Rank and File

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."

burned bubbbling

Neo-Vorticist Assemblage

haemoglobalization

Performing the Archives

genetic mutation (escape codes)

REW: A Descriptive and Notable Evolution in Information Compression
FWD: Weld On

• 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

sportsBabel, a confusion of voices spoken by Sean Smith, is created using WordPress. Love and respect are due to Blogger, which helped me get my start in blogging.
 
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