"The entire universe of objects that can be known scientifically must be formulated as problems in communications engineering (for the managers) or theories of the text (for those who would resist). Both are cyborg semiologies." — Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto
"The age of globalization is the age of universal contagion." — Hardt and Negri, Empire, p.136.
In the case of contemporary athletics, though, this contagion is not referring to increased miscegenation with some "tainted" post-colonial Other, but rather an even more fundamental post-racial binary, which features Pure bodies being contaminated by Polluted bodies.
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.
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. 
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
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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