http://www.sportsbabel.net/2007/09/keeping-pace-with-sight.htm disconnect in the sportocracy Mon, 21 May 2012 18:38:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.sportsbabel.net/2007/09/keeping-pace-with-sight.htm/comment-page-1#comment-233141 sportsBabel » Pixel to Pellicule to Projection Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:08:52 +0000 http://www.sportsbabel.net/2007/09/keeping-pace-with-sight.htm#comment-233141 [...] That the sporting event actually exists is the first layer in the carefully constructed apparatus of truth that is contemporary televised sport. This truth possesses a digital representation, inscription, transmission and storage, but what it wants is its legitimation, which it finds in the flesh relation of those analog bodies located at either end of the communication channel and its endless loop (cf. Massumi, "On the Superiority of the Analog"). It is the spectator at the stadium who provides this fleshy legitimation to the televiewer at home, a last gasp for real space to roar in a relation dominated by real time. [...] [...] That the sporting event actually exists is the first layer in the carefully constructed apparatus of truth that is contemporary televised sport. This truth possesses a digital representation, inscription, transmission and storage, but what it wants is its legitimation, which it finds in the flesh relation of those analog bodies located at either end of the communication channel and its endless loop (cf. Massumi, "On the Superiority of the Analog"). It is the spectator at the stadium who provides this fleshy legitimation to the televiewer at home, a last gasp for real space to roar in a relation dominated by real time. [...]

]]> http://www.sportsbabel.net/2007/09/keeping-pace-with-sight.htm/comment-page-1#comment-232784 sportsBabel » The Politics of Memory Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:41:55 +0000 http://www.sportsbabel.net/2007/09/keeping-pace-with-sight.htm#comment-232784 [...] sensations it offers, through bungee jumping, sky surfing, BASE jumping, and so on, as though the accelerated perspective had already won out over the passive perspective of the perspectivists. Suicidal [...] [...] sensations it offers, through bungee jumping, sky surfing, BASE jumping, and so on, as though the accelerated perspective had already won out over the passive perspective of the perspectivists. Suicidal [...]

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