The time of emancipation, in Rancière’s imagination, is not a progression towards truth and justice. It is rather, Katharina Clausius argues, a common ground whose gridlines sprout delicate tendrils that extend out, coil around, germinate new shoots that spiral out beyond its boundaries.

Oliver Davis on neoliberalism's appropriation of the Marxist narrative of historical necessity. 

Introducing the Verso roundtable on Modern Times, Jussi Palmusaari reflects on the underlying spatial logic of Rancière's conception of modernity and problematizes his notion of time as montage. If  time is not a line stretching from the past to the future, chaining causes and effects, how can it form the horizon for strategical political action?