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

A. The affirmative’s fantasy of control embodies managerial thinking – the notion that we can manage and control the earth’s resources to solve problems conceives of the world as a standing reserve. This process of enframing obliterates all of types of knowledge and locks in calculative thought.

McWhorter, Prof. of Philosophy, ‘9 (U. Richmond, LaDelle, Heidegger and the Earth 2^nd Edition, p. vii-viii)

B. the affirmative’s attempt to engage in “resource management” locks us into a fantasy of total control. this ignores the fact that total control is never possible and forgets that the thoughtless deployment of humanist notions of being brought us to the brink of catastrophe in the first place.

 McWhorter, Prof. of Philosophy, ‘9 (U of R, LaDelle, Heidegger and the Earth 2^nd Edition, p. vii-viii)

C. THE AFFIRMATIVE’S DEPICTION OF THEIR HARMS SERVES TO MAINTAIN CALCULATIVE THOUGHT THROUGH THE DEPLOYMENT OF GUILT OVER THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS

 McWhorter, Prof. of Philosophy, ‘9 (U of R, LaDelle, Heidegger and the Earth 2^nd Edition, p. vii-viii)

D. The affirmative’s managerial fantasy of total control makes nuclear disaster and environmental collapse inevitable

McWhorter, Prof. of Philosophy, ‘9 (U. Richmond, LaDelle, Heidegger and the Earth 2^nd Edition, p. vii-viii)

E. ALTERNATIVE TEXT: Reject Action

We will claim that rejecting action opens up space for reflection on what Heidegger calls “the mystery of Being.”

How is it possible to do nothing in the face of suffering or pending crisis?  The urge to do good is deploy engrained in our culture, and hence, the debate community.  Heidegger points out that the urge to act is itself what must be thought through, what must be abandoned, to create a new way of Being in the world.

 McWhorter, Prof. of Philosophy, ‘9 (U of R, LaDelle, Heidegger and the Earth 2^nd Edition, p. vii-viii)

F. The affirmative’s truth claims are suspect - their seemingly predictable policy analysis is trapped in a narrow self reinforcing tunnel vision – their claims that action is the only solution are a product of their ontology and make violence inevitable

 Burke 07, (Anthony, ‘Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence and Reason’, Theory and Event, p. Muse, Lecturer in Politics and Int’l Rels at UNSW, Sydney, 2007)

G. Questions of Ontology must be asked and answered first since they inform all relevant knowledge and conceptions of “the problem”

Dillon ‘99 (Michael Dillon, Prof of Politics, University of Lancaster, Moral Spaces, p. 97-98)

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)

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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.

Tournament: USC | Round: 1 | Opponent:  | Judge:
A. Movements are coming—the crisis is compelling deeper solutions to structural problems.

Hunt-Hendrix, ‘11  (Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Jen Soriano, 10/03/11 09:10 PM, Grassroots Internationalism: Global Social Movements on the Rise, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leah-hunthendrix/grassroots-internationali_b_990392.html, acsd 10-8-12)

The motley,.... a cure. 

Also, the trend continues…

Giroux, October, 2012 (Oct 8, 2012, Henry, Coutnerpunch, “The Crisis of Education as a Public Good
The Disappearance of Public Intellectuals, http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/10/08/the-disappearance-of-public-intellectuals/, acsd 10-8-12)

Their struggles.... to come.

B. Links: 

1.  DUCT-TAPE Link—their energy production is duct-tape on a diseased political body: They rely on governmental policy to address the crisis.  This is a delusion.

R. Jensen, Prof. of Journalism UT Austin, ’11 (Jul 11 2011 by Energy Bulletin, Archived Jul 12 2011 The power - and limits - of social movements by Robert Jensen A version of this talk was presented to the Houston Peace and Justice Center conference on July 9, 2011., http://energybulletin.net/stories/2011-07-12/power-and-limits-social-movements)

The worse... bit longer.

2. Production link:  they use the government to support further production.

Korten, Chair of YES! and author of the Great Turning, 08 (YES! Mag., David, May 25, http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/25/9185/)

No more throwaway... a minute.

C) Impact

It’s Try-or-Die:  Mass Extinction from multiple scenarios is inevitable absent structural change through social movements.

Korten, Chair of YES! and author of the Great Turning, 08 (YES! Mag., David, May 25, http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/25/9185/)

We are all... are pretty straight forward.