1. The K.
Luis M. Andrade
ADI, 2014

2. What is it? Why do we critique?
What is a kritik? Why do we critique?
-Philosophical inquiry has a long tradition of criticizing values, assumptions, beliefs, and attitudes in society, government, economics, etc.
- An argument that tests the assumptions of the affirmative
- There is a difference between kritiks of the plan vs. kritiks of the advantages (pre and post-fiat)
What is it? Why do we critique?

5. Impact(s)/Implications. Alternative. DAs.
The Structure.
Link(s).
Impact(s)/Implications.
Alternative.
DAs.
The Structure.
- Link(s).
- Impact(s)/Implications.
- Alternative.
- Kritiks include disads (linear links and impacts) and/or counterplans (alternatives).
-Some teams will win entire disads to the affirmative without winning a good alternative.
-Some teams will win a good alternative, but may not have good disadvantages to the affirmative.
CPs.

6. Metaphysics & Ontology.
The Types.
Representation.
Metaphysics & Ontology.
Epistemology & Methodology.
The Types.
***Notice that some “types” interact with each other.***
Representation: what we say about and how we depict reality.
Ontology/ethics: study of being, values, and morality.
Epistemology: study of why we KNOW the things we know.
Language: words and expressions that we use to describe, characterize.
Language.

7. Let’s Now Analyze the Topic
Resolved: The United States should legalize all or nearly all of one or more of the following in the United States: marihuana, prostitution, online gambling, the sale of human organs, physician assisted suicide.
Examples on this topic:
REPRESENTATION: The affirmative depicts women as victims of prostitution as a justification to legalize/do the plan.
ONTOLOGY/ETHICS: The affirmative depends on the system of medicine to govern how we live life. The affirmative glorifies the legal system as the best way to create freedom.
EPISTEMOLOGY: Your understanding of the world comes from a white perspective; in fact, all knowledge, scientific reasoning, and legal understandings come from white perspectives.
LANGUAGE: You used the word prostitute, which is offensive. You should use the phrase “sex worker” instead.

8. Examples on the topic. Topic Specific Kritiks: Anthropocentrism K’s—
-Positivism: the scientific method is the best way to know anything
-Empiricism: data derived through historical, scientific, and social scientific methods is the best way to know anything. We have to be able to see things to verify them.
Feminism: should pay attention to gender. Patriarchy is bad. Feminist approach or movement is good.
Marxism: class conflict is the root cause of all conflict. Capitalism is bad. Revolution or Marxist criticism is good.
Racism: racism is the root cause of all evil. Should reject it in every instance.
Nietzsche: problematizing and attempting to change the world comes from our desire to master it
-This is self-defeating and nihilistic.
-We should reject the affirmative’s call to action.
Militarism/statism: Power lies in the state. The affirmative gives it more power. The state is super violent and bad. So is the military.
Psychoanalysis and psychology K’s: concerned with all kinds of things, including identity, truth, ethics, capitalism, the root causes of violence
-Lacan
-Zizek
Identity K’s: Materialist – concerned with identities that are based on something ‘real’ that one can point to OR
Power K’s:
Foucault: Philosophy of history and philosophy of power
-Concerned with historical construction of identity through different practices
-Genealogy and rejection of teleology
-Sovereign (king), disciplinary (prison), bio-power (control over life of populations)
-Power is neutral. There are resistances. We should find the cracks and fissures in the structure of power in order to subvert it.
Examples on the topic.

9. Answering the K.
(F)POSTAL

10. El Fin.