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| 09/23/2012 | A2: Grammar of the EncounterTournament: UMKC | Round: 5 | Opponent: Trinity | Judge: Dunn Perloff in 2007 Richard, Communication Scholar, The Dynamics of Persasion Persuasion is so … the 21st Century, Second Edition (Lea's Communication) (Kindle Locations 918-922). LEA. Kindle Edition. Their claims about knowledge being socially constructed are proof that we must debate about justifications-it is key to testing propositions needed to foster an effective social space Paul Newton and Osborne in 99 , Pre-school Learning Alliance, Jonathan Osborne, School of Education The place of argumentation in the pedagogy of school science, International Journal of Science Education, academic search premier The importance of … phenomena in the world. Their alt means we can never study, organize, or understand the advantages of taking action. Stripping action from its context guarantees a failure in ethics to change material conditions. Calcagno in 2k4 (Antonio, assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Scranton, Philosophy Social Criticism, Jacques Derrida and Alain Badiou: is there a relation between politics and time?, sage) Given the singularity … will give us events. Political action is critical to challenging the dominant metaphysical thinking that defines modern political systems by facilitating a confrontation with technology Gauthier, 2k4 [David, B.A. University of Texas at Austin and M.A. Baylor University, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and the Politics of Dwelling, Dissertation submitted for Ph.D. in Political Science at the Louisiana State University, 2004] For Heidegger, modern … world of the polis. | |
| 09/23/2012 | A2: Object Oriented Ontology KTournament: UMKC | Round: 5 | Opponent: Trinity | Judge: Dunn Gauthier, 2k4 [David, B.A. University of Texas at Austin and M.A. Baylor University, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and the Politics of Dwelling, Dissertation submitted for Ph.D. in Political Science at the Louisiana State University, 2004] In Levinas’s view, ..., its infinite dimension. Link turn: our ontology isn’t without ethics – extend Klein – you should frame our ontology in terms of environmental humility where ‘letting being be’ entails a responsibility to guard and care for other beings merely because they exist rather than treating them as utilitarian objects to be exploited for human ends Ontology key to ethics – without the ‘letting be’ of Being there can be no conditions for the respect of the Other Gauthier, 2k4 [David, B.A. University of Texas at Austin and M.A. Baylor University, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and the Politics of Dwelling, Dissertation submitted for Ph.D. in Political Science at the Louisiana State University, 2004] If Heidegger’s … inadequate ontological foundation. Levinas ignores the ontological violence of western science and technological thought which produces a sense of uprootedness that is conducive to totalitarianism Gauthier, 2k4 [David, B.A. University of Texas at Austin and M.A. Baylor University, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and the Politics of Dwelling, Dissertation submitted for Ph.D. in Political Science at the Louisiana State University, 2004] Because he is … the contemporary world.
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| 10/06/2012 | Heidegger 1AC - KentuckyTournament: Kentucky | Round: 1 | Opponent: KU CaGo | Judge: Fifelski, Kurt History hitherto has been the history of Being – the evolution of the world is a process by which Being disclosing itself – each epochal manifestation of Being metamorphoses in the flux of its withdrawal and disclosure which makes their defining essences intelligible Irwin and Peters, 2k2 Ruth (Senior Lecturer in Ethics at Auckland University of Technology); Michael (Research Professor in Education at the University of Glasgow); Earthsongs: Ecopoetics, Heidegger and Dwelling, The Trumpeter Journal of Ecosophy, 2002 Again harking back to the tradition … Technology, limits the field of agency. The contemporary epochal mode of revealing is characterized by technological enframing – its essence is the transformation of all beings into resources devoid of intrinsic value which calls them forth to presence themselves to be ordered as a standing reserve Thomson, 2k1 Iain, University of New Mexico, Heidegger on Ontological Education, or: How We Become What We Are, Inquiry, 2001 Heidegger’s name for our contemporary …optimized with maximal ef. ciency? The essence of modern technology is revealed in the disclosive way of looking upon nature by the conventional wind turbine – its essence is the maximum exploitation of the wind for the production of energy – this is part and parcel of an ontology that treats nature as a standing-reserve to meet human ends Klein, 2k9 Lance, B.L.A. Kansas State University, A Phenomenological Interpretation of Biomimicry and its Potential Value for Sustainable Design, Masters Thesis in Architecture, 2009 In contrast, I suggest that … concern regarding this sustainable technology. The essence of ‘truth’ and ‘technology’ does not permanently endure – rather it is the historically contingent way in which Being discloses itself and is understood by Dasein – metaphysics supplies each epochal period with an ontotheological grounding – the metaphysics of presence underlying modern technological thought represents the total closure of thought that forgets the question of Being and disincentivizes ontological inquiry Thomson, 2k1 Iain, University of New Mexico, Heidegger on Ontological Education, or: How We Become What We Are, Inquiry, 2001 Heidegger’s pronouncement that the essence … Heidegger calls the history of being. The loss of Being that defines our historical epoch shapes the dominant social imaginary through instrumental reasoning – this denies intrinsic value to other beings and the natural world which legitimates the practices and institutionalization of war, structural violence, and environmental destruction Chwastiaka and Lehmanb, 2k8 Michele University of New Mexico, Anderson School of Management, United States, Glen, School of Accounting, University of South Australia, “Accounting for war,” Accounting Forum,Volume 32, Issue 4, December 2008, Pages 313–326 Many peace researchers argue … with expansionistic logic of capitalism. Contention Two: “Ontological Inquiry” Resolved: The United States federal government should remove all restrictions on energy production from windmills. Andrew and I affirm the windmill as a means by which we may disclosively look upon Being through ontological inquiry into the essence of technology revealed by the difference between the mill and the turbine in the production of energy from wind power The term ‘wind power’ refers to the conversion of the kinetic energy of the wind into mechanical or electrical energy by means of a mill or a turbine respectively Encyclopedia Britannica, 2k12 No Author Cited, Entry for “Wind Power,” 2012 Wind Power, form of energy … providing a larger total energy source. When given with the choice between mill and turbine, we are confronted with more than a mere affirmation of mechanical or electrical energy – it is a decision regarding the essence of technology – unlike its’ modern counterpart - the pre-modern windmill was not built to exploit the wind in order to stockpile its energy for indirect and remote purposes – its connection with the wind is immediate Rojcewicz, 2k6 Richard, Professor of Philosophy at Point Park University and cotranslator of three volumes of Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe, The Gods and Technology: A Reading of Heidegger, 2006 Heidegger does not answer this … exhausted in turning the gears. Our affirmation of the mill provides an opportunity to rethink the ways in which we engage the built environment – this alternative ontology can shift cultural relationships away from dominating technology and facilitate a sustainable life-world that reveals the interconnectedness of nature and the built environment Klein, 2k9 Lance, B.L.A. Kansas State University, A Phenomenological Interpretation of Biomimicry and its Potential Value for Sustainable Design, Masters Thesis in Architecture, 2009 In this sense, local people might … in the natural and built worlds. Evaluate ontology first – failure to prioritize ontological inquiry is tantamount to a “loss of Being” which impoverishes understanding while locating social-political institutions as isolated from their natural context and eliminates an authentic relationship to Being – destroying value to life and causing unchecked environmental destruction Magrini, 2k12 J.M., Professor at the College of DuPage – Illinois, Worlds Apart in the Curriculum: Heideger, Technology, and the Poietic Attunement of Literature, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Volume 44, Issue 5, Pages 500-521, July 2012 Writing in 1927, Heidegger uses the … about our lives in impoverished ways.
The ontological inquiry of the 1ac is a form of counter-education that provides a starting point from which we can engage normalizing education that prioritizes disinterested instrumental rationality in politics as well as debate – instead of focusing on the successful imposition of policy we should begin from a position of transcendence that allows reflection on the meanings, identities, and quests of technological thought Gur-Ze’ev, 2k2 Ilan, The University of Haifa, Martin Heidegger, transcendence, and the possibility of counter-education, Heidegger, Education and Modernity, 2002 So even in face of the success … of the distribution of evils. Our mode of being-in-the-world is determined by the knowledge we value and pursue – when education in the debate community regarding topics like energy production becomes grounded in the metaphysics of enframing – our community becomes fragmented and devolves into vocationalism rather than emphasizing critical thinking as an activity with intrinsic value Thomson, 2k1 Iain, University of New Mexico, Heidegger on Ontological Education, or: How We Become What We Are, Inquiry, 2001 Heidegger began developing his … literally) excavates an alternative. The enactment of a new historical possibility beyond the violence and environmental destruction of machination can only be articulated through thoughtful confrontation with the history of being as an alternative to neutral and disinterested evaluation of instrumental actions Nelson, 2k7 Eric, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, History as Decision and Event in Heidegger, UDK 398.21 930.1, 2007 “The historical does not denote …articulated in his earlier thought. The pedagogical practice of ontological inquiry attuned by an authentic openness to Being creates a paradigm shift away from standardized models of unreflective praise for contemporary norms grounded in vocational, economic, and technological which holds the potential to awaken authentic ways of being-in-the-world Magrini, 2k12 J.M., Professor at the College of DuPage – Illinois, Worlds Apart in the Curriculum: Heideger, Technology, and the Poietic Attunement of Literature, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Volume 44, Issue 5, Pages 500-521, July 2012 The understanding of Being in … educational theory and practice. By recognizing the adversarial attunement of modern technology and calculative thinking we open the possibility authentic attunement – ontology is the most prior question because it is the primary ‘mode of disclosure’ through which existence is revealed and understanding, thought, and behavior are influenced Magrini, 2k12 J.M., Professor at the College of DuPage – Illinois, Worlds Apart in the Curriculum: Heideger, Technology, and the Poietic Attunement of Literature, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Volume 44, Issue 5, Pages 500-521, July 2012 Attunement (Befindlichkeit) represents the ways … modes of world-disclosure. | |
| 01/10/2013 | A2: Ethics/LevinasTournament: UNT | Round: 7 | Opponent: OU CO | Judge: Mabrey Gauthier, 2k4 David, B.A. University of Texas at Austin and M.A. Baylor University, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and the Politics of Dwelling, Dissertation submitted for Ph.D. in Political Science at the Louisiana State University, 2004 In Levinas’s view, … to its infinite dimension.
Ontology key to ethics – without the ‘letting be’ of Being there can be no conditions for the respect of the Other Gauthier, 2k4 David, B.A. University of Texas at Austin and M.A. Baylor University, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and the Politics of Dwelling, Dissertation submitted for Ph.D. in Political Science at the Louisiana State University, 2004 If Heidegger’s politics … inadequate ontological foundation. | |
| 01/10/2013 | A2: Heidegger was a naziTournament: UNT | Round: 7 | Opponent: OU CO | Judge: Mabrey DILLON IN 96 MICHAEL, SENIOR LECTURER IN POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER, THE POLITICS OF SECURITY By radically questioning … drawn from that history. P39
Heidegger’s Nazism is irrelevant to a theory of resistance-we can take parts of Heidegger’s philosophy to ‘read Heidegger against Heidegger’ Bleiker in 2000 (Roland, Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at the University of Queensland, Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics) A shift of foci from … recognise this usefulness. p194 | |
| 01/10/2013 | A2: First PriorityTournament: UNT | Round: 7 | Opponent: OU CO | Judge: Mabrey Johnson and Murton 2007, Jay T, Anthro and Geography @ UNL and Brian, Geography @ U Hawaii, Geographical Research 45(2) 121-129, June The work of Cajete, … , in its production.
Rejection of Western metaphysics key to indigenous knowledge production Gillett 9 sites: new series · vol 6 no 1 · 2009 – article – Indigenous knowledges: Circumspection, metaphysics, and scientific ontologies Grant Gillett The ‘odd’ practices … brought to realise.)
Affs approach to truth avoids the instrumentalization of indigenous knowlege Gillett 9 sites: new series · vol 6 no 1 · 2009 – article – Indigenous knowledges: Circumspection, metaphysics, and scientific ontologies Grant Gillett Alethic or circumspective … instrumentalizes this relationship.
Pedagogy of the aff is a key corrective to ontological attempts to bracket out types of knowledge through value systems and denigration of subjective connection to scholarship. This is a key component of a renewed Red Pedagogy. Carjuzaa and Fenimore-Smith 2010 Jioanna, Montana State University-Bozeman Kay, Whitman College “The Give Away Spirit: Reaching a Shared Vision of Ethical Indigenous Research Relationships,” Journal of Educational Controversy (e-journal), online Research is a … but culturally bound.
Aff is a necessary step to deconstruct colonial power relations by decentering Eurocentric ontologies and opening a dialogic space for engagement. Suchet 2002, Australian Geographer, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 141–157, 2002 ‘Totally Wild’? Colonising discourses, indigenous knowledges1 and managing wildlife SANDIE SUCHET, Macquarie University, Australia Assuming that Eurocentric … in the other (Lorraine 1999, pp. 107–8). | |
| 01/13/2013 | A2: Radical Freedom (Towson)Tournament: UTD | Round: 7 | Opponent: Towson | Judge: Arif Hasan Gauthier, 2k4 David, B.A. University of Texas at Austin and M.A. Baylor University, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and the Politics of Dwelling, Dissertation submitted for Ph.D. in Political Science at the Louisiana State University, 2004 Needless to say, this is a very different … separates the Occident from the Orient.
Modernity emerged from the transformation of Being into pure calculation – technological thought reduced all beings to objects as a potential resource for no end other than its self-perpetuation Magrini, 2k12 J.M., Professor at the College of DuPage – Illinois, Worlds Apart in the Curriculum: Heideger, Technology, and the Poietic Attunement of Literature, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Volume 44, Issue 5, Pages 500-521, July 2012 According to Heidegger, three world … use-value has been depleted.
Permutation: do both – the methodologies of the aff and neg must be combined- this method can create an intersubjective ethics that solves exclusion Patricia Huntington in 98 prof in continental philosophy and religion @ ASU, Through delineating the structure of historical … relinquish metaphysical systems of hierarchy. 196-198 Treating blackness as a form of social technology provides an effective means by which to reveal the multifarious ways race is socially constructed through legends, stories, and histories Ross, 2k3 Kisha, M.A. in Communication, Culture, and Technology at Georgetown University, Race as a Social Technology: (Re)Constructing Conceptions of Blackness, December 15th, 2003 Following this shocking revelation the author “…reception for black people in society.
The subordination and stigmatization of blackness is a function of an inauthentic relationship to Being wrought by the essence of modern technology Ross, 2k3 Kisha, M.A. in Communication, Culture, and Technology at Georgetown University, Race as a Social Technology: (Re)Constructing Conceptions of Blackness, December 15th, 2003 Takaki’s construction of blackness emphasizes …conceived of and influenced by frameworks.
Our criticism of modern technology can be read as a critique of blackness as a form of “social technology” that challenges nature through the demand that it become an essentialized category which is formal and unchanging Ross, 2k3 Kisha, M.A. in Communication, Culture, and Technology at Georgetown University, Race as a Social Technology: (Re)Constructing Conceptions of Blackness, December 15th, 2003 Following Heidegger’s exegesis of the … in terms of regulating and securing.
Overcoming the inadequacy and absence of any ontology afforded to blackness requires general critique of calculation coupled with a demand for an ontology of disorder – which means either the aff or the permutation solves Moten, 2k8 Fred, English Professor at Duke University, The Case of Blackness, Criticism, Volume 50, Number 2, Spring 2008, pp. 177-218 So I’m interested in how the ones …equivalent to social death or absolute dereliction.
Refusing theory because it seems elitist strips their aff of any ability to change conditions for oppressed people-it devolves into a fruitless pessimism Dr. Gur-Ze’ev in 98 Ilan Gur-Ze’ev, Haifa University, A paper by Dr. Ilan Gur-Ze'ev, in Educational Theory, 48/4 (1998), Toward a Non-Repressive Critical Pedagogy http:~/~/construct.haifa.ac.il/~~ilangz/html In his current version of Critical …but empty negativism and fruitless pessimism.(50) | |
| 01/13/2013 | Framework CardsTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Gehrke, 1998 Gehrke, Pat J. "Critique arguments as policy analysis: policy debate beyond the rationalist perspective." Perspectives in Controversy: Selected Essays from Contemporary Argumentation and Debate (2002): 302. Published in 1998 Similarly, we might say … a text never can be met.
Universal standards destroy transformative education and agency Bleiker in 2k3 (Roland, School of Political Science @ University of Queensland, Contemporary Political Theory, Discourse and Human Agency) Approaching the political and by … analysis of Kant’s Critique of Judgement, see Deleuze, 1994). P39-40
C. You should encourage emotional over detached education Peters, 2k3 Michael, Research Professor in Education at the University of Glasgow, Technologising Pedagogy: The Internet, Nihilism, and Phenomenology of Learning, Studies in Media and Information Literacy Education, February 2003, Vol. 3, Issue 1 Through greater experience, more … have led to these outcomes" (pp. 38-39). 27
C. Switch-side is an instrumental form of education which seeks to socialize debaters into ‘good’ liberal-democratic subjects Hicks and Greene in 2k5 (darrin and walter, LOST CONVICTIONS Debating both sides and the ethical self-fashioning of liberal citizens, cultural studies, vol 19 no 1) But why dredge up this event …of cultural technologies.
The interrogation of normative values offered by the 1ac is central to the policy process – rationalist policy paradigms fail to account for the broad implications and effect of values on policy Gehrke, 1998 Gehrke, Pat J. "Critique arguments as policy analysis: policy debate beyond the rationalist perspective." Perspectives in Controversy: Selected Essays from Contemporary Argumentation and Debate (2002): 302. Published in 1998 Policy narratives both rely upon … lose sight of these normative roots.
Essentializing ground is founded on the same logic that justifies the violent political order of modernity Bleiker in 2000 (Roland, Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at the University of Queensland, Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics) The larger picture that emerges from … very attempt to resist domination. P30
No authentic education without ontological inquiry Thomson, 2k1 Iain, University of New Mexico, Heidegger on Ontological Education, or: How We Become What We Are, Inquiry, 2001 With this philosophical background in … I will take these questions in order.
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| 01/13/2013 | A2: CapitalismTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Ziarek, 2k12 Krzysztof, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Buffalo – State University of New York, Trading in Being: Event, Capital, Art, Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual, 2 (2012): 1-23 In an age defined by the world market… heightening of being’s technicity into the modern Gestell or enframing.
6. Dialectical thought is teleological and is a form of technological thought that refuses an openness to being Irwin in 8 Ruth; Heidegger, Politics and Climate Change: Risking it All Marx tends to cast capitalism … interpreted in these utilitarian ways. 32
7. The alternative teleological telling of history prioritizes a goal-oriented instrumental knowledge over the thinking of being – this does violence to the uniqueness of the past and fails to recognize the asymmetry of historical epochs Nelson, 2k7 Eric, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, History as Decision and Event in Heidegger, UDK 398.21 930.1, 2007 In strong teleological accounts, … forward from that diff erence and distance itself.
8. History is not a goal-oriented ‘making’ but a historically-situated response or failure to respond to being – only by rethinking metaphysical grounding can we reconstitute social and ecological relationships Nelson, 2k7 Eric, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, History as Decision and Event in Heidegger, UDK 398.21 930.1, 2007 Two signifi cant aspects of Heidegger’s …is other than that time and history.
9. The enframing of all beings into calculated economic value is ontological in character and must be understood as such Ziarek, 2k12 Krzysztof, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Buffalo – State University of New York, Trading in Being: Event, Capital, Art, Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual, 2 (2012): 1-23 Heidegger only hints at this line … market, assigned value, marketed, and exchanged.
10. The alternative isn’t radical enough – resistance of the ontological framework of machination is necessary to challenge the structure of capitalist accumulation The present paper concentrates on … in power: the earth-site(s) of abyssal being. | |
| 01/23/2013 | Plan clarificationTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Resolved: The United States federal government should remove all restrictions on energy production from windmills. advocacy 1 advocacy 2 | |
| 01/25/2013 | Pitt Round Robin - Aff Round ReportsTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Round 4: Vs. Wake BM, with Jordan Foley as the Judge. Plan/Advocacy:USFG should exempt community wind and solar power projects from all registration and compliance restrictions with the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as all tax liability restrictions on edibility for federal tax credits. Round 5: Vs. West Georgia GM, with David Cram-Helwich as the Judge. | |
| 01/26/2013 | Participation 1ACTournament: Pitt RR | Round: 1 | Opponent: Minn CE | Judge: Russell
The status quo legal environment sidelines questions of democratic control, accountability to the public, and legitimacy of decisions in mainstream discourse on sustainable energy production Hendriks, 2k9 Carolyn, The Crawford School of Economics and Government – The Australia National University, Securing Public Legitimacy for Long-Term Energy Reform, Public Policy Network Conference – The Australian National University, Canberra, 29-30 January 2009 Despite these democratic arguments and …energy reform in the Netherlands (Hendriks 2008, 2009a, 2009b).
The failure to facilitate community involvement in renewable energy projects has doomed them to failure and institutionally entrenched the centralized model of conventional fossil fuels Wolsink, 2k11 Wolsink, Maarten. "The research agenda on social acceptance of distributed generation in smart grids: Renewable as common pool resources." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (2011) The centralised view is institutionally anchored …of renewable energy generation in microgrids.
Centralization and technocracy are reinforced by a favorable regulatory environment that elevates large-scale, conventional utilities at the cost of local decision-making and control Byrne, 2k3 Byrne, John, and Yu-Mi Mun. "Rethinking reform in the electricity sector: Power liberalisation or energy transformation." Electricity reform: Social and environmental challenges (2003): 48-76 While power liberalisation initiatives aim … one dollar is one vote in markets.
As such, most forms of electricity generation are under the control of a small number of for-profit, corporate entities which fail to prioritize the social, economic, and environmental values held by the communities they serve Byrne, 2k3 Byrne, John, and Yu-Mi Mun. "Rethinking reform in the electricity sector: Power liberalisation or energy transformation." Electricity reform: Social and environmental challenges (2003): 48-76 While it is true that smaller-scale … of the market’s drive for efficiency.
This model of implementation and design of energy systems and policy produces exclusion and enacts structurally violence forms of social organization Hendriks, 2k9 Carolyn, The Crawford School of Economics and Government – The Australia National University, Securing Public Legitimacy for Long-Term Energy Reform, Public Policy Network Conference – The Australian National University, Canberra, 29-30 January 2009 Beyond securing legitimacy, policy design that … (Gross 2007; Wüstenhagen et al. 2007), and nuclear waste disposal sites (Dawson and Darst 2006).
Unequal power relationships are constructed in the form of price discrimination which aggravates inequity between the rich and poorer, minority consumers and their communities by limiting the capacity to participate economically or politically Byrne, 2k3 Byrne, John, and Yu-Mi Mun. "Rethinking reform in the electricity sector: Power liberalisation or energy transformation." Electricity reform: Social and environmental challenges (2003): 48-76 Some researchers have raised concerns that … justice at the macro- or societal level.
This makes violence and instability inevitable Champain, 2k11 Phil, Director of Programs at the peacebuilding NGO International Alert, “Changing energy provision – a peacebuilding opportunity?” There is one thing about which we can be certain - … development and security for vulnerable communities.
Contention Two: Community-Based Energy Production and Ownership
The transition to renewable energy is inevitable – it is only a question of the way it is politically and economically shaped Champain, 2k11 Phil, Director of Programs at the peacebuilding NGO International Alert, “Changing energy provision – a peacebuilding opportunity?” Renewables, energy provision and conflict So … beyond environmental concerns to consider governance ones.
SEC registration and compliance costs restrict democratic, community-based ownership over electricity generation from renewable energy projects Farrell, 2k8 John, Senior researcher at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Broadening Wind Energy Ownership by Changing Federal Incentives, April 5th, 2008 Cooperative Limitations Getting numerous local investors …, but receive some portion of the gross revenues.
And, tax liability restrictions ensure centralized, corporate control over wind and solar projects Mendonc, 2k9 M. Mendonc¸a, et al., Stability, participation and transparency in renewable energy policy: Lessons from Denmark and the United States, Policy and Society (2009), doi:10.1016/j.polsoc.2009.01.007 Compared with emerging European renewable energy … in countries such as Germany, France and Spain.
Thus, the plan:
The United States federal government should exempt community wind and solar power projects from all registration and compliance restrictions with the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as all tax liability restrictions on eligibility for federal tax credits
SEC exemption and residential access to federal tax credits will create the framework for non-profit, community-based energy CEEP, 2k12 Center for Energy and Environmental Policy-University of Delaware, Politics to Support Community Solar Initiatives, February 2012 As noted above in 6.1.7, the promising model … to community solar project developers.
SEC exemption for community solar would hasten the development of community-based and owned energy projects Bailey, 2k12 Bailey, Kristin L. "Insecurity for Community Solar: Three Strategies to Confront an Emerging Tension between Renewable Energy Investment and Federal Securities Laws." J. on Telecomm. and High Tech. L. 10 (2012): 123. Finally, there is the question of how … accountability could attract unscrupulous actors.
Policies that induce community control are critical to shift entrenched discourses and organizational structures of fossil fuel energy systems away from technocracy and centralization to diversification and democratic control Mendonc, 2k9 M. Mendonc¸a, et al., Stability, participation and transparency in renewable energy policy: Lessons from Denmark and the United States, Policy and Society (2009), doi:10.1016/j.polsoc.2009.01.007 Federal tax credits are only one piece …to create a stable, democratic market for all.
Community energy initiatives offer opportunities to create social ties among individuals with different backgrounds and experiences that transcend the notion of the citizen as a mere “economic actor” Hoffman and High-Pippert, 2k9 Steven (Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science at St. Thomas); Angela (Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at St. Thomas), From Private Lives to Collective Action: Recruitment and Participation Incentives for a Community Energy Program, Submitted to Energy Policy, January 2009, Revised April 2009 If participation in community energy initiatives … for a further elaboration of these themes).
The 1ac is a critical challenge to centralized institutions of energy production and political decision-making – community development of distributed electricity generation establishes a framework for cooperative, equitable, and sustainable transition a new socio-technical system of renewable energy Wolsink, 2k11 Wolsink, Maarten. "The research agenda on social acceptance of distributed generation in smart grids: Renewable as common pool resources." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (2011) What are the social foundations of smart grids… solutions for smart grid development.
Contention Three: Role of the Ballot
Policy-making and political processes should start from a “concrete institutional” perspective – we must recognize and challenge the path dependencies which define current economic and political systems by introducing new actors and trajectories within these institutional settings Mendonc, 2k9 M. Mendonc¸a, et al., Stability, participation and transparency in renewable energy policy: Lessons from Denmark and the United States, Policy and Society (2009), doi:10.1016/j.polsoc.2009.01.007 Behind this approach is an understanding of economic … of quotas for greenhouse gas emissions.
This means acknowledging that the world is characterized by unavoidable complexity – attempts to simplify that complexity reductionist, cause-effect models do not provide a coherent method for dealing with modern problems Ang 2011 Ien, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, Parramatta, Australia “Navigating complexity: From cultural critique to cultural intelligence,” Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies Vol. 25, No. 6, December 2011, 779–794 It is a truism now to say that we live in a world … imaginative, non-simplistic ways of dealing with it?
Models that do not acknowledge complexity begin from an instrumental rationality which masks the structural violence of normalization and routinization. The pedagogy we choose when participating in and evaluating debate rounds DIRECTLY CONTRIBUTES to the means by which these processes unfold Dillard and Ruchala. 2k5 Jessie F. School of Business Administration, Portland State University, and Linda, School of Accountancy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, “The rules are no game: from instrumental rationality to administrative evil,” Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal 18.5, 2005, ProQuest An instrumental perspective blurs, and … efficiency ratio, and classified as excess capacity.
To subvert this model we must engage in explicit attempts to replace the “economic space” of decision-making with a “socio-political space” of non-commodity values like democracy, equity, and sustainability Byrne, 2k3 Byrne, John, and Yu-Mi Mun. "Rethinking reform in the electricity sector: Power liberalisation or energy transformation." Electricity reform: Social and environmental challenges (2003): 48-76 What might be an alternative base informed …We first examine the question of process.
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| 01/26/2013 | Participation - Renewables InevTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Outka, 2k12 Outka, Uma. "Environmental Justice in the Renewable Energy Transition." Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law (University of Missouri School of Law), Forthcoming (2012) The basic compatibility between…access and inclusion in green economy benefits. | |
| 01/26/2013 | Participation - A2: Aviation MortalityTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Saidur et al 2011, R (Centre of Research UMPEDAC, Level 4, Engineering Tower, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya), N.A Rahim, M.R Islam, K.H Solangi. “Environmental impact of wind energy.” Renewable and Sustainable Energy edu/science/journal/13640321 Volume 15, Issue 5url:http://www.sciencedirect.com.proxy.library.umkc.edu/science/journal/13640321/15/5**, June 2011, Pages 2423–2430 Many researchers found that wind …providing various environmental, social and economic benefits 31url:http://www.sciencedirect.com.proxy.library.umkc.edu/science/article/pii/S1364032111000669#bib0155__**. | |
| 01/26/2013 | Participation - A2: DisadsTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Žižek 2008 Slavoj, senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology @ Univ. of Ljubljana, Violence, p. 1-2 If there is a unifying thesis that runs … "irrational" explosions of subjective violence.
Policy must account for systemic variety in complex systems – only the affirmative’s deliberative approach to politics solves DRYZEK 1987 JOHN S. University of Oregon Political studies (l987), XXXV. 424—442 Complexity and Rationality in Public Life Consider the problem of ‘air pollution’. … possibilities for human interaction and action.
Method is key – complexity demands a radical shift in social scientific inquiry Law and Urry, 2k10 John and John, 'Enacting the Social', republished on heterogeneities.net, original from 2005, Economy and Society, 33: (3), 390-410. Online Our argument has been that it is time …move in and beyond old categories
Security rhetoric frames debate to ignore value questions and political recognition of structural violence – this allows countless injustices committed to allay fear and anxiety Bigo, 2k11 Didier, Department of War Studies at the University of Manchester, “Northern Ireland as metaphor: Exception, suspicion and radicalization However, the question is not to …that other is using violence as a tool.
Politics grounded in short term crisis keep the economic and political values depoliticized to ensure continuance of the status quo Noah De Lissovoy in 08 Capitalism Nature Socialism Volume 19, Issue 1, 2008 Capitalism Nature Socialism Volume 19, Issue 1, 2008, Dialectic of Emergency/Emergency of the Dialectic A number of contemporary thinkers … principles that can be identified. | |
| 01/26/2013 | Participation - A2: SEP CPTournament: Pitt RR | Round: 2 | Opponent: Minn CE | Judge:
2. The discursive and strategic framing of the CP means it can’t solve the affirmative Byrne and Toly, 2k6 Byrne, John, and Noah Toly. "Energy as a social project: Recovering a discourse." J. Byrne, N. Toly, and L. glover (Eds.), Transforming power: Energy, environment and society in conflict (2006): 1-32 The problems of the conventional energy … to address a comprehensive agenda of change.
3. The counterplan uses the same cost/benefit calculus of neoliberalism-undermines the emancipatory potential of the cp-this evidence is specific to the political process Brown, 2k11 Wendy, Professor of Political Science at UC-Berkeley, “We Are All Democrats Now…”, Democracy in What State?, 2011, 46-50 Third, neoliberalism as a political … liberal democratic institutions, principles, and practices.
4. The institutional setting is crucial in determining ownership and acceptance of decentralized and renewable energy systems Wolsink, 2k11 Wolsink, Maarten. "The research agenda on social acceptance of distributed generation in smart grids: Renewable as common pool resources." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (2011) The willingness to accept key aspects of …bottlenecks in smart grid development. | |
| 01/26/2013 | Participation - A2: Wind PICTournament: Pitt RR | Round: 2 | Opponent: | Judge: Byrne, 2k3 Byrne, John, and Yu-Mi Mun. "Rethinking reform in the electricity sector: Power liberalisation or energy transformation." Electricity reform: Social and environmental challenges (2003): 48-76 For nearly a century, electricity around … guardians of the public interest (Patterson 1999). | |
| 01/26/2013 | Participation - A2: MarxTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Hess, 2k11 Hess, David J. "Electricity Transformed: Neoliberalism and Local Energy in the United States." Antipode 43.4 (2011): 1056-1077 In summary, some of the developments … progressive social liberalism, cooperativism, and socialism.
5. The alt produces a form of environmental pessimism that produces powerlessness and apathy – pragmatic action solves Sheppard, 2k4 James, Ph.D. Binghamton, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Reducing Pessimism’s Sway in the Environmental Ethics Classroom, Worldview: Environment Culture Religion, July 1, 2004 Given the breadth and depth of …spurred on by the introduction of certain issues.
6. Class cannot explain institutional racism which dictates the location and type of residential amenities – such as energy Bullard, 2k8 Robert, Ph.D, Environmental Justice Resource Center,_Clark Atlanta University, 7/2/08, “POVERTY, POLLUTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM: STRATEGIES FOR BUILDING HEALTHY AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES” http:~/~/www.ejrc.cau.edu/html The ability of an individual to escape a … all forms of discrimination.
7. Must engage the state – democratic accountability is critical to countervail the power of capital Evans, 2k10 Peter, University of California – Berkeley, Is It Labor’s Turn to Globalize? Twenty-first Century Opportunities and Strategic Responses, Global Labour Journal, Volume 1 Issue 3, 2010 Finally, the nemesis thesis has a … a massive change would be foolish.
8. Perm solves – we must dispense with the Marxist “dictatorship of the proletariat” and start from democratic participation Van Der Walt, 2k11 Lucian, Professor of Sociology at Rhodes University, Counterpower, participatory democracy, revolutionary defence: debating Black Flame, revolutionary anarchism and historical Marxism, International Socialism, Issue: 130, 4 April 2011 What is the place of participatory democracy, …was really “dictatorship over the proletariat”.
9. Affirmative solves the impact Hess, 2k11 Hess, David J. "Electricity Transformed: Neoliberalism and Local Energy in the United States." Antipode 43.4 (2011): 1056-1077 Furthermore, the answer to the evaluative … political opportunities for redistributive politics.
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| 01/26/2013 | Participation - New Plan/CardsTournament: Pitt RR | Round: 4 | Opponent: Wake | Judge:
The United States federal government should exempt community decentralized solar power projects from all registration and compliance restrictions with the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as all tax liability restrictions on eligibility for federal tax credits. Decentralized solar key to renewable shift Farrell, 2k8 (John Farrell, Research Associate @ The Institute for Local Self-Reliance, “Concentrating Solar and Decentralized Power: Government Incentives Hinder Local Ownership,” May 2008, The New Rules Project, Online) Solar concentrators promise a new … for encouraging solar power development.
Decentralized solar displaces conventional fossil fuels Scheer, 2k2 Hermann Scheer, member of the German Parliament and Alternative Nobel Prize winner, 2002, “The Solar Economy: Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Global Future”, Earthscan, p. 87-89 The representatives of the fossil energy … the spiders of the fossil economy | |
| 01/26/2013 | Participation - A2: Rights MalthusTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Sheppard, 2k4 James, Ph.D. Binghamton, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Reducing Pessimism’s Sway in the Environmental Ethics Classroom, Worldview: Environment Culture Religion, July 1, 2004 Given the breadth and depth of … the introduction of certain issues.
Democratic deliberation solves the risk of cooption – redesigning government to allow democratic, community-driven decision-making that they can transform institutions, not the other way around Buttigieg, 2k10 Buttigieg, Claire Ruth. "Deliberation in Lyttelton: Deliberative Democratic Theory in Action: A community Group responds to Energy and Climate issues." (2010) The ability of deliberation to produce … way of doing things …” (2009:46).
Utilitarianism naturalizes structural violence by displacing costs of political decisions onto poor and minority populations Harvey, 2k8 SHARON R. “HEIDEGGER AND ECO-PHENOMENOLOGY: GELASSENHEIT AS PRACTICE,” A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS IN PHILOSOPHY WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY Department of Philosophy, online The problem is that first order solutions ,,, preference for utilitarian methods.270
2. Evaluate structural violence first Žižek 2008 Slavoj, senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology @ Univ. of Ljubljana, Violence, p. 1-2 If there is a unifying thesis that runs through the bric-a-brac of reflections on violence that follow, it is that a similar paradox holds true for violence. At the forefront … "irrational" explosions of subjective violence. | |
| 01/26/2013 | Participation - Restriction T CardsTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Davies 30 (Major George, “CLAUSE 1.—(Scheme regulating production, supply and sale of coal.),” February, vol 235 cc2453-558, http:~/~/hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1930/feb/27/com/commons/1930/feb/27/clause-1-scheme-regulating-production) The hon. Member says he has ...markets not able to receive it.
Restriction and regulation are the same thing- regulations are a subset of restrictions Dictionary.com no date http:~/~/dictionary.reference.com/browse/com/browse/restriction re·stric·tion ri-strik-shuhn Show IPA noun 1. something that restricts; a restrictive condition or regulation; limitation. | |
| 01/27/2013 | 2AC vs. West Georgia GMTournament: Pitt RR | Round: 5 | Opponent: | Judge: Community participation is critical to assure adherence to local knowledge and experiences which are crucial to successful transitions The 1ac is a form of innovative democracy – policies that facilitate participation by a multiplicity of actors and stakeholders establish a new institutional trajectory that can redefine our relationship to energy and allow a more just and equitable development of energy systems Perm solves best – adoption of meliorism is critical to dispel the false opposition between optimism and pessimism The 1ac is an attempt to de-link private initiatives and community projects from neo-liberal belief in market optimality by reinserting democratic principles into energy decision-making Must engage the state – democratic accountability is critical to countervail the power of capital Democratic deliberation solves the risk of cooption – redesigning government to allow democratic, community-driven decision-making that they can transform institutions, not the other way around They over-determine the ontology of blackness as absolute social death – this neglects that such a construction is only possible in a Eurocentric socio-symbolic imaginary – it denies the really existing agency in the lived experience of slaves and reproduces colonialism Their monolithic collective status of blackness makes struggle dependent on white racism – this attachment to a particular type of suffering fails to acknowledge other indicators of African American identity that facilitate a multiplicity of ways for both positive and negative self-understanding and definition | |
| 03/05/2013 | Policy Paradigms 1ACTournament: D3 | Round: 6 | Opponent: Texas GM | Judge:
Status quo discourse of ecological modernization has constrained policy-making to an economic paradigm of technological and market efficiency that ignores democratic governance and recognition of the environment as intrinsically good Schlosberg and Rinfret, 2k8 Schlosberg, David, and Sara Rinfret. "Ecological modernisation, American style." Environmental Politics 17.2 (2008): 254-275 So the discourse of ecological modernisation … weak approach to EM discourse and proposals.
This has left us in an ideological and institutional path-dependency of ‘free’ and ‘competitive’ markets Caprotti, 2k11 Caprotti, Federico. "The cultural economy of cleantech: environmental discourse and the emergence of a new technology sector." Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (2011) It is therefore argued that the current UK … change the character of its policy paradigm.
This “ideological lock-in” acts as a de facto restriction on renewable technologies Mitchell, 2k10 Mitchell, Catherine. The political economy of sustainable energy. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 Over the last few years, in response to climate … dominant political framework of the UK.
This policy paradigm assumes that the market will risk investment at the ‘appropriate’ time which fails to address social and environmental implications of the current energy system Mitchell, 2k10 Mitchell, Catherine. The political economy of sustainable energy. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 In real terms, this means that when any Government… policies will increasingly invite challenge.
This has produce a direct trade-off with socio-political challenges regarding public decision-making and legitimacy Hendriks, 2k9 Carolyn, The Crawford School of Economics and Government – The Australia National University, Securing Public Legitimacy for Long-Term Energy Reform, Public Policy Network Conference – The Australian National University, Canberra, 29-30 January 2009 Contemporary states are under pressure … of long term energy reform.
The failure to account for the socio-political aspects of democratic control and ownership ensures technocratic control over both conventional and alternative energy systems Hendriks, 2k9 Carolyn, The Crawford School of Economics and Government – The Australia National University, Securing Public Legitimacy for Long-Term Energy Reform, Public Policy Network Conference – The Australian National University, Canberra, 29-30 January 2009 Beyond securing legitimacy, policy design … and nuclear waste disposal sites (Dawson and Darst 2006).
The solidifies an anti-democratic, authoritarian and violent set of social relationships which define the status quo policy paradigm Byrne and Toly, 2k6 John (Professor of Energy and Climate Policy at the University of Delaware and Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy); Noah (Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Politics and International Relations at Wheaton), Energy as a Social Project: Recovering a Discourse, Transforming Power: Energy, Environment, and Society in Conflict, 2006 While moderns usually declare strong … scientifically and technologically unassailable.
Failure to confront the values and assumptions of neoliberal market rationality fortifies a socio-political structure founded on racism, sexism, classism, and anthropocentrism that makes planetary destruction and violence inevitable Darder, 2k10 Antonia Darker, Professor of Education at the University of Illinois, Preface Author, Kahn, Richard, and Richard V. Kahn. Critical pedagogy, ecoliteracy, and planetary crisis: The ecopedagogy movement. Vol. 359. Peter Lang Pub Incorporated, 2010 It is fitting to begin my words … with whom we walk the earth.
Contention Two: Alternative Policy Paradigms
Voting affirmative is an endorsement of our socio-political analysis of the neoliberal policy paradigm as it relates energy production
We affirm the resolution through our criticism of the qualitative restrictions which constrain the transition to democratic control and ownership over energy production
The status quo political paradigm must be reframed to develop and implement policies which can confront structural violence and environmental destruction – the role that we play as researchers and advocates in debate matters and must come first Scrase, 2k10 Scrase, J. Ivan, and David G. Ockwell. "The role of discourse and linguistic framing effects in sustaining high carbon energy policy—An accessible introduction." Energy Policy 38.5 (2010): 2225-2233 This paper has provided several examples … policy in the decades to come.2
Challenging the status quo policy paradigm is crucial to eliminate the cognitive restrictions that constrain the definition of problems and the range of possible solutions to the social and environmental implications of energy policy Caprotti, 2k11 Caprotti, Federico. "The cultural economy of cleantech: environmental discourse and the emergence of a new technology sector." Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (2011) Paradigms are influential in policy-,,, if the paradigm is preventing such change.
Our advocacy offers a “policy commons” approach to energy production that allows democratic community control over the structure of energy production and capital investments made in it Byrne, 2k3 Byrne, John, and Yu-Mi Mun. "Rethinking reform in the electricity sector: Power liberalisation or energy transformation." Electricity reform: Social and environmental challenges (2003): 48-76 A fundamental problem of power liberalisation …broader agenda of public benefits (PRAYAS 2001).
Vote affirmative to re-politicize socio-ecological relations Swyngedouw 2k6 Erik, Department of Geography, School of Environment and Development, Manchester University, Impossible “Sustainability” and the Post-Political Condition, Forthcoming in: David Gibbs and Rob Krueger (Eds.) Sustainable Development Guilford Press, New York Therefore, as Badiou (2005a) argues, a new radical … of different socio-environmental futures.
Failure to confront the depoliticization of the economy in energy-decision making entrenches privatization initiatives and ensures elite control and technocratic solutions in policy-making Dulci, 2k9 Otavio Soares, sociologist and political scientist and is a professor in international relations at PUC-Minas, Economics and Politics in the Global Crisis, Estud. Av. Vol.23 Sao Paulo, 2009 The latter returned in a recycled manner, … this route is essential and cannot be lost.
Failure to politicize the neoliberal market paradigm ensures that ethics are appropriated by the technocratic elite to marginalize social and political values of marginalized communities Luigi Pellizzoni and Marja Ylonen in 2012 ( Marja Ylonen is post-doctoral researcher at the University'of Jyvaskyla, Finland, Luigj Pellizzoni is Associate Professor in Environmental and Political Sociology at the University of Trieste. Italy. Hegemonic contingencies: Neoliberalized technoscience and neorationality, Neoliberalism and Technoscience) If depoliticization is intrinsic to all … stigmatized as ignorance or prejudice. 60-61
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| 03/29/2013 | AT Framework- NDTTournament: NDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: Wake HQ | Judge:
B. “Should” is an expression of desirability A. “Restriction” is a “limiting condition” D. Their framework is a restriction on the transition to energy production from sustainable sources 4. No objective standard for textual interpretation C. Traditional debate isn’t neutral – appeals to fairness are a neoliberal myth that obscures violence B. Our education is unique and necessary – it challenges our discursive commitments to existing energy systems in debate B. Fetishizing instrumental education kills resistance to Neoliberalism D. Switch-side is an instrumental form of education D. Their education cedes politics to the elite F. Their conception of fiat is a fiction which misrepresents governmental decisionmaking – and are neither education nor predictable | |
| 03/29/2013 | AT Wake Forest Case TurnsTournament: NDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: Wake Forest HQ | Judge: MALTHUS DOESN’T ACCOUNT FOR TECHNOLOGY WHICH KEEPS FOOD PRODUCTION LEVEL WITH POPULATION. Must act now – renewables are inevitable but they must be oriented towards environmental justice | |
| 03/29/2013 | AT Environment KTournament: NDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: Wake HQ | Judge: This evidence is broadly theoretical and cites no examples The discourse perspective is the most effective way to challenge the dominance of rational policy-making which sustains conventional energy systems Their links don’t assume the discourse perspective of the 1ac – we acknowledge the role of discourse without slipping into relativism
5. Floating PICs are bad: 7. The 1ac was already a form of multi-level analysis – the permutation is just another articulation of this process 7. We must have justifications and argumentation-without them, there is no mechanism for social change Alt fails – it produces a form of environmental pessimism that produces apathy
The 1ac was already a form of multi-level analysis – the permutation is just another articulation of this process | |
| 03/29/2013 | NDT Rd 3 2AC Wind PICTournament: NDT | Round: 2 | Opponent: | Judge: 2. Solvency deficit: the cp is the status quo – it doesn’t ban wind energy but maintains a system that allows neoliberal market mechanisms to determine who has control and ownership over over wind energy infrastructure and productionMendonc, 2k9 ~[M. Mendonc¸a, et al., Stability, participation and transparency in renewable energy policy: Lessons from Denmark and the United States, Policy and Society (2009), doi:10.1016/j.polsoc.2009.01.007~] 3. Alt causes and wind energy minimizes impacts to wildlife compared to other sourcesSaidur et al, 2k11 (Centre of Research UMPEDAC, Level 4, Engineering Tower, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya), N.A Rahim, M.R Islam, K.H Solangi. "Environmental impact of wind energy." edu/science/journal/13640321 edu/science/journal/13640321/15/5, June 2011, Pages 2423–2430 | |
| 03/29/2013 | NDT Rd 3 2AC CaseTournament: NDT | Round: 3 | Opponent: | Judge: This is the best internal link to policy-making and future actionsScrase, 2k10 ~[Scrase, J. Ivan, and David G. Ockwell. "The role of discourse and linguistic framing effects in sustaining high carbon energy policy—An accessible introduction." Energy Policy 38.5 (2010): 2225-2233~] Discourse frames policy discussions – use your ballot to set the agenda by defining how problems should be interpretedShiroyama, no date ~[Shiroyama, Hideaki. Graduate School of Law and Politics – University of Tokyo, "Mechanism of Policy Change under Pressure–Perspectives from Policy System Framework." No Date Cited~] Utilitarianism naturalizes structural violence by displacing costs of political decisions onto poor and minority populationsHarvey, 2k8 ~[SHARON R. "HEIDEGGER AND ECO-PHENOMENOLOGY: GELASSENHEIT AS PRACTICE," A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS IN PHILOSOPHY WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY Department of Philosophy, online~] Pragmatic approaches disconnect action from the necessity to engage a broad social and discursive analysis of energy systemsByrne and Toly, 2k6 ~[John (Professor of Energy %26 Climate Policy at the University of Delaware and Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy); Noah (Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Politics %26 International Relations at Wheaton), Energy as a Social Project: Recovering a Discourse, Transforming Power: Energy, Environment, and Society in Conflict, 2006~] Collapse of neoliberal cap inevitable – feedback loopsMcNally, 2k9 ~[David, York University – Toronto, From Financial Crisis to World-Slump: Accumulation, Financialisation, and the Global Slowdown, Historical Materialism 17 (2009) 35-83~] | |
| 03/29/2013 | NDT Rd 3 2AC FrameworkTournament: NDT | Round: 3 | Opponent: | Judge: | |
| 03/31/2013 | NDT Rd 7 Heidegger 1ACTournament: NDT | Round: 7 | Opponent: UNT KP | Judge: Same exact Heidegger 1AC as read previouslyContention One: “The History of Being”History hitherto has been the history of Being – the evolution of the world is a process by which Being disclosing itself – each epochal manifestation of Being metamorphoses in the flux of its withdrawal and disclosure which makes their defining essences intelligibleIrwin and Peters, 2k2 Again harking back to the tradition … Technology, limits the field of agency. The contemporary epochal mode of revealing is characterized by technological enframing – its essence is the transformation of all beings into resources devoid of intrinsic value which calls them forth to presence themselves to be ordered as a standing reserveThomson, 2k1 Heidegger’s name for our contemporary …optimized with maximal ef. ciency? The essence of modern technology is revealed in the disclosive way of looking upon nature by the conventional wind turbine – its essence is the maximum exploitation of the wind for the production of energy – this is part and parcel of an ontology that treats nature as a standing-reserve to meet human endsKlein, 2k9 In contrast, I suggest that … concern regarding this sustainable technology. The essence of ‘truth’ and ‘technology’ does not permanently endure – rather it is the historically contingent way in which Being discloses itself and is understood by Dasein – metaphysics supplies each epochal period with an ontotheological grounding – the metaphysics of presence underlying modern technological thought represents the total closure of thought that forgets the question of Being and disincentivizes ontological inquiryThomson, 2k1 Heidegger’s pronouncement that the essence … Heidegger calls the history of being. The loss of Being that defines our historical epoch shapes the dominant social imaginary through instrumental reasoning – this denies intrinsic value to other beings and the natural world which legitimates the practices and institutionalization of war, structural violence, and environmental destructionChwastiaka and Lehmanb, 2k8 Many peace researchers argue … with expansionistic logic of capitalism. Contention Two: “Ontological Inquiry”Resolved: The United States federal government should remove all restrictions on energy production from windmills.Andrew and I affirm the windmill as a means by which we may disclosively look upon Being through ontological inquiry into the essence of technology revealed by the difference between the mill and the turbine in the production of energy from wind powerThe term ‘wind power’ refers to the conversion of the kinetic energy of the wind into mechanical or electrical energy by means of a mill or a turbine respectivelyEncyclopedia Britannica, 2k12 Wind Power, form of energy … providing a larger total energy source. When given with the choice between mill and turbine, we are confronted with more than a mere affirmation of mechanical or electrical energy – it is a decision regarding the essence of technology – unlike its’ modern counterpart - the pre-modern windmill was not built to exploit the wind in order to stockpile its energy for indirect and remote purposes – its connection with the wind is immediateRojcewicz, 2k6 Heidegger does not answer this … exhausted in turning the gears. Our affirmation of the mill provides an opportunity to rethink the ways in which we engage the built environment – this alternative ontology can shift cultural relationships away from dominating technology and facilitate a sustainable life-world that reveals the interconnectedness of nature and the built environmentKlein, 2k9 In this sense, local people might … in the natural and built worlds. Evaluate ontology first – failure to prioritize ontological inquiry is tantamount to a “loss of Being” which impoverishes understanding while locating social-political institutions as isolated from their natural context and eliminates an authentic relationship to Being – destroying value to life and causing unchecked environmental destructionMagrini, 2k12 Writing in 1927, Heidegger uses the … about our lives in impoverished ways.
The ontological inquiry of the 1ac is a form of counter-education that provides a starting point from which we can engage normalizing education that prioritizes disinterested instrumental rationality in politics as well as debate – instead of focusing on the successful imposition of policy we should begin from a position of transcendence that allows reflection on the meanings, identities, and quests of technological thoughtGur-Ze’ev, 2k2 So even in face of the success … of the distribution of evils. Our mode of being-in-the-world is determined by the knowledge we value and pursue – when education in the debate community regarding topics like energy production becomes grounded in the metaphysics of enframing – our community becomes fragmented and devolves into vocationalism rather than emphasizing critical thinking as an activity with intrinsic valueThomson, 2k1 Heidegger began developing his … literally) excavates an alternative. The enactment of a new historical possibility beyond the violence and environmental destruction of machination can only be articulated through thoughtful confrontation with the history of being as an alternative to neutral and disinterested evaluation of instrumental actionsNelson, 2k7 “The historical does not denote …articulated in his earlier thought. The pedagogical practice of ontological inquiry attuned by an authentic openness to Being creates a paradigm shift away from standardized models of unreflective praise for contemporary norms grounded in vocational, economic, and technological which holds the potential to awaken authentic ways of being-in-the-worldMagrini, 2k12 The understanding of Being in … educational theory and practice. By recognizing the adversarial attunement of modern technology and calculative thinking we open the possibility authentic attunement – ontology is the most prior question because it is the primary ‘mode of disclosure’ through which existence is revealed and understanding, thought, and behavior are influencedMagrini, 2k12 Attunement (Befindlichkeit) represents the ways … modes of world-disclosure. |
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