Jack Black

Associate Professor of Culture, Media, and Sport

Sheffield Hallam University

United Kingdom

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Jack Black is an Associate Professor of Culture, Media, and Sport at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. His research broadly encompasses the psychoanalytic dimensions of sport, as evidenced by his recent publications exploring the intersections of sport, culture, and societal critiques. His scholarly work critically examines themes including sport in the context of the Anthropocene, the contradictions inherent in sport, and the influence of contemporary socio-political discourse on athletic practices.

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Thomas Fletcher

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Leeds Beckett University

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James Cherrington

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Sheffield Hallam University

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Daniel Kilvington

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Leeds Beckett University

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Samuel M. Clevenger

Towson University

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Theo Lynn

Dublin City University

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Katie Liston

Senior Lecturer Social Sciences of Sport

University of Ulster

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Articles (21)

Exploring the psychoanalytic dimensions of sport: an introduction to sport and psychoanalysis

What does it mean to psychoanalyse sport? Reflections from the field

Sport and the Anthropocene

Revisiting the sport ethic: a psychoanalytic consideration of sport’s contradictions

Haunted spaces and unsettling predicaments: An interrogation of (capitalist) sport via the work of Mark Fisher

From local fields to global spectacles: Sport in the shadow of the Anthropocene—An interview with Billy Graeff, Brendan Hokowhitu, and Holly Thorpe

Examining the mechanism of disavowal and its two forms: Cynical disavowal and fetishistic disavowal

The Fetishization of Sport: Exploring the Effects of Fetishistic Disavowal in Sportswashing

“Let the tournament for the woke begin!”: Euro 2020 and the reproduction of Cultural Marxist conspiracies in online criticisms of the “take the knee” protest

Just a Game? Sport and Psychoanalytic Theory

‘Best run club in the world': Manchester City fans and the legitimation of sportswashing?

Can AI Lie? Chabot Technologies, the Subject, and the Importance of Lying

The dialectic of desire: AI chatbots and the desire not to know

An unnerving otherness: English nationalism and Rusedski’s smile

Slipping on Banana Skins and Falling Through Bars: “True” Comedy and the Comic Character

“A form of socially acceptable insanity”: Love, comedy and the digital in Her

Football is “the most important of the least important things”: The Illusion of Sport and COVID-19

Retroactive causation and the temporal construction of news: contingency and necessity, content and form

‘Success in Britain comes with an awful lot of small print’: Greg Rusedski and the precarious performance of national identity

Reflexivity or orientation? Collective memories in the Australian, Canadian and New Zealand national press

Mountain Bike Trail Building, “Dirty” Work, and a New Terrestrial Politics

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Thomas Fletcher

James Cherrington

Daniel Kilvington

Samuel M. Clevenger

Theo Lynn

Katie Liston

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