Returning to Reality and Body:Meanings and Embodied Paths of Sports in the Digital Age
The digital development of society has profoundly changed people's lives,which enriches individual lifestyles but gradually plunges individuals into the dilemmas of reality-virtual disconnection,spiritual-physical detachment,and the alienation of digital labour on body.In the perspective of embodiment,sport,as a social being based on reality and emphasising physical activity,increasingly highlights its significance in facilitating individuals'escape from the aforementioned dilemmas.Firstly,sports effectively transform physical capital and facilitate the return of individuals to reality.Secondly,sports make the return to the ontology in the biological and social unity and couple the mental and the physical.Finally,sports enable people to return to physical labour and eliminate the alienation of the digital space on body.Based on these,and taking into account the embodied attributes of sports,this study proposes realisation paths for sports in the digital age to promote the return of individuals to reality and body.Firstly,through the communication of sports rituals,empathy and sympathy are reached to construct a favourable"the being of emotional state".Secondly,the unity of body and mind in sports is emphasised to eliminate"the body of machine state".Thirdly,a scene of interpersonal interaction in the field of sports to shape"the body of communication state".