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+**====The affirmative discourse concerning nuclear power generation constitutes an act of violence against queer bodies. Specifically, nuclear waste discourse mirrors a discourse of purity that are used to determine what bodies matter. This discourse 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, and 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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+====Specifically, the 1AC echoes traditional cold war policy of social stability and environmental pureness that culminates in a futuristic drive to heteronormative reproduction.==== |
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+**Masco 04** ~~Joseph. "Mutant Ecologies: Radioactive Life in Post–Cold War New Mexico." Cultural Anthropology 19.4 (2004): 517-550.~~ |
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+To be sure, the four decades separating the Crossroads and Chernobyl events involve a |
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+powered state to the integrity of both social and cellular reproduction over time. |
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+**====Furthermore, their drive to preserve the natural is symbolic of a war waged against not only queer bodies but People of Color and Natives.====** |
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+**Luciano and Chen 15** ~~Dana, and Mel Y.. "Introduction: Has the Queer Ever Been Human?." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 21.2 (2015): iv-207.~~ |
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+The increasing urgency of ecological and climatological damage has also pushed many queer critics to |
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+reframing of ecotheory can also enable us to discover those worlds within our own |
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+====This is the kind of shit that causes overkill. 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.==== |
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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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+====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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+our histories in ways that also point toward a different kind of present. |
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+====Our alternative ruptures the divide between us/them and the desire to lash out against the other.==== |
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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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+Indeed, these two groups—reds in the earlier period and gays then and |
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+allows these bystanders to turn violently—and legally—against their victims. |
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+====And, Within the postmodern era the fear of the other has definitively shifted. Society no longer fears external threats because the us/them binary is so engrained rather oppression exists as a result of the fear of the enemy within. This means our impacts outweigh-we control solvency on the dominant frame of war.==== |
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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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+This decidedly postmodern fear of the infectious enemy—an enemy so close yet so |
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+what they did but to amorphous, indefensible suggestions of who they were. |
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+====And, the 1AC's nuclear metaphors turn case. The metaphor of radiation blocks off criticism of western expansionism and forces politics of tunnel vision obscuring the ever-expanding war against the other outside our borders. ==== |
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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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+De Kerckhove asserts that the bomb as metaphor in fact creates a metonymic relationship, |
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+not of the body but of society poised on the brink of annihilation. |