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+**====Subpoint A is the Link:====** |
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+**====The affirmative discourse concerning nuclear power generation constitutes an act of violence against queer bodies. Specifically, discourses about nuclear waste replicate discourses of purity and impurity that help determine what bodies matter in our consideration of policy. The repetition of this discursive practice makes some bodies and environments matter and some not. Any discourse surrounding environmental and nuclear policy necessarily implies that non-procreative bodies are the same as social waste.====** |
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+**Krupar 12** ~~Shiloh R. "Transnatural ethics: revisiting the nuclear cleanup of Rocky Flats, CO, through the queer ecology of Nuclia Waste." cultural geographies 19.3 (2012): 303-327.~~ |
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+The current decommissioning and conversion of US nuclear facilities and military arsenals into nature refuges |
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+of environmental purity and/or militarized discrete categories maintained by the state. |
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+====And nuclear rhetoric extends beyond queer bodies being wasteful, but instead extends to radiation itself. Radiation and queerness are rhetorically intertwined to imply that queer bodies themselves are poisonous and must be publically identified, disciplined, and rejected out of hand. ==== |
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+**Bryan-Wilson 15** ~~Julia. "Aftermath: Two Queer Artists Respond to Nuclear Spaces." Critical Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics. N.p.: Univ of California, 2015. 77-92. Print.~~ AV//JB |
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+Within U.S. culture, queerness has long been figured as a kind |
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+eroding the capacity for childbearing, a block to (straight) reproductivity. |
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+====Subpoint B is the Impact:==== |
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+====The discourse surrounding queer bodies as toxic, irrelevant, and nuclear does creates a structural form of violence that rejects their identities entirely – that they ought not have existed to begin with. For queer bodies, this is means they are subjected to overkill. Call the next evidence specifically – the heteronormative language that generates gay panic and spread is what allows overkill as a form of violence to thrive. Also note that overkill is ontologically different from other types of violence-it's more than an attempt to do violence unto a body, it's an attempt to do violence unto all queer bodies. Don't let them weigh case-Their impact calculus will never understand what it means to do violence to that which is nothing. If queer lives matter, the recognition of this impact first is paramount. Only recognizing this form of violence is sufficient to begin addressing the problem of non-heteronormative bodies.==== |
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+**Stanley 2011** (Eric, "Near Life, Queer Death Overkill and Ontological Capture," Social Text 107 s Vol. 29, No. 2 s Summer 2011) AV//JB |
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+Overkill is a term used to indicate such excessive violence that it pushes a body |
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+, what it must mean, to do violence to what is nothing. |
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+====The Impact is Nihilism-fear of the nuclearized other results in a society of skepticism that kills connections between people and fosters omnicidal desire. This fear of the other reduces human desire to simply the desire of a machine.==== |
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+**Foertsch 01** ~~Jacqueline. (Dr. Foertsch specializes in the areas of post-WWII American literature, culture, and film and is the author of four books and numerous articles on these and related subjects. PhD in English) Enemies within: The cold war and the AIDS crisis in literature, film, and culture. University of Illinois Press, 2001.~~ |
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+Beyond these several generational ties, the cold war has imposed itself on the collective |
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+vision stretches back easily to include the cold war from it's very inception. |
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+====Subpoint C is the Alternative:==== |
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+====Our alternative is to embrace all that is nuclear as an act of radical queer anti-futurism.==== |
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+**Bryan-Wilson 15** ~~Julia. "Aftermath: Two Queer Artists Respond to Nuclear Spaces." Critical Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics. N.p.: Univ of California, 2015. 77-92. Print.~~ AV//JB |
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+Stay alive. Given the alignment of queerness with AIDS since the mid-1980s |
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+analysis of this form of sexuality education will follow later in this essay. |