Miller-Bevens Neg

KCKCC Round 1

Postmodernism Bad

Identity politics is a form of postmodernism and great atrocities are done in its name
Wolin 2003 (Richard, Distinguished Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he has worked since 2000Before going to CUNY, he was a professor at Rice University, “The Seduction of Unreason: Forward,” pg. xii-xiii)
During the 1980s
disastrous political outcomes. 

Our alternative is to reject the 1AC and support a methodology of basing propositions on scientific reasoning and empiricism and to provide clear understandings of problems and results to those we speak with. We can clarify.

This is the only method for solving
Sokal and Bricmont 1998 (Alan professor of physics at New York University and Jean professor of theoretical physics at the Universite de Louvaine in Belgium, “Fashionable Nonsense,” Page 188)
Be wary of argument
rest of Deleuze’s writings.

Impacts - 

1. The alternative is the only way to prevent extinction – Their methodology will kill us all
   Coyne 2006 – Professor of Biology @ the University of Chicago
   (Jerry A., “A plea for empiricism”, FOLLIES OF THE WISE, Dissenting essays, 405pp. Emeryville, CA: Shoemaker and Hoard, 1 59376 101 5)
   Supernatural forces
   Crews’s plea for empiricism.

2. Fascism

Postmodernism is a guise for fascism by promoting relative truth and the attempt to exert one’s will onto others without their consent
Wolin 2003 (Richard, Distinguished Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he has worked since 2000Before going to CUNY, he was a professor at Rice University, “The Seduction of Unreason: Forward,” pg. xi-xii)
It would be
extremes se touchent. 

Fascism from postmodern philosophy will collapse into endless violence and war
Wolin 2004 (Richard, Distinguished Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he has worked since 2000Before going to CUNY, he was a professor at Rice University, “The Seduction of Unreason,” pg. 159-162)
In the worldview
and Jacques Derrida
 
Capitalism

Isolating certain “isms” as the locus of oppression endorses a political program that tinkers with existing structures while obscuring the role capital plays in creating different identities. The notion of class becomes just another marker and makes it impossible to access anti-capitalism
Zizek 2k
Slavoj Zizek, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies in Ljubljana, 2000, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality, p. 95-97
Let me, then
is not acknowledged.’8
Alternative – Vote negative to completely withdraw from the ideology of capital.

Withdrawing from capital is essential to destroy the fetish that allows capital to survive
Johnston 04
Johnston, interdisciplinary research fellow in psychoanalysis at Emory University, 2004
Adrian, Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, December v9 i3 p259 page infotrac
Perhaps the absence of a detailed political
truth? I choose fetishism"). 

Impacts -
1) The system of capital makes social exclusion on a global scale inevitable – the utmost ethico-political responsibility is to reject this system of economic evaluation
Zizek and Daly 04 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16)
For Zizek it is imperative
otherwise sound matrix.

2. The violence of capital has always been set aside in favor of focusing on subjective flashpoint instances of violence – this creates a stop-gap in thought which makes it impossible to address the root cause of all violence – voting negative in the face of crisis is necessary to resist the violence we outline in the 1NC
Zizek 08 Slavoj Violence p 1-4
If there is a unifying
towards its victims.

3) Capitalism renormalizes catastrophes making them more likely leading to extinction
Zizek 10
(Slavoj, “Living in the End Times,” pgs. 327-329. Print.)
This moral vacuum
its greatest boost

 
Cede the Political

The aff leads to the fragmentation of politics.  This depoliticizing move fails to rethink macrolevel centers of power and is the perfect supplement to corporate colonization.  Reject their retreat into enclave politics in order to prevent political atrophy and domination
Boggs 2K
(Carl, professor at National University, The End of Politics: Corporate Power and the Decline of the Public Sphere pg. 221-222)
In the splintered
of corporate domination.
The aff arguments over-determination of the debate round prevents action on all social problems and culminates in extinction.  Their retreat to the local is a depoliticized form of politics that fragments macropolitical struggles
Boggs 97
(Carl, National University, “ The Great Retreat: Decline of the Public Sphere in Late Twentieth-Century America”   Theory and Society 26.6 December)  
The decline of
fate of human societies.  

KCKCC Round 3

Reactor Spec 1NC
Gotta spec what SMR’s-it’s a broad term with 3 types with 8 designs-allows the aff to spike out of disads to individual reactors
Makhijani & Boyd 10
(“Small Modular Reactors No Solution for the Cost, Safety, and Waste Problems of Nuclear Power” http://ieer.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/small-modular-reactors2010.pdf)
There has been a proliferation
be 1,395 MWe. 10
CP
Text: The fifty states should amend their constitutions to allow deficit spending and, in coordination with relevant sub-national actors, should offer substantial power purchase agreements for electricity from small modular nuclear reactors to all relevant United States contractors who supply energy to military bases in the United States. We can clarify.
The states can do the plan
Haynes 5 (Rusty, Policy Analyst, N.C. Solar Center, N.C. State University, “Systematic Support for Renewable Energy in the United States and Beyond: A Selection of Policy Options and Recommendations” http://www.dsireusa.org/documents/PolicyPublications/Haynes_KIER_Keynote.pdf)
In the absence of strong,
incentives and low-interest loans.
DA
After the debate Obama is barely winning the election with lower unemployment numbers and swing states – Major changes shift the election
Pace 10/10 (Julie, Associated Press Writer, “With just 28 days to the election, Democrats losing faith in Obama after debate failure,” http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/10/10/democrats-on-edge-as-barack-obamas-support-slides-after-debate/)
It’s more than President
like Ohio and Virginia.
Plan’s explosive with the public – Fukushima created public backlash
CSI 12
Civil Society Institute. “SURVEY: AMERICANS NOT WARMING UP TO NUCLEAR POWER ONE YEAR AFTER FUKUSHIMA,” 3/7, http://www.civilsocietyinstitute.org/media/030712release.cfm
Contrary to Industry Predictions,
in the March 2011 survey.
Unpredictable policies shift the election
Seattle Times 12
"Not just the economy: Secondary issues may play role in election," 7/14, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2018688463_electionissues15.html
As the economy colors
and neck until November.
Tiny shifts matter – link threshold is low
Silver 12
Nate, 5/15, chief pollster for New York Times’ 538 election polling center. Regarded as top-level pollster based on distinct mathematical models http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/a-30000-foot-view-on-the-presidential-race/.
The last thing to remember
re-election odds at the margin.

A Romney victory ensures collapse in US-Russia relations leading to extinction from prolif and international insecurity
Felton 12 (Emmanuel, Toni Stabile Fellow and MS candidate at Columbia Journalism School. majored in Finance and Political Science and minored in Economics at Emory, “Mitt Romney Russia Quotes Signal Big Problems For Future US-Russian Relations,” http://www.policymic.com/articles/6202/mitt-romney-russia-quotes-signal-big-problems-for-future-us-russian-relations)
The importance of America’s
increasingly hostile Kremlin

CP
Text: The United States Federal Government should offer substantial power purchase agreements for electricity from small water-cooled nuclear reactors, small liquid metal-cooled nuclear reactors, and small molten salt-cooled nuclear reactors on military bases in the United States.
It competes – “small modular reactors” include 60 different reactor designs – the plan mandates the inclusion of “gas reactors” – the CP excludes it
King et al 11 (Dr. Marcus, Research Analyst and Project Director – CNA Corporation's Center for Naval Analyses, LaVar Huntzinger, and Thoi Nguyen, “Feasibility of Nuclear Power on U.S. Military Installations,” CNA Analysis and Solutions, March, http://www.cna.org/sites/default/files/research/Nuclear%20Power%20on%20Military %20Installations%20D0023932%20A5.pdf)
Status of SMR technologies and
HPM designs are given in figure 2.
Independently – not specifying which type of SMR they use is a voter – there are over 60 different types of reactors with distinct cooling systems and designs – that’s key to negative disad and cp ground. Absent that, the aff is a moving target.
It’s net-beneficial –
Plan overcomes prohibitive pricing of PBMRs ensuring meltdowns, prolif, and waste dumping
Makhijani & Boyd 10 *Arjun, electrical and nuclear engineer who is President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Michele, former director of the Safe Energy Program at Physicians for, Staff Scientist at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
(“Small Modular Reactors No Solution for the Cost, Safety, and Waste Problems of Nuclear Power” http://ieer.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/small-modular-reactors2010.pdf)
The Pebble Bed Modular Reactor
or vitrified high level waste.
Meltdowns cause extinction
Lendman 11 – Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (Stephen, 03/ 13, “Nuclear Meltdown in Japan,” http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2011/03/13/nuclear-meltdown-in-japan)
For years, Helen Caldicott warned it's coming. In her 1978 book, "Nuclear Madness," she said: "As a physician, I contend that nuclear technology threatens
Potentially, millions of lives will be jeopardized.