The stance of seeing what is coming resists victory and retrospective conquest

Evidence

The thought implied in the expression ‘to see (what is) coming’ is much too plastic and in itself contradictory, stretched out between surprise and anticipation, too attentive to what comes in the future, to the future of what is coming, to come back and say ‘I have come to see …’; and even less to conclude simply on some sort of veni, vidi, in the past of a ‘I have conquered …’. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 84

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Defines plasticity’s temporal stance as torn between surprise and anticipation, explicitly not a conquered past.

Related

• Anticipation of the future always operates through some form of blindness. (similarity 0.80)
• The future is neither fully visible nor invisible but frustrates anticipation by surprise (similarity 0.80)
• One expression can hold certainty and ignorance of the future together. (similarity 0.79)
• Anticipation and radical surprise coexist within a single act of awaiting the future. (similarity 0.79)
• Understanding surprise in advance may itself defuse the shock (similarity 0.78)
• The future is what the For-itself has yet to become, its determining possible being. (similarity 0.78)
• The French idiom ‘voir venir’ fuses certainty and ignorance of what comes (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Refusing to celebrate a victory reveals a weak wish for that victory #contradicts (0.85)