Globalized sport as savage spectacle and 'opium of the people'
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.
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.
*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.
*Guardian*
A provocatively timed polemic that situates today's mass sporting
spectacle at the very heart of globalised capitalism.
*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*
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