The World Cup Runneth Over

 

 "Can chronopolitics, a theory of the importance of the power of speed and time developed by the French cultural theorist Paul Virilio, offer an insight into how the current World Cup moved from FIFA’s (the Federation Internationale de Football Association) dubious selection of the host country to setting record breaking numbers of people watching in the stadiums and on television?

Did time collapse between the initial selection of Qatar, criticisms of the selection, and record attendance and television viewers?

There have been three noteworthy temporal moments."

read analysis by Daniel Warner 

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