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Book SynopsisRhythm 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.
Table of ContentsNotes 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