Sport reduces people to the objects capitalist society has already made them

Evidence

In the triumph of this practical spirit, far as it is from the acquisitive pursuit of the necessities of life, sport becomes a pseudo-praxis in which those who are practically active are no longer capable of helping themselves but now turn themselves once again into the objects they have already become. In its naked literalness, in the brutish seriousness which hardens every gesture of play into an automatic reflex, sport becomes the colourless reflection of a hardened callous life. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 129

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘pseudo-praxis’ — activity that looks like agency but reproduces passivity. Core tool for the reader’s application exercise.
• XREF: connects to: Member-owned football clubs model utopian non-capitalist competition. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1555