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-Identity is intersubjective and constructed through social relations which are always changing. Butler. |
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-Judith Butler. 1992. “Continent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of “Postmodernism” Feminists Theorize the Political |
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-In a sense, ... to politics itself. |
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-Any attempt to universalize the conception of the self would fail to understand the ontological status of the agent. Mills. |
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-Charles W. Mills, “Ideal Theory” as Ideology, 2005 |
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-An idealized social ... of various kinds. (168) |
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-Justice is founded in discrimination. Hagglund. |
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-“THE NECESSITY OF DISCRIMINATION DISJOINING DERRIDA AND LEVINAS” MARTIN HÄGGLUND |
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-Derrida targets precisely ... perpetrating the better. (46-48) |
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-The belief in absolute peace is self-contradictory and justifies absolute violence. Hagglund 2. |
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-“THE NECESSITY OF DISCRIMINATION DISJOINING DERRIDA AND LEVINAS” MARTIN HÄGGLUND |
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-A possible objection ... of absolute violence. (49) |
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-The only way to resolve the inevitable conflict that comes with pluralism in our agency and ethics is to embrace an agonistic commitment, which recognizes that conflict is inevitable, but frames the other as a legitimate opponent instead of an enemy because without the opponent, your identity doesn’t exist. Mouffe. |
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-“The Democratic Paradox” by Chantal Mouffe 2000 DD |
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-"A well-functioning democracy ... basis of civility." (104) |
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-To clarify, the standard is concerned with the procedures of agonistic pluralism, not ends. Mouffe 2. |
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-(Chantal Mouffe, Professor at the Department of Political Science of the Institute for Advanced Studies. June 2000. “The Democratic Paradox”) |
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-“To avoid any ... for conflicting interpretations.” |
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-Any attempt to exclude challenges reaffirms pedagogical imperialism. Rickert. |
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-(Thomas, “"Hands Up, You're Free": Composition in a Post-Oedipal World”, JacOnline Journal,) |
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-“This essay will ... serve the other” (48) |
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-Soft energy is localized and facilitates community involvement. Lovins. |
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-Lovins, Amory B., cofounder and Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute; energy advisor to major firms and governments in 65+ countries for 40+ years; author of 31 books and 600 papers; and an integrative designer of superefficient buildings, factories, and vehicles, 1976 “Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken?”, Foreign Affairs, October Issue, Online: http://courses.washington.edu/pbaf595/Readings/Lovins_1976.pdf, Accessed September 8 – MG |
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-There exists today ... deserves immediate explanation. |
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-Thus, I affirm that countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power as a rejection of hard power. I reserve the right to clarify. |
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-Contention 1: Nuclear Reactors are Centralized |
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-The nuclear power lobby tries to disguise the facts but nuclear power’s high costs require a centralized system. This is deeply rooted in a hard energy grid system where energy is produced by large, inflexible reactors. UCS |
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-UCS, nonprofit science advocacy organization based in the United States, 2011 |
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-(Union of Concerned Scientists, “Nuclear Power: Still Not Viable without Subsidies (2011)”, Online: http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-power/cost-nuclear-power/nuclear-power-subsidies-report#.V9I56SgrK00http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/science/CO2-and-global-warming-faq.html, Accessed September 5 – MG) |
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-These legacy subsidies ... is fully written off |
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-Nuclear reactors require centralized infrastructure from waste disposal to regulation. Paperiello. |
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-Paperiello, Regional administrator of Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 2011 |
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-(CJ, “Essential infrastructure: national nuclear regulation”, Health Phys., January, Online: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21399415, Accessed September 9th – MG) |
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-In order for ... in nuclear power. |
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-Centralization is not democratic. Lovins 2. |
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-Lovins, Amory B., cofounder and Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute; energy advisor to major firms and governments in 65+ countries for 40+ years; author of 31 books and 600 papers; and an integrative designer of superefficient buildings, factories, and vehicles, 1976 “Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken?”, Foreign Affairs, October Issue, Online: http://courses.washington.edu/pbaf595/Readings/Lovins_1976.pdf, Accessed September 8 – MG |
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-Such dirigiste autarchy ... from grass-roots politics. |
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-Contention 2: Technocracy |
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-The risky, esoteric, and highly technical nature of nuclear power demands elitism. A ban on nuclear reactors is the first step away from hard energy. Lovins 3. |
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-Lovins, Amory B., cofounder and Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute; energy advisor to major firms and governments in 65+ countries for 40+ years; author of 31 books and 600 papers; and an integrative designer of superefficient buildings, factories, and vehicles, 1976 “Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken?”, Foreign Affairs, October Issue, Online: http://courses.washington.edu/pbaf595/Readings/Lovins_1976.pdf, Accessed September 8 – MG |
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-Any demanding high ... resists political remedy. |
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-Nuclear power reinforces all levels of social division- its centralized, technocratic nature legitimates these views throughout society and corrupts all levels of scientific analysis. Martin et. Al 84 |
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-(The main authors are Jill Bowling, Brian Martin, Val Plumwood and Ian Watson, with important contributions from Ray Kent, Basil Schur and Rosemary Walters. Strategy against nuclear power http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/86sa.html) |
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-Why was the ... it is embedded. |
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-Use a truth-testing paradigm when evaluating the resolution. Any assumption devolves into some conception of truth. Frege. |
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-Frege ’03. Frege, Gottlob. “The Thought: A Logical Inquiry” in Logicism and the Philosophy of Language: Selections from Frege and Russell. Broadview Press. March 2003. Pg. 204. |
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-“It may nevertheless ... point is found.” |