/lit/ - Literature

What are some good books which examine the philosophical implications of sports, exercise, bodybuilding, etc.?

Speaking of Deleuze, what does /lit/ think of his disciple, the late Canadian philosopher Dr. Brian Pronger? Dr. Pronger's work helped create the modern field of philosophy of sport, focusing specifically on homosexuality and its implications in the context of competitive sports. Ie, in his famous paper "Outta My Endzone: Sport and the Territorial Anus," he writes:

>Drawing selectively on aspects of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (1983, 1987), I will suggest that modern competitive sport constructs desire by systematically limiting its expression to a libidinal economy of territorial domination. I question what Drusilla Cornell (1992) has called the philosophy of the limit as it is operative in competitive sport. I will argue that competitive sport demands a libidinal economy and emotional formation that is embedded in the masculine colonizing will to conquer the space of an "other" while simultaneously protectively enclosing the space of the self, in an attempt to establish ever greater sovereignty of self and consequent otherness of the other...

>Embarking on a demythologising trajectory, the article suggests that competitive sport fosters the emotional logic that is embedded in the will to power produced by the mythical union of an ever-expanding phallus and territorially enclosing anus - these work together in sport in the desire to conquer the space of the other and protectively enclose the space of the self. Drawing parallels, the violating phallus with the desire to win and the closed anus with the desire not to lose, the article deconstructs the emotional logic of sport as a celebration of patriarchal violation and homophobic resistance to penetration. As an immensely popular cultural spectacle and practice, therefore, competitive sport plays an important role in the reproduction of phallically aggressive and anally closed cultures of desire.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0193723599234002

What is the best English-language collection of Foucault's writings on biopower/"biopouvoir"? I'm seeing him cited a lot by a lot of different writers, and it's time for me to read some source materials.

Canadian philosopher Dr. Brian Pronger made the following assertion in his paper "Outta My Endzone: Sport and the Territorial Anus":

>The practice of competitive sport itself can have homoerotic dimensions: the contact of the playing field, the spectacle of the partially clad body, the steamy environment of the showers and locker room... I argued that men's sport allows men and boys to exclude women and girls from their all-male environments, permits them to play with each other's bodies, to surround themselves with naked men in the showers and locker rooms, to enjoy that all-male contact, without suffering the vilification that usually comes from the open acknowledgment and pursuit of masculine erotic contact, the stigma of "being homosexual. ...

>In other words, the homophobia of competitive sport allows men to play with each other's bodies and still preserve their patriarchal heterosexist hegemony; they can have their (beef) cake and eat it, too.

http://jss.sagepub.com/content/23/4/373.abstract

Are Pronger and other queer postmodernists correct when they recruit ideas such as the French "pouvoir of dominance and submission" to make these kinds of arguments? Other than Pronger's "Body Fascism," what are some good books (nonfiction or fiction) which address these themes?

What does /lit/ think of the work of Dr. Brian Pronger, the Canadian philosopher whose work mainly deals with the relationship between men's sports and homosexuality, overt or covert? He gained a bit of notoriety back in the late-90's for his paper "Outta My Endzone: Sport and the Territorial Anus":

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0193723599234002

Where does /lit/ place him among postmodern queer theorists?