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Their focus on a shared responsibility and commensurate public spaces aggregates society, effacing difference and occluding

alternative visions of politics, turning the case. Michael Shapiro, 1997 Bowling Blind, Theory & Event 1:1 ³Putnam offers some

compelling observations; the data´

K ± Death of the Public

The aff is part of a modern project that encourages us to find political refuge in reflections of our private lives. This self-absorptionmakes it impossible for us to establish guiding principles for our interactions with the world. Their demand that we negotiate the

 public sphere through our intimate relations cannot serve as a vehicle for liberation.

Richard Sennett The Fall of Public Man pg 3-5 1974

Today, public life has also become«.be stale and empty

Their connection of political engagement as self-centered and autonomous act is a fundamental premise of the neoliberal pedagogy. It

chokes off the development of collective social agents and galvanizes an authoritarian politics that makes us complicitous with the

 brutalizing logic of the market

Giroux 5 ³Cultural Studies in Dark Times: Public Pedagogy and the Challenge of Neoliberalism´ Fast Capitalism

 __http://www.henryagiroux.com /online_articles/DarkTimes.htm__  

 Neoliberalism as public pedagogy«.brutalizing logic of the marketThis self centeredness will unleash the most brutalizing forces of capitalism. We must resist their pedagogy of narcissism because it

will dismantle the state¶s ability resist authoritarianism and fascismGiroux 4 ± ³Public Pedagogy and the Politics of Neoliberalism: Making the political more pedagogical´ Policy Futures in education

Volume 2, numbers 3& 4 2004

In its capacity to dehistoricize«.the possibility of democracy itself.The divestiture of the state reduces it to a replica of the market. The result is a moral Darwinism where our personal preservation can

only be secured by actively persuing the destruction of all others.

Giroux 01 ³Mis/Education and Zero Tolerance: Disposable Youth and the Politics of Domestic Militarization´ boundary 2 28:3 2001

These articles reflect and perpetuate in«.the messages of popular culture are becoming more brutally competitive

Additionally, the reign of neoliberalism sets the stage for the militarization of every aspect of our lives. Shared responsibility is

abandoned for an ever expanding war of all against all

Giroux 5 (above)We live at a time«.a war of all against all over even the most limited notions of solidarity and collective struggle.Their pedagogy lacks the moral vision and vocabulary needed to establish a pedagogical praxis and collective resistance. A pedagogyof intervention would reject the notion that we can understand social problems without investing ourselves in collective political

action while simultaneously opposing neoliberal attempts to supplant an open society with a fundamentalist authoritarian social order 

that will leave a legacy of war, torture, poverty and violence across the globe

Giroux 5 (above)From a pedagogy of understand to a pedagogy of intervention«.and collective resistance

We must recognize the role pedagogy palys in influencing the knowledge and identities we produce. You must privilege our call for 

an intellectual interrogation of their pedagogy because your responsibility as educators cannot be separated from the consequences of 

the knowledge we produce. The pedagogical undegrirding of the 1ac will directly inform the way we engage other members of the

 polis.Giroux 4 (above)

Pedagogy looms large in all of these«.whenever and wherever possible