Posts Tagged football as philosophy
Viennese Genius
from Chapter 13 (“A Racehorse of Genius Crystallizes the Recognition of Being a Man Without Qualities”) of The Man Without Qualities, by Robert Musil, translated by Sophie Wilkins:
The time had come when people were starting to speak of genius on the soccer field or in the boxing ring, although there would still be at most [...]
I Am the Enemy: Football, Authenticity, and the Internet
OVERTURE
A television commercial in which the burden of meaning is carried by a shot of a large silver and black map of the world on which the land is full of tiny holes of slightly varying diameters as though it had been stuck with pins only there are beams of brilliant light shining up [...]
Why Do We Follow Sports? Part Four.
We follow sports because we want someone to win. This follows from our involvement in sports at the level of tribal loyalty and from our fascination with sports as a vehicle for stories: identifying with the team of our nation, city, town, neighborhood, or simply of our own free choice, we want a particular [...]
