Friday, September 3, 2010

Two Futures


Begin with the two futures: the future of capital - the Futures Market and Messianic future - these are two very different temporalities. What conceptions of time are hidden there - the future of capital is the endless repetition of the same - the same instant again and again. The future of the Messianic is the interruption of the present by the future - the interruption of time - but the endless future of capital (which is its particular form of secular redemption) isn't really a future at all, but merely hides the real future which is the future of the disaster - human and natural catastrophe.