The Symptoms of Ideology Critique; or, How We Learned to Enjoy the Symptom and Ignore the Fetish

Sbriglia, Russell

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The Symptoms of Ideology Critique; or, How We Learned to Enjoy the Symptom and Ignore the Fetish

Russell Sbriglia¹

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The Fetishization of Sport: Exploring the Effects of Fetishistic Disavowal in Sportswashing

Black,

Sinclair,

Kearns

2024

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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Is it possible to remain a sports fan when prominent sports teams and events are utilized to “sportswash” human rights abuses and other controversies? Indeed, while there is an abundance of analyses critiquing different instances of sportswashing, the exploration of the role of sportswashing and its connection to the “sports fan” presents an essential and necessary area of investigation and theoretical inquiry. To unpick this dilemma, this article proposes the concept of “fetishistic disavowal” to help theorize the impact of sportswashing, as well as its relation to the sports fan and critical sports academic. This argues that, as spectators and fans of sport—and, moreover, as critical academics—we often acknowledge and accept that sport is used to perpetuate and even maintain a variety of social, economic, and political inequalities. Yet, while we are aware of such knowledge, we nonetheless remain fully capable of disavowing this very knowledge as an accepted part of sport. Given this, it is argued that the fetishization of sport can provide a suitable conduit for the fetishistic disavowal that sportswashing requires, with the concept offering a unique way of approaching sport's inherent contradictions, while also theorizing how subjects relate to these contradictions as part of their involvement in and with sport. Where sportswashing directly implicates the fan in its implementation—relying upon a level of fetishistic disavowal between the fan and their club and proffering a disavowed acknowledgement of the effects of sportswashing and its interpellation through sport—this article outlines how applications of fetishistic disavowal provide a unique theoretical lens through which analyses of sport, and its ethical significance, can be critiqued.

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The Fetishization of Sport: Exploring the Effects of Fetishistic Disavowal in Sportswashing

Black,

Sinclair,

Kearns

2024

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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A Sociological Analysis of “OK Boomer”

Mueller

McCollum

2021

Critical Sociology

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The year 2019 was the year of “OK Boomer” (OKb). From The New York Times to the New Zealand legislature, OKb emerged as a pop cultural phenomenon. For some, this phrase represents a battle of the generations wherein Baby Boomers are fed up with the utopian demands of younger generations, while younger generations see Baby Boomers as stubbornly conservative and out of touch. Alternatively, some dismiss the generational warfare trope and demand we see society for what it “really is”—one defined by class warfare. By deploying theories of politics, ideology, and cultural change from Mark Fisher, Fredric Jameson, Slavoj Žižek, and Franco Berardi, we offer a theoretical framework through which the emergence and proliferation of OKb can be understood. We find OKb to be embedded within the logic of capitalist realism, where younger generations’ cynical usage of this meme represents a muddled attempt to cognitively map within 21st century postmodernity.

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The Symptoms of Ideology Critique; or, How We Learned to Enjoy the Symptom and Ignore the Fetish

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The Fetishization of Sport: Exploring the Effects of Fetishistic Disavowal in Sportswashing

The Fetishization of Sport: Exploring the Effects of Fetishistic Disavowal in Sportswashing

A Sociological Analysis of “OK Boomer”

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