Rhythm and Critique : Technics, Modalities, Practices
- Submitting institution
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University of Southampton
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 49948774
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 9781474447546
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The edited volume, ‘Rhythm and Critique’, is a collaboration between Manghani and early career researcher Paola Crespi. It developed out of an interview between the editors for ‘Theory, Culture & Society’ (2015), a conference convened by Crespi, ‘Rhythm as Pattern and Variation’ (2016), and a guest speaker seminar series devised by both editors, supported through AHRC doctoral training funds. Taken together, this work established the network of scholars who contributed to the book and shaped its initial scope. The underlying contribution of the book is in its defining, contextualising and challenging of the concepts of rhythm and rhythmanalysis, in the process highlighting their relevance and richness as methodological perspectives and practices within arts, humanities and social sciences. While the terms are clearly present in the writings of many critical thinkers of the 20th century onwards, their true import have to date been under-researched. For the book project itself, Manghani took the lead in editing all of the contributions (which involved a series of iterations). He also took the lead in writing the two collaborative chapters, ‘Rhythm, Rhuthmos and Rhythmanalysis’ and ‘A Genealogy of Rhythm’. Together, these texts (including excerpts from notable writers) provide a layered history of ‘rhythm thinking’ and define a forward-going agenda for research, set out with three main areas: rhythm politics, worldly rhythms, and rhythms of life analysis. In addition, Manghani’s sole-authored chapter on ‘Idiorrhythmy’ examines the aesthetics underlining the ‘rhythm’ of ethics (as a choosing of how to live together). Working through Benveniste, Barthes and Lefebvre, alongside commentary on three artists (from India, Japan and China), the fragility of life rhythms within the urban setting is explored. The work was showcased at an international symposium, ‘Chasing Rhythm: Encounters at the Edge of Academic and Epistemological Traditions’, held at Birmingham City University, 2019.
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- Non-English
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