Download - Topic specific Kritiks
Topic specific Kritiks
Aspects of the topic to be aware ofTechnologyEmpireResource control and useDesirability of human existenceWHY do we want to explore beyond the
mesosphere?
K’s that will get their own lecturesCapitalismColonialismNietzsche
astropoliticsIncluded in the core filesSpace represents a new chance for politics in
societyPlan justifies exploration using the logic of
the old political modeLeads to conflict and exploration
anthropocentrismHumans view themselves as the center of the
universePlan places human as central or more
important than other beings in the universeLeads to exploitation, violence, colonialism,
etc….
Heidegger
HeideggerThe aff relies on/expands technologyTech distorts humans relation to being and
selfLife becomes little more than tech that can
be placed at human’s disposalDestroys value to life
Nazism
Schopenhauer
SchopenhauerEchoes BuddhismTo live is to want, to want is to sufferLack of desire is liberating
The k would argue that the aff prolongs human existence or expands the spectrum of desire
It would be better to give up the will to live or life itself
SecurityWe create threats out of things that are not
really threatsPlan is example (asteroids, debris, threats to
hegemonySecuritization leads to perpetual conflict and
extinction
realism
EmpireHardt and Negiri- Empire- 2000Imperialism has done away with nation state
conflictEnemy becomes banal and routine, police
repression, economic oppression through WTO
Space expands world influence, or space exploration moves Earth closer to a singular world empire,
Deep EcologyAll lives have equal valueHumans have a destructive impact on the
worldTraveling to space prolongs and advances
human existence, which harms all life.Better to allow humans to die than prolong
our existence and the suffering we inflict on other beings
Could be turned on the idea that plan removes human from, allowing the survival of other life forms