Towards Lefebvrian Socio-Nature? A Film about Rhythm, Nature and Science

Bibliographic Data

ID5877651
AuthorsJames Evans (0000-0002-7721-4782, University of Manchester), Phil Ian Jones (0000-0001-6455-1184, University of Birmingham), Phil Jones (0000-0001-5173-3245)
Year2008
Volume2
Issue3
Pages659-670
Publication date2008-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeography Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00107.x
OpenAlexW2005246691
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited6

The first thing you will notice about this article is that it is actually a film. We did not set out to make a film, it just ended up that way. We started out making music out of environmental data, wondering why we only ever look at scientific data, why we do not listen to it. Wandering around the city passing through the transformed landscapes of channelised rivers and broken industrial spaces, we wanted to reveal the socio-natural rhythms of this hybrid city. The text you see below represents the shooting script for a film that explores Lefebvre's notion of rhythmanalysis in the context of socio-natural rhythms. The video accompanying it is far more interesting, including the environmental music that we produced by feeding scientific data through samplers and drum machines. The video questions the nature of scientific representation and whether the notion of rhythmanalysis can be stretched to explore rhythms beyond the human. Furthermore, the process of actually making the video, submitting it to this journal, and responding to the referees' comments made us question the very nature of what constitutes an academic paper in the twenty-first century. The accompanying commentary is our attempt to deal with these issues.To link to the film please go toPart 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQg86oSlVm4Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xx1Ya3TA24There are also 'directors commentary' which can be fount at:Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul8Grc_iDQAPart 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LUaZuN58XU

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Media studies · Notice · Political science · Politics · Rhythm · Sociology · Visual arts · Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis · Computer Science · Embodied and Extended Cognition · History · Law · Water Governance and Infrastructure

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