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Nature loves to hide.

—Heraclitus, Fragment 123

All action is an invasion of the future, of the unknown.

—John Dewey, Human Nature and Conduct

Birth [is not an act] of constitution but the institution of a future. Reciprocally, institution resides in the same genus of Being as birth and is not, any more than birth, an act: there will be later decisionary institutions or contracts, but they are to be understood on the basis of birth and not the reverse.

Therefore [there is an] instituted and instituting subject, but inseparably, and not a constituting subject; [therefore] a certain inertia—[the fact of being] exposed to . . . —but [this is what] puts an activity en route, an event, the initiation of the present, which is productive after it—Goethe: genius [is] “posthumous productivity”—which opens a future.

The subject [is] that to which such orders of events can advent, field of fields.

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Institution