“WHAT CAN A BODY DO?”: ATHLETES’ BECOMING AND THE POTENTIAL OF PHENOMENA
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https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-8918.73698Keywords:
Body. Athletes. Sports. Philosophy.Abstract
In the sporting context, athletes’ bodies are usually associated with other types of elements: animals, machine, supernatural phenomena, among others. This essay reads those analogies under Deleuze and Guattari’s understanding of Spinoza’s philosophy of affection, more precisely using concepts of power, becoming, and affectos. Under these concepts we consider that creating heteronyms for athletes expresses three points about bodies’ composite relation to sport: i) this comparison between athletes and other phenomena are not simple associations or metaphors; they are becomings; ii) these becomings express new potentials and render them perceptible as well as bodies’ strange potentials regarding sport; iii) paradoxically, besides being a disciplinary and body technification device, sports territory also allows amplifying bodies’ becoming as discoveries of becoming.
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