Biometrics 1AC

Contention one is biometrics

The rise of biometric authentication has allowed civil
society to render black bodies abject we live in an era
where we constantly seeks to map bodies on the
biometric borders of society, justifying the discrimination
and isolation of the marginalized
Browne 9
[Dr. Simone Browne; Digital Epidermalization: Race, Identity and
Biometrics, 138-139
David Lyon suggests that bodily surveillance is not a new phenomenon. He has
illutrated
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a critical rethinking of our moments of contact with our increasingly

technological border.

Racialization is the foundation for newer biometric

techniques from branding, finger printing emerges as
the new mechanism for colonial powers to map, govern
and control the Negro
Maguire 12
[Mark Maguire; Biopower, racialization and new security technology, 596598]
William Herschels The origin of fingerprinting (1916), written just prior to his death
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institutional and individual racism. (Cole, 2007, pp. 258259)

All attempts to digitize blackness have failed- in particular

biotechnological innovations continue to ignore the
complexity of blackness and gender only adopting a
critical biometric consciousness attunes us to ways black
bodies disrupt the project of whiteness and digital
epidermilization
Browne 13
[Dr. Simone Browne; Dark Sousveillance: Race, Surveillance, and
Resistance, a talk given on December 9, 2013, hosted at the Graduate
Center, CUNY by the Digital Praxis Seminar and the CUNY Digital Humanities
Initiative; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsMFdiLsqbg, 26:08-33:51,
video published March 21, 2014; transcribed by Ameena Ruffin]

Simply put,

biometrics is the idea that the body will reveal the truth

about
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or on the part of those who read these templates to make decisions .

The policing practices enabled by surveillance used in

chattel slavery were not abolished with it they were
extended into the anti-black penal state; codifying the
black body as criminal this has resulted in virtual
probation and civil death. This is the ontoexistential
death of the black body.
Hart 13 (William David, Professor and head of Religion, Ethics and Politics,
PH.D at Princeton University, Lextington Books, Pursuing Trayvon Martin:
Hstorical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics, P.
92-100)
No one has explored the concept of social death more thoroughly than
Orlando Patterson.
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to see the obvious: the reality of white supremacy and racial stigma.

Contention two is Pedagogy-Dominant forms of language and ideas around us form us

as subjects within the nation state. These narratives
prime us to allow for atrocities against those we consider
lesser only a reinvention of the vocabulary of society
can construct a new way of knowing. The first step to
effectuating real world change is to start with the subject
Scott 9 prof of philosophy @ Vanderbilt
(Charles, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 34: 350367, Foucault,
Genealogy, Ethics)

In Foucaults analysis of the May 1968 uprising in France, he said that even
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should I affirm what is happening in the margins of my established identity?

Thus, vote affirmative to endorse the resolution through a

critical biometric consciousness as an act of epistemic
disobedience to state fantasy. Rather than utilizing the
same hegemonic narrative that justified the segregation
and social death of the black body, we choose to engage
in a critical investigation of those epistemologies as a
resistance.
Only the rupturing of the dominant narrative of power and
knowledge can we create counter framings to ingrained
ideologies
Browne 13
[Dr. Simone Browne; Dark Sousveillance: Race, Surveillance, and
Resistance, a talk given on December 9, 2013, hosted at the Graduate
Center, CUNY by the Digital Praxis Seminar and the CUNY Digital Humanities
Initiative; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsMFdiLsqbg, 36:30-41:08,
video published March 21, 2014; transcribed by Ameena Ruffin]
Popular cultural representations of surveillance are some of the ways in which the public
comes
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technology is itself constitutive of the power relations existing in

that very technology.

Starting with blackness reveals the contradictions of

modernity and is PARTICULARLY disruptive to the very
rationality that upholds an anti-black colonial system of
modernity without this analysis any other strategy
obscures and enables insidious white supremacy
Maldonado-Torres 7 (Nelson, Department of Ethnic Studies at UC
Berkeley PhD, Religious Studies with a Certificate for Outstanding Work in
Africana Studies, Brown University, BA, Philosophy, University of Puerto Rico,
On the Coloniality of Being,
http://www.decolonialtranslation.com/english/maldonado-on-the-colonialityof-being.pdf)
What is the coloniality of being? The concept of

the coloniality of Being is

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imposed limits by the cruel reality of damnation or the naturalization
of war.

tThe 1AC opens up space for counter-histories that

subvert hegemonic knowledge as acts of resistance to
domination
Medina 2k11[Jose Medina is a Professor at Vanderbilt University, Toward Foucaultian
Epistemology of Resistance,
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/philosophy/_people/faculty_files/_medinafoucaultstudies.pdf [Edited for
potentially ableist language]

Official histories are produced by monopolizing knowledge-producing practices with

respect to a shared
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and exaction when it is seen from the viewpoint of the new discourse?

We are a rupture in current narrative Us action

continues the dominant historical narrative of white
supremacy in all academia
Trofanenko 2k5 [Brenda-, Research Chair in Education, Culture and Community @ Acadia
University; On Defense of the Nation; THE SOCIAL STUDIES, 96.5 (2005): 193+;
http://go.galegroup.com.proxy.binghamton.edu/ps/i.do?id=GALE
%7CA139957613&v=2.1&u=bingul&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w]
Knowing how

history is a site of political struggle, how we engage with social

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rather an opportunity for genuine productive study, discussion, and learning.