Spanos
The affirmative’s glorification of US action in the face of unending atrocity takes the rhetorical form as a jeremiad. Just as the puritans recorded their benevolent treatment of natives only to justify atrocity towards those who resist, the US will use the plan as a justification for colonial gain
SPANOS 2008 [William V, Professor at Binghamton, American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization: The Specter of Vietnam, SUNY Press 2008, 207-209]
Daniel Webster's Bunker Hill … what the pioneers of the Battle of Bunker Hill accomplished.
Specifically, US democratic assistance is done to sustain the imperial global reach of the US. Creating more democratic states improves our oil interests and allows us to manipulate governments in our favor.
Mohamad G. Alkadry, West Virginia University 2002. RECITING COLONIAL SCRIPTS: COLONIALISM, GLOBALIZATION AND DEMOCRACY IN THE DECOLONIZED MIDDLE EAST. Found in Administrative Theory & Praxis Vol. 24, No. 4, 2002: 739–762 P 750-752
The foreign aid provided by the United States …. Middle East even after achieving national independence.
Vietnam ruptured the American national identity - we occupied a world that resisted the spontaneous consent to the “truth” of liberal democracy. This way of forgetting being has led us to a point where American exceptionalism will destroy the planet.
SPANOS 2008 [William V, Professor at Binghamton, American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization: The Specter of Vietnam, SUNY Press 2008,]
In this book I contend that the consequence of …for rethinking the very idea of America.
There knowledge production strengthens hegemony; as object truth becomes a tool of DOMINANT culture to certify it’s power. This means authors write in favor of imperialism because they can sell more copies.
Spanos, 8 (William, V. Prof. of English @ Binghampton) “American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization.” P 58-60
As this brief summary suggests by way of … side of the myth of American exceptionalism.
OUR ALTERNATIVE IS TO DO NOTHING IN THE FACE OF THE AFFIRMATIVE‘S IMPERIAL STRATEGY.
This FRUSTRATES THE LOGIC OF IMPERIALISM BY REFUSING TO BE ANSWERABLE TO AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM. THIS PRAXIS ENABLES US TO PLACE ONTOLOGICAL QUESTIONS ABOUT THE WORLD AS A PRIOR CONCERN TO THE AFF‘S DEMANDS THUS MAKING A RETHINKING OF IMPERIALISM POSSIBLE.
SPANOS 2000 [William, America‘s Shadow, p 197-202]
If, however, we forcibly dislocate the pervasive, …are "against theory" because it is foreign to American culture.19
Derrida
The claim that the judge has an ethical responsibility to vote Aff is mired in a fundamental paradox. The more ethics is subordinated to knowledge, theories, and rules, the less the individual agent appears as a responsible actor.
Thurschwell, Assistant Professor of Law @ Cleveland State University, 2001
[Adam, Law/Text/Culture, 2001, 5. L.T.C. 271.]
Derrida addresses the consequences … calculable program to guide this decision.
The paradox of ethical action pervades the realm of international politics. The language of diplomacy, war, and politics is incapable of investing an Aff ballot with ethical significance because of this paradox.
Derrida – Director of Studies @ The School for The Advanced Social Sciences – 1995
(Gift of Death, trans. David Willis).
This applies all the more … a display of good conscience.
Our Alternative:
Our argument engages the Aff decision to calculate ethical action. Our alternative conception of the ballot locates ethical justification for the plan as an leap of faith and represents the condition for the possibility of ethics itself.
Our alternative captures the 100% of the plan and its pragmatic effects and competes by critiquing their decision to link the justification of the plan to a claim to knowledge, theory, or rule.
Our argument cannot be reduced to a simple call for the rejection of all calculation, knowledge, theories, or rules. To the contrary, calculation is inevitable and necessary for most of our activities.
Thurschwell, Professor of Law @ Cleveland State University, 2003
[Cardozo Law Review, March, 2003, 24 Cardozo L. Rev. 1193]
In each case, these motifs and … inherent avenir of political justice.
Only the Neg conception of the ballot can give ethical content to the decision to act. The Aff strips action of its claim to ethics and responsibility – it is irresponsible and anti-ethical to the core.
Derrida – Director of Studies @ School for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences – 1995
(Gift of Death, trans. David Willis).
To "subordinate responsibility …, for freedom and for decision.
The logic of the Aff’s ethical appeal treats the future as a plannable event that can be known and mastered. This move decouples ethics from its messianic potential and culminates in catastrophe. Only the Neg conception of the ethical decision has the capacity to resist the most horrid forms of historical Messianism.
John D. Caputo, Cook Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, 1997
[Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida, ed. w/ commentary by Caputo, pages 156-164 ]
It is clear to anyone with a Jewish ear, to …. property of some chosen people.
