The Nietzschean insight that future misery is always ours defuses its alien otherness

Evidence

Nietzschean wisdom, then, tells us to let go of that kind of fear and reminds us that whatever social and spatial form our future misery may take, it will not be alien because it will by definition be ours. Dasein ist je mein eigenes — defamiliarization, the shock of otherness, is a mere aesthetic effect and a lie. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 625

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains the role of ‘Dasein’ (Heideggerian being-mine-own) in collapsing the radical otherness of imagined futures — part of how postmodern temporality dissolves dystopian shock.
• XREF: connects to: Anguish is consciousness of being one’s own future in the mode of not-being — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 239; The speculative subject accepts rather than averts the future’s radical uncertainty — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 25; The for-itself’s negation of being has a future-extending ekstatic dimension — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 604
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Anguish is consciousness of being one’s own future in the mode of not-being — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 239; The speculative subject accepts rather than averts the future’s radical uncertainty — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 25; The for-itself’s negation of being has a future-extending ekstatic dimension — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 604