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Rhythmanalysis is the study of rhythms :o) Gaston Bachelard borrowed the term from the writer Lucio Alberto Pinheiro dos Santos (a 1931-piece in Portuguese) in The Psychoanalysis of Fire and in The Poetics of Space as “rhythmo-analysis”, and developed a

Etymologically the word flânerie comes from the French verb flâner that means to stroll, to take a walk. The origins of the verb are dialectal. In the seventeenth century the verb ‘flanner’ was used in Normandy to mean ‘to waste time’ (CNRTL). The verb

On the condition of being a stranger, I draw here on Georg Simmel's description of the stranger as a social type (1908). In order to determine typologies he focuses on forms of social interaction and contextualizes sets of observations within systems of

... Richard Sennett wrote an article on the foreigner that starts from Simmel's understanding of the stranger's role to expose "the sheer arbitrariness of society's script, which insiders follow thinking lines have been written by Right, Reason, or God"

The Unseen Power We are the flute, our music is all Thine;
 We are the mountains echoing only Thee;
 Pieces of chess Thou marshallest in line And movest to defeat or victory;
 Lions emblazoned high on flags unfurled -
 Thy wind invisible sweeps us

Shunryu Suzuky 1970: ... everything comes out of emptiness. when we reach this understanding we find the true meaning of our life. when we reach this understanding we can see the beauty of human life ... Zelda Fitzgerald 1929-30: every place

May 23 (1923)* My dear Emilian, As I expect you have already guessed, every ship is going to depart without me, because I am not going to leave this country again. When I went away from you I thought it would be my last absence, as I promised to

After their 1924 summer in the Bay of Naples (Capri), Walter Benjamin and Asja Lacis wrote the essay "Neapel", which appeared in Frankfurter Zeitung in 1926. It is Benjamin's first recording of his reflections on the modern city experience. The ruins of