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+Begin your deliberation with an ethical connection to more than human others. The 1AC protests exploitation within human societies – this reinforces anthropocentric separation at the root of Otherization. |
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+Rose 6 Rebecca Rose, Lecturer in Literature for Trinity College Foundation Studies, The University of Melbourne, 2006 COLLOQUY text theory critique 12 (2006) |
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+In recent decades |
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+challenging human/nonhuman. |
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+The 1AC's cultural strategy is not benign but rather an insidious form of anthropocentrism based on a false construction of an ideal and elevated human. |
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+Narkunas 7 Narkunas, Prof of English at CUNY, 2007 J. Paul, "Utilitarian Humanism: Culture in the Service of Regulating 'We Other Humans,'" Theory and Event, Vol 10, Issue 3, Project Muse |
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+Throughout this essay |
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+the “global human.”10 |
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+The 1ac networks of communication places a premium upon human speech – silencing the chaos of nonhuman voices. |
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+Lewis 10 Tyson E., Asst Prof of Educational Phil at Montclair State “Swarm Intelligence: Rethinking the Multitude from within the Transversal Commons” Culture, Theory and Critique 51.3, 223-238 |
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+The communication networks |
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+ethical implications that flow from them. (Wolfe 2010: 47) |
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+Anthropocentrism is the foundational hierarchy that structures all others – their humanist politics dooms us to a future that endlessly repeats the oppression of the status quo. |
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+Best 7 (Steven – Chair of Philosophy @ University of Texas – El Paso, Review of Charles Patterson’s “The Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust”, Journal for Critical Animal Studies, http://www.drstevebest.org/EternalTriblenka.pdf) //MD |
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+While a welcome advance |
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+Christianity left behind.¶ |
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+Speciesm reduces the nonhuman to a status of permanent unfreedom – gratuitous violence must be given ontological priority. |
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+Pugliese 13 Joseph Pugliese. Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney. 2013. State Violence and the Execution of the Law: Biopolitical Caesurae of Torture, Black Sites, Drones. Pages 166-170. |
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+The CIA black |
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+can’t be lived through.’ 35 |
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+Our alternative is to imagine global suicide – this throws into question the ideology of humanist value systems and ruptures the ontological status of humans that we hold dear. |
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+Kochi and Ordan 8 (Tarik, lecturer in the School of Law, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Noam, linguist and translator, conducts research in Translation Studies at Bar Ilan University, Israel, 'An argument for the global suicide of humanity', Borderlands, December) |
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+The version of |
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+global suicide of humanity. |
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+The methodology of constant death meditation is integral in any alteration of the status quo. We must recognize our deaths not as individuals, but as a civilization – this is the only ethical option. |
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+Scranton 13 Roy Scranton (Served in the United States Army from 2002 to 2006. He is a doctoral candidate in English at Princeton University, and co-editor of "Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War." He has written for The New York Times, Boston Review, Theory and Event and recently completed a novel about the Iraq War), "Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene"; November 10, 2013; http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/learning-how-to-die-in-the-anthropocene/?_r=0 |
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+The challenge the |
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+first learn how to die. |