A Husserlian contribution: concerning intentional movement and understanding in sporting activities

Heath, Freja Balslev; Larsen, Signe Højbjerre

doi:10.1080/00948705.2021.2020659

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“…This is, however, a narrow understanding of body. In fields ranging from philosophy (Merleau-Ponty, 1983 , 2013 ; Leder, 1990 ; Gallagher, 2005 ; Zahavi, 2010 ; Taipale, 2014 ; Gallagher and Zahavi, 2020 ), psychology (James, 1948 ; Gibson, 1983 , 2014 ; Kyselo, 2014 ; Körner et al, 2015 ; Zatti and Zarbo, 2015 ), biology (Varela et al, 2017 ), to sports science (Breivik, 2008 ; Allen-Collinson, 2009 ; Allen-Collinson and Hockey, 2009 ; Legrand and Ravn, 2009 ; Ravn and Christensen, 2014 ; Aggerholm and Højbjerre Larsen, 2017 ; Ravn and Høffding, 2017 ; Heath and Larsen, 2022 ; Mudyahoto et al, 2022 ), there has over the past century been a growing insistence that we fail to fully capture the meaning of the body when we treat it as a physical object alone. We not only have a physically extended body that might undergo physical relocation as it moves through space, but we are also at the same time inevitably experiencing and interacting with the world through that very body in ways fundamentally informed by the body's practical capabilities.…”

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“…Moreover, future contributions to esports research should avoid starting out from the assumption that esports be, e.g., indirect image manipulation (Parry, 2019 ) or in some sense non-physical or unreal. One possible candidate for this is the growing field of research informed by philosophical phenomenology in sports science (Allen-Collinson, 2009 ; Allen-Collinson and Hockey, 2009 ; Ravn and Christensen, 2014 ; Ravn and Høffding, 2017 ; Heath and Larsen, 2022 ), with its methodological telos of returning to “the things themselves” (Husserl, 2012 , p. 168) prior to our ontological assumptions about them (even if the ‘things’ be virtual).…”

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Both Physical and Virtual: On Immediacy in Esports

Ekdahl

2022

Front. Sports Act. Living

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This article strives to make novel headway in the debate concerning esports' relationship to sports by focusing on the relationship between esports and physicality. More precisely, the aim of this article is to critically assess the claim that esports fails to be sports because it is never properly “direct” or “immediate” compared to physical sports. To do so, I focus on the account of physicality presented by Jason Holt, who provides a theoretical framework meant to justify the claim that esports is never properly immediate and therefore never sports. I begin by motivating Holt's account of physicality by contrasting it with a more classical way of discussing physicality and sports, namely in terms of physical motor skills. Afterwards, I introduce Holt's account of physicality as immediacy and engage with its assumptions more thoroughly to problematize the claim that esports is fundamentally indirect. Lastly, I argue that the assumption that esports necessarily lacks immediacy is based on a narrow understanding of body and, consequently, of space. In response, I offer a different way of thinking about body and space, focusing on the subjective, bodily engagement of the esports practitioners with their practice, whereby physical space and virtual space can be appreciated as immediately interconnected during performance in a hybrid manner. In providing such an account, the article contributes directly to the broader, growing discussion on the relationship between physicality and virtuality in an increasingly digital world.

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