Tournament: Roswell HS | Round: 2 | Opponent: Alpharetta CS | Judge: Grell
Revealing the world as threats to national security naturalizes the instrumentalization of beings and warfare
Burke 07 (Anthony Burke- Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at UNSW, Sydney. Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence and Reason, Theory and Event - Volume 10, Issue 2, 2007)
The epistemology of violence I describe here (strategic science and foreign policy doctrine)
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more sustainable, peaceful and non-violent global rule of the political.
Loss of being outweighs nuclear war – the enslavement of humans to technological thought destroys human dignity and freedom
Rojcewicz Prof, 06 (Richard- Prof of philosophy at Pont Park University, translator of 3 Heidegger books, The Gods and Technology; A Reading of Heidegger p.141-142)
Heidegger now launches an extended discussion of the danger inherent in modern technology. It
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the earth,” and yet their self-blindness would make them slaves.
Alternative text: Suspend calculative thought – this allows us to reengage ontological questions. Leaving assumptions and goals unquestioned guarantees error replication
Korous 97 (Copeland winner, all around bad ass, Yale JD, Emory BA Philosophy, Become What you Are 1997 22-25)
The thought that inhabits critique is not bent on achieving quick and efficient solutions.
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that rivers are not primarily stockpiles of potential energy waiting to be unleashed.
Particular understandings of war and conflict fails – it should be understood ontologically
Barkawi and Brighton 11 (Tarak, university lecturer in international security at the Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge, Shane, doctoral candidate and teaching assistant in the Department of War Studies at King's College, London, “Powers of War: Fighting, Knowledge, and Critique,” International Political Sociology, http://cambridge.academia.edu/TarakBarkawi/Papers/604640/Powers_of_War_Fighting_Knowledge_and_Critique)
So, what can be said of the ontology of war, that fundamental character
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definitive element resists disinterested analysis, while tending to instrumentalize knowledge about war.