Politics and sports...the effects of technical development

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It is necessary to realize the meanings whose validity is displaced by technical developments and scientific excellence, as there are concepts that have disintegrated, others that have mutated, and still others that have adapted. This was not limited to medical, military, space, and other technologies. Rather, our interest here in this space is trying to understand the superiority of technology and its relationship with humans in their daily lives and hobbies.

Despite the tension between a group of entertainment forces that attract humans in the fields of tourism, travel, arts and literature, the fierce battle has been won, as the competition is now between the two most popular fields for humanity today, which are politics and sports.

Regional and global news empires have been able to transform politics into an attractive, enjoyable and anticipated subject.

The news itself is no longer the point as it used to be. Rather, we now find designs that are astonishing in their superiority, which has reduced the severity of the political news and changed the relationship between the news and the recipient. For example, a philosopher such as Jacques Derrida was impressed by the image of airplane accidents crashing into buildings. Adonis even tells of an Italian artist whose artistic description of buildings collapsing in one of the accidents. Although the technologies were in their infancy at that time, what do we say today about the method of transporting the viewer from his sofa to the site of the accident through a cinematic image with which the news turns into a scene “in between”?! The news is visually monetized and then presented in a cinematic way that some may even consider entertaining or even enjoyable.

This is where the technical genius comes from; It is even as if the visual medium reduces the moral cost of bearing an interpretation of any calamity, but rather moving it towards purely visual attraction and preoccupation with the method, away from the moral lesson.

Along this line, the sports field is the most prominent competitor to political visual enjoyment, especially since it is more capable of penetrating ages.

In the past, the result of the match was the most important. Now sports transportation has become a form of human existence, and the brightness of screens in the city expresses the highest quality of life.

It is not a requirement that everyone surrounding the screen is following the match, as they may be “viewers” ​​and not “followers” ​​in the sense of placing them within a state of entertainment time.

The superiority of technology in the sports field in all games has enabled individuals to create their own individual channels. There is now what is known as “Sports TikToker,” a group of competing content creators around the world who are creative and powerful in capturing angles of sports in innovative ways.

Let's go back a little; In the last decade of the twentieth century, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (d. 2002) was preoccupied with the visual symbol with the development of television. He was fascinated by this device, and worried about the topic, as we are now with artificial intelligence. Then he decided to devote analytical space to trying to understand this new “ghoul.” It is interesting that he wrote in 1997 about “Analysis of the Olympic Games,” and from his text the concern is clear, as he asked: “What exactly are we waiting for when we talk about the Olympic Games?!” The apparent reference is the actual demonstration, that is, a completely mathematical demonstration. Confrontations between players who came from all over the world and walk in line for the show under the symbol of global ideas... The hidden reference is the totality of the expressions of this show that is transmitted and broadcast by television channels. A hidden goal that is doubly invisible. No one may see it in its entirety. It does not exist. It is not seen if no one sees it. "Every TV viewer can have the illusion that he is watching the Olympic spectacle for what it is." The solution for Bourdieu to understand this process of symbolic transformation is that it is necessary to: “analyze the social construction of the Olympic display... the process of image production must be analyzed as an intermediary carrier of advertising clips, which are transformed into commercial products subject to the logic of the market.”

Conclusion; The intense and creative competition between sports and politics is in the interest of mankind, and in a way expresses the breadth of ideas developed by the genius technologist. It is the reason for changing the traditional pattern of receiving news, as is the case with regard to sports competitions. It has transformed from being merely a specific time slot, after which the victor is announced, to entertainment content in which a sports tournament may outperform a movie or series that cost hundreds of millions.

Quoted from "Al-Sharq Al-Awsat"