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This paper addresses some issues concerning a semiotic approach to rhythm, a phenomenon characterised by its background nature and, consequently, by the fact that it proposes itself while the viewer’s attention is focused on other phenomena and their significant nature. Starting from the comparticipation / cognition opposition, roughly superimposable to the known / new one, the rhythms are always placed on the first side. But comparticipation and cognition interact closely at various levels, and the same iterative structures can frequently access the foreground, however generating saturation effects, with the consequent tensions. While retaining the characteristics of rhythm, the ascent to the foreground completely transforms the role of repetition. In these pages we will discuss the modalities of this transformation, the requirements that allow repetition to be recognised as such, and the roles that rhythms play in different activities such as ritual, aesthetic contemplation, laughing and sexual activity. |
