Matters of Time

Lisa Jeschke is a doctoral candidate at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on late modernist poetry and theatricality. She is co-editor at Materials, a small press that publishes poetry and critical thought.Adrian May is a doctoral candidate at the University of Cambridge. His thesis uses the contemporary French intellectual publication Lignes to explore what has happened to the radical philosophical left over the past twenty-five years.

• Contents: Lisa Jeschke/Adrian May: Matters of Time: Introduction – Alexandra Paulin-Booth: A Period of Transition: Political Time in the Work of Jean Jaurès – Lisa Jeschke: To Refuse to Imagine: Simone Weil’s Materialism – Daniel Poitras: Time Matters: The Mouvement du 22 mars and the Dawn of May ’68 – Andrew Otway: Rhythmanalysis and Bertin’s Les Heures Marseillaises – George Tomlinson: Totalisation, Temporalisation and History: Marx and Sartre – Adrian May: A Meteorology of the Times: Bataille, Blanchot, Lignes and the Twentieth Century – Martin Crowley: Existence - Politics / Exposure - Sacrifice – David Grundy: What’s the Matter with Antonin Artaud? Or, Why the Soul is a Pile of Shit – Rye Holmboe: Merdre – Jessica Stacey: ‘Doing Time’: Bastille Martyrs/ Modern Saints – Jennifer Johnson: Surface Matters: Georges Rouault’s Materiality – Louis Daubresse: Quand l’endroit du temps rencontre son envers au cinéma: une dialectique des opposés – Christina Chalmers: Frank O’Hara’s Anti-Cocteau Movement – Joanna Brueton: A Stitch in Time: Temporal Threads in Jean Genet – Daniel Finch-Race: Fluid Temporality and Identity in Verlaine’s ‘Ariettes oubliées’ I, III, VI, VIII, IX.