ABSTRACT
With reference to the nature and inuence of late capitalist sport, much of my previous work on the topic has focused on the centrality of culture to the workings of late capitalism (Andrews 2006, 2009). These Mandel (1998) and Jameson (1991, 1998) informed analyses tended to focus on the convergence of cultural and economic elds and forces, as manifest within and through the complexities of corporate sport. However, the logics of the late capitalist mode of production are not solely economic and cultural in nature, since it also incorporates political, social and/or technological dimensions according to the specicities of time and space (Hardt and Weeks 2000). Acknowledging this complex and conjunctural ‘de-dierentiation of elds’ (Jameson 1998: 73), this chapter nonethelesss foregrounds the political dimensions of contemporary sport culture, particularly as they relate to the relationship between sport spectacles, late capitalism, and neoliberalism.
