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1. Colin Wellum says:
   November 29th, 2007

   We are mindless fools that need to be entertained 24/7. Even as I type this my brain is bored and is leaving all sense of consciousness behind. When you go to the gym, you see people that are not the exercise machines as we like to think of them to be. The machine-like image is driven into our heads from all types of mediums. We view ourselves as we have socially learned/accepted ourselves to look like- whether true or false; hence the mindless fools. We as mindless fools have numbed senses that make us blind to the guided social learning, as Marx might possibly agree with based on his Conflict theory. Therefore, we are no better than hamsters running on our wheel until we are told what is appropriate to do next.

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sportsBabel examines the aesthetics, politics and poetics of sport and physical culture, weaving between materiality, information, intuition and intellect. The notes posted here should be understood as emerging from an ongoing program of research-creation.
 
Threads of inquiry include: the security-entertainment complex and the militarization of sport; mediated sport as a spectrum of interactive possibility; the experiential qualities of postmodern sporting spaces; the cyborg body athletic manifest as mobile social subject; and the potential politics of a sporting multitude.
 
sportsBabel is produced by Sean Smith, a writer and artist from Toronto and a doctoral student at the European Graduate School of Media and Communications in Switzerland. Also a lecturer at various universities in Canada (curriculum vitae), his dissertation is titled "On Performing the University of Disaster."

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Global Village Basketball is an internationally-networked game of pickup basketball that first took place on June 10, 2009. It is also part of a doctoral project by Sean Smith on networked sport and community politics.

• When is Finitude?
• modes, nodes, electrodes
• The Imagined Architecture of Homo Transludens
• gesture, intellect, virtuosity?
• Unlayering
• Collective Forgetting
• Bodies
• Not Global
• imaging, imagining
• Abstract Diagrams
• Global Village Basketball 2009
• agon, arete, assembly
• Trajectory of a Shooting Star
• On Massumi's Logic of Relation: Rules
• biological rhythms, vectoralism, meshworks
• touch, politics, dance
• One and Many Basketball Players
• Multitude of Multitudes
• Global Village Basketball: June 10, 2009
• workers, consumers, multitude
• Simulation, Replication, Improvisation
• Virtuous Basketball
• Embodiment and Exaggeration
• Diagonals, Pulses, Politics
• Games, Force, Emergence
• GVB and Holey Space
• Solid and Gas
• Globalization and/or Mondialisation
• GVB and Rhizomatics
• GVB and BwO
• GVB and the Three Lines of D+G
• Mecca and the Soul Brother(s)
• Warmest Wishes
• Governing Dynamics
• conceptualizing:// networked_performance
• Flea, Basketball and Democracy
• Transcending Specialization
• Inclusivity and the GVB Singularity
• Networked Basketball Confounds
• Thou Art We, GVB
• Open Source Business
• Meta Versus Mega
• The Subversion of Score
• The Anti-Olympics
• Non-Identity and GVB
• In(Sub?)verted Architecture
• The Global Village Scoreboard
• GVB Initial Feedback
• Formula
• Formula
• Lobbying for the Global Basketball Court
• Planning for the Global Basketball Court
• The Blacktop at the Global Village, Part II

department of biological flow

The Department of Biological Flow is a project of research-creation by Sean Smith and Barbara Fornssler exploring the concept of the moving human body as it is integrated with broader information networks of signal and noise.

The reference is from George Lucas' epic 1971 movie, THX 1138, in which a state-controlled intensification of communication processes manages every facet of daily life in a futuristic society, regulating the flux of all human subjects in work, leisure and love.

Though the Department exists in homage to Lucas’ vision, our consideration of biological flow seeks to reinvigorate the agency of the human subject in its negotiations with economic and political structures both material and immaterial.
 
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