Tournament: Akins | Round: 2 | Opponent: Hendrickson HW | Judge: Alex Slider
1AC Rubbish
Marine Debris litters every part of the Earth's oceans. Rather than addressing its perniciousness, current exploration practices efface the materiality of trash by construing it as nothing but a drop in pristine and vast oceans.
Mirja Arnshav. Mirja Arnshav. Arnshav is a Research Coordinator at Maritime Museum of Stockholm University. 2014. ~"The Freedom of the Seas: Untapping the Archaeological Potential of Marine Debris". Journal of Maritime Archaeology 9:1. Pages 1-25~
How then, are we to understand this engagement with the sea? The natural
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), and so does the thought on littered landscapes and mountains of garbage.
Marine debris assails ocean life—killing thousands of animals, fish, plants, and threatens the existence but its effects are underestimated because of the lack of viewed devastation.
Jose Derraik. Deraik is a G.B of Ecology and Health Research Centre, Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago. 2002. ~"The pollution of the marine environment by plastic debris: a review" Marine Pollution Bulletin 44 ~
Since the use of plastics continues to increase, so does the amount of plastics
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, for instance, as alien species could arrive rafted on drifting plastics.
Framing garbage as "out of sight out of mind" positions all things as garbage in waiting- on the verge of denied value. The treatment of garbage exposes the underbelly of habits of consumption and disposal.
Mirja Arnshav. Mirja Arnshav. Arnshav is a Research Coordinator at Maritime Museum of Stockholm University. 2014. ~"The Freedom of the Seas: Untapping the Archaeological Potential of Marine Debris". Journal of Maritime Archaeology 9:1. Pages 1-25~
When suddenly bringing the unseen into light, it tends to attract even more attention
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harbours, surveyed during the autumn of 2011 (Skärgårdsstiftelsen 2011b).
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Greg Kennedy. Kennedy is an independent scholr and received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Ottawa. 2007. ~"An Ontology of Trash: The Disposable and Its Problematic Nature. New York: State University of New York Press. pp 154-155"~
By failing to realize the universal breadth of care, technological uncaring has entangled us
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. Out of this abyss appears the phenomenon of human extinction.
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Our affirmation, more than a technical solution, is a rupture in habits of consumption and an exploration of individual relationship with the more-than-human world.
Gay Hawkins. Hawkins is a Gay, Senior lecturer in media and communications at the University of New South Wales. 2006. ~"The Ethics of Waste: How We Relate to Rubbish. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. pp.120-122~
Micropolitics emerge in the relational arts of the self, and these arts are always
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are attentive to what Adam Phillips calls "the arts of transience."9
Exploring trash reframes dead matter into an active political force and exposes the full extent of its entanglement with oceanic and terrestrial life,
Mirja Arnshav. Mirja Arnshav. Arnshav is a Research Coordinator at Maritime Museum of Stockholm University. 2014. ~"The Freedom of the Seas: Untapping the Archaeological Potential of Marine Debris". Journal of Maritime Archaeology 9:1. Pages 1-25~
In this paper I have tried to tie together garbage studies (including garbology),
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—from the pleasure associated with a splash to the destructiveness of modernity.
Rather than just a waste management proposal fixated with bureaucratic adjustments, our affirmation reasserts waste as part of our political ecology and is a pre-requisite for any meaningful political intervention.
Nicky Gregson and Mike Crang. Gregson is part of the Department of Geography, University of Sheffield and, Mike is part of the Department of Geography, Durham University.2010 ~"Materiality and waste: inorganic vitality in a networked world," Environment and Planning A., Vol. 42 Is. 5~
At a first level, the papers in this theme issue provide a contribution to
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construction therefore begs the question of how different matters matter differently.
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Bureaucratic solutions to waste management foreclose the necessary affective response to trash—trash must be noticed not sequestered as something to be hidden away. Positioning trash as something that works on human and ocean life as much as we work on it cultivates an ethic towards the more-than-human world.
Gay Hawkins. Hawkins is a Gay, Senior lecturer in media and communications at the University of New South Wales. 2006. ~"The Ethics of Waste: How We Relate to Rubbish. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. pp.120-122~
In exploring the dynamic exchanges between subjects and objects, Sebald captures the translations and
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of promise, full of the possibilities of becoming a resource for being.
Before entertaining the speculation of human extinction attune your decision to a response to the continual killing and extinction of non-human life. An affective rejoinder requires a care, not for trash, but for its affects in the world.
Kathryn Yusoff. Kathryn Yusoff Lecturer in Human (and Non-human) Geography, and Director of the MA in Climate Change at the University of Exeter. 2010. ~" Theory Culture Society 27.2-3, 2010~
If, as Haraway says, 'Animals are everywhere full partners in worlding,
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discreetly break off from academic critique into other forms of engagement with animality.
Serpil Oppermann. Oppermann is a Professor of Literature and Enviornment, Hacettepe University, Ankara. 2006. ~"Rethinking Ecocriticism in an Ecological Postmodern Framework:Mangled Matter, Meaning, and Agency." Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment. Association for Study of Literature and the Environmnet. http://www.academia.edu/234380/Theorizing_Ecocriticism_Toward_a_Postmodern_Ecocritical_Practice~~ VR
Although postmodernism continues to pose questions on the grounds of our moral attitudes and
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nature, discourse/matter, human/nonhuman, and the like.
Greg Kennedy. Kennedy Professor of something or other. 2007. ~"An ontology of Trash p. 159-161~VR
Our study of trash excavated several layers of
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By this negation death itself becomes something negative; it becomes the altogether inconstant and null" (PLT 125).'