The Nick of Time

This book is an exploration of how the biological prefigures and makes possible the various permutations of life that constitute natural, social, and cultural existence.Its goals are interdisciplinary: to explore a series of questions about the movement of time that overlap with and are the shared concern of a number of di√erent disciplines: philosophy, politics, history, the social and natural sciences, cultural studies, feminist, antiracist, and queer politics, the visual and plastic arts.It focuses on the space between the natural and the cultural, the space in which the biological blurs into and induces the cultural through its own self-variation, in which the biological leads into and is in turn opened up…