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Barbaric Sport
Marc Perelman
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Marc Perelman pulls no punches in this succinct and searing essay against the global phenomenon of sport, which he describes as both a recent form of savagery and the opium of the people. The charges leveled against sport are damning and numerous: sport is an instrument for racism and the bolstering of repression, with global events such as the Olympics used to legitimize major political crackdowns; doping must be understood as an imperative rather than an aberration of sport. Most ominously, with its location at the very center of the society of the spectacle, globalization, and ... Read more
Marc Perelman pulls no punches in this succinct and searing essay against the global phenomenon of sport, which he describes as both a recent form of savagery and the opium of the people. The charges leveled against sport are damning and numerous: sport is an instrument for racism and the bolstering of repression, with global events such as the Olympics used to legitimize major political crackdowns; doping must be understood as an imperative rather than an aberration of sport. Most ominously, with its location at the very center of the society of the spectacle, globalization, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844678594
SKU
V9781844678594
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About Marc Perelman
MARC PERELMAN is an architect and Professor of Aesthetics atthe Universite Paris Ouest-Nanterre La Defense. He is the author of numerous books, including L'Ere des stades: Genese et structure d'un espace historique, Urbs ex machina, Le Corbusier and (with Jean-Marie Brohm) Le Football, une peste emotionnelle.
Reviews for Barbaric Sport
Marc Perelman has written a magnificent manifesto for all of us dedicated anti-Olympiads, revealing in compelling detail how sport, which has long been the opium of the people, is now the political and financial dirty business of the rulers as well. - Terry Eagleton This is the work of stirring polemic that all of us who were picked ... Read more