Cinema | Football’s happy existence inside Parisian ‘museum’
The third installment, from Paris, from Gwendolyn Oxenham‘s diaries supporting The Soccer Project.
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Nov 28, 2008 | 0 comments
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Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007 | Coining a ‘worldwide currency’ for football violence
Paris, Mar 12 | Little evidence exists of Jean Baudrillard‘s rooting interests in football. The French philosopher, who died Mar 6, left behind a corpus of cultural reflection.
To him belonged clear-eyed, if not always clearly worded, explication of concepts such as “hyperreality” and “simulation”—with the latter implying more than Arjen Robben flopping around on the left-hand touchline. Such notions have lent themselves to football, including Baudrillard’s own essay on the Heysel disaster of 1985.
Mar 12, 2007 | 3 comments
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