revealed precisely as being inconsistent, it is that which is not con-
sistent and thus cannot be presently foreseen, nor can it ever be analysed
as a necessary implication of the process.
If we must base our hope on coherent possibilities within the actual
state of the world, if we must expect an alternative at present logically
and historically implicit in the state of the present world, we will have
nothing at all left but despair. There is no predictable salvation in the
present state of the world. Only the unpredictable, what is yet to hap-
pen, what is yet to be written into the present plot of the known can
inaugurate an entirely inconsistent series with respect to the catastrophe
of late modernity.
The surprise consists in the fact that there is no consistency in the
historicist sense between a state of the world and a successive one, but
there is the tantric egg: the uninterrupted generation of unpredictable
constellations, the chaosmotic creation that at every instant invents
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