Henri Lefebvre: Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time, and Everyday Life (1992/2004)

“Rhythmanalysis displays all the characteristics which made Lefebvre one of the most important Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century. In the analysis of rhythms — both biological and social — Lefebvre shows the interrelation of space and time in the understanding of everyday life. With dazzling skills, Lefebvre moves between discussions of music, the commodity, measurement, the media and the city. In doing so he shows how a non-linear conception of time and history balanced his famous rethinking of the question of space. This volume also includes his earlier essays on ‘The Rhythmanalysis Project’ and ‘Attempt at the Rhythmanalysis of Mediterranean Towns’.”

First published as Éléments de rythmnanalyse, Syllepse, Paris, 1992.

Translated by Stuart Elden and Gerald Moore
With an Introduction by Stuart Elden
Publisher Continuum, 2004
Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers series
ISBN 0826472990, 9780826472991
112 pages

Reviews and commentaries: Guillerm (L Homme et la société, 1992, FR), Horton (Time & Society, 2005), Revol (Rhuthmos, 2012).

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AltArt Foundation: Bare Share. Culture of File Sharing in Romania (2007)

“The exhibition contained the works of largely anonymous artists and some of the best known – active in the digital space. The territory researched is the DC++-based neighborhood networks – providers of an endemic culture where the act of sharing is the prototypical contract of participating in this culture. Sharing while not expecting immediate gratification make neighborhood networks complex gift economies – where the community becomes an entity, the real gifting partner – playing the role of the donor and recipient in the same time.

This ideology of exchange – regardless of legal issues or moral concerns – builds a subculture of consumption that is maintained through giving. Gifting becomes a tool for the collapse of the permission-culture-based capitalist market hegemony while it is serving as an alternative consumption activity at the electronic frontier.”

Curators: Istvan Szakáts, Stefan Tiron
Project by AltArt Foundation

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AltArt Foundation: E-Tribal Art (2009)

The project brings together 12 international artists to test new ways of reaching electronic tribes with their work.

Editors: Alina Suatean, Corina Bucea
Curators: István Szakáts, Thomas Dumke
Project manager: Rarita Zbranca
Project by AltArt Foundation, Cluj, and British Council
Partners: c6.org, European Alternatives, GMT+2 Foundation, InterSpace
Funded by Romanian Cultural Institute through Cantemir Programme.

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