Jean-Paul Martinon is Programme Leader of the MPhil-PhD Programme in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has written monographs on a Victorian workhouse (Swelling Grounds, Rear Window, 1995), the idea of the future in the work of Derrida, Malabou and Nancy (On Futurity, Palgrave, 2007), the temporal dimension of masculinity (The End of Man, Punctum, 2013), and the event of knowledge in museums (The Curatorial: A Philosophy of Curating, Bloomsbury, 2013). In each case, he writes in an attempt to make sense of time: its staging in museums, its advent, its gender, its neglect, the ethics that derive from it, and the way it is used and abused to structure human life.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionMaternity – UbuntuHere I amWithout GodMaternityUbuntuFilialityA Logical AbsurdityMatrix – AkantuMurdersVanquishedThe MatrixElect-RiskThe Blow Does Not ComeNeither Justice Nor LawMaterial – AhantuEyesFaceBodySceneHorizonPalaverMaturity – AhantuGodEmbodimentOtherwisePresentSacyega & NgomaHistoryMatrimony – UbumuntuSide-by-sideTo-let-beFace-to-faceSide-by-side-face-to-faceMatrimonyKubanaMatter – UkuntuWriting, ReadingWhat Comes? Here I amWhat is? Thou Shall Not KillKiraziraA Hermeneutic EffortNecessityMateriel – IkintuStopBy the CraterWith-Out DistanceVigilanceWork ProcreationAt War, in LoveConclusionBibliographyIndex

Jean-Paul Martinon is Programme Leader of the MPhil-PhD Programme in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has written monographs on a Victorian workhouse (Swelling Grounds, Rear Window, 1995), the idea of the future in the work of Derrida, Malabou and Nancy (On Futurity, Palgrave, 2007), the temporal dimension of masculinity (The End of Man, Punctum, 2013), and the event of knowledge in museums (The Curatorial: A Philosophy of Curating, Bloomsbury, 2013). In each case, he writes in an attempt to make sense of time: its staging in museums, its advent, its gender, its neglect, the ethics that derive from it, and the way it is used and abused to structure human life.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionMaternity – UbuntuHere I amWithout GodMaternityUbuntuFilialityA Logical AbsurdityMatrix – AkantuMurdersVanquishedThe MatrixElect-RiskThe Blow Does Not ComeNeither Justice Nor LawMaterial – AhantuEyesFaceBodySceneHorizonPalaverMaturity – AhantuGodEmbodimentOtherwisePresentSacyega & NgomaHistoryMatrimony – UbumuntuSide-by-sideTo-let-beFace-to-faceSide-by-side-face-to-faceMatrimonyKubanaMatter – UkuntuWriting, ReadingWhat Comes? Here I amWhat is? Thou Shall Not KillKiraziraA Hermeneutic EffortNecessityMateriel – IkintuStopBy the CraterWith-Out DistanceVigilanceWork ProcreationAt War, in LoveConclusionBibliographyIndex