Tag: Rhythms

December 21, 2024

Rhythms of Revolt European Traditions and Memories of Social Conflict in Oral Culture

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Free Download Éva Guillorel, "Rhythms of Revolt: European Traditions and Memories of Social Conflict in Oral Culture"
English | ISBN: 0367232065 | 2019 | 428 pages | PDF | 6 MB
The culture of insurgents in early modern Europe was primarily an oral one; memories of social conflicts in the communities affected were passed on through oral forms such as songs and legends. This popular history continued to influence political choices and actions through and after the early modern period. The chapters in this book examine numerous examples from across Europe of how memories of revolt were perpetuated in oral cultures, and they analyse how traditions were used. From the German Peasants’ War of 1525 to the counter-revolutionary guerrillas of the 1790s, oral traditions can offer radically different interpretations of familiar events. This is a ‘history from below’, and a history from song, which challenges existing historiographies of early modern revolts.

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September 17, 2024

The Week A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are [Audiobook]

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Free Download The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are (Audiobook)
English | November 16, 2021 | ASIN: B09DLCHVD6 | M4B@128 kbps | 8h 54m | 506 MB
Author: David Henkin | Narrator: Pete Cross
We take the seven-day week for granted, rarely asking what anchors it or what it does to us. Yet weeks are not dictated by the natural order. They are, in fact, an artificial construction of the modern world.
With meticulous archival research that draws on a wide array of sources – including newspapers, restaurant menus, theater schedules, marriage records, school curricula, folklore, housekeeping guides, courtroom testimony, and diaries – David Henkin reveals how our current devotion to weekly rhythms emerged in the United States during the first half of the 19th century. Reconstructing how weekly patterns have insinuated themselves into the social practices and mental habits of Americans, Henkin argues that the week is more than just a regimen of rest days or breaks from work: It’s a dominant organizational principle of modern society. Ultimately, the seven-day week shapes our understanding and experience of time.

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September 15, 2024

Contemporary Capitalism and Mental Health Rhythms of Everyday Life

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Free Download Conor Heaney, "Contemporary Capitalism and Mental Health: Rhythms of Everyday Life"
English | ISBN: 1399529935 | 2024 | 328 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Rather than individualising mental health, Conor Heaney takes seriously the notion of a shared mental environment and the importance of theorising everyday life in our endeavours to grasp and transform our everyday experience. Drawing particularly on the work of Félix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Bernard Stiegler, and Henri Lefebvre, Heaney develops the idea of rhythmanalysis as an original and interdisciplinary approach to the politics of mental health. He offers both a renewed methodological and philosophical approach to rhythmanalysis (scaping) and deploys it with respect to the relationship between contemporary capitalism and mental health.

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January 15, 2024

Biological Rhythms

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Free Download Biological Rhythms by Vinod Kumar
English | 2002 | ISBN: 3662060876 | 254 Pages | PDF | 10.4 MB
This volume consists of articles by specialists in their respective fields illustrating balanced and up-to-date treatment of important aspects of biological rhythmicity.

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