More About Balls

Worth reading at Eurozine.com, an essay by Gerd von der Lippe that is introduced thus: “You need balls to play football. So it is obvious that being a girl just won’t do as far as the guys are concerned, says Gerd von der Lippe in a devastating critique of the state of affairs in the reporting and support of women’s football in Norway.”

The Ultimate Soccer: Globalisation

At signandsight.com, we found a post that echoes the subliminal theme of our blog. According to signandsight, in an NZZ forum on “Bread and Games,” philosopher Peter Sloterdijk gave an impromtu lecture about the physical and metaphysical roots of sport in which he said, “People of today have to play with whatever plays with them, and the biggest ball which plays with us is the Earth itself. This is the deeper meaning of globalisation. Modernity is intrinsically globus time.”