Comparison of Roman Structures with today

Introduction

Brazil is renowned all through the world as a soccer super-power, home to Pele and the large-scale stadiums in the world (1). Geographic things strategically disseminated by dictatorial regimes in medium and large towns, they function as monuments that celebrate the prestige and power of the game. Stadiums are durable things of important material assets, centrally located and whose immense visibility is contrasted by an unjustifiable absence in urban investigations (Canter 1989: 20-21).

The target of this study is to contemplate on these up to date monsters which are the most evident material sign of the magnitude and ubiquity of soccer that evolved and changed over the span of the twentieth century. Our proposition is to make an enquiry in consider to the collective transformations that are happening in these spaces. For numerous years, stadiums were appropriated as spaces of cultural sign, a location of festival, in the Lefebvrian (1991) sense. In the last two decades, a progressive assembly of diverse interventions, in architecture and rules of usage, are effecting an important augmentation of control over bodies, rites, and collective manifestations in stadiums space.

In this sense, stadiums are evolving spaces of increasing discipline, in a method that we investigate in periods of the theoretical methodology of Michel Foucault associated to the molecular-level control of power, over the space of bodies, of signs and the circulation of persons in the interior of institutional spaces (Foucault 1982). We propose that stadiums should be advised in the same class as other disciplinary spaces in daily life such as schools, clinics and prisons.

This item is split up in two parts. In the first, we look to familiarize the book reader with a rare object of learned study by supplying a panoramic dream of the chronicled genesis of stadiums. In the second part, we present the alterations in spatial form, interpreting, in them a Foucauldian vein, as an increasing strategy of implementation of techniques of command and command and respect, a deductive investigation, assessing the further workout of institutional power inside the stadiums, the influences of these new configurations, and the altering culture and use of these spaces.

Genesis and evolution of stadiums

“Have you ever gone into an empty stadium? Try it. Stop in the middle of the field and listen. There is not anything less empty than an empty stadium. There is nothing more silent than the bleachers without people.” (Eduardo Galliano 1995:20)

Stadiums are built up memory, assembled life. They are monster temples of solid, in which Freud detected a sacred dimension. The circular formation of large arenas evokes the eternal return of time, and concept effortlessly associated with the circuits of fair “seasons”. Mecca of profane chants, upon entering into this space the one-by-one inhabits in a time-world different than that on the out-of-doors (Morris 1981).

The evocation of the stadium as a potentially sacred space is a recurrent topic in games literature. Morris (1981) treats the soccer stadium as a temple, where the view ...