Two Temporal Vectors
Structurally, late modern sport operates along two primary temporal vectors: it is at once the eternal recurrence of a particular sporting history wrapped in the warm folds of nostalgia (or better, what LCD Soundsystem might call borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered century) and a continual preparation for contagion, processing, incarceration and trauma.
Somewhere in between this implicated past and future is the now of consumption.
November 3rd, 2009
[...] Notes from sportsBabel, September 2008: [...]
October 28th, 2010
[...] Do not confuse this with cheap nostalgia. Slowing down the gestural microscope reveals a care for the relation that exists between farmer [...]