Barbaric Sport: A Global Plague

Title Page\r......Page 1
Copyright\r......Page 2
Contents\r......Page 4
Preface\r......Page 5
1. The Real Nature of the Olympic Games: Berlin 1936, Moscow 1980, The Football World Cup, Argentina 1978\r......Page 7
2. Beijing 2008:The Games of Shame......Page 11
3. The Olympic Charter......Page 23
4. Competitive Sport: Globalized Sports-Spectacle and National Fetish\r......Page 37
5. Sport: As Old as the World?\r......Page 42
6. Origin and Development of the Theses on the Critique of Sport\r......Page 46
7. The Stadium: Consolidation of the Masses \r......Page 51
8. Sport, Culture and Youth\r......Page 60
9. The Sporting Champion: Addiction and Drugs\r......Page 64
10. The Globalization of Sport through Doping \r......Page 73
11.The Globalization of Sport and the Sporting Mode of Production......Page 78
12. The Show Stadium\r......Page 82
13. The Power of Images\r......Page 91
14. A Standardized Aesthetic......Page 95
15. Sexuality and Sport\r......Page 101
16. The Religion of Sport\r......Page 105
17. The Critique of Sport as It Was\r......Page 108
18. The Arrival of Sport as an Academic Discipline\r......Page 111
19. The Future of the Critique of Sport\r......Page 113
Appendix One: Twenty Theses on Sport\r......Page 119
Appendix Two: Stop Building Stadiums in Europe Now!\r......Page 127
Select Bibliography\r......Page 131