Tournament: Harvard | Round: 1 | Opponent: Dulles MK | Judge: Maddy Stevens
We are all Mesopotamians! 12,000 years ago people started farming.  This was really, really bad because it marked the beginning of the Anthropocene and Agrilogistics.  Agrilogistics is utility-obsession.  It is anti-aesthetic. Operating computationally, agrilogistics creates a monolithic beast, global agriculture, and defines all of human society and epistemology.  Its development was based in the establishment of a hierarchical dualism between humans and nonhumans, creating two distinct ontological positions.  Furthermore, agrilogistics provided the stability and structure needed for almost all forms of oppression and structural violence.  Things like class and patriarchy exist structurally in that they are embedded in the structure of society itself.  Thus, without the stability and social structure provided by agrilogistics those oppressions are impossible. Morton 16.
Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (The Wellek Library Lectures). Timothy Morton (Lit prof at Rice). Columbia University Press. Print. 2016
Dark Ecology is going to call this twelve-thousand-year machination agrilogistics.
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—there have been no other great reasons, as we shall see. 

Before we can discuss what speech ought to be spoken, we must first integrate what speech even can be spoken.  Agrilogistic epistemology and ontology reduces things to appearance rather than depth and complexity, forcing them into boxes and distorting the larger ecological reality.  Objects become “easy think substances” that only exist in relation to their usefulness to humans.  Adhering to the law of non-contradiction and its resulting metaphysics of presence results in infinite violence against alterity.  Morton 2:
The very concept of “world” as the
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Fumbling for the exit route is still occurring, a curious phenomenon we shall explore in the next thread.

The University and constitutionality are thus caught up in this agrilogistic metaphysics with their logocentric obsession with reason, appearance and boundary.  This metaphysics, however, is far from accurate: things are fuzzy, buzzing, and alive, less than the sum of their parts.  Even though I exist with millions of microbes inside of me—there is more non-human DNA inside of me than human DNA—I become an ontologically simple object, a human.  Quantum mechanics goes even further: things don’t have fixed positions, only probabilities.  The law of non-contradiction simply isn’t a law at all.  Morton 3:
Temporality structures such as the Anthropocene are fuzzy
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We can extend what Irigaray argues about women to include men, spoons, quasars, and meadows.

Thus, the role of the ballot is to endorse the debater who best accesses space outside of the agrilogistic and its metaphysics.  At the heart of everything is the arche-lithic, that which escapes agrilogistic limits.  The arche-lithic is the shimmering, the wondrous, the ecological mesh underlying being and relationality.  Any attempt to move beyond agrilogistics must access it.  Morton 4
Paleolithic, Neolithic, arche-lithic. Three names, two in common circulation, naming different relationships between humans and stones.
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 The more agrilogistics envelops Earth, the more the arche-lithic seeps in despite it.

The AC thus advocates a politics of toys as a method for accessing free speech.  A politics of toys is a playful means of connecting humans and non-humans.  It replaces the seriousness of agrilogistic politics with laughter and joy, substituting flexibility and play for rigidity and utility obsession.  It means rejecting “one-size-fits-all” politics and ethics.  There can never be “one toy to rule them all.” Morton 5:
I’ve been kicked in the biosphere.
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it follows that extensions of narcissism are one ingredient of future coexistence.

Tournament: Blake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Central Valley MN | Judge: Paul Zhou
We begin with the story of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, a land grant university built on the paradox of stolen land. Peter Kirstein articulates that:
https://academeblog.org/2016/09/04/salaitas-departure-and-the-gutting-of-american-indian-studies-at-the-university-of-illinois/
One of the concerns
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 vital academic program.
The American University is built on a settler colonial project that thrives on the death of indigenous bodies- the sacrifices and struggles for the freedom to speak one’s mind that the resolution asks me to fight for is afforded by curricular violence- before we can fight to protect the right to speak we must examine how what we speak is complicit in and recreates settler colonialism- Gaztambide-Fernandez and Tuck 1: (Ruben Gaztambide-Fernandez and Eve Tuck, Curriculum Replacement and Settler Futurity, 2013 http://journal.jctonline.org/index.php/jct/article/viewFile/411/pdf DFS)
The critical role
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in the way.
Western knowledge production inherently results in violence against native peoples that spans the temporality of the natural world- a decolonial strategy of knowledge comes first- thus the role of the ballot is to combat colonial education- Grande 4:
Grande, Sandy 2004: Red Pedagogy: Native America Social and Politic Thought. United States of America.  Rowman and Littlefield Publisher Inc. (pp 55-56).
However the question of sovereignty is resolved politically, t
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as it is and as it should be” (Alfred 1999, 132).
The colonial curriculum the resolution represents is premised on the excitement of the mind in relation to colonial violence against Natives- the mythic presence of indigeneity haunts the academy and only a deconstruction of the colonial curriculum can solve- Gaztambide-Fernandez and Tuck 2: (Ruben Gaztambide-Fernandez and Eve Tuck, Curriculum Replacement and Settler Futurity, 2013 http://journal.jctonline.org/index.php/jct/article/viewFile/411/pdf DFS)
For John Franklin Bobbitt (1918), recognizing the
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moving toward civilization. 

The discourse that allowed for the destruction of the UIUC natives department is pushed into the temporal horizon when it is decentered- Academic spaces must grapple with their relations to indigenous people- Byrd 11:
Byrd, Jodi (2011). The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism. University of Minnesota Press. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttv97j
The Transit of Empire has taken as its point of entry the constellating discourses that
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that seek new lands, resources, and peoples to feed capitalistic consumption.

The result is the logic of elimination that replicates violence in all forms- Wolfe 06:
Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native PATRICK WOLFE 2006
The question of genocide
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 genocide studies than others.
Thus I affirm a rematriation of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. This necessitates not just a return of the land, but also a return of the ability to center native epistemology- Gaztambide-Fernandez and Tuck 3: (Ruben Gaztambide-Fernandez and Eve Tuck, Curriculum Replacement and Settler Futurity, 2013 http://journal.jctonline.org/index.php/jct/article/viewFile/411/pdf DFS)
The term rematriation refers to the work of community members and scholars in curriculum studies
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to all aspects of existence including environmental and multidimensional scientific aspects of existence.
The form of relationality that the aff engages in via rematriation is key to move beyond Eurocentric epistemology- Lovern 8:
Lovern, Lavonna (2008) "Native American Worldview and the Discourse on Disability," Essays in Philosophy: Vol. 9: Iss. 1, Article 14. Available at: http://commons.pacificu.edu/eip/vol9/iss1/14
In the interests of eliminating oppressive behaviors
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scientific aspects of existence.

Tournament: Valley | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harrison RP | Judge: Cameron McConaway

We are all Mesopotamians! 12,000 years ago people started farming.  This was really, really bad because it marked the beginning of the Anthropocene and Agrilogistics.  Agrilogistics is utility-obsession.  It is anti-aesthetic. Operating blindly, agrilogistics creates a monolithic beast, global agriculture, and defines all of human society and epistemology.  Its development was based in the establishment of a hierarchical dualism between humans and nonhumans, creating two distinct ontological positions.  Furthermore, agrilogistics provided the stability and structure needed for almost all forms of oppression and structural violence.  Things like class and patriarchy exist structurally in that they are embedded in the structure of society itself.  Thus, without the stability and social structure provided by agrilogistics those oppressions are impossible. Morton 16.

Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (The Wellek Library Lectures). Timothy Morton (Lit prof at Rice). Columbia University Press. Print. 2016
Dark Ecology is going to call this twelve-thousand-year machination agrilogistics.
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nutrition. So-called utility operates just like so-called inutility.

The production of nuclear energy is simply another form of farming.  Radioactive isotopes of uranium are cultivated for the energy of their decay, strengthening the dominance of humans over nature.  Nuclear power is, at its core, based in agrilogistic and theological logics that give humans the right to do with the Earth however we please.  Moreover, the need for more power and energy is an agrilogistic one, based in utilitarian obsession and required as part of endless expansion and growth.  The 1AC thus demands a ban and rejection of Nuclear Energy as a rejection of the Agrilogistic and its accompanying logic and epistemology. Hollo 14:

Tim Hollo, 12-1-2014, "Nuclear power keeps the corporates in charge. No wonder it's conservatives' preferred solution to climate change," Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/01/nuclear-power-keeps-the-corporates-in-charge-no-wonder-its-conservatives-preferred-solution-to-climate-change
The US Christian right has long promoted this line from Genesis 1:28 as
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human and non-human, now and in the future, matter. 

The aff is try-or-die: agrilogistics leads to climate collapse and mass extinction and denies value to life by forcing us into a state of depression brought on by ecological grief.  Morton 2:

Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (The Wellek Library Lectures). Timothy Morton (Lit prof at Rice). Columbia University Press. Print. 2016
We live in a reality determined by a one-size-fits-all
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group, and start to laugh? Sometimes philosophy needs to laugh. 

The 1AC is call for a new form of politics, one that rejects the utility obsession of agrilogistics for a bottom up approach that accepts ambiguity.  This requires a multitude of new temporalities.  Morton 3:

Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (The Wellek Library Lectures). Timothy Morton (Lit prof at Rice). Columbia University Press. Print. 2016
The Realm of Toys. And the first toy is the style of horror!
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-down solution. Instead we need many toy structures, many temporalities.

The role of the ballot is thus to endorse the most effective starting point for deconstructing the human-nature dualism.  Prefer:

First, questioning anthropocentric assumptions is an attempt to reach the root cause of global problems instead of endlessly bandaging the symptoms.  The human-nonhuman dualism that modern society is based in has led to the exploitation of both the environment and those deemed "sub-human."  Crist and Kopina 14:

Unsettling anthropocentrism Eileen Crist • Helen Kopnina Published online: 21 November 2014 _ Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014.  http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/152/art253A10.1007252Fs10624-014-9362-1.pdf?originUrl=http3A2F2Flink.springer.com2Farticle2F10.10072Fs10624-014-9362-1andtoken2=exp=1471399830~~acl=2Fstatic2Fpdf2F1522Fart25253A10.100725252Fs10624-014-9362-1.pdf3ForiginUrl3Dhttp253A252F252Flink.springer.com252Farticle252F10.1007252Fs10624-014-9362-1*~~hmac=26989717294cbf3bf1ed6fc6ba2fff07a6fb92c599dca6bf5b89d0488daa2882
In an article titled ''Robochop,'' The Economist reported a practical problem and
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multiplicity of action orientations within which human entitlement is always already automatically guaranteed.

Second, it's a pedagogical necessity. Bell and Russell 2k 

  anne and constance, Canadian journal of education, http://www.csse-scee.ca/CJE/Articles/FullText/CJE25-3/CJE25-3-bell.pdf
We come to critical pedagogy with a background in environmental thought and education. Of
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, 2000), anthropocentrism passes unchallenged.1 p. 190-192

And, education is either oppressive or libratory.  Our pedagogy must then specifically be emancipatory. Schaull no date.

Richard Schaull. America theologian Forward to Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Paulo Freire.  The Continuum International Publishing Group . No clearly indicated date. Edited for gendered language.
At first sight, Paulo Freire's method of teaching illiterates in Latin America seems to
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, Paulo Freires thought will make a significant contribution in the years ahead. 

Third, it's also an epistemological necessity. Das 14 

Satyajit Das (expert on financial derivatives and risk). "Anthropocentricity." 2014: What Scientific Idea Is Ready for Retirement?" Edge. 2014. http://edge.org/response-detail/25391
Parallax describes the apparent change in the direction of a moving object caused by alteration
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will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae."

Tournament: St Marks | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lynbrook YZ | Judge: Dino De La O
We are all Mesopotamians! 12,000 years ago people started farming.  This was really, really bad because it marked the beginning of the Anthropocene and Agrilogistics.  Agrilogistics is utility-obsession.  It is anti-aesthetic. Operating computationally, agrilogistics creates a monolithic beast, global agriculture, and defines all of human society and epistemology.  Its development was based in the establishment of a hierarchical dualism between humans and nonhumans, creating two distinct ontological positions.  Furthermore, agrilogistics provided the stability and structure needed for almost all forms of oppression and structural violence.  Things like class and patriarchy exist structurally in that they are embedded in the structure of society itself.  Thus, without the stability and social structure provided by agrilogistics those oppressions are impossible. Morton 16.
Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (The Wellek Library Lectures). Timothy Morton (Lit prof at Rice). Columbia University Press. Print. 2016
Dark Ecology is going to call this twelve-thousand-year machination agrilogistics.
AND
nutrition. So-called utility operates just like so-called inutility.

The production of nuclear energy is simply another form of farming.  Radioactive isotopes of uranium are cultivated for the energy of their decay, strengthening the dominance of humans over nature.  Nuclear power is, at its core, based in agrilogistic logics that give humans the right to do with the Earth however we please.  Moreover, the need for more power and energy is an agrilogistic one, based in utilitarian obsession and required as part of endless expansion and growth.  Hollo 14:
Tim Hollo, 12-1-2014, "Nuclear power keeps the corporates in charge. No wonder it's conservatives' preferred solution to climate change," Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/01/nuclear-power-keeps-the-corporates-in-charge-no-wonder-its-conservatives-preferred-solution-to-climate-change
 But the “dominion mandate” dovetails so neatly with the modern industrial idea
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that corporate might makes right; and that change must be avoided.

The 1AC advocates a reconceptualization of nuclear power through the production of nuclear art.   Notions of “power” and “production” are inherently tied up in the agrilogistic.  This demand for aesthetics severs that connection, shifting away from utility obsession.  Humanity thus comes to realize the Anthropocene instead of hiding from it.  Morton 2:  
Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (The Wellek Library Lectures). Timothy Morton (Lit prof at Rice). Columbia University Press. Print. 2016
The ecological era we find ourselves in whether we like it or not and whether
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let's team up with some physicists and get hold of a plutonium battery. 

The 1AC is call for a new form of politics, one that rejects the utility obsession of agrilogistics for a bottom up approach that accepts ambiguity.  This requires a multitude of new temporalities.  Morton 3:
Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (The Wellek Library Lectures). Timothy Morton (Lit prof at Rice). Columbia University Press. Print. 2016
The Realm of Toys. And the first toy is the style of horror!
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-down solution. Instead we need many toy structures, many temporalities.

Our shift away from agrilogistics must occur through imagination and creativity; through aesthetics.  This is the only way to act outside structures of violence.   Cox 09:
Gandhian Nonviolence as a Response to Epistemological Violence.  Paper for ‘Rethinking Gandhi and Global Nonviolence’ Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence at James Madison University Harrisonburg, Virginia April 9 - 10, 2009 Dr Peter T Cox.  https://www.academia.edu/404007/Gandhian_Nonviolence_as_a_Response_to_Epistemological_Violence
Nonviolence as a response to and repudiation of violence in both material (physical)
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Gandhian nonviolence can appropriately be re-imagined in an era of globalisation.

Thus, the role of the ballot is thus to endorse the most effective deconstructing of the human-nature dualism through aesthetics.  Questioning anthropocentric assumptions is an attempt to reach the root cause of global problems instead of endlessly bandaging the symptoms.  The human-nonhuman dualism that modern society is based in has led to the exploitation of both the environment and those deemed “sub-human.”  Crist and Kopina 14:
Unsettling anthropocentrism Eileen Crist • Helen Kopnina Published online: 21 November 2014 _ Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014.  http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/152/art253A10.1007252Fs10624-014-9362-1.pdf?originUrl=http3A2F2Flink.springer.com2Farticle2F10.10072Fs10624-014-9362-1andtoken2=exp=1471399830~acl=2Fstatic2Fpdf2F1522Fart25253A10.100725252Fs10624-014-9362-1.pdf3ForiginUrl3Dhttp253A252F252Flink.springer.com252Farticle252F10.1007252Fs10624-014-9362-1*~hmac=26989717294cbf3bf1ed6fc6ba2fff07a6fb92c599dca6bf5b89d0488daa2882
  Questioning anthropocentrism is far more than an academic exercise of debating the dominant cultural
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multiplicity of action orientations within which human entitlement is always already automatically guaranteed.

Deconstructing anthropocentrism is also a pedagogical necessity. Bell and Russell 2k
 anne and constance, Canadian journal of education, http://www.csse-scee.ca/CJE/Articles/FullText/CJE25-3/CJE25-3-bell.pdf
We come to critical pedagogy with a background in environmental thought and education. Of
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, 2000), anthropocentrism passes unchallenged.1¶ p. 190-192

Resisting this dualism also an epistemological necessity. Das 14
Satyajit Das (expert on financial derivatives and risk). “Anthropocentricity.” 2014: What Scientific Idea Is Ready for Retirement?” Edge. 2014. http://edge.org/response-detail/25391
Parallax describes the apparent change in the direction of a moving object caused by alteration
AND
will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae."  

Finallly, the aff is try-or-die: agrilogistics leads to climate collapse and mass extinction and denies value to life by forcing us into a state of ecological grief.  Morton 4:  
Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (The Wellek Library Lectures). Timothy Morton (Lit prof at Rice). Columbia University Press. Print. 2016
We live in a reality determined by a one-size-fits-all
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group, and start to laugh? Sometimes philosophy needs to laugh.