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Agonism ACTournament: Colleyville | Round: 4 | Opponent: North Crowley LR | Judge: Dino Part 1: FrameworkAttempting to understand beings, communities, and ethics as pure will inevitably fail:1. There is no possibility of understanding people in and of themselves. All identities are understood through the differentiation of social relations, which are by necessity constantly changing. BUTLER:(Judith Butler. 1992. "Continent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of "Postmodernism" Feminists Theorize the Political) Implications:A. Ethics has to start with the self – otherwise it can't guide action because its principle doesn't have a claim on what I ought to do. But, there is no single stable self. Any attempt to theorize the self would fail to understand the ontological status of the agent. MILLS: Charles W. Mills, "Ideal Theory" as Ideology, 2005"An idealized social B. Constraints K impacts – a social ontology conditions the subject in a way that resists concrete and structural inequalities, that's a second implication from Mills.C. Discrimination is constitutive of any moral theory because it requires one to distinguish between the ethical and anti-ethical. Differentiation becomes a condition for any decision, so justice is found in violence. HÄGGLUND:"THE NECESSITY OF DISCRIMINATION DISJOINING DERRIDA AND LEVINAS" MARTIN HÄGGLUND ====Impacts:==== ====A. Analytic ====B. Precedes idealized frameworks. The belief in absolute peace is self-contradictory and justifies absolute violence. HÄGGLUND 2: "THE NECESSITY OF DISCRIMINATION DISJOINING DERRIDA AND LEVINAS" MARTIN HÄGGLUND==== And, democratic agonism is the only thing that can overcome ontological violence:ONTOLOGICAL VIOLENCE MAKES EXTINCTION INEVITABLE.A. The only way to resolve the inevitable conflict that comes with pluralism in our agency and ethics is to embrace that it is in fact inevitable. This requires an agonistic commitment, which recognizes that conflict is inevitable, but frames the other as a legitimate opponent instead of an enemy. MOUFFE: "The Democratic Paradox" by Chantal Mouffe 2000"A well-functioning democracy calls for a vibrant clash of democratic political positions. If this is missing B. Our starting point is key- we don't pretend to overcome all exclusion, we just exclude the exclusionary thing. MOUFFE:(Chantal Mouffe, Professor at the Department of Political Science of the Institute for Advanced Studies. June 2000. "The Democratic Paradox") C. AnayticThus, the standard is promoting agonistic democracy. To clarify, it's a question of creating procedural elements that allow discussion, not specific ends.Prefer additionally because:1. Educational spaces must embrace contestation as a condition for resistance. Any attempt to exclude challenges reaffirms pedagogical imperialism. RICKERT:(Thomas, ""Hands Up, You're Free": Composition in a Post-Oedipal World", JacOnline Journal,) 2. ANALYTICPart 2: AdvocacyI defend the resolutionPart 3: ContentionIntelligibility:Censorship on college campuses is being used to stifle democratic thought itself.Sevcenko 16 ~Catherine Sevcenko, Email Congress about Campus Censorship Today, March 3, 2016, https://www.thefire.org/email-congress-about-campus-censorship-today/~~~~==== | 2/4/17 |
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