For reasons we do not yet fully understand, I would argue, the relationship between politics and time and its current transformations have become a hot topic in social and political science in recent years. Yet, systematic efforts to theorize time and temporality in political science, as the workshop coordinators state, are still relatively scarce. The purpose of this paper is to lay the ground for a theoretical framework supposed to inform a set of eventual research proposals on the transformation of temporality in selected policy areas relating to science, technology and the human body. The paper will refer to, first, social science theory of time, further to conceptualizations of time, politics and the body in political thought, and lastly to science and technology studies (STS) on the aspect of time in the field of bioscience and biomedicine.
