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
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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.