Klein Oak George Aff
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| Grapevine | 2 | Strake Jesuit AS | Lawrence Zhou |
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| UH | 4 | SFA SM | Delil Agho-Otoghile |
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| UH | Doubles | Katy Taylor CR | Panel |
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| UT | 1 | Woodlands College Park JZ | Jin Lee |
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0 - Contact InfoTournament: Any | Round: 1 | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any | 12/1/16 |
JANFEB - Agonism 1ACTournament: UH | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Katy Taylor CR | Judge: Panel
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JANFEB - Protests 1ACTournament: Strake Jesuit | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lake Highland MK | Judge: But, western metaphysics continually reaffirms the question of “is”, creating distinct, static categories that are then branded upon the world. I am me, you are you, two distinct, separate entities, always. This mode of thought traps bodies within a singular subjectivity, preventing any becoming other. Specifically, the state apparatus holds these categories in place, harshly defining the limits of becoming through a security logic that seeks to reduce everything to its predictable origin. This management creates the conditions in which any infraction upon order warrants infinite violence. Status quo educational systems operate as extensions of the state apparatus zones of detainment par-excellence, harshly defining the conditions of education within rigid and predictable regulations. A recoding would require an upending of the current system. Thus, the Role of the Ballot is to vote for the debater who best embraces becoming. Nowhere has this been clearer than in student protests: I advocate that public colleges and universities in the United States ought not restrict protest. We affirm protest in the educational space. We take the bricks from the classroom of reason and smash the windows to look beyond. Specifically, this re-territorialization continually draws out trajectories against state domination. That’s key to a world beyond fascism. The unrestrained and explorative nature of rhizomatic protest opens up new epistemic possibilities – challenging the very nature of the frame of life introduces a pedagogy of radical critique, the only way to account for the ever-changing nature of the world. And, university movements have potential – that’s empirically proven by the Occupation at the New School in 09 Successful protest is always met with detainment by the state apparatus stemming from university policy; the same holds true here. | 12/16/16 |
JANFEB - Structural Violence 1ACTournament: UH | Round: 4 | Opponent: SFA SM | Judge: Delil Agho-Otoghile | 1/7/17 |
NOVDEC - Police State 1ACTournament: UT | Round: 1 | Opponent: Woodlands College Park JZ | Judge: Jin Lee Structural Violence The standard is minimizing structural barriers, defined as alleviating the material conditions that commit structural violence on marginalized groups. Prefer— 1) Debate should deal with material impacts—abstraction reflects privilege 2) Structural violence is based in moral exclusion—ethics do not apply if individuals are not included Part 2: Status Quo Qualified immunity creates a police state immune to criticism—it justifies police abuse Courts use the “clearly established” clause to avoid clarifying core constitutional rights—leads to circular rights violations that justify future police misconduct Qualified immunity serves to diffuse critique and stops expansion civil rights claims elsewhere—it makes police misconduct appear to be ISOLATED instead of SYSTEMIC Part 3: Advocacy Text Plan Text: The United States federal government ought to eliminate the “clearly established” clause of qualified immunity and replace it with a “clearly unconstitutional” clause for police officers. Solvency Restricting qualified immunity is key to unveil abuse within the police state—the aff calls out abusive police Limiting qualified immunity is a uniquely key starting point to create policy accountability—alternatives are inaccessible Civil suits rebuild relations between communities and police Civil lawsuits are uniquely key to hold police accountable—compensation for victims creates change The aff refocuses civil movements—instead of focusing on individual acts, we take the police state out head-on Underview Ideal theory can never guide action—you as a judge must reject abstractions Only material realities are epistemically accessible | 12/2/16 |
SEPTOCT - Heidegger 1ACTournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Cedar Park MT | Judge: Dino DeLao Part 1 is the FrameworkThe debate space is a discursive space designed for the negotiation of the subject and how we, as subjects, interact with structures that shape our identity and create the conditions for violence.Sarroub and Quadros 15 Sarroub, Loukia K. and Quadros, Sabrina, "Critical Pedagogy in Classroom Discourse" (2015). Faculty Publications: Department of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education. Paper 156. Pg 252 This means that the ontology of the subject is key, embracing an ontological state of becoming is a prerequisite to the determination of the ethical and political character of the subject which dictates how that subject engages with the worldShudak 14 Shudak, Nicholas J. "The Re-Emergence of Critical Pedagogy: A Three-Dimensional Framework for Teacher Education in the Age of Teacher Effectiveness" Creative Education, 2014, 5, pg 995. The Role of the Ballot is to thus embrace a pedagogy of world opening, creating the opportunity for students to engage with signatures that allow for them to connect with the world and develop their ontologies. Vote for the best praxis that aligns itself with allowing the world and, its signifiers, to be open and clear to us.Riley 11 Riley, Dawn (Education Studies Department, Skidmore College) p 805 "Heidegger Teaching: An analysis and interpretation of pedagogy" Educational Philosophy and Theory,Vol. 43, No. 8, 2011 doi: 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2009.00549.x This entails a detachment of those things that create a separation of ourselves towards the world, this is a precondition for our configuration of ethics and the world around us. Continuously rejecting forms of technology that conceal the world from our Being.Rojcewicz 1 06 (Richard Rojcewicz, Philosophy at Point Park College in Pittsburgh, The Gods And Technology: A Reading Of Heidegger, 2006, Kindle Edition. Kindle 578) Predictions are governed by calculative thinking— these predivtive models are subject to agendas that culminate in securitization and concealment - We gesture towards meditative thought, a patient approach to the world, simply trying to understand the worldSwazo ‘02Swazo 2002 (Norman Swazo, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Crisis Theory and World Order: Heideggerian Reflections, pp. 73-74) My affirmative endorses a new existential meta-physics – only through addressing the underlying thoughts of our social formations can we address material harms.Niemoczynski, Leon. "21ST CENTURY SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY: REFLECTIONS ON THE "NEW METAPHYSICS" AND ITS REALISM AND MATERIALISM" Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, vol. 9, no. 2, 2013 Part 2 Is OffenseI advocate that countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power.The Modern Era of energy policy concerns with a politics of systematic ordering of things with the sole purpose of exploitation, this ordering takes the natural world and imports an ontological value upon it that alters the way that it unconceals itself towards usSchalow 2006 (Frank Schalow, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Orleans. The Incarnality of Being: The Earth, Animals, and the Body in Heidegger’s Thought, pg. 96-97) The nuclear age is particularly characterized by the danger of importing an ontological form on nature, this risks our connection with the natural world and conceals us from the essential truth nature has to offer.Kokubun, Koichiro, Associate Professor @ Takasaki City University of Economics. "Philosiphy in the Atomic Age" May 30, 2013. Pp 4-5 This essence of the technological risks a framing of the subject that leads to an objectification and disclosive praxis that eliminates the unconcealment of the other and the self. This leaves humanity subject to objectification and categorization rooted in a frame that perceives the subject as a standing reserve.Rojcewicz 2 6 (Richard Rojcewicz, philosophy at point park college in Pittsburgh, The Gods and Technology: a Reading of Heidegger, kindle edition. kindle locations 944-969, 2006) Technological rational leads endless constructions of nihilistic approaches to life.Herman, Professor of History, George Mason, 1997 (Arthur, THE IDEA OF DECLINE IN WESTERN HISTORY, p.337.) SVK | 9/17/16 |
SEPTOCT - Israel 1ACTournament: Greenhill | Round: 3 | Opponent: Katy Taylor RC | Judge: Jared Woods AdvantagesInherencyIran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons has ceased in light of the nuclear dealSanger ‘16David E. Sanger, 7-13-2016, "Iran Sticks to Terms of Nuclear Deal, but Defies the U.S. in Other Ways," New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-deal.html//KOHS-AG And, the root cause of Iran’s desire to proliferate is Israeli aggression and nuclear power—addressing these concerns is keyFisher ‘15Max Fisher, 2-25-2015, "The real reasons Iran is so committed to its nuclear program," Vox, http://www.vox.com/2015/2/25/8101383/iran-nuclear-reasons Advantage 1: MeltdownMeltdown of the Dimona reactor is inevitableLevinsonn ‘16Chaim Levinson Apr 26, 2016 9, 4-26-2016, "Israel's Dimona nuclear reactor plagued by 1,537 defects, scientists say," Haaretz, http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.716312 Meltdown causes extinctionLendman ‘11Stephen, Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization, Advantage 2: Stability (1:15)Arabian instability is building now—border escalation provesCrooke 7-6Alastair Crooke (Fmr. MI-6 agent; Author, ‘Resistance: The Essence of Islamic Revolution’), 7-6-2016, "Is Israel Preparing for War Against Hezbollah?," Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alastair-crooke/israel-war-hezbollah'b'10829902.html Israeli nuclear power escalates tensions—causes prolifAbuzayyad ‘10Ziad Abuzayyad. Volume 16. No 34. 2010. "Palestine-Israel Journal: The Nuclear Option and Peace in the Middle East," No Publication, http://www.pij.org/details.php?id=1264 Arabian prolif leads to nuclear warEdelman ‘11Edelman, 11 (Jan/Feb, Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and Former U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Foreign Affairs, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67162/eric-s-edelman-andrew-f-krepinevich-jr-and-evan-braden-montgomer/the-dangers-of-a-nuclear-iran) Advantage 3: HamasHamas striking now—conflict likely to escalate—Hamas is determinedAP 8-21Associated Press. 8-21-2016, "Palestinian rocket strikes Israel, drawing Israeli reprisal," Stars and Stripes,http://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/palestinian-rocket-strikes-israel-drawing-israeli-reprisal-1.424873//KOHS-AG Empirics prove—Hamas wants to strike the Dimona reactorPollak ‘14Joel B. Pollak,10 Jul 2014, "'Nuclear Terrorism': Hamas Targeting of Dimona Reactor Meets UN Definition," Breitbart, http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2014/07/10/nuclear-terrorism-hamas-targets-israel-s-dimona-reactor/ Attacks on nuclear reactors are devastating—they’re equivalent to dirty bombsPSR ‘16~"Dirty, Dangerous And Expensive: The Truth About Nuclear Power". 2016.Psr.Org. Accessed August 8 2016. http://www.psr.org/chapters/washington/resources/nuclear-power-factsheet.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/~~ Nuclear attack causes extinction—miscalculation likelyBarrett et al ‘13PhD in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, Fellow in the RAND Stanton Nuclear Security Fellows Program, and Director of Research at Global Catastrophic Risk Institute—AND Seth Baum, PhD in Geography from Pennsylvania State University, Research Scientist at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, and Executive Director of Global Catastrophic Risk Institute—AND Kelly Hostetler, BS in Political Science from Columbia and Research Assistant at Global Catastrophic Risk Institute (Anthony, 24 June 2013, "Analyzing and Reducing the Risks of Inadvertent Nuclear War Between the United States and Russia," Science and Global Security: The Technical Basis for Arms Control, Disarmament, and Nonproliferation Initiatives, Volume 21, Issue 2, Taylor and Francis) PlanTextPlan Text: Israel ought to adopt Uzi Even’s proposal and prohibit nuclear power.Silverstein ‘12Richard Silverstein, 8-20-2012, "Leading Israeli Nuclear Scientist Proposing Closing Dimona in Return for Ending Iranian Nuke Program," Tikun Olam תיקון עולם, http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2012/08/20/leading-israeli-nuclear-scientist-proposing-closing-dimona-in-return-for-ending-iranian-nuke-program/ SolvencyPlan solves stability—Removal of the Iranian threat is a palliative for Israel, while removal of Israeli nuclear power prevents Iran from reproliferatingAbuzayyad 2Ziad Abuzayyad. Volume 16. No 34. 2010. "Palestine-Israel Journal: The Nuclear Option and Peace in the Middle East," No Publication, http://www.pij.org/details.php?id=1264 The nuclear deal will eventually expire—the aff is k2 long term peaceAbrams ‘15Elliot Abrams 7/15,senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, "Iran got a far better deal than it had any right to expect," National Review 2015. Plan spills over to Israel abolishing its entire nuclear arsenal while preventing terrorist attacks on facilitiesSleiman ‘10Mounzer Sleiman (2010) Shutting down Dimona: Israel’s nuclear programme, arsenal and environmental threat, Contemporary Arab Affairs, 3:4, 437-479, DOI: 10.1080/17550912.2010.528203 Existing nuclear weapons are outdated and futile—stopping escalation now is keySleiman ‘10Mounzer Sleiman (2010) Shutting down Dimona: Israel’s nuclear programme, arsenal and environmental threat, Contemporary Arab Affairs, 3:4, 437-479, DOI: 10.1080/17550912.2010.528203 We create movements for environmental changeSleiman ‘10Mounzer Sleiman (2010) Shutting down Dimona: Israel’s nuclear programme, arsenal and environmental threat, Contemporary Arab Affairs, 3:4, 437-479, DOI: 10.1080/17550912.2010.528203 FrameworkNon-naturalist theories are epistemically inaccessible—reject abstractions Papineau ‘07 Naturalism means util—phenomenal introspection means we can export our experience of pleasure to othersSinhababu ‘13 The standard is maximizing expected well-being. Prefer—Util is the only pragmatic option for policymakers—they can only look at macropolitical impactsGoodinRobert Goodin, Professor of Government, University of Essex, Australian National Defense University, "THE UTILITARIAN RESPONSE," p. 141-2, 1990. No act-omission distinction for states—they are responsible for their consequencesSunstein and VermeuleCass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule, "Is Capital Punishment Morally Required? The Relevance of Life‐Life Tradeoffs." John M. Olin Law and Economics Working Paper No. 239 The Law School, The University of Chicago, March 2005KOHS-AG Util calc is k2 moral equalityCummiskeyCummiskey, David. "Kantian consequentialism." Ethics (1990): 586-615. Published by Oxford University Press.KOHS-AG Analytic | 9/17/16 |
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