Astonishment already contains the narrative arc of the incomplete striving toward the future

Evidence

Hence the content of Spuren as a lingering over strange anecdotes and peculiar experiences, as a recounting of paradoxical destinies, of ironic legends, of objects with unexpected powers: that which “gives pause,” that which expresses itself most properly in storytelling rather than description. For insofar as astonishment constitutes an implicit or explicit perception of the future concealed within that which exists, it already carries within itself a story line, the trajectory of the not-yet-finished, the struggle of the incomplete to free itself from the as-yet-formlessness of the present: “In short, it’s also good to think in fables. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 245

Categorization

• XREF: Astonishment-carrying-a-story-line is a utopian variant of the dialectical method; connects to Jameson’s recurring claim that the form of storytelling itself mediates futurity, and to Benjamin’s storyteller essays. — connects to: The Future is the self awaited as the completion of what it lacks; Bloch’s astonishment targets the future’s latency in being, not being itself — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 245; The future is what the For-itself has yet to become, its determining possible being. (+5 more)
• STORYSTEM: The ‘objects with unexpected powers’ that urge storytelling could seed a collection of linked fictions where ordinary objects harbor an unfinished future pressing to be told — a mode, rather than a specific plot.

Broader Connections

• Genuine attention is astonishment rather than anticipation #contradicts (0.85) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 543
• The future is what the For-itself has yet to become, its determining possible being. #expands (0.80)
• The Future is the self awaited as the completion of what it lacks #corroborates (0.78)
• The For-itself constitutes its Future by perpetually apprehending itself as unachieved #expands (0.78)
• The future’s anticipatory structure holds teleological necessity and surprise together #qualifies (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 250
• The future is a lack the For-itself must be, not a not-yet now #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 450
• Bloch’s astonishment targets the future’s latency in being, not being itself #complicates (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 245
• The For-itself can only found itself by projecting toward a future it never reaches #corroborates (0.72) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 453