Future

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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani takes up the future in two contexts. In 2016, in the tribute to Jacques D'Hondt, he links it to the thinking of history. He presents history as a collective adventure without end, in which the unexpected is "the only future that men can expect"1. For him, the domain of history is neither a starting over nor a marking time: it is a creation turned towards the future2. He also notes that D'Hondt's interest in the past and the present is really aimed at the future, and that imagining the future makes it possible to understand what has been and what is3. In 2020, in a session devoted to amnesia, he distinguishes the true future, which is unpredictable, from a "false future" known in advance: that of memory, or that of music, whose course is already given4. He then calls for restoring the movement towards an open future, open perhaps to danger, and for recovering boundaries5.

Summary produced automatically from 5 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.

Season 9.1 · 24 Dec 2020#10 Benefits and harms of amnesia...

1:13:43The time of remembrance, like that of music, is a false future known in advance; true future is unforeseeable.
1:23:54We must restore the movement toward an open future, open perhaps to danger, and recover boundaries.

Talks · 2 Aug 2016Tribute to Jacques D'Hondt (1)

26:33What interests D'Hondt in the past and present is the future: the imagination of the future serves to understand the past and the present.

Talks · 2 Aug 2016Tribute to Jacques D'Hondt (2)

3:27History is a collective adventure without an end; the unexpected is "the only future that men can expect."
7:37The domain of history is neither repetition nor stagnation, but creation turned toward the future.