TRC’s don’t produce objective truth, they produce narrative truth that has considerable conciliatory power
Chanbonpin ‘11
Kim D. Chanbonpin, Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy, “We Don't Want Dollars, Just Change":Narrative Counter-Terrorism Strategy, an Inclusive Model for Social Healing, and the Truth About Torture Commission,” Winter 2011 Edition, http://www.law.northwestern.edu/journals/njlsp/v6/n1/1/index.html
The commissioners of the [South African] … the events on November 3rd.
Ideological sources of violence and systemic responsibility for abuses in Egypt must be addressed- simply pointing a finger at the SSI is insufficient. Only accepting our individual responsibility and understanding the way that different ideologies impacted influenced that responsibility allows us to move beyond systemic abuses. This means that any counterplan or alternative should be held responsible for the ideological system it utilizes or it doesn’t solve the aff.
Parodi ‘4
Carlos A Parodi, Illinois State University Professor in the Politics and Government Department, Acclaimed international truth commission expert, Meeting of Latin American Studies Association October 7-9, 2004, “Readings of the Final Report of Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission”
Why did the CVR omit … that still prevailed in Peru.”40
The plan reframes international relations around the New International- the human rights regime is governed by a system of sovereignty grounded in metaphysics, subordinating questions of ethics to the whims of the United States- forcing American responsibility for violence in Egypt produces a new transnational conception of ethics that de-actives the violent force of sovereignty even as it confronts it, gesturing towards a democracy-to-come
Caputo ‘97
(John D., David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Villanova University, Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida, pgs. 116-120)
This is not to say … a nutshell, by their "difference."
Switch side debate challenges American Exceptionalism and neo-conservatism by questioning radical ideology—our evidence is empirical
English et al 7
Eric English, Stephen Llano, Gordon R. Mitchell, Catherine E. Morrison, John Rief & Carly Woods, all former debate coaches, “Debate as a Weapon of Mass Destruction” http://www.pitt.edu/~gordonm/JPubs/EnglishDAWG.pdf
It is our position, however, … a ‘‘weapon of mass destruction.’’
Spanos misconceptualizes the dialogic student-teacher relationship
Devyne 96 (John, NYU Ed School, Maximum Security: The Culture of Violence in Inner City Schools, p. 191)JFS
I argue that Spanos’ epistemology … splendid, but it has limits.
Completely rejecting humanism is self-marginalizing and disables effective coalitional politics
Perkin 93 (J. Russell, Professor of English – St. Mary’s College, “Theorizing the Culture Wars”, 3(3), p. Muse)
My final criticism is that … of liberalism and the left.
Extinction results from this political vacuum
Boggs 97 (Carl, Professor of Political Science – National University, Theory & Society 26, December, p. 773-774)
The decline of the public … had vanished from civil society.75
-- Alt fails – its obscure and rigidly academic nature will never elicit mainstream support
Bryant 97 (John, Professor of English – Hofstra, “Review: Democracy, Being, and the Art of Becoming America”, College English, 59(6), October, p. 705-711)
As bracing as Spanos's subversive ,,, finds a more effective voice.
-- Turn – programs of action:
A) They give up on active problem-solving
Lewandowski 94 (Joseph D., Associate Professor and Philosophy Program Coordinator – The University of Central Missouri, “Heidegger, Literary Theory and Social Criticism”, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Ed. Rasmussen, p. 119)
Spanos rightly rejects the 'textuality' … it can and should be.
B) Suffering results – outweighs ontology
Jarvis 00 (Darryl, Senior Lecturer in International Relations – University of Sydney, International Relations and the Challenge of Postmodernism, p. 128-129)
More is the pity that … who struggle at marginal places.
Genealogy fails – its too divorced from practice
Lewandowski 94 (Joseph D., Associate Professor and Philosophy Program Coordinator – The University of Central Missouri, “Heidegger, Literary Theory and Social Criticism”, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Ed. Rasmussen, p. 115-116)
The point to be made … nor a smoothly functioning diagram (p. 22l).
-- Turn – yardstick:
A) Spanos rejects normative criteria for emancipation
Lewandowski 94 (Joseph D., Associate Professor and Philosophy Program Coordinator – The University of Central Missouri, “Heidegger, Literary Theory and Social Criticism”, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Ed. Rasmussen, p. 117-118)
But radicalized or not, Spanos's … elsewhere) in Heidegger and Criticism.
B) This makes social critique impossible and causes power politics to fill the gap
Best and Kellner 2 (Steven, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Humanities – University of Texas and Douglas, Philosophy of Education Chair – UCLA, “The Postmodern Turn in Philosophy: Theoretical Provocations and Normative Deficits”, )
Foucault denies there can be … into self-defeating value neutrality.
Perm, do both. Supplementing Baudrillard with Derrida creates an impossibility which allows us to rethink singularity in the most productive way.
Hart ‘8 Sally Hart has recently completed a Ph.D. in History at the University of Chichester Volume 5, Number 1 (January, 2008). Jean Baudrillard and Jacques Derrida: At the limits of Thought
This, I would argue, is … being – of life/lives without ends.
