[ecrea] London Graduate School, Kingston University: Rhythm & Event symposium announcement

The London Graduate School, Kingston University:

Rhythm & Event symposium
10.00 – 19.30, Saturday 29 October 2011 (with registration from 09.00)
The Anatomy Theatre & Museum, King’s College, London, UK

(Rhythm is) a vital power that exceeds every domain (visual or auditory) 
and traverses them all...This is a “logic of the senses” (Cézanne) which 
is neither rational nor cerebral.
Gilles Deleuze, The Logic of Sensation

How can we think of novelty without attributing ontological prominence 
and metaphysical distinction between discreteness and continuity, or 
between the actual and the virtual, the analog and the digital, or the 
spatial and the temporal? Can a concept of ‘rhythm’ understood as a 
vibratory movement detached from substance, structure, metric property, 
and lived experience, become a method with which to account for how the 
new comes to be? Certainly, on the one hand, Bergson and, following him, 
Deleuze allow room for the coexistence of these concepts away from 
opposition. On the other hand, Bachelard and, following him, Lefebvre, 
have attempted to construct a rhythmanalysis of newness, while Badiou’s 
theory of the event signals an interruption in the spatiotemporal order. 
But perhaps there are yet other connections to be made between (what is 
absent in) these thinkers and towards conceiving ‘a rhythmics of the 
event’. For example, for theorists such as Kodwo Eshun and Steve Goodman 
rhythm points to a complex ecology of speeds, inciting mutations across 
the human-machine network to allow for the construction of a sonic 
futurity: a virtual coexistence of past and future in the present.

The purpose of this symposium is to elaborate a philosophy of rhythm as 
an appropriate mode of analysis of the event. Whether aesthetic, 
cultural, strategic, or other, we understand the event to be an instance 
of rhythmic time, summoning, expressing and animated by the abstract yet 
real (virtual) movements of matter. A rhythmic ontogenetics of this kind 
necessarily departs from a binary split between, on the one hand, 
natural bodily rhythms (breath, heartbeat and so on) and, on the other, 
a mechanics of steady tempo or pulse presupposing the metric 
organisation of spacetime. Instead, this symposium seeks to explore 
rhythm as an interface between diverse elements (human, machine or 
other) and a somewhat non-sensory, irregular and amodal movement, 
lurking at the most potentially unknown or ‘unthought ’ dimensions of 
the event.

The symposium is organised by Dr Eleni Ikoniadou and Professor Scott 
Wilson (both London Graduate School, Kingston University). For further 
information please email: (E.Ikoniadou /at/ kingston.ac.uk)

Early-bird registration WAGED: £15 (Until 30th September). From 1st 
October: £20. UNWAGED (Concessions and Kingston University staff/ 
students): £10.

For registration, programme and abstracts, please visit:
http://www.thelondongraduateschool.co.uk/blog/symposium-rhythmevent/

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