Capital times Tales from the conquest of time

344 Pages·1996·20.109 MB·English, French

by  Eric Alliez, Georges Van Den Abbeele

Capital Times
Sandra Buckley
Michael Hardt
Brian Massumi
THECB? OUT OF B O U N DS
...UNCONTAINED
BY
THE
DISCIPLINES,
INSUBORDINATE
PRACTICES OF RESISTANCE
...Inventing,
excessively,
in the between...
6 Capital Times:
PROCESSES
Tales from the Conquest of Time EricAlliez
5 The Year of Passages Reda Bensmai'a
4 Labor of Dionysus:
A Critique of the State-Form Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
OF
3 Bad Aboriginal Art: Tradition,
Media, and Technological Horizons Eric Michaels
2 The Cinematic Body Steven Shaviro
HYBRIDIZATION
1 The Coming Community Giorgio Agamben
Capital Times
Tales from the Conquest of Time
Eric Alliez
Foreword by Gilles Deleuze • Translated by Georges Van Den Abbeele
Theory out of Bounds Volume 6
University of Minnesota Press
Minneapolis • London
The University of Minnesota gratefully acknowledges funding provided
by the French Ministry of Culture for the translation of this book.
Copyright 1996 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota
Originally published as Les Temps Capitaux. Tome I, Re'cits de la conquete du temps.
Copyright 1991 by Les Editions du Cerf.
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Alliez, Eric
[Recits de la conquete du temps. English]
Capital times. Tales from the conquest of time / Eric Alliez ;
foreword by Gilles Deleuze ; translated by Georges Van Den Abbeele.
p. cm. — (Theory out of bounds ; v. 6)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8166-2259-0 (he). — ISBN 0-8166-2260-4 (pb)
1. Time. I. Title. II. Series.
BD638.A3913 1996
115 —dc20
95-40926
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To the child from Chile
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And then there is the matter of the highly improper manipulation of time. The shameful
tricks, the penetration of time's mechanism from behind, the hazardous fingering of its
wicked secrets! Sometimes one feels like banging the table and exclaiming, "Enough of
this! Keep off time, time is untouchable, one must not provoke it! Isn't it enough for you
to have space? Space is for human beings, you can swing about in space, turn
somersaults, fall down, jump from star to star. But for goodness' sake, don't tamper with
time!"
Bruno Schulz, Sanatorium under the
Sign of the Hourglass
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Contents
Foreword Cities Defence xi
Introduction xv
i The Accident of Time: An Aristotelian Study i
ii The Time of Audacity: Plotinus 27
in The Time of Novitasi Saint Augustine 11
iv Fides Efficax 141
ApOStil 241
Notes 243
Bibliographical Indications 297
Index 309