Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis as a form of urban poetics

Claire Revol (1)

1 PACTE - Pacte, Laboratoire de sciences sociales

Lefebvre’s texts on rhythmanalysis are open to a variety of readings. By placing rhythmanalysis in the broader context of Lefebvre's work, the rhythmanalytical project emerges as what I have argued to be an urban poetics. A progressive reading of the different texts Lefebvre wrote on rhythmanalysis shows that, beyond rhythmanalysis’ contribution to the critical theory of urban space and time, the imagination becomes an alternative for the creation of time-spaces in the form of experimental utopias and the creation of lifestyles. Rhythmanalysis can then be understood as a general quest for the appropriation of time and space in the renewal of the possibility of the urban to become a human oeuvre. This chapter will outline the development of Lefebvrian urban poetics through the rhythmanalytical project.

Domaines: Philosophie; Architecture, aménagement de l'espace

Claire Revol. Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis as a form of urban poetics. Leary and Mc Carthy. The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre, the City and Urban Society, Routledge, 2019. ⟨halshs-02010529⟩