Enjoyed Olympic elements derive from publicness and lottery funding, not capital

Evidence

It’s clear that what people are already enjoying in the Games is everything for which capital is not responsible: the efforts of the athletes, the experience of a shared publicness. Insofar as the torch relay was a success, this, too, was not due to the parade itself — a dreary countrywide corporate carnival, consisting of Samsung, CocaCola and Lloyds TSB floats — but because it allowed people to experience their own sociality. Note also, for instance, that the improved British performance, which has the BBC in such a jingoistic froth, was likely due to (the privatised-public) National Lottery funding rather than corporate sponsorship. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1618

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the base-nation and graft/tree material on how public goods are routinely credited to private actors who merely wrapped themselves around preexisting commons.