alte ring our behavior or our patterns of representation. We conceive of a path connecting present to future. This path is "composed" of the behaviors required to produce the transformations we desire-required to turn the (eternally) insufficient present into the (ever-receding) paradisal future. This path is normally conceived of as linear, so to speak, as something analogous to Thomas Kuhn's notion of normal science, wherein known patterns of behavior operating upon an understood present will produce a future whose desirability is an unquestioned given.40
