Abstract
This paper sets out to offer an analysis the specific context of remote working from a domestic space during the lockdown imposed by the Covid-19 crisis. Referring to the works of Henri Lefebvre on rhythms and spaces, this article develops a critical account of the impact that the intrusion of labour rhythms from workplaces to domestic spaces, especially through the mediation of information and communication technologies. Furthermore, the argument brings rhythmanalysis in dialogue with other theories that highlight the affordances of digital technological to act as powerful pharmaka that take part in the process of individuation, and de facto its destruction. Finally, the essay reminds the call for theorists such as Bernard Stiegler to be more careful in the way they study and describe the non-humans. When pessimistic minds cannot help to warn us about the ideological domination of technologies, that may act as instruments of alienation; in those troubled times, when the quotidian is being lock in limited spaces with digital devices, there is more than even a need for a radical immanent critique that help us to think with and not despite the assemblage of beings, things and rhythms that compose our everyday life.
Highlights
Mentioning Perec’s to start this essay is barely anecdotal since his books, which I was seeing every day next to my desk those last months during the first lockdown in March-April 2020
What is striking from the point of view of the long periods of lockdown is that many individuals, at a very large scale, expressed the same concerns about temporality and spatiality. This brought me to another French thinker of the everyday, Henri Lefebvre, and his seminal book on the rhythms of the everyday – which for a strange reason was not referring to Perec’s book2
In his last published work, Lefebvre narrows down his scope, moving from his more general books of urban spatiality and politics to a more individual level, in favour of the intimate level of the domestic spaces and the body in his comprehension of the everyday where
Summary
I am writing these words to fill a void on a space called the page. Space, and certainly time, are the two key words in these troubled times. What is striking from the point of view of the long periods of lockdown is that many individuals, at a very large scale, expressed the same concerns about temporality and spatiality This brought me to another French thinker of the everyday, Henri Lefebvre, and his seminal book on the rhythms of the everyday – which for a (not so) strange reason was not referring to Perec’s book. This brought me to another French thinker of the everyday, Henri Lefebvre, and his seminal book on the rhythms of the everyday – which for a (not so) strange reason was not referring to Perec’s book2 In his last published work, Lefebvre narrows down his scope, moving from his more general books of urban spatiality and politics to a more individual level, in favour of the intimate level of the domestic spaces and the body in his comprehension of the everyday where.
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