A review by baetsie
Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network by Caroline Levine

4.0

Far from an ideologically coherent society with power lodged in the hands of a few, this bold advance on the New Formalism gives us a social world constantly unsettled by the bewildering and unexpected effects of clashes among wholes, rhythms, hierarchies, and networks.

As a bonus it contains a climactic discussion of The Wire.

Reading it will enable you to recognize the power and significance of these multiple forms and make strategic decisions which permit outcomes that frustrate or elude the conventional distribution of power, allowing you to become an epistemological and ethical exemplar and perform a reading of the social that is nothing other than a canny formalism.