The affirmative is confined within a dominant discourse of space control their discourse of astropolitical control reflects their elevation

n of technology over politics. Grondin, 6 [David Grondin, Lecturer in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, 2006, The (Power) Politics of Space: What IR Theories have to say about American Astro-Political Discourses on Space Weaponisation, Paper Presented At The Annual Meeting Of The International Studies Association, March 25th, Available Online via All Academic athttp://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/0/9/8/6/7/p98679_index.html, Accessed 10-26-2008, p. 25-26] This line of argument is usually linked to technological capacitiesAND or reject it. I choose the latter. The affirmative is wed to a dangerous technological rationality that depoliticizes society and eliminates constraints on genocidal violence the constant preparedness for war embodied in the affirmatives call for space control should be rejected in order to inject democratic accountability into space policy. Grondin, 7 [David Grondin, Lecturer in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, 2007, The US Religion of Technology in the Weaponization of Outer Space? A Case for Technological Atheism and Resisting Space War, Paper Presented At The Annual Meeting Of The International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, February 28th, Available Online via All Academic athttp://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/ 1/7/8/9/4/p178946_index.html, Accessed 10-26-2008, p. 9-13] When turning to US national security state technocracy applied to AND thus calls for a reconceptualised politics of technology. Simulations of space policy are not neutral the discourse of the affirmative actively constructs the reality they purport to act upon, necessitating critical interrogation of the 1ac. Grondin, 6 [David Grondin, Lecturer in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, 2006, The (Power) Politics of Space: What IR Theories have to say about American Astro-Political Discourses on Space Weaponisation, Paper Presented At The Annual Meeting Of The International Studies Association, March 25th, Available Online via All Academic athttp://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/0/9/8/6/7/p98679_index.html, Accessed 10-26-2008, p. 11-13]

To theorize about the relationships of politics and spaces, AND state" when acting for its national security.
Specifically, our alternative is to criticize the affirmatives call for space control from our position as outsiders to the discourse of astropolitik. Engaging in criticism of Astropolitik is vital to re-politicize space interrogating affirmative discourse is the most effective strategy for resistance. Grondin, 7 [David Grondin, Lecturer in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, 2007, The US Religion of Technology in the Weaponization of Outer Space? A Case for Technological Atheism and Resisting Space War, Paper Presented At The Annual Meeting Of The International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, February 28th, Available Online via All Academic athttp://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/ 1/7/8/9/4/p178946_index.html, Accessed 10-26-2008, p. 23-26]

If it is beyond challenge that technology is the medium AND vision of technology in US space power politics.