Spanos K

Spanos K

1NC Round 5 UCO vs Wyoming Ballard-Marcum

The affirmative plan parallels the senior Bush administration’s attempt to “kick the Vietnam syndrome.” By labeling Islamophobia as an aberration caused by American neurosis to be fixed by reform, the affirmative returns legitimacy to the American project of world ordering. This “forgetting of Vietnam” crushes reform and allows the dominant culture to continue its hegemonic rule under a guise of rehabilitating America.

Spanos 2K (William, Prof of English and Comparative Literature at Binghamtom University, America’s Shadow, pg 141-144)

With this symbolic denouement, the “wound” suffered by “America” ...to hegemonize a demonic representation of this (self-)disclosure. 

Our role in this round is as oppositional intellectuals. Our renunciation of the affirmative plan discloses the tie between Occidental thought and imperialism, opening up space to rethink thinking and to form a politics free from the affirmative’s imperial tendencies. 

Spanos 2K (William, Prof of English and Comparative Literature at Binghamtom University, America’s Shadow, pg 204-206)

In the face of this triumphalist ontological representation ...where imbalance of power – and injustice – always rules.  

Vote negative to refuse the affirmative and refuse intervention – this challenges the hegemony of pragmatism that the affirmative champions

Spanos 2008, The Specter of Vietnam, pg 27-30

On the other hand, I do not want to suggest that the theoretical perspective...efficiently administering the Roman Empire in the name of the Pax Romana.

Alt Round 6 UNT vs Kansas BS

The alternative is to reject the affirmative in favor of a broader questioning of western ontology 

This is key. The imperial consciousness of America reduces being to calculated problems to be managed and subjected to final solutions for the sake of the world picture. Without this rethinking, it is impossible to resist the technological thinking that reduces all life to a disposable reserve.

Spanos 2K (William, Prof of English and Comparative Literature at Binghamtom University, America’s Shadow, pg 191-193)

What I have argued in this book about the relationship..., has tacitly reduced opposition to a resonant silence.