What is it about?

Deleuze describes cinema as an "industrial art" whose aesthetic is inspired by the conception of movement that arose out of the modern scientific revolution. This paper argues that modern sports can also be seen as expressing a mechanically inspired aesthetic and uses concepts from Deleuze's cinema books to tease out this idea.

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Why is it important?

I believe sport "hides in plain sight" as a cultural spectacle and is underappreciated as an aesthetic phenomenon. Looking into sport's aesthetics should be interesting for both those who love sport and those who hate it.

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I am an independent scholar, but my last university teaching job at Northwestern University involved developing an undergraduate seminar on the "Philosophy of Sport". This is now my main topic of interest and research. Because I became interested in sport very late in life, it is still novel and strange to me and this informs my perspective, a defamiliarisation of the familiar.

Dr Melissa J McMahon
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This page is a summary of: The Other Industrial Art: Deleuze, Cinema, Affect and Sport, Deleuze Studies, May 2016, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/dls.2016.0222.
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