Barbaric Sport
A Global Plague
«Bracingly bilious counterblast against the new 'planetary religion.'»
Independent
Marc Perelman pulls no punches in this succinct and searing essay against the global phenomenon of sport, which he describes as both a "recent form of savagery" and "the opium of the people." The charges leveled against sport are damning and numerous: sport is an instrument for racism and the bolstering of repression, with global events such as the Olympics used to legitimize major political crackdowns; doping must be understood as an imperative rather than an aberration of sport. Les mer
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Marc Perelman pulls no punches in this succinct and searing essay against the global phenomenon of sport, which he describes as both a "recent form of savagery" and "the opium of the people." The charges leveled against sport are damning and numerous: sport is an instrument for racism and the bolstering of repression, with global events such as the Olympics used to legitimize major political crackdowns; doping must be understood as an imperative rather than an aberration of sport. Most ominously, with its location at the very center of the society of the spectacle, globalization, and the liberal-capitalist system, the phenomenon of sport has become a new world power and an immense destructive force, a steamroller of decadent modernity.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Verso Books
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 144
- ISBN
- 9781844678594
- Utgivelsesår
- 2012
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
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«Bracingly bilious counterblast against the new 'planetary religion.'»
Independent
«The work of stirring polemic that all of us who were picked last for teams at school have been waiting for.»
Nick Lezard, Guardian
«A provocatively timed polemic that situates today's mass sporting spectacle at the very heart of globalised capitalism.»
Rod Stanley, Dazed and Confused
«Perelman's claim that sport "becomes the sole project of a society without projects" rings uncomfortably true as austerity-hit Britain prepares to host a lavish Olympics.»
Financial Times
«French journalist Marc Perelaman argues ... ruthless[ly] ... agaist an emerging kind of barbarism.»
Book News
«Marc Perelman has written a magnificent manifesto for all of us dedicated anti-Olympiads, revealing in compelling detail how sport, which has long been the opium of the people, is now the political and financial dirty business of the rulers as well.»
Terry Eagleton
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