Grant Farred
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816650231
- eISBN:
- 9781452946115
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816650231.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, American Philosophy
In January, 1995, Eric Cantona, after enduring a torrid time on the pitch in an English Premier League game, takes exception to the taunts of a xenophobic fan. After being sent off, Cantona launches ...
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In January, 1995, Eric Cantona, after enduring a torrid time on the pitch in an English Premier League game, takes exception to the taunts of a xenophobic fan. After being sent off, Cantona launches himself at the fan, executing the most famous kung-fu kick in football lore. The Cantona event is read through Gilles Deleuze’s work on the cinema.Less
In January, 1995, Eric Cantona, after enduring a torrid time on the pitch in an English Premier League game, takes exception to the taunts of a xenophobic fan. After being sent off, Cantona launches himself at the fan, executing the most famous kung-fu kick in football lore. The Cantona event is read through Gilles Deleuze’s work on the cinema.
Grant Farred
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816650231
- eISBN:
- 9781452946115
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816650231.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, American Philosophy
Using the work of Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida, “In Motion, At Rest: The Event of the Athletic Body,” explores three events in sport: Ron Artest in basketball and Eric Cantona and ...
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Using the work of Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida, “In Motion, At Rest: The Event of the Athletic Body,” explores three events in sport: Ron Artest in basketball and Eric Cantona and Zinedine Zidane in football (soccer). The sports event, “In Motion” argues, reveals the ways in which the intensity and opacity of the event is most visible in sport. Theorizing the event through sport makes possible a new thinking of the event, revealing how what was already inherent to the event is opened to new possibilities by thinking sport philosophically. “In Motion” is not so much distinct from any other works on the event in sport, sport’s theory, sport’s studies, as it stands sui generis: by itself because it is the first work in these fields to think the sport’s event philosophically. Similarly, there are no works in philosophically that pay any attention to the sport’s event.Less
Using the work of Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida, “In Motion, At Rest: The Event of the Athletic Body,” explores three events in sport: Ron Artest in basketball and Eric Cantona and Zinedine Zidane in football (soccer). The sports event, “In Motion” argues, reveals the ways in which the intensity and opacity of the event is most visible in sport. Theorizing the event through sport makes possible a new thinking of the event, revealing how what was already inherent to the event is opened to new possibilities by thinking sport philosophically. “In Motion” is not so much distinct from any other works on the event in sport, sport’s theory, sport’s studies, as it stands sui generis: by itself because it is the first work in these fields to think the sport’s event philosophically. Similarly, there are no works in philosophically that pay any attention to the sport’s event.
Grant Farred
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816650231
- eISBN:
- 9781452946115
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816650231.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, American Philosophy
In the waning moments of the 2006 World Cup final in Berlin, between France and Italy, Zindine Zidane, the French captain, headbutted – the famed coup de boule – an Italian player who had insulted ...
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In the waning moments of the 2006 World Cup final in Berlin, between France and Italy, Zindine Zidane, the French captain, headbutted – the famed coup de boule – an Italian player who had insulted him. To this day, Zidane has never revealed what it is the Italian, Marco Materazzi, said to him, producing the most enduring secret in football history. This chapter explores xenophobia, the anti-Islamic politics that have obtained, especially since 9//, in Europe, the politics of immigrant, the myth of equality (especially for immigrants) in republican France, and the special status of Zidane as a voyou.Less
In the waning moments of the 2006 World Cup final in Berlin, between France and Italy, Zindine Zidane, the French captain, headbutted – the famed coup de boule – an Italian player who had insulted him. To this day, Zidane has never revealed what it is the Italian, Marco Materazzi, said to him, producing the most enduring secret in football history. This chapter explores xenophobia, the anti-Islamic politics that have obtained, especially since 9//, in Europe, the politics of immigrant, the myth of equality (especially for immigrants) in republican France, and the special status of Zidane as a voyou.
Grant Farred
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816650231
- eISBN:
- 9781452946115
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816650231.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, American Philosophy
Ron Artest commits a flagrant foul in an NBA game between the Indiana Pacers and the Detroit Pistons; after this incident, Artest chooses to lie supine on the scorer’s table, “provoking” (mainly ...
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Ron Artest commits a flagrant foul in an NBA game between the Indiana Pacers and the Detroit Pistons; after this incident, Artest chooses to lie supine on the scorer’s table, “provoking” (mainly white) fans to hurl invectives and beer cups in his direction; in response to this, Artest and some of his teammates go into the stands to attack the offending fans. Artest is suspended for a record number of games and fined a record amount by the NBA. Using Alain Badiou’s work on the event, this chapter demonstrates the ways in which the event of Artest extends beyond him, drawing in other figures, most notably, Rosa Parkes, Jackie Robinson and Emmett Till.Less
Ron Artest commits a flagrant foul in an NBA game between the Indiana Pacers and the Detroit Pistons; after this incident, Artest chooses to lie supine on the scorer’s table, “provoking” (mainly white) fans to hurl invectives and beer cups in his direction; in response to this, Artest and some of his teammates go into the stands to attack the offending fans. Artest is suspended for a record number of games and fined a record amount by the NBA. Using Alain Badiou’s work on the event, this chapter demonstrates the ways in which the event of Artest extends beyond him, drawing in other figures, most notably, Rosa Parkes, Jackie Robinson and Emmett Till.
