2. Aspects of the topic to be aware of Technology Empire Resource control and use Desirability of human existence WHY do we want to explore beyond the mesosphere?

3. K’s that will get their own lectures Capitalism Colonialism Nietzsche

4. astropolitics Included in the core files Space represents a new chance for politics in society Plan justifies exploration using the logic of the old political mode Leads to conflict and exploration

5. anthropocentrism Humans view themselves as the center of the universe Plan places human as central or more important than other beings in the universe Leads to exploitation, violence, colonialism, etc….

6. Heidegger

7. The aff relies on/expands technology Tech distorts humans relation to being and self Life becomes little more than tech that can be placed at human’s disposal Destroys value to life Nazism

8. Schopenhauer

9. Echoes Buddhism To live is to want, to want is to suffer Lack 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

10. Security We create threats out of things that are not really threats Plan is example (asteroids, debris, threats to hegemony Securitization leads to perpetual conflict and extinction realism

11. Empire Hardt and Negiri- Empire- 2000 Imperialism has done away with nation state conflict Enemy 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,

12. Deep Ecology All lives have equal value Humans have a destructive impact on the world Traveling 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