Thinking the future beyond ‘what is to come’ dissolves time as ordered moments

Evidence

The possibility that one temporal determination, the future, can be thought differently, beyond its initial, simple status as a moment of time, from ‘that which is now to come’, makes it immediately clear that time for Hegel cannot be reduced to an ordered relation between moments. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 210

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames the redefinition of time as the prerequisite for grasping plasticity; names what must be renounced (the ‘well-known’ future).
• XREF: connects to: Treating time as a series of nows annihilates past, present, and future alike — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 408; The vulgar sequential conception of time erases all possibility of a genuinely surprising future — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 77; The future is understood both as coming time and as lasting posterity (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Enframing the present with futures-forecasting habits defuses the shock of imagined catastrophe #complicates (0.82) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 624
• The speculative subject accepts rather than averts the future’s radical uncertainty #corroborates (0.78) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 25
• Dramatic conflict overcomes time by condensing past and future into the present instant #exemplifies (0.75) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 118
• Time’s turning point coincides with its plenitude or fulfillment #complicates (0.72)