Dexter+-+Three+Ecologies

This is a performance aff based on Guattari's "Three Ecologies"

1AC What we have forgotten is the poetics of our existence, of song and unfolding dream and the reasons that all around the world exploitation and pollution and human darkness continues – it is not for lack of a specific policy by a specific government, but for a lack of contemplation of our fundamental assumptions which shape our action, that is, for a lack of meditative thought. Nuclear war and environmental catastrophe and a forgetting of our humanity are inevitable in such a world. So here is a poem named "PONDER AWHILE" By Mohit. K. Misra

Mother Earth actually looks after me, She neither expects nor charges a fee.

Every year fresh fruits she provides to eat, For those fruits, one another man will beat.

So much water is there for us all, For water it often becomes an ugly brawl.

A tiny insect on her I am, Feeding me with her assorted jam.

Man keeps beating her with his big bombs, When will he realize that she is alive and that it is wrong?

Her we must begin to appreciate, Immediately before it gets too late.

From our puny race she will defend herself, You are just begging her to annihilate yourself.

And Here's a poem by my partner: interconnection, interaction, interdependence. Passing organsisms sow the seed of our subjectivity, surroundings, and sociality Blooming into beauty; complex but intimate. We as humyns burn that blossom and thus ecology is ashen. stop, to ponder the flaming plant. this firey seed of our destruction, doom. and resurrection.

We are facing massive changes in our life, absent an ethico-political articulation between mental, social, and environmental ecology called ecosophy we will be threatened with extinction. Felix Guattari, Psychoanalyst and Philosopher, 1989, Translated by Ian Pindar and Paul Sutton, "The Three Ecologies", Pg. 27-28

Much like professor Challenger's attempt to make himself known to the earth we have drilled deep into the earth and taken the oil, because of this we are on the brink of ecocide as we disrupt a delicate and ancient ecosystem. Ian Pindar and Paul Sutton, 2000, Translators of The Three Ecologies, "Introduction to The Three Ecologies", Pg. 1-3

This relationship with nature has led to massive losses and we could lose our place on earth without a change. Because of the capitalistic drive for profit we have plundered our natural resources and forced many into extreme poverty. Ian Pindar and Paul Sutton, 2000, Translators of The Three Ecologies, "Introduction to The Three Ecologies", Pg. 4-5

We must take into account all parts of the ecological crisis. Our current situation has led to poverty, the imminent danger nuclear accidents and the stockpiling of nuclear weapons. Felix Guattari, Psychoanalyst and Philosopher, 1989, Translated by Ian Pindar and Paul Sutton, "The Three Ecologies", Pg. 28-29

For want of ecosophy we will continually see more and more oppression. Felix Guattari, Psychoanalyst and Philosopher, 1989, Translated by Ian Pindar and Paul Sutton, "The Three Ecologies", Pg. 35

We affirm that The United States federal government should increase alternative energy incentives in the United States.

Our interpretation of alternative energy is energy not from fossil fuels Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2001, "Glossary," online: [|http://www.grida.no/climate/ ipcc_tar/wg3/454.htm], accessed July 13, 2008 Alternative energy Energy derived from non-fossil fuel sources.

Our affirmation serves as not as a normative statement but instead as an act of art, a vision of an ecosophical paradigm.

We should return to aesthetic paradigms, we need to act like artists in order to reinvent the performance that is our lives. Ian Pindar and Paul Sutton, 2000, Translators of The Three Ecologies, "Introduction to The Three Ecologies", Pg. 12

We need to articulate new social and aesthetic practices, only through this multifaceted movement can we avert the risk that there will be no more human history. Felix Guattari, Psychoanalyst and Philosopher, 1989, Translated by Ian Pindar and Paul Sutton, "The Three Ecologies", Pg. 67-68

Ecology can create action. Felix Guattari and Toni Negri, Psychoanalyst/Philosopher and Philosopher, 1985, Translated by Michael Ryan, "Communists Like Us", Pg. 94-95

There is a rupture in the system now that makes the catalysts of change close at hand. Felix Guattari, Psychoanalyst and Philosopher, 1989, Translated by Ian Pindar and Paul Sutton, "The Three Ecologies", Pg. 45

Change can start on the smallest level Felix Guattari, Psychoanalyst and Philosopher, 1989, Translated by Ian Pindar and Paul Sutton, "The Three Ecologies", Pg. 69

We must act in our own life first, singular events are what activate changes Ian Pindar and Paul Sutton, 2000, Translators of The Three Ecologies, "Introduction to The Three Ecologies", Pg. 9