Tournament: Bronx | Round: 1 | Opponent: Blake LW | Judge: Arnett, Dave
NARRATIVE ABOUT SLEEP DEALER MOVIE IF THE UNITED STATES’ EXPLOITATION OF MEXICAN ECONOMIC POWER BEGAN MOST CLEARLY WITH THE 1940S BRACERO PROJECT, WHERE MEXICAN LABOR WAS SHIPPED DAILY IN AND OUT OF THE US TO IMPROVE OUR ECONOMY, THE WORLD OF SLEEP DEALER IS A POSSIBLE AND DISASTROUS CONCLUSION
PRASCH ‘8 (Thomas, Chair of the History Department at Washburn, Chapter 3 Border Visions: Identity and Diaspora in Film, pgs. 43-44, AG)
In the commentary track on the DVD version . . . aimed at identifying and deporting illegal immigrants.
SLEEP DEALER PORTRAYS NEOLIBERALISM’S REPURPOSING OF RESOURCES TO FULFILL THE NEEDS OF THE HETEROGENEOUS APPARATUS.
PRASCH ‘8 (Thomas, Chair of the History Department at Washburn, Chapter 3 Border Visions: Identity and Diaspora in Film, pg 46, AG)
Local subsistence agriculture has suffered from the repurposing . . . own water at even more outrageous prices.
NEOLIBERALISM BECOMES A PROCESS OF MASSIVE ENFRAMING OF THE WORLD THAT BRINGS ON A VAST, PLANETARY NIHILISM THAT CULMINATES IN EITHER RESENTMENT OR DEPOLITICIZED POLITICS
JORONEN ‘13 (Mikko, Department of Geography and Geology, Geography Section, University of Turku, Finland, “Conceptualising New Modes of State Governmentality: Power, Violence and the Ontological Mono-politics of Neoliberalism” Geopolitics, 00:1–15, pp. 5-6)
As a modality of enframing, the process . . . -optimising drive of calculative arrangements.32
NUCLEAR WAR IS ONLY POSSIBLE FROM WITHIN A SYSTEM OF TECHNOLOGICAL ENFRAMING – THE AFFIRMATIVE’S ATTEMPT TO RETHINK THE MONOPOLIZATION OF NEOLIBERAL ENFRAMING IS CRITICAL
JACERME ‘2 (Pierre, Prof. of Philosophy @ Lycee Henri IV Paris , “Is There an Ethics for the ‘Atomic Age’?”, Heidegger and Practical Philosophy, p. 307-10)
Hence, Heidegger’s anger and sarcasm when he . . . entire planet” (ibid., 15).
THE IMPACT IS EXTINCTION – MULTIPLE SCENARIOS – ONLY RADICAL REORIENTATION OF OUR POLITICS CAN SOLVE
PARR ’13 (Adrian, Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy and Environmental Studies @ U. of Cincinnati, THE WRATH OF CAPITAL: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics, pp. 145-147)
A quick snapshot of the twenty-first . . . and environmental degradation more effective and more realistic.
NEOLIBERALISM TRANSFORMS IDENTITY INTO ECONOMIC CALCULUS—IMPOSES ITS VALUE STRUCTURE ON ALL ASPECTS OF SOCIETY
BROWN, Professor of political theory at the University of California, Berkeley, 03 (Wendy, “Neo-liberalism and the End of Liberal Democracy”, Theory and Event 7:1, 2003, MUSE)AS
The political sphere, along with every other . . . the act, actor, or rationale.
ALL POLITICS IS FICTIONAL – IMAGINATION IS A CENTRAL COMPONENT OF REPRESENTATION – OUR AFFIRMATIVE MERELY EXPOSES THIS TRUTH
FREEDMAN 2K -- Associate Professor of English at Louisiana State University (Carl, “Critical Theory and Science Fiction” Wesleyan University Press, University Press of London, 20-22)
It is a priori likely that most texts . . . , and Star Wars on the other.
OUR ENGAGEMENT WITH SLEEP DEALER IS SPECIFICALLY KEY – WE ARE A NEW DEPLOYMENT OF SCIENCE-FICTION TO TAKE THE POLITICS OF THE BORDER AND NEOLIBERAL CAPITALISM SERIOUSLY
PRASCH ‘8 (Thomas, Chair of the History Department at Washburn, Chapter 3 Border Visions: Identity and Diaspora in Film, pg. 45, AG)
More broadly, Rivera’s project seeks to rework . . . – what if we made the protagonist?”
SCI-FI VISUAL DISCOURSE PRODUCES KNOWLEDGE AND MEANING THROUGH VISUAL LANGUAGE AND HELPS US UNDERSTAND NEOLIBERALISM THROUGH THE MEXICAN PERSPECTIVE.
WILSON ‘13 (Jamie Wilson, Doctor of Philosophy with a Major in Spanish, The NAFTA Spectacle: Envisioning Borders, Migrants and the U.S.-Mexico Neoliberal Relation in Visual Culture, Pg. 10-11, AG)
This research utilizes an eclectic methodological framework whose . . . -construction in the times of NAFTA.
NEOLIBERALISM MAY SEEM INEVITABLE, BUT ONLY BECAUSE IT MASKS ITS OWN FINITUDE THROUGH ABSOLUTE ENFRAMING OF THE GLOBE – THEIR CLAIMS ABOUT THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE SYSTEM CANNOT BE EVALUATED WITHOUT THE AFFIRMATIVE BECAUSE IT RELIES ON AND CONTINUES NEOLIBERAL CONFIRMATION BIAS
JORONEN ‘13 (Mikko, Department of Geography and Geology, Geography Section, University of Turku, Finland, “Conceptualising New Modes of State Governmentality: Power, Violence and the Ontological Mono-politics of Neoliberalism” Geopolitics, 00:1–15, pp. 10-11)
As I have suggested,52 ontological monopolisations . . . Event (Ereignis) to the background.
- WE ARE THE CHANGE WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR – WE HAVE TO BEGIN RESISTING NEOLIBERALISM IN SMALL MOMENTS LIKE THIS ONE IN ORDER TO CREATE CHAINS OF EQUIVALENCE NECESSARY FOR POLITICAL ACTION
ROBINSON 08-American professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008, “Latin America and Global Capitalism”, pgs358-9
Will there be a predatory degeneration of civilization . . . vital role in what is to come.
EXPLORING SCIENCE FICTION’S POTENTIAL TO PROMOTE IMAGINATIONS OF THE FUTURE AND ATTEMPTING TO INTEGRATE THIS POTENTIAL INTO SOCIETY ALLOWS FOR A DELIBERATIVE FRAMEWORK OF ECONOMIC ENGAGEMENT AND DECISION-MAKING.
MILLER AND BENNETT ‘08 (Clark A Miller is the Associate Director of the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, Associate Director and CoPI of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society, and Chair of the PhD Program in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology at ASU. Ira Bennett has a PhD in biochemistry from ASU and today is an Assistant Research Professor in the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes and the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at ASU and is fascinated with the way people view the future. “Thinking longer term about technology: is there value in science fiction-inspired approaches to constructing futures?”, Science and Public Policy, 35(8), October 2008, pages 597–606, http://www.cspo.org/documents/article_MillerBennett2008.pdf)
Our relatively limited exercises to date offer cautious . . . open to all participants in technology assessment.
THIS IS THE preferred SITE OF RESISTANCE – ONLY SCIENCE FICTION CAN ENGAGE IN A HOLISTIC CRITIQUE AND FORGE TRUE ECONOMIC ENGAGEMENTS
MOYLAN 2K (Tom Moylan, Glucksman Professor of contemporary writing and Director of the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies, University of Limerick, 2000, “Scraps of the Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia”, pg. 187-190) Text altered to expand “sf” to “science fiction” for clarity
Writing within the realm of literary critique (. . . and forging a radical alternative in its place.
FROM SCIENCE FICTION EMERGES OVERT POLITICAL MOBILIZATION – TEXTUAL RESISTANCE IS A NECESSARY CONDITION FOR OPPOSITION
MOYLAN 2K (Tom Moylan, Glucksman Professor of contemporary writing and Director of the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies, University of Limerick, 2000, “Scraps of the Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia”, pg. 192-193)
Pointing to the self-reflexivity of the . . . and lead toward a better, utopian future.
IT’S NOT THE WORLDS THEMSELVES, BUT THE COMBINATION OF TWO WORLDS THAT MAKES SCIENCE FICTION MOST VALUABLE
FREEDMAN 2K -- Associate Professor of English at Louisiana State University (Carl, “Critical Theory and Science Fiction” Wesleyan University Press, University Press of London, 67-70)
Two conclusions may, then, be drawn. . . in itself constituted a significantly critical act.