It’s my obsession in this writing space: the gap between the spectacular play of images and the material reality of those images. It’s actually too easy. We’ve really lost that connection, or, at the very least, we’ve decided that that connection can be set aside without explanation. Sports is an exemplary site, but one shaded by gender issues. Witness Mechelle Voepel’s write up of Chamique Holdsclaw’s sudden retirement. Read the rest of this entry »
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Foucault would surely recognize television talk shows as a sort of confessional for a secular society, taking up the Christian demand that we both know the truth of ourselves and make that truth over and over again through a constant narrativizing of the self and confession of sin. Read the rest of this entry »