Rhythm and Critique

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

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