Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport Quotes

“There are points of resistance; there are also moments of supersession. This is the dialectic of cultural struggle. In our times, it goes on continuously, in the complex lines of resistance and acceptance, refusal and capitulation, which make the field of culture a sort of constant battlefield. A battlefield where no once-for-all victories are obtained but where there are always strategic positions to be won and lost.”
― Michael Bxe9rubxe9, Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport

“The key question, as Williams reminds us, is whether the ‘formula’ of the base/ superstructure—which in various formulations has framed Marxist accounts of culture—was meant as a literal reading or ‘no more than an analogy”
― Michael Bxe9rubxe9, Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport

“towards more engaged analyses that appreciate sport’s protean, dialectic nature as a site of everyday domination and resistance; a space of joy and creativity and routine mechanized existence.”
― Michael Bxe9rubxe9, Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport