Celebration of transience conceals a longing for stability.

Evidence

The new value placed on the transitory, the elusive and the ephemeral, the very celebration of dynamism, discloses a longing for an undefiled, immaculate and stable present. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 2041

Categorization

• DEFINE: Habermas’s dialectical reading: postmodern valorization of flux masks a repressed desire for a pristine stable present.
• XREF: connects to: Intensified ephemerality drives a reactive craving for eternal truths and secure moorings. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1843