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In the uncanny grey-on-grey of the historico-political conjuncture in which we find ourselves within the Humanities—if not, more broadly, within western democratic polities—the three participants involved in this panel each propose to approach, scrutinize, and trouble the aesthetic, political and theoretical figure, or temporalities, of the rupture; of the potential modes of meaningfulness, the ways we might measure and make sense of that which is involved in the motif of the break — in the timing of pause and excess, of abeyances and enjambments, of contretemps and becomings. Each coming from a different methodological signature, ranging from critical theory and philosophy to poetics and literary criticism, we propose to mark this event with a thought about what might lay on the other side of the cut, what historical, political, linguistic, and conceptual forms might remain open to thought after the césure.

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Frank Ruda: Professor of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Dundee, Scotland and Professor at the European Graduate School. His most recent publications include Reading Hegel and Reading Marx (both with Slavoj Zizek and Agon Hamza, Polity 2021 /2018), The Dash – the Other Side of Absolute Knowing (with Rebecca Comay, MIT Press 2018) and Abolishing Freedom. A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism (Nebraska UP 2016).

Heather H. Yeung (楊希蒂) teaches in poetry and poetics at the University of Dundee and is currently also literature lead at the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities. She is the author of Spatial Engagement with Poetry (2015) and On Literary Plasticity (2020) as well as numerous essays, poems, and edited collections in poetics and art theory.

Robert St.Clair is Associate Professor, Department of French and Italian, Dartmouth College, the co-editor-in-chief of Parade sauvage, and the author of Lyrical Material: Poetry, Politics and the Body in Rimbaud.

Klaus Mladek (Moderator), Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College.