Only by pursuing a radical critique on the intellectual, social, affective, sexual and psychic levels can you find any way to break through the soft consensus of normality and discover something worth living for.
sportsBabel
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.
You are currently browsing the sportsBabel weblog archives for August, 2004. 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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academia
adidas
Agamben
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archivization
art
asides
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athletics
baseball
basketball
Baudrillard
Benjamin
blogs
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camera
celebrity
cellphone
chess
China
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cyborgism
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dance
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Empire
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fitness
football
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free play
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gambling
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Global Village Basketball
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micropolitics
motion capture
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Olympics
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panhapticism
parkour
peace
pedagogy
poetry
politics
post-fordism
proximity
psychogeography
race+ethnicity
relationality
remix culture
rhythm
risk
ritual
semiotics
simulation
Situationism
skateboarding
sketchbook
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soccer
spectacle
speech
sport as war
sport econometrics
sports videogames
stereoscopics
surfing
surgery
surveillance
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telepresence
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timing systems
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Virilio
Virno
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WADA
warfare
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- Rare Leg Reversal Turns Little Leaguer’s Life Around
- Erik Malinowski, Playbook: The Wired World of Sports - Chrissie Wellington on the charge and other marathon stats
- Ross Tucker and Jonathan Dugas, The Science of Sport - Kronum: The Unholy Basketball/Quidditch/Soccer Mashup
- Erik Malinowski, Playbook - Ground Conditioning
- Geoff Manaugh, BLDGBLOG - 12-Year-Old Girl May Embody McEnroe’s Vision for U.S. Tennis
- Harvey Araton, NYTimes.com - King David
- Bethlehem Shoals, Tablet Magazine - The Miley Collection: National treasure bound for D.C.
- Mike Dodd, USA TODAY - Barcelona, Manchester United: Is there enough parity in international soccer?
- Brian Phillips, Slate - Outdoor gyms start to find their fit
- Leah Sandals, OpenFile Toronto - Super Bowl XLV: Selling football as America
- Jeff MacGregor, ESPN
global village basketball
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.
www.departmentofbiologicalflow.net
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