The future is a prejudicative self-relation, not representation or actual potency

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)

The project of the For-itself toward the future which it is is a project toward the In-itself. In this sense the For-itself has to be its future because it can be the foundation of what it is only before itself and beyond being. It is the very nature of the For-itself that it must be “an always future hollow.” For this reason it will never have become, in the Present, what it had to be, in the Future. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 453 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The self I am depends on a future self it cannot determine — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 239; Present conscious states derive meaning only from internal relation to the future; The future is a lack the For-itself must be, not a not-yet now — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 450 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• The speculative subject accepts rather than averts the future’s radical uncertainty #expands (0.85) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 25
• Negation is constituted as ekstatic through its relation to the future #expands (0.82)
• The for-itself’s negation of being has a future-extending ekstatic dimension #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 604
• The For-itself can only found itself by projecting toward a future it never reaches #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 453
• The future’s anticipatory structure holds teleological necessity and surprise together #expands (0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 250
• A possibility’s existential weight, not its temporal proximity, determines the present For-itself. #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 456