MEST 4 Task 2: Sport and postmodern times

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This work, among other things, is an examination of the thrust of sports into our everyday life, a rendering of lived experiences at large in a sea of conflicted and collapsing hierarchies, and an attempted end run around the assault of cultural studies sensibilities as they travel to attach themselves to our interpretations of sport.

Paradoxically, the more the individual is concerned with the reality that is not available to perception , the more most he concentrate his attentions on appearances. (Goffman 1973)

The myth of the fully present subject who could reveal the inner workings of his or her mind to another [and by] the myth of an observer with a method who could somehow prevail upon this subject to reveal her inner world of experience to the kindly knowing scientist.