2024-03-28 12:24:55
An event for the presentation by Vassilis Kostakis of the book “Changing the world with a ball” (Dioptra Publications), which will be combined with discussion and music, is organized on Friday 29 and Saturday 30 March, at 7.30 pm, at the Angry Portrait ( Kapodistriou 20).
Can football become a liberating force, or is it ultimately the “opium of the people”, which, usually, puts us to sleep and, moreover, not infrequently, acquires us? This book unravels the thread of an alternative football, and not only, philosophy. It shows how we can create the football (and world) we want, within the football (and world) we want to overcome. Because it’s time to strike back. For the big twist.
Questions not answered in this book: How did football begin and what is its symbolism? Was football more innocent and spectacular in the past?
Which tactics lead to more impressive goals?
Questions answered in this book: Why do some athletes make millions while educators and scientists do not? How does football affect global inequalities and the climate crisis? How will our children learn, through football, that the game concerns them and not the victory? Should school be about knowledge and not grades? In their lives, relationships with their fellow human beings and nature and not money should concern them? When you lose 4-0 and it’s 89′, it turns… the football game, but also the fight for a better tomorrow and a sustainable future?
Albert Camus declared: “What I know about ethics I learned on football fields and theater stages.” Millions of people believe that soccer is not just a game where you chase a ball. This book goes one step further and dreams of a better football, which can even change the world. Because, as Bob Marley used to say, “football is freedom”.
Vassilis Kostakis was born in 1985 in Ioannina. He works as a professor and researcher at Tallinn University of Technology and Harvard University. It studies technology, society and the environment, with the aim of transitioning to a sustainable future. He is also a co-founder of the research collective P2P Lab and a founding member of the mountain lab Jumakers. All this is good, but in this book we will talk about ball. Or maybe not;