions by half in 2030 and prevent 2 degree tipping point, but continued biotech innovation is keyMcmurry-Health 5-21 Michelle Mcmurry-Heath May 21, 2021, 5-21-2021, "To help solve climate change, look to the biosciences," STAT, https://www.statnews.com/2021/05/21/climate-change-solutions-from-biosciences/ Nato The aff sets the precedent that IP can be waived to solve global problems. That stunts innovation in Climate Change techBrand 5-6 Melissa Brand, 5-26-2021, "TRIPS IP Waiver Could Establish Dangerous Precedent for Climate Change and Other Biotech Sectors," IPWatchdog, https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/05/26/trips-ip-waiver-establish-dangerous-precedent-climate-change-biotech-sectors/id=133964/ Nato Climate change destroys the world.Specktor 19 ~Brandon; writes about the science of everyday life for Live Science, and previously for Reader's Digest magazine, where he served as an editor for five years; "Human Civilization Will Crumble by 2050 If We Don't Stop Climate Change Now, New Paper Claims," livescience, 6/4/19; https://www.livescience.com/65633-climate-change-dooms-humans-by-2050.html~~ Justin Disad turns the case. Climate change increases the rate of disease outbreaks.Lustgarten 5/7 Abrahm Lustgarten (environmental reporter, with a focus at the intersection of business, climate and energy. He is currently covering changes at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and working on a project about pollution at U.S. Defense sites). 5/7/2020, How Climate Change Is Contributing to Skyrocketing Rates of Infectious Disease, Propublica, https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-infectious-diseases Nato | 9/10/21 |
SO - Eliminate CPTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harrison TB | Judge: Eric Tang Counterplan: States ought to eliminate intellectual property protections for medicine.Its competitive reduce does not mean to eliminateMarcus Perrin Knowlton, Late Chief Justice Of The Supreme Judicial Court Of Massachusetts, Opinion in Dora Green v. Abraham Sklar, June 20, 1905, Lexis Academic | 9/18/21 |
SO - Fisheries DATournament: Grapevine Classic | Round: Octas | Opponent: Plano East AW | Judge: Favian Sun, Blake Andrews, Dylan Jones WTO consensus on fishing subsidies likely now but requires negotiations- consensus is key to solving overfishing- the brink is now.Koop 21 ~Fermin; Argentine journalist specializing in the environment with experience across diverse publications; "WTO Inches Towards a Deal to End Harmful Fishing Subsidies," Maritime-Executive; 7/30/21; https://www.maritime-executive.com/editorials/wto-inches-towards-a-deal-to-end-harmful-fishing-subsidies~~ Justin Negotiations on IPR require tradeoffs- empirics prove.DC = DEVELOPING COUNTRY That collapses biodiversity.Osmanski 20 ~Stephanie; Freelance Journaler, Writer at GreenMatters; "How Does Overfishing Affect Biodiversity? Let's Do a Deep Dive," GreenMatters; 12/29/20; https://www.greenmatters.com/p/how-overfishing-affects-biodiversity~~ Justin Biodiversity loss causes extinction.Torres 19 ~Phil; Affiliate Scholar at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Founder of the X-Risks Institute, Writer Appearing in Skeptic, Free Inquiry, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Salon, Truthout, Erkenntnis, Metaphilosophy; "Biodiversity Loss: An Existential Risk Comparable To Climate Change," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; 4/11/16; https://thebulletin.org/2016/04/biodiversity-loss-an-existential-risk-comparable-to-climate-change/~~ Justin | 9/17/21 |
SO - Infrastructure DATournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 2 | Opponent: Millard North Arjun Rishi | Judge: Cyrus Jackson Bipartisan infrastructure bill passing now but PC is needed – there is no margin for error.Kapur et al 9/8 ~Sahil, Frank Thorp, and Leigh Ann Caldwell; 9/8/21; Sahil Kapur is a national political reporter for NBC News, Frank Thorp V is a producer and off-air reporter covering Congress for NBC News, managing coverage of the Senate, Leigh Ann Caldwell is an NBC News correspondent; "Democrats plow 'full speed ahead' on sweeping Biden budget, despite tensions," https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democrats-plow-full-speed-ahead-sweeping-biden-budget-despite-tensions-n1278722~~ Justin Aff doesn't solve but requires negotiations that saps PC.Pooley 21 ~James; Former deputy director general of the United Nations' World Intellectual Property Organization and a member of the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding; "Drawn-Out Negotiations Over Covid IP Will Blow Back on Biden," Barron's; 5/26/21; https://www.barrons.com/articles/drawn-out-negotiations-over-covid-ip-will-blow-back-on-biden-51621973675~~ Justin Infrastructure secures the grid against worsening and increasing cyberattacks.Carney 21 ~Chris; 8/6/21; Senior policy advisor at Nossaman LLC, former US Representative, former professor of political science at Penn State University; "The US Senate Infrastructure Bill: Securing Our Electrical Grid Through P3s and Grants," JDSupra, https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/the-us-senate-infrastructure-bill-4989100/~~ Justin Cyberattacks on the grid spiral to all-out nuclear conflict.Klare 19 ~Michael; November 2019; Professor emeritus of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College; "Cyber Battles, Nuclear Outcomes? Dangerous New Pathways to Escalation," Arms Control Association, https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2019-11/features/cyber-battles-nuclear-outcomes-dangerous-new-pathways-escalation~~ Justin | 9/25/21 |
SO - Innovation DATournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Plano East JN | Judge: Ishan Rereddy Pharma innovation high now – monetary incentive is the biggest factor.Swagel 21 Phillip L. Swagel, Director of the Congressional budget office 4-xx-2021, "Research and Development in the Pharmaceutical Industry," Congressional Budget Office, https://www.cbo.goc/publication/57126~~#_idTextAnchor020 SJDA The aff crushes innovation in the pharma sector—-incentivizes them to focus on non-important issues.Glassman 21 ~Amanda; 5/6/21; Executive vice president and a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, a nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank in Washington and London; "Big Pharma Is Not the Tobacco Industry," Barron, https://www.barrons.com/articles/big-pharma-is-not-the-tobacco-industry-51620315693~~ Justin | 9/4/21 |
SO - Kant NCTournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 4 | Opponent: Lynbrook MD | Judge: Truman Le Permissibility and presumption negate – ~a~ the resolution indicates the aff has to prove an obligation, and permissibility would deny the existence of an obligation ~b~ Statements are more often false than true because any part can be false. This means you negate if there is no offense because the resolution is probably false.Morality must be grounded in a priori truth to guide action, otherwise everyone would have different ethical codes and follow different rules. And, truth exists independent of human experience since certain things can be self-proving, i.e. a triangle has three sides. This is the difference between a priori and a posteriori. Things that are true by observation are just true by a matter of chance. For example, the cat may be on the mat, but we can also conceive of a world in which the cat is not on the mat. In contrast, we can't conceive of a world in which a triangle does not have three sides since it is tautologically true. Reject a posteriori truth since they are just arbitrary states of being, not constitutive of ethics.And, a priori truth has to apply to everyone: ~a~ absent universal ethics, morality becomes arbitrary and fails to guide action, which means that ethics is rendered useless. ~b~ it's a tautological contradiction: any non-universal norm justifies someone's ability to impede on your ends, which also means universalizability acts as a side constraint on all other frameworks.Thus, the standard is consistency with willing universal maxims.1~ Intellectual property is an inalienable personal right of economic usePozzo 6 Pozzo, Riccardo. "Immanuel Kant on Intellectual Property." Trans/Form/Ação, vol. 29, no. 2, 2006, pp. 11–18., doi:10.1590/s0101-31732006000200002. SJDA recut SJKS recut Cookie JX 2~The aff encourages free riding- that treats people as ¬means to an end and takes advantage of their efforts which violates the principle of humanityVan Dyke 2 Raymond Van Dyke, 7-17-2018, "The Categorical Imperative for Innovation and Patenting," IPWatchdog, https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2018/07/17/categorical-imperative-innovation-patenting/id=99178/ SJDA recut SJKS IPs are a necessary check on companies free-riding off associations of quality.Wong et al 20 ~Liana, Ian, and Shayerah; Analyst in International Trade and Finance; Specialist in International Trade and Finance; Specialist in International Trade and Finance; "Intellectual Property Rights and International Trade," *Updated* 5/12/20; CRS; https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20200512_RL34292_2023354cc06b0a4425a2c5e02c0b13024426d206.pdf~~ Justin | 9/5/21 |
SO - Loans CPTournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 5 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake OF | Judge: Brett Cryan CP text: The member nations of the WTO should:—-Loan an additional 4 billion dollars of additional funding to close the pre-purchase gap of 350 million vaccines to achieve world-wide immunity—-The World Bank should relax the conditions to receive a loan as per Goldberg 21—-Eliminate export restriction on critical medicines during pandemics.The CP solves pandemics better – the aff misidentifies the problem.Goldberg 20 ~PINELOPI KOUJIANOU; Former World Bank Group chief economist and editor-in-chief of the American Economic Review, Professor of Economics at Yale University; "Forget the Vaccine Patent Waiver," Project Syndicate; 5/13/21; https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/wto-vaccine-waiver-is-beside-the-point-by-pinelopi-koujianou-goldberg-2021-05~~ Justin | 9/10/21 |
SO - May Not Spec MedicineTournament: Grapevine Classic | Round: 4 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll CC | Judge: Grant Brown Interpretation: "medicines" is a generic bare plural. The aff may not defend that member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for a medicine or subset of medicines.Nebel 19. ~Jake Nebel is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California and executive director of Victory Briefs. He writes a lot of this stuff lol – duh.~ "Genericity on the Standardized Tests Resolution." Vbriefly. August 12, 2019. https://www.vbriefly.com/2019/08/12/genericity-on-the-standardized-tests-resolution/?fbclid=IwAR0hUkKdDzHWrNeqEVI7m59pwsnmqLl490n4uRLQTe7bWmWDO_avWCNzi14 TG It applies to "medicines" – 1~ upward entailment test – "member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines" doesn't entail that member nations of the WTO ought to reduce IPP for drugs because it doesn't prove that marijuana protections should be reduced 2~ adverb test – adding "always" to the res doesn't substantially change its meaning because reduce is permanent.Violation: They spec COVID-19 medicinesStandards:~1~ precision – the counter-interp justifies them arbitrarily doing away with random words in the resolution which decks negative ground and preparation because the aff is no longer bounded by the resolution. Independent voter for jurisdiction – the judge doesn't have the jurisdiction to vote aff if there wasn't a legitimate aff.~2~ Limits and ground – their model allows affs to defend anything from Covid vaccines to HIV drugs to Insulin— there's no universal DA since each has different functions and political implications — that explodes neg prep and leads to random medicine of the week affs which makes cutting stable neg links impossible — limits key to reciprocal engagement since they create a caselist for neg prep and it takes out ground like DAs to certain medicines which are some of the few neg generics when affs spec medicines.~3~ TVA solves – you could've read your plan as an advantage under a whole res advocacy.Fairness – debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation. Outweighs because it's the only intrinsic part of debate – all other rules can be debated over but rely on some conception of fairness to be justified.Drop the debater – a~ deter future abuse and b~ set better norms for debate.Competing interps – ~a~ reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention since there's no clear norm, ~b~ it creates a race to the top where we create the best possible norms for debate.No RVIs – a~ illogical, you don't win for proving that you meet the burden of being fair, logic outweighs since it's a prerequisite for evaluating any other argument, b~ RVIs incentivize baiting theory and prepping it out which leads to maximally abusive practices | 9/11/21 |
SO - Restrictions CPTournament: Grapevine Classic | Round: Octas | Opponent: Plano East AW | Judge: Favian Sun, Blake Andrews, Dylan Jones CP text: States should add more stringent requirements for filing secondary patents by requiring secondary patent filers to demonstrate increased efficacy as compared to the original. Solves all your offense by reducing purely strategic patents while permitting R and D for genuine improvements.Newsome 17, A ~(JD candidate George Washington School of Law). (2017). Side effects of evergreening may include decreased competition and increased prices in the pharmaceutical industry. AIPLA Quarterly Journal, 45(4), 791-822~ Justin Solves best.Newsome 17, A ~(JD candidate George Washington School of Law). (2017). Side effects of evergreening may include decreased competition and increased prices in the pharmaceutical industry. AIPLA Quarterly Journal, 45(4), 791-822~ Justin | 9/17/21 |
SO - Ripstein NCTournament: Grapevine Classic | Round: Octas | Opponent: Plano East AW | Judge: Favian Sun, Blake Andrews, Dylan Jones The meta-ethic is practical reasoningInfinite Regress: We can infinitely ask why for other theories but to ask why for reasons concedes reasons, so reasons are inescapable and binding, and binding theory outweigh because only they can guide action which is the purpose of ethics.Action Theory: Every action has infinite sub-actions we must unify them under intent to explain the unity of action. To use intent agents must use practical reason to know the means she takes in her actions can achieve principles guiding the action.To be an agent is to have the ability to rationally self-reflect, because that ability is how we derive reason and value.Korsgaard 96 Agency requires universalizability. Universal willing is a prerequisite to self-determination of action. Anything else means desire controls our actions, thus the actor is no longer an agent.Korsgaard 99 If an agent regards their purpose as important, they must regard the means as important, one of which is freedom.Denying individuals' independent choice, or outer freedom, is rationally contradictory. As you expand your freedom to limit someone else's same freedom which results in contradiction and is incoherent, so we can't limit anyone's freedom. A universal system of freedoms requires consistency with the omnilateral will.Ripstein 04 Thus, the standard is consistency with the omnilateral will.Vote Neg:1~ The aff encourages free riding- that treats people as ¬means to an end and takes advantage of their efforts which violates the principle of humanityVan Dyke 2 Raymond Van Dyke, 7-17-2018, "The Categorical Imperative for Innovation and Patenting," IPWatchdog, https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2018/07/17/categorical-imperative-innovation-patenting/id=99178/ SJDA recut SJKS IPs are a necessary check on companies free-riding off associations of quality.Wong et al 20 ~Liana, Ian, and Shayerah; Analyst in International Trade and Finance; Specialist in International Trade and Finance; Specialist in International Trade and Finance; "Intellectual Property Rights and International Trade," *Updated* 5/12/20; CRS; https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20200512_RL34292_2023354cc06b0a4425a2c5e02c0b13024426d206.pdf~~ Justin 2~The aff violates the omnilateral will and is non-universalizable- governments have a binding obligation to protect creationsVan Dyke 18 Raymond Van Dyke, 7-17-2018, "The Categorical Imperative for Innovation and Patenting," IPWatchdog, https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2018/07/17/categorical-imperative-innovation-patenting/id=99178/ SJDA recut SJKS | 9/17/21 |
SO - Scientists CPTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 4 | Opponent: San Mateo Yesh Rao | Judge: Maya Xia Text: A nation appointed international panel of scientists including National Academies and corresponding organizations should ~reduce intellectual property protections for medicines by implementing a one-and-done approach for patent protection. ~ and manage similar conflicts of interest between intellectual property.International panel of science diplomats can rule over IP—-that's key to science diplomacy.Hajjar and Greenbaum 18 ~David; Dean Emeritus and University Distinguished Professor, and Professor of Biochemistry and Pathology at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, a Jefferson Science Fellow of the National Academies at the U.S. Department of State, and a recent Senior Fellow in Science Policy at the Brookings Institute; Steven; Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Hunter College of the City University of New York and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was a Jefferson Science Fellow of the National Academies at the U.S. Department of State; "Leveraging Diplomacy for Managing Scientific Challenges," American Diplomacy; September 18; https://americandiplomacy.web.unc.edu/2018/09/leveraging-diplomacy-for-managing-scientific-challenges-an-opportunity-to-navigate-the-future-of-science/~~ Justin Solves every existential threat.Haynes 18—research associate in the Neurobiology Department at Harvard Medical School (Trevor, "Science Diplomacy: Collaboration in a rapidly changing world," http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/science-diplomacy-collaboration-rapidly-changing-world/, dml) Re-Cut Justin Condo Pics good:1~ All counterplans are PICs because they must include all or part of the plan like taking action—that's core neg ground—otherwise we can't test the aff at all and they never have to defend their position or they can read affs that would obviously be solved by other things and it would be illogical to do—means your interp is just condo bad—~insert condo good if time~2~ The aff gets infinite prep and if we can find the CP so can you—means you should have prep for it and you should've worked out the 1AR to answer condo.3~ The aff should have to prove they are optimal, not just good—we should be able to test every part of the 1AC and test it against a marketplace of ideas—key to advocacy skills—also means disads don't solve—they'd just weigh other parts of the case instead of rigorously defending their position, which is key to real-world change. Also justifies condo in conjunction with PICs—different policymakers will attack the plan from different angles simultaneously—some with PICS out of certain parts of bills like CIR and others defending the status quo—we optimize advocacy skills because you have to defend every part of the plan against multiple positions—key to real world decision-making.4~ PICs are good—key to logical policy-making and testing the aff - your interp concedes PICs good.5~ Reject the argument not the team—means they get the whole aff back and we lose the PIC—we've both wasted time on theory so it's non-unique and us losing the argument is clearly sufficient to deter us from running it in the future—rejecting the arg is key to substantive clash because we can just debate about the rest of the round, which is still valuable—some semblance of education about the topic outweighs a vague deterrence claim. | 9/26/21 |
SO - SparkTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lexington FV | Judge: Austin Broussard Rigorous climate simulations prove that hydrophilic black carbon would cause atmospheric precipitation – results in a rainout effect that quickly reverses nuclear coolingReisner et al. 18 (Jon Reisner – Climate and atmospheric scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Gennaro D'Angelo – Climate scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research scientist at the SETI institute, Associate specialist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at the NASA Ames Research Center, UKAFF Fellow at the University of Exeter. Eunmo Koo - Scientist at Applied Terrestrial, Energy, and Atmospheric Modeling (ATEAM) Team, in Computational Earth Science Group (EES-16) in Earth and Environmental Sciences Division and Co-Lead of Parallel Computing Summer Research Internship (PCSRI) program at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, former Staff research associate at UC Berkeley. Wesley Even - Computational scientist in the Computational Physics and Methods Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Matthew Hecht – Atmospheric scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Elizabeth Hunke - Lead developer for the Los Alamos Sea Ice Model (CICE) at the Los Alamos National Laboratory responsible for development and incorporation of new parameterizations, model testing and validation, computational performance, documentation, and consultation with external model users on all aspects of sea ice modeling, including interfacing with global climate and earth system models. Darin Comeau – Climate scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Randy Bos - Project leader at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, former Weapons Effects program manager at Tech-Source. James Cooley – Computational scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory specializing in weapons physics, emergency response, and computational physics. MKIM "Climate impact of a regional nuclear weapons exchange:An improved assessment based on detailed source calculations". 3/16/18. DOA: 7/13/19. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2017JD027331) No extinction – this card assumes all of your warrantsKearny 87 ~Creason. Cresson Kearny was a civil defense researcher at the Hudson Institute, a US Army Major and Legion of Merit recipient, had a degree in Civil Engineering from Princeton University, and had two degrees in Geology from Oxford University. Arnold Jagt is a systems engineer and content digitizer. ("NUCLEAR WAR SURVIVAL SKILLS" "Ch. 1: The Dangers from Nuclear Weapons: Myths and Facts", http://oism.org/nwss/nwss.pdf) But, industrial civilization wouldn't recover.Lewis Dartnell 15. UK Space Agency research fellow at the University of Leicester, working in astrobiology and the search for microbial life on Mars. His latest book is The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch. 04-13-15. "Could we reboot a modern civilisation without fossil fuels? – Lewis Dartnell." Aeon. https://aeon.co/essays/could-we-reboot-a-modern-civilisation-without-fossil-fuels Extinction is inevitable from future technology — nanotech, our simulation gets shut down, AI, biotech, particle accelerators, and black swansBruce Sterling, 6-1-2018, "When Nick Bostrom says "Bang"," WIRED, https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2018/06/nick-bostrom-says-bang/ | 10/16/21 |
SO - T-Reduce v2Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 5 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake OF | Judge: Brett Cryan Interpretation: Reduce means unconditional and permanent – the aff is a suspension.Reynolds 59 – Judge (In the Matter of Doris A. Montesani, Petitioner, v. Arthur Levitt, as Comptroller of the State of New York, et al., Respondents ~NO NUMBER IN ORIGINAL~ Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division, Third Department 9 A.D.2d 51; 189 N.Y.S.2d 695; 1959 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 7391 August 13, 1959, lexis) Violation: They only defend doing the aff during COVID-19 – their solvency advocate defends the TRIPS waiver which would stop after COVID-19Vote neg:1~ Limits and ground– their model allows affs to defend anything from pandemics to Biden's presidency— there's no universal DA since it's impossible to know the timeframe when there won't be IP— that explodes neg prep and leads to random timeframe of the week affs which makes cutting stable neg links impossible — limits key to reciprocal engagement since they create a caselist for neg prep (innovation, collaboration, econ, ptx: all core neg literature thrown away)2~ Precision o/w – anything else justifies the aff arbitrarily jettisoning words in the resolution at their whim which decks negative ground and preparation because the aff is no longer bounded by the resolution.3~ TVA – defend the advantage to a whole rez timeframe. We don't prevent new FWs, mechanisms, or advantages. PICs don't solve – our model allows you to specify countries and medicines.Fairness – debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation. Outweighs because it's the only intrinsic part of debate – all other rules can be debated over but rely on some conception of fairness to be justified.Drop the debater – a~ deter future abuse and b~ set better norms for debate.Competing interps – ~a~ reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention since there's no clear norm, ~b~ it creates a race to the top where we create the best possible norms for debate.No RVIs – a~ illogical, you don't win for proving that you meet the burden of being fair, logic outweighs since it's a prerequisite for evaluating any other argument, b~ RVIs incentivize baiting theory and prepping it out which leads to maximally abusive practices | 9/10/21 |
SO - T-Reduce v3Tournament: Grapevine Classic | Round: Triples | Opponent: West HS SLC HZ | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin Reduce excludes eliminationWords and Phrases, 02 (vol 36B, p. 80) /BDN Violation:Vote neg:1~ Limits and ground– their model allows affs to defend anything from pandemics to Biden's presidency— there's no universal DA since it's impossible to know the timeframe when there won't be IP— that explodes neg prep and leads to random timeframe of the week affs which makes cutting stable neg links impossible — limits key to reciprocal engagement since they create a caselist for neg prep (innovation, collaboration, econ, ptx: all core neg literature thrown away)2~ Precision o/w – anything else justifies the aff arbitrarily jettisoning words in the resolution at their whim which decks negative ground and preparation because the aff is no longer bounded by the resolution.3~ TVA – defend the advantage to a whole rez timeframe. We don't prevent new FWs, mechanisms, or advantages. PICs don't solve – our model allows you to specify countries and medicines.Fairness – debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation. Outweighs because it's the only intrinsic part of debate – all other rules can be debated over but rely on some conception of fairness to be justified.Drop the debater – a~ deter future abuse and b~ set better norms for debate.Competing interps – ~a~ reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention since there's no clear norm, ~b~ it creates a race to the top where we create the best possible norms for debate.No RVIs – a~ illogical, you don't win for proving that you meet the burden of being fair, logic outweighs since it's a prerequisite for evaluating any other argument, b~ RVIs incentivize baiting theory and prepping it out which leads to maximally abusive practices | 9/12/21 |
SO - T-Reduce v4Tournament: Grapevine Classic | Round: Octas | Opponent: Plano East AW | Judge: Favian Sun, Blake Andrews, Dylan Jones Interpretation: Precluding a future increase is not a reductionMelinda Harmon 12, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division, 3/6/12, Zieche v. Burlington Res., Inc., 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 30134, p. lexis Violation: They just preclude future secondary patentsVote neg:1~ Limits and ground– their model allows affs to defend anything from secondary patents to eightieth patents to future pandemics — there's no universal DA since it's impossible to know the future where there won't be IP— that explodes neg prep and leads to random future patent of the week affs which makes cutting stable neg links impossible — limits key to reciprocal engagement since they create a caselist for neg prep (innovation, collaboration, econ, ptx: all core neg literature thrown away)2~ TVA – defend the advantage to a whole rez timeframe. We don't prevent new FWs, mechanisms, or advantages. PICs don't solve – our model allows you to specify countries and medicines but your model still allows for shifty word PICs.Fairness – debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation. Outweighs because it's the only intrinsic part of debate – all other rules can be debated over but rely on some conception of fairness to be justified.Drop the debater – a~ deter future abuse and b~ set better norms for debate.Competing interps – ~a~ reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention since there's no clear norm, ~b~ it creates a race to the top where we create the best possible norms for debate.No RVIs – a~ illogical, you don't win for proving that you meet the burden of being fair, logic outweighs since it's a prerequisite for evaluating any other argument, b~ RVIs incentivize baiting theory and prepping it out which leads to maximally abusive practices | 9/17/21 |
SO - T-reduceTournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 4 | Opponent: Lynbrook MD | Judge: Truman Le Reduce is distinct from simply changingFinch 73 (James A. Finch Jr., judge. "State ex rel. Cason v. Bond, 495 S.W.2d 385," Supreme Court of Missouri, 1973) Violation: They just change the time of patents they're not reducing the actual patent they're just changing a property of itVote neg:1~ Limits and ground– their model allows affs to defend anything from pandemics to Biden's presidency— there's no universal DA since it's impossible to know the timeframe when there won't be IP— that explodes neg prep and leads to random timeframe of the week affs which makes cutting stable neg links impossible — limits key to reciprocal engagement since they create a caselist for neg prep (innovation, collaboration, econ, ptx: all core neg literature thrown away)2~ Precision o/w – anything else justifies the aff arbitrarily jettisoning words in the resolution at their whim which decks negative ground and preparation because the aff is no longer bounded by the resolution.3~ TVA – defend the advantage to a whole rez timeframe. We don't prevent new FWs, mechanisms, or advantages. PICs don't solve – our model allows you to specify countries and medicines.Fairness – debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation. Outweighs because it's the only intrinsic part of debate – all other rules can be debated over but rely on some conception of fairness to be justified.Drop the debater – a~ deter future abuse and b~ set better norms for debate.Competing interps – ~a~ reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention since there's no clear norm, ~b~ it creates a race to the top where we create the best possible norms for debate.No RVIs – a~ illogical, you don't win for proving that you meet the burden of being fair, logic outweighs since it's a prerequisite for evaluating any other argument, b~ RVIs incentivize baiting theory and prepping it out which leads to maximally abusive practices | 9/5/21 |
SO - TT Nibs NCTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lexington FV | Judge: Austin Broussard The role of the ballot is to determine whether the resolution is a true or false statement – anything else moots 7 minutes of the 1NC and exacerbates the affirmative infinite prep time skew since I should be able to compensate by choosing – it's the most logical since you don't say vote for the player who shoots the most 3 points, the better player wins since debate is a game with rules given by how there's a winner and loser. No arguments in the 1ar and 2ar so we can end debate quicker and go on with our personal live which o/w on probability b/c everyone does things outside debate. Answers collapse to truth testing since they require truth value i.e. truth testing is false requires proving that it is true that truth testing is false which means we're also a prerequisite to your framing.X Changing the structure of the activity can't occur within the round i.e. in the middle of a chess match, it's nonsensical to bring up new rules unless discussed outside of the act of playing the game – out of round rule-setting solves 100 of your offense.Nothing leaves this round other than the result on the ballot which means even if there is a higher purpose, it doesn't change anything, and you should just write whatever is important on the ballot and vote for me. Evaluate the debate after the 1nc because we each have 1 speech. Answering this triggers constitutivism since the win is necessary for your scholarship which means rules inside of the game matter otherwise negate on presumption.Scalar methods like comparison increases intervention – the persuasion of certain DA or advantages sway decisions – T/F binary is descriptive and technical. 1ar theory isn't reciprocal, you have 1 more speech.The ballot says vote aff or neg based on a topic – five dictionaries define to negate as to deny the truth of and affirm as to prove true which means it's constitutive and jurisdictional – that's a meta constraint on anything else since the judge voting aff if they affirm better and neg the contrary proves that it's an independent voter and otherwise they could just hack against or for you which means hack against them if they contest it and. Reject 1ar theory arguments because you could have put it in the 1ac but you didn't I denied the truth of the resolution by disagreeing with the aff which means I've met my burden.~1~ Intellectual is defined as "possessing or showing intellect or mental compacity" (Dictionary.com) but property cant possess intellect so the resolutions incoherent~2~ member means "a body part or organ" (Marriam Webster) but a nation cannot have bodily organs so the resolutions incoherent~3~ To means "indicate movement" (Merriam Webster), but that means the resolution is incoherent because the word ought cannot move to the word provide. Means you negate on face because you can't even know what the resolution looks like and an incoherent claim can't have truth.~4~ Trade means "a publication intended for persons in the entertainment business"(Merriam Webster) but a world entertainment business cannot reduce intellectual property making the resolution incoherent.~5~ Medicine means "a spell, charm, or fetish believed to have healing (Oxford Languages)" so reducing intellectual property protections for spells is incoherent.~6~ Property means "a building" (Oxford Languages) so reducing intellectual buildings is incoherent | 10/16/21 |
SO - WTO Collapse DATournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Plano East JN | Judge: Ishan Rereddy | 9/4/21 |
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