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Rhythm, Rhuthmos and Rhythmanalysis

Paola Crespi and Sunil Manghani

Paola Crespi and Sunil Manghani (eds)

in Rhythm and Critique: Technics, Modalities, Practices

This first introduction by the editors provides an overview of the chapter contributions, structured with specific commentaries for each of the three parts of the book (Modalities of Rhythm; Sites ... More

This first introduction by the editors provides an overview of the chapter contributions, structured with specific commentaries for each of the three parts of the book (Modalities of Rhythm; Sites and Practices; and Rhythmanalysis). More broadly, the introduction sets out the underlying critical and historical themes. Overall, the account provides the book with its underlying critical concept of rhythm that is not simply about beat and measure, but of a particular sense of a changeable form, and which is as much spatial as it is temporal (something which becomes of apparent in recent critical thinking about rhythm). Thus, through this etymological, historical and critical account, the term rhuthmós helps establishing an overarching understanding of rhythm and related themes as picked up in varying ways throughout the book.Less

The Configuring of ‘Context’ in Rhythmanalysis

Yi Chen

Paola Crespi and Sunil Manghani (eds)

in Rhythm and Critique: Technics, Modalities, Practices

This chapter defines rhythm in ways that carve out the distinct attentions, orientations and procedures of rhythmanalysis. There are two conceptual configurations of rhythms which are to be ... More

This chapter defines rhythm in ways that carve out the distinct attentions, orientations and procedures of rhythmanalysis. There are two conceptual configurations of rhythms which are to be discussed: rhythm as a meta-sense and rhythm as temporal-spatial relations in which social entities are (dis)ordered. Rhythmanalysis is posited as a methodology that directs our attention to these registers and forms of experience (albeit not limited to them). The chapter examines how the methodology of rhythmanalysis can be practised in relation to cultural historical research. In particular, focusing on how rhythmanalysis offers perspectives for engaging with the notion of ‘contexts’ (as Lawrence Grossberg argues that Cultural Studies is about making ‘radical contexts’). To instantiate a type of contextual analysis for which rhythmanalysis serves to be a potent analytical tool, the chapter uses the notion of ‘conjuncture’ in relation to the late 1970s’ shift of cultural political landscape in Britain claimed by Stuart Hall. Drawing on the main concepts of rhythmanalysis (e.g. ‘polyrhythmia’, the agential role of rhythms), the chapter addresses how conjunctural analysis is itself a type of contextual work and how, through this, we can enrich discourses of the 1970s’ conjuncture by re-thinking the category of conjunctural analysis through rhythmanalysis.Less

City Rhythms: An Approach to Urban Rhythm Analysis

Caroline Nevejan and Pinar Sefkatli

Paola Crespi and Sunil Manghani (eds)

in Rhythm and Critique: Technics, Modalities, Practices

This chapter presents the results of the exploratory study City Rhythm, a project of the Deft University of Technology, in collaboration with AMS Institute and six cities in the Netherlands. City ... More

This chapter presents the results of the exploratory study City Rhythm, a project of the Deft University of Technology, in collaboration with AMS Institute and six cities in the Netherlands. City Rhythm constructed different rhythmanalyses by combining social sciences and architecture methodologies such as interviewing techniques and visualisations, for analysing social issues related with sense of safety in neighbourhoods. Examples for carried out case studies are integrating migrants in a residential area (The Hague); motivating older people to go out of their homes (Rotterdam); identifying why single mothers do not make use of the facilities that are provided to them (Amsterdam); changing perception about youngsters who socialize in the open every day (Zaanstad); and enhancing the atmosphere in a specific street and square (Helmond and Zoetermeer), from the perspective of trust (Nevejan 2009, Nevejan 2012). It will be argued that the results indicate that rhythmanalysis in societal contexts can function as boundary object in policymaking processes.Less

Rhythm, Rhythmanalysis and Algorithm-Analysis

Julian Henriques

Paola Crespi and Sunil Manghani (eds)

in Rhythm and Critique: Technics, Modalities, Practices

This chapter explores the appeal of rhythm and algorithm; rhythm in rhythmanalysis and algorithm in pattern of life analysis and AI. It compares the origins of rhythm in ancient Greek thought via ... More

This chapter explores the appeal of rhythm and algorithm; rhythm in rhythmanalysis and algorithm in pattern of life analysis and AI. It compares the origins of rhythm in ancient Greek thought via Benveniste and more recently Pascal Michon with the origins of algorithm in 10th century Persian thought and the work of Algoritmi who gave the term its name. It identifies the common conversion process of two concepts: quantities into qualities, measure into number and mathematics into geometry. It then names ‘algorithmanalysis’ (as distinct from the analysis of algorithms) as this process of recoding data as pattern, in contrast to quantization that encodes the patterning of continuous analogue variation as digital data. Finally the chapter considers three areas in which algorithmanalysis has been put to use in the commercial world predicting consumer buying and other behaviours, in the political world by identifying particular groups of UK voters via social media, and in warfare for targeting drone missiles.Less

Moving with the Rhythms of the City: Ambient Video Attunements

Paul Roquet

in Ambient Media: Japanese Atmospheres of Self

Chapter Three maps out how the audiovisual attunements of ambient video intersect with the impersonal rhythms of the urban environment. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis, Roquet explores how ... More

Chapter Three maps out how the audiovisual attunements of ambient video intersect with the impersonal rhythms of the urban environment. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis, Roquet explores how ambient media can serve as an intermediary between the rhythms of the city and the rhythms of the body.Less