Rhythm and the performance of organization
- 1 July 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Text and Performance Quarterly
- Vol. 14 (3) , 222-237
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10462939409366085
Abstract
Rhythm is a form of discourse central to social organization. This essay weaves together a variety of anecdotes, ethnographic analyses, labor histories, and critical theories around the central theme of rhythm in order to hear the relationships between organization, epistemology, consciousness, and body without positing one of these elements as foundational. This approach expands and complicates the understanding of what constitutes “organization” and calls for a greater accounting in communication theory of the role of physiological structures in human social life.Keywords
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