Present conscious states derive meaning only from internal relation to the future

Evidence

Contemporary capitalism sees the risk-taking, entrepreneurial agent of the post–Bretton Woods era being refashioned as a politically disoriented, speculative subject who accepts rather than averts the future’s radical uncertainty. Homo economicus is no longer. But although much has been said about its pronounced death, we still know remarkably little about the social and political subject that has succeeded it. Over the course of this book, I conceptualize the ascendancy of what we may call homo speculans and the consequences of this development for contemporary societies. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 25 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The future is a prejudicative self-relation, not representation or actual potency; Metaphysics privileges the present tense by defining past and future as modifications of presence — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 195; Abstract essence arrives from the future as the meaning of present negation (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Abstract essence arrives from the future as the meaning of present negation #expands (0.85)
• The future is a prejudicative self-relation, not representation or actual potency #expands (0.82)
• The speculative subject accepts rather than averts the future’s radical uncertainty #expands (0.80) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 25
• Metaphysics privileges the present tense by defining past and future as modifications of presence #contradicts (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 195
• Expressive orientations stabilize the present while instrumental ones defer to the future #qualifies (0.75)