Precarious time is not only a time full of holes, increasingly marked by speed-ups and slow-downs, by transitions from work to unemployment, and by all kinds of part-time and temporary work. It is also a time when individuals live the intertwining of several heterogeneous temporalities – for example, that of wage-labour and that of study, of artistic creation and odd jobs from one day to the next; a time in which those who have been trained for one kind of work and do another, work in one world and live in another, proliferate. We can describe this time as composed of intervals, taking the word in a double sense: intermittent work, but also intervals between several temporalities. It is by starting out from these intervals that it is possible to think the new forms of interruption of the dominant time. (JR)
