Topic specific Kritiks

1. Topic specific Kritiks

2. Aspects of the topic to be aware of • Technology • Empire • Resource control and use • Desirability of human existence • WHY do we want to explore beyond the mesosphere?

3. K’s that will get their own lectures • Capitalism • Colonialism • Nietzsche

4. astropolitics • Included in the core files • Space represents a new chance for politics in society • Plan justifies exploration using the logic of the old political mode • Leads to conflict and exploration

5. anthropocentrism • Humans view themselves as the center of the universe • Plan places human as central or more important than other beings in the universe • Leads to exploitation, violence, colonialism, etc….

6. Heidegger

7. Heidegger • The aff relies on/expands technology • Tech distorts humans relation to being and self • Life becomes little more than tech that can be placed at human’s disposal • Destroys value to life • Nazism

8. Schopenhauer

9. Schopenhauer • Echoes Buddhism • To live is to want, to want is to suffer • Lack of desire is liberating • The k would argue that the aff prolongs human existence or expands the spectrum of desire • It would be better to give up the will to live or life itself

10. Security • We create threats out of things that are not really threats • Plan is example (asteroids, debris, threats to hegemony • Securitization leads to perpetual conflict and extinction • realism

11. Empire • Hardt and Negiri- Empire- 2000 • Imperialism has done away with nation state conflict • Enemy becomes banal and routine, police repression, economic oppression through WTO • Space expands world influence, or space exploration moves Earth closer to a singular world empire,

12. Deep Ecology • All lives have equal value • Humans have a destructive impact on the world • Traveling to space prolongs and advances human existence, which harms all life. • Better to allow humans to die than prolong our existence and the suffering we inflict on other beings • Could be turned on the idea that plan removes human from, allowing the survival of other life forms