Edited volume explores time across arts and sciences

Edited by Laurence Dahan-Gaida, 'Temps, rythmes, mesures' (Hermann) brings together essays from a conference linking arts and sciences through a poetics of time. The volume examines infinite time in Alejo Carpentier, geological time in Thomas Hardy, and Alfred Jarry's 'omni-temporality'. Non-linear Riemann topologies help Claude Mauriac describe a mathematical 'state-instant'. Ilya Prigogine's dissipative structures and non-equilibrium thermodynamics inform Georg Trakl's poetry; chaos and entropy shape Borges's language. Quantum physics creates 'entangled time' in Michel Houellebecq's 'The Elementary Particles'. Opera by Debussy, Ravel, and Massenet marks a shift in time-space representation during Einstein and Poincaré's era. Music by Schoenberg, Webern, and especially Stockhausen's Momentform breaks linearity toward 'undecidability' seen also in literature, art, and cinema. Science plays by Tom Stoppard and Michael Frayn address thermodynamics, chaos theory, and Heisenberg's uncertainty. Jean-François Lyotard's 'narrative matrices' show how sciences weave dynamic systems, cyclical temporalities, bifurcations, and self-organizations into literary and artistic works, reflecting cognitive processes.