Social power arises from hierarchies interacting with rhythms and composed wholes

Evidence

Formalists attune to wholes, to rhythms, to hierarchies, and to networks, resulting in practical knowledge about what these forms afford and what they hinder, or about distributed agency and therefore sites of strategic action, or about how social power arises not just from the operation of a hierarchy when CEOs are compensated more highly than hourly workers, but from the interaction of that hierarchy with rhythms like the 24/7 working day and its different opportunities for composing wholes like unions. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 368

Categorization

• DEFINE: A trenchant example of how the reader can identify mediated formal thinking working through scale.
• XREF: connects to: Shared spatial and temporal rhythms constitute group identity itself, not just its symbols — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1341; Chronopolitics makes control of rhythm a core instrument of domination. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 96; Seasonal rounds are a form of governance coordinating a society’s institutions — Kyle Whyte, Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and…, 23 (+3 more)