Tournament: SFSU Golden Gate Opener | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge: 

A) LOCATION IS KEY.

1. Their Advocacy fails because it conceptualizes this place, the University, the space in which their discourse is situated, as a sight for meaningful criticism.
 Cooks and Warren 11, Profs. Communication at U.Mass and S.I.U. respectively (Leda Cooks and John T. Warren (2011): SomeBodies(') in School: Introduction, Text and Performance Quarterly, 31:3, 211-216)

2. The University used to be a place where critical academics could create societal change but that is no longer the case.

Lorenz 12 (Chris Lorenz, “If You’re So Smart, Why Are You Under Surveillance? Universities, Neoliberalism, and New Public Management, Critical Inquiry, Spring 2012, Volume 38 Number 3)

B) They are Trapped: Speaking from the University Turns Case

1. It is really the modern university that makes their demand on the state and approach to the state impossible, making all of their energy work against change and not for it.

2. They are just another form of “environmental studies,” trapped by the confines of a Department.

J. Derrida, French Theorist, ’84 (Diacritics, “No Apocalypse, Not Now (Full Speed Ahead, Seven Missiles, Seven Missives)” interviewed by Catherine Porter; Philip Lewis, Vol. 14, No. 2, Nuclear Criticism. (Summer, 1984), pp. 20-31)

3. Discussion of domestic energy production is all about “Research status,” grants, and co-opting environmental studies. 

McKinley, Australian National University, 2000 (Michael McKinley, March 14-18 2000, International Studies Association, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the Australian National University, “The Co-option of the Modern University and the Need for Reform: The National Security / Neo-Liberal University and the Adoption of a Hippocratic Oath for Academics” http://www.ciaonet.org/isa/isa.html ) ====

C) Implication: Vote Negative. Any permutation as well as their “solvency”—or the effects of their action—is hopelessly compromised by the place of the University

1. State control, logics of exclusion and access, deeper economic inequity  

2. It’s the lever and authorization for violence and intervention.

Mirsepassi, Assoc. Dean Gallatin School, NYU, ‘02 (Nepantla: Views from South 3.3, p547-552, Ali, “Area Studies, Globalization…”)

3. Reject their Project because its progressive potential gets crushed down the road.

Spanos, reprinted in 2009 (Shared Sacrifice W.V. Spanos, Heidegger and Criticism: Retrieving the Cultural Politics of Destruction. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993), p. 208, http://www.sharedsacrifice.us/Mar5Kuswa_Agent_Orange.html)

D) The kritik in context of the round

1. San Francisco State University is becoming increasingly bureaucratized working with corporations on energy production.

San Francisco State University 11 (“Fuel Cell Project”, September 2, 2011

http:~/~/www.sfsu.edu/~~build/construct/htm)

2. San Francisco saves a lot of money by producing their own energy

CSU No Date (“Infrastructure: Energy and Sustainable Design”, http:~/~/www.calstate.edu/impact/sustainability/html)

3. San Francisco State University will shut down any resistance. Occupy San Francisco is an example.

Crawford Dec 21, 2011 (Amy Crawford, SF Examiner Staff Writer, “Occupy protesters cleared out of SFSU camp”, http:~/~/www.sfexaminer.com/local/education/2011/12/com/local/education/2011/12/occupy-protesters-cleared-out-sfsu-camp-vow-demonstrations-will-continue)

Tournament: USC | Round: 1 | Opponent:  | Judge:
A) A society based on competition and egotism destroys all meaning to identity and social life. Human association is used as an instrument for mindless consumption.
Bookchin 89 (Murray Bookchin, American Philosopher/Author, “Remaking Society” pg 19)

The problems.... consumption.

B) Links

Attempts to create a “green” society are doomed by the very nature of the current system. Current society is a form of competitive and egotistic society that has no limits to its growth and will result in the destruction of the planet.
Bookchin 89 (Murray Bookchin, American Philosopher/Author, “Remaking Society” pg 93-94)
Capitalism divided...tear down the planet.

2. The affirmative’s reforms can’t solve. They are merely creating cosmetic changes rather than basic changes.
Bookchin 89 (Murray Bookchin, American Philosopher/Author, “Remaking Society” pg 94)

Today, justice.... eliminate it.

C) Alternative
1) We must move toward a libertarian muncipalism in which we create small self-sustainable communities to avoid extinction.
Bookchin 89 (Murray Bookchin, American Philosopher/Author, “Remaking Society” pg 186-187)

Our ultimate survival.... self-interest.

2) Social ecology allows us to solve the root cause of environmental destruction
Tokar 8- Faculty Member @ the Institute for Social Ecology, Founder of NorthEast RAGE Brian, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, “On Bookchin’s Social Ecology and its Contributions to Social Movements,” March 2008, Vol. 19, Iss. 1, ProQuest, DKP

First, social ecology... political power.