Rhythm and Critique
Technics, Modalities, Practices
Published on 30. June 2020
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-4744-4754-6 (ISBN)
Description
Rhythm and Critique presents 12 new essays from a range of specialists to define, contextualise and challenge the concepts of rhythm and rhythmanalysis. It includes newly translated materials from Rudolf Laban and Henri Meschonnic. The book begins with a genealogy of rhythm as it occurs through critical theory literatures of the 20th century, enabling the reader to situate philosophical and contemporary readings that further define rhythm as a critical term and mode of analysis.
Reviews / Votes
Paola Crespi and Sunil Manghani's edited volume brings an important contribution to a long tradition of research around human rhythms and their political dimensions. This vibrant collection of interdisciplinary essays constitutes a unique attempt in the English-speaking field to articulate theoretical and empirical research focusing on the study of rhythms. Doing so, this book demonstrates forcefully the relevance of the analysis of rhythmic phenomena to critically reinterpret current cultural dynamics. * Michel Alhadeff-Jones, Teachers College, Columbia University *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
30 B/W illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-4754-6 (9781474447546)
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Persons
Paola Crespi is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Topology Research Unit at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work has been published in international peer-reviewed journals, such as Body & Society (2014, print) and Theory, Culture & Society (2015, Online). She is Section Editor for Cultural Studies and Critical Theory for the Open Journal of the Humanities and is a member of the Editorial Board of Evental Aesthetics: An Independent Journal of Philosophy. Sunil Manghani is Professor of Theory, Practice and Critique at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton
Content
Notes on Contributors
Introductions
Rhythm, Rhuthmos and Rhythmanalysis
Paola Crespi and Sunil Manghani
Could Rhythm Become a New Scientific Paradigm for the Humanities? Pascal Michon
A Genealogy of Rhythm
Paola Crespi and Sunil Manghani
Part I: Modalities of Rhythm
1. Drawing Rhythm: The Work of Rudolf Laba
Paola Crespi
2. What is at Stake in a Theory of Rhythm
Henri Meschonnic (translated by Chantal Wright, Introduced by Marko Pajevic)
3. Rhythm and Textural Temporality
Xin Wei Sha and Garrett Laroy Johnson
Part II: Sites and Practices
4. Attunement of Value and Capital in the Alogrithms of Social Media
Beverly Skeggs and Simon Yuill
5. Idiorrhythmy: An (Unsustainable) Aesthetic of Ethics
Sunil Manghani
6. Adventures of a Line of Thought: Rhythmic Evolutions of Intelligent Machines in Post-Digital Culture
Stamatia Portanova
Part III: Rhythmanalysis
7. The Configuring of 'Context' in Rhythmanalysis
Yi Chen
8. City Rhythms: An Approach to Urban Rhythm Analyses
Caroline Nevejan and Pinar Sefkatli
9. Rhythm, Rhythmanalysis and Algorithm-Analysis
Julian Henriques
Index
Introductions
Rhythm, Rhuthmos and Rhythmanalysis
Paola Crespi and Sunil Manghani
Could Rhythm Become a New Scientific Paradigm for the Humanities? Pascal Michon
A Genealogy of Rhythm
Paola Crespi and Sunil Manghani
Part I: Modalities of Rhythm
1. Drawing Rhythm: The Work of Rudolf Laba
Paola Crespi
2. What is at Stake in a Theory of Rhythm
Henri Meschonnic (translated by Chantal Wright, Introduced by Marko Pajevic)
3. Rhythm and Textural Temporality
Xin Wei Sha and Garrett Laroy Johnson
Part II: Sites and Practices
4. Attunement of Value and Capital in the Alogrithms of Social Media
Beverly Skeggs and Simon Yuill
5. Idiorrhythmy: An (Unsustainable) Aesthetic of Ethics
Sunil Manghani
6. Adventures of a Line of Thought: Rhythmic Evolutions of Intelligent Machines in Post-Digital Culture
Stamatia Portanova
Part III: Rhythmanalysis
7. The Configuring of 'Context' in Rhythmanalysis
Yi Chen
8. City Rhythms: An Approach to Urban Rhythm Analyses
Caroline Nevejan and Pinar Sefkatli
9. Rhythm, Rhythmanalysis and Algorithm-Analysis
Julian Henriques
Index