This book provides an unorthodox array of perspectives on materialist thought and representation in twentieth-century French intellectual culture. It constructs a necessarily fragmented timeline of the breaks, tensions and antagonisms in twentieth-century French thought, culture and politics, with particular focus on questions of late capitalism.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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.