France vs. Spain at 38 minutes
I'm not watching this game until the second half, but following the live matchcast on the FIFA website between working on a number of projects is already making me angry.
France might lose on a penalty kick! OK, I didn't see the foul inside the box, but the refereeings seems to highly interventionary (is that a word?) during this world cup.
And here are my predictions: the bourgeosie always wins -- no underdog wins for long, or is able to consolidate is victories. Therefore, there will be no underdog playing after Ghana's and Australia's elimination this week.
However, because there is always a possibilty that an underdog may win, one day, the underdog's victory produces HOPE, which cannot be accumulated, but has powerful historical resonance, whereas the overdog's win can only produce STASIS, which is why capital is in love with NOVELTY that it desperately fears...but because the STATIC quality of its perpetual triumph produces nothing like the dynamism promised by the new economies, it has to renew itself perpetually in its masquerade of innovation!
I know that is not much of a prediction, but that is what the oracle of historical materialism says about the 2006 World Cup. The underdogs have all been defeated. We are now in the period of consolidation of victories. What difference does it make if Argentina or Brazil or Germany wins???
France might lose on a penalty kick! OK, I didn't see the foul inside the box, but the refereeings seems to highly interventionary (is that a word?) during this world cup.
And here are my predictions: the bourgeosie always wins -- no underdog wins for long, or is able to consolidate is victories. Therefore, there will be no underdog playing after Ghana's and Australia's elimination this week.
However, because there is always a possibilty that an underdog may win, one day, the underdog's victory produces HOPE, which cannot be accumulated, but has powerful historical resonance, whereas the overdog's win can only produce STASIS, which is why capital is in love with NOVELTY that it desperately fears...but because the STATIC quality of its perpetual triumph produces nothing like the dynamism promised by the new economies, it has to renew itself perpetually in its masquerade of innovation!
I know that is not much of a prediction, but that is what the oracle of historical materialism says about the 2006 World Cup. The underdogs have all been defeated. We are now in the period of consolidation of victories. What difference does it make if Argentina or Brazil or Germany wins???
2 Comments:
why end on such a regrettably defeatist note? is that what a hist-mat adherent does these days: open an expensive antique store in new york, and give up on the world's most beloved sport? of course it makes a difference which team wins in 2006. but in the meanwhile, the difference that will make that difference is not one between 'under -' and 'over-' pets, but that between athletic styles of improvisation. the great thing about football ('soccer') is that beyond all the team strategy, substitution tactics, and training models, it is a sport of improvisation. and as long as that is the case, unpredictable results are going to occur.
I'm not a defeatist! There is always HOPE!
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