Enduring Time

237 Pages·2017·2.371 MB·English

by  Lisa Baraitser

Enduring Time
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Enduring Time
By Lisa Baraitser
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To Simon
For Endurance and Care
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Contents
Acknowledgements viii
List of Images x
Introduction 1
1 Staying 23
2 Maintaining 47
3 Repeating 69
4 Delaying 93
5 Enduring 115
6 Recalling 139
7 Remaining 159
8 Ending 179
Bibliography 189
Index 213
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Acknowledgements
I am indebted to the kindness, time, and precious thoughts that Denise Riley,
Jackie Sumell, Barbara Loft us and Mierle Laderman Ukeles gave me, whose work
is the subject of this book.
I am grateful to both Birkbeck, University of London, and the Independent
Social Research Foundation, both rare institutions that still preserve the odd
idea that we need time to think and write. Two periods of research leave, funded
by each, enabled me to do just that.
Colleagues at Birkbeck, in particular Sasha Roseneil who mentored me
through the fi rst stage of this project, and Miriam Zukas who was there
throughout, provided crucial support. Gail Lewis has been both generous and
thoughtful in her institutional role, and combined with fi nal pep talks from
Leticia Sabsay, Laura Salisbury, Rachel Th omson and Imogen Tyler, allowed the
project to fi nally come to an end. Th anks also to Yasmeen Narayan, Lynne Segal,
Margarita Palacios and Amber Jacobs for many psychosocial conversations.
Special thanks to Liza Th ompson at Bloomsbury for her tireless energy, editorial
support and belief in this project, and to Stella Sandford for close reading, and
the careful attention that philosophers can bring to those of us who come to
philosophy as willing amateurs. I am grateful to Judith Butler, for her kindness
and support, her ongoing attachment to a psychoanalytic sensibility, and for her
exemplary capacity to think things through.
I have been immensely lucky to have had a chance to speak to many friends,
colleagues and students about this project along its way. My gratitude, in no
particular order, goes to Melissa Midgen, Shaul Bar-Haim, Gill Partington,
Michelle Bastian, Sigal Spigel, Jane Haugh, Will Brook, Katie Gentile, Noreen
Giff ney, Daniel Pick, Raluca Soreanu, Jess Edwards, Derek Hook, Samuel Bibby,
Stephen Frosh and Oliver Decker. Th anks also to Michael, Marion, Paula,
Alexandra, Joel and Saul Baraitser. Th ey have been most patient!
Th anks to the organizers, panellists and audience members of the following
events where I spoke about the work as this project developed: Th e Fabric: Social
Reproduction, Women’s History and Art, University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh
College of Art, Social Science as Communication , ISRF , University of Edinburgh,
Unpunctual Encounters/Bottom Natures , CGP Gallery, London, M odernism’s
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Acknowledgements ix
Chronic Conditions , University of Exeter, T ime Tricking , Association for Social
Anthropologists Conference, University of Exeter, Visualizing From Memory,
University of East London, European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism
Studies Conference, University of Helsinki, Austerity Futures Conference,
Goldsmiths, University of London, Psychoanalysis and History Seminar, Institute
of Historical Research, University of London, Motherhood in post–1968
Literature , Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, Institute
of Modern Languages Research, University of London, T emporal Bindings,
Th e(e)ories: Advanced Seminars for Queer Research, Critical Temporalities
Workshop, Temporal Belongings, University of Manchester, N on-Reproduction:
Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics Conference, Birkbeck, University of London.
I am especially grateful to Belinda Mandelbaum and her students for an
invitation to teach a fi ve- day lecture series at the University of São Paulo, Brazil,
which allowed me to speak the project out loud, in its early form, and gave me
courage to continue.
Earlier versions of some chapters have appeared in journal article form.
Chapter  1 appeared as ‘Baraitser, L., Transdisciplinarity as a Psychosocial
Concept’, Special Issue, Transdisciplinary Problematics, eds, Peter Osborne,
Stella Sandford, Eric Alliez, Th eory, Culture & Society 32: 207–231, 2015. Reprinted
by permission of SAGE Publications. Chapter 2 appeared as ‘Touching Time:
Maintenance, Endurance, Care’, in P sychosocial Imaginaries , ed., Stephen Frosh,
Palgrave, 2015. Chapter 4 appeared as ‘Baraitser, L., Collecting Time’, New
Formations. , 79: 8–25, 2013. Reprinted by permission of Lawrence and Wishart.
I am grateful to the many colleagues who commented on earlier draft s of these
pieces of writing.