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<p><b>Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 19 Emergent Assemblages of
Relationist Football with Jamie Hamilton </b><br>
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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?<br>
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“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…<br>
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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.”<br>
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<b>Bio:</b> 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 <a
href="https://medium.com/@stirlingj1982">Medium</a>.<br>
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Intro / Outro Music: Ken Vandermark, Eddie Prevost, and Guillaume
Viltard, Improv Set Live at Cafe Oto September 2014<br>
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