Positing the future as plasticity displaces the future’s definition as a moment of time

Evidence

The possibility that one temporal determination, the future, can be thought differently, beyond its initial, simple status as a moment of time, from ‘that which is now to come’, makes it immediately clear that time for Hegel cannot be reduced to an ordered relation between moments. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 210 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

To distinguish this structure from the future as it is ordinarily understood, we will name this structure ‘to see (what is) coming’ (le ‘voir venir’), obeying Hegel’s injunction to philosophize in one’s own idiom. ‘Voir venir’ in French means to wait, while, as is prudent, observing how events are developing. But it also suggests that other people’s intentions and plans must be probed and guessed at. It is an expression that can thus refer at one and the same time to the state of ‘being sure of what is coming’ (‘être sûr de ce qui vient’) and of ‘not knowing what is coming’ (‘ne pas savoir ce qui va venir’). It is on this account that the ‘voir venir’, ‘to see (what is) coming’, can represent that interplay, within Hegelian philosophy, of teleological necessity and surprise. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 250 (#complicates, via linked claim)

To bring out the openness to the future, the openness to the event which is part and parcel of Hegel’s philosophy, means that we will make explicit the existence of several times, as well as several stages of time: a plurality above and beyond the simple distinction between time in the vulgar, ordinary understanding and originary temporality. Perhaps what the notion of plasticity makes possible is a way to conceive the characteristics of authentic temporality which Heidegger himself brought out. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1274 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Treating time as a series of nows annihilates past, present, and future alike — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 408; Time is only a formal determination displaceable by plasticity — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 105; The vulgar sequential conception of time erases all possibility of a genuinely surprising future — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 77 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Thinking the future beyond ‘what is to come’ dissolves time as ordered moments #corroborates (0.92) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 210
• The future’s anticipatory structure holds teleological necessity and surprise together #complicates (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 250
• Plasticity enables authentic temporality’s characteristics to be conceived #expands (0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1274
• The speculative subject accepts rather than averts the future’s radical uncertainty #qualifies (0.75) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 25
• Plasticity for Hegel means the future exceeding itself and time exceeding itself #builds-on (0.70) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 210