Duration, Skin, and the Ageing Subject

Lisa Baraitser, Ph.D., is a Reader in Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a psychotherapist in independent practice. Her research centers on figurations and representations of the maternal in psychic and social life, working at the interface between psychoanalysis, feminist theory, and philosophies of ethics, affect, materiality, temporality, and event. She is the author of Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption (Routledge, 2009), and co-editor of A Feeling for Things: Conversations In and Around the Work of Jane Bennett (Punctum, 2014) with Michael O'Rourke. Her current work is on time, tracking forms of affective sociality that persist under neoliberal conditions through forms of “suspended” temporalities.
Correspondence should be sent to Lisa Baraitser, Ph.D., Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London, Room 504, 30 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DT, UK. E-mail: