Rindon Johnson

A ball is not an ordinary object, for it is what it is only if a subject holds it. Over, on the ground, it is nothing; it has no meaning, no function and no value. Ball isn’t played alone. Those who do, those who hog the ball are bad players and are soon excluded from the game. The collective game doesn’t need persons, people out for themselves. It is hard to keep a clean shirt clean says June. Let us consider the one who holds it. If they make it move around them, they are awkward, a bad player. The ball isn’t there for the body; the exact contrary is true: the body is there for the ball; the subject moves around this sun. Skill with the ball is recognized in the player who follows the ball and services it. It is the subject of the body, subject of bodies and like a subject of subjects. Playing is nothing else but making oneself the attribute of the ball as a substance. The laws are written for it, defined relative to it, and we bend to these laws., 2018