To the rhythm of shopping—on synchronisation in urban landscapes of consumption

Kärrholm, Mattias

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“…This is unfortunate, since, as we shall demonstrate, market rhythms and their links to the bodily rhythms of traders offer a novel understanding of financial markets and their spatio-temporal transformations. The emphasis on financial markets also constitutes the central contribution to extant debates in geography, in which-to the extent that Lefebvre's (and others') rhythmanalysis has been deployed to make sense of capitalism-the main focus has been on shopping (Ka¨rrholm, 2009) or on the economies of performance (Simpson, 2008(Simpson, , 2012. To be sure, based on an audio and visual montage of activity in Berlin, Pryke has (briefly) observed a connection between Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis and ''the networks of global, financial capital' ' (2002 [1961]: 474).…”

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Markets, bodies, and rhythms: A rhythmanalysis of financial markets from open-outcry trading to high-frequency trading

2015

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This article explores the relationship between bodily rhythms and market rhythms in two distinctly different financial market configurations, namely the open-outcry pit (prevalent especially in the early 20th century) and present-day high-frequency trading. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis, we show how traders seek to calibrate their bodily rhythms to those of the market. We argue that, in the case of early-20th-century open-outcry trading pits, traders tried to enact a total merger of bodily and market rhythms. We also demonstrate how, in the 1920s and '30s, market observers began to respond to a widely perceived problem, namely that market rhythms might be contagious and that some form of separation of bodily and market rhythms might therefore be needed. Finally, we show how current high-frequency trading, despite being purely algorithmic, does not render the traders' bodies irrelevant. Yet high-frequency trading does change the role of the body rather than seeking to attune their bodies to the markets, high-frequency traders seek to calibrate their bodies to their algorithms. While the article demonstrates the usefulness of deploying Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis in analyses of financial markets, it also suggests that high-frequency trading in particular might produce new types of market rhythms that, contra Lefebvre, do not revolve around traders' bodies.

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Markets, bodies, and rhythms: A rhythmanalysis of financial markets from open-outcry trading to high-frequency trading

2015

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“…10 Finally, rhythm is one of the temporal qualities most often associated with territorialisation (cf. Deleuze and Guattari, 1987;Brown and Capdevila, 1999;Kärrholm, 2009;Brighenti, 2010, p. 63), and here, it is taken quite simply to mean recurrent activities. Lefebvre's conceptualisation of rhythm is also quite helpful here, as he described rhythm as repetition with a difference (Lefebvre, 2004, pp.…”

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The temporality of territorial production – the case of Stortorget, Malmö

Kärrholm

2016

Social & Cultural Geography

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Abstract:In recent years, we have seen the development of a more relational approach to territoriality. This perspective, which focuses on events rather than space, also opens up for an elaboration of temporal aspects of territorial production. In this study, I investigate the central urban square, Stortorget, in Malmö, Sweden, in order to develop a discussion of a time-space territorology. In 1978, Korosec-Serfaty performed a thorough study of the square, observing its everyday activities. The present study compares territorial productions at Malmö's Main Square during 1978 with those of 2013. The results of the study indicate a change of time-space production in which temporary territorial appropriations and tactics tend to become shorter in duration, whereas the number of temporary and large-scale territorial strategies has increased and the role of these become more important. The study also shows how these territorial transformations include changes (in pace, rhythm, temporal salience and scale) that seem to vertically stabilise the territorial structure of the square, and thus decrease both territorial complexity and the possibilities for new publics to evolve.

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“…I analysdelarna återkommer jag till begreppet pendlar rytm då jag undersöker järnvägsstationerna som fysiska platser och sociala rum, samt i förhållande till resenärernas upplevelser och erfarenheter av sig själva och andra som pendlare. Kärrholm (2008Kärrholm ( , 2009 använder det rytmanalytiska tänkandet för att undersöka kommersialiseringen av offentliga rum. Kärrholm utvecklar begreppet konsumtions rytmer för att undersöka kommersialiseringens förhållande till kroppar och rum.…”

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“…Detta gör att gränslandet mellan fasadliknande butiker och förförelsefulla konsumtionsvärldar börjar flyta samman, och Centralhallen får drag som kan liknas vid ett inomhustorg i ett shoppingcentrum. Att järnvägsstationer i allt högre grad utvecklas till kommersiella rum, som påminner om inomhusgallerior, är något som även Mattias Kärrholm (2008Kärrholm ( , 2009 konstaterar då han undersöker konsumtionsrytmer och den ökade kommersialiseringen av offentliga rum.…”

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Rum, rytm och resande : Genusperspektiv på järnvägsstationer

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2014

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To the rhythm of shopping—on synchronisation in urban landscapes of consumption

Cited by 74 publications

References 32 publications

Markets, bodies, and rhythms: A rhythmanalysis of financial markets from open-outcry trading to high-frequency trading

Markets, bodies, and rhythms: A rhythmanalysis of financial markets from open-outcry trading to high-frequency trading

The temporality of territorial production – the case of Stortorget, Malmö

Rum, rytm och resande : Genusperspektiv på järnvägsstationer

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