Rhythm and Critique - (Technicities) by Paola Crespi & Sunil Manghani (Paperback)

About the Book

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.

Book Synopsis

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.

From the Back Cover

An investigation of rhythm from the perspective of critical theory, philosophy and art Rhythm and Critique presents twelve new essays from a range of specialists to define, contextualise and challenge the concepts of rhythm and rhythmanalysis, and 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 twentieth century, enabling the reader to situate philosophical and contemporary readings that further define rhythm as a critical term and mode of analysis. In placing emphasis upon rhythm as cultural technique and locating its significance for the analysis of the everyday, the book offers a clear and engaging overview of a fascinating theoretical field. It helps map a range of histories and approaches and considers how rhythm might now emerge more forcefully and pertinently as a critical framing for contemporary culture. Paola Crespi is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Topology Research Unit at Goldsmiths. Sunil Manghani is Professor of Theory, Practice and Critique at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.

Review Quotes

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"

About the Author

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