Eva Geulen: When Time Becomes Form. Kubler, Jolles, Kracauer

The lecture is part of the current ICI Lecture Series ERRANS, in Time. Ideas of physical, social, revolutionary time, internal time consciousness, or historical experience are far from settled in their respective discourses and practices. Yet attempts to harmonize or correlate the understanding of time and temporal phenomena generated in different disciplines all-too quickly resort to normative, if not teleological ideas of progress, efficiency, or experiential plenitude. Can the heterogenous relations between discordant conceptions of time and temporality be understood as being ‘erratically’ structured, that is, as marked by inherent misapprehensions, a dissonance that defies regulation, and an unexpected variability?

Eva Geulen is the director of the ZfL, executive board member of the Centers for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Berlin and professor for European Culture and the History of Knowledge at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Photo: © Uwe Dettmar, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M.