“WHAT CAN A BODY DO?”: ATHLETES’ BECOMING AND THE POTENTIAL OF PHENOMENA
DOI:
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.
Downloads
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Authors retain the copyright to the manuscripts they submit and grant Movimento the right to publish the text in accordance with the open licensing policy adopted by the journal.
Movimento adopts the Creative Commons Atribuição 4.0 Internacional (CC BY 4.0) license and follows the Open Access model, which provides unrestricted online access, including free access, to all scholarly texts published by the journal.
When submitting a manuscript, authors must acknowledge that they are aware of the copyright licensing terms that will apply if the manuscript is accepted and published, as described below:
- Open access is a condition in which the copyright holder of a scholarly work grants third parties’ rights to use the work under an open license (Creative Commons Attribution, CC BY)
- Open access provides free and immediate access to the work, authorizing any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles; index them; pass them as data to software; or use them for any other lawful purpose.
Movimento encourages authors to self-archive accepted manuscripts by making them available on personal blogs, institutional repositories, academic social media platforms, and personal profiles, provided that the complete reference to the published version on the journal's website and/or the SciELO Collection page is included.
