The future is neither wholly invisible nor foreseeable but surprises by precipitation

Evidence

Why, at the end of this work, do we invoke the concept of reading? The reason is clear. The Hegelian idea of plastic reading confers on the notion of ‘to see (what is) coming’ its real meaning. ‘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

• DEFINE: Defines the plasticity of the future — ‘to see (what is) coming’ as a middle state between prevision and blindness — the temporal root of the concept.
• XREF: This ‘future that neither appears nor hides’ mapse onto the plasticity of temporality in her later account of the brain’s openness — a future that is not predetermined but not pure chance either. — connects to: The future is neither fully visible nor invisible but frustrates anticipation by surprise; A truly open future requires an accidental, non-appropriable event. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 171; The speculative subject accepts rather than averts the future’s radical uncertainty — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 25 (+5 more)
• QUESTION: How does this ‘see without seeing’ of the speculative future connect to empirical neuroscience claims about prediction-error or anticipatory brain function?
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• The future’s anticipatory structure holds teleological necessity and surprise together #corroborates (0.90) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 250
• The speculative subject accepts rather than averts the future’s radical uncertainty #expands (0.85) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 25
• Speculative imagination generates collective futures under incalculable uncertainty #expands (0.80)
• The present is overdetermined yet fundamentally open to contingency #corroborates (0.78) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1196
• Enframing the present with futures-forecasting habits defuses the shock of imagined catastrophe #qualifies (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 624
• Speculative communities embrace uncertainty through strategic unknowing rather than anticipation or control #qualifies (0.75) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 329