Rhythmanalytics with writer, musician and curator DeForrest Brown, Jr. frames rhythm as a diagnostic tool for understanding how culture, technology, and power synchronize bodies, platforms, and attention. The course draws on Henri Lefebvre’s theory of rhythmanalysis and Norman Kelly’s analysis of Black political economy in music to envision a model artist-critic ecosystem designed to simulate contemporary music culture under platform capitalism. This class repositions music creation and journalism as convergent practices of prompt literacy: the ability to shape how sound is described, summoned, categorised, and interpreted across digital systems and lived experience.