Kristina+and+Abbie

=**GJHPP CC**=


 * aff questions? email Kristina at curtiss.kristina@gmail.com**


 * neg questions? email Abbie at abigailcrick@gmail.com**


 * we're also more than willing to talk about the Cyborg aff/how it functions if you have questions!**

= **Aff** =

1AC Cyborgs
==== In Western thought, nature is constructed in opposition to the queer—difference is marked as unnatural as a method of ostracizing groups of people ==== Merrick, 8 - PhD History (UWA), Senior lecturer at Curtin University (Helen, “Queering nature: close encounters with the alien in feminist science fiction,” 2008 Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction []

One of the many paradoxes inherent in our use of ‘natures’ AND including how both are variously sexualized.

That mindset causes omnicide
Sedgwick, 8 (Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 2008 The Epistemology of the Closet)//gingE

From at least the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah, AND and thought between minority potentials and universalizing ones be opened and opened and opened?

====Specifically, our orientation towards the ocean is one that posits it as a subject to be examined and dominated instead of something that is living ==== Weinstone, ‘94 (Ann “Resisting Monsters: Notes on "Solaris"” Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 173-190[]) //GY Confused? [])

Solaris begins, like all our stories of rebelling robots, AND the Ocean is both the object of the scientists’ attempts at colonization and a subject which can produce its own rough representations.

====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our subjugation of nature has led to our commodification and oppression of women ==== <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dreese, ’99 - an author and Associate Professor of English at Northern Kentucky University (Donelle N. “The Terrestrial and Aquatic Intelligence of Linda Hogan” pgs. 19-21 []) //GY

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While viewing aspects of the environment with spiritual reverence as nothing less than kin <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">AND <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. If one is not safe, none of us are.

====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Within the novel Solaris, the character Rheya is a figure of the ocean that represents how masculinity is imposed upon the ocean as a method of colonization. Our orientation towards the ocean is one that is dictated by rigid binaries ==== <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Weinstone, ‘94 (Ann “Resisting Monsters: Notes on "Solaris"” Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 173-190[]) //GY

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Rheya. Rheya is the Phi creature the Ocean <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">AND <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">while resisting the Western imperative for what Trinh T. Minh-ha calls “Authenticity as a need to rely on an ‘undisputed origin’” (94).

====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reflection on Solaris allows cyborganization, a proximal logic that avoids classification ==== <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tirado et al, ’99 (Francisco Javier Tirado, José Manuel Alcaraz and Miquel DomèNech “A Change of Episteme for Organizations: A Lesson from Solaris” []) //GY

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The novel explains the story of a planet discovered long ago <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">AND <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">in contrast to this, are based on a mechanism of codification-simulation.

====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cyborgs represent the queer other – we subjugate these “monsters” to reinforce dominant white male heterosexual narratives ==== <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Weinstone, ‘94 (Ann “Resisting Monsters: Notes on "Solaris"” Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 173-190[]) //GY

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our monsters have always resisted us, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">AND <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rheya in Stanislaw Lem's novel Solaris.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Technological fixes make environmental problems worse—we must reject the binaries that come as a result of technological fixes to the environment and we should instead embrace a more personal technological analysis <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Katz, 00 (Eric Katz, associate professor of philosophy and director of the Science, Technology, and Society Program, New Jersey Institute of Technology; recognized pioneer, environmental ethics, 2K, Nature as Subject: Human Obligation and Natural Community)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Even more important <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">AND <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and improve natural processes.

====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Thus Kristina and I resolve to explore the ocean from the figure of the cyborg** ====

====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The cyborg solves binaries and becomes a political tool for liberation ==== <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Miyake, 4 – PhD in Gender and Woman’s studies (Esperanza, Journal of International Women's Studies March 2004 “My, is that Cyborg a little bit Queer?”)//gingE <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The human/animal boundary breakdown is a power(ful) strategy that the queer cyborg practices <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">AND <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">queer cyborgs no longer need to come ‘out’ for they are already there.

====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A singular feminist identity is a tool of masculinity that ultimately allow the subordination of women, which also allows for environmental exploitation. The figure of the cyborg is one that rejects the contrived “unity” of the feminist subject ==== <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Haraway, 91 - Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California (Donna, “A Cyborg Manifesto Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,” in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York; Routledge, 1991), pp 149-181 []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sandoval's argument has to be seen as one potent formulation for feminists out of the world-wide development of anti-colonialist discourse; <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">AND <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">so prophetically ends salvation history.

====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rheya represents the subjugated woman – rejections of oversimplifications are key ==== <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Weinstone, ‘94 (Ann “Resisting Monsters: Notes on "Solaris"” Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 173-190[]) //GY

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.2. Human/non-human/biological entity/machine. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">AND <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and defining have been shut down.

====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Science fiction changes our orientation towards nature as something to be mastered and instead integrates us into the web of the world ==== <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Donawerth, 90 - Professor at the University of Maryland(Jane Donawerth, “Utopian Science: Contemporary Feminist Science Theory and Science Fiction,” pp. 548-550, 1990)//gingE

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Feminist science theorists have shown that male scientists from the seventeenth century on have conceived of nature as a potentially unruly woman to be mastered and penetrated for her secrets. " <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">AND <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">grounded in women's experience and, so, a "labor of love" according to Rose.22

====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Self examination and internal questioning is a prerequisite to deconstructing patriarchy ==== <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Helford, ‘92 (Elyce Rae, Science Fiction Studies is a refereed scholarly journal devoted to the study of the genre of science fiction “"We Are Only Seeking Man": Gender, Psychoanalysis, and Stanislaw Lem's "Solaris"” Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2[]) //GY

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We think of ourselves as the Knights of Holy Contact. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">AND <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lem provides a compelling psychoanalytic study of the human mind and the construction of gender.

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Neg =


 * NEG: **


 * 1NC OSW **

-Consumption K

-HTF

-China CP

-Oil DA

-T "it's"


 * 2NR (2NR the second time was the same strat) **

-Case turns

-PTX


 * 1NC AUVs **

-China SOI

-Military CP

-Midterms

-T "it's"


 * 2NR **

-SOI

-Case turns


 * 1NC Natural Gas **

-Environment DA

-T "it's"

-Manufacturing CP

-China DA on case


 * 2NR **

-Case turns


 * 1NC AUV's **

-Fem IR

-Midterms

-T "ïts"

-Oil DA


 * 2NR **

-Fem IR -Courts CP -PTX (midterms) -Russia Econ DA -China Coal DA -Fem IR -Heg turns -PTX -China Coal DA -T "military" -Military CP -Russia SOI DA -PTX (midterms) -T "military" -Fem IR -DOD CP -PTX (midterms) -T "military" -DOD CP -PTX -PTX (midterms) -Fem IR -China SOI -T "it's" -Dedev -Dedev
 * 1NC Natural Gas**
 * 2NR**
 * 1NC Icebreakers**
 * 2NR**
 * 1NC OTEC**
 * 2NR**
 * 1NC LOST**
 * 2NR**