Reading is the in-between experience of seeing and not seeing what comes

Evidence

‘To see (what is) coming’ denotes at once the visibility and the invisibility of whatever comes. The future is not the absolutely invisible, a subject of pure transcendence objecting to any anticipation at all, to any knowledge, to any speech. Nor is the future the absolutely visible, an object clearly and absolutely foreseen. It frustrates any anticipation by its precipitation, its power to surprise. ‘To see (what is) coming’ thus means to see without seeing – await without awaiting – a future which is neither present to the gaze nor hidden from it. Now isn’t this situation of ‘in-between’ par excellence the situation of reading? — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1239

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off the reader’s own MOC thread: the plasticity/enemy question concerns figuration that escapes its definers, and this passage identifies the ‘in-between’ as where reading (hence figuration) actually happens — the passive screen and explosive agency share this structural in-betweenness.
• DEFINE: Defines voir venir as simultaneously visibility and invisibility, anticipation and surprise.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source