Skateboarding as Discordant: A Rhythmanalysis of Disaster Leisure

Research on skateboarding has sought to define it, place it in a spatial-temporal schema, and analyse its social cultural dimensions. We expand upon skateboarding’s relationship with time using the Marxist theorist Henri Lefebvre’s temporal science of Rhythmanalysis. With disruption urban production capital by Covid-19 pandemic, we find renewed disjuncture from Capitalism argue that this separation is central performance culture. propose arrhythmic: discordant, out step, disruptive more predictable rhythms everyday capital. Drawing concept ‘arrhythmia’, attempt re-conceive beat tempo skateboarding: offbeat, juxtaposed, tilted, contradictory. emphasise discordance not malady but part broader ontology skateboarding. This very also raises questions about continued incorporation into competitive sports, wellbeing, prosocial paradigms reminds theorists continues be unkempt, subversive tacitly political.