Anticipation and radical surprise coexist within a single act of awaiting the future.

Evidence

‘To see (what is) coming’ is to anticipate, to foresee, to presage, to project; it is to expect what is coming; but it is also to let what is coming come or to let oneself be surprised by the unexpected, by the sudden appearance of what is un-awaited. ‘To see (what is) coming’ means at the same time to anticipate and to let oneself be surprised, to bear and, at the same time, I mean precisely at the same time, not to bear the unexpected. In other words, the surprise in what is coming, the event of what is coming: the future. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 48

Categorization

• DEFINE: The reader’s core binary — receptivity vs. explosiveness of the enemy — maps onto Derrida’s double sense of ‘voir venir’: passive expectation and active projection in one act.
• XREF: This double temporality of anticipation/surprise recalls the plasticity reading of Hegel’s future in earlier chapters and could bridge to the reader’s MOC question about tipping points between enemy screen and enemy agent.
• recurring: this claim recurs 3 times within its source