Barbaric Sport by Marc Perelman
Globalized sport as savage spectacle and "opium of the people".
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
Excited about the Olympics? If not, this bolus of weaponised French spleen will be the perfect literary antidote. -- Steven Poole * Guardian *
Bracingly bilious counterblast against the new 'planetary religion.' * Independent *
The work of stirring polemic that all of us who were picked last for teams at school have been waiting for. -- Nick Lezard * Guardian *
A provocatively timed polemic that situates today's mass sporting spectacle at the very heart of globalised capitalism. -- Rod Stanley * Dazed and Confused *
Perelman's claim that sport "becomes the sole project of a society without projects" rings uncomfortably true as austerity-hit Britain prepares to host a lavish Olympics. * Financial Times *
French journalist Marc Perelaman argues ... ruthless[ly] ... agaist an emerging kind of barbarism. * Book News *
Excited about the Olympics? If not, this bolus of weaponised French spleen will be the perfect literary antidote. -- Steven Poole * Guardian *
Bracingly bilious counterblast against the new 'planetary religion.' * Independent *
The work of stirring polemic that all of us who were picked last for teams at school have been waiting for. -- Nick Lezard * Guardian *
A provocatively timed polemic that situates today's mass sporting spectacle at the very heart of globalised capitalism. -- Rod Stanley * Dazed and Confused *
Perelman's claim that sport "becomes the sole project of a society without projects" rings uncomfortably true as austerity-hit Britain prepares to host a lavish Olympics. * Financial Times *
French journalist Marc Perelaman argues ... ruthless[ly] ... agaist an emerging kind of barbarism. * Book News *
Marc Perelman is an architect and Professor of Aesthetics at the Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre Le Défense. He is the author of numerous books, including L'Ère des stades: Genèse et structure d'unespace historique, Urbs ex machina, Le Corbusier and (with Jean-Marie Brohm) Le Football, une peste émotionnelle.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844678594 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844678598 |
| Title | Barbaric Sport |
| Author | Marc Perelman |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2012-06-19 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
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