Conclusion: Godard, Lezama, and the End of Time(s)

The conclusion brings together the consequences that can be drawn from the analyses in the book by way of a reading of Jean-Luc Godard’s use of Lezama Lima’s texts, particularly those drawn from the posthumous novel Oppiano Licario, in the 2004 film Notre Musique. The conclusion explores the consequences of a politicity in which time is imagined beyond the disciplining functions it has had throughout the metaphysical tradition. This formless temporality would be Lezama’s writing of the formless occupying a fractured now: the difference between linear and multiple temporalities, an-archically at odds with the theologico-political distribution of time into hell, purgatory, and paradise. This would be the time of the absence of time, of sameness without Form, in which the absence of time no longer means the eternity.