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	4	+====Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima… Sometime, perhaps long in the future, perhaps this very time, a strange occurrence begins at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station half an hour outside of Omaha, Nebraska. For as long as anyone could remember, the waste from this plant had been mishandled; spilling into the Missouri River with little care for its final destination. Workers, unaware of the extent of the danger in their palms, would move the spent nuclear fuel into trenches built too deep and too close to the waters which lapped hopefully for a taste of the poison. ====
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	7	+====The incidents began after a few workers disappeared over the course of two months. More were hired, more disappeared – gone, without a trace. Worry of terrorism was in the air: ====
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	10	+===="What if they are stealing away materials – or kidnapped?" ====
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	13	+====Bioterrorism was technologic in its form – this would have been preferable to what was on the horizon. ====
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	16	+====Late at night a security guard for the Station drove his Jeep in circular paths, kicking up gravel into the sky forming clouds that seemed to follow him across the darkness. Near the edge of the station, his attention was drawn to a cracked door hinge leading from the edge of the security fence to the woods adjacent the facility. Examining the door, he saw that it had been brutally cracked. Against his better judgement, he stepped through the door to examine the tall grass at the edge of the woods.====
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	19	+====His eyes set upon boot prints. He traced them through the woods, to an opening near the edge of the Missouri River. A scene that basked the entirety of the forest in a raw glow was before him. Stark naked, all of the workers who had disappeared were scattered across an open grove in the wood. Their eyes teamed with life, more so than a conscious human being could contain. Their color was neither green, yellow, nor orange and in them he felt that he had finally seen the true hue of the sun.====
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	22	+====The ground beneath him sung, as if it had been a string on a violin plucked. He felt an intense sensation throughout his body, as if he was vibrating, as the singing found itself the language of man: ====
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	25	+==== "So audacious, your people. You've even named this era of destruction after yourselves – Anthropocene. Tisk, tisk, tisk. Damage exported will be imported too. "Power of gods" is what they called fission, have you left unnoticed the very atomic structure of your selfhood?..."====
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	28	+====At these words, his vision shifted in both scope and perspective. His awareness told him that he was inside himself, his eyes the same color as the others. He was both a single and every atom, watching the war of molecules against the previously unknown radiations seeping through the ground beneath him. In this image, articulation escaped him. ====
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	31	+====He felt both the bodies around him and himself, be deconstructed. Painfully, atom by atom, quark by quark. He was all of the pieces and felt all of their strain, the forces of the world were abound in the deepest points of his flesh. All in a moment, he was whole again, yet felt more whole than he had ever before… Teeming with life, more than a conscious human being could contain.====
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	34	+==== "I am no ruler, no god, and no deity. I have given you a gift, shown you the stakes of refusal to care. Now, we take back DNA, rhizomes, microcosms, the power of fission and fusion, the mysteries of life against those that wish to use it as mere pawns against the world"====
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	37	+====With this, the security guard, all the workers, infected trout in the rivers, dirt saturated with contaminated waters, every matter and unfounded form in the sphere of our existence – took up arms against those that were unknowing and willed destruction. ====
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	40	+====We affirm that countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power. ====
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	43	+====Our affirmation is an act of science fiction – a reading of the resolution within a fictional world – which bends meaning through storytelling. Our implementation may not occur in this reality, but it does occur in a reality; in the world we have constructed. ====
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	46	+====Past horror tropes rely on nature as an external force which hunted down humanity. In contrast, our Ecohorror exposes the intimately connected relationship between the human body and natural force. A par excellence example is radiation – the fact that our bodies betray us through a cancer due to our own faults. This perspective charts new paths of environmental policy based around bodily connections to the world.====
	47	+Christy **Tidwell,** 20**14**
	48	+"Monstrous Natures Within: Posthuman and New Materialist Ecohorror in Mira Grant's Parasite", Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 21.3 (Summer 2014).
	49	+Ecohorror as a genre is often defined in terms of "revenge of nature"
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	51	+it more closely to ecohorror, butShiversis not vitally concerned with ecological issues.
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	54	+====Humanities perceived exceptionalism from nature is the keystone of the Anthropocene in which any form of difference or deviancy is rendered disposable in order to preserve the humanist order – this is necropolitics.====
	55	+Rosi **Braidotti,** 20**13**
	56	+Braidotti was the founding Director of the Netherlands research school of Women's Studies, she is currently Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities as well as the founding Professor in Women's Studies. "The Posthuman", Polity Press, pg 111-113.
	57	+We saw in the previous chapter that the posthuman predicament understood as the bio-
	58	+AND
	59	+of social sustainability that I have also explored elsewhere (Braidotti, 2006).
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	62	+====Science-fiction is pedagogically crucial – it attracts students and educates about science – that's necessary to democracy and helps expand policies in nearly all parts of modern society.====
	63	+Mark **Brake and** Rosi **Thornton,** 20**03**
	64	+Brake is a Principle Lecturer and Professor of Science Communiation at the University of Glamorgan, Thornton is a teacher of Science and Science Fiction at the University of Glamorgan. "Science fiction in the classroom" Phys. Educ. 38 31.
	65	+Our intention in relation to teaching science has always been to broaden the franchise,
	66	+AND
	67	+Voyage) and Iain M Banks (Excession,The Player of Games).
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	70	+====The role of the judge is to be a practitioner of vitalistic jurisprudence. Rather than imposing predetermined models upon organisms, we should embrace affects ability to chart new political paths through the focus on fluid interconnections. Such a focus on affective experiences enables us to structure political actions in a way that preserves complexity of both human and inhuman while enabling action that resists biopolitical violence.====
	71	+Claire **Colebrook et al,** 20**09**
	72	+Claire Colebrook, Rosi Braidotti, and Patrick Hanafin, Colebrook is a professor of English at Penn State, Braidotti is a distinguished professor in the humanities at Utrecht University, and Hanafin is a professor of law at Birbeck University. "Rights of passage: law and the biopolitics of dying." In: Braidotti, R. and Colebrook, C. and Hanafin, Patrick (eds.) "Deleuze and Law: Forensic Futures." Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan Publishers Limited, pg. 1
	73	+This volume engages with the impact of a thinking of law with Gilles Deleuze.
	74	+AND
	75	+Protevi argues that Deleuze's ontology gives us tools to examine thresholds of viability.
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	78	+====All politics are fictional. Literary genres are constantly overlapping – economics is both a socially constructed model, yet a useful tool – representation and cognition ensures that all things carry tinges of science-fiction.====
	79	+Carl **Freedman, 2000**
	80	+Freedman is an Associate Professor of English at Louisiana State University. "Critical Theory and Science Fiction" Wesleyan University Press, University Press of London, 20-22.
	81	+It is a priori likely that most texts display the activity of numerous different genres
	82	+AND
	83	+Brecht, on the one hand, and Star Wars on the other.

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Judge

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	1	+Damerdji, Chippada, Ave

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	1	+Hunter College NP

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	1	+Quarters

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	1	+Millard North Brown Aff

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	1	+1 - 1AC - The Terror at Fort Calhoun

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	1	+Mid America Cup