Baez-Chiles Aff

The status quo view of ‘Nature’ is grounded in our changing conception of ‘Wilderness.’ What used to be a site in need of violent domination is now a pristine park in need of protection. However, this historical view of Nature as an object through which we can restore, protect and be redeemed through is based in a transcendental ethical truth and value which not only doesn’t exist—but distances us from reality and ourselves.
Cronon 95, President of the American Society for Environmental History; “Vilus” Research Professor at UW-Madison, the university’s most distinguished chaired professorship. He has been elected President of the American Historical Association for 2011-12.; .A. (1979), M.Phil. (1980), and Ph.D. (1990) from Yale, and a D.Phil. (1981) from Oxford University. Cronon has been a Rhodes Scholar, Danforth Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, and MacArthur Fellow; has won prizes for his teaching at both Yale and Wisconsin; in 1999 was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society (William Cronon, ed., “The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature” Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1995, 69-90
But by the end … be an American. 

In fact, ‘Nature’ is chaos— it lies outside of our ability to interpret and understand it. The meaning we attach to nature is an arbitrary moral framework that excludes the parts we don’t value.

Drenthen 05, Martin, Philosophy and Science Studies U. Nijmegen (“Wildness as a Critical Border Concept: Nietzsche and the Debate on Wilderness Restoration,” Environmental Values, Volume 14, Number 3) JTC

Underneath Nietzscheʼs critique … with wild ¶ nature. ¶ 

This view of ‘Nature’ is a closing off of the chaotic aspects of the environment, opposing the world as it exists. It is a Will to Truth that produces a quest for order that inevitably will fail and breed ressentiment. This framework for life destroys all value in conditions outside of the ideal.

Saurette 1996
 (Paul, Prof of Political Studies @ UOttawa, “I Mistrust All Systematizers and Avoid Them: Nietzsche, Arendt, and the Crisis of the Will to Order in International Relations Theory” Millenium 25.1)
According to Nietzsche, … principle of modernity.

Within this politics, there will always be a population that needs to be eliminated
Stavrakakis 99 – department of government at the University of Essex, director of ideology and discourse analysis program (Yannis, Lacan and the Political, p.99-105)

What I will … a realm without suffering or sin.  (Cohn, 1993c:14-15)  

Nothing has changed—The contemporary approach to ecological management attempts to create a perfect image of ‘Nature’ and sustainability that orders our response to environmental destruction. This view of ‘Nature' as understandable and sustainable forecloses political engagement with our current crisis.

Swyngedouw 06, Dept of Geography, School of Environment and Development, Manchester University, 2006.  [Eirk, “Impossible “Sustainability” and the Post-Political Condition,”  Forthcoming in: David Gibbs and Rob Krueger (Eds.) Sustainable Development, http://www.liv.ac.uk/geography/seminars/Sustainabilitypaper.doc]

Slavoj Žižek suggests … possible socio-environmental becomings. 

Nature is not some subject that we need a good relationship with. This attempt to reconcile ourselves with our vision of Nature is at the heart of the bad conscience, the impact is suicidal violence in the name of redemption, ecological destruction and extinction.

Baudrillard 94, Sociology—Université de Paris-IX Dauphine, 1994
The Illusion of the End p. 80-84

Hence the recent … to boundless experimentation.

We affirm the idea that there is no “Nature.” 

This affirmation moves beyond the self-defeating and life denying framework of ecology that amounts to mere projection of ourselves and what we would like to be
Zizek 91, Slavoj professor of philosophy at the university of Ljubljana, Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture, 1991, pg. 37-38
The basic weakness … directing chaos itself.

Rejecting a unifying symbol of Nature is critical to moving beyond a politics that demands a scapegoat in the name of uncertainty and failure
Stavrakakis 99—Ideology and Discourse, U Essex. (Yannis, Encircling the Political, from Lacan and the Political, 284-5)

288¶ However, Butler's …in Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy, 1997:157-8) 

Rejecting a unified symbolization of “Nature” leads to a respect and openness for parts of life which we have closed ourselves off to, the alternative is alienation from the object we defined.
Drenthen 05, Martin, Philosophy and Science Studies U. Nijmegen (“Wildness as a Critical Border Concept: Nietzsche and the Debate on Wilderness Restoration,” Environmental Values, Volume 14, Number 3) JTC

This post-modern awareness … in resisting appropriation. 

Our politicization of ‘Nature’ breaks us out of the trap of post-politics— Only moving away from our singular conception of ‘Nature’ can we create space for alternative modes of engagement.

Swyngedouw, '6
[Erik Swyngedouw, Professor of Geography at the University of Manchester in its School of Environment and Development. “Impossible 'Sustainability' and the Post-Political Condition.” Forthcoming in: Sustainable Development. Eds. David Gibbs and Rob Krueger. Sep. 2006. New York: Guilford Press, 2007. <http://www.liv.ac.uk/geography/seminars/Sustainabilitypaper.doc>.  myost]
Undesirable sustainability: Environmental Politics as Post-politics

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