Tournament: Colleyville | Round: 3 | Opponent: Flower Mound AA | Judge: Erick Berdugo tab-ish paradigms
The affirmative conceptualizes ecology without accounting for the role of the Excluded; this forces us to perceive ecology through a capitalist lens
Zizek 1, Slavoj November 26, 2007 Slovenian philosopher, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, “Censorship Today: Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses”; Houston Memorial RM
What one should ... his media empire.
Ecology based on fear is conservative; the aff's call to act now means acting within the current capitalist framework
Zizek 2, Slavoj November 26, 2007 Slovenian philosopher, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, “Censorship Today: Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses”; Houston Memorial RM
When politics is ... triggering a catastrophe.
Ecological concerns preclude radical political shifts
Zizek 3, Slavoj November 26, 2007 Slovenian philosopher, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, “Censorship Today: Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses”; Houston Memorial RM
It is this ... after catastrophic interruptions.
The operation of capitalism itself precludes a market solution to ecological problems, thus reifying the ecological crisis the affirmative intends to solve.
Zizek 4, Slavoj November 26, 2007 Slovenian philosopher, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, “Censorship Today: Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses”; Houston Memorial RM
In spite of ... on this accident.
Additionally capitalism causes economic instability, turning the AC.
Zizek 5, Slavoj November 26, 2007 Slovenian philosopher, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, “It's the Political Economy, Stupid!” Kasama Project, originally published by the University of Chicago; Houston Memorial RM
But was the ... even imaginable before.
The alternative is a reconceptualization of nature to psychoanalytically reject the big Other
Zizek 6, Slavoj November 26, 2007 Slovenian philosopher, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, “Censorship Today: Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses”; Houston Memorial RM
The lesson is ... for all eternity.
The alternative turns the AC; it has a better capacity to solve for ecological catastrophe
Zizek 7, Slavoj November 26, 2007 Slovenian philosopher, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, “Censorship Today: Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses”; Houston Memorial RM
With regard to ... truth of ecology.
Only through the alternative of alientation from nature can we actually confront ecological problems
Vafin presents the view, Arthur 2012 Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, “Zizek, Ecology, Conservatism,” Intl. Journal of Zizek Studies Vol. 6 No. 1; Houston Memorial RM
In a most ... Fukushimas will come.