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Domestic orchestration

Rhythms in the mediated home

University of Melbourne, b.nansen{at}pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Michael Arnold

School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry at the University of Melbourne

Martin R. Gibbs

Department of Information Systems at the University of Melbourne

Hilary Davis

Department of Information Systems at the University of Melbourne

The steady proliferation of media and connectivity reconstitutes domestic rhythms in ways that make them emergent, relational, negotiated, and multiple. In an attempt to capture some of the entangled dynamics characteristic of contemporary domestic chronometrics (time-measured), chronaesthetics (time-felt) and chronomanagement (time-ordered), we use the terms ‘reticular rhythms’ and ‘technologies of reticulation’. In our analysis of interviews with five families over three years we identify four interrelated forms of reticular rhythms that together constitute the rhythms of contemporary domestic life. These four are: a polyphonic drone, a polychronic dissonance, an asynchronous consonance, and an orchestrated performance. Each of these forms of rhythm are described and illustrated.

Key Words: chronaesthetics • governmentality • home • media technologies • technologies-of-reticulation • temporal rhythms

Time & Society, Vol. 18, No. 2-3, 181-207 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0961463X09338082


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