[Minorcompositions] Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 19 Emergent Assemblages of Relationist Football with Jamie Hamilton

[Minor Compositions]

*Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 19 Emergent Assemblages of 
Relationist Football with Jamie Hamilton *
https://fireflyfrequencies.org/podcasts/minor-compositions

For this episode we talk with Jamie Hamilton, a football coach and 
tactical writer based at Ayr United in Scotland. Hamilton is best known 
for coining the idea of relationism in football, which is an approach 
that emphasizes emergent patterns of play discovered by the players 
themselves rather than fitting into a set plan determined by the manager 
in advance. It is an approach that draws from a wide range of 
philosophical and aesthetic concepts, from the work of Deleuze and 
Guattari, to the antic-colonial politics of Brazilian football. In what 
ways might ideas and approaches developed within a football resonate 
beyond that context? How might looking for emergent dynamics rather than 
set plans change out patterns of perception and attunement with the 
environments we operate within and the people with interact with?

“Relationism differs from Positionism in that it does not believe future 
possibilities derive from fixed, known, established concepts. Rather, 
Relationism proposes (by way of concepts borrowed from French 
philosopher, Gilles Deleuze) that novel future states emerge to be 
actual through the establishing of contacts with an infinite set of 
virtual possibilities which are as yet unknown to us. The virtual is a 
realm of potentiality – the kindling is already pregnant with the 
potential of fire, all it needs to actualise it is a spark…

The purpose is not to replace Positionism with Relationism in Europe, 
but nor should European Positionism entirely reject the validity of 
Relationist systems. Rather, an environment must be nurtured where these 
contrasting strains of football tactics can be studied, merged and 
cross-pollinated. Relationist tactics propose that new and unpredictable 
connections emerge from within the chaotic interactions between players. 
The routes of ball progression are not pre-meditated through set 
patterns and repeated automations. New orders emerge from the 
instability of disordered environments.”

*Bio:* Jamie Hamilton is a coach (UEFA A) at Ayr United in Scotland and 
a football writer focusing on tactical theory and coaching practice. His 
writing can be found on Medium <https://medium.com/@stirlingj1982>.

Intro / Outro Music: Ken Vandermark, Eddie Prevost, and Guillaume 
Viltard, Improv Set Live at Cafe Oto September 2014









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