“Strange things are afoot
at the circle k…”
--Ted Theodore Logan
Critiques/Kritiks
Baxter
MDAW 2012
Kritiks vs. Disads
Uniqueness
Links
•Causality
•AB
Impacts
Kritiks vs. Counterplans
• Fiat
• Permutations
Kritiks vs. Counterplans (2)
• Value to Life
• Why every kritik is the
same
• Why should language
matter
Kritiks vs. Counterplans (3)
• Do we need an alt?
By Lav
Framework=filter
Dumb Framework
Aff: the Neg can
only read a CP or
advocate the status
quo
Neg: the judge
should only listen to
kritiks!
Why is this dumb?
•
No “best type” of argument
•Aff is whiny
•Is necessarily not “real world”
Smart framework!!
Interpretation of
knowledge vs
interpretation of
arguments
Smart framework examples
Only evaluate
impacts that have
been justified
[read cards why
marxism is a way to
justify impacts]
More Smart Framework
Aff: Only evaluate
impacts that are
justified
[read cards about
why social science is
the best]
Framework Cheating!
Allows you to not
answer arguments
on the aff and the
neg and or
Beat people JUST
on framework
General Vocab
reify
elide
conflate
utopia/dystopia
Dichotomy
•us/them, self/other, inside/outside
General Vocab(2)
otherization
normalization
normative v. descriptive
objective v. subjective
subject
cooptation
Kritik/Philosophy Words
enlightenment
rationality
modernism
Ontology
Epistemology
Ethics
Kritik/Philosophy Words
Deontology
Utilitarianism
Ideology
Discourse
Economics
capitalism
Marxism
Socialism
Anarchy
Commodification/commodity
Fetish
Empire (Hardt/Negri)
Multitude
Proletariat
Bourgeois
Objectivism (Rand)
Frankfurt School (Adorno, Marcuse)
International Relations
Realism
Idealism
Securitization/Environmental Securitization
Eurocentrism
Occident
Orientalism
Self Fulfilling Prophecy/Error Replication
Nuclearism
Nuclear Numbing
Chaloupka/Love the Bomb
Development
Global/Local (Nayer)
Human Rights K
Identity Politics
Identity Politics
Waves of Feminism: 1 st, 2nd, 3rd
Feminist International Relations
Public/Private Dichotomy
Patriarchy
3rd World Feminism
Ecofeminism
Performativity (Butler)
Sex v. Gender
Heteropatriarchy
Identity Politics (2)
Heterosexism/Homophobia
Phallocentrism
Phallogocentrism
Standpoint Epistomology
Subaltern (Spivak)
Essentialism
Strategic Essentialism
Intersectionality
Victimology
Narratives (Delgado)
Violence (Fanon)
Legal
Critical Race Theory
Critical Legal Studies
Indeterminacy
Masking
Trashing
Normativity (Schlag)
Role Playing
Rights Talk
Foucault
power
discipline
micropolitics
panopticon
geneaology
death of the author
repressive hypothesis
confessional
bare life
Homo Sacer (Agamben)
State of exception
Biopower
Derrida
logocentrism
trace
erasure
deconstruction
differance
Psychoanalysis
psychoanalysis
Freud
Lacan
Zizek
Metaphoric condensation
Letter of the law
Symptom
Lack
Fidelity to the Event (Badiou)
Jouissance
Desire
Object A