Tournament: bronx | Round: 1 | Opponent: bcc | Judge:
Appeasement DA is the Michigan one
Anthro
The 1ac’s silence is a loaded presence – their forgetting of the non-human world and the individualistic formation of agency ensure the replication of prevailing anthropocentric power relations
Bell and Russell 00 (Anne C. by graduate students in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University and Constance L. a graduate student at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Beyond Human, Beyond Words: Anthropocentrism, Critical Pedagogy, and the Poststructuralist Turn, http://www.csse-scee.ca/CJE/Articles/FullText/CJE25-3/CJE25-3-bell.pdf)
Any discourse of neoliberal or imperialist exploitation must begin with the environment. From the ongoing destruction of the “new world” as a result of colonization to the massive species destructions as a result of industrialization ecology directly bears the brunt. Your first responsibility is to ecological. We are not isolated egos, for we breathe in the sky and chew matter nourished by the soil and rain. When we choose to poison our air, incenerate our trees, and rip up our soil… we are violating the ground of our very being.
Roger S. Gottlieb, Professor of Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1994
http://www.crosscurrents.org/feministecology.htm
Their discourse of oil exploitation fueled by western imperialism ignores the ongoing attempts to devalue the difference of us to nature as insignificant and thus justifies the destruction of valuing that difference.
You are different than a river. THAT is why is the river is valuable.
The universe is not a projection screen for the human ego and western imperialism. Otherwise, we are trapped in a hall of mirrors. We need the difference. It does NOT need us. Choose value and wonder beyond human comprehension.
Mary Midgley, retired Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Newcastle University, 2005
The Essential Mary Midgley p 373-378
The alternative is to refuse the Aff’s decision to be human. Through this rejection we can embrace an undecidability of life that allows us to reject sovereignty over the world.
Rossello 10 (Diego, Assistant Professor of PoliSci at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile “Deciding to be Human? Benjamin and Schmitt on Political Theology and Animality.” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Sept, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1654674) RJG