Topic specific Kritiks

Aspects of the topic to be aware ofTechnologyEmpireResource control and useDesirability of human existenceWHY do we want to explore beyond the

mesosphere?

K’s that will get their own lecturesCapitalismColonialismNietzsche

astropoliticsIncluded in the core filesSpace represents a new chance for politics in

societyPlan justifies exploration using the logic of

the old political modeLeads to conflict and exploration

anthropocentrismHumans view themselves as the center of the

universePlan places human as central or more

important than other beings in the universeLeads to exploitation, violence, colonialism,

etc….

Heidegger

HeideggerThe aff relies on/expands technologyTech distorts humans relation to being and

selfLife becomes little more than tech that can

be placed at human’s disposalDestroys value to life

Nazism

Schopenhauer

SchopenhauerEchoes BuddhismTo live is to want, to want is to sufferLack 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

SecurityWe create threats out of things that are not

really threatsPlan is example (asteroids, debris, threats to

hegemonySecuritization leads to perpetual conflict and

extinction

realism

EmpireHardt and Negiri- Empire- 2000Imperialism has done away with nation state

conflictEnemy 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,

Deep EcologyAll lives have equal valueHumans have a destructive impact on the

worldTraveling 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