Rhythms and Bodies 1600, Wolfgang Schäffner from military type beat Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 41 min 39 sec
✓ Published: 12-Jun-2013

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Rhythms and Bodies 1600nnIn my talk I will describe the emergence of a new type of bodily motion in the late 16th century. The reinvention of military drill by the Orangist military reformers, headed by Maurits van Oranje, can be taken as the production of human bodies that move according to a new code. The steady beat is produced by the discrete and discontinuous unities of a step-by-step motion: military orders cut continuous motion of the body into discrete elements and rearrange them by a pr