The rigidity of thought-determinations constitutes their resistance to the passage of time

Evidence

Henceforth the determinations of thought will be ‘points’. Yet what does this ‘rigidity’ mean for Hegel? ‘Rigidity of being’ could simply mean ‘consistency of being’ (Halt), at once something firm, consequential, resistant (as, for example, in ‘resistance to time’, as time is more resistant than any and all phenomena). Rigidity represents the dialectical emergence of a quality that has absorbed its phenomenal quality. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1027

Categorization

• QUESTION: This is a striking inversion: thought’s ‘hardness’ is what lets determinations outlast phenomena, so rigidity becomes temporality’s durable layer. Chases the question of what institutional arrangements stabilize an abstraction’s resistance to time.