PS on the EURO 2012: During the match Germany vs Italy yesterday, Europe seemed to be haunted again not only by a sort of nationalist catharsis, but also by its colonial past: closet racist images of the Self and the Other, creating a strange (soccer) aesthetics of fear & desire. Did the black Italian player Mario Barwuah Balotelli re-affirm or undermine those stereotypes with his historic gesture – and what happened in the eye of the beholder when the image got viral?
delirium clemens 