Thinking the New: Of Futures Yet Unthought

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It gives me pleasure to be here presenting a paper which is something of an announcement of future directions for my research—research on the idea of futurity itself, the notion of the emergent or the event. It is the question of the new I would like to address, however hesitatingly and schematically. I want to explore the nature of time, the precedence of the future over the present and past, and the strange vectors of becoming that a concept of new provokes. This paper will argue that unless we develop concepts of time and duration which welcome and privilege the future, which openly accept the rich virtualities and divergent resonances of the present, we will remain closed to understanding the complex processes of becoming that engender and constitute both life and matter. My project, of which this is a beginning fragment, is to think temporality and futurity, in all their richness, as modalities of difference.

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